'Ain Ghazal
By onezero on May 20, 2018 7:22 pm
Another full week, with the unfortunate news of Glenn Branca's passing. I'd met Glenn when I volunteered to play on the 13 in 2004 and 2006; while recordings of those never came out, it was a worthwhile experience--particularly the 2004 sessions. (By 2006, Glenn had rewritten the piece so completely that the only commonality was the number of players. It really could have been called something else.) As a result, I busted out the octave-unison-tuned guitar and used it on this piece.
Drums: the blend I've been going with of late, of a drum rack using acoustic trap kit samples through Drum Buss, and a 909 through Corpus. Bass: Epi P-J through EQ-8 to roll off some lows, then a bit of cabinet plugin and a send to a convolution reverb for room sound. Also a track of Operator with no changes from the default state.
Guitars: three tracks of CMI-branded cheapo guitar (the one with the angled neck single coil and straight bridge single coil), octave-unison tuned (three middle-of-the-neck E strings, and three high E strings). A couple of these got auto-filter, and two were sent to sends only. I'd thought about tracking a lead line, but ran out of availability for it, so...this will remain a mood piece rather than having a melody to support.
Sends: Two convolution reverbs (cistern and studio tracking room), two Echo plugins. Full-chain master on the master. Some auto-pan.
Title comes from the limestone statues found at 'Ain Ghazal, because this week's element is calcium.
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Great tune too, it's got a really nice progression 