Project El Loco's Driving Bass!
So I have started a new project just to kick things off and show a few steps: in this film you see the drum track and a string section added together: really as place holders just to kick things off. Nothing has been enhanced: just the pure midi samples of the strings and drums without EQ or mixing or anything else:
The screenshot shows the whole thing as it is at the mo....we will need to do a lot more to get
@El Loco feet a-tappin'!
As you will hear in the audio file it sounds quite soft: this is because the dry recording is recorded at a relative low level so that you have lots of room to play with to enhance the sound: if the volume at the base recording is too loud it will start distorting when you start enhancing. This space between the original recording and what actually comes out of your radio is called "headspace", an empty space as it were where you can comfortably play and modulate and enhance the sound without it going "in the red".
One of the hardest things to really learn is to have patience...build on the sound, not try and have it "there" in one go....
As we go through this process we will hear the sound changing and becoming louder and at the same time become more and more embedded in each other.