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not that black, not so gaze

By BurnedOutSun on March 29, 2026 11:59 pm

Ok, I'll definitely need to do my homework on blackgaze much better.
And fix volume levels, cuz because of the last moment volume adjustment all drums went almost invisible.

Pretty much an experiment on whether I can make guitars+bass sound fine out of a single guitar source, so octaver+tiny time adjustment+slight pitch shift as an attempt to mimic doubling and spread through 4x guitar tracks in this case.
I was thinking of it as of a way to make a guitar sound thicker and interesting by itself and so maybe just concentrate on chord progressions and even simpler playing.
Well, it does sound thicker I guess, but maybe melodic variation is the key issue here and not "sound thickness" after all big_smile
Or at least some variation, because here I've just left all tracks playing so it sounds boring from the beginning to the end.

So I was thinking of optimizing for playability by a single person but was trying to optimize for laziness.

I'll proceed experimenting on the sound, but next week I'll try tinkering with the hardware effects setup and see how it goes if I'll try to record wet signal right away instead of digital effect chaining.

Gonna be fun

Guitar sounds massive, great job with that. Definitely not that black, not so gaze (still cool stuff!), but foundations are there and I'd say good direction. Maybe stick with this setup for at least a week more to see what you can get out of it.

It sounds really promising! cool

It sounds big and I notice a lot of progress in your recording setup @BurnedOutSun, this is cool.

Let’s see if you can punch some solos for melodies, but I am not familiar with the styles of music you aimed for big_smile

Overall, this is cool! Kudos!

Very nice!

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