Recent Work

[alterbridgefan]

Pulled some samples from an old Jo Stafford tune for a little hip hop thing I'm working on for some friends.

Enjoy!

https://soundcloud.com/prestonrice/easysmoothwav

 

[fdesalvo]

That's really cool lol. I suck at electronic/hip hop stuff.  What SW are u using?

 

[alterbridgefan]

Hey thanks!

Using Reaper as my DAW. Every instrument here is generated by a VST... I used LazySnake rhodes emulation for the rhodes and the bass. Drums are Superior Drummer 2. May lay down some guitar over it... Undecided.

I tried something new on this track. The drums are live samples and the velocities are(now) simulating a real drummer, but I added loads of digital noise to both the rhodes and the kick to get a nice sort of "bad digital" feel. So my goal really was to keep it real and organic while still giving it an electronic vibe.

 

[fdesalvo]

It works man.  Yeah, you really have to vary velocities to get a realistic sound.  When I first started out, my drums wee even worse sounding because all of the hits were identical!

 

[alterbridgefan]

Part of what I love about superior is that for every bit of the kit, there are hundreds of samples. It really is possible to get a recording that sounds as good, if not better than a real drum track. What's lost is the uniqueness - But nothing stopping one from adding their own samples or reamping for a different room sound, etc.

Still, as an engineer, it's really nice to be able to mic up a kit - There are so many fun techniques and such that it's really just not as fun to use sampled drums.

But, sampled drums have many huge, huge benefits.