{"id":183760,"date":"2022-01-06T16:45:02","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T00:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/?p=183760"},"modified":"2022-01-06T16:45:06","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T00:45:06","slug":"stayin-alive-its-not-just-for-disco-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2022\/01\/06\/stayin-alive-its-not-just-for-disco-anymore\/","title":{"rendered":"Stayin&#8217; Alive &#8211; It&#8217;s not just for disco anymore"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content_div-183760\">\n\n<p>I&#8217;m a member of a group of musicians that are working to get better at mixing and mastering. And we&#8217;ve started doing some cover projects. I&#8217;m not big on doing covers &#8211; licensing is a mess and I&#8217;d rather spend time composing than dealing with legal stuff.<\/p>\n<p>The latest project is Stayin&#8217; Alive by the Bee Gees. And I heard in my head something more sinistar. I started by entering the lyrics into the Songman Vocaloid. And then I figured it needed bass, so I went looking. I tried my fav basses from ModoBass and Ample Sound and that didn&#8217;t do it. So I switched to a MiniMoog plugin and settled on a modified Taurus sound, which I eventually copied to two more tracks so I could put the deep bass up the middle and the upper frequencies panned hard left\/right with a slight delay on one side &#8211; this causes a psychological effect of widening and fattening the sound. Next up was drums &#8211; an electronic kit from ToonTrack. Then came the organ stabs &#8211; a combo organ (my first keyboard, after the organ we built at home, was a Yamaha combo organ) to keep it simple and pure. And finally, vocoded CS-80 to create the very strange apparently shifted backing vocals to the chorus.<\/p>\n<p>And it took 2 days. 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And we&#8217;ve started doing some cover projects. I&#8217;m not big on doing covers &#8211; licensing is a mess and I&#8217;d rather spend time composing than dealing with legal stuff. 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