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Are You Impervious To Despair?

By rplktr on June 16, 2024 11:54 pm

a child of the light
dwell in the veils of time
a being of violet fire

I welcome all critical feedback.

Returning from a week in Switzerland, I stopped in Würzburg this morning. That's where I recorded the bells that this track is based on. Not too much time from start to finish, and mixed entirely in my headphones. Beware! But I made the deadline with 5 minutes to spare big_smile

126 BPM 4/4, C-minor. Polyplex drums. Iridium does everything else besides the bells.

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Maybe it's cuz I'm reading that you were traveling or the bells but the intro feels like it could have been in the movie Gotcha! smile  Me and my random nostalgia.  Those opening synths just gave me that instant image.  Excellent bass mingling with the higher synths.  Nice drum change midway with that extra snare.  Slick return to the bells on the outro.

Switzerland must be nice this time of the year. The treatment on the bell recordings is cool - makes them sound like an instrument. Granular? Liked the drums, especially how the kick sounds - sharp but not too heavy. The iridium sounding great as usual, particularly that bass synth.

"BEWARE"  haha, ok. i'm not sure you could make a bad sounding track if you wanted to  tongue
this was a really cool journey, and i love what you did with the bells!
now i'm ready for a week in Switzerland please

Guys, I don't have enough time these days to properly listen and comment every week. And yet you stuck around and took effort to listen to my stuff. This means a lot, truly! Thank you very much.

Tone Matrix wrote:

Maybe it's cuz I'm reading that you were traveling or the bells but the intro feels like it could have been in the movie Gotcha! smile  Me and my random nostalgia.  Those opening synths just gave me that instant image.  Excellent bass mingling with the higher synths.  Nice drum change midway with that extra snare.  Slick return to the bells on the outro.

I've never seen this movie, will add to my list. And I appreciate the careful listen!

ddmm64 wrote:

Switzerland must be nice this time of the year. The treatment on the bell recordings is cool - makes them sound like an instrument. Granular? Liked the drums, especially how the kick sounds - sharp but not too heavy. The iridium sounding great as usual, particularly that bass synth.

Man, I was so lucky with the Switzerland trip. The weather was perfect, and now a few places I visited are destroyed by flash floods. The only treatment on the bells is Ableton Live's built-in warp, hybrid reverb, and using two panned layers for a stereo effect.

Iridium is not often cited as a good bass synth, so I appreciate you share my opinion that it does a good job on that front!

jwh wrote:

"BEWARE"  haha, ok. i'm not sure you could make a bad sounding track if you wanted to  tongue
this was a really cool journey, and i love what you did with the bells!
now i'm ready for a week in Switzerland please

Beware Switzerland then, they had some flash floods in the past 48 hours sad I do appreciate the compliments, though!

love when the beat comes in and the whole mix just gels into the groove. this would be great travel music for watching the landscape go by out a window.

those bells!!!

Was immediately gonna ask about the intro sample. Of course it’s Swiss bells and they are used throughout. I don’t often reach for warping for this sort of thing, feel like it gets a lot of hate for sounding obvious and harsh. Wouldn’t have guessed that was behind the sound. 3:50 breakdown super nice. Love the downlifter texture and the air vent

The bells (I think?) creating that ambient wall of sound at the beginning is so unique and cool. The whole intro is really compelling and transitions wonderfully when the beat comes in. Also I'm with jwh, this sounds fantastic as usual, you seem to just always make it work!

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