Olesya Star s Unusual Duet

Olesya Star's Unusual Duet February 9,2013

[This just in from PreSonus Artist Olesya Star, who recently completed an unusual duet.]

As an independent artist, people always tell me that to survive you have to take 2 steps left whilst walking forward or you'll go incircles, so I always keep an open mind to new ventures, avenues and pathways through this minefield called the music biz. One such diversion presented itself to me recently in the form of a country duet, originally meant for Dolly Parton, but sung by Tim Rose. Tim wasan original American troubadour who was a founding Greenwich Village folk musician in the 1960s, and former band member with the likes of Mama Cass (Mamas and Papas), and later in life Andy Summers (The Police) and Mick Jones (Foreigner). Sadly, I never met Tim Rose before he died in 2002, but by pure chance I was asked by an old friend of Tim's if I would supply Dolly Parton-like vocals and work the track, originally recorded in 1988.

The tracks were originally recorded on 2 tape, so the tape needed to be baked and digitized prior to landing on my studio desk. I had 24 tracks to play with that had been encoded at 24bit/96khz, which I brought immediately intoPreSonus Studio One Professional v2. The job ofidentifyingthe microphones that were used in the original recording was completelyirrelevantwith Studio One, as it was far simpler just to make the recording sound how it should by using the simplest included Studio One features:Channel Strip,Compressor,Pro EQ,OpenAIRreverband, myfavoriteby far, theMulitiband Dynamicseffect on the Master channel which glues the track togethersometimes much better than using summing mixers that cost in the thousands.

I recorded my vocals through thePreSonus AudioBox 1818VSL, dropped the majority of unnecessary channels/recordings, and sculpted a rough mix before handing the final session over to my producer/mastering guru, Adam Mills. Adam added some heart-poundingly heavy kick drum and a sprinkle of the missing magic by adding just 2-3%OpenAirin the Mastering/Project section of Studio One, as an insert, with a tight room preset and no more pre-delay than 15-20ms. There you go, now I'm even handing out secrets!

The result is You Can Hurry Darling (And I'll Walk Slow)which now sounds like I was in the room with Tim Rose at the same time, All thanks to Studio One and PreSonus. Here's a sample, the full single drops Feb. 14!

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