Excimer
By onezero on January 14, 2018 10:02 pm
As of Saturday night, I wasn't liking this at all--it was a lot faster, vaguely housey, but not grooving, and not interesting. I had a Drum Rack of TR-606 samples, some directionless Analog synth and synth bass, formless Rhodes lines, and vague piano. As of Sunday afternoon, I figured that if it wasn't going anywhere interesting, I should cut the tempo drastically and revisit everything. I picked some piano chords and then wrote some new Rhodes lines, cut out the synth bass and replaced it with improvised real bass (Epiphone P-J), added a few higher register synth touches, and tweaked the beats a bit. At a little over half tempo, it kind of breathed a bit.
(I have to credit WB-er Q-Rosh here with having mentioned wanting to hear my bass work again--while this one isn't funky, it has real bass on it.)
TR-606 kick got the parallel high-pass treatment, and to keep the bass out of the way, I rolled off below 80Hz with Auto-Filter's high pass into an EQ-8. Bass got a send to a room-sized convolution reverb, and the drum rack got a bit of that, along with a regular delay and filter delay (with the bands of the filter set to accentuate higher-frequency repeats). Rhodes, piano, hand claps, and synth got some auto-pan, and greater or lesser degrees of delay sends. Rhodes and piano got a bit of a different convolution reverb as well, and the whole mix got Full-Chain Master, with no bass boost and compression rolled way down. I also put a bit of M4L humanizer on the claps and TR-606.
Title from an interesting way in which helium (element 2) compounds can be (briefly) created, even though He is a noble gas.
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