How We Made Gravity/Infinity

Hi guys, it's James from Tender here and I'm going to do a how we made video for our track Gravity Infinity and yeah it's a before we start I guess it's I'll tell you about the song it's a song about um a love that is bigger than ourselves um that feels like it's bigger than the universe and sort of the pressures that come with that to make it work you know so yeah um let's dive into the track shall we I'll play you a little bit before we start digging in okay there you go so let's start with the drums shall we um these drums um it started out with these program drums so you know samples different things like that um I'll play you some one of the sound analog you know organic if you will um and before we so we did the samples and then we went on to go record live drums after the fact you know when we felt like we wanted to add some human elements to it and the feel before that we had this these sounds and um these were mainly built off of this drum playing called tempo which is made by teletone audio which these guys do some really really cool stuff that you'll see as I do more of these videos you'll see that I've basically gone to town on their plugins and really like what they do well this drum sound was just really tight and really nice and really fit the sort of vibe we were going for and then when we went to record um real drums it was kind of referenced to these and we we sort of blend them together but this was really sort of the inspiration for that sound um so yeah thanks guys teletone audio amazing stuff so yeah we did the sample drums similar sort of thing goes into the verse but um it's a pretty simple beat throughout um out the track and then like I said here is the live drums that we went to record um our drummer josh kimber who plays with us live and has since the very beginning uh came down and had a go at playing his songs and he's he's so good um playing you know hardly any time to learn them and get some great takes so the sample kit punchy sound um let me show you um which has some shakers and some bongos things like that um just felt really nice paired with the the drums just added some real pace and cool so there you go that's the drums really pretty standard doesn't move doesn't change too much um there's some fills towards the end I think yeah that let's check out the bass guitar which is this guy just a logic bass um amp with got some wolf compressor on there dbx compression cremate there was some chorus but it's no longer any chorus um pretty standard tender sound that we use for a lot of things this just this logic bass amp really does um and uh little hoffner uh bass guitar and there you go that's the bass simple stuff that's uh there's no there's no there's any sub bass on this there's normally sometimes we lay it with like synth bass i'm sure you'll see on some other how we made tracks um before we get into the keys let's look at the guitars because this song kind of started with um came about with guitar because i've got a a new acoustic little acoustic guitar thing actually just this little guy um got that before this sort of new record i guess if you will and just went to town and used it on everything um so the song actually starts with um just acoustic parts which have um some crema like you know uh wobbly c6 that sort of sound um and that goes throughout the whole song when you listen to it it's great what else we got going on for the guitars the main riff again logic amps with um some chorus and got some rc20 which is another great plugin for making it sort of detuned and old sounding um this brigade chorus i've used a lot uh on a lot of these sounds just really like the sound of it it's you know could have used the logic chorus could have used any sort of chorus really it just does the trick but i just really like that one um just bring me a bit of heavy guitar chords there okay yeah that's kind of it crunchier version of the lyric there which is yeah other than that there's this mid late section it's the studer uid studer thing and just using the there's a preset on there called extreme saturation which um it really just breaks things up and adds a lot of character to it and i just really like it used it quite a lot on this um new record but yeah i think that's it for um again this is another teletone audio um plugin long dean i think it's pronounced it's a cool little synth that has a lot of character to it really i think it's just a preset i'm slightly adapted and that goes through out the song that little arpeggio here and there's pad sort of ambience which is nice which is the brass i say profit um leave this towel um soft synth which i use a lot i really like it's a juno emulator um does other junior emulators out there but this one's pretty cheap and i've been using it for years now just really like it a friend of ours who produced our second record uh luca put me onto this and i've never looked back really love it um what else do we have yeah it's simple stuff really this song was really leaning into the guitars and that sort of band feel um more so than previously our songs have been sort of very led by the synth and like the key parts i like the backbone and that really isn't the case here they're more of a sort of embellishment and so the ear candy um which is cool it's a nice way to sort of revert back to that you know rather than sort of leaning on it so much it's it's these little sprinkles here and and that brings us on to actually the next little folder i've got on here which is like the effects extras and stuff which is again more of the sample the candy stuff this is an intro reverse stuff some ambience that sacks like filtered prizes things like that that it if it wasn't there it'd probably be okay but it's just that it really takes it to that next level i think okay so we re-recorded the main vocal but everything else is just demo vocals as i wrote the song um recorded in here on my mic up there which is just an aston spirit which is a great little mic um but yeah these main vocals were re-recorded on a nice vintage um neumann 87 um yeah not much not a whole lot going on on these channels we've got some pitch correction which you know i need a little bit just to glue it together uh ssl channel strip um either use the waves one or the uad one they're both pretty good um use that a lot cla76 bit compression there's a little bit of sibilance just to take out some of that noise on the vocal bus there's a pull tech eq but um and on the main vocal there's a another 76 and a la2a bit of compression there but nathan body who would have um who mixed these songs probably would have added his own um stuff to these especially to the vocals i'm not sure how much of the stuff he used from our mix but i mean overall it sounds pretty similar it's just you know he took it to that next level and i'm sure he used his own tricks of the trade um but yeah other than that main vocal we've got it's just about the layering really i've got the the main three left right and center there i've got some of the original demo ones which um are just a bit cruncher they've got decapitator on there i'll show you what they sound like edge on there so yeah you can hear this is a bit of crunch to that um and then we have a falsetto four layers of falsetto now i love how this makes me sound but yeah a bit pitchy but it's layers and when it's all glued together it sounds it sounds cool um in the verses again more layers we've got a low with the main with some backing vocals yeah um all going through the similar sort of stuff um some compression some eq overall there's probably so there's a little bit of um this i like to use their sound toys uh vocal color chain little preset just on a bus just a little bit just add some texture some character to the to the recording um i don't think there's really any effects in terms of reverbs and delays on this um on my vocal anyway so yeah that's my vocal and then moving to the wonderful marion reynolds who did some vocals on our last record and made it sound so great it made me sound really good um that i asked her back to do some stuff on this new record and she crushed it as usual so easy to record she's got such a wonderful voice such a nice tone to her voice um so yeah let me play you some one day i will give you my heart be a part of me baby gravity couldn't pull us apart love me like infinity yeah there you go sounds wonderful just on its own i'll show you i'll show you with my vocal so yeah lovely stuff it's just um very simple with her very easy to do i've got a bit of again channel strip a compressor uh i'm using a bit of soothe which is again getting rid of some of that it's like a dsa on on there got two mains left and right and then i've got four layers of um falsetto some a bit more up front and a little with a bit more air and a bit more bit softer um again just layering things up and building building the vocal and all glues together um she's also doing some of the the backing vocals of ours and ooze and things but other than that there's not a whole lot of effects on her vocal we have on the falsetto there's a little bit of this oh a galaxy take echo which has a bit of a verb on it um but yeah it's it's it's very simple i mean this song felt like it came together the sounds all just sort of worked really nicely together and it didn't feel like a battle it was it was sort of just a really nice thing to make yeah that's it really so i'll let me just play the play you the outro with all the parts together okay then there you have it guys um i hope you like this thank you very much for watching cheers