Farz's assignment

Upgrading Crazy Tazy 

When it came to improving Crazy Tazy, I decided I would start from the very scratch and changed the chords, I made the chords using a chord trigger and an ES2 synth, my favourite types of synth are quite sweet sounding and soothing to the ears, however I also like when flanger plays a bit so I added a flanger effect and turned the rate of the flanger quite low.  I also added a space designer reverb to the synth. 

For the melody, I used a synth I created called Breathe, I called it breathe because it has an ambient sound that reminds me of breathing smoothly, I made it using sculpture. Sculpture was very confusing but after messing around for a while I found the sound I was looking for. Furthermore I also added a flute and placed it slightly behind the melody synth, this acts an echo but it's a different sound. I put space designer reverb and flanger on both of these instruments.

I created the rhythm using ultra beat, I used three channels for ultra beat; one for hi-hats, one for the kick drum and the last one for the click and tom, the rhythm was fairly simple to make, I put a flanger, overdrive and reverb on the hi-hats. The kick drum was fairly easy to find but it was difficult to make it prominent in the mix, to make it prominent I added overdrive which helped a lot.

Improving What Do You Want

Improving What Do You Want wasn't as long a process as Crazy Tazy as I didn't strip the track apart. However it still took time as I added ultra beat whilst the rest of the song was already in effect which was like creating the rhythm of a song even though the song was already based off a different rhythm. I added a flute and piano to play the melody. I used flanger on the Hi-hats to give it a more metallic, sharp sound, furthermore I used flanger and echo on the flute to give the track a more like dream/fantasy feel. The drums lead the song into the next part with the snare hits then would stop whilst the bass took over.