All Woman Featuring Lisa Worth - RichieWinn

Hi Barry

Always good to hear from you - I hope all is well with you too.

Thank you for your comments. You are very kind. I will make sure Lisa gets a view of your comments too - she will be knocked out. Much appreciated. Your words on my musicianship and production are very rewarding. Again, thank you so much.

Best

Richie

Greetings to you too!

Thank you for your comments and glad you thought is was a cool pop track.

Richie

Hey Brado

Thank you very much for your comments - they are much appreciated. I will pass on your words to Lisa too and I agree with you about the vocal. It's gorgeous. Glad you enjoyed it.

Richie

PS I will respond to your mail soon as I can.

Hi Cru

Thank you ever so much for your kind comments. It's particularly rewarding to hear comments on the way the track was arranged and mixed. Really appreciate that very much.

Glad you enjoyed it.

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Richie

Hi Kyle

Thank you so much for stopping by. Glad you liked the track and great to have your comments. Much appreciated.

Richie

Hi again Alex

Much of what you put forward I find difficult to respond too. The notion of abstract speculations and eventual positive very slight change of the colour of single tracks/insturments/layers I just dont understand. Similarly you suggest It is not to say that any further adjustments are necessary in your arrangement at but go on to further suggest Some processing (it might be a real-time processing when recording instruments as well) may help to add some warmth or presence or change positively the overall sound of the mix. Its confusing.

Firstly my prime goal is to produce something that is sonically pleasant to listen to. Something with some dynamic range and a balanced frequency spread. I also try my best to control the subs and achieve what I consider to be a clean sound. Starting from the back the drums and drumming are provided by Superior Drummer 2. An excellent piece of software that contains studio quality samples using multi mic kits (all of which are adjustable and controllable) with session drummers providing some nice grooves and fills (again all programmable, editable and controllable). The quality of the sounds and the playing is remarkable and who in their right mind would want to mess around with it by inserting a retro pluggin somewhere? Sacrilidge!

I also try, wherever possible, to play as much of the instrumentation as I can. Normally I would play the bass line in but on this occassion I really liked the synth bass sound so it was programmed in. There is an acoustic guitar on the verses (single chords along with the piano) and an electic rhthym guitar in the choruses. The acoustic is recorded using an AKG D202 and pre amp and the electric directly into my mic pre amp. Everything else (strings, pianos etc) are patches from Logic Pro X. Linear phase EQ to control the subs and some mid range tweaking to hopefully provide some distance between each instrument. The icing on the cake is the remarkable and talented Lisa Worth who sings and performs beautifully. Recorded using an AKG C3000 through a valve pre amp with just a little compression to control the dynamics. Some EQ and reverb added post recording and thats about it.

When recording is complete I usually leave it for a couple of days before I mix. Likewise I always leave a few days between mixing and mastering (an art I am learning about slowly). I also try to listen to the finished product on several different systems to see how it sounds. My monitoring system in the studio (JBL Control 5s with an old Quad 406 driving them) I am very familiar with and I get a pretty consistent sound from it.

So there you go. Hope that was useful and if there is anything else message me directly please. Happy to fill in some more gaps if needed.

Good luck with recording classical music with real instruments and microphones. That for me is where its all at. I would be interested to hear some of it too.

Best regards.

Richie

Hi Alex

Yes a bit unclear and difficult just about sums it up!!! LOL. See my response above.

Richie

Hi Alex

Nice to have such a detailed and diagnositic appraisal of my work. Thank you. I especially appreciate your comments regarding the the gengle arrangement and smooth and stylish production. Very rewarding indeed.

As for retro pluggins I'm afraid I can't agree at all with your view. For me any processing of of tracks has to add value to the original sound and as I wasn't after a totally 80's style the natural sound of the drumkit, albeit a more modern sounding kit, worked for me.

Again, comparing my track with "older music" isn't relevant particlarly as I mix for speakers and high quality sound systems rather than headphones.

I'm not sure what "overpower" is but perhaps my quest to include as much dynamic range as I can in my work may have some bearing. Not sure about the addition of reverb to correspond stylisitacally to the vocals. It's not how I work at all. Similarly the additon of sax is a purely personal view which was never on my agenda.

Maybe sometimes it's more difficult to read into a track what the producer had in mind and easier to interpret the song in one's own way. I am still learning and I'm grateful for your thoughts.

Best

Richie

Hi Ed

Always great to have you view of my work. It's always valued and I appreciate it. I'm knocked out with your comments and I will pass on your kind words to Lisa too. Thanks again.

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Richie

Hello TBK

Thank you so much for stopping by and posting comments. Much appreciated. Glad you enjoyed the track and it's reall very rewarding to have such feedback. Many thanks.

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Ricie

Hey Danke

Many thanks for your comments. Always a pleasure to have you stop by and listen. Glad you enjoyed it. So rewarding for all the work that went into the track. Much appreciated.

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Richie