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Rusting Hulks

By BarristerPlong on September 1, 2024 6:13 pm

Another ambient guitar track this week. This is my Mood into Echorec into Astral Destiny then a touch of Supermassive once she gets into Ableton.
This week has just been constant work between doing roadie work early mornings and late nights and working at the studio in the early evenings. I was fortunate enough to have a couple hours off yesterday and able to make this track. Unfortunately I'm still in for another week of this without a day off.

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A schedule like that, and you still got a track done. Rock on, my friend.

This is guitar?! Fantastic processing, like holy cow.

Amazing ambience in this track, absolutely cinematic. Can totally see the old space freighter coming into view that the salvage team has come to inspect...but there's something not quite right about it. Huge, spacious, and somewhat ominous. Great work.

Paisleyfrog wrote:

A schedule like that, and you still got a track done. Rock on, my friend.

This is guitar?! Fantastic processing, like holy cow.

Amazing ambience in this track, absolutely cinematic. Can totally see the old space freighter coming into view that the salvage team has come to inspect...but there's something not quite right about it. Huge, spacious, and somewhat ominous. Great work.


You perfectly described exactly what I had in my brain when listening to it. Ancient space hulks drifting ominously. I'm so glad that translated.
Yeah all guitar! The moods microlooper has a stretch function that turns any guitar into angelic choirs and strings, then adjusting the clock knob you can pitch it by 5ths. So that radiating background choir is actually only 1.5 seconds trailing guitar notes stretched much much longer, then the other side of the mood pedal further processes the stretched clip with a slip delay that's oscillating between reversed and forward delays. After that it hits my echorec on a slapback kinda delay, then it goes into the Astral Destiny which is an octave reverb which adds a bit of shimmer.
Y'know now that I talk it out step by step I guess it is kinda complicated, and this is just for one element and excluding further processing in Ableton.

Hulk voice: you won't like me when i'm... rusting

oh hay, friggin beautiful btw!

just massive. dare i say.... SUPERMAS...
sorry sorry
carry on
*but lift with yr legs, not yr back

I just still can't get over the spooky voices that emerged in the background... when I was working in the master I literally kept pausing the music to check if there was something behind me or one of the dogs doing something... absolutely haunting, this one, amazing.

Somehow I had the game "Shadowrun Returns" in front of my eyes while hearing this. Definitely a cyberpunk-ambient vibe on this one for me big_smile Great stuff, amazing processing

jwh wrote:

oh hay, friggin beautiful btw!

just massive. dare i say.... SUPERMAS...
sorry sorry
carry on
*but lift with yr legs, not yr back

Haha Hulk Drift


neon liminal wrote:

I just still can't get over the spooky voices that emerged in the background... when I was working in the master I literally kept pausing the music to check if there was something behind me or one of the dogs doing something... absolutely haunting, this one, amazing.

The Mood does some wild shit. I need to save some of the presets I end up making instead of everything I produce being a unicorn.


Nik Novo wrote:

Somehow I had the game "Shadowrun Returns" in front of my eyes while hearing this. Definitely a cyberpunk-ambient vibe on this one for me big_smile Great stuff, amazing processing


Loved that game, that`s high praise, thank you!

Feeling those ominous something ain't right vibes right away with the haunting and beautiful space you created.  Reminds me of Dead Space where you're floating outside of the ship.  Those growly bass pads are extra sinister.  Gotta love how fun Supermassive is to use.  Inspiring listen, well done!

Tone Matrix wrote:

Feeling those ominous something ain't right vibes right away with the haunting and beautiful space you created.  Reminds me of Dead Space where you're floating outside of the ship.  Those growly bass pads are extra sinister.  Gotta love how fun Supermassive is to use.  Inspiring listen, well done!


It's really incredible how transformative a tool the supermassive is. Those scenes in deadspace were so spooky only being able to hear your respirator.
Thank you!

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