Davester2296 | S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Call of Pripyat - Live to Forget [Cover by DAR] | 「 INSTRUMENTAL 」 @DAR-Davester2296 | Uploaded December 2021 | Updated October 2024, 6 days ago.
And here's the instrumental version!

Now, time to go over interesting things I had done for this cover.

Originally, I was going to have the guitar in the beginning be completely run through a phaser effect. However, as the cover neared completion, I wanted that "rawness" that came with just that dirty guitar strumming. So, since I was already experimenting with sending lots of things to aux channels in the mixer, I figured I'd do the same for the dirty guitar. Then from there, I wound up turning up the volume fader for that "phaser-send" channel, until it blended with the main guitar track. In the end, I was able to get the cool phaser sound on the guitar, but retain that grungy sound that I wanted.

Oh also, I've found myself a new replacement for "Biggus Kickus" (my silly name in projects for any big epic reverbed kick/bass drums/hits). Rather than my usual go-to in the past (something from some old Roland soundfont, I think), I decided to mess around with some of the samples that came with FL Studio. I also tried some different cymbals and stuff too (also stock FL Studio samples), those things sounded pretty nice when reversed and combined with "Biggus Kickus".

On the topic of drums, I didn't really change too much, except for moving some snares to land on the 2nd and 4th beats. It just felt a bit better to me having them there rather than where they were before.

As for guitar shenanigans, rather than save the distorted guitar for the very end like the original did, I wanted to come out with them right at the first chorus! The original's guitar part, while it sounded cool, I really wanted to have more movement and articulation. I had tried recording what the original had done at first, but wound up scrapping that. I decided to riff around and came up with a part that I thought sounded pretty cool.

I also changed things up a bit during 4:39 & 6:28. I had a hard time trying to figure out what all the guitars were doing in this part and so I kinda made up my own thing that sounded close enough. The original had a lead harmony that kicked in halfway through, but I decided against having it since I was already playing something different, and thought that what I had worked fine.

Now, something that bugged me a little about the original was how it just suddenly ended. Because after that part, it was really building up and up, and then bam, its already over. I was like "aw man, well, time to give this a DAR-style outro". So I decided to have that short piano interlude play. The piano part is actually what I had the piano doing during the chorus, but with everything going on, it really didn't get to have its time to shine. Anyhow, I then had the guitar kick back in to launch into the extended solo! Mixing in stuff from the first solo, and then throwing in some original riffing, then I finally settled back on playing the main melody. I really had a blast recording the leads, especially the bit that runs from 5:51-6:10!

Other than all that, the last thing would be the strings. I didn't really change anything with the string section, aside make them stand out a bit more (at least to me anyways). Which is something I like about having this instrumental version. Without the vocals there, the pretty strings get the spotlight now (especially during the 2nd verse).

Oh, and the cover was done a semitone/half-step lower than the original.

Anyways, I hope you all enjoy jamming out to the instrumental version here! ~DAR

VOCAL VERSION: youtu.be/pP1CL9XmBcQ


OPUS DOWNLOAD: mediafire.com/file/x67rc77z38v7ioo/STALKER+-+Live+to+Forget+[Cover+By+DAR]+[INSTR].opus/file

Originally Composed by Firelake



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