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Swimming in grains

By theagainagain on March 1, 2026 7:03 am

I like where this is headed, I'll probably develop it further. The transitions are a little clumsy for my taste, I played them live on the torso s-4, and I feel like I want to practice the song some more, but I'm running up against the timeline. I do really like the way the song ends. I sort of wish I could have had more rhythmic diversity on the drums, but I do like the treatment. The distortion I put on the drums brings out some harmonic qualities I wasn't expecting, I'll probably explore that effects chain more in the future.

The sounds are all very cool! I do think that the panned sounds (the ones introduced near the beginning and the ones introduced near 2.20) drown out the rest a bit too much; It is like they are hitting an end-of-chain compressor quite hard, which pushes the levels of the rest down as well. Also, they seem just a tad bit out of sync with the drums perhaps? The idea for the outro is indeed very nice. Do you have the option of multitrack recording your performance of this? I think a lot of what I mentioned comes down to mixing and I would love to hear more of this once it is more developed. 

This sounds like a 70s-era track that was recently discovered in a vinyl crate and played for the first time ever. Really really cool textures and groove.

WahSp wrote:

The sounds are all very cool! I do think that the panned sounds (the ones introduced near the beginning and the ones introduced near 2.20) drown out the rest a bit too much; It is like they are hitting an end-of-chain compressor quite hard, which pushes the levels of the rest down as well. Also, they seem just a tad bit out of sync with the drums perhaps? The idea for the outro is indeed very nice. Do you have the option of multitrack recording your performance of this? I think a lot of what I mentioned comes down to mixing and I would love to hear more of this once it is more developed.


This is really great feedback. I’m still learning the s-4, I’ve had some sync issues recording into it live, it sometimes introduces a variable 24-35ms delay that I try to correct, sometimes don’t quite get it right. This can be exacerbated when using its midi/audio over usb, which I experimented with in a couple tracks recently.

MRDRCAT wrote:

This sounds like a 70s-era track that was recently discovered in a vinyl crate and played for the first time ever. Really really cool textures and groove.


Thank you!

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