Cell by Cell
By onezero on September 14, 2014 10:43 pm
A week and a half ago, I received a Reuss Effects Repeater Fuzz, and thought it'd be fun to use it on almost everything this week. After doing some hard-tremolo drones through it with the Kalamazoo, a drum pattern and bassline suggested themselves, and it turned into something of a jam. Initially I tracked it at 75 bpm, but it started sounding slow, so I bumped it up to 82 bpm. I retracked the bass at that tempo, but while I could play it, the groove wasn't quite the same, so I did the retracked bass at 75 and sped it up. (Cheating, I know. I could have done it with a pick, but the full-finger sound was better in this track.)
A couple Kalamazoo lead lines (fuzz-side without the term), some muted texture strums, some Moog guitar with the fuzz and trem, and what the heck, Moog guitar with the ladder filter engaged for an excessively high-Q wah for extra sleaze.
Extra bonus: while I was tracking the Kalamazoo one evening, one of my kids was describing his thoughts on cloning, and the microphonic pickups through the RF-01 caused that to make it into the track, giving me the title. Kind of has an exciting movie-intro vibe.
(Late edit: some drum fills from earlier on in the track sounded like they'd fit in later as well, so I'm replacing the earlier version. While I was at it, I also turned off normalization.)
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