The Blake Robinson Synthetic Orchestra

Ready for spooky season? Our new track Rituals and Resurrections drops October 4 on all major platforms. Pre-save now on Spotify: blake.so/?l4fab ready to add it to your Halloween playlists.

We’re premiering it a day early on YouTube: https://youtu.be/VvKdR65Hayc. Hit “notify me” and join me and @gloom.darkheart in the live chat!

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The Blake Robinson Synthetic Orchestra

Are you ready for spooky season? Our new track, "Rituals and Resurrections" arrives October 4th on all major platforms. Pre-save Spotify @ blake.so/?l4fab to playlist for your Halloween partehs this year!

Want to listen a little bit earlier? The track is premiering a day early on the channel @ https://youtu.be/VvKdR65Hayc. Get notified and join me and ‪@gloom.darkheart‬ in the chat!

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Thanks to all the sweet-tooths that listened to mine and ‪@gloom.darkheart‬'s new track this first week on various platforms! You’ve left nothing but crumbs and bloodstains on the plate. Perhaps there'll be seconds in the spoopy month to follow? Is "Icing On The Cake" your new go-to snack, or do you still have cravings for one of our older treats? Let us know in the comments!

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Soon, soon! Our new song will be available on Spotify and other streaming platforms midnight 5th September your local time! Or join us over on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArXHz... for the Premiere 8pm GMT for a listen and a quick chat!

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The Blake Robinson Synthetic Orchestra

Not long to go now! Our new song is available over on Spotify and other streaming platforms midnight 5th September your local time! Or join us here on YouTube for the Premiere 8pm GMT for a listen and a quick chat!

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So wow, that happened (if you didn't know, all our music is quietly kept captive over on Spotify). A million monthly listeners! That's a lot of ears to keep stashed in a trophy box.

Thanks so much to everyone who listens to our music regularly, especially you dedicated ones that repeat it so often, torture your friends and family with it and jump on here to comment every time we release something new.

It is still completely wild to me and ‪@gloom.darkheart‬ - just two weirdos that have been doing this stuff for fun for 15 years now - and somehow a ferkin' million people on Spotify alone out there listened to our maniacal mouth doodles this month!

🩸 Here's to many more years of murdery musics. 🩸

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Typical Gloom reaction:
"So who is your bae in this comic?"
"Nosferatu!"
but who is your vampire bae?

2 months ago | [YT] | 132

The Blake Robinson Synthetic Orchestra

A look behind the curtain at my latest upload, a cover of "The Red Means I Love You", a song by ‪@MaddsBuckley‬ . My pop stuff tends to be a bit more chaotic than my orchestral pieces. Weirdly I find it much, much easier to get the orchestra sounding 'realistic' as you tend to be hiding everything in the mix, compressing and EQing the poop out of it, and the 'room' sound is not as important.

The track was organised and arranged in Reaper (used for recording guitar, bass, vocals, etc.). I would write the orchestral parts in ‪@FL_STUDIO‬ and then print the stems as WAVs and bring them into Reaper for arranging/mixing/mastering.

Mainly Spitfire Audio and private sample libraries for the orchestral bits. Mixing and mastering is a mixture of ‪@meldaproduction‬'s suite, ‪@iZotopeOfficial‬'s Ozone (mastering) / Nectar (vocals) and various other plugins I've relied on for years.

Guitar and bass parts were played in using my Hils HN3 (love this guitar, not my best sounding, but still great and feels so nice to play) and my HNB5. ‪@NativeInstruments‬ Guitar Rig and ‪@NeuralDSP‬'s Morgan Amps suite used with them. Drums were my noobish skills on an electric kit to record some loops and then a bit of mangling.

Technique-wise I just sat down, starting with the symphonic strings part as the core, and wrote the guitar track around that. I was recording vocals while working on the instrumental, which is my poor excuse for the incredibly chaotic comping process you can see in the pictures. Vocals had a compressor and then basic Nectar bits (delay, EQ, reverb saturation).

I don't think there was any other black magic behind the sound, but feel free to pop any questions in the comments and I can try to answer them.

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We all know that I like chips, but do you like chips?

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