Catalyst
By onezero on November 18, 2018 11:10 pm
This one was all vibe--I had no idea what I'd do until late in the week, and even then it changed a few times. I had a rhythm using a drum rack of Colombian percussion, and put a bunch of 909 patterns against it. I added modulated piano, and then...took it back out. Friday I recorded a lot of Fahey-tuned (B F# B F# B D) Univox hollow-body fingerpicking, way more than I could use, and then Saturday tracked some Epi P-J bass against it. The 909 started sounding wrong, so I replaced that with a drum rack of single-hit jazz-style trap samples, and then added a swirly Operator pad (June O preset). I cut down the guitar lines significantly, using little snippets of the longer improvisations.
Sends: Convolution reverb with Auto-Filter in front to roll off bass, Echo on the Tweezy Tape preset, and M4L Warpoon. All percussion got M4L Humanizer and automated sends. Bass got EQ-8 to roll off lows, and guitar got Auto-Filter high-pass with drive to give it some flavor.
Title from the use of palladium in catalytic converters--apparently its primary use.
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