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Drum hits, one-shots, a few loops. Open in any DAW.Recording. Mix. Master. Each stage names the box, the plug-in, and the number that matters.
Field recordings of glacial wind printed on the MixPre-6, 96 kHz / 24-bit. NTG3 mic pointed at the ice. Strings layered from Spitfire BBC SO.
Valhalla Shimmer on the pad bus at 28% mix, Shift +12 semitones. Bricasti M7 IR on the strings, large hall preset, 3.8 s tail. RX 10 Spectral De-noise on every field recording.
Soft limited to -1 dBTP, lookahead 4 ms. Print at -16 LUFS integrated for ambient delivery.
Soft felt kick, tuned to D1, 320 ms decay, sub-octave at -1.
Brushed snare on a Yamaha Recording Custom, single mic, 14 ms attack.
Glacial cymbal shimmer at 14 kHz, panned 22% left.
Field recording of ice cracking, looped at 72 BPM, gated through a slow envelope.
Pigments sub-sine, tuned to D1, no modulation.
Spitfire BBC SO contrabass section, sustained legato.
· Spitfire BBC SO (violin section)
· u-he Diva (sustained pad)
· Arturia Pigments (granular texture)
Dm — Am/C — Bb — F. Each chord held four bars; strings cross-fade between them.
D minor with no V7. Modal mixture into C Lydian on the bridge reads as Nordic, not Romantic.
Bricasti M7 IR, large hall, 3.8 s tail, pre-delay 60 ms.
Valhalla Delay on Pitch mode, 1/4 note, Shift +7 semitones, 22% feedback.
Open the Spitfire dynamics from p to mp over the 32-bar arc. The Valhalla Shimmer mix rises from 18% to 36% over the last 16 bars.
Target the master loudness on the chorus. Let the verse breathe.
Streaming-grade target. Push short-term louder on the drop.
Set FabFilter Pro-L 2 lookahead to 1.2 ms. Print at 24-bit WAV.
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Pigments · Slow Iron Texture
Pigments · Pale Ember Bed
Diva · Glasshouse Pad
Kit · Faxa Bay
MIDI · Ambient long-form motifs
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Every recipe ships with the kits that built it — 24-bit WAV stems, MIDI grids, and the preset banks we used.
