Alright, I started as a joke to myself on that one, mostly because my friend @dreat did a non-sonata last time and also my drum wasn’t dnb a few weeks ago! Sooooo, the overall idea is to do something that is almost drum and bass, but only with instruments (bar the drums because I don’t have a drum kit at home) and kinda Jungle but not quite (my tempo) but the opposite (not quite a city, so a village?) and stitch that with my iPhone as usual.

Setup:
- Drum A: Midi Modern 909 with increased bass to have more umpph, Jungle drum pattern punched on GarageBand manually
- Drum B: Midi percussion kit, Jungle drum pattern punched on GarageBand manually, focused on treble
- Wobble bass: Squier Mustang Bronco with heavy chorus and delay
- Melody/Drone A: Classical guitar with arpegios. Mixed with Telecaster with flashback delay pedal
- Sound artefacts: Fender Telecaster with chords merged on volume knob, also some muted notes. Voicing mostly done live with flashback
- Synth layer: Midi keyboard on iPhone

Any Phaser/Phased track is a doubled track with a couple of millisecond offset left/right and reverb to simulate a pure stereo phaser. This is due to the limitations on GarageBand (automation is volume only per track).

I think the outcome is a bit this Frankenstein’s monster of a track that… has flavour?

I’ll explore more possibility this year with different setups for sure.

Tags: acoustic, dumb and bass, electric, iphone, notdnb, week 23 2026, View by:LeCroqueMonsieur