SNC Sketch 1
By neon liminal on June 7, 2026 8:40 pm
I'm chasing a sound, which means I'm chasing a design, a workflow, a setup, figuring out what works and what doesn't and to be honest, this might go on for a while cuz it's definitely a 50/50 working/not working at best right now.
This sounds "good" but definitely missed the mark all over the place for goals and that's fine. I learned some things.
This is my Gretsch semi-hollow, run through Guitar Rig to emulate a Vox AC30 amp and tremolo with a little bit of added delay and reverb, and then it's run out into the rest of the setup. This week, I kept it simple - recorded a few little chords into five tracks on the Tempera (a granular instrument that I'm still learning), and then after that was setup, just the guitar into Microcosm for some live-looping experimentation.
The microcosm aspects sound good but it's not gonna work for this project. The looper is a little too simple, and quite frankly, I can't do much else with a guitar strapped to my shoulder, have to use the foot switch to toggle the looper, and that means bending down to adjust effects, etc.... this just isn't gonna work. And while I was debating a Soma Cosmos as an alternative (and always am), I don't think playing live guitar and looping will be the solution for this workflow.
The sound is big wall of sound and it's big and granular and enormous but probably too big, too granular, too much dropped into the ocean and left to dissolve. I suspect some of the solution there will be elements added after the live setup - more guitar, possibly drums, possibly a more traditional post-rock approach ... I dunno. That's what these sketches are for. Lots of experiments.
Rambling. Too much to do.
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