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Hi guys!
I figured you’d be the guys to ask. Do you have any suggestions for great songs that really sound awesome through Breakaway?
Partly for use during demos, partly to get some tips for great-sounding music I don’t know about yet 🙂.
Thanks in advance,
///LeifCyndi Lauper – True Colours .. ok so it’s a well mixed/mastered track but it really comes alive with Breakaway!
A few I love:
Lady Antebellum – Need You Now
Most by Linkin Park where theres a quiet verse and the chorus gets really loud and crunchy. BA eats that for lunch!
Oh yes definitely- my perennial candidate for "song that really needs processing" is "Southern Cross" by Crosby Stills & Young. The levels in that song are all over the place and it sounds like it was hardly mastered at all. Works well if you’re doing a before-and-after showcase.
There are quite some depending on the style & on what you intend to show off: Loudness, (Deep) Bass, Clearness?
Loudness: Santana (ft Everlast) – Puts Your Light On
The naked guitar first and the change of volume later is a challange for Breakaway. It shows all its strength there! The Plutonium preset blows your brain off!Deep Bass: AIM – Sail (Rae & Christian Remix)
Check the deep bass starting at 0:50 min. Wow – it sends cold shivers up & down my spine!
Reference Heavy will do.Clearness: Any track by recording perfectionists Donald Fagen & Walter Becker aka Steely Dan, e.g. from their album "Two against Nature". Or take a CD by an ECM artist, where the recorded music breaths deeply. Only a software such as Breakaway can even enhance this experience more.
Reference or Reference Heavy preferred.Patrik
Founder of SwissGroove Webradio
and maker of hotelradio.fmWannadies – You and me song, huge differences in dynamic range within this song handled with respect by Plutonum.
Also, download Leif’s Torture test files, these are all songs picked to present problems to processors and to show that breakaway handles this (With the exception of "Thank U" by Alanis Morrisette 😉)
Ok, here is some ‘old’ stuff with a lot of dynamics in the original recordings.
The ‘loudness war’ wasn’t started yet
Alan Parsons Project – Sirius & Eye in the sky (1982)
Alan Parsons Project – Gold Bug (intrumental) (1980)The Regulator setting.
If you’re looking for a good dance song, with a lot in the lower frequency region: Gigi Barocco – The Rhythm (Original Mix)
For me, one good sound into BBP is: Eternal – Angel of mine.
I like the bass of this song with Plutonium preset and the clean voice of singers mixing with the bass 😀
Another great song to try is "It’s oh so Quiet" by Bjork. It’s great for it’s very sudden volume changes and high frequency attacks when the band kicks in after the quiet periods. Also some of the quite periods have a hard to manange acoustic bass and xylophones.
Again, the dynamic range transitions are handled excellently with my usual setup of the plutonium preset with speed backed off to 20.Foo Fighters – Let It Die (goes from quiet acoustic to bad-ass rock)
Green Day – 21 Guns (similar to above…in addition, the hook has a beat that normally causes a processor to pump)
Also, a lot of David Lee Roth-era Van Halen sounds awesome. It’s like it was recorded and mastered last year!
Adam
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Also, download Leif’s Torture test files, these are all songs picked to present problems to processors and to show that breakaway handles this (With the exception of "Thank U" by Alanis Morrisette 😉)[/quote]I’m so Dumb, I just worked out that the OP was Leif!!… 😳
[quote author=”yorkie98″][quote author=”yorkie98″]
Also, download Leif’s Torture test files, these are all songs picked to present problems to processors and to show that breakaway handles this (With the exception of "Thank U" by Alanis Morrisette 😉)[/quote]I’m so Dumb, I just worked out that the OP was Leif!!… 😳[/quote]
LOL!
Priceless 🙂.
///Leif
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