North Star (information)

Brief data:

Music genre: Metal

Music subgenre: Symphonic metal

Set of musicians required (6 people):

- Vocals: 1 person. Operatic soprano female voice is highly recommended.

- Spoken voice: 0 people (as it can be done by one of the instrument players). This is the 'electronic voice' you can listen in the song.

- Electric guitars: 2 people.

- Keyboards: 1 person.

- Electric bass: 1 person.

- Drums: 1 person. Detailed list of drumkit used: 2 Bass drums, 1 Snare, 1 Low tom, 1 High tom, 1 Ride cymbal, 1 Hi Hat.

About the song:

North Star is my first song. In the demo version you can listen here instruments were emulated by a computer, and vocals were sung by a friend at my home bathroom.

Many thanks to my friend Bodom for her efforts: I know a bathroom... was not your ideal place for singing for first time!

Thanks also to the creators of all the free software I've used. See full details below.

Resources used in the demo:

Hardware:

USB Microphone Jammate UFO

Standard notebook with Windows XP Home (for voice recording).

Desktop PC:

     - Pentium Dual Core 2,80 Ghz

     - RAM 2GB

     - Nvidia GeForce 6600

     - Windows XP Professional

     - Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Elite

Free Software:

SoundFonts (different authors, details available at: http://www.hammersound.net)

     - Industry Standard

     - Sublimex Clean Electric Guitar

     - Space Wings

VST plug-ins: Instruments

• - rgc:audio sfz (downloaded from http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/sfz/)
• - Vocov Vocoder http://www.g200kg.com

    mda (http://www.mda-vst.com):

• - mda JX10
• - mda Piano

VST plug-ins: Effects

• - Endorphin http://www.digitalfishphones.com

   Voxengo (http://www.voxengo.com):

     - Voxengo Boogex

     - Voxengo EssEq

     - Voxengo Tube Amp

Commercial Software:

Steinberg (http://www.steinberg.net):

• - Cubase 5
• - WaveLab LE

Resources used in the visual part of video in YouTube:

Hardware:

Desktop PC (same one used for audio)

Free Software:

Really Slick Screensavers: http://www.reallyslick.com

     - Helios

     - Hyperspace

     - Euphoria

     - Skyrocket

RenderSoft CamStudio Recorder http://camstudio.org

Xander's Video Time Reversal http://www.xander.free.fr

Aegisub (for creation of subtitles) http://www.malakith.net/aegiwiki/Main_Page

VirtualDubMod http://virtualdubmod.sourceforge.net

Avery Lee Subtitler (plug-in for VirtualDub) http://www.virtualdub.org/virtualdub_filters

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