Recording the music for Oceans and Dreams in Logic Studio

Posted by JonnyS on March 6, 2011 Leave a comment (0) Go to comments

The album was recorded using Logic Studio running on an iMac i7 Apple computer.

There are three pianos used on the album. The Steinway that comes bundled with Logic did most of the work, but I also used the Alecia Keys piano as well as the excellent Schimmel Braunschweig upright piano from Imperfect Samples.

The synths and pad sounds are mostly from Logic Studio but also Native Instruments Kore and the Albino 3.

Vocals were recorded on a Neuman u87ai and Rode NT-1a using the Logic compressor and Logic EQ.

The sounds of the waves were recorded on a very cold, very still and very spooky night on a sandy/shingly beach in Dorset, UK. I used a Sony D50 location recorder on a tripod to record the waves along with a Sony windjammer. It was placed about 20 feet up from the breaking waves, and a continuous 54 minute 24 bit stereo recording of the sea was made.

See below for links to all the equipment and software used on the album.

Software