You're production work just gets more and more sophisticated, which I guess is to be expected - but, man, it sure is impressive!
That's quite a compliment, thanks man! I dedicate a lot of time to it, glad you're hearing improvements.
I've been writing and programming with synths and drum machines since the Dark Ages, when we actually used floppy (and I mean "real" floppy) discs for data storage, so I am really interested in the technical aspect of your song production.
If you have a moment to briefly describe your workflow and what plug-ins, DAW or whatever you use, I'd really be interested to learn. Anyway, great work! Thanks again for sharing.
Wow, that's awesome! I'm interested in hearing more about how you worked. I'd imagine it took a lot longer on the technical side in the early days of digital.
I use FL Studio to program / sequence the instrumental. I've got a pretty large collection of drums that I've either sampled personally or got from sample libraries. A lot of the melodic sounds in this particular track come from the "Omnisphere" and "Massive" VSTi's. I also try to throw in some acoustic instruments (ie the bells / acoustic guitar / tambourine) to breathe some life into the track and keep it sounding like music.
After I've got a relatively finished instrumental (mind you while i'm creating the instrumental, i'm writing the song), I'll export the individual tracks into Adobe Audition. From there I'll put a rough mix on the instrumental, and start recording the vocals. Once the vocals are down, then I'd say it gets to the longest part, which is post production (like the high octave'd vocals in the hook, harmonies, etc) & mixing. For me a lot of it at that point is listening to it over and over and over again and figuring out all the things that are wrong with it, and addressing it one piece at a time. They say the last 1% of the track takes the longest. And in my case, that's definitely true!
On the plugins side I tend to go for Waves stuff. Pretty much everything you need is in there. I try to automate as much as possible to keep things subtly interesting mix wise. Lots of filters and stuff.
Thanks for asking, hope that helps. I love talking about this stuff, lol.