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By onezero on July 20, 2014 7:29 pm

Looks like a good week for math-rock.  Mid-week I got this Purdie-shuffle-via-Damon-Che thing stuck in my mind, and got it down in Live's Impulse instrument, and worked up some variations. (The key: triplet grid.) I tracked bass (mid-80s Epiphone P-J with flat wounds), then guitar (two tracks of Kalamazoo KG-2), and stitched it all together.  Bass ended up going through Live's Amp plugin on Clean (gain all the way up, treble and mid dialed down to 3-4), while  left channel Kalamazoo went through Amp on a tweaked Boost preset, and the right went through Saturator (digital clip center) and into the Amp on Bass O))). I added another track of accents Impulse mixed down, to provide some ghost notes, which are nothing to be afraid of, because we know they ain't nothin' but rebounds.

The result...sounds to me like some way-off-hours jam session between a Don Cab fan on drums, a sea-shanty-loving bass player, and some Stax tape ops on muscle relaxants on guitars.  Title from a running joke with a friend who's a fellow Don-Cab fan.

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Whatever it is, it's definitely got it :-)

Very cool. Sounds home-made, i.e. refreshing to my ears. Yes to more math-rock!

Definitely a good week for math-rock! Great track!
(As a drummer, I love the idea of Bernard Purdie meeting Damon Che!)

Sounds like Albini on guitar.  Haha.  Good stuff!

Jim Wood wrote:

Whatever it is, it's definitely got it :-)

Ha!  Thanks, Jim!

Spacey tree wrote:

Very cool. Sounds home-made, i.e. refreshing to my ears. Yes to more math-rock!

Thank you!  It is indeed home-made.  Maybe I put the most care into the drum parts (assembled from single-hits, not loops), so the guitars and bass are rougher. But it kind of hangs together.  (I'm kind of thinking I could do with less guitar in this, though.)

Plantrain wrote:

Definitely a good week for math-rock! Great track!
(As a drummer, I love the idea of Bernard Purdie meeting Damon Che!)

Thanks!  A meeting of those two...that'd be one to videotape, I think.

rdomain wrote:

Sounds like Albini on guitar.  Haha.  Good stuff!

Thanks!  I wasn't thinking of that, but I guess the influence comes out, especially in the left channel.  Steve's a good guy.  Hell of an engineer and cook, too.

I thought it was a jam session, then I read the info:)
I like the space&pannings in this
and the purdie thing is great(and so is that original video!!)
I've always thought I should try more polyrhythyms and breaking out of my basic beats..

love math... and that unstable bass has a personality!

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