Edict
By onezero on February 9, 2020 7:24 pm
A fair amount of work on this one that...all got stripped out. I started with the Operator-only drum rack, tweaking the sounds somewhat. (The snare finally sounds right.) I did three other tracks of Operator that I ended up not using at all. Friday night I tracked some bass, and since things seemed to be going in a more abstract Autechre direction, I thought I'd make them less obvious by bit-crushing to two bits. That didn't sound right, but an audio effect rack with straight signal and blended-in saturator at a lower level did sound right.
On top of that are three passes of guitar (PureSalem Mendiola) through Moyo volume pedal, through quad-delay Max/MSP patch, with delay times roughly equivalent to the 117bpm. I wild-tracked these while also playing the track in Ableton. Curiously, there's a pitch change if I'm using Max and opening Ableton simultaneously; I haven't tracked down the cause. Perhaps coincidentally (or not), there was a slight tuning issue that I didn't hear in tracking, but that led me to tweak the pitch on these to bring them more in tune with the bass. These all got high-pass Auto-Filter to avoid too much lower-mid buildup, and Cabinet (different models, all with far condenser) for some extra air.
Sends: three different Echo plugins and a convolution reverb. Full-Chain Master on the master bus.
Title from the earliest recorded appearance of the glyph we use for the number 6, in the Edicts of Ashoka.
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