House of Rich Style
By onezero on February 20, 2022 9:46 pm
It's (virtual) Thundersnow weekend, so this was something I tracked in three quick sessions. Friday night was bass against a click. Saturday night was some drum programming and melodic work over that with fretless guitar through a string resonator network for an Afghan rubab sound.
Some of those lines were so far out of intonation that I redid them Sunday with fretted guitar. Finally, I threw in some chordal sections. Mixing/arranging was tricky: the out-of-intonation fretless playing made it hard to pin down tuning, so a few clips got Ableton retuning on bass or fretted guitar. Apologies for weird intonation classes.
Drums: Ableton's 64 Pad Kit Special, with Max Humanizer, and automated send to an echo channel, with constant send to a convolution reverb.
Bass: the usual Epiphone P-J, with both pickups on, and some EQ-8 low-end rolloff, as well as send to a room-sized convolution reverb.
Guitars: Phosphene Audio fretless and PureSalem Mendiola through an Ableton audio effect rack that's a bunch of string resonators in rubab tuning, with one membrane resonator also. And a channel of PureSalem through Vox Wah, with automated send to the echo plugin.
Sends; Echo with LFO bandpass Auto-Filter in front. Three different room-sized convolution reverbs.
The title comes from 425 BCE being the start (according to some historians) as the beginning of the "rich style" movement in Greek art.
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