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Coming up in Podium 1.88: Sound and midi files can be dragged from external file explorers and plugin editors onto tracks.

WOW!!! 😛 😆 That’s great news!! Finally!!
Great work Frits!
Thanks!

Download works here, but now streaming.. Sounds very interesting. What did you use the create that sound? Sounds like a distored piano.

Quite the opposite of what I put here 🙂 Nice work.

@Piltdown Man wrote:

Thanks for sharing this with us Max!

What I like the most about these songs are those fast, explosive solos 😀
And as I’m trying to churn out some heavy sounds from Podium myself, I would be very interested in any production details you’d like to post!

Cheers,
jan-erik

Thanks Jan-Erik!! 🙂

The arrangements are rather simple.

1 Track for the bass guitar which is driven by a guitar amp.. It’s a Rickenbacker Bass, so we get nearly the sound Lemmy (from Motorhead) gets 😉

Rhythm guitars are 2 tracks panned left and right. I recorded the same part two times to have a punchy and “big” guitar sound. The sound itself comes from my Boss GT8 FX pedal and is tweaked with some EQ.

The solo guitars are recorded clean and were then routed through Line6 Gearbox plugin, in order to be able to change the sound at any stage of the mixing process.

The vocals have been recorded with my Toneport UX2, and I used one of its internal amp sims to get the vocals loud and punchy.

The drums are a thouroughly chosen stereo kit from Scarbee’s Imperial Drums XL library. They are partly recorded with an eDrumset and then tweaked via the midi editor. Some songs have been created from scratch in the midi editor, using Podiums superb drum editor! 🙂 The drums got a good portion of Hydratone (fire knob) to make them sound more natural.

For the master chain I used Clas, which I can higly recommend as a master plugin! Followed by a multiband compressor and a MPL1-Pro as a limiter.

That’s it! 🙂 Finishing one song, and then saving it as a template makes things much easier, because there aren’t too many changes to make when working on the other songs. When mixing 15 songs, this is a great relief! 😉

I am proud you like my guitar work 8)

Max

Hi,

Podium ist wirklich genial! 😉

1. Was meinst du mit “Samples ohne ein Sample VST in eine Spur zu packen”? Du kannst einfach ein Browser Fenster öffnen (strg-l), dann zu deinem Sampleordner gehen, und die Samples auf deine Spur ziehen.

2. Der Drumeditor ist leider etwas kompliziert in Podium. Ich selbst habe das System auch noch nicht 100%ig verstanden, aber immerhin bekomme ich ihn zum laufen! 😉 Du musst ein Preset erstellen für dein Drum VST, anschließend klickst du mit rechts auf das Preset und gehst in die Eigenschaften. Dort wählst du “use preset as drum preset”. Anschließend wird Podium eine Standard DrumMap erstellen. Wenn du jetzt auf deinen Midi Part doppelklickst, öffnet sich der Drumeditor. Seit einigen Versionen kannst du die Drummap auch aus diesem Fenster heraus editieren, also zum Beispiel Noten entfernen, die du nicht brauchst. So kannst du die DrumMap schön übersichtlich gestalten. Wenn du es einmal soweit hast, ist es ein leichtes Drums zu programmieren. Podium ist da echt spitze!

Hoffe deine Fragen beantwortet zu haben! 😉

Gruß,
Max

Yes it is a great feeling. I play all the guitars. Our bass player sings the songs. I can’t sing.. 😳

It is very hard to let an album go.. Espescially when you think you still can change everything, and you could still optimize the sound.. 🙂

Max

Hey guys..

For those of you, who like some fast rock songs in the style of Motorhead, I have finished working on my band’s album. Its title is “Hello From Hell”..

You can download the whole album here:

http://www.sound-m.com/album.rar

I also added a playlist. The album consists of 15 songs.. including 3 ballads. I am proud that this work finally is finished.. I worked for over a year on this, with some breaks in between 😉

I would really like to know your opinion!! Have fun while listening!! 8)

Max

P.S. If somebody wants to know about production details, I will post them here too.