Ladytron - AMTV Length 3:26
This is the summary of the notes made during preparation for
this year’s AS Level Sequencing course work 2011 2012. It is not meant to be definitive. Use your ears and make your own judgements.
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Instrumentation
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Sound
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PAN
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Effects
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Main vocal
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C
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Backing Vocal
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Doubling main vocal
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C/R
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Backing vocal
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Distant ‘Ah Ah’
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C/L
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Reverb/Delay
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Electric Guitar
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Bright / Dirty
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R
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Fuzz
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Synth (melody)
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Synth lead. Classic synth sound.
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R
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Synth (driving)
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L
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Delay
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Synth / Vocal (rising)
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Distant
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L
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Reverb / Delay
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Synth (Riff)
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L
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Reverb
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Xylophone / Bells
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Sustained single notes
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L
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Bass
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Deep / Drone / synth
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C
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Bass
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Electric bass
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C
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Overdrive / Speaker simulation
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Percussion
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Pots/Pans / Cowbell
Bell (Chinese)
Bell tree
High pitched chimes
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Listen to the end section to hear the sounds clearly
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Drum Kit
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Hats / Brushes
Tom
Side stick
Snare – brush + electronic
Kick – unique sound / gated
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This is an interesting sound kit. Probably made from
samples of real drums mixed with electronic sounds and with effects. You can
find sounds like this in Ultrabeat but also check out the EXS24 kits
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Listen to the last 4 sections to hear some of the sounds
better.
Work on the drum sounds during the final mixing stage
One of the sounds has been made using a ‘speak and spell’
game.
AMTV - Song Structure
Introduction – 8 bars
Drum kit / Percussion / Bass / Synth (Playing melodic hook)
Chorus – 4bars
(vocal) 4 bars (no vocals) x 2 “Films will come and films….’
Vocal / Synth (driving) / Synth (melody) / Backing vocals
Bridge – 8 bars
“Watching TV at 4am…”
Guitar / “Ah Ah” synth/vocal / Different snare sound
Chorus – 4bars
(vocal) 4 bars (no vocals) x 2
Snare sound changes slightly brighter / louder / fills
Chorus / Instrumental
– 8 bars
Bell (Chinese) – bell tree with mute at end?
New melody played by synth
Bridge – 8 bars x 2
Sustained notes, rising synth/vocal in background.
‘Ah ah”
Chorus – 4bars
(vocal) 4 bars (no vocals) x 2
Modified chorus – instruments drop out
New synth ‘riff’
Drum fill into Bridge
Bridge – 8 bars x 2
Xylophone/Bells – high pitched – panned left
Guitar / rising vocal/synth
Bridge – 8 bars
No vocals / No bells
Feedback FX / synth filter FX
Bridge / Ending – 8
bars
Instrumental break down – electric bass is out of time in
places. Drum fills. You can hear some of the sounds clearly here such as the
‘bell tree.’
Synth drone / out of time sample from ‘speak and spell toy’
Vocal sample ‘Level one’ – sampled from an old ‘speak and
spell’ toy.
