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Status: Single
City: FORT LAUDERDALE
State: Florida
Country: US
Signup Date: 12/7/2007
Sunday, August 10, 2008 

Category: Music
I'll post news in this blog about this new upcoming album based on work on ambient style voices. You can check http://www.nikko.name/listen.php for more info.
Btw you can ask questions about the music, how it was made and whatever you have to say about it... thanks for reading.
Nicolas Choukroun / Nikkoid / Nikko

 
Voiceless Album : 'Under The Ice.'

First of all this song was made only using computers and my voice!

The instruments are :
Voice of Passion : plays the Bulgarian voice melody and the choirs at the end.
Sinfull orchestra : all the strings
Ambiance and Rhythms : effects and little sequences
Moog Modular for the bass
Nepheton TR808 plug : main rhythm
Z3ta+ : the synth effects doing the transitions
M51PD : pads
FM8 : Pads
ARP 2600 : the main sequence (starts after the second chorus)
Poly-ana : the lead
LM-7 drum : the bass drum with lot of reverb
PlastiCZ : the transition little 4 notes bass sequence

Effects :
ClassicVerb from the Tc.Electronics Powercore
Safire Amps from Focusrite
DB Tempodelay

Mastering :
MasterX3 (Finalizer) from Tc.Electronics
Megaverb from Tc.Electronics
Liquid Mix from Focusrite for the final touch (Vintage EQ + Compression)

Et voila!
 
Posted by Nicolas Choukroun / Nikkoid / Nikko on Monday, August 25, 2008 - 3:25 AM
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Nicolas Choukroun / Nikkoid / Nikko

 
Under The Ice v2 : what I changed since the v1

The V1 was quick done and not masterized... The Lead solo was too loud, the bass was not here, the violins were feeble, well I had to fix that.

First I crashed my computer, and decided to upgrade it to a Quad core brand supercharged one. It took me almost a week to come back into the game!

Then I had many issues with Voice of Passion, nice plugin, nice sound but crash my system all the time... I finally got it to work again but I spent several hours on it!

The new version has been uploaded and you can listen to it right now, leave me a comment if you want.

I've pushed the bass (check with a subwoofer!), cleaned and pushed a bit the drums too, removed the excessive reverb on the snare, and did a descent mastering with Liquid Mix.

I still think that the synth effects are too loud so I'll certainly do a v3 and then jump on the next song.
 
Posted by Nicolas Choukroun / Nikkoid / Nikko on Monday, August 25, 2008 - 3:27 AM
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Nicolas Choukroun / Nikkoid / Nikko

 
Ok, I've finally posted a V3 that fixes the puiiiit effects that were too loud, it was pissing me...
I also changed the sound of the altos (violins) sequence that was weird in the lowest notes.
Enjoy!
 
Posted by Nicolas Choukroun / Nikkoid / Nikko on Monday, August 25, 2008 - 4:59 AM
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Nicolas Choukroun / Nikkoid / Nikko

 
New song released : "Change the World"

This song was started first in December 2007 and was previously targeted to be for Hillary. Because of the campaign uncertainties I delayed it up the the 1st September 2008.

It is just a fun song, very optimistic and uplifting, popular and no braining.
 
Posted by Nicolas Choukroun / Nikkoid / Nikko on Sunday, August 31, 2008 - 8:43 PM
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