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Independent Project
Roles: Composer & Audio Producer
1 Week
C.S. Lewis Maxxing is a concept album inspired by C.S. Lewis (one of my favorite authors) and SNES-era audio (favorite era of gaming) that combines 16-bit-inspired instrumentation with sampled spoken-word excerpts. This was my first project really focusing on the audio production-aspect of writing music, in which I focused on overall instrument clarity and balance through EQ, compression, and reverb in Reaper.
Plugins & Tools
Plugins & Tools
Reaper - Composition and production
16-Bit Game Station - Bass, guitar, and synth instrumentation
MT-Power Kit 2 - Drum instrumentation
C.S. Lewis audio excerpts - Spoken-word sample
Individual Tracks
Individual Tracks
Merely Christian (Intro)
Merely Christian (Intro)
An introductory track built around sampled C.S. Lewis audio. The music was composed to complement the spoken-word material and establish the tone of the album.
Spaceman
Spaceman
An introductory track built around sampled C.S. Lewis audio. The music was composed to complement the spoken-word material and establish the tone of the album.
Uncle Screwtape
Uncle Screwtape
A dungeon synth-inspired track based on C.S. Lewis's The Screwtape Letters. The darker, atmospheric sound palette was chosen to reflect the book's themes and create a contrasting mood within the album.
This is the project view for Merely Christian (Intro). I wanted to keep guitar, bass, and drums consistent while trying to add an extra layer to each song. Some songs had a brass section, while other songs, like the intro and outro, had sampled audio.
Guitar EQ
Guitar EQ
Bass EQ
Bass EQ
The EQ of each instrument stayed consistent for each song. I wanted to treat the guitar as the vocals for each song, and I wanted to make sure I grabbed some of the lower frequencies of the bass.
Drum Reverb
Drum Reverb
While I was using a VST for the album and not an acoustic kit, I wanted to make the drums sound realistic. Part of that process was messing around with some of the presets to make the drums sound like an acoustic kit being recorded.
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