Steve Wilson gave Feedback Monitor further details about his recording process, music making, and mp3 format versus high resolution CD's and DVD's. Bass Communion is definitely a project best appreciated via high resolution.Here is what Wilson had to say about his process.
How to you produce Bass Communion music?
Steve Wilson:I use Logic software on an Apple Mac. Although I do use plugins, I don’t use a lot. I mainly use filtering, filtering in terms of EQ and that’s about it. I know there’s a lot of wacky plugins out there that do all sorts of exotic things to sound but I want to somehow retain what is special about the source material. If you do have an incredible source recording, an organic acoustic instrument there is so much complexity already in that sound and there is so much beauty and detail and subtlety in that sound and overtones and harmonics being thrown off by those sounds--the last thing you want to do is put that through fifteen plugins and smother what was special about the sound in the first place. It really becomes more like, 'here are your paints, here are your different colors that you mixed up and it is just about how you put them on the canvas and how you arrange them. And of course, there is some processing going on but it’s mostly just eq and compression. Maybe some delay and reverb and that is about it. I use a very small palette of effects.
How do you record you source material?
