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By onezero on July 20, 2014 7:29 pm
Looks like a good week for math-rock. Mid-week I got this Purdie-shuffle-via-Damon-Che thing stuck in my mind, and got it down in Live's Impulse instrument, and worked up some variations. (The key: triplet grid.) I tracked bass (mid-80s Epiphone P-J with flat wounds), then guitar (two tracks of Kalamazoo KG-2), and stitched it all together. Bass ended up going through Live's Amp plugin on Clean (gain all the way up, treble and mid dialed down to 3-4), while left channel Kalamazoo went through Amp on a tweaked Boost preset, and the right went through Saturator (digital clip center) and into the Amp on Bass O))). I added another track of accents Impulse mixed down, to provide some ghost notes, which are nothing to be afraid of, because we know they ain't nothin' but rebounds.
The result...sounds to me like some way-off-hours jam session between a Don Cab fan on drums, a sea-shanty-loving bass player, and some Stax tape ops on muscle relaxants on guitars. Title from a running joke with a friend who's a fellow Don-Cab fan.
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