At the start of this week, I had been working on a song that I intended on being this weeks track, but I came across a remix competition run by Abbey Road Institute which gave producers the chance to remix Chores & Boswell’s track “Telling Lies”.
I decided to see what I could come up with and after 2 days, I’m pretty happy with the end result.
For some reason, since i’ve had the studio up and running, it’s been easier for me to come up with ideas whilst at home with just headphones rather than actually sitting in the studio the whole time. So for this track I took advantage of that.
The basis of the song actually started on the way to work in the car. I was showing my mate Luka how to build drum loops on Ableton and I came up with the one that ended up in this song.
After that I imported the stems once I was back home and decided to see what I could come up with.
I started with the main chords by dragging the audio file of the synth stem over the top of a midi track and turned it to midi so I could work with the chords.
Ableton never gets it spot on but I could hear a little pattern it had made (sounding completely different of course) which went perfectly with the synth I was using.
-This became the main chord progression you can hear at the very start of the song.
I then moved on to the bass which I came up with fairly quickly and was quite happy with.
After that I added in some FX, played around with the stems and did a light mix in the studio so I could test it on other speakers.
I wasn’t happy with the bass at first, I always seem to have trouble when it comes to mixing the low end but I think I sorted it out after a while.
I also did a half assed master on this track as well, as I will eventually upload it to the remix competition (when they fix the website) so hopefully it sounds okay!
Anyways, I hope you enjoy this weeks instalment of 52 Weeks, 52 Tracks and let me know what you think.
-AA
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