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forever seems like a long time

By home taping association on April 26, 2026 11:22 pm

for the next few weeks I'm really going to try to work as dawless as possible.

this week - all the instruments were tracked into koala with my phone.  all guitars done with the phone perched on my knee.  this accounts for the wonky mixing - it was all done in koala.

vocals annoyingly were tracked into ableton as I couldn't find an xlr to jack.  I had planned on tracking them into my sp404.  I did take them straight out of ableton without any editing.

vocals are pretty heavily processed with the 404.

realised I screwed up some of the loop points on the 404 when resampling so ended up having to put some reverb and delay on the 'verse' section in ableton.

all week tried to go for a panda bear circa person pitch kind of vibe with the wall of noise falsetto vocal beach boys-esque thing going on.  anyways, this is my take on it.  think I'll stay in this lane for a few weeks and see where it goes!

going to spend more time with the 404 over the week as I've been meaning to properly learn it for so long!

Incredible work with tracking everything into Koala. I can't believe you managed a track like this with those tools. Reminds me of Sufjan Stevens, which I love.

someone on Discord commented how this sounds like the soundtrack for a coming of age movie, and I have absolutely no way of putting my feelings about this track into words more directly. awesome work! incredible that this was done on koala, too! great job!

Absolutely love the tracks you've been making lately - guitar sounds great, and those harmonized vocals are wonderful. I really like the bits of background noise, particularly what sounds like a small person talking heart And amazing work tracking this into Koala of all things. File that under "things I didn't think were possible". Fantastic work.

Great, love the background ambiance. Super cool guitars. The beat is heavy with the big kick. Very cool.

koala heart

sounds beautiful and calm, a good slowdown tune!

a beautiful dreamy piece. Very impressed at how clean this sounds, a really clear mix and some really creative instrumentation!!

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