Wide Eye
By onezero on December 23, 2018 7:35 pm
With preparation for the holiday and a number of evening activities...I didn't do anything on this track until late Friday night. My first thought was something sparse with an intuitive structure...but I also wanted to put some bass through the DOD Wah Filter. I threw some drum patterns together to play bass against, and next thing I knew, it was more of a dance piece. So I went with that--and the structure is still kind of intuitive, rather than planned out.
Drums: five different channels of Drum Rack: three tracks of two different 808 samples (one half-tempo of the other), one of Ableton's Abuse Kit, and one of Ableton's GranularStretch kit. Lotta tone-shaping on these to make them work together with that bass, and I'm still not entirely happy with it--rolling highs off snares and cymbals with Auto-Filter, high-passing kicks to get them out of the filtered bass range, weird distortion on some high-hats. In reality, I should have used other kits. But here we are.
Bass: Epiphone P-J through the DOD 545 Wah Filter (the beige one), with the sensitivity up. Lot of auto-wah happening here.
Guitar: two channels of Res-O-Glas through a passive volume pedal into the board. Some Auto-Filter and Dynamic Tube for drive and Cabinet for air. One channel stayed clean. Some parts worked better backwards.
Sends: two convolution reverbs (one large, one small) and three different(ly noisy) channels of Echo.
Title comes from a name (platyophthalmos) that Pliny recorded as having described antimony. That probably comes from its early use among Egyptians for eye makeup (kohl).
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