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suspension bridge

By miraclemiles on March 8, 2026 10:55 pm

Suspension bridges bounce and sway. Can be a little unnerving, but a good way to connect. Looking forward to visiting the Vancouver BC suspension bridge in few weeks!

Gotta remember to take ear breaks when editing and mixing. My ears and music brain turned to mush the past couple hours finishing. I kept thinking, take a break but kept finding more and more tweaks. In a zone. Finally did take 30 minutes. Good idea. came back for some good final tweaks and uploaded.
Then of course played it again after uploading and I hear so many more changes to make smile

So it goes. Maybe for version 3. This is basically a version 2. I didn't make time to create new sounds this week, so I revisited an old track I wanted to change up and improve. In the same universe as last week's track, I think. Bumped the tempo. Tried to get it thumping like proper house track. (Is this house, deep house, something else?) Sort of succeeded. Spent time trying to get some additional synth layers to fit, then finally deleted them. Too much going on. Chose the tongue drum lead over synth lead. I'm getting better at deleting things.
Sounds in here: tongue drum with two Ableton Meld instances duplicating the tongue drum, percussion played live from a djembe and the roland handsonic. Bass from Novation mininova. Drums, Ableton 505 kit and others.
Feedback on how to improve is always welcome! Enjoying hearing everyone's tracks each week!

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It really is hard to break out of the zone when you're in it, but it's probably worth making yourself do it.  Listening with fresh ears is always the best.  Awesome percussion work as always.  I like that synth sound that comes in around 1:36.  It has just the right amount of rawness and distortion.  (I think it might briefly pop up before then, but I especially noticed it there.)

Man I love those tongue drums. I would love to have some of those stems and try to do something from it. That groove is undeniable.
The track opens around 1:00 with the synth,  étire going back to a tribal feel with the festival of percussions. Digging it, head bopping to it. This is awesome!

This is great - nice warm, fuzzy distortion and a solid groove. Subtractive composition is difficult - I always want to keep everything, which just makes it all muddy and gross. This one is clean (not busy) but the right kind of dirty (luscious saturation).

Oh yes loving that gritty bass over the groove. Such a nice variety of percussion elements.  Totally hear ya on knowing ya need a break but pushing on in the zone.  A break or walk outside is usually a good breather for me.  But yea it's so easy to get lost in a minor edit that becomes hours later.  Go tongue drum go!

My favorite part is just the solo percussion interludes. Really great stuff you are doing there.

Nice glitches too.

Subjective and maybe this contrast was the point but the bass and dissonance section doesn’t feel like it goes with it to me.

love it, so groovy. we found that confounded bridge!

The Djembe leading into the house beat sounds so good, I like how there are the distorted sections and then it will drop to the cleaner beat driven sections, fun track.  Enjoy the trip to Vancouver, hopefully will be decent weather.  I love exploring the North Vancouver area, so many great hikes to get lost in.  Suspension bridge's are fun, the Capilano suspension bridge is impressive but way too crowded with tourists and ridiculously overpriced.  I would suggest Lynn Canyon Suspension bridge and the trails around that area, it is free and way less people.

Jason Nijjer wrote:

The Djembe leading into the house beat sounds so good, I like how there are the distorted sections and then it will drop to the cleaner beat driven sections, fun track.  Enjoy the trip to Vancouver, hopefully will be decent weather.  I love exploring the North Vancouver area, so many great hikes to get lost in.  Suspension bridge's are fun, the Capilano suspension bridge is impressive but way too crowded with tourists and ridiculously overpriced.  I would suggest Lynn Canyon Suspension bridge and the trails around that area, it is free and way less people.


Thanks for listening, appreciate that feedback! And thanks for the Vancouver tips. Good to know, and planning to check that out when I'm there. May have some rain, but hoping for good weather as well!

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