That Was Then - a Chapperz original

[Tnguitar]

Great Tune.  Haven't been here in a while and what a first song to listen to. How about a breakdown on how it was recorded, what instruments used and such?  What was direct recorded and was there any mics used?  Was wondering if the acoustic was direct or using a mic.  Were the other instruments keybpard patches? 

Really nice.  Thanks for posting this.

[Johnny Robbo]

This is beautiful, mate. It's got a real "prog rock" feel to it - a bit like Camel in their softer moments. A gorgeous melody, orchestrated superbly. Bravo!

[chapperz66]

How about a breakdown on how it was recorded, what instruments used and such?  What was direct recorded and was there any mics used?  Was wondering if the acoustic was direct or using a mic.  Were the other instruments keybpard patches? 

Thanks for the kind comments everybody. 

This was recorded into Presonus Studio One 3 Professional via an Audiobox 1818VSL interface.

The guitar used was a fairly cheap Yamaha APX6N electro classical which was both DIed and miced using a Rode NT2a condensor mic.  All other parts (including the fast arpeggio guitar parts - mainly the bits in unison with the "double bass" and "flute") were played on a Yamaha Motif XS7 workstation synth and recorded initially into the XS7 midi recorder and then recorded one track at a time into Studio One.  It was mixed using only stock Presonus plugins.

As I think Blooby spotted - the first unison line was played but heavily quantised and (spoiler alert!) copied onto other XS7 midi tracks and altered a bit to keep the tight timing whilst changing the notes played.  The wonders of midi!

I think the cymbals were from Impact which is the Studio One percussion synth.

As a fairly recent convert to PC recording in general and Studio One in particular, I haven't yet explored the mastering functions yet so the piece is effectively just the unmastered mix.

Paul

[Groundy]

OTD Bump,
Can't believe this was a year ago.


Alex

[stoman]

Nice! Would sound great with folksy vocals, but stands VERY well on its own too.

It's a shame that only a few people ever get to hear all the treasures buried on sites like this.

[Johnny Robbo]

It's a shame that only a few people ever get to hear all the treasures buried on sites like this.

That's the beauty of the OTD bump  I'm enjoying this one all over again! Cheers Alex!