Gimme Shelter

There have been a few comments as to the nature of this video over the past couple of years.

I am the guitarist in the top right corner and I produced this video and this is how I made it.

Firstly -

The drums were recorded solo in a hall with 2 microphones to a click track. Pro-tools LE was used and I produced the sounds by cutting out the silences and putting samples behind the tom fills and generally using compression and whatever other tricks I know. I always mixed on the worst computer speakers - because thats all I had.

The bass was then recorded in a hotel room in Berlin Mitte some weeks later.

A few week after that we had a room for a few weeks in Berlin Prenzlauerberg and we recorded the vocals and a few little guitar parts as well as some percussion.

That is where production stopped for quite a while.

The recording was completed in a rehearsal studio in Berlin Kruezberg - that is where I made the video. I had one camera and pointed it at each member and we played to a click track - that is why the drummer has headphones on.

During the video production I plugged a direct output of the amplifier I was using into pro-tools and recorded my performances over the four video takes - and yes I did put a jacket on when it was my turn to be on video, so that is why see me with a t-shirt in the singers frame.

After we had recorded the video I mixed in a couple of the live guitar takes into the pro-tools session. So I am actually playing the parts you see in the video, but I am 1 or 2 frame out of sync and I also think I failed to line up my performances perfectly...

I imported the final computer speaker mastered mix into Final-cut-pro along with each members performance and made each frame the size I wanted. After that I exported a single frame and used illustrator to make the black frame that covers the edges of the video frames.

Then all it took was rendering, exporting and uploading...

I hope you all continue to enjoy the video...

Damian.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Gimme
• Shelter

[FunnyVidsIllustrated]

Drummer at 4:34

Moving so fast you cant even see all the other drum hits (y)

[PISSED8]

Why couldn't they discover these guys and not Justin Beiber

[MiketheCox]

Awesome cover guys!

[acm0592]

the bassist kills it with those vocals

[skyzoophone]

you make it all yours, it's sounding as recorded yesterday as a new song!!

[Zephiranos]

brilliant!

[mikefin65]

Love this version...I think i have watched this 30 times!!!

[fornicationking]

better than original

[grungesi]

thats bloody good guy, i prefer the guys vocals, nice and gritty

[biggy531]

@FunnyVidsIllustrated DOUBLE BASS??

[Dado010970]

Great cover...! yeah!...great band & great voices!