W44 - Forced
By ENC_ on November 2, 2024 8:04 am
Married this week 
City Hall with VTC, AL, T, L, P, SL, and KL. exchanged day of rings, signed papers, and took some photos. Confusion over social media post made by VTC. Corrections made. Lunch with parents. Dinner with friends. Board game with friends and later family. Off of keto struggling with adjustment. Bike rides across town to pick up meals and shop. Combined ancestral celebration with family in Sacramento. AC and T not able to come. Ill. Drop off care package. Drove EL back to college. Improv musical podcast. Shared pronouns. Encourage cousins to vote. Family well. G came with VTC. Uncle struggling with health. Tried on traditional Vietnamese clothes. Walked around neighbor hood with wife on halloween. Watched the families and their kids. Local teacher band playing to halloween crowd. Had dinner and talked. Dropped off mail in ballot. Decompressed from social week. Happy but was tired.
Consumed: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, Brian Eno - Ambient 1: Music For Airports - Ambient 2: Plateaux of Mirror, 808 State - Gorgeous - Pacific, Venetian Snares - Cavalcade of Glee and Dadaist Happy Hardcore Pom Poms, Aphex Twin - Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments Pt.2 - Flow Coma, Barker - Unfixed, Animal Farm by George Orwell (Hyperion too much investment for sleep)
Gear Used:
Dirtywave M8
Roland S-1
Waldorf Pulse2
Tascam DR-40
Sampled Gear:
Realistic Concertmate 500
Software Used:
Ableton
Izotope Ozone 10
Izotope RX10 Declip
Track was brute forced into existence (like last week). Struggled to complete but needed to finish before weekend. Needs to be cleaned up and simplified. Not enough breathing room. Recorded in one take. M8's Braids Pluck seems to have an issue. Phases in and out. Not sure why. Didn't bother to properly mix. Recorded live stereo out of M8. Audio - Pulse2 & S-1>Elektron CK-1 Audio/CV Split Cable Kit>M8>DR-40. Midi - M8>Headphone slitter>Pulse2 & S-1. Pulse2 lost at the practice space since before pandemic and last Magfest performance with DO (pre pandemic). Brought back a few months now. First time using in a while. Been meaning to explore it again. Under utilized. Happy with the results. Paraphony not working with M8. Used for bass instead. Cold and precise analog sound. Tried to keep agressive high energy for the track. Was the only goal along with time line. Sorted out over 3 days.
Started additional track called "Evil Children" based on the Evil At Play sample. Made simple patch in 208hp eurorack and sorted packing strategy for Magfest 2025. 3 voice proof of concept. Tested in Bastl Bestie. Not worth recording. Mother 32 tuning external oscillators sorted. Used M8 to process noise sweep channel with reverb. Rig will need an additional input for the new eurorack. Effect box? Suggest to MT clean vox mic with Delay pedal to tweak and space out for hype (thinking of parnoid london performance and 808 state live). Geogrio Moroder redbull NY opening and intro? That was 2012-ish?
Edit: Created second song this week. Will tag on end of next week's track. Filename: "W44 - Mail" Ableton, W44-Mail" M8. Dirtywave M8, Roland S-1, Boss DD-6, Tascam DR-40, iphone. Made on couch during evening while winding down from the week. Reverb reverse in ableton for intro. 80ms, 1 FB, 1 DT, 50% dry. Started by playing with my first pedal out of curiosity. Sampled layers of recordings I made from phone. Mostly of sounds heard around my apartment and town.
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