The Smeezing The Song 'Treasure' By Bruno Mars

For recording assignments of Sound Recording Techniques 1, we as a group endeavoured to record a cover of ‘Treasure’ by Bruno Mars. The song itself was written and produced by Bruno Mars, Ari Levine and Philip Lawrence who labelled themselves as ‘The Smeezingtons’. The original song is usually associated with the genres of Disco, Pop, Funk and Soul. The Smeezingtons claim that the song was inspired by ‘Baby I’m Yours’ by Breakbot, who is a french producer and DJ who claimed that Treasure was a rip-off. For this we listened to various songs and producers in the orignal style such as Maurice White of Earth, Wind and Fire, Stevie Wonder and Nile Rodgers of Chic and collaborated on Random Access Memories by Daft Punk. As a group, we wanted to keep to a similar production brief but have more of an acoustic version but maintain some elements of the original. …show more content…
This is so that the tracks could progress into the style we wanted with the use of compression, reverbs and certain colouring effects. Most of the tracks in the final mix session were processed in some way. During this session, compression was applied to both the Kick Drum microphones, Drum Overheads, Floor Tom, both Rhythm Guitar microphones, Saxophones and the Lead Vocal. The Klark Teknik SQ1 were used for everything with the exception of the Lead Vocal which was the Focusrite Compounder Class A. Other effects include Reverb and Autotune on vocals and a Choral/Flanger and Dynamic Delay on the Guitar solo which was rendered to the track in Pro