Tardigrade Dub
By onezero on November 13, 2016 10:06 pm
Well. What a freaking week. This track...helped me with managing stress levels all week, so maybe it'll help others. (To anyone freaked out, consider this an offering of assistance. Anyone who's not freaked out, you can still enjoy this.)
Sunday and Monday evenings, I'd had the thought of doing a dub track, and put down some drums and bass. I had the thought of doing something interesting with LFOs and the drums, so put an effects rack with two chains on that channel--one with a static auto-filter to roll off highs, and the other with an LFO-modulated high-resonance bandpass filter into a Filter Delay. I modulated the level of the second chain with yet another LFO for some variation, and put yet another LFO on that channel to control the reverb send.
I added two more percussive channels: one with tabla samples, and one with general percussion (conga, tambourine, wood block), which got some send automation on the delay channel.
For other voices, I added a bunch of electric piano parts, and ended up deleting all but the sparsest. I also found a single-note melodica sample, and put that in Sampler. Throughout the week, I found myself listening to this a lot to manage mood, so it was mostly burned in by the time I added Res-O-Glas guitar. The first pass (a lazy pass with no effects) ended up not making the cut, so I tracked more (with wah) on Sunday afternoon. That did it. Several editing passes later, I ended up with this.
Sends: Filter Delay into Simple Delay, and Convolution Reverb (12-string impulse, with damping to roll off bass). Lots of humanizer on MIDI instruments, auto-pan on almost everything.
The title comes from a suggestion from the kids, who are fans of tardigrades. Hey, dub is slow. I can envision a bunch of tardigrades chilling out to this, lounging around on some moss, just being indestructible. (We should all be so lucky.)
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