Reply To: The Mandelbrot Set 3: Creepy Monkey Underpants
MaW, I wouldn’t worry about the theremin tuning — I think the warbling around is part of the instrument’s charm! I think very few people can truly get a theremin to play in tune.
With the alignment problems mostly fixed, and new guitar and vox parts, including the Travis-picked guitar part, CD is sounding MUCH better already. The six-string parts are played on the Babicz acoustic, recorded with a Rode NT-5. The “soundhole boom reduce” channel setup in Logic works really nicely on it and I’m very pleased with the way it sounds. The Travis picked part is a little rough. I might try a retake if I can get it smoother, change the way the verse chords end, and maybe try to reconstruct the 12-string riff and 12-string strummed part.
I need to figure out why the alignment got so wrong. This didn’t happen on the other tracks, like I said, I must have changed a project setting, or found a bug in Logic’s synchronization. I guess maybe it isn’t important for this round anymore, but I have to make sure it doesn’t affect my next Logic project.
All my source tracks are now uploaded. I did not get a new test mix uploaded, but I will do that as soon as I get a chance. The vocal tracks are… well, as good as I’m likely to be able to get them in the near future, without professional help. I can’t really sing very accurately on key, but the multi-tracking and effects kind of round off the missed notes so you hear sort of an average that is close to on key, if that makes sense.
Also, the synth part needs a bunch of hand-editing of the MIDI notes to realign it to 140 bpm, and maybe to experiment with bringing it an octave up. Anyone who is good with MIDI parts want the MIDI file to play with?