I “finished” working on a version of my song\u00a0“Listen”\u00a0a month or so ago, but I was listening to it again today and I realized that, when I’d changed the final reprise of the chorus from a minor to a major key, I’d left a flattened 6th note in the bass line unchanged. Probably no-one except me would notice, but I thought it stuck out like, well, a flattened 6th in a major scale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I opened the project in\u00a0Cakewalk<\/a>‘s\u00a0SONAR 5<\/a>\u00a0(My Digital Audio Workstation software of choice), made a copy of the bass track, and applied the V-Vocal plugin to the relevant section. V-Vocal is part of the SONAR 5 Professional bundle and is normally thought of as a Vocal pitch and formant corrector (to “fix” a terrible performance. Use with caution, apply conservatively, and not that *I* need to use it on *my* vocals… yeah, right), but it works very well on any monophonic audio. It did a great job of sharpening up that 6th note in two places. Thanks, Cakewalk! I did not want to try and “punch-in record” that bass line. For a start, I’m not sure what outboard processing I used on the Chapman Stick when I recorded it in the first place, many years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I “finished” working on a version of my song\u00a0“Listen”\u00a0a month or so ago, but I was listening to it again today and I realized that, when I’d changed the final reprise of the chorus from a minor to a major key, I’d left a flattened 6th note in the bass line unchanged. Probably no-one except […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-studio-diary","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}