Morty-C-137 I’m happy to go through what I can. If there are any specifics you want, let me know and I’ll check the project files.
We wrote the album by exchanging stems (except the two tracks I wrote by myself), we’ve actually never met in person, just communicated over facebook. Stephen was using mostly hardware (I’m not sure exactly the configurations, but I can ask if you want), so I went mostly in the box to add some digital balance to the analog sounds. Mostly, one of us would do a rough basic arrangement, send the stems back and forth a couple of times and I’d do the final mix (with me working more in the box, that just worked better for us). Once the mixes were done, we had them mastered by Wayne at Obsessed Audio (he’s done pretty much all of my mastering for a few years now and he’s done some of Eterna’s tracks too). I can’t say enough about how much good mastering helps.
On my end, I used a few soft synths and a lot of creative fx plugins to add textures and ear candy. The main soft synths I used were pigments and diva. I used so many plugins I can’t even remember them all, but here’s a quick list … arturia fragments for spectral delays and their space delay is all over the album, modnetic and echoboy are the other delays I used a lot, panman for movement, unfiltered audio stuff for grainy textures/delays, 4 or 5 different tape emulations (I like to stack them until I get the overall aesthetic I’m looking for), all the bass is run through kush audio’s blyss for saturation and novatron for compression, pro q3 is my primary eq. I wrote 95% of River 4 on the digitakt in about an hour, but that’s the only track that’s heavily sample based.
That was a bit long, sorry. 😅 If you want to know how anything specific was done, just ask and I’ll try to track it down. Thanks for checking out the album.
