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GROUND EFFECT

By naught101 on October 6, 2024 12:29 pm

This one was super quick but fun.

Drums are samples, little bit of EQing. Shaker is a synth.
2 synth bases.
Everything else is me playing a shakuhachi badly, recorded directly into the m8 internal microphone, and slicing and resampling it.

Damn I love this machine.

Name is me imagining flying over a desert landscape in a ground-effect vehicle, with this track playing in the background.

Duuuude, this is so chill!!! The shakuhachi goes so well here! And it plays SO NICELY with that super low bass drone. Damn, this is really badass. Fantastically well done.

ground-effect vehicle floating across a desert planet far away style vibe. sick as always!

Love that deep bass contrasted with the high floaty flute. Nice beat.

There's much potential in your flute playing, it meshes quite well.
- Spider

jegasus wrote:

Duuuude, this is so chill!!! The shakuhachi goes so well here! And it plays SO NICELY with that super low bass drone. Damn, this is really badass. Fantastically well done.

chr15m wrote:

ground-effect vehicle floating across a desert planet far away style vibe. sick as always!

ENC_ wrote:

Love that deep bass contrasted with the high floaty flute. Nice beat.

Devieus wrote:

There's much potential in your flute playing, it meshes quite well.
- Spider

Thanks y'all!

Trust my, my actual flute *playing* is terrible. But it does have a lovely tone, and sample slicing makes the most of all my errors big_smile And I will keep practicing it's fun to play.

The crisp flute sits real nice over the bass. Heard a little pitch automation on the snare I should try more of that.

Might have been cool to layer in another sample later. Really dig this one

prophisee wrote:

The crisp flute sits real nice over the bass. Heard a little pitch automation on the snare I should try more of that.

Might have been cool to layer in another sample later. Really dig this one

Thanks! Yeah, I like tweaking the snare, but I do find it really hit and miss. I can spend a lot of time doing it and like 80% of the time I decide it's crap and delete it. But when it works it's great.

And yeah, maybe more pad action to thicken things up, I need to work more on getting that thickness

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