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Post by swurveman on Jan 22, 2016 14:36:48 GMT -6
For you guitar players if you don't mind giving your opinion:
I'm writing pop songs, where good old monster power chords are sadly gone. So,I'm curious about what's going on in this song. The decay/sustain of the power chords (if indeed it is a distorted guitar instead of a synth) in the first verse of this song are being chopped off as the synth drones on. I doubt the chopped off decay/sustain is done by the guitarist with a volume pedal. It seems too precise. Is it just a gate or automation, or is there something else going on as well? It doesn't feel as dirty as a power chord, but I could be wrong.
Thanks to anybody that responds with what you think is going on!
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Post by svart on Jan 22, 2016 14:58:52 GMT -6
I know guitarists who do things like this with a volume pedal.. But I think it's probably a cut/paste job of a single strum that's been edited and sampled and played by someone with a synth.
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Post by swurveman on Jan 22, 2016 19:25:26 GMT -6
I know guitarists who do things like this with a volume pedal.. But I think it's probably a cut/paste job of a single strum that's been edited and sampled and played by someone with a synth. Yowza. Thanks svart. I'll have to look into how to load guitar samples into a synth. It is more than one chord though in the song. I don't know much about sampling, but they must be able to load samples so that when they hit a C note on a midi keyboard they get the C strum, and the G and on and on. Probably easier for me to play it on the guitar and then automate it in the DAW. |
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Post by svart on Jan 25, 2016 8:47:41 GMT -6
I know guitarists who do things like this with a volume pedal.. But I think it's probably a cut/paste job of a single strum that's been edited and sampled and played by someone with a synth. Yowza. Thanks svart. I'll have to look into how to load guitar samples into a synth. It is more than one chord though in the song. I don't know much about sampling, but they must be able to load samples so that when they hit a C note on a midi keyboard they get the C strum, and the G and on and on. Probably easier for me to play it on the guitar and then automate it in the DAW. I know a session guitar guy here in Atlanta who does a LOT of work for some top names in rap/RnB/pop and you'd be surprised to know that almost all of his work is recorded DI from the guitar and then run through modeling and sampled so that the producers can play with it on keyboards/sequencers. They might use whole sections that he played, or they might use single notes. He really doesn't know. He walks in, they give him sheet music and some instructions, and he plays. It's pretty crazy stuff. |
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Post by swurveman on Jan 25, 2016 19:33:23 GMT -6
Yowza. Thanks svart. I'll have to look into how to load guitar samples into a synth. It is more than one chord though in the song. I don't know much about sampling, but they must be able to load samples so that when they hit a C note on a midi keyboard they get the C strum, and the G and on and on. Probably easier for me to play it on the guitar and then automate it in the DAW. I know a session guitar guy here in Atlanta who does a LOT of work for some top names in rap/RnB/pop and you'd be surprised to know that almost all of his work is recorded DI from the guitar and then run through modeling and sampled so that the producers can play with it on keyboards/sequencers. They might use whole sections that he played, or they might use single notes. He really doesn't know. He walks in, they give him sheet music and some instructions, and he plays. It's pretty crazy stuff. I saw a Pensado's Place with guitar player Brent Paschke who does work with Max Martin and Dr. Luke and he said he did all his stuff with them direct and with Amp Farm. He also said most of his effects were plugins used after the recordings. The modern pop producer has so many ways to make things sound different, which often requires tweaking within the DAW software, that perhaps it is just faster for their workflow to record this way. |
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Post by joelhamilton on Jan 25, 2016 22:10:36 GMT -6
I know guitarists who do things like this with a volume pedal.. But I think it's probably a cut/paste job of a single strum that's been edited and sampled and played by someone with a synth. Yep |
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Post by Johnkenn on Jan 25, 2016 22:29:24 GMT -6
Sounds like a hollow body through a spring...
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Post by Ward on Jan 31, 2016 11:32:58 GMT -6
This is pop music. Everything is edited to hell and back. Slice and dice!
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Post by RicFoxx on Feb 3, 2016 6:37:32 GMT -6
I do this with NI Maschine and it is very easy and creative for pop productions.
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