Big Flat Ridge
By onezero on January 18, 2026 11:28 pm
This one was written and recorded in one Saturday evening session after I threw out what I'd recorded on Friday. I'd had the thought of pulling out the 2000s Danelectro baritone guitar after a long period of not using it, and rejected that thought at first. I tracked a number of things with the home-built Res-O-Glas, and...it just wasn't coming together. An experiment of guitar through my Max feedback patch also wasn't satisfying, so Saturday I went back to the original impulse: time for the baritone.
This one's three tracks of baritone (neck pickup, bridge pickup, both) with the vintage overload circuit of the UA Volt turned on for a bit of crunch. I tracked a number of themes, with a few of the more rhythmic lines kind of taking over the piece. I thought of doing a few effects sends in Live, but ended up sticking with a bit of convolution reverb as the sole effect.
The title comes from Big Flat Ridge in Pennsylvania, with an elevation of 629 m.
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