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#296265 05/22/15 01:33 PM
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Hello everyone,

This is our new song:

Fly (Biab version)

We've teamed up with Paddy Gobel for this. Paddy is a songwriter from South Africa. He is also a frequent visitor of this forum (read only).
He asked us to record one of his songs.

First, we recorded Fly with its original musical arrangement. Anne-Marie also created a video for it, which can be viewed here

Next, we migrated the exact same vocals to a Band in a Box arrangement. This procedure was quite new to us, but on the other hand a lot of fun to do! Given BIAB's versatility, it wasn't very hard to find suitable realtracks for the song.
The following RT's were used:

1540 Guitar electric Soloist PopBelieve
1759:Bass, Electric, Pop16ths Ev 085
1765:Guitar, High-Strung Acoustic, Fingerpicking Pop16ths Ev16 085
1764:Guitar, Electric, Rhythm Pop16thsA-B Ev16 085
1761:Guitar, Acoustic, Strumming Pop16ths Ev16 085
1767:Piano, Acoustic, Rhythm Pop16 Ev16 085
878:Guitar, Electric, Rhythm NorthernRockGrittyA-B Sw16 075
RealDrums in style: NashvillePop16^1-a:Snare, Hihat , b:Snare, Ride

Style: BALLP16.STY (16ths Pop-Rock Ballad [85 RS])

Hope you like it! Any comments are welcome.

Rob.

Last edited by RnAM; 05/25/15 09:26 AM. Reason: additional info

We are Rob Meulman and Anne-Marie Bovenkamp from The Netherlands.

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Hi Rob and Anne-Marie,

This is a very enjoyable listening. The way the mix builds and throttles back is terrific. The overall sound of the production is spectacular. It sounds like you spent a great deal of time creating this. It's a perfect fit with Anne-Marie's beautiful video.

Regards to you both,
Noel




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Nice job on the remix. You guys are getting into Guenter's (boehm) territory. It was an excellent job of matching BIAB tracks against the vocals.

This type of arrangement of importing vocals into BIAB is a technique I do quite often for both practice with Audio Chord Wizard and creating a new musical mix.

I constantly search and download isolated vocal and acapella video's from YouTube so not only am I able to record with some of the top session musicians, (thanks to PGMusic's BIAB/RB) I have also brought in guest singers such as The Beatles, Paul McCartney, The Bee Gees, Temptations, Eagles and countless 'unknown' artists who come into my studio where I am the "professional" engineer as music greats create new covers of some of their biggest hits.

Sadly, policies, permissions and copyrights prevent me from sharing, but I have created versions of several songs that I am particularly proud of. Paul McCartney singing a big band version of "Oh Darling" and a very, very nice soulful and realistic version of The Temptations doing "Just my Imagination" .

I found this technique to be quite a lot of fun to do. It can be somewhat challenging at times according to the song project but mostly a simple process that is not 'easy' to do. But I'm starting to hijack your post so will quit my rambling and just say I appreciate what it took for you to transition this song from the original. I enjoyed my listen a lot. Good job.

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Hi Rob & Anne-Marie,

great song! You did a good job transforming it
with BiaB. But I'm missing the synth sounds of
the original. Who played the piano in it? And
how was the original recorded?
I'm a fan of the original.
Anne-Marie did a good job with the video.

Guenter

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Really pretty song!! Outstanding vocals. I must admit I like the other musical arrangement better than BIAB but it is incredible how close one can come to a "custom" arrangement with BIAB. Very enjoyable listen! Take care. Greg

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Hello Rob and Anne-Marie,

Rob, you've got a beautiful voice, a tenor voice, clear and effective.


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Good write you guys.
Rob

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Rob,
Your voice is excellent as always. I find it difficult to choose between the two versions so I will just say BOTH are worth a listen

Anne-Marie,
As usual your video skills shine. You are a genius in that department!

Enjoyed

Alyn

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Originally Posted By: Noel96
Hi Rob and Anne-Marie,

This is a very enjoyable listening. The way the mix builds and throttles back is terrific. The overall sound of the production is spectacular. It sounds like you spent a great deal of time creating this. It's a perfect fit with Anne-Marie's beautiful video.

Regards to you both,
Noel




Thank you Noel!


We are Rob Meulman and Anne-Marie Bovenkamp from The Netherlands.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1gsdNLE7_Gy8qavoOplQow/videos
http://rnam.net/


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Hi Charlie,

Thank you!
Well, actually we are rather curious to hear some of the covers you did. Rob is especially curious about your BeeGees Biab covers!
Could you send us an mp3 some time (send us a PM).

Rob and Anne-Marie


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Hi Guenter,

Thanks for your kind reply.
And yes, you are right, the original version has a distinct keyboard sound on the chorus.
We actually don't really know who played the original music. We only know that Paddy Nobel owns the musical rights and wrote the lyrics.

Regards,
Rob and Anne-Marie


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Originally Posted By: Greg Johnson
Really pretty song!! Outstanding vocals. I must admit I like the other musical arrangement better than BIAB but it is incredible how close one can come to a "custom" arrangement with BIAB. Very enjoyable listen! Take care. Greg


Thanks Greg!
You're right, we didn't succeed 100% in emulating the original arrangement.


We are Rob Meulman and Anne-Marie Bovenkamp from The Netherlands.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1gsdNLE7_Gy8qavoOplQow/videos
http://rnam.net/


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Originally Posted By: PRADON
Hello Rob and Anne-Marie,

Rob, you've got a beautiful voice, a tenor voice, clear and effective.



Thank you very much!


We are Rob Meulman and Anne-Marie Bovenkamp from The Netherlands.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1gsdNLE7_Gy8qavoOplQow/videos
http://rnam.net/


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Originally Posted By: Rob4580
Good write you guys.
Rob


Thank you Rob!


We are Rob Meulman and Anne-Marie Bovenkamp from The Netherlands.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1gsdNLE7_Gy8qavoOplQow/videos
http://rnam.net/


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Hi Alyn,

Thanks for your nice comment.
We are glad you couldn't really choose between the original and our BiaB version whistle

Rob and Anne-Marie


We are Rob Meulman and Anne-Marie Bovenkamp from The Netherlands.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1gsdNLE7_Gy8qavoOplQow/videos
http://rnam.net/


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Thanks for the back story on how this version and
the vid emerged. You guys are so meticulous with
your audio and video productions. This is the he kind
of tune one just listens to in it's totality without the slightest
temptation to begin parsing the the song out.
Like Noel alluded to...the way the song ebbs and
flows is extremely engaging.

And the video is awesome as have all of yours been.

It's a toss up on which version we most like.

Thanks for the chance to listen and view!

J&B


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Hi RnAM.
Totally enjoyed both versions.
The video is fantastic and adds a lot to the song.
I find the video vocals a bit clearer. Cheers.

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R & A-M, I like both versions. I will say that this mix is among your best. Seems much louder and clearer than some in the past. Another great job. Tom

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Originally Posted By: tommyad
R & A-M, I like both versions. I will say that this mix is among your best. Seems much louder and clearer than some in the past. Another great job. Tom


I'm with Tom on this... Both versions are excellent. Beautiful vocals. Excellent mix. It would be nice if the last note of the guitar solo in the middle could hold and fade (I know that's often difficult, but it would really complete that solo nicely).

And, Paddy...Welcome (sort of coming in the backdoor... smile )... it's time you jump in, don't ya think?.... RnAM - a great choice for this!

The harmonies are sweet! (as always). The waterfall at :38 in the video is at Yosemite... I saw it a couple of days ago!

Great job, y'all!

floyd

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Great song with a strong vocal, super mix, very nice instrumentation, outstanding lyrics and as a bonus a super video.

This is really good!


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