smthn real?

nico
1,527 Mar 2, 2023 Synthwave
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nico

a study in ephemerality

Crashout
Crashout May 10, 2024

One day i will make stuff like this I swear it

nico
nico Feb 29, 2024

live version of this soon :p

aeiter
aeiter Sep 25, 2023

idk why I hadn't faved. amazing song my boy

anodyne
anodyne Jun 11, 2023

bro i swear i always come back

anodyne
anodyne Jun 12, 2023

ty! ill let ya know if i run into difficulties

nico
nico Jun 12, 2023

nice! lmk if anything comes up i'd be happy to help if i can :)

anodyne
anodyne Jun 12, 2023

oh wow, in depth alaysis! thank you so much for this man! imma try some of these things out, and get reaper(hopefully soon) as for my room, that'll be ok since i have a treated one

nico
nico Jun 12, 2023

oh also rly useful processing to get the rawness is either a subtle distortion in parallel or a line amp emulator, like analog obsession CHANNEV or LOADED those are good ones and they're also free!

nico
nico Jun 12, 2023

i don't have a treated room or anything, i'll usually record in either my tiny bedroom or my living room with the mic about 1-2 feet away from me. i also have a really shitty tape mic that i'll use sometimes for the effect (i think i used that one on rings?)

nico
nico Jun 12, 2023

if i do track vocal layers i'll either do harmonies or an octave (most of this song has a subtle harmony) or i'll double the melody but face the mic to the wall so it's super roomy and far away. then i'll hicut/lowcut that and pan it mostly to one side or make it more reverby. also the mic i use is a samson c01 which i adore and also it's rly cheap like $50! i have a couple other mics i'll switch out depending on what sound i'm going for but the samson is my default

nico
nico Jun 12, 2023

i appreciate it <3 <3 i record vocals in reaper (which is free!) which is were i'll also do a little bit of layering or processing. i'm pretty picky about how i want my voice to sound so i'll usually use a couple different compressors and de-essing and a small room reverb/chorus usually with valhalla supermassive (which is free!). i don't typically multitrack my voice just because it's kinda low in range and things can get really muddy if they're not super precise. but that's also a taste thing

anodyne
anodyne Jun 11, 2023

i love the rawness in the vocals, so i was wondering how you got that so well while still being clean

anodyne
anodyne Jun 11, 2023

also do you have multiple layers in your vocals? and where do you record and mix them?

anodyne
anodyne Jun 11, 2023

so loop worthy

anodyne
anodyne Mar 20, 2023

i thought a drop would come in at , ngl

anodyne
anodyne Mar 20, 2023

then the vocals went down instead of up, and i love it really played on my expectations here

anodyne
anodyne Mar 20, 2023

everyone's talking about the chords, but does anyone notice that amazing bass?!?!

anodyne
anodyne Mar 24, 2023

ty! ill give credit :>

nico
nico Mar 23, 2023

remix is open steal whatever you want!!

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