New Moon
By Suhpos on April 14, 2024 11:36 pm
This week i thought I was going to be disappointed with whatever i was going to upload, but actually I like this. This is the longest thing I’ve uploaded to weekly beats, yet somehow it’s also one of the tracks that I’ve spent the least time on and the one with the least source material.
This track is based on three short looping recorder lines. I used time stretching without pitch compensation to generate the same lines lower and slower, which I’ve done a few times before at this point. Some interesting things happen when you slow stuff down. I had 4 groups of these; the recordings without pitch shifting, one octave below, one octave and a fifth below and two octaves below. The composition starts and ends with the group one octave and a fifth below which i think creates a little bit of harmonic tension. Then the different tracks are faded in at different points. It’s not perfect, for example the transitions when the clips loop are sometimes pretty apparent, I guess could have done more to try to mask them but this is good enough for me. Also the mix is not super clear. I used equalisers on all groups, distortion on the lowest group and reverb on the entire mix and standard “mastering” processing.
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