Another complex week, which precluded listening to others' work as much as I'd like.  (Hoping to resolve that soon.)  This one...came together from the beat on up--I had a little rhythm in my head and sketched it out, deciding to go more to the band-sounding side than the synth-sounding side. 

Drums: kit of single-hit acoustic drums cobbled together from single-hit samples I had lying around, going through Drum Buss.  I also put a high-pass filter on the kick with resonance boosted at the cutoff of 53-ish Hz to amplify the shell and give it some thump. 

Other instruments: organ was Live's Operator, Stereo Organ preset. I had a vibraphone line, but changed that to Live's Collision instrument on the Large Bowls preset.  There's a Tension instrument, with the Prepared Piano preset, and an Electric instrument on Old School Roads.  There are two bass lines at times, both Epi P-J into the Focusrite; the lower bass got some EQ-8 to notch out the kick frequency.  The high one got Cabinet to give it some air. There's a clean Epiphone Moderne line in there as well, going through a high-pass and a low-pass with some drive on the low-pass, and then the Cabinet plugin.

Sends: two Echo sends (Tape Reverb and Delay Syndicate presets) and a convolution reverb with high-pass in front of it to roll off bass.  Auto-pan all over the place, and everything gets full-chain master.

The title comes from the Periodic Table abbreviation for sodium, element 11 (Na)--this comes from "natrium," or "element from the Valley of Natron," which was an early provider of salt to Egypt.

Tags: 130bpm, bass, drums, guitar, live, week 11 2018, View by:onezero