Today, other samples from the vocals recordings. This time, it's the song "I will light a candle", with Xiomara Crystal.
I hope you'll like it!
See you next week!
Sunday, May 24, 2015
Shadows - Recording the vocals ! Episode 3
Hi everyone!
Today, other samples from the vocals recordings. This time, it's the song "I will light a candle", with Xiomara Crystal.
I hope you'll like it!
See you next week!
Today, other samples from the vocals recordings. This time, it's the song "I will light a candle", with Xiomara Crystal.
I hope you'll like it!
See you next week!
Saturday, May 9, 2015
Shadows - Recording the vocals ! Episode 2
Hi everyone!
Today, new samples from the recordings, still on instagram, so they are 15s maximum.
It may be very frustrating for you, but I don't want to show you too much !
Here's a short sample from the song "No Memories", with Xiomara Crystal.
Today, new samples from the recordings, still on instagram, so they are 15s maximum.
It may be very frustrating for you, but I don't want to show you too much !
Here's a short sample from the song "No Memories", with Xiomara Crystal.
See you next week!
Saturday, May 2, 2015
Shadows - Recording the vocals ! Episode 1
Hi everyone!
Today, here are the first samples from the vocal recordings!
You already read that I had a lot troubles finding Shadows' voice. Finally, after a casting on starnow, I chose Xiomara Crystal. Everything was fine, and we spent a few days together recording the songs and talking about future collaborations. This is only a beginning...
The recordings are now completed, and I have to start mixing the album.
But before that, here's a sample from the song "The Book of Destiny".
Today, here are the first samples from the vocal recordings!
You already read that I had a lot troubles finding Shadows' voice. Finally, after a casting on starnow, I chose Xiomara Crystal. Everything was fine, and we spent a few days together recording the songs and talking about future collaborations. This is only a beginning...
The recordings are now completed, and I have to start mixing the album.
But before that, here's a sample from the song "The Book of Destiny".
See you next week!
Sunday, April 12, 2015
Recording the piano for Philippe Miró's second album
Hi everyone!
A few months ago, I recorded the piano for the 2nd album of Philippe Miró. We recorded on the boat El Alamein, using its upright piano.
That was the opportunity to test recording two ribbon microphones (the two I made for "Shadows).
Here's how we set them up:
And here's the result:
Before the second album is released, you can still buy the first on iTunes:https://itunes.apple.com/fr/album/de-tout-droit-a-tordu/id660527725
See you next week!
A few months ago, I recorded the piano for the 2nd album of Philippe Miró. We recorded on the boat El Alamein, using its upright piano.
That was the opportunity to test recording two ribbon microphones (the two I made for "Shadows).
Here's how we set them up:
And here's the result:
Before the second album is released, you can still buy the first on iTunes:https://itunes.apple.com/fr/album/de-tout-droit-a-tordu/id660527725
See you next week!
Shadows - Recording the drums, bass and keyboards parts - episode 12
Hi everyone!
Today, here are some samples from the studio, before to record the vocals.
I was listening to old unfinished songs of mine, and I thought that this song could be great for "Shadows". I finished it and called it "Reflections". I hope you'll like it:
Bye!
Today, here are some samples from the studio, before to record the vocals.
I was listening to old unfinished songs of mine, and I thought that this song could be great for "Shadows". I finished it and called it "Reflections". I hope you'll like it:
Bye!
Saturday, March 28, 2015
Shadows - and the singer finally is...
Hi everyone!
After my 2nd casting, where I had to choose between 52 singers, I finally chose...Xiomara Crystal !
She has the voice I'm looking for, but she also plays guitar and piano, and she writes for her band CrystalX !
We already talked together, and we record by the end of april.
Until that, you can discover her by listening at her soundclouds:
- her personal soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/xiomaracrystal
- her band's soundcloud, CrystalX: https://soundcloud.com/crystalxmusic
I'm really happy to record with her, and of course you'll have some samples here when everything is recorded!
See you next week.
After my 2nd casting, where I had to choose between 52 singers, I finally chose...Xiomara Crystal !
She has the voice I'm looking for, but she also plays guitar and piano, and she writes for her band CrystalX !
We already talked together, and we record by the end of april.
Until that, you can discover her by listening at her soundclouds:
- her personal soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/xiomaracrystal
- her band's soundcloud, CrystalX: https://soundcloud.com/crystalxmusic
I'm really happy to record with her, and of course you'll have some samples here when everything is recorded!
See you next week.
Friday, March 27, 2015
My studio !
Hi everyone!
A little late for this article, because I had to organize my studio again.
You may have already seen this picture:
This is the room where I spend almost all of my time.
If you already watched some of my videos, you may have noticed that the things in this room don't always have the same place...it's true!
Depending on the projets I'm working on, or my mood, I change all or just some things in this room.
For exemple, the electronic drums on this picture is usually in my other room, except if I have to record drums.
Th xylosynth usually is above the keyboard, while the Virus is in front of the wall.
This week-end, I put a wooden floor, so I had to unplug everything, move everything, install the wooden floor, then move and plug everything again...
Each time I decide to move everything, it takes me 3 days. The longest part is to plug everything again. Side to site, there is something like 250m of cables.
Here's the room now:
Let me tell you more about this room:
Everything is set around my mixing desk, a Yamaha dm-2000 V2, that I use for mixing, but also as a control surface for protools. It has 2 MLAN cards, allowing me to have 32 inputs and 32 outputs on my computer.
My monitors are BM5A, by Dynaudio.
On my left, there's a midi patch, which links all my midi gear. I can use any keyboard to control any other keyboards or virtual instruments on the computer.
There is also an audio patch to plug some temporary sources (guitars, DJ desk, another soundcards...)
I have some mics in this furniture, as well as my preamps (Jymm audio, the one I made). I always have at least 2 keyboards out, the kurzweil PC3, and the Access Music Virus. With both of them, I can have a lot of sounds and controls available when I need.
Everything in this room is permanently plugged to the desk, so everything is ready to be recorded.
I also have 2 multipairs ready to plug some mics to the DM2000, without having to go behing the desk...
But that's only my control room.
Here's my live room:
This is where I give my music lessons, but this room is also linked to the other one via a multipair cable, so that I can record instruments here, while in my control room. This is where I recorded the strings for "Shadows".
In this room, there's usually my 88 keys kurzweil SP2XS keyboard, the Edrums, one guitar amp, and one bass amp.
You now know everything !
See you tomorrow!
A little late for this article, because I had to organize my studio again.
You may have already seen this picture:
This is the room where I spend almost all of my time.
If you already watched some of my videos, you may have noticed that the things in this room don't always have the same place...it's true!
Depending on the projets I'm working on, or my mood, I change all or just some things in this room.
For exemple, the electronic drums on this picture is usually in my other room, except if I have to record drums.
Th xylosynth usually is above the keyboard, while the Virus is in front of the wall.
This week-end, I put a wooden floor, so I had to unplug everything, move everything, install the wooden floor, then move and plug everything again...
Each time I decide to move everything, it takes me 3 days. The longest part is to plug everything again. Side to site, there is something like 250m of cables.
Here's the room now:
Let me tell you more about this room:
Everything is set around my mixing desk, a Yamaha dm-2000 V2, that I use for mixing, but also as a control surface for protools. It has 2 MLAN cards, allowing me to have 32 inputs and 32 outputs on my computer.
My monitors are BM5A, by Dynaudio.
On my left, there's a midi patch, which links all my midi gear. I can use any keyboard to control any other keyboards or virtual instruments on the computer.
There is also an audio patch to plug some temporary sources (guitars, DJ desk, another soundcards...)
I have some mics in this furniture, as well as my preamps (Jymm audio, the one I made). I always have at least 2 keyboards out, the kurzweil PC3, and the Access Music Virus. With both of them, I can have a lot of sounds and controls available when I need.
Everything in this room is permanently plugged to the desk, so everything is ready to be recorded.
I also have 2 multipairs ready to plug some mics to the DM2000, without having to go behing the desk...
But that's only my control room.
Here's my live room:
This is where I give my music lessons, but this room is also linked to the other one via a multipair cable, so that I can record instruments here, while in my control room. This is where I recorded the strings for "Shadows".In this room, there's usually my 88 keys kurzweil SP2XS keyboard, the Edrums, one guitar amp, and one bass amp.
You now know everything !
See you tomorrow!
Tuesday, March 24, 2015
Shadows - looking for a singer...again
Hi everyone!
You know that it was hard for me to find a singer. I finally organized a casting, and I found one !
Unfortunately, we have schedule issues, so I have to find another singer.
I created another casting on starnow, and I had 50 applications.
I will keep you informed when I made my decision !
See you soon !
You know that it was hard for me to find a singer. I finally organized a casting, and I found one !
Unfortunately, we have schedule issues, so I have to find another singer.
I created another casting on starnow, and I had 50 applications.
I will keep you informed when I made my decision !
See you soon !
Monday, March 9, 2015
CompoLive - Here's the result !
Hi everyone!
The first CompoLive was last sunday !
After a few checks to know if everyone was able to see and hear me, I used my number generator to pick up a number for the styles, and some instruments, then I started composing the song...
There were 5 people watching this live !
From my side, everything went very fast, I hope that everyone who watched like it.
I only have one regret, I would have liked to add some noises, but I didn't have time...
I really appreciated this live, so I decided to do another one, the 19th of April, on stageit.
You can already send me your propositions !
Here are the propositions I received for the first one:
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See you next week !
The first CompoLive was last sunday !
After a few checks to know if everyone was able to see and hear me, I used my number generator to pick up a number for the styles, and some instruments, then I started composing the song...
There were 5 people watching this live !
From my side, everything went very fast, I hope that everyone who watched like it.
I only have one regret, I would have liked to add some noises, but I didn't have time...
I really appreciated this live, so I decided to do another one, the 19th of April, on stageit.
You can already send me your propositions !
Here are the propositions I received for the first one:
Thanks to Claire, here are some samples of this live:
And here's the result on bandcamp:
See you next week !
Saturday, February 28, 2015
CompoLive - Tomorrow
Hi everyone!
CompoLive will be live tomorrow, at 5 PM, on stageit.
You can already have your tickets on the stageit page.
I set everything up in my studio, I have several keyboards plugged, one microphone ready to record, and the basses and guitars are out, ready to record too...
That will be a show with real studio situation, I will have a mic to talk with you, and when I will be recording, you'll hear exactly the sound I'm hearing too !
For now, I received 16 ideas of instruments, 10 ideas of noises and 12 styles.
That's not much, but you can still send me your ideas until midnight.
I'm sure that will be a nice moment to share with you !
See you tomorrow...
CompoLive will be live tomorrow, at 5 PM, on stageit.
You can already have your tickets on the stageit page.
I set everything up in my studio, I have several keyboards plugged, one microphone ready to record, and the basses and guitars are out, ready to record too...
That will be a show with real studio situation, I will have a mic to talk with you, and when I will be recording, you'll hear exactly the sound I'm hearing too !
That's not much, but you can still send me your ideas until midnight.
I'm sure that will be a nice moment to share with you !
See you tomorrow...
Saturday, February 21, 2015
Shadows - Recording the strings - Episode 5
Hi everyone !
Today, here are some samples from the strings sessions !
The strings players on my album are: Louise Leverd (Cello), Jasmine Collet (Viola), and Pauline Denize (Violin).
First, here are some cello and viola samples from the song "Between Clouds"
To finish, here's a violin sample from the song "I will light a candle".
See you next week !
Today, here are some samples from the strings sessions !
The strings players on my album are: Louise Leverd (Cello), Jasmine Collet (Viola), and Pauline Denize (Violin).
First, here are some cello and viola samples from the song "Between Clouds"
To finish, here's a violin sample from the song "I will light a candle".
See you next week !
Saturday, February 14, 2015
Shadows - Recording the drums, bass and keyboards parts - episode 11
Hi everyone!
Another samples about the making of the album. The song is "Whirling", you can also find it, in an other version on my EP "Shadows on Keys".
See you next week!
Another samples about the making of the album. The song is "Whirling", you can also find it, in an other version on my EP "Shadows on Keys".
See you next week!
Saturday, February 7, 2015
Shadows - Recording the drums, bass and keyboards parts - episode 10
Hi everyone!
Now you know that I found the singer for my album, so I will soon be able to go further.
Before we record the vocals, here are again some samples from the recordings for "The end of a dream"
The piano sample is extracted from a live from youtube, so the video quality is really bad...
See you next week!
Now you know that I found the singer for my album, so I will soon be able to go further.
Before we record the vocals, here are again some samples from the recordings for "The end of a dream"
The piano sample is extracted from a live from youtube, so the video quality is really bad...
See you next week!
Saturday, January 31, 2015
Shadows - And the singer is...
Hi everyone!
Big announcement today! You already know that all the songs from "Shadows" are recorded, but I was still looking for the singer...
I tried several times to contact various singers, who didn't answer me, then I decided to try something different. I created a casting on a website called Starnow.
In two days I had 29 applications, from a lot of countries. Before that, I had felt that the singers I had contacted were not interested in my project, so that was a big contrast!
The most important thing is that among all these singers, I discovered someone with the voice I am looking for, the one that I really want to hear on my album, the one who is perfect to tell the various stories from "Shadows".
And this Irish singer is... Edwina Van Kuyk. You can listen to her voice on her soundcloud page.
I look forward to working with her and I'm very glad I found her. Now we have to organize our schedules to record the vocals, and the whole album will be recorded!
See you next week!
Big announcement today! You already know that all the songs from "Shadows" are recorded, but I was still looking for the singer...
I tried several times to contact various singers, who didn't answer me, then I decided to try something different. I created a casting on a website called Starnow.
In two days I had 29 applications, from a lot of countries. Before that, I had felt that the singers I had contacted were not interested in my project, so that was a big contrast!
The most important thing is that among all these singers, I discovered someone with the voice I am looking for, the one that I really want to hear on my album, the one who is perfect to tell the various stories from "Shadows".
And this Irish singer is... Edwina Van Kuyk. You can listen to her voice on her soundcloud page.
I look forward to working with her and I'm very glad I found her. Now we have to organize our schedules to record the vocals, and the whole album will be recorded!
See you next week!
Monday, January 26, 2015
CompoLive - Live is delayed
Hi everyone!
Today I'll talk again about CompoLive.
I've already mentioned this in a previous article.
The idea is to compose a song live, from styles and instruments you have suggested to me.
I announced the project the 3rd of January for a live on February 1st, leaving one month to receive a maximum of ideas.
Today, I have received nothing. No challenges, no live, so I decided to delay the project by a month, hoping this time to receive your challenges.
To be a little more specific that's how the live should be:
- You send me ideas of styles and instruments, or other categories you think interesting and that I didn't think about, I'll see if I can gather some of your ideas in a different category.
- I will put all your challenges in a table with the names of each of you, and a number for each of your proposals.
- I will draw at random a number in each category and ...
... I'll try to compose a short piece of music with those challenges!
Well, if I ask you your ideas for this first time, it is not for any censorship, it is to know what to expect! Depending on how it goes, it is possible that I will not ask you for the next time, and I will ask directly to a person in the virtual room to give me his challenge ...
If you want to know more about it, read the previous article or the dedicated page on my website and contact me.
The event is now on facebook and the StageIt show is created.
StageIt is a streaming platform which allows to create virtual venues. In this case, it will be my studio.
The entry fee in this "room" is free, you can give what you want. Like if you were going to a free show and give money to the artist after or during their performance, you can add a bit of money during the show if you like it and want to encourage me ...
I plan to offer my EP "Shadows on Keys" to 10 biggest contributors.
Now you know everything. If unfortunately, due to lack of entries, we had to cancel, everyone would be refunded by the platform, but it would be a shame to cancel.
See you next week!
Today I'll talk again about CompoLive.
I've already mentioned this in a previous article.
The idea is to compose a song live, from styles and instruments you have suggested to me.
I announced the project the 3rd of January for a live on February 1st, leaving one month to receive a maximum of ideas.
Today, I have received nothing. No challenges, no live, so I decided to delay the project by a month, hoping this time to receive your challenges.
To be a little more specific that's how the live should be:
- You send me ideas of styles and instruments, or other categories you think interesting and that I didn't think about, I'll see if I can gather some of your ideas in a different category.
- I will put all your challenges in a table with the names of each of you, and a number for each of your proposals.
- I will draw at random a number in each category and ...
... I'll try to compose a short piece of music with those challenges!
Well, if I ask you your ideas for this first time, it is not for any censorship, it is to know what to expect! Depending on how it goes, it is possible that I will not ask you for the next time, and I will ask directly to a person in the virtual room to give me his challenge ...
If you want to know more about it, read the previous article or the dedicated page on my website and contact me.
The event is now on facebook and the StageIt show is created.
StageIt is a streaming platform which allows to create virtual venues. In this case, it will be my studio.
The entry fee in this "room" is free, you can give what you want. Like if you were going to a free show and give money to the artist after or during their performance, you can add a bit of money during the show if you like it and want to encourage me ...
I plan to offer my EP "Shadows on Keys" to 10 biggest contributors.
Now you know everything. If unfortunately, due to lack of entries, we had to cancel, everyone would be refunded by the platform, but it would be a shame to cancel.
See you next week!
Saturday, January 17, 2015
Jymm Audio - My brand, My sound
Hi everyone!
You may now know that I like building my own gear, I built my microphones for my album (static mics or ribbon mics), you may have noticed that I also built my master keyboard, Beryl, but did you know that I have my own brand ?
I created Jymm Audio 5 years ago, in january ! I wanted to design and sell high quality audio gear, hand nuilt, with good electronic components...
5 years after, I didn't sell anything. Don't be worried, I gave up during the first year ! I was kind of abandoned by all the people who were previously interested.
Today, I think there are less than 10 people who tested my products.
I won't tell here about music magazines or distributors, paid by big brands not to accept any unknown brand... I won't tell anything about people who simply didn't want to test something because the brand wasn't known...
Jymm Audio then became MY personal audio brand, mostly for my personal use !
I used my tube preamps and tube DIs for all the recordings on my album ! I'm very proud of it, and I'm very happy with the result...
Today, I'm heading to a show, and I'll be using one of my passive stereo DI. I did something like 150 gigs with it, it traveled a lot, and I never had any issue with it, no cracks...If the only fragile components inside were broken, it would cost me almost 15€ to fix it, and I'd have a almost new DI...could I say the same with other DI ?
Here's the secret behind my sound, on stage, or on recordings...
See you next week!
You may now know that I like building my own gear, I built my microphones for my album (static mics or ribbon mics), you may have noticed that I also built my master keyboard, Beryl, but did you know that I have my own brand ?
I created Jymm Audio 5 years ago, in january ! I wanted to design and sell high quality audio gear, hand nuilt, with good electronic components...
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5 years after, I didn't sell anything. Don't be worried, I gave up during the first year ! I was kind of abandoned by all the people who were previously interested.
Today, I think there are less than 10 people who tested my products.
I won't tell here about music magazines or distributors, paid by big brands not to accept any unknown brand... I won't tell anything about people who simply didn't want to test something because the brand wasn't known...
Jymm Audio then became MY personal audio brand, mostly for my personal use !
I used my tube preamps and tube DIs for all the recordings on my album ! I'm very proud of it, and I'm very happy with the result...
Today, I'm heading to a show, and I'll be using one of my passive stereo DI. I did something like 150 gigs with it, it traveled a lot, and I never had any issue with it, no cracks...If the only fragile components inside were broken, it would cost me almost 15€ to fix it, and I'd have a almost new DI...could I say the same with other DI ?
Here's the secret behind my sound, on stage, or on recordings...
See you next week!
Saturday, January 10, 2015
The big invisible things in my studio
Hi everyone !
A few weeks ago, I told you about my instruments, and you were able to see some pictures of my studio. There are things that you didn't see, although they take a lot of space.
Today, I talk about my cases.
For guitars and basses, it's easy, as I don't use them everydays. They are always in their cases, so they only take the space of that.
The big issue I have is with the keyboards cases. I always have 4 or 5 keyboards in the studio, so they have their space in the studio, but their cases also have their space elswhere. I have almost one case for one keyboard, sometimes rigid, sometimes semirigid, here's a picture of all the keyboards cases:
And as they were in their cases when I told about my instruments, this is the occasion to show you three keyboards you didn't see: the Korg microKontrol, the Yamaha PSS390 (I have it for 24 years now, and it's still working, although I don't use it very often), and a Fatar SL 161.
But the biggest case I have is the one for my mixing desk (a Yamaha DM2000). For now, I didn't use it, but if I have to move the desk, I will...
See you next week !
A few weeks ago, I told you about my instruments, and you were able to see some pictures of my studio. There are things that you didn't see, although they take a lot of space.
Today, I talk about my cases.
For guitars and basses, it's easy, as I don't use them everydays. They are always in their cases, so they only take the space of that.
The big issue I have is with the keyboards cases. I always have 4 or 5 keyboards in the studio, so they have their space in the studio, but their cases also have their space elswhere. I have almost one case for one keyboard, sometimes rigid, sometimes semirigid, here's a picture of all the keyboards cases:
And as they were in their cases when I told about my instruments, this is the occasion to show you three keyboards you didn't see: the Korg microKontrol, the Yamaha PSS390 (I have it for 24 years now, and it's still working, although I don't use it very often), and a Fatar SL 161.
But the biggest case I have is the one for my mixing desk (a Yamaha DM2000). For now, I didn't use it, but if I have to move the desk, I will...
See you next week !
Saturday, January 3, 2015
CompoLive - A new project for 2015
Hi everyone!
I wish you all a happy new year !
Today, I tell you about a project I have for several months now, and that I decided to call CompoLive.
Basically, it's a live session on the web, via Stageit, and I will compose a short piece (30s - 1mn) of music based on your ideas.
The first session will be the 1st of february, at 5 PM. This will be a test. That's gonna be really fun. If everything goes right, I plan to do that every months, and I already have some ideas to spice the challenge for the next times !
You'll find some informations on my new website, still under construction for some parts: http://jimmytillier.com/compolive
I'm now waiting for your ideas, and until that, you can watch this short video about it !
See you next week !
I wish you all a happy new year !
Today, I tell you about a project I have for several months now, and that I decided to call CompoLive.
Basically, it's a live session on the web, via Stageit, and I will compose a short piece (30s - 1mn) of music based on your ideas.
The first session will be the 1st of february, at 5 PM. This will be a test. That's gonna be really fun. If everything goes right, I plan to do that every months, and I already have some ideas to spice the challenge for the next times !
You'll find some informations on my new website, still under construction for some parts: http://jimmytillier.com/compolive
I'm now waiting for your ideas, and until that, you can watch this short video about it !
See you next week !
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