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OneFour:SevenEight

By HoolieBrown on February 28, 2026 10:17 pm

Playing in 5/7/9 a lot, sketched out this drum beat so I could practice runs and land phrases and it turned into this cool pentatonic motive so I just jammed it out.  Added some dynamics and a couple of rhythm structure changes but I wanted to keep the F to Bb SIMPLE.  Switched modes a little but nothing too fancy, no strong melodies, just having fun.

Everything sequenced and recorded into the Dirtywave M8.  This time I went straight out of a Katana Go into the tracker because it sounded good smile  Also I cobbled together a treble bleed I installed into a CBS Era heavily modded Jaguar - I didnt have any orange drops or ceramic capacitors in the 1000 pF range but I found a box polyester film one like you use in pedals, like the gray plastic box ones, and it works just as well as any other cap paralleled with a 150k resistor xD.  Unconventional but values are values.  Stayed between 50-75% on the volume pot for this to test how well the katana responded to the bleed.  Not bad - not nearly as tone responsive as a Princeton but that's to be expected.

This was fun, mixed lightly in reaper but I was 99% of the way there in the M8.

March 2, 2026 4:55 pm

Paisleyfrog

Oh man how that guitar HITS in the beginning!

Fantastic tone. Singing, with that creep of distortion to it. Your phrasing and tone has a taste of SRV - LOVE IT. And damn, the way you make 7/4 wail is fantastic - it’s a time that can feel like it staggers, you make it float and fly effortlesssly. Absolutely sounded like you were having fun! Great track.

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March 3, 2026 5:52 pm

djippy

Damn it is odd time signature week!

Solid electric guitar soloing.

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March 3, 2026 10:11 pm

NickLong

Woah that hit like a train.

Lovely guitar tone and phrasing.

The 7/4 time works really well and feels very natural.

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March 15, 2026 7:19 am

HoolieBrown

Paisleyfrog wrote:

Oh man how that guitar HITS in the beginning!

Fantastic tone. Singing, with that creep of distortion to it. Your phrasing and tone has a taste of SRV - LOVE IT. And damn, the way you make 7/4 wail is fantastic - it’s a time that can feel like it staggers, you make it float and fly effortlesssly. Absolutely sounded like you were having fun! Great track.

THANKS SO MUCH!  Good ears - dirtier sound than I normally play but was on the neck pickup on a jaguar that tends to give a lot of stevie overtones, I was trying to stay away from sounding too prog, so all of my fallback lines were going to be blues once I heard that tone xD



djippy wrote:

Damn it is odd time signature week!

Solid electric guitar soloing.

I was really stoked to hear so many other folks get into 5s and 7s the same week.  Noticed the same thing with distorted bass sounds previously, definitely got a hive mind thing happening somehow.




NickLong wrote:

Woah that hit like a train.

Lovely guitar tone and phrasing.

The 7/4 time works really well and feels very natural.

Thank you! That impact at the start was kind of accidental b/c I had the opening kit drums muted during the mix and accidentally kicked everything on at the same time as the guitar.  Got chills, decided it needed to stay.

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