Got the Funk!

[jchitty]

Wow, great stuff....'play that funky music, white boy. ' Congrats, Mazz.

[mazz]

Martin,I use a library called "First Call Horns" from Big Fish. I compose all the horn parts myself. I used to play trumpet and was a big "horn band" fan (Tower of Power, Chicago, Blood Sweat and Tears, Earth Wind and Fire, etc.) so I'm familiar with the sound.Thanks for listenting,MazzEDIT: I should say a huge component to the horn sound is the Plate 140 reverb from the UAD-1 card. The samples are pretty dry so a quality reverb is key to getting a fat, smooth, horn sound. I love the sound of a plate reverb and the one in the UAD-1 card is amazing. It's modeled after 3 of them in The Plant in Sausalito, just over the Golden Gate bridge from San Francisco.

[djdeweese]

Love that clav sound! Congrats on the forward, and thanks for the info on the Plate 140 reverb.

[gitarrero]

hey mazz,thanks for the infos.I think I will purchase the plate 140 since uad has a voucher of $100 at the moment (I have two cards), so this plugin for $ 50 is a good deal I guess..

[mazz]

Do you have the UAD-1 Fairchild Compressor? I use it on drums and on the master buss all the time. It is another amazing piece of software. Usually I set it so it is barely working but it really glues things together and gives great punch to the mixes and/or drums. A must have in my book!Mazz

[gitarrero]

Quote:Do you have the UAD-1 Fairchild Compressor? I use it on drums and on the master buss all the time. It is another amazing piece of software. Usually I set it so it is barely working but it really glues things together and gives great punch to the mixes and/or drums. A must have in my book!MazzI couldn't agree more - I use the fairchild compressor a lot, sometimes also in the mastering chain (with only a slightly gain reduction on the highest peaks) - as you said: it glues things together.once I got the vocal tracks I had to mix as mp3s... the singer was great, and with the help of the fairchild it also went out great in a sonical sense.cheers,martin

[dabresk]

WOW Mazz that smokes! Puts me back to when I was a kid....I had the opportunity to jam with Bootsy and Parliament/Funkadelic in the studio in Detroit. Left a lasting impression on me. Great sounds (them horns are fantastic) and awesome song! Congrats!!!Bresky

[stick]

Yeah Mazz... I was big into TOP in college... played in a horn band. Fun stuff. We even exited our wedding to a TOP song: "I Like Your Style".