Slaying the Medusa (Updated VOX)

The difference between this and the first version of Groove Thang when you posted that is incredible.

An immense amount of sonic mastery has taken place in a really short space of time.

The sounds on this are top notch.

Is that the free Kore player you're using or the full monty?

Shad, You took that inspiration and made it your own strange thing. The matter of fact tone of your reporter. That was wierd in a shantner doing rocket man kinda way. I give credit for throwing a big curveball with this evolving piece. Also again you seem to record your stuff really well.

Rhyno

Jon - Free Kore Player

Ron - I am calling it Artistic License. I know Perseus slew Medusa, and I know Medusa was made that way by Athena

Rhyno - Strange it is... WRT the Reporter ... I am glad you saw the dead pan style as that was what I hoped for. It was (I hope) in contrast to the drama of the percussion behind. Thanks for the comment about the curve ball - Things are going well with this (though I know that few will "enjoy" this piece).

Robby - I have uploaded a "voice free" version for you. I have to admit I have been thinking about paring back the dialog some. It was kinda more interesting when it stopped about halfway through. Maybe it can be arranged in such a manner as to still tell the story and add punctuation with out over filling it so much.

As for it stopping - yes it did. *trows back his head and cackles in insane glee*

No! Don't kill the 'snake-lady' Shad! Step away from the mirror!! Yeah, I like weird stuff and I love hearing all your mistakes!! I think you've invented a new sport by having the narrator in the box office...ESPN? I enjoyed this. The music and storyline synched together and you could feel the tension build, right down to the slaying and cutting the head off.....

loved the drums on this, shad! really good clarity and love that boom. nice verb on them, too. really like the synth sounds in this it gives it a great feeling for music - helps to ride the wave of emotion in what's going on.

hate the processed narration myself, not too fond of the bouncing stereo FX on the vox, either. but that's just my opinon. i'm sure it's what you were after, so ignore my comments!

Loved the way you explored on this peice!....way way out...but in a good good way!

cool!!

HEY! WHOA!! That's not what I said at all!!! I said I didn't like the heavy processing on the vox, not the voice itself!!! SheeSH!!!

So this new version doesn't have the narration at all? really, that was not my intent on my comment - I was just saying I thought it would be better with less processing - much closer to natural on the narration.

Liked the underlying music, but not used to the "10-4 roger that" voice going on.

Hmmm...

Well now I do not know what to do. I know what you mean about the CB radio sound. I was going for an "old movie" sound, but seemed to have not pulled it off very well. I am not using any premade filters, but trying to make a chain of my own that works for that.

I will try a version of the tune with re-recorded vocals (now that I know what I want to say, I can say it better - I over distorted this because you can hear a lot bad pronunciation and I speak way to fast. What I will do is try to both enunciate and talk slowly and rhythmically (then I will try arrhythmical if thats too weird). I will not process the voice so much (I find the recording overly dry so some will have to be done).

Cheers
Shad

There's a "telephone" EQ preset on the Sonitus Parametric EQ that might be a good starting point for "old radio." you might also want to try to add in some "static" sounds if you're trying for the old radio sound.

Rob - That was a cool vid. I had not heard it before, and fortunately, other than being slightly "cacophonic" they are quite different songs ( I was worried I had re-invented the wheel).

Beagle (I wish I knew your name) - Thanks. I know there are premade filters for that sort of thing, but I am the kind of person who likes to make my own. This way I have a clear understanding of the process. I will need to fail at it once or twice before I get it right. I at least know how to make a "CB radio sound" lol.

Mark - Thanks man. I appreciate the kind words.

Cheers
Shad

Well, now there is a question I had not pondered.

I honestly cannot answer that. It "just is", if you know what I mean.

Glad you liked it.

Cheers
Shad

OK, OK, so the vox is better. I still can't hear the snakes hisssssssssssss!!!!!!

Max - The vocals were recorded with my AudioTechnica LDC, I then used an amplification filter to max the gain without clipping. From there I then ran a high-pass filter at 1k, then a vocorder filter to give it some squelch. After that it was treated with a chain of a distortion filter, a panning filter, a compressor set for a wild snare drum, then a stereo enhancer and finally a maximizer. The first version used a bit of chorus and reverb, but I dropped that for this latest version. There is no EQ on the vox (seemed OK as it was).

Larry - You are a genius! Why did I not think of that!!! That is a great idea, and should prove in interesting experiment in sonic design. I have to winder how well Sophie will take being asked to play Medusa LOL!

Reese - Sometimes I can be rather thick. I do not know why I did not click your profile... Yeah, thats actually how I first got started. I did a voice similar to this for one of my short films. The problem is I did not like the built in effects that much so wanted to try to make something I liked more using the basic tools that the pre-made ones are built upon. For brevity, I may just use a pre-built in the future.

Thanks for listening Guys.

Cheers
Shad

There are two identical drum tracks.

I bounced the main one, and then offset the audio track by a few MS (leading). On the plain midi one, I used the "ambient" preset in the CW stock reverb. On the bounced audio track there is a mild chorus on them.

I find digital reverb sounds like the drums are in a large steel pipe. One of these days I will pick myself up an analog fx kit.