Today I have been working on a MIDI recreation of "In the Air Tonight" by Phil Collins in Reason. Lizzy and I were in the car today, and the song came on the radio. I executed the air drum fill with perfection, so we decided we should cover the song with Lizzy doing vocals. Here is what I have so far: drums and keyboards are done. No guitar sounds or vocals (or vocal effects).
Fast forward! It's long... get to the DRUM FILL!!
Also, I can't hear the bass part at the end at all with my laptop speakers. Is anyone else having that problem?
In the Air Tonight (MIDI Mock-up)
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DEEP
Have you guys seen the family guy episode Poltergeist spoof episode? Stewie is stuck in the TV, and it has that intense reverb, compression effect going on and he's like, 'oh wait, i've always wanted to try this...' and he sings In The Air Tonight. It's aaamazing.
HAHA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4f1WGbpPjyo>
Which is better, echo or reverb?
I totally posted a comment to this before but I failed to do it right.
To summarize, the drum fill is totally rad - and my only note is that I thought the music got more hyphy afterward than it does here, though maybe it's just Phil.
Reverb in general is better, IMHIHOP - but echo wins verse reverb on guitars.
Aren't reverb and echo technically the same thing?
yeah drew... Lizzy pointed out that I was missing some string stuff after the fill (the string part goes generally along the bass). Also, this is the ALBUM version of the song. The single version has, like, a back beat with toms and shit throughout. This is the barebones one. Also, like I said, none of the guitar is there yet. I think it is a good suggestion though, for when I do them to use echo not reverb.
Greg: I really want to used the word NOMENCLATURE, I just don't quite know how. Echo, I think, is synonymous with delay (drew?), and reverb is more like a wash (a bunch of delays), a tail on the sound, like in a theater. A delay under 40ms is percieved usually as reverb (or flanging, chorus, etc), and above 40ms it becomes two seperate sounds (ECHO... echo... (echo)...)
Chester's right about these things.
Though I believe delay specifically refers to a single repetition of the sound real close to the original. When you get farther away, it becomes slapback delay or echo.
Though these effects are all said to be in the delay family.
My computer crashed recently and I lost some plugins (that I didn't really use), but for anyone who's interested This dude has a pretty sweet free vst reverb.
I've used that plugin! I liike the "hold" button.
I really like the detailed discussion of echo and reverb. It's funny to call something echo when it happens electronically inside your computer and has never been thrown out into real space and come back to your ears affected by that space... I think the most amazing space I've ever been in in terms of echo was under the elevated MTA subway in Astoria near FluxFactory, where there was an enourmous and very high roof that was shaped not like a parabola, but like a huge part semi-circle. The effect was that every sound bounced back to your ears sounding like a lazer shot. It was AMAZING.
Would you call it "delay" if two stereos were playing the same song, one a second behind the other?
What about delay is so appealing to the stoned mind that it has become an essential part of the fight against Babylon?
(Did you notice the part where I used the word "in" twice in a row and it was grammatical?)
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