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Six over four tee six hot stove sampler

By george bowles on February 11, 2024 9:00 pm

six over four hypnotic beat with variations and acoustic guitar inspired by free jams and king crimson fake jazz freakouts... i created this song earlier in the week and i kept trying to add more layers of guitars, and some vocals. well the guitars kept making the track more confusing, partly because it already has 10 samples of water boiling in a metal pan loaded into a plugin called emergent drums (awesome sampler kit)... the samples captured by koala sampler app on my phone and then layered in the stereofield creating complex timbral explorations and random rhythms, and of course the main beat kit has a lot going on with it as well. i liked the acoustic guitar performance well enough to leave it in, despite me not being 100% confident with its production or even the performance i thought it was interesting enough.

so my theme this week i guess is producing acoustic sources captured through different types of microphones, which i need work at. i haven't had a ton of experience working with capturing acoustic guitar or vocals. the vocals i discarded because i tried to do them on saturday, and i was just not mentally or physically "there" enough for a solid vocal performance this week. the extra guitar parts i tried ended up taking the track in a more abstract psyche rock direction, so i abandoned those tracks as well, which i made into the b-side for this week's track, which i'll upload to my bandcamp page.

it was nice to get more experience producing with samples of kitchen sounds, as well as trying to produce an acoustic guitar performance, which had two mics: one at the port back about 10", and another mic 30" above the guitar. i had to do several different plugins to get the acoustic to pop out more.

i ended up really trying to make the master of this sound as good as possible since i had already done the mixing earlier in the week. i think since i abandoned all the other tracks i was able to get it sounding really clear with depth but also hard hitting somewhat.

Very nice! I really like the warm texture of the beat and the boiling sound (if I’m identifying it correctly.) the combination of that with the “fake jazz” guitar is a really interesting sound.

This rules! Very well balanced for how chaotic it is! Keep up the good work!

really cool resonating sounds especially on those opening hits.  The pulse of the beat def gives it a hypnotic feel.

Suhpos wrote:

Very nice! I really like the warm texture of the beat and the boiling sound (if I’m identifying it correctly.) the combination of that with the “fake jazz” guitar is a really interesting sound.


Thank you! Yeah it was but tricky to mix with the phone samples having their own sample kit on top of the beats!


DonutShoes wrote:

This rules! Very well balanced for how chaotic it is! Keep up the good work!


Good to hear on it feeling balanced, that's what I strive for



Tone Matrix wrote:

really cool resonating sounds especially on those opening hits.  The pulse of the beat def gives it a hypnotic feel.

thank you for listening to it I always appreciate it, it's an interesting one that I tried to talk myself out of submitting but I'm glad I went with it:)

So cool what you are doing.  In memory of to Damon Suzuki, the singer of can, I could hear him sing to this in my imagination. I think he would have liked that song.

Q-Rosh wrote:

So cool what you are doing.  In memory of to Damon Suzuki, the singer of can, I could hear him sing to this in my imagination. I think he would have liked that song.

that would've been awesome! I didn't think of the Can comparison, interesting. I can hear that similarity:) thanks! I do think the track needs vox

I really like the way the timbre of the guitar blends with the percussion track, lovely, somehow reminds me of Phil Elverum/Mt Eerie/Microphones

I can almost hear Kurt Cobain yelling something about being a negative creep in there!

rplktr wrote:

I can almost hear Kurt Cobain yelling something about being a negative creep in there!

unplugged acoustic cover I guess

Autovessel wrote:

I really like the way the timbre of the guitar blends with the percussion track, lovely, somehow reminds me of Phil Elverum/Mt Eerie/Microphones

thank you! Yeah I spent a lot of time mixing 😁

I am still amazed when I am surprised when I here a song from you for the first time.  This song could not be anything other than something George Bowles made, it is GB niche.  The pulsating crunchy sample based rhythm undulating against an atonal guitar melody in a complimentary, but different time signature, it should not make sense, but who cares, it does satisfy and I applaud your efforts sir, lovely track!

Entropica wrote:

I am still amazed when I am surprised when I here a song from you for the first time.  This song could not be anything other than something George Bowles made, it is GB niche.  The pulsating crunchy sample based rhythm undulating against an atonal guitar melody in a complimentary, but different time signature, it should not make sense, but who cares, it does satisfy and I applaud your efforts sir, lovely track!

fuck, that sounds spot on! I truly appreciate your commentary and feedback, i am humbled.

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