Byron
By onezero on May 6, 2018 9:16 pm
Job search comes to a close; starting a new contract gig tomorrow. Thank you for all the good vibes and well wishes!
This week's track started when I heard a track from the Shields/Eno collaboration, and thinking that I kind of wanted to hear what I was subliminally expecting. So I made what I was expecting. First I started with a simple drum beat to keep the pulse (drum rack of acoustic session single-hit drums), and then put down four tracks of Res-O-Glas guitar...but sent the output to the return channels only instead of going to master. Return channels were two convolution reverbs (one of them the Fort Worden cistern, another a medium sized room), Echo (on Dub Syndicate preset), and a straight channel to blend in a touch of unprocessed signal.
Three of the Res-O tracks are chordal, heavy on the Bigsby, while one is a little ostinato, which I then reversed for the first half. Two Res-O tracks got hard tremolo, auto-filter distortion, and cabinet simulation, while the first two just went to the sends. I also put down a track of Heit Deluxe in Turkish baglama tuning, wobbling the neck a lot while playing. That one is a bit more present in the mix, since a touch of it goes through the clean send.
I also tracked Epi bass, giving it a touch of room sound, and auto-filter to roll off deep lows. Drum rack went through Drum Buss, and while I at first gave it a hard tremolo, opted to take that off again. I waffled on putting drums on at all, so went with a lot of rests in there...but what the hell; put on drums. (At the last minute, I also put M4L Humanizer on the drums as well.)
Auto-pan on all guitars, and Full-Chain Master on the output.
This week's element is argon, used in light bulbs, so I named the track after Byron the Bulb from Gravity's Rainbow.
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