Black Catcher - Instrumental Remake from Black Clover

Shiro Neko

I met Shiro Neko some time ago through the Fiverr platform, where I offer music production services. Since then, I’ve worked on several tracks for her. Shiro Neko creates beautiful song covers like this one, and since anime is one of my passions, I truly enjoy creating these instrumentals.

Interested in This Instrumental?

If you want to get the stems or a stereo mix of this instrumental version of Black Catcher, you can contact me here.

Black Catcher

This song is the sixth track I’ve made for Shiro Neko. Whenever she requests a new instrumental, I don’t hesitate for a second before saying yes.

I received the request for this track while I was out of the city, working only with my laptop and a small keyboard. Despite the limitations, I was able to work step by step until the track was complete.

The Process of Creating This Remake

The first step was creating a tempo map. After that, I started with the drums. Without my usual pad or keyboard, I used the grid note editor to program the kick, snare, hi-hats, toms, and crashes. This is not a simple drum track, and building it this way was a unique challenge.

Joe Chiccarelli Drums

I used the Joe Chiccarelli Drums pack from EastWest ComposerCloud. It’s one of my top choices when I need acoustic drums with a powerful, professional sound.

Stingray 5 Bass

The Stingray 5 Bass is simply incredible. It’s a very dynamic and deep-sounding bass with great body. It’s one of my favorite instruments for recreating rock tracks, and it works beautifully in pop and even country music.

Piano

I usually mix piano sounds to achieve the tone I’m looking for. However, for this song, I found the perfect piano right away. I adjusted a few parameters, but only slightly.

Electric Guitars

As I mentioned earlier, I wasn’t in my studio at the time. I only had my laptop and a small keyboard, so recording real guitars wasn’t an option. Thankfully, EastWest offers fantastic electric guitars that I used for this project.

Lead Guitar

The lead guitar is very simple in this track but needed a great sound. I chose the Gibson Lead Guitar from the Ministry Of Rock II pack, also from EastWest.

Original VS Remake

In this Left-Right track, I placed the original song in the left channel and my instrumental version in the right channel. You’ll notice the tempo is identical, even with the tempo changes. This is because, before I started recording, I created a tempo map based on the original track. It helped me move quickly and accurately through each section.

Key Change for Shiro Neko

As with every remake, I export each instrument in separate sessions due to my laptop’s limitations. For this song, I exported two versions: one in the original key and another transposed +2 semitones, as requested by Shiro Neko. The final version is in the new key.

Multi-Track Demo

Here is a section of the song in a Multi-Track or Multi-Stems version, where each track contains more than one mixed layer. I hope you like it!

Final Result

This is the final result, published on Shiro Neko’s YouTube channel.

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