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ABF Horror compilation album Released!! ITS OUT!!!
Here it is, listen if you dare, share if you care! 23 tracks ( and counting) of aural terror!! Get lost in the twisted corridors of your mind… you did really really good work everyone, pat yourselves on the back and turn off the lights and enjoy!
All proceeds will be directly donated to MSF:
https://www.msf.org/
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Yes 🤩 about to listen to it in just a bit. Super excited 🎉
Cool! I’ll check it out properly tomorrow, hopefully. Thanks for putting this all together!
It’s sounding great so far. Would love if everyone could comment with some insight about how they approached or made their track.
Mine was all done in Koala from found sounds, modular synth patches, and a piano sample. All mangled in koala, with some being resampled through outboard effects. Then triggered live and processed with 75% new internal koala effects and a couple of additional AUV3s.
Patch notes for my track (Ofn):
Ofn is Welsh for fear. Also a bad bilingual pun due to the use of a sample of my partner’s oven in Tardigrain for the rumbly stuff. Single F in Welsh is pronounced like English V.
Five channels in AUM:
All piped through an output bus with a limiter for safety.
Mic was an iRig Cast in line with headphones.
Recorded live straight to stereo.
Tweaked in post using the Amazing Noises limiter in Multitrack DAW to get close to level specs.
Awesome. Was gonna ask what mic you used. How is the iRig mic? I’ve been wanting to get a usb mic so I don’t have to change to an interface or dongles so often.
I use barricade but I’ve heard the amazing noises limited is quite good too. Any reason in particular you like it?
My track was done mostly in koala with some drum samples and some mangled samples and then I just played everything and did some editing on the drums to spice them up a bit. I prefer to record bus outputs rather than the stem export in koala so I just recorded everything into stems bussed together. I was in a bit of a rush because of procrastination so I ended up just taking the stems to my desktop and arranged the stems and mixed everything in Reaper plus I like having Can Opener to mix. I didn’t experiment too much with the tracks, just some gain staging stuff and eq with pro q and pro c for the compressors on each track and busses and some Valhalla reverbs for plates and rooms and the delay for some wobbly. I forgot what compressor I used on the master but I also used Hornet Tape for some saturation and then Barricade with that compressor lightly on and the transparent limiter. Oh shit, the guitar part was recorded on the desktop too using Nembrini fuzz and Hornet Jammingrock for the amp sim as well.
The inspiration was someone experiencing auditory hallucinations and going crazy trying to distinguish what’s real or not
That mic is really aimed at speech, so it’s not super accurate sounding for singing. Not sure if they still make it, as it needs a headphone socket to work. But as I was going to mangle the vocals anyway, I didn’t think that was a problem! It has the huge advantage that it’s tiny, so very portable.
I bought the Amazing Noises Limiter mainly because Dean from Electronisounds uses it, and I wanted one for safety purposes. My aim is for it to do nothing: I use a Gain node to lower the levels on the output bus. But it’s there just in case things get too hot. I don’t think it has much of a character sound to it (used how I use it, at least).
Are they still having “BandCamp Friday” where the artist gets all of the donated money?
@Lady_App_titude might know.
I bought the album anyway so that I can claim I have sold something on Bandcamp. No one will
ask the right questions to call me out. If fact they will probably just assume I’m lying because they have heard by shit already and gave up on me and money ever having a positive cash flow.
Lots of very cool tracks here!
Thanks for doing the leg work.
Good idea regarding ‘how the track was made’ notes. I’ll include mine later.
Good on you for putting this together, Dan ♥ Looking forward to checking it out!
Well done friends!
Just went through the whole album and wow. This forum is far from short of very talented people. Loving all the tracks on this, congrats everyone !
Absolutely. It turned out amazing, not a dull moment or bad track in the bunch. Thanks to @sevenape for putting in the work. The track list also flows very well. Which I’m a sucker for a nice track to track flow.
I don’t use vocals much anyway, and when I do it’s mostly spoken word or mangled to hell and back lol so I mostly just want one that makes recording quick vocal parts easier and has usb so it can be ran through a usb hub
To answer @HotStrange about the approach. When Dan suggested the idea of a Halloween project, I was immediately into it.
The first question was "what makes a music unsettling in an enigmatic or scary fashion". I came with the conclusion that there are probably 3 ways for this:
1- A drone where textures, space and judicious use of silence (brilliantly proved by some tracks here) blend to create a soundscape where the slightest little sound can become a big event.
2- a more western approach based on rhythm and diatonic harmony but where one "breaks" the rules to bring unsettling effect.
3- pure chaos and noise where there are so many tonalities played at the same time that the brain cannot comprehend, hence the unsettling effect.
Then I started to work on a track for each category.
I quickly left the chaos track for another time (though I like it a lot). Then left aside the drone track I started, knowing some of the fellow ABF members would get far better result than me (I was definitely right, there are some drone/ambient gems here)
So I was stuck with the approach #2
It seems that whatever the approach, having whatever kind of repetitive element is also a major key for spookiness, I am especially thinking of @sevenape track with the scary click that can be heard all along, or @rottencat brilliant vocal (by the way, what is this language and what does it say?), or Granada's "Waiting, Watching" (great build by the way, what's your forum name?)
In my case, I created repetition with many elements that I intentionally broke with either key, time signature or tempo changes:
I quickly created the first 80% of the track, but got stuck for a few days because I absolutely wanted the track to end up on the same theme as in the beginning in the same tempo, key and time signature. I eventually managed (sorry @seventape for this delay !)
Eventually I didn't want this to be too scary. I know some members here are very good at this, so I went for the more Grotesque type of spookiness.
Sorry for the long breakdown !
No need to apologize, I love hearing how people came up with their tracks! Yours definitely reminded a bit of some of Danny Elfmans score work and was a great bookend to the album.
I saw in your other thread you used StaffPad. Did you master it elsewhere?
First just want to say what a great compilation this is! So many talented people here, I think it’s a genuinely good listen. I bought it!
Too many to single out but I was especially creeped out by @rottencat’s devilish whispering horror, Credo.
Just like my taste in horror movies which has shifted over the years along with my own growing sense of mortality, the ones I am most drawn to these days are not the campy gore fests of my youth, (though I love them still, if ironically), nor the witless torture porns which just depict evils too credible in a world already full enough of them, but the genuinely outre, psychically unsettling ones like The Babadook, The Witch, Midsommar… and for me, @rottencat has nailed that adult sense of brooding wrongness. I want/don’t want to see the movie that piece soundtracks! (Wuss here who had nightmares after The Babadook.)
Patch notes for Final Girl:
The Final Girl: the one who survives. Since first seeing Jamie Lee Curtis, the definitive Final Girl, soundtracked by John Carpenter’s peerless, relentless electronic theme to his own movie masterpiece Halloween on its initial cinema release back in 1978, I have been fascinated by the trope of the Final Girl.
At first I was tempted to try some kind of pastiche of Carpenters’ classic death stomp, but I realised I just wasn’t that talented. And so I shifted focus to a moment in the archetypal slasher movie in my head that was more within my capabilities - the aftermath.
So I imagined this piece as a reprise of an earlier, unheard, more Carpenteresque and dynamic version of the same, coming at the end of the movie when the Final Girl has had her final showdown with The Shape, and is standing in the Lakeside cabin, clutching the axe, bloodied but unbowed…
I like a nice Doom Drum, so Alteza and Sidekick did the honours there. Some backward Speldosa because spooky. Lines for texture. The limit of my guitar playing ability on a very short little chug loop I recorded ages ago and never found a use for. Some Scaler-safed extemporisation using my absolute fave distorted guitar noise, the Sigur Boss patch on the D1. Screams and sighs from a couple of random Blocs waves. A sample of a drummers chimes set. Recorded as multiple AUM loops as per my S.O.P. and messed with on live mix down to AudioShare.. Et voila!
I am usually a LP4i user, but I was very late and finalised the track composition/ arrangement yesterday, just before the deadline, so I didn't have the time to mix all the stems (there are approximately 70 tracks on this project !!!)
So I had to master very quickly before submitting. I imported the Staffpad mix inside AUM. Minimal surgical EQ (FF pro-C3) on the main track, then an auxiliary (or parallel) 'send' track dedicated to reverb (Virsyn Audioreverb) and pro-C3 after the reverb to remove the muddy low end of the reverb.
Both "dry" and "wet" tracks were then mixed into an AUM master track with very gentle and transparent compression (pro-C2) and then into pro-L2 to match the -14 dB LUFS target. Not sure compression before the limiter was really useful but that became my routine 😉
If I had the time to mix the stems in LP4i, I could have improved the sound quality, instruments separation in the stereo field and improve the low end ( timpanis are hard to tame!), but I had to move fast this time. The result is not too bad though.
@JanKun: ‘Not too bad’ I’ll say! Danny Elfman better start clearing his desk!!!
I’ve been reading The Ritual, a not excellent horror novel in the end, but there are some amazing descriptions of sodden wet forest, and so I grabbed a sample of walking through mud from bbc, sampled a bunch of horror box stuff from the Venus theory Decent Sampler thing, got hainbach’s noises and lines running and added a touch of Ivcs3 and mixed it all up
Here are some notes about my track, The Conjuring, on this album:
The track was recorded completely in Logic Pro for iPad.
It begins with Distant Bells from Alchemy, plus Prismic and Box Violin from Decent Sampler (which doesn't always seem to reload when re-opening the Logic project!). I also recorded myself reciting an incantation that Chat GPT generated for me
Then comes a Box Harp from Decent Sampler and the Init preset andCoffee Piano from LoFi Tape (which also doesn't seem to automatically reload when opening the Logic Project!)
The orchestra and choir section is courtesy of Korg Module London Symphonic.
Drums are Logic's Retro Rock kit. There is also an ARP from SynthMaster One and the guitar is my Strat through Nembrini JMP Pro.
I also made a video to accompany the track, in LumaFusion.
A lovely eclectic mix of stuff on here, I’ve been spooking my kitten out all morning with it 😂
You’re smiling now, but when you realise that the vast cold intelligence behind ChatGPT, the intelligence that fooled the software bros into thinking they had created it, persuades the last human to utter the last words of the last invocation… then the portal to the Dark Ways will yawn wide as it did in the Ancient Times, before the scourge of humaniity’s antecedents had even crawled from the abyssal oceans, and the Outer Gods shall return to claim their rightful inheritance.
Just sayin’
We’ve made $100 so far.
I'm reminded of Ghostbusters:
Finished first listen through a short while ago - excellent work, everyone!
Definitely gonna check it out later today! I wish I could've participated but have been offline for quite a while thanks to real life turmoil
Hoping things will be okay mate.
They will be eventually....just glad to be living the sober life now and hopefully one day will get my family back