Pristine
By onezero on Yesterday 9:45 pm
Many times I'll sit down with the guitar and listen for what music might be available. This time, midweek a riff came to mind, which I recorded quickly, thinking I might forget it otherwise. Along with that came the thought of having a guitar line build to the point that the equipment sounded like it was failing.
In actual recording, I mostly kept to putting the PureSalem Mendiola through the UA Volt with the "vintage" tone circuit on, for earlier distortion, and playing harder to force some clipping, but that wasn't the end goal. The JHS ColourBox has one gain stage running into the other, and if they're turned up, there's a threshold past which the signal clips so much that it cuts out. So I put the Colourbox inline for some of these.
Yes, it sounds like something failed during the recording, and yes, it is deliberate. Why do something wrong like that? I did this out of a sense that there was something to discover by taking a leap into a wrong technique. This isn't subtle, and there was a challenge in making these parts fit together somehow. Ultimately, a gradual progression of clean-to-clipped seemed to make sense. Does it work? Maybe.
Three channels of PureSalem Mendiola (the old version with the two pickups), JHS Colourbox 10 on some parts (you can tell which ones), UA Volt with vintage clipping on, some convolution reverb send, and compression/eq/limiter on the stereo bus.
The title is an association with the city of Pristina, which has an elevation of 652m. And due to the fact that this piece isn't at all pristine.
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