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Fifth Power

By onezero on August 14, 2016 11:55 pm

Lots of pizzicato--from Operator, a cheap electric guitar, and a cigar-box cloth-string bass, along with feedback from a show I did this week.  Mid-week, I started with some rhythmic patterns with a few new sounds...and it wasn't happening.  So I added hand drum, and was hearing those more.  That suggested hand claps, and the pizzicato Operator sounds from week 29.  That led to my putting in some Street (non-)Klein, busting out the old cigar box bass, and then...it needed work. I added a bit of percussion and kick/tom, and then for an x-factor, faded in some snippets of the 1/4-speed version of the feedback show I did this week.  Does it add up?  Well, you're not wasting too much time with it.

Sounds: hand drum and kick/tom got some Dynamic Tube, and I put some LFO on the drive for that, so it'd vary a bit.  I also automated the send to the simple delay.  MIDI channels got M4L Humanizer, though on one percussion line I might have turned it off temporarily and forgot to re-enable it.  Street Klein got Amp and Cabinet, while the cigar box bass was a difficult to control beast, and needed high pass and low pass to carve out some weirdness. (Also intonation is a very relative concept with this instrument...so I had to tweak a couple notes to be less obviously out.)  Nearly everything got a healthy amount of convolution reverb (room depth), and everything got auto-pan.  Mastering was, as usual, Full Chain Master, but this time I bumped the drive on it a bit.

Title from the fact that 32 is the fifth power of 2.

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It all sounds just about perfect together.  Doesn't sound cheap at all.  Great job... downloading.

All that auto-pan on that percussion is perfect, works really really well. And the interplay between all the rhythms is awesome. Great job on this one!

This is really cool!  I want to see Blue Man Group perform this live smile

Love everything about this, grooves, tones, samples, the bottom end... Nice!

this is super!  great job!  would not have guessed that was a cigar box bass - that sounds so neat - love the hand-claps & other percussion! totally adds up! like 2 to the 5th power!

Like that bass sound and the production you did on the hand clap percussion. Everything works together well.

Awesome! Abstract African vibes.

Love this!

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