Grace Chatto

Used for the strings on "Solo", as stated by mix engineer Mark Ralph in this November 2018 Sound on Sound interview.

“The main treatments on some of the Bollywood strings come from the Valhalla VintageVerb, the SoundToys Little AlterBoy and the Cableguys ShaperBox. We could have asked the string players to do those pitch slides, but because we wanted things to sound slightly synthesized we used a combination of pitch-bend automation in NI Kontakt, when we resampled them, and Little Alterboy to do this. Instead of going smoothly between notes, it bends up to the notes, and this plug-in is really good for automated pitch shifts like that.

“ShaperBox is VST-only, so I use the Blue Cat PatchWork to get it to work with AAX in Pro Tools. I used the VolumeShaper in ShaperBox, which allows me to create a side-chaining effect without using a trigger. You can draw in the exact curve you want. KickStarter is made by the same company, and also works great, but ShaperBox is more versatile, as it doesn’t only give you volume shaping, but also MIDI shaping, pan shaping and so on."

Used to automate the pitch of the strings on "Solo", as stated by mix engineer Mark Ralph in this November 2018 Sound on Sound interview.

“The main treatments on some of the Bollywood strings come from the Valhalla VintageVerb, the SoundToys Little AlterBoy and the Cableguys ShaperBox. We could have asked the string players to do those pitch slides, but because we wanted things to sound slightly synthesized we used a combination of pitch-bend automation in NI Kontakt, when we resampled them, and Little Alterboy to do this. Instead of going smoothly between notes, it bends up to the notes, and this plug-in is really good for automated pitch shifts like that."

Used for the strings on "Solo", as stated by mix engineer Mark Ralph in this November 2018 Sound on Sound interview. An image of the settings for "Bollywood GRP 2" can be found here.

“The main treatments on some of the Bollywood strings come from the Valhalla VintageVerb, the SoundToys Little AlterBoy and the Cableguys ShaperBox. We could have asked the string players to do those pitch slides, but because we wanted things to sound slightly synthesized we used a combination of pitch-bend automation in NI Kontakt, when we resampled them, and Little Alterboy to do this. Instead of going smoothly between notes, it bends up to the notes, and this plug-in is really good for automated pitch shifts like that."

Used for the strings on "Solo", as stated by mix engineer Mark Ralph in this November 2018 Sound on Sound interview.

“The main treatments on some of the Bollywood strings come from the Valhalla VintageVerb, the SoundToys Little AlterBoy and the Cableguys ShaperBox. We could have asked the string players to do those pitch slides, but because we wanted things to sound slightly synthesized we used a combination of pitch-bend automation in NI Kontakt, when we resampled them, and Little Alterboy to do this. Instead of going smoothly between notes, it bends up to the notes, and this plug-in is really good for automated pitch shifts like that."

Used for the "Intro Strings" on "Solo", as stated by mix engineer Mark Ralph in this November 2018 Sound on Sound interview. An image of the settings can be found here.

“The Intro Strings group has the XLN Audio RC20 Retro Color, which is a little find of Jack’s. That plug-in gives you a very nice, natural-sounding array of analogue-type processing. It has noise for general crackle on the track, and you can use it for several different types of overdrive. The overdrive can be very subtle. I used some wobble and distortion on the strings, and I also used RC20 distortion all the way through on Demi’s vocals. It made all the vocals sound like they are slightly overcooked and slightly up and down in pitch a little bit, as though they were coming off a record that wasn’t being played back very reliably. The RC20 also has a very nice reverb.”

Used on the strings for "Solo", as stated by mix engineer Mark Ralph in this November 2018 Sound on Sound interview.

"We used the Greg Wells MixCentric on one of the Bollywood strings tracks."

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Grace Chatto is using her electric cello since 2014.