How I Did It
Hourglassby Admiral Bob
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more...Tools I Used
An Ovation shallowback acoustic, my mandolin, the M-Audio general midi module, a P-bass
Samples I Used
The voice and piano for Hourglass.
Original Samples
mandolin, acoustic guitar, bass, cello, strings
Process
The first thing I did was put down a string section, with a huge church echo on it.
I played the cello for the up-climb, and then added the bass part doing all the rest of it.
I then added an acoustic guitar playing fingerstyle and threw a 2000 ms reverb on it. Lastly, I added the mandolin solo, breaking into it during the vocal so it didn't sound like some dude wandering in off the street with a mandolin. :)
Other Notes
There are certain artists I just seem to "get" such as Panu Moon and snowflake. I think that earthy music is hard to do well, and I find increasingly I'm remixing people who are doing it well.
As a result, this mix rolled out fairly easily, mostly with a single take for each part, and maybe I'm going to have to challenge myself, and get out of the comfort zone!
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