YouTube Discovery | Ep. 03 | Saurabh Shetye - Acoustic Loop Covers
For this post I am going to need your additional attention. Keep a note of this (Ctrl+C). Throughout the article you will notice this (Ctrl + V) without me putting in a lot of effort in repeating to write this (Ctrl + V).
A loop is something that keeps on repeating itself. Percussion and other musical instruments along with background vocals are usually played on loop in a song. An acoustic loop is just the non-electric instruments and vocals looped in the song. So now you know what I am going to talk about.
This (Ctrl + V) is a vocal looping processor.
It is just an instrument to record, overdub, play, and stop for some but for others it is their entire band. However, a looper will merely repeat the same thing until the end of it. Similar to what I am doing with this (Ctrl + V). Just by writing this (Ctrl + V), I have looped it but just this (Ctrl + V) is mundane and does not really change the content that I am writing in this (Ctrl + V) post. In the same way, a combination of different loops synced together can create a melody. Well, I am no expert in such sophisticated musical technique so I contacted Saurabh Shetye. I'll let him give his introduction (as per his YouTube channel) -
Hi! I'm Saurabh Shetye, and I'm a singer/songwriter from Mumbai, India. I am the lead vocalist of the Folk/Fusion/World Music band Indo Gypsies. Apart from that, I've done playback for a couple of movies, and several jingles, tracks. If you're in India, you might listen to my version of the National Anthem across PVR Cinemas. Here I'd be posting my originals, as well as some covers of the songs you love. Although I'm sure you'll love to listen to some never before heard tracks freshly baked from my studio...So go on, listen them out :D
I discovered his YouTube channel not long ago when I was listening to some other artist's cover; showed up on "Up next". Thank you Google! The first thing I did after listening to his acoustic loop covers was searched if there similar covers by other artists. All I could find were just English acoustic looping covers. Time had come again to share my YouTube discovery with the world. Saurabh has posted two acoustic loop covers as of now. He primarily uses TC-Helicon as his vocal processor, foot pedal switch to control harmonies and Cubase/Ableton to edit the music. Like I mentioned in the first episode too, since these are live, the purpose is to stay real than perfect.
Before you guys read the interview, here are my TOP 3 PICKS from his channel:
1. Jeena Jeena - Badlapur - Saurabh S (Acoustic Loop Cover)
2. Tum Saath Ho - Tamasha - Saurabh S (Acoustic Loop Cover)
3. Sukoon Mila - Mary Kom - Saurabh S (Acoustic Cover)
ME: Can you tell us about your work in the offline space? Which movies and ad jingles have you provided your voice for?
SAURABH: Well, I started out as a vocalist, but slowly have delved more into the realm of music direction now. I'm the lead vocalist for the Folk/World music band Indo Gypsies. And also do music for movies and jingles with my friend Durgesh under the (not-so-creative) name Saurabh-Durgesh Music. Some of our jingles are :
- GumOn Chewing Gum ( I've also sung here in 9 languages and you can find them on the same channel )
- Eva Deo "Treats"
- Kelloggs Chocos
ME: What led to the inception of the idea to create Indian musical content on YouTube using looping technique?
SAURABH: I'd seen some beautiful English covers done using this technique previously. I also loved the idea of multitasking and the high it gives you, and noticed there was no-one doing it for Bollywood songs. So decided to test it out, and glad it worked out :)
ME: This (Ctrl + V) one ties back to my previous question. Now that you've reinvented your channel with acoustic covers covers, do you want to continue with it throughout or do you have some more aces up your sleeve that you want to showcase?
SAURABH: Yup. I have a lot of originals that I wanted to get out. I've even put two out (Coming For You & Clockwork Universe). But the measly number of views made me realize I needed a wider base audience for this stuff to reach out. So I'll be putting up a few more covers, maybe with some new combinations, and then start posting my originals.
ME: Your videos are mostly done in a single take. How many days of effort went into making Jeena Jeena and Tum Saath Ho covers?
SAURABH: Both of them I practiced for around a week before the live performance. It usually takes more time to figure out the best sounding order of the layers to record, and also how to keep the song from sounding monotonous till the end. Then it's practice practice. For 'Tum Saath Ho', I was also in charge of recording my video, so had to work out the whole order of starting the video, the recording, checking my positions and then hopefully not messing up midway :)
ME: Do do you react to negative/hate comments? reply them, ignore them or spam them?
SAURABH: I love seeing negative comments if they're critical, and always try to learn and reply to them. I also love the hate comments, and show them to all my friends.. We end up getting a good laugh, it keeps me from flying too high, and I find it awesome someone is taking his/her time out to post any sort of comment on my video :) I absolutely love it though when someone thinks this is all pre-recorded, and not a single take. Means I'm improving on my production quality :)
His Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/saurabhsmusic
You can subscribe to his YouTube channel here:
Listen to his songs on SoundCloud (Acoustic loop covers are not available here at the time of writing this (Ctrl + V) article):
That is all I have for this (Ctrl + V) post in the series. I hope you liked it. If you did then feel free to share it. Let me know your favourite cover by Saurabh Shetye or if you have any suggestions/feedback - in the comments below. Until then, Ciao...!
If you liked this (Ctrl + V) episode do check out my previous episodes with Siddharth Slathia and Lisa Mishra:
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