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Dark Christmas

By MRDRCAT on Yesterday 4:35 pm

Another quickie - 2 hours to sketch out the track as a whole, followed by another hour of fiddling & messing with the mix. The mix is still messy (and the snare is too reverb-y) but I have to visit relatives and bake cookies today so that's all I got.

Percussion is from that same jazz kit in last week's Numan experiment, and apart from Tobokegao's "a guitar 05" patch that I love so much, the rest of the synths are original patches. The opening drone is the lovely Hypersynth. The overdramatic vocal sample is from a public domain newsreel about mental hospitals that I've been sitting on for a while, and it's only pure luck that it mentions Christmas. I figured why not roll with the serendipity.

Also, sorry for the bleak holiday track. Apart from unnecessarily stressful work upsets, I'm overall in a good mood. That's just what happens when you prefer minor keys I guess.

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Today 1:42 am

SQF

yessss. I downloaded that jazz kit, can't wait to use it for the final WB. That guitar patch is great, along with many other Tobokegao patches. You've done it justice here. The mental hospital sample was a bit hard to make out in the mix. No apology necessary, I thought it had some hopeful moments despite being in a minor key smile
Good luck with the cookies!

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Today 3:53 am

MRDRCAT

SQF wrote:

yessss. I downloaded that jazz kit, can't wait to use it for the final WB. That guitar patch is great, along with many other Tobokegao patches. You've done it justice here. The mental hospital sample was a bit hard to make out in the mix. No apology necessary, I thought it had some hopeful moments despite being in a minor key smile
Good luck with the cookies!

Cookies turned out great! I'm glad you nabbed that sample pack. It's ridiculously good, and for free makes it mind bogglingly excellent! It's a small battle getting the mental hospital sample (and the guitar patch) to work. Everything is a bit hot, so "loud enough" is too loud. I need to dial in the filter and manually adjust its volume as the other instruments eat up space or disappear. Just no time to get it right so I settled on "meh - it's in there" ;p

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