Funk Cop
By onezero on November 9, 2014 9:14 pm
I wasn't sure this one was going to come together at all--throughout the week I played with the drum patterns ("real" drum samples, K3M), and it wasn't quite adding up. I had and discarded a bunch of modulated grand piano, Operator, and Analog instruments, but it didn't start shaping up until I added some wah/funk guitar (a mix of Kalamazoo for non-wah and Moog for wah), through the Reuss RF-01 and relatively clean. The "real" kit went through some radical EQ with the EQ8 plugin, and sent to a Filter Delay channel with repeats on 3 and 5. In retrospect, I'd probably take out some of the kick drums on offbeats. (Also I probably should have played physical bass on this, but that's about enough second-guessing.) A couple channels of Electric piano in there, too--one for bass, one for a pedal tone and some keyboard-player-got-bored-and-cuts-loose lines. There's also a return channel of Cathedral reverb. I had some redlining issues until I threw the whole 2-mix through Live's Mastering effect rack (on Analog Warmth, 1:1.3), and it seemed to gel. I titled one of the guitar clips "Wah Odyssey."
Does it work? Maybe. I went back and fixed auto pan on the electric piano lines and tweaked a little timing there, too. Title brings to mind funky 70s police show themes, so here we are.
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