Cosmogenic
By onezero on January 28, 2018 10:08 pm
Messed around a bit early in the week with some beats that weren't all that inspiring, but then late in the week had a little melody pop up in my head, which I got down quickly--first on keys, but it then seemed like a good bassline. That led me to come up with a stronger drum machine line, and then further assertive basslines. That led to Rhodes and finally some sparse guitar. Arranging all of it became a bit of a juggling exercise.
The 909 kick got the usual two parallel high-pass Auto-Filter signal chains, but the beater part was much higher cutoff than before, and I put a lot of drive on it, bringing the level down with Unity. The snare got some high-pass as well. Bass was the usual Epi P-J on P, while the guitar was the Epi Moderne through the Vox Wah. One Rhodes got bandpass Auto-Filter with an LFO on the cutoff. I uploaded, then realized that I hadn't put M4L Humanizer on some of the channels, so I put 20ms humanizer on the hand claps, percussion and two Rhodes channels. EQ8 on the bass, notching out the 44.7 Hz fundamental shared by the kick.
Sends: Two convolution reverbs, one with high-pass to avoid boominess, the other with some modulation. Also some simple delay that a lot of percussion went to (as did the Rhodes).
Title from the cosmogenic origins of beryllium, element 4.
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