Pink Floyd - HEY YOU - now with vocals

Added some vocals by Stephen Gyves (I think he may still post here as Elvenking?) and a few additional elements to the mix.

Thanks for listening!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQOv9jBZVhc





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I Agree with Lynn... awesome!

Is this a labour of love? It certainly sounds like a lot of quality time has been spent on it.

Cheers,
Terry.

Consider me impressed. While it lacks the intensity of emotion of the original vocals, its not far off. The bass is bloody fantastic. Really fine job of mixing.

Cheers
Shad

great stuff

Thank you all very much for the encouraging comments!!

The bass is a mix of MIDI samples from EWQL Colossus. I had to use a few different samples, the Fretless bass worked best for the bends, and the Silvertone for some of the straight parts as it had more 'oomph'. I supplemented everything with some additional sub-bass from the same package which is pretty much a synth bass that's about an octave lower that the bassline. The Sub-Bass really brings the sound into today.

I went back and forth on using real bass parts vs. the samples but in the end I used samples for a few reasons, 1. I don't own a fretless bass and can't get the slide effects required on my Fender P Bass even when using a slide (too much fret noise) 2. My bass-direct preamp (un-mic'd for lack of speaker cab and amp) couldn't equal the sonic quality of the properly mic'd sampled bass.

I like to play the instruments as much as I can but if I can get a better sound with MIDI samples I will go that route. So really this track is a mix of MIDI and live playing, each one used to try and achieve the best result.

It was a lot of work, probably took about two weeks (80 hours) total for me to do all of the music and mixing and Steve spent a few nights tracking the vocals. I'm very glad it's being well received. Thanks again!

Very well covered.  The only thing it lacks is the thin panicked edge in the voice from living in the asylum. 

Lynn


What did you use to achieve this?

Hi Lynn, I copied this over from my older thread of the instrumental version and edited it appropriately:

The majority came from an old EWQL sample compilation called Colossus. Samples used from that include Acoustic God along with a couple of Washburn acoustic samples, Fretless bass and Silvertone bass samples, suitcase Rhodes and sub sonic bass mod. There is a Hammond Organ patch from B4. There were some patches from Spectrasonics Omnisphere that I can't recall (sorry) for some of the "worms ate into his brain" ambiance, and also probably 8 tracks of AniMoog iPad in the same place. I can't recall which of those were used either as I was just going through the patches and only stopped to record when I found one applicable. There are also some SFX in there of my own design made with various items like salt granules and paper through a distortion pedal and pouring salt (trying to enhance the radio static sound in the worms epilogue.)

Drums were addictive drums, I can't say what each drum was offhand, but it was not a preset kit. Ran those through a doubler effect to widen the sound stage.

The live acoustic guitar is a Takamine G Series recorded through a Shure SM57. Electric guitars are a 87' Jackson strat body and an Ibanez Mike Mushok Baritone guitar, both played through a MESA Rectifier Recording Preamp then run through Redwirez convolution impulse files (and a great little app called "iFace" which makes using those impulses a whole lot easier.) Preamp/audio interface is a MOTU 828MKII. I think that about covers everything that was used.. in addition to a ton of effects and stomps.

Well done on the playing and mixing. When I  heard the first vocal part "hey you", i thought it was a bit weak (compared to the huge guitar and bass sound), but after that.......it just totally picked up and never looked back. You guys really did do a fantastic job on this!! Thanks for sharing.

Outstanding!  Sounds great here!  Super playing!

Rim

Wonderful!  I'm impressed you got such a good bass sound with midi. Although it sounds like you worked hard on it.  All around fantastic, both of you!  

I've been looking forward to the finished version of this track.

Well you understand the Pink Floyd production techniques, Michael Stavrou calls it the black backdrop theory.

You have some real talent, somthing you can be really proud of, if I was Roger I would hire you.

The only thing I can see is you have a Roger nasal voice, to take it one step further, you need a Dave style vocalist for the main vocal and you do the middle 8, as the original.

But if that is the only criticism i can give, then it's like and should be water off a ducks back.

Great job mate!!

Neb