| How I Recorded my tribute to: The Main Street Electrical Parade |
I recorded the Main Street Electrical Parade using Steinberg Cubase 4 and tube
processing. The synths were: Yamaha ES-8, Minimoog, Moog Modular, CS-80V, Arp
2600, Prophet V, Juipter-8, Moog Theremin, Prosoniq Orange Vocoder.
Following nearly 2 years of recording the project I worked with 2 of the top studio
engineers in Southern Nevada for the final mixes. Kevin Brewer and Jeff Bower in
Las Vegas assisted me with the final mixdown. Originally I hired a very reputable
mastering company to master the project for CD replication. Following 2 attempts
they never got the mastering correct. We went over to Jeff's studio and mastered
the project. Jeff did a perfect job in capturing those fat, warm, and, vintage synth
tones in the project's final master for the CDs.
* The significance of recording this project tracking with vintage and digital synths,
was to strive to capture the spirit of the original MSEP using current recording
technology. Because the duration is long, I chose to record this project as more of
a symphonic piece not using midi technology. A composition of recorded music this
long in duration would get very boring if it were a midi project. It is a symphony of
synths.
What was fun? 90% of the sounds I used I had to program from scratch. The music
itself and the creation of the sounds were the most fun.
What was the challenge? The vocoder was the hardest. The original recording
used a Bode Moog Vocoder and those have not been around for many years. I
worked to approximate the sound with a Prosoniq Orange Vocoder. It did not quite
match up to the Bode but...my CD is a tribute and not the original. "Ladies and
gentlemen boys and girls, Jiminy proudly salutes....."
** I gathered some of the original recordings to cover on this project. I also
downloaded many home videos from "Youtube" to help me with the arrangements.
*** I want to give something special to everyone so I licensed and included 3 songs
from Disney's animated feature "The Jungle Book".
processing. The synths were: Yamaha ES-8, Minimoog, Moog Modular, CS-80V, Arp
2600, Prophet V, Juipter-8, Moog Theremin, Prosoniq Orange Vocoder.
Following nearly 2 years of recording the project I worked with 2 of the top studio
engineers in Southern Nevada for the final mixes. Kevin Brewer and Jeff Bower in
Las Vegas assisted me with the final mixdown. Originally I hired a very reputable
mastering company to master the project for CD replication. Following 2 attempts
they never got the mastering correct. We went over to Jeff's studio and mastered
the project. Jeff did a perfect job in capturing those fat, warm, and, vintage synth
tones in the project's final master for the CDs.
* The significance of recording this project tracking with vintage and digital synths,
was to strive to capture the spirit of the original MSEP using current recording
technology. Because the duration is long, I chose to record this project as more of
a symphonic piece not using midi technology. A composition of recorded music this
long in duration would get very boring if it were a midi project. It is a symphony of
synths.
What was fun? 90% of the sounds I used I had to program from scratch. The music
itself and the creation of the sounds were the most fun.
What was the challenge? The vocoder was the hardest. The original recording
used a Bode Moog Vocoder and those have not been around for many years. I
worked to approximate the sound with a Prosoniq Orange Vocoder. It did not quite
match up to the Bode but...my CD is a tribute and not the original. "Ladies and
gentlemen boys and girls, Jiminy proudly salutes....."
** I gathered some of the original recordings to cover on this project. I also
downloaded many home videos from "Youtube" to help me with the arrangements.
*** I want to give something special to everyone so I licensed and included 3 songs
from Disney's animated feature "The Jungle Book".
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