Kiana Li
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A Faint Glow of Bravery (Abridged overview)
🕑 Added 2024-01-19 17:57:00 +0000 UTC"... a rekindling of passion - of what remained after drum and bass."
I've decided to put up for public viewing 45-or-so minutes of a 130-minute epic detailing but only scratching the surface of what went into my new record.
It was a real outpouring of love, loss, lust, hate, dread and everything in between in these seven tracks written towards the tail end of 2022. Watch as I dive into the nuances in the production and the key points that created the sound of the record.
Rundown below:
0:10 - Loading up stems for 'Timid Rhythm', one of three scrapped tracks from the record.
05:00 - Demo-ing extreme compression with Devil-Loc.
07:45 - Moving swiftly onto 'Canvas', the first version of 'Harsh Sun' with both interesting points and points of critique on the form, arrangement, structure.
10:25 - Looking into the elements in the track, and how everything was produced, but not arranged in the most tasteful way in my opinion.
15:00 - Moving onto the project file of 'Harsh Sun'.
18:00 - Break sample breakdown - note the light articulation and fast snare rolls in the break, turning into something quite metallic but mellowed using pitch-tracked filtering.
22:00 - A retrospect on the drum bus mixing.
23:00 - Thickening with parallel distortion.
25:00 - Layers of reverb on individual sounds as an organic form of imperfection.
26:40 - Bass design and mixing.
29:30 - Filter morphing stabs design.
31:35 - A touch of subtlety with the keys + bass swells, now reintroduced as an intro element.
33:00 - Subtle synth movements on a synth by William Light. Shouts!
34:30 - Closing statements. The true meaning of 'A Faint Glow of Bravery'. Finding familiarity in a piece of work that is daring.
36:00 - 'Oligarch' stems.
40:00 - Looking into each stem of the track.
42:00 - 'Oligarch' vocal sample breakdown.
