STS 349 SPRING 2020 FINAL ASSIGNMENT

Drums, guitar riffs, pianos, buildups, and a sick bass line make this track EXPLOSIVE.

Sts349Mob Final

Based off of my favorite movie, Taxi Driver

Too Much Abuse sts349mob assignment 8 rough ver

Decided to download Komplete Start, and have been messing about with some of the sounds it comes with. Unfortunately, most of those experiments went basically nowhere, and I had to find a new idea to work with. Found a good piano in Komplete Kontrol and went from there.

The intro up to the tempo shift is pretty much final barring some sound adjustments. Everything after that is rough and incomplete. Don't know where it will end, but it will go somewhere.

Final (Working)

The roughest rough draft to ever exist :(

Rough Copy

I like this I think i need to read more about chords and fix them up a bit and make the focus change from the five bare repeat to the Chords more dramatic. The chords originally had really harsh attack but that was mitigated with an auto filter. I fill like the voices and ocean sounds added for the third and forth sections was kinda a cop out but I like it anyway.

STS 349 SPRING 2020 FINAL ASSIGNMENT Draft

This is my final assignment. I implemented some guitar tracks of me playing through my kemper amp. One of the cool things I did was that I played slide guitar through my pedalboard and my amp and I reversed it and pitched it up to get that cool kind of vocal effect. I made this sound a pop songs of what you would hear on the radio today and what's on top 100 billboard in the U.S. This was a fun assignment. I used mastering and mixing techniques such as send and returns as buses to mix music and percussion level. I also used mastering tools like compressors and limiters on my master channel and also on specific channels like the kick and etc to smooth everything out. I kept the time at 2:31 because this how long a common track on the radio/top 100 billboard would look like today. Hope you enjoy!

STS 349 Final Assignment

Azriel David Martinez