rictus
New member
- Genre
- Rock
- Instruments
- Guitars and bass were all ran through Amplitube 5. Bass setting is a direct box ran in parallel to a Marshall style amp. Drums are EZ Drummer 3.
- Effects
- I've been using a lot of T-Racks lately. Compression on guitars was the standard 1176 style into a LA-2A style of compressor. Vocals ran into the T-racks Joe Chiccarelli vocal strip plugin. Vocal mic is an EV RE-20 through a Warm WA73 then through a Warm WA76-D Comp, just to knock off any volume spikes before it hit Studio One.
- Special techniques
- I'm not a great singer but I was super proud that I doubled the vocals and I made no timing edits afterwards. Nailed the timing. Now tuning is a different story. I try not to do too much tuning on vocals, but some is necessary. I bussed both vocal tracks into one instance of the T-Racks Joe Chiccarelli Vocal Strip plugin. Which heled blend them even further. Also, there is volume automation going on, mostly on the vocals. I wanted to add, I used a little saturation on the drums. For mastering I used a touch of Gullfoss and then through T-Racks One.
- Released when
- February 20, 2026
Song is about a type of person, perhaps you've known someone like it. People who live life to an extreme. Maybe like a Charlie Sheen or a Hunter S. Thompson. The first two verses are based on a dude I actually knew back in the day. Crazy SOB. Climbed the county courthouse exterior 3 or 4 stories high for a case of beer. We didn't even know you could spin the hands on the clock.
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