Sophia Shaan's Blog

Jonas Blue ( Perfect Strangers ) For the low-cut logic plug in, press alt and search in legacy   Instruments  Uses a lot of sounds from Massive and Sylenth 1   Lead Vocals  (Main Track) Mono  Auto-tune ( Auto tune Evo by antares )    Waves REQ 4  R Vox Waves CLA - 76 (Bus 1) Stereo  DeEsser SSL Channel (Waves) EQ & Gate   REQ 4  ( waves EQ) PuijTec EQP1A (S) L2 (Waves) To take out the peaks  (Bus on Bus 1)  Bus 2 Abby Road Plate (waves) Reverb  Bus 3 RVerb (waves) Reverb Bus 4 SuperTap 2 - Taps   Low Cut (Logic)                                                                     Distor...

Composing  Composing was alright. I first got my idea for my melody on my chorus and pre-chorus already in my phone. I had to start with a blank canvas and finding which instrument to start with was tough at first but slowly I had ideas for my fills and rhythms and also finding the preferred sound for my song. The writing process was fairly easy because I had the melody already in mind. It is just how to make the lyrics means something so that the people could relate. I got some of my instrument inputs from my classmates which helped me improve some of the parts. My reference song was Wait by Maroon 5 but I think now its more like the song Skin by Rag n Bone Man. I still kept the same song form from  the song Wait by Maroon 5. JJ helped me with my drums which lifted the song more with the drive from the drums. It is a lot of decision making in this process and I had to make it fast to move on from a part of a song.  Producing  Producing was a little tough in t...

Vocals and Background Vocals Firstly, I panned the lead vocals towards the centre and I panned the harmonies left and right using the stereo pan . For all of the vocal tracks I have added the EQ for both the lead and the harmonies. The EQ for the lead has a slight boost in the 300Hz, 2000Hz and 9000Hz range and for the harmonies I decreased the  it slightly in the 2000Hz and boost a little in the 5000Hz range. I have added the compressor for each audio track to make the vocals thick and glue it all together. Furthermore, I added reverb ( Space Designer ) to an aux track by bussing it to bus 4  to have a better control of the reverb, with the send level of -18 and harmonies at the level of  -17.8 . Besides that, I have added the Ensemble plug in for all of my vocal tracks by bussing to bus 5, with the settings of 8 voices , stereo spread at 125% and the output mix at a 100% to thicken the vocals even more. Lastly, I bussed out the delay( Stereo Delay ) to bus ...