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Ennead

By onezero on March 1, 2020 11:21 pm

Once again a lot going on this week, including following through on a potentially bad idea for a cover track for the monthly cover project.  So this piece came together in little snippets of rhythms with the all-Operator kit I've been playing with, and some finger-on-snare samples.  I put down some keyboard parts that I didn't end up using, tracked bass (Epi P-J with an effect rack that's half clean, half Saturator, plus the usual EQ-8) against them.  I then put down some guitar lines with the PureSalem Mendiola through the Moyo passive volume pedal, and sent that to a couple cascaded Echo plugins, for extra swell/bloom/atmosphere to serve as a pad.  Next, I used the same setup to put down some lead lines, using a different Echo plugin and some Auto-Filter for saturation, and Cabinet for air.   Finally, I reversed those samples on another channel, for even more pad content out of a short tracking session.

Sends: three different channels of Echo, one of them with two cascaded plugins. Also one convolution reverb (a typical tracking room), and full-chain master on the master channel.

Title from the word for a group of nine.

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I'm diggin' the percussion.  Really cool atmosphere of sound you created here.  I like the reversed guitar samples; definitely a nice creative us of that.  It's subtle but adds a lot to the track.  Nice work!

I am an occasional dabbler in revered guitar tracks. I did it this week even.

Nice atmosphere!

Like those double stop or intervals on the bass in the middle.  I don't know what all those settings are that you applied to the guitars, but really came out etherial.  Those guitars are not from Earth.  They float around like spirits!  You're like a sonic scientist with a PhD in bass.  Downloading this shit!

This is really nice and chill. I love the atmospheric pads created from the reversed guitars and from the effects added to the hi-hats. Good job! smile

I like what you did with the drums.

The floaty guitars have an excellent sound.  The drums keep the track moving especially with the nice percussion added.  Well done!

coreytrev0r wrote:

I'm diggin' the percussion.  Really cool atmosphere of sound you created here.  I like the reversed guitar samples; definitely a nice creative us of that.  It's subtle but adds a lot to the track.  Nice work!

Pheek wrote:

Nice atmosphere!

Thank you!  Glad you like it!

E-dub wrote:

I am an occasional dabbler in revered guitar tracks. I did it this week even.

Anything worth listening to is worth listening to backwards. Team-reverse fist-bump!

NWSPR wrote:

Like those double stop or intervals on the bass in the middle.  I don't know what all those settings are that you applied to the guitars, but really came out etherial.  Those guitars are not from Earth.  They float around like spirits!  You're like a sonic scientist with a PhD in bass.  Downloading this shit!

Thank you!  That's high praise!   Glad you like it!  The guitars are really simple--fading in with the volume pedal, routing to a few different send channels with echo plugins.  Ableton's Echo lets you dial in some pitch modulation as well as noise, and cascading one Echo into another makes it sustain a while, as well as making the level kind of bloom.  Bass...I do like fairly simple lines that stick.

Ipaghost wrote:

FateModified wrote:

This is really nice and chill. I love the atmospheric pads created from the reversed guitars and from the effects added to the hi-hats. Good job! smile

Devieus wrote:

I like what you did with the drums.

Tone Matrix wrote:

The floaty guitars have an excellent sound.  The drums keep the track moving especially with the nice percussion added.  Well done!

Thank you all!

got all distracted on the February tributes - i really wanted to cover a song from the wiz but this month was crazy pants... nice piece - enjoying the percussion head bobbin'

 
& much nicer than these nine

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