Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer

Sound Design with GP
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Again a preset and this time it’s a no-brainer (music from the original except for flute):

The Shakuhachi sample is included on one of the floppy disks of the Emulator II - and also in the Arturia Emulator II V presets. Just some minor tweaking and some compression, chorus and reverb the signal chain.

Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer (Florian)

I believe it’s the notes E flat - A flat - B flat - E flat (octave) and back.

The sample can also be found in:

  • Tears for Fears - When In Love With A Blind Man (0:45)
  • Eurorythmics - Conditioned Soul (0:02)
  • Zillertaler Schürzenjäger - Sierra Madre (0:17)
  • Die Flippers - Lotusblume (0:36)
  • and probably many more

Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer (Florian).rackspace (34.1 KB)

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That’s right florian.

My band played it last night. Here’s a brief playthrough of the sounds I created/used.

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@jwdnty what Brass sound do you use?

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Wow! While I don’t know the other parts by heart, they sound close to perfection to my ears.
So cool that we’re able to record what we play. :+1:

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Hi @tripleB
I use various layers of:

  • EW Hollywood Pop Brass
  • NI Session Horns
  • and Roland JD-800
    It took me ages to find the right combination of swells, stacatto and sustained notes.
    Quite a CPU intensive sound but works really well live.

Here’s the same brass patch used for a Christmas number we’re starting to work on (Donny Hathaway’s This Christmas):

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Super impressive @jwdnty !!

Can you specify (because I’m going to be performing this one too in the near future!!!)
Which VST you used for the SWELLS? I find that Session Horns is very functional (worked beautifully for Addicted to Love!!) but for swells I can’t seem to make it work. Was that on EW Pop Brass?

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Wow! Those brass sounds are incredible! Sounds better than the isolated tracks.

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Thank you @nebulon5

I’m going to post a .gig file for you with the plugins and settings all mapped.

The swells are coming from Session Horns - you just need to set the Velocity Switch as I’ve done below (see top left of pic):

jwdnty Session Horns
jwdnty Session Horns1298×1498 163 KB

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Thank you @Narf, much appreciated! Of course all the work was really with developing these great VSTs. I like the EW Pop Brass, but find NI Session Horns far more playable and useful for my purposes.

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jwdnty Brass
jwdnty Brass1920×1323 97.2 KB

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jwdnty Brass.gig (1.5 MB)

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@jwdnty THX for sharing!
I will have a closer look at the weekend - looks very interesting
Garden work at the weekend has to wait until the horns are set up or rearranged :joy:

BBB

PS: currently experimenting with Session Horns, the goold old Triton Brass and GP Chord Maker

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Do you have the standard or Pro version of Session Horns, out of interest? I never upgraded to Pro but have been tempted.

GP-related duties should always be prioritised over gardening :rofl:

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Basically yes, but my wife constantly sends more or less regular non-maskable interrupts which my brain scheduler can not ignore :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

I upgraded with on of the last discounts to pro. The extended features looked promising to me, however spend not too much time so far.

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Hey guys! :beers:

Thank you very much for creating all these threads in this community section! I’m happy to see it active. Your contribution is much appreciated!

I’ll share links to these threads on Facebook – in the Official GP FB group and other groups and forums where convenient.

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Absolutely :+1:t2:

“The miracle is this - the more we share, the more we have” - Leonard Nimoy

Sharing these configs for free is one of the main reasons why I joined this community forum.

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Holy CRAP man, that would be insanely amazing. I can’t believe how helpful everyone in this community is! So grateful I found you all! :slight_smile:

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THANK you sir! \m/

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So no gardening today and a small check of the gig file @jwdnty provided.

To not further hijack this thread I shared my own brass example here Amy Winehouse - Valerie (Brass Section)

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