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.
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