Night Trap
By orangedrink on October 25, 2020 10:09 pm
I haven't made a spooky soundscape in a long time, so here it is, to celebrate Halloween! I had an idea of making a longer field recording of me walking through woods, then through a field, ending up at my doorstep, then walking down into the basement where this recording would be playing. But I would want the recording to be distantly audible from the field, which would mean the recording would need to be BLASTING at full volume on the PA system, but then I wouldn't want it to be overloading the recording once I got closer to it. So I'd need to remotely control the volume or something. Clearly an idea for another time!
I did this on Reason - the Redrum (I pronounce it 'Red Rum' like in The Shining) drum machine is so good for this kind of stuff. The Reason sample bank has some REALLY weird stuff. It's so interesting to me how different machines and layouts make me think differently. I could never do this in Ableton for some......reason.
This is an audio loop with a few volume swells and there is a white noise that has a frequency swell. The end of the loop fades out while virtual tape compression is applied. It was mastered quietly, but I think that's where it would sit on an actual album. I'm imagining a haunted cabin in the woods, and this sound is emanating from the structure.
Picture of a cabin at Devil's Lake, Wisconsin - photograph by: https://www.instagram.com/stormchasincharlie/
I think my depression is slowly getting better! I am thinking about doing a Halloween show which is giving me a lot of anxiety and making me.....depressed. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I learned a new thing with my photo colorization and I'm really proud of this weeks' Derek Jacobi picture. His birthday was last week 
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