Paradoxical Gold
By onezero on December 30, 2018 10:43 pm
We made it! Congratulations everybody!
In and among holiday activity and preparation for things in 2019...I still found time to make an intuitively-structured piece. I put up two drum rack drum sets (acoustic session and 32 pad rock kit), and initially had a severe gate and bit crusher on one to make it feel more abstract...but the rest of the piece didn't go that way, so I pulled those effects off. I also put up some synth bass and a lead line, and thought it'd be interesting to play in response to those, but pull them out before the final mix. (And that's what I did.) The rest of the instrumentation nods to things that happened this year--I tracked Res-O-Glas through the Mike Carey tremolo pedal I won at this year's PRFBBQ, and used a drone synth from Tim Kaiser for a texture.
Parts: two drum racks, each of which got Drum Buss for crunch, and one of which got some auto-pan. Both got M4L Humanizer. Three tracks of Res-O-Glas guitar, all tracked through the tremolo pedal (but in one case, it was just for some gain and tonal qualities, not for tremolo), and some Auto-Filter high-pass with drive. Epiphone P-J bass straight into the board, but into EQ-8 to roll off some lows. There's an interesting string-bass quality to some of these lines, which I like. There's a bit of Tim Kaiser drone synth here, and some Ableton Electric piano (Mk1 Crunchy).
Sends: two convolution reverbs (one a room, one a much larger space) with Auto-Filter for bass roll-off, and one channel of Echo (Dark Pillow Tap preset, which I tweaked a bit). Full-chain master on everything.
Title comes from one of Franz-Joseph Müller von Reichenstein's early names for tellurium (element 52), because he found it difficult to identify at first.
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