: Call of Pripyat - Live to Forget [Cover by DAR] | 「 ENGLISH 」

So, a bit of a detour here since I really REALLY wanted to try covering this song (plus, the new game is set to release later in April). Also quick disclaimer that these English lyrics may not be 100% 1-to-1 accurate to the original Russian version. Shoutout and thanks goes out to “Игорюня Play“ for suggesting that I do something from the STALKER series. Thanks also goes out to Vilison for lending me his ears and critique as I finished up the audio! Work on this cover goes hand-in-hand with my recent and ongoing mixing-experiments. In particular, this was great practice for vocal mixing. This is probably the first time that I’ve mixed vocal tracks straight down the center in the stereo field. This was something I always had a hard time with, since I would treat vocals the way I treated my guitars: double-tracked, panned left and right (to varying degrees). While that approach didn’t necessarily sound bad, it did have its shortcomings. In short, better use of serial compression, reverb and stereo delay send/aux-channels was what I was lacking all this time! I’m very happy with how things wound up turning out! I really love this track, its rather sorrowful and melancholic, yet also beautiful-sounding. I did my best to stay faithful to the mood of the original. I did change up a few things in the process though. Mainly, I had changed up the vocal harmonies, as well as some of the lyrics. Speaking of which, I sure had a hell of a time cobbling together the English lyrics used in this cover. While there were a few translations already out there, none really musically fit the vocal melody. So, while referencing these fan-translations and machine-translations, I had to try and make things work musically, and thus had to reinterpret some lyrics. Now, I hardly know any Russian, but I tried my damnedest not to stray too far from what I thought the original meaning of the lyrics were. Also, I must say, there’s this small, silly satisfaction with rolling my R’s and just overall singing with my best attempt at a kind of Russian / Eastern-European accent. Lastly, messing around with the whole stylized lyric video was pretty novel and interesting for me. I quite enjoyed laying out all the lyrics, this is something I’d definitely do again for any possible future vocal covers! Anyways, I hope you all enjoyed my rendition of Call of Pripyat’s credits song! ~DAR OPUS DOWNLOAD: - Live to Forget [Cover By DAR] [ENG].opus/file CREDITS English lyrics sourced and based off of prior translations from NX3, scripten, and chimeera: Visuals from STALKER Shadow of Chernobyl, and STALKER Call of Pripyat. Public domain photographs of Pripyat by Wendelin Jacober, Amort1939, C Colourin, and Jason Minshull. Originally Composed by Firelake ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Make sure to Like, Share, and Subscribe if you enjoyed! Follow me at: (The Den of DAR) Official DISCORD: DAR’s Cover-To-Do List: Facebook: Twitter: ReverbNation: Originals Channel: