Reply To: The Podium Music Lounge

I do two online songwriting challenges every year. I do 50/90, where the idea is to write 50 songs in 90 days. I also do FAWM ( http://fawm.org/fawmers/kimotcj ), or February Album Writing Month, where the idea is to do 14 songs in the month of February.

This year I did my FAWM demos entirely in Podium 3.1. And the recordings turned out well enough that I’ve decided to post the whole thing on bandcamp:

http://kimotcj.bandcamp.com/album/monument

On the computer side, it’s pretty much all just Podium and free plugins. The only commercial plugin I used was my Lexicon Pantheon II reverb. I used Antress Modern plugins quite a lot — particularly Modern Black Dragon on the vocals and guitars, Modern Amplifier as a bass compressor, and Modern Console EQ for equalizing the drums.

For mastering, I used Ferric TDS and Melda Limiter (from the Melda free plugin bundle). I used a couple of H.G. Fortune’s synths for ambient noise on some tracks. Arptron_2 gets onto one track where I wanted to do synth arppegios, and DVS Saxophone on another where I wanted to bring the funk. They’re all great plugins for no money.