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Doubletop

By onezero on February 1, 2026 11:31 pm

I recorded this one in two late night sessions (Friday and Saturday), editing a bit on Sunday. While I'd intended to write something more assertive than this, this more reflective piece is what was available to me. By the end of the Friday session, I'd thought I might have to throw everything out and do something quickly, but when I recorded a couple other themes on Saturday night (the ones at 1:04, 2:00, and 2:45), I knew it was going to work. There's a value in just sticking with something, isn't there?

Guitar: Univox Coily hollowbody in Bb F Bb F Bb C tuning. When I picked up the guitar, everything was much flatter than usual: either our very dry, very cold weather shrunk the wood a bit, or something shifted position somehow. No inline effects, just the UA volt and a couple convolution reverb sends.

The title comes from Doubletop Mountain in Maine, which has a prominence of 631 m.

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Great close to the weekend. I hear a bit of the flatness. You made it work.

Cakes wrote:

Great close to the weekend. I hear a bit of the flatness. You made it work.


Thank you! Yeah, on playing it more tonight, I think it's now truss rod adjustment season for this guitar.

Interesting moments here. Kudos for sticking to an early idea. From my perspective as listener and IMHO the piece gels quite well. I don't hear "different takes" but a continuous guitar jam.

It would be interesting to hear certain passages doubled with an electroacoustic... just an idea smile

this went somewhere really lovely - glad you stuck with it
thinkin' of you today - love to the fam heart

6 more weeks eh?

laguna wrote:

Interesting moments here. Kudos for sticking to an early idea. From my perspective as listener and IMHO the piece gels quite well. I don't hear "different takes" but a continuous guitar jam.

Thank you! It does fit together pretty well, I think. Funny thing about Ableton Live on this machine: I get only a couple minutes to record something before audio buffer corruption sets in, so sections need to be shorter than that . (This is only true with Ableton, for some reason.)

laguna wrote:

It would be interesting to hear certain passages doubled with an electroacoustic... just an idea smile

Hmmm...I could try the parlor guitar in the future....

emily wrote:

this went somewhere really lovely - glad you stuck with it
thinkin' of you today - love to the fam heart

6 more weeks eh?

Thank you, emily! I was happy with Phil's prediction--more winter is fine by me. Sending best (belated) Imbolc wishes to you all!

onezero wrote:

Thank you! It does fit together pretty well, I think. Funny thing about Ableton Live on this machine: I get only a couple minutes to record something before audio buffer corruption sets in, so sections need to be shorter than that . (This is only true with Ableton, for some reason.)

Maybe your settings for temporary space and/or the Temp folder destination is full or has some problems. Please check the Preferences and don't hesitate to hit me up by email. I'm now writing from memory here smile

Really enjoying the interplay between guitars. Very nice

really nice piece, Friend. my room here became part of it, and then i did as well
much love to you and yours!

This is very pretty.

Transports you to the mountains.

That Univox Coily looks like a beautiful instrument, and you make very good use of it here. I like the cross-talk between the left and right channels. The delicate reflective nature of it isn't what I knew I needed, but I did. No notes, five stars.

Very nice. Feels hilly.
- Valx

This is magnificent, I had no idea it was separate themes all stuck together as I was listening. It flowed on so seamlessly and I was lost in the piece. I love the harmonising guitar lines, and again, this tuning sounds fantastic! I will have to try and give it a go! Congratulations on your perseverance on this piece, it has well and truly paid off with a beautiful result.

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