As I mentioned in this blog post, so much about making slowcore music is about embracing simplicity.
In today’s episode of Diary of a Music Maker, I show you how I produce instrumental slowcore music.
You see me write the track ‘Do you think that?’ from the album, The past is blurry by my instrumental slowcore project, I don’t know myself.
My approach falls into these steps:
- Lay down the drums (usually the same drum pattern)
- Record the main guitar line which is usually a bassline
- Record a second guitar part that works in conjunction with the main guitar line
- Record a melody line
- If I am recording vocals I’d do that here
- Record an ambient topline
- Refine structure - I usually stick to an A-B-A-B-B structure
For the ‘master’ I keep it simple. On the stereo out bus, I keep it very simple with cassette emulation software by Wavesfactory and a limiter, PSP Xenon.
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