Original Composition!
This week, Sled Dog had the pleasure to work with the Smoking Hot Pipes on an original composition by Matthew Bielewicz. You all should remember Matthew Beilewicz from his solo on Free Track Friday #5, Little Lion Man. Percussion on this track was performed by Mickey Hamilton. Background vocals were performed by the Smoking Hot Pipes.
Couple interesting things with this track. There are no linear reverbs on the verses and choruses of this track except for the percussion. Any ambience was created with delays. This is our most stereo track from a purely technical, stare at the PhaseScope perspective. Mono panned delays in the 20-50ms range cause the backing vocals on words to stay on the sides of the mix, keeping the center clear and open. Dave Pensado covers this very well in his Pensado’s Place series.
Percussion is taken from a single track and supplemented with samples. We went with a proper double kick configuration on this each panned center but with their reverb sends panned left and right. Most of the cymbals are one or two samples using Waves S1 to shift the cymbal around the stereo field.
During the bridge we now get some reverb. We also phase the heck out of everything. There is no panning on the solo. The solo was duplicated onto three tracks: one dry, two phased. The two phased tracks are panned hard left and right with different LFOs to make the voice shift around the field.
Special Thanks:
David Longo (mixing) @sleddogstudios @longodj
Matt Bielewicz (composer, solo) @smokinghotpipes
Mickey Hamilton (backgrounds) @sleddogstudios @MickeyBluEyes81
Adam Hawley @smokinghotpipes
Eric Traugott @smokinghotpipes
Josh Rinker @smokinghotpipes
Mark Goho @smokinghotpipes
Mark Mancuso @smokinghotpipes
Dave Sperandio (mastering) @diovoce
