February Album Writing Month - FAWM.ORG

Oakly (@oakly)

progress: 3

joined: January 13 2011
location: New Jersey, USA
influences: Owl City, Sky Sailing, LIGHTS, Arcade Fire, The Sound of Animals Fighting, Tally Hall, Anthony Green, RadioHead, The Most Serene Republic, Periphery

Bio

I doubt I'll have time to upload anything this year. I'm hard at work on my band's first ep. Hopefully all goes well.

Happy Fawming.

By the way, anything I do upload will be VERY EXPERIMENTAL.
haha

2012 Songs

1	This Will Last	2 comments // 3 months ago
2	Fight Song	3 comments // 3 months ago
3	Chipstep	1 comment // 3 months ago

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nickperrin 3 months ago

Hey! I use a combo of plugins. My stuff from previous FAWMs used to be all from EWQLSO Gold Pro X P, but to get the best sounds you really do need to combine libraries that do each section better individually. Now as far as affordability goes, there are always ways around the issue, but I'll leave it at that

For Windswept these are the libraries I used:
Strings - LA Scoring Strings
Brass - Cinebrass
Winds - EWQL Gold Pro X P for 99% of them + Hollywoodwinds just for the realistic runs
Percussion - EWQL Gold Pro X P
Choirs - VOXOS
Reverb - ArtsAcoustic Reverb (with different settings for each section of the orchestra)

OF COURSE I must note - these plugins certainly do a lot on their own to sound good, but they also require a lot of work in automation (expression, dynamics, articulations, etc.). Windswept is the most work I've done in VST programming for any orchestral music I've made, because I really wanted things to sound realistic & dynamic - but still didn't succeed 100%.
tobermory 3 months ago

Ha! Don't worry chief, it's pretty amazingly in time already... something coming back maybe tonight
tobermory 3 months ago

Great pretty much anything will do me fine, just steer away from too heavy C&W cos I've never played any, so I'm a stripmine of cliches just waiting for a stick o dynamite
frenchcricket 3 months ago

thanks man - distorted bass pwns. Can't wait to hear what you come up with with @tobermory!
tobermory 3 months ago

That isn't a bad idea at all! You want to go first? On account of the fact I can't do any tunesmithery until Tuesday night?
nickperrin 3 months ago

Yes! I'm back! Wouldn't miss it. And got some music in the works as we speak.

I checked out your track #2 and left a comment!
tobermory 3 months ago

>why havent we ever collabed before??

I guess that'll be because I'm a terrible collaborator! How do you do it anyway? I tried two or three last year and only one really worked
tobermory 3 months ago

Oh fabulous! Great to see you're back... How come I missed you in the run up? I was bouncing off the walls with excitement... and then realised there's a lot of incredibly hard work involved in doing this challenge... Right I'm de-zonging you immediately