Initially wanted to make some synthwave, but turned to a more trancy direction which somehow went acidic in the middle. Nothing wrong with that I suppose - we're doing this for fun, right?

When inspecting the raw mix, I noticed a 15.7kHz (-72dB) signal almost for the entire track. It was in all of the hardware recordings, so I dig a little deeper. I don't have a CRT here, at least not that I know of. Recording the audio interface plus mixer gave me the noise floor, then I unmuted my running gear one by one. And even though the piece that I suspected did some heavy ground noise and then some on multiple Bands, it did most of it around 14.3kHz.
Instead of re-recording, I just dynEQed plus notched that frequency, so the younger folks won't be annoyed - I'm seemingly too old to hear that.

The siren-ish lead was a last minute addition as the track sounded still a bit bland.

Just after uploading I checked my gear again, and now I could reproduce 15.7 kHz at -75dB with the device I initially suspected - it just needed to be powered on long enough. Initial measurement was after 2-3 hours, the second one after roughly 12 hours. Guess, next time I intend use it, I'll have a stopwatch nearby.

Tags: acid, edm, house, techno, week 14 2026, View by:embix