Cassiopeia Express
By Cosmic Cairns on September 11, 2018 8:05 pm
While recently cleaning out my closet I stumbled upon my old Digitech RP6 effects pedal I bought back in 1997 and used to use the hell out of back in the day. I haven't used it for several years because I lost the plug for it and being that old it wasn't compatible with any plugs I had for other pedals. I remember not being able to find a replacement plug when I tried once before as even Digitech no longer manufactures them, but I tried looking online again and this time found someone selling one so I ordered it. It finally arrived a few days ago so I tested it out and it still mostly works. So I started building this track with a pre-programmed beat and some guitar lines on the old pedal. Then I added some bass and some vocoder. I thought I wanted to add some more natural organic elements to balance out some of the synthesized sounds so I added some regular vocals, harmonica, and some whistles. I also didn't notice until near the end of the recording process when I listened through headphones but somehow the drumbeat had a kind of nasty buzz on it. I couldn't hear it at all through my monitors, but it was quite obvious through the headphones. I didn't want to scrap it completely since it was the foundation the song was built on so I pulled out the good old popcorn tin again and doubled up the percussion with that, which seemed to at least make the buzz not so noticeable and maybe it's just sort of become an ambient sound in the mix now. At least I'd like to think so.
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