SCIENCE!
For Free Track Friday #11 we bring you a creative mashup of Adele’s Rumor Has It with Muse’s Supermassive Black Hole arranged by Katie Riegal and Josh Goodman.
For Supermassive, we were excited to use a lady bass :) To achieve this, we ran Leanne’s voice through a Boss OC-2. The OC-2 is an analog octave pedal which produces two separate octaves below the root of the signal. We chose to use this at the last minute and needed a reamping device (which we had ordered but hadn’t come in). After pulling our hair out for a bit, we realized you can use a Radial JDI in reverse as a reamper. Couple this with another DI (for us one of our ProDIs) and you have a complete reamping signal chain. We also used an EBS Octabass for the single octave and a Boss MT-2 for the metal distorted guitar.
Weird noises! and Science! Sled Dog just received a large shipment of furniture. In this shipment were these weird torpedo looking vases. Well, if you strap a Schoeps CMC6 MK5 to a cable and carefully drop it into the base of this vase, it works as a pretty awesome reverb chamber. You’ll hear this strange, sort of midrangy reverb on the kick on this track.
But Sled Dog! There are weird noises in this track that COULDN’T have been produced by a human voice! Well yes. You’ll notice that the initial stomp rhythm was produced by some sort of drum. It is actually a coffee table. We brought the table into the booth, lifted it into a vertical position, miked one side with the CMC6 and the other with the MA-200 and proceeded. We layered that with a stomp performed in the foyer. The CMC6 pointed at the boots, the Blue Woodpecker at the top of the stairs gave a nice, big, reverberant sound.
Overall, it was great to get to work on some all-female a cappella.
Special Thanks:
David Longo (mixing) @sleddogstudios @longodj
Ted Trembinski (editing) @sleddogstudios @tedtrembinski
Nicole Milano (Adele) @nicolemariemil @sleddogstudios @cutoffacappella
Whitney Faison (Matt Bellamy) @whittlebee @cutoffacappella
Deanna Spiotta @cutoffacappella
Leanne Swaciak @cutoffacappella
Katie Riegal (arrangement) @kriegal @cutoffacappella
Josh Goodman (arrangement) @8beatmeasure @JoshyPGMan
Tat Tong (mastering) @t2tattong
