Ne‑Yo is also not locked into one genre, and when we presented the song to him, he wrote lyrics to it and added a melody, and magic happened. Stargate was established in Trondheim, Norway. Of course, a singer or another co‑writer may want to extend or shorten parts of the song, but it's much easier to do that if the song was already very structured to begin with. Ils débutent réellement en 1997 en Norvège. From humble beginnings in provincial Norway, the Stargate team have gone on to become one of America's leading hit factories. We had written the backing track a year earlier, and played it to one of our managers, TyTy [Tyran Smith], who loved the track and said that it'd be perfect for a duet between Shakira and Beyoncé. Ce projet fut annulé en 2016. We created the entire backing track, and Mary J Blige overdubbed the vocal with her own people, and after we received her vocal, we changed the drums and did an entirely new production. My first instrument was a Wurlitzer that my father gave to me. 'Irreplaceable', for instance, was not written for Beyoncé. Since their US breakthrough with Ne‑Yo's 'So Sick', they have become first‑call songwriters and producers for American R&B and pop acts such as Beyoncé, Rihanna, Lionel Richie, Chris Brown, Jennifer Hudson, Flo Rida, Mary J Blige, and many others. If it is good enough we move on, if not we record more. I got into buying and selling equipment and worked in cover bands and did music for commercials and radio and TV. The best vocalists in the world just have that sound in their voice. It just shows that it doesn't necessarily take long to create something great. We complement each other.”Stargate's output is phenomenal by any standards. We'd been using Cubase for 10 years, until we moved to Pro Tools 10 years ago. 'So Sick' changed everything for Stargate and Ne‑Yo and they wrote a further three songs for his debut album, In My Own Words, including 'Sexy Love', a US number seven hit. We changed the chords, everything, and this is where that four to the floor piano emerged. We tried that, and it really worked. In England, the music tends to be more mid‑heavy, and sharper. “Stargate will come back,” he wrote on his blog.. “It’s not a matter of if, but when.”. But whatever is recorded in our studio I record myself, because it is so much quicker than me telling someone to press Record, or which take to keep. "In fact, we also engineer almost everything in our songs, apart from occasionally the vocals or the strings. "I started taking classical piano classes when I was seven years old. From there we proceeded to change the entire backing track around his vocal. We also love and use the classic Neumann mics and the AKG C12. You don't want to be stuck in one lane and just to repeat versions of your last hit record. We'll have the verses and choruses and bridges and transitions complete. It is a much more efficient way of comping than recording 20 tracks and then having to listen to all of them again before comping them.”When it comes to vocal sounds, however, he insists that the equipment is of secondary importance.
We never think: 'We have to make this sound right for the radio so that it will sell.' Says Eriksen, "As you know, everything is moving towards smaller production facilities, because you don't really need big consoles or lots of outboard any more to make a good‑sounding record. Basically, when I'm recording vocals, it is just a matter of not f**king it up. Getting a good vocal sound makes a big difference to the production. "I've also developed a handy technique for comping vocals. "This song began with some guitar chords that were given to us by Amund and Espen, and we arranged them and added bass and drums and strings and melodies and everything else. Eriksen, "We sometimes have specific sessions for an artist or a record label, but our experience is that the best stuff comes when we don't think of any artist in particular. As I said, we have developed our craft over a long time, so when we have an idea it is easy for us to execute it. "We worked with a lot of great singers in Europe, but we were really trying to get that sparkling and fat American vocal sound. We have a G‑series SSL at Roc‑The‑Mic, but we only use four channels on it, two for Pro Tools and two for the iPod. My mother is an actress and my father an engineer, and I guess I got the creative side from her and the technical side from him. We travel a lot to Los Angeles and Miami, and it is not really about the equipment. I went to his office, and he was very impressed with our songs and production, but not with the artists that we had. It's what comes most natural for us.”Writers: Johntá Austin, Mary J Blige, Ester Dean, Stargate. Every day after I finished school I'd go into my tiny room that had equipment everywhere. Stargate est un collectif de producteurs/paroliers composé des norvégiens Tor Erik Hermansen et Mikkel S. Eriksen (ou Mikkel SE) qui évolue aussi bien dans la Pop, le hip-hop ou le R&B. We sampled it and you can hear echoes of it in the staccato string break in the middle. "It is what comes naturally for us. And then suddenly everybody was playing it.
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