Tag: resonance

On drum layering: programmed and live

Posted on by Stereo Mike
Listening to the two tunes produced two days ago (6/8 Brass Hit and 6/8 Psychedelic—all working titles) following the Americana excursion, I’m noticing again something I have been meaning to note down (I’ll use the latter track as the case in point here...) There is a discernible ‘edge’ or impact I am perceiving (to the sample-based aesthetic), when programmed and live drums are audible as parallel, synchronised streams. A bit like...

That magical piano layer

Posted on by Stereo Mike
The complexity of those studio decisions when committing to a stylistic idea resembles chaos theory: unaccountable layering variables like what Albin Zak describes as ‘resonance’. This (piano overdub just recorded) is another moment of—in his words—a ‘phonographic ephemeron’. I came to this piano layer, the part, the miking decision as a response to the previous layers, decisions, auralities. Why is this worth mentioning? Producers...
Songs
Stereo Mike - Wishbone (ft. Jo Lord)
Stereo Mike - Arun Dva
Stereo Mike - Keim Outro (ft. Andrew Caldecott)