My sound design to Blastwave FX Countdown To The Apocalypse contest

BLASTWAVE FX COUNTDOWN TO THE APOCALYPSE LESSANDRO DORNELES MACHADO

Music: Renata Adegas and Michel Dorfmann
Voice: Renata Adegas
Keyboards: Duda Follmann
Percussion: Gordo Lopes
Drums: Le Sander
Produced by Le Sander & Duda Follmann
Mix and master: Le Sander

Le Sander Present Mamulengo - Parauê (Original)

Le Sander Present Mamulengo - Parauê (Remix)

Remix produced in 2008 for the original track "Risca Faca" from Savino (brazilian producer)
Voice: Daiane Brandão

Savino - Risca Faca (DJ Lessandro Vox Remix)

Remix produced in 2008 for the original track "Risca Faca" from Savino (brazilian producer)

Savino - Risca Faca (DJ Lessandro Remix)

First, I would like to thank the possibility to show my work. Second, I apologize for my English ...
Hardware used was:
KRK VXT8 Monitor's , M-Audio BX10S Subwoofer , Lynx AES16E Audio Card , Lynx Aurora 16 Audio Converter , Universal Audio UAD2 Duo , SM Pro Audio Nano Patch Volume Attenuator , Sennheiser HD 380 Pro Headphone , Presonus Faderport , Power Maneger Pentacustica PC8000 , PC Computer running Windows 7
Software used was:
Cubase 7 , Univeral Audio Plugins , Slate Digital Plugins , Waves Plugins , Brainworks Plugins , Elysia Plugins , Maag Audio Plugins , Sonnox Plugins , IK Multimedia Plugins
My artist intention was create a sound with punch, but respecting the song ,the type of recording and the artists performance. Other thing was create a expectative on first chorus. For this, I left the sound simpler early to cause it. After second chorus, I used a little more delays and reverbs on voice to create some ambience before the final chorus.
Plugins used: (in order of use)
Kick -   UAD Cambridge EQ - Elysia mpressor - Maag EQ4
Snare - UAD Cambridge EQ - Elysia mpressor
Overheads - UAD Cambridge
Drum's Group - Vertigo VSC-2 - Maag EQ4 - UAD Cambridge
Paralel Drum's Compression - Vertigo VSC-2
Bass-DI Cubase EQ - UAD LA2A
Bass-Amp - Slate Digital Virtual Tape Machines - UAD  Cambridge - Maag EQ4 UAD LA3A
Guitar Amp (until the first chorus start) - Slate Digital Virtual Tape Machines
Guitar Amp copy (on firt chorus) -  Slate Digital Virtual Tape Machines - UAD Cambridge - Oxford Inflator
Vox - UAD Cambridge - Slate Digital Virtual Tape Machines - Vertigo VSC-2 - Waves DeEsser - Maag EQ4 - Waves PS22 Spread Stereo
Reverb 1 Send (Vox) - T-Racks CSR Inverse
Reverb 2 Send (Vox) - Steinberg REVerance
Delay 1 Send (Vox) - UAD Cooper TIme Cube
Delay 2 Send (Vox) - Waves H-Delay Stereo
Some things that I done:
I changed the sample rate to 88.2kHz.
I lined up the drums in time using the kick as reference. Reversed the phase of the kick. I made some edits in some parts of the kick, snare and overheads.
I lined up the 2 bass channels and reversed the phase of the Bass-DI. I cut the bass from Bass-DI to highlight more the transients and cuted the high to the Bass-AMP to make him soft. I mixed the two to get a bass sound but soft but with the sound of fingers on strings.
I needed to do automation on all channels.
Problems found:
Before the second chorus, just before the phrase "Oh Baby ..." there was a pouring voice on drums, bass-AMP and guitar-AMP. It was a piece of voice that was not there, but was in other parts of the song. By increasing the volume of the channels, this pouring was more evident. I had to cut a piece of this part of another compass and paste there.
In a few moments the battery varies in time, but as the sound was recorded live, maybe it would not be interesting fix it.
On final, I used the cheers sound recorded by drums and vox microphone. On vox microphone, there are minus time of applause than the drums microphone. I had to do some automation here.
Challenge:
The voice has a great dynamic. The challenge was to compress it without sounding too compressed.


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Product 9 is the name of a project created by me (Le Sander) and a friend (Duda Follmann) for electronic music production.

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