Cold Whisper - Choosing the Beaten Track

Hi all.

Today I released the next song of my "Scorched Earth” album, called "Choosing the Beaten Track”. Before I forget, I have to shout out a big “thank you” to Luis Finotti (@finotti) who performed the awesome lead guitar parts on this one. Yaaay!

Again, here’s a list of things I/we used:

  • Audio interfaces / microphones:
    • Behringer UPhoria 404HD for guitars
    • Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 + SM-57 for vocals
  • MusE: for MIDI sequencing (drums, bass, synths)
  • Ardour 6.9: for recording, cutting, mixing, and mastering
  • Drums: DrumGizmo + The CrocellKit
  • Bass: based on the Fender Jazz Bass soundfont I created a while ago (see the Your creations Polyphone Soundfonts forum)
  • Rhythm Guitars: played with my Gibson Les Paul and recorded “direct-in”
  • Used Plugins:
    • mostly Calf and LSP (parametric EQs, compressors)
    • Guitarix (GxAmplifier-X, GxTubeScreamer, GxZita_rev1-Stereo)
    • ZynAddSubFX for the Synths

And here are some screenshots of the project.

The editor view:

The mixer view:

Enjoy.
Thanks and regards.

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Great work all! Delicious guitar crunch and smokin’ solos! Vocalist has great character to her voice and super tuning, excellent mixing and work with Drumgizmo as well!

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Thanks a lot.

Only two songs left to complete the album… :grinning:

Hmmm, I was thinking … sorry in advance for asking you directly this way:
One of the open songs is supposed to be a contrast to the other songs - a ballad/duet (but not a love song), with clean/acoustic guitars and some drums, bass and synths along the way.

Would you be interested in performing the male vocals for this?
The lyrics are existing already, as well as a raw mix including a test recording for the female vocal parts.
In case you say yes :smile:, feel free to mail me at bernhard.trummer@gmx.at

Best regards…

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Wow, interested for sure, thanks for asking!

Will email soon!

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This was a fun project and the final result turned out really great! (Maybe except for the solos…) :wink:

Great job, @slash!

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