Guitar Mod Part 1
By horatiuromantic on March 5, 2022 10:14 am
This is kind of an avantgarde track on guitar and modular synth, a continuation to the spirit of last week's track, as this week was just as shitty of a week for us as a species as the previous. I'm feeling better physically tho, which is nice. Please get your covid vaccine tho, if you can and chose not to yet. It saves lives.
I made a longer Part 2 which I could not fit on weeklybeats (and also didn't try because maybe it's not fair to clog the playlist with 10 more minutes of my wacky music). But it has a bit more to say on the topic and I feel it's a pretty good meditation, so you can check it out on soundcloud and listen to both head to head:
Part 1 (this one):
https://soundcloud.com/horatiuromantic3/guitar-mod-part-1
Part 2:
https://soundcloud.com/horatiuromantic3/guitar-mod-part-2
A bit about the process
I made it the first day of the week and I'm pretty happy with the result. I thought at the time that I would experiment with the modular setup with a microphone and guitar, and make a quick recording only to make a more fleshed out version later. But the first take is always a bit special!
I used a sampler/granular module inside the modular setup, connected to some distortion filters and reverb thingies, and also some synths that connect back into those things to make the kinda fake bird noises and bass drones from Part 2. I also tuned my guitar in a weird drop D or maybe drop C kinda setup, I have no idea what I did but it was surprising and a joy to explore.
What I love the most is that I finally found a use for the sample of the birds which I recorded in a park after a date with a lawyer (!!!) which went pretty bad cause we had zero understanding of the other's lifestyle and passions (I mean we parted ways amicably after a walk in the park which is also a graveyard, and I stayed behind to sit on the grass [I think she didn't wanna sit on the grass cause she had nice lawyer clothes] and write and hear the birds), which happened approx 2020 at the beginning of the pandemic. Oh to be a bird.
Anyway enjoy and stay physically and mentally safe out there!
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it's one of my few tricks as of yet for doing acoustic+modular.