I have provided some of my audio production portfolio below (all encoded in mp3 128kbps audio quality). Take note of the following credits:
Music Publisher: Emerson Roble Maningo
Author: Emerson R. Maningo
Artist: Jeanine Maningo
Engineering/Mixing and Mastering/Recording Producer: Emerson Maningo
I have included some important notes pertaining to the production techniques I used in each of songs. All of these songs are recorded at home:
1. “Sure”
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Important production notes:
I have double tracked acoustic guitars and recorded it twice also. So that means, I recorded the left channel acoustic and then recorded again another set for right channel acoustic. The resulting is a beautiful guitar delay, as you can hear in the introduction. The guitar I used is nylon acoustic guitar and using Addario Acoustic guitar strings. I also mix the bass guitar to be above the kick bass frequencies to create a more pop/country rock sound.
2. “To my two little rats”
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Important production notes:
I use a simple acoustic guitar in the intro. There were a lot of guitar tracks in this song that implements double tracking. I use an extremely moderate reverb for the vocals. The bass mixing is tricky, I assigned bass guitar frequencies to occupy the rest of the bass spectrum except kick drums to shine at 100Hz. This is done using careful and trial/error technique of parametric equalizing.
3.“I need you through”
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Important production notes:
My primary objective of this song is to have an upbeat, rock and more pop/modern beat sound. So I need the bass and kick drums to sound really hard. Since it is pop, obviously I need to make the vocals cystal clear as well as strong. I did not apply any reverb to vocals except on very special parts (such as the high note parts).
4.“Stay Cool My Friend”
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Important production notes:
This is a more aggressive sound particularly a combination of solid rock instruments, bass guitar, over-driven guitars and drums. The bass guitar was mix a lower than the kick, to create a more heavy sound. The vocals are dry and applied with minor distortion.
5.“Always thinking of you”
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Important production notes:
This is another aggressive and heavy sound particularly due to the bass guitar frequencies mix lower than the kick. The electric guitar is using flange/chorus effects to create a cleaner and rock sounding guitar.
6.“Dream”
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Important production notes:
This is a rock song, so obviously I need to make these instruments very loud: bass, kick and guitars. While this song is also pop-rock, I need to vocals to shine also and drowned in the mix, this is accomplished by careful EQ techniques during mixing stage.
7.“At the highway”
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Important production notes:
I use some synth to back up guitars. Although I cut them a lot not to drowned the main vocal and guitar tracks. A good mixing technique is more on cutting than less on boosting frequencies.You can listen to the complete song version of those samples by visiting the music publishing site: www.musicforlicense.net. Also you can find licensing information there, in case you plan to use these songs in your project.