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Old 11-14-2018, 10:25 PM   #1
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Default PlainChant (Cover Song - The Cure - French Version)

PlainChant (Cover Song - Plainsong - The Cure - French Version)

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Listen to the cover song here:

https://soundcloud.com/consciousgroo...french-version


A Plainsong (Latin: cantus planus – French Plain-Chant) is a body of chants used in the Church liturgies originating in the Medieval age (I think?) and a nice song written by The Cure and released in the 80s on the album called Disintegration.

I chose to record and produce this cover song because: 1) I wanted to learn how to program and 'dial in' that lush 80s synthesizer string sound, and 2) I enjoy translating English songs from the 80s in French *for all my homies in Quebec. Oue!

My research revealed that The Cure most likely used a SOLINA ARP String Ensemble synth. I think they also layered some samples? In any case, I used this free VST:

http://www.vst4free.com/free_vst.php?id=792

Here is a picture of the real ARP SOLINA:



There are many many layers of the ARP Solina, including a BlockC chord throughout the entire song. There is also another synth line that dubs the cello (one octave higher).

The lead electric guitar was fed into Free Amp 3, a free multi guitar amp-sim, created by Guitar synth. http://www.vst4free.com/free_vst.php?id=580 Crank the Chorus to the max, a touch of Flanger and stereo delay and voila -> a pretty good emulation of Robert Smith's guitar.

The low end is a cello (free vst - cellofan), dubbed by a grainy synth bass, and a bass.

What else? Oh ya, I decided to add an acoustic guitar and change up the intro of the song. The reason for this modification is, well, because I wanted to make my cover song special, and because I want to play this song by the campfire (i.e. I needed to figure out a guitar strumming). I think is sound pretty nice with an acoustic guitar.

I tried to mix and master my cover song to sound like Plainsong, but in the end I thought the original was too muddy (or should I say overly lush?). I preferred to open up to sound and expand the stereo field.

I hope you enjoy listening as much I as did recording and producing Plainchant


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Old 11-15-2018, 12:35 AM   #2
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This sounds great, and the acoustic sounds great too.
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Old 11-15-2018, 09:02 AM   #3
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Very well done! Disintegration is one of my all-time favorite albums. The original mix certainly is dense (or muddy if you like), but it suits the material I think. I remember in the liner notes it said something like, “This album was mixed to be played LOUD, so turn it up!" I'm not sure if dense necessarily equals "sounds good loud," but it does for me in this case.


What did you do for the drums?
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Old 11-15-2018, 10:03 AM   #4
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Yes, well done. Sounds very Cure. Care to post your translation of the lyrics?
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Old 11-15-2018, 12:52 PM   #5
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Thanks guys for the nice comments.

1) The drums: I used Addictive Drums2 - The Indie Drum kit with the Indie Rock custom settings. I did nothing else to the sound. No compression, no EQ, nothing. This is because I cycled through almost all the different drum kits and custom settings offered in Addictive Drums2 to find the perfect sound that would complement the rest of the tracks. A very unnatural luxury

2) The French lyrics:

Plain-Chant - Conscious Grooves

Original: Plainsong - The Cure

(note: the French word accents, spelling, messed up the text in this forum browser window, so I removed them...)

Je pense qu’il fait noir et on dirait de la pluie, elle dit
Et le vent qui souffle, comme la fin du monde, elle dit
Et il fait si froid, comme le froid si t’etais mort
Et tu souris pour une seconde

Je pense etre vieux et je ressens la fin, elle dit
Et tout vient a terme, comme c’est la fin du monde, elle dit
Et il fait si froid, comme le froid si t’etais mort
Et tu souris pour une seconde

Parfois tu me fais ressentir
Comme si je vivais au bout du monde
Comme si je vivais au bout du monde
C’est ma facon de sourire tu dis
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Old 11-15-2018, 02:54 PM   #6
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Cool. Peut etre, dans l'avenir, je peux écrire comme ca.
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