Elias Gogakis Chooses PreSonus for Eurovision Song Contest Entry

Elias Gogakis Chooses PreSonus for Eurovision Song Contest Entry November 16,2013

[This just in from Elias Gogakis, who recently produced an entry in the Eurovision Song Contest using Studio One!]

Hello PreSonus! Anna Capone Papas is a Spinto Soprano vocalist with many years of studies in classic music, piano and opera. She wrote melodies for the song A Glimpse of Heaven, with her friend S.Rhodes. In the beginning, the song was a ballad with only piano and vocals.

I work on rock and metal music, and have worked with Anna Capone Papas before. Once I listened her demo, the first thing that hit my mind was to transform the song to a pop metal opera, without changing her original ideas. So, I added some heavy modern metal riffs and my friendly drummer wrote some groovy drum parts.

Because the Eurovision Song Contest needs a catchy song, we made a pop/symphonic metal song, which is catchy to all listeners in central and Northern Europe, where both styles of music are very popular.

We had a very little time to compose, mix and master the song in order to enter the Switzerland Song Contest for Eurovision. The whole song was ready in five days. We were working 13 hours every day for all five days at my studio, Master Sound Studio, located in Athens, Greece. It was a great experience!

With the song structure finalized, we tracks guitars, drums, vocals, and pianos. This was followed by adding full orchestra parts using PreSonus sound libraries and some other libraries.

Drums were recorded using Slate Digital SSD 4 and CLA Expansion Kit via a Roland TD 20 KX V-DRUM. The were all recorded by me using Schecter Guitars though the Blackstar Amp Series One 6L6. All recordings, mixing and mastering sessions were made in Studio One 2 Professional.

You can hear Glimpse of Heaven below.

The link to vote for the song is www.eurovisionplattform.sf.tv/videos#A

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