This was a week of job-searching (and related travel and meetings) ending in an amusing cold picked up on an airplane.  As such, not an elaborate track.  I wasn't sure which direction I'd go in for this until I took some photos of my Phosphene Audio street-Klein fretless guitar--a friend made it from plywood, pieces of a smashed 12-string acoustic, a bargain-bin hair-metal humbucker, whatever electronics and copper plate happened to be lying around, zither pins, and JB Weld. It's primitive.  He brought it to a local pedal swap I stopped in at, and I knew I had to have it--surely there'd be some songs in there. I traded a Boss Chorus for it.

I was messing around with the street-Klein and happened on this bass ostinato, which I put down with a few variations, one of which I used.  Then I did some other parts on two other tracks.  Each got a low pass and high pass auto-filter with drive to simulate an amp, and all got room-sized convolution reverb.  I also put down some Impulse-based percussion with samples of hand drums I have, and there's a bit of Korg Minipops in there, too.  In addition to the convolution reverb for the room, there's Echo on the Nostalgia preset.  Minipops got auto-pan, but otherwise I kept the guitars static, so they'd sound a bit more like a field recording.

Title comes from element 14, silicon--it's in the sand.

Tags: 98bpm, fretless, minipops, percussion, primitive guitar, streetklein, week 14 2018, View by:onezero