edited "About Me" as of February 26, 2009
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ABOUT MEHey guys, some of you may know me by my music artist name of
Audix. I did a number of tracks for the Goldeneye: Source soundtrack, which you can preview
, and download
here.
I have a
dance/electronic album released, "One Day Millennium," with Protagonist Records. My biggest projects to date have been producing the Valparaiso University men's basketball team (NCAA Division I) starting lineups track, which you can watch/listen to
, and producing the men's and women's starting lineups music at the University of Virginia.
I'm fairly involved in creating remixes of game, film, and artist tracks, which can be downloaded
at my homepage.
All that aside, on to my thoughts on creating "Rocking the Cradle."
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THOUGHTS ON "ROCKING THE CRADLE"With that said, I'll elaborate a bit on my
recently posted Cradle mix. I'll comment more on the arrangment of the mix to cater to the readers at this forum, but for those who would be interested, feel free to ask questions related to the production side of things.
I loved Graeme Norgate's original buildup to the beat and the syncopation between the timing of the piano and snare, so I tried to retain as much of that as I could in my mix. I didn't want to transition to the main section (at :48) right away, so I incorporated a slower section at :25 that served as the perfect backdrop for a big build into :48.
At :48, I resisted the urge to go all electro, sticking with the french horns and strings to stay with the classic soundtrack's feel a bit more. 1:33 serves as a good "resting point" for the listener, with the fiiltered beat dropping out to maximize the next sections' impact at 1:44. At 1:56 I initially had a more modern electric guitar playing the familiar Bond hook, but dropped that in favor of a more classic-sounding Bond guitar.
At 2:18, I didn't want the listener to think that the song was just looping, so I slid in a minimal synth to change it from the first time through. 2:44 introduces an entirely new synth idea, as well as using an unfiltered version of the background synth to make it sound more full than the first time. 3:06 introduces synths in place of the initial french horn, as well as a background synth line I came up with that I think really adds a lot to the feel of the track. 3:30 introduces strings and the french horns again at a lower volume to fill up the soundscape even more.
The marcato strings at 3:51 are a new addition to set the second half of the track even further apart from the first, until the "chorus" returns again at 4:14 to bring us back to familiar territory. The track hits at 4:37 and fades out to loop again.
All said and done, this track probably took around 15-20 hours from start to finish. The majority of the time is spent doing sound design and mixing/mastering as opposed to actually arranging the music.
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