Gravity

GRAVITY:

Bass:

I managed to include more passing notes as I felt it fitted better with the song. What's funny is I changed the key of the song and so was having to rerecord the bass (I changed it as the lower key fitted my voice better) and so originally, to see what it sounded like, I had a pitch shifter on the track down a tone. When listening back to my recording, I accidentally left the pitch shifter on and so it sounded terrible, clashing with everything but this gave me the idea to have two basses and for one to only play sometimes and make it more impactful as I'd use the pitch shifter for it to be an octave lower than the other. 

The only problem I had with this is due to having a lot of notes in the bass line, although sounding fine for the normally pitched bass, this made the lower bass sound muddy and so I got around this by rerecording it with a simpler bass line with one or two notes per bar and so it was still impactful but without the muddiness. 


I wrote the strings for Gravity and this is the first song that I'm testing out recording multiple tracks and then exporting them as one for a larger effect. What I've done is I wrote all the parts out on Musescore (a free sheet music writing app) and then I played them in with my violin onto Bandlab and I played each part three times so I have nine tracks with three separate parts. The idea is so that they sound more cohesive and not so thin as only having three violin. I also pitch shifted one section down an octave to act as lower strings. I struggled with this though because my violin skills aren't amazing which means a lot of it was slightly sharp or flat and so it didn't sound very good. I tried using the autotune on it but it got confused on some parts which made it sound robotic and weird. I decided that I couldn't use the autotune and in order to get a good sound, I needed to use other effects on the recordings. I settled on a lot of reverb as well as doing the EQ in an upside down curve as this muted the violins more which gave them a warmer tone and sound less thin and generally have a better sound. I then exported each section and added them to my other project for the song where I realised I could still add the autotune but to the whole section rather than each individual violin and this worked really well as it didn't get so much wrong and didn't make it sound weird because, out of the three violins, it sounded mostly good the whole time meaning that the autotune got the notes correct and made it sound better. 

The only thing I realised I hadn't done is I need to turn off the effects and re-export them so I can control the effects on the main project to allow them to fit more cohesively into the whole song. I also haven't finished recording them yet but as they're quite repetitive, I'll be able to use the same recording in multiple places and so I just need to record for the end of the bridge going back into the chorus where it changes. 

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