UNIT 8: Research

Throughout the course of this project I have done a lot of research in this project so today I will show and explain all the research I've done in this project.

What you see here the tabs for "Enter Sandman" and "Lucretia". During the creation of my First and original song "Take it to your grave" I wanted to figure out a new section for my song as I didnt know what would come next. I didn't exactly use this as after i finished the solo the song goes into an interlude so i did not use this but it is good for the future in songwriting. 

i knew what i wanted to do with my song, it involved getting a sample from a show called "Invincible" where a character named "Conquest" tells the main character all about his struggles and his loneliness before attempting to kill him followed by him saying "Take it to your grave" which inspired the name of my track. In order to extract Conquest's voice, I had to download the youtube video of that line and find a stem splitter which isolates Conquest's voice giving me the perfect chance to place it into Logic

Stem splitter

 

Here is the botched first attempt I had at creating She-Wolf where I foolishly put the guitars into logic first and tried it put the drum track in afterwards. Im sat here wondering how I made such a mistake as the drums literally make up the whole song. My lecturer Lee tried to quantize the track but it didn't work as all was done and dusted and i needed to start again. To become better is to make mistakes, and I learn from my mistakes, I don't make the same mistakes twice.

Here is "Am I Evil?" towards the start of when I put it into logic. The research I did for this song includes finding an isolated drum and vocal track which I found on YouTube.

Here is the isolated vocal track i used for am i evil.

Here is the isolated Drum track for am i evil.

These videos were uploaded by the same channel so I that way I knew they were both in time.

Both of these videos led to the finished product of my cover song "Am I Evil?" 

For my original track "Take it to your grave" I had to come up with a guitar solo using the pentatonic scale in the key of which the riff was in. For example, the riff i made was in the key of A minor so i used the A minor pentatonic scale to create a guitar solo for the song which turned out very nice 

In logic pro, I looked for heavy metal guitar tones and what I found most of the time were noisy, fuzzy guitar sounds which hurt my ears as soon as I put the headphones on but I later found a video which helped solve all my problems

I didn't like this guitar tone as it was too bluesy and not enough my style.

This guitar tone had it all for me. It sounded very nice and it did not have any extraneous noise as there was a feature called "Noise gate" which got rid of all the unwanted noise

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All 4 of the songs I had chose were all done in Standard tuning. 

There is a tuner in logic pro which helped tuned the guitar

The tuning fork is right next to the X on the right

another tuning I considered using was D standard which is one whole step down from E standard

This video gave me a lot of help with how to tune my guitar in logic incase the guitar was not tuned correctly 

It gave insights on other things such as guitar tracks built into logic

 

With regards to recording guitars in logic, I researched and found this video which perfectly demonstrate what the best way to get a nice guitar tone is. 

In this video I found out about pedals too which i didn't know existed in logic

I found out about doubling recordings together and which one to play back.

It taught me about amps and how to adjust the sounds which led to creating the heavy and distorted tone of my guitar.