I started again with some repetitive beats to listen to while developing, four drum machines, one of which (the 606)  got a couple different Beat Repeats inline for variety.  Interesting thing here was that the downbeat ended up off an eighth.  Gradually as I worked with it, I heard some simple keyboards, piano, some synth bass...and put some very simple guitar lines over the top. (Kalamazoo into Focusrite, Amp plugin with Blues Drive preset.  Most of the lines that made the cut were with the neck pickup.)  Some stuff got a simple delay send, some stuff got space chorus reverb.  Bass and drums got auto-pan.  Everything got mild opto-tight compression.  Compared to the angst-of-assembly of last week, this one was painless.

(Title suggested by one of my kids, who remembered my Christmas synth tune of a few years ago, A Robot's Christmas in Wales.  Summer's going a bit better for this robot.)

Tags: beat repeat, robots, simple guitar, week 22 2014, View by:onezero