Shin Megami Tensei V - Battle ~Destruction~ (Lo-fi/Fusion Cover)

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Kade Kalka

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Published on April 14, 2022 8:07:04 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RKe8ISM51o

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Shin Megami Tensei V (2021)

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Here's my Lo-fi/Fusion cover of "Battle -Destruction-" from Shin Megami Tensei V.

You can listen to this cover on streaming services here: https://ffm.to/l13wx9e

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Originally composed by Atlus Sound Team.

~ * ~ about the song and stuff ~ * ~

The SMT V soundtrack recently got released on streaming services, so I thought I'd make some more covers! This track has always stood out to me, it has a really nice and chilled-out vibe for a battle theme.

There's a lot of fun production stuff going on, so I'll divide it up into sections.

SYNTHS:

I got that synth sound in the intro by running Alicia's Keys (a piano library) into Archetype: Gojira's pitch shifter. I love the way piano sounds through that plugin. Also, that synth that sounds like vocals.... is actually just me singing, nothing else really haha. I just didn't know how to put it on camera, so I played it on synth for the video.

The synth bass sound in the "chorus" section is a mix between the Xpand!2 'Soft Finger Bass' patch and the 'Monster Pick Bass' patch in Alchemy. I like how the Xpand bass has a solid low-end/low-mid response and the Alchemy patch adds some transients akin to palm-muted bass/guitar.

It's also worth noting I actually ended up recording a lot of the synth parts. I usually don't, but I wanted to try and emulated the off-kilter, unquantized feel of the original.

I hope no one's upset I completely left out all of the woodwind stuff. I like it, I just didn't know how to include it in my version.

DRUMS:

The original has drums that are pretty compressed/lo-fi, so I wanted to lean into that and maybe take it a little farther. I used GGD Modern and Massive, 'Default Kit, Raw' patch with the Pearl kick and Gretch Bell Brass snare. I wanted to make the hi-hat more direct, so I turned it way down in the overheads/rooms and turned up the hat close mic.

Here's the signal chain for the drums:

Logic compressor (Studio FET, about -5db to -8 db, soft clipping)
Console EQ (Smooth output model, 7.8 dB drive)
Bitcrusher (Fold mode, 29.5 dB drive, 10 bit resolution, 3x downsample, 18.5 mix)
A couple channel EQ's to control the high-end and do filter sweeps.

I made the Lo-fi drum loop in the beginning using a groove I wrote with GGD. I don't remember exactly what I did, but I boosted the low-end a lot and put at least 3 or 4 different distortions on it. Low-passed it, chopped it up, idk. I think it sounds pretty close to the original, which is cool!

GUITAR:

For the rhythm guitars at the end, I used Archetype: Nolly (3rd amp, 3rd cab, 57 mic) with the gain set pretty low. I played the parts on the neck pickup, which along with the low gain gave it a nice classic prog sound. I want to get away from feeling like I was always have to use HIGH GAIN BRIDGE PICKUP TONES WITH OVERDRIVE THAT'S REALLY IN YOUR FACE all the time, ya know?

VIDEO:

I've been inspired to change up my videos a bit, so I decided to just use my 15-45mm lens for this video. As much as I like my 30mm prime lens, it can be pretty limiting. The picture is noisier and less crisp with the 15-45, but it's also much easier to quickly set up a shot and start recording. I'd like to go back to recording a lot of my parts live (specifically the synths) and I think shooting video this way will help.

Maybe I just need to get a 15 or 20mm prime lens tho haha.

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