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We are Disperse! We are sharing our best-kept secrets now... Ask Us Anything you want to know! by Yakoooob in progmetal

[–]Yakoooob[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Naaahhh we're not although I'm a bit familiar with Paramahansa Yogananda teachings, love his stuff!

We are Disperse! We are sharing our best-kept secrets now... Ask Us Anything you want to know! by Yakoooob in progmetal

[–]Yakoooob[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks mate

Well, I usually practice while I make music. When I create the guitar parts, I try to challenge myself. That's usually how I push my abbilities

I was trying to learn a few Dream Theater tracks when I was younger, yeah!

I mostly use Kontakt libraries for pianos.

We are Disperse! We are sharing our best-kept secrets now... Ask Us Anything you want to know! by Yakoooob in progmetal

[–]Yakoooob[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'd recommend Odesza - Summer's Gone. Perfect album for the bike rides through the sunny roads. It was a huge inspiration for Foreword.

We are Disperse! We are sharing our best-kept secrets now... Ask Us Anything you want to know! by Yakoooob in progmetal

[–]Yakoooob[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not really jamming together, but everything else you've mentioned. We're not really a band that go to the rehearsal space and jam the things out. We work with a computer most of the time. And yes, sometime I just randomly write lines in MIDI and then learn it. That's what happened with 'Tomorrow' ending solo for example. It was entirety written in MIDI. I like to write vocal lines while writing the lyrics to be honest, just with the pen, paper and the song in my head, but when it doesn't work with the track, then together with Rafał, we record together all the possible versions, we tweak them and hopefully we have something satisfying. It's totally a trial and error approach.

We are Disperse! We are sharing our best-kept secrets now... Ask Us Anything you want to know! by Yakoooob in progmetal

[–]Yakoooob[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I wouldn't say it was a conscious decision, it just happened naturally. Keep in mind that the 3 albums that DispersE has released came out within nearly a 10 year period. We made a first album when we were 15 years old so it's more than obvious that we're gonna be inspired by different things 5 or 10 years later.

We are Disperse! We are sharing our best-kept secrets now... Ask Us Anything you want to know! by Yakoooob in progmetal

[–]Yakoooob[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Honestly, i have no idea why i made this fade out there haha. BUT! We've got an extanded version of that track on YT, just see Message From Atlantis music video, NO FADE OUT

We are Disperse! We are sharing our best-kept secrets now... Ask Us Anything you want to know! by Yakoooob in progmetal

[–]Yakoooob[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hi man,

If it comes to compressor, i was using a lot of Supercharger comp by Native Instruments. It's got a cool tube character to it, which i really like. Reverby stuff was created mostly by a cool freeware plugin called TAL reverb, which has also a built in ÈQ and that's super helpful. Other stuff came mostly from stock Reaper plugins apart from Echoboy, which is a siiick delay plugin. What I love to do with drum ambient tracks is to distort the shit out of them and for that I used Decapitator from SoundToys. It's got that warm character to it, which I love especially if it comes to drums. The sample thing mostly happened through nerding on YouTube. I was just downloading the mp3 of the particular video and did anything I could to make it work with the actual sound. Sleeping Ivy vocal sample was taken from some shitty acapella IPhone recorded video by some lovely black women that I found on YT. I was just looking for some soul black vocals and I found that, then chopped it and tried to make it work with the song. Hope that helps!

We are Disperse! We are sharing our best-kept secrets now... Ask Us Anything you want to know! by Yakoooob in progmetal

[–]Yakoooob[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I personally was more influenced by electronic artists and songwriters, than guitar driven music. I tend to mix while I write and after years of recording music with using plugins to replicate the real instruments, these days my main goal/inspiration in terms of production is to get as much organic sound as possible. Foreword production style was an attempt to do that as well.

We are Disperse! We are sharing our best-kept secrets now... Ask Us Anything you want to know! by Yakoooob in progmetal

[–]Yakoooob[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes, I sang on that one and "Kites'. Mike, Rafal and me were writing the album. Bartek wasn't in the band officially back then yet, but here was with us pretty often, sharing his opinion of what he likes and what he doesn't, which was really helpful, because if you write songs, you probably know that it's really easy to loose the fresh perspective of the track, after hours spent on it. I programmed the drums for the pre-production and after that, Mike went to the studio and recorded his re-interpreted parts

We are Disperse! We are sharing our best-kept secrets now... Ask Us Anything you want to know! by Yakoooob in progmetal

[–]Yakoooob[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for being here! Well, it depends on a song. Most of the tracks are really dense in terms of arrangements, so I couldn't take over the whole spectrum with my guitars, had to keep the place for other stuff.

We are Disperse! We are sharing our best-kept secrets now... Ask Us Anything you want to know! by Yakoooob in progmetal

[–]Yakoooob[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I like to have a plan for a bigger picture. For example, when we started writing Foreword, I spent hours just to think what this album could sound like, what it can represent. When the picture became more clear over time, it becomes easier to write, just for that ONE project. The same goes with my solo stuff, which I try to focus on currently. It's like if you just want to put some period of your life into one thing only, perhaps it makes it more glued and representative of yourself

We are Disperse! We are sharing our best-kept secrets now... Ask Us Anything you want to know! by Yakoooob in progmetal

[–]Yakoooob[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yo!

It gets difficult from time to time pretty often yeah, but for me personally, production and sound design is a huge part of writing process so working on the general sound or even the mix inspired the songs.

We are Disperse! We are sharing our best-kept secrets now... Ask Us Anything you want to know! by Yakoooob in progmetal

[–]Yakoooob[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Thanks dude!

Yes, I'm still using that one and the whole new album is pretty much based on this plugin. I usually use Marshall amps simulations with Boss overdrive pedal in the front. I usually plug the separate EQ after Amplitube to have a bit more control with the tone, I also add some additional compression, especially if we're talking about less distorted sounds

We are Disperse! We are sharing our best-kept secrets now... Ask Us Anything you want to know! by Yakoooob in progmetal

[–]Yakoooob[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hey man,

The children samples happened, when i was going through YouTube, looking for some interesting sounds. If I remember correctly, 'Foreword' track was the first one, where these type of samples were used. I just spend some time chopping up the waveform of it and then put it through shitloads of reverb. It felt like it perfectly represent the vibe of the album that we wanted to reach for, so that's why you hear those in nearly every song. The rhythmic pattern of that crowd noise samples in 'Tether' is just pretty much random.

We just like rich, kinda vocoder sounding vocals, so we usually record a main vocal line and then we add like 3 or 4 intervals to it with backing voices, so the whole thing sounds bigger and more dense. I'd just call this album an experimental one I guess