Mysteries
By onezero on January 21, 2024 10:45 pm
This week's track uses three channels of Danelectro baritone guitar (2008 reissue of the 1457), plugged into the Universal UA Volt 1 converter, with no outboard effects. The Dano baritone is hard to set up, and string action is tricky to adjust, so it's a bit of a challenge to play. (The original bridge started collapsing, so some years back I replaced it with the rosewood-bridge-on-steel-plate reproduction. It too is collapsing a bit.) As such, there are only a few barre chords, and a lot of open-voiced arpeggios.
The initial Friday night sessions ended up a bit busy, so in places I drop the third voice. Saturday night's sessions were a bit more spacious, and resulted in the bridge/turnaround section. Once I got those down (particularly the second, longer part of the bridge), the piece revealed its vibe.
While there aren't inline effects, each channel gets a send to a convolution reverb, and there's some compression/eq on the stereo mix. On listening back, those single-coil lipstick pickups are picking up harmonics of the 60 Hz line noise, but I've left it in. I had to face a certain direction to minimize that, though it's still audible if you're listening for it.
The title comes from a chain of association. [Aeschylus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeschylus) is believed to have been born in 525 BCE, and was understood to have been initiated into the [Eleusinian Mysteries](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleusinian_Mysteries), which are a very old rite, and fascinating to learn about.
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