i love that you sampled stuff like that - makes it feel a lot more lively.
I'd like to see your sound design process - the sub bass is wild
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From alone at the edge of the sea
This was the first track made for this album, before the album was even a concept. I made this about a week before I started working on alone at the edge of the sea. The original version didn't have much to do with the ocean, so when I revised it for the album version, I added some deep sea critters to the track. The first one you hear (near the beginning) is, to my knowledge, an unidentified creature that the US Navy recorded back in the 50's (these recordings are in the public domain).
The second one I think is a humpback whale? It's again recorded by the US Navy in the 50's.
The last one (what you can hear at the climatic end) is a pod of whale (might be minke whales), but its been slowed down. These are from Ocean Networks Canada, under Creative Commons.
There's also a sample of a Jack Snipe playing throughout the track, but its frequency has been cut in half (pseudo slow down).
The squeaking metal you can hear throughout the track is my own recording of an old metal furnace I found in the shop on the property I live on.
Rest is just Vital heavily edited in post.
RezDragon responds:
Thank you! I've actually just started doing "streams" (pre-recorded) of my work over on my tumblr. I've only got one up so far and its for the audio drama I'm working on. One where I'm working on music is waiting in the wings currently: https://rezdragon.tumblr.com/
And as for why the sub bass is so wild on this track, if I remember right, what I did was I doubled the synth layer while I was working on it. The bottom layer had a lot of low pass and heavy reverb, while the top layer had minor distortion and was taken up an octave. The whole synth was also slowed down by about 56%. If you want to hear this same synth at normal speed, I used it in this track (that I should probably post here eventually): https://youtu.be/NFW1kktLpBE
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