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An unfortunate series of events led to last week's work being completely destroyed and unrecoverable moments before the submission deadline. 100% my fault for rushing right at the last minute and not paying attention. Lesson learned! Anyways, experimenting with some new ideas this week. Playing with rhythm, texture, and near/far soundstage.
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That sounds like an horror story! However, you did a good recovery! I like this experiment of maybe tapping on a mic and putting a lot of effects on it. It is very original and creates an interesting atmosphere.
You, jimmac, ???, ineff and Bleeoop all have this near/far 3-dimensionality exploration: WB synchronicities are kinda O_O. (I just started listening, apologies if I left someone obvious out.)
Really love the bass crunch & the kick and reverb are noteworthy also (both sound great) -- you and jimmac are making me reconsider a lot of what I thought I knew about reverb... will try to work that into next week's submission.
Lastly, kudos on the title. 
My bad, got really into your track and forgot to replay to your write-up also -- two weeks ago, I had an SD card I used in my M8 die on me and losing work / sounds really sucks. I'm sorry to hear that the last week's work is unrecoverable, both empathetically but also selfishly (love hearing your work). Hope the unrecoverable part didn't affect more than last week's project... 
That sounds like an horror story! However, you did a good recovery! I like this experiment of maybe tapping on a mic and putting a lot of effects on it. It is very original and creates an interesting atmosphere.
Thanks, I'm happy you liked it. Now that you mention it, it does remind me of playing with microphone taps, which brought back a memory of when i was younger and used to get weird at the practice space with the other weirdos in the band after rehearsals. Banging around SM57s plugged into just about everything was a pretty common instrument of choice hah. In this case however, the majority of the sounds are coming from a 0-Coast patch that lets me move between pops, bass, bleeps, and squeaks with just a few knobs and the slope on/off.
You, jimmac, ???, ineff and Bleeoop all have this near/far 3-dimensionality exploration: WB synchronicities are kinda O_O. (I just started listening, apologies if I left someone obvious out.)
Really love the bass crunch & the kick and reverb are noteworthy also (both sound great) -- you and jimmac are making me reconsider a lot of what I thought I knew about reverb... will try to work that into next week's submission.
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Lastly, kudos on the title. <3
Woah, that is some pretty crazy synchronicity, and these are all very very good. Glad to hear you like the kick and reverb. Wasn't sure about the digital decay tail on the kick, but then changed my mind and compressed it to make it louder 
Kick is OP-1 drum synth which I'm somewhat obsessed with and usually use for everything but drums. I was also a bit leery of how heavy handed the reverb is. But, the new idea I was trying out for far sounds just worked so much better with "too much" reverb so I let it rip. Glad it wasn't offensive amounts, at least to your ear. Plus, I just love reverb. I am not ashamed. Drown me in it.
My bad, got really into your track and forgot to replay to your write-up also -- two weeks ago, I had an SD card I used in my M8 die on me and losing work / sounds really sucks. I'm sorry to hear that the last week's work is unrecoverable, both empathetically but also selfishly (love hearing your work). Hope the unrecoverable part didn't affect more than last week's project...
Yikes, dead SD card is awful. I try to be good about backing up things that i would be upset to lose but it's one of those things that's so easy for me to "do later" and later is usually when I do it 
In this case, the damage was limited to the single project and was due purely to sloppiness on my part from rushing. I had a busy week and went into Sunday with nothing started and no ideas. I spent 4 or 5 hours experimenting, trying to get a seed of something, and ultimately was really unhappy with where I ended up. I decided to scrap everything and try an improvised performance instead with about an hour left until submission time. I ended up with something passable and exported to file. With about 10 minutes until submission deadline, I quit my DAW and for some reason clicked 'don't save'. When I opened the exported mp3, I discovered that I had exported the wrong track resulting in 4 minutes of silence and a project that had never been saved. Whoops.
And speaking of M8, in happier news, my preorder finally shipped and my M8 arrives tomorrow. I'm very. very. excited.
Very enjoyable play with sound and melody. I'll try to keep this in mind for a later week and try to play around with "too much" reverb as well, because this turned out good.
a kind of strange combo of sounds that still works well together. the "zipper-y" lofi bass drum stood out to me.
are you using a pre-delay at all to your reverbs? it doesn't sound like it to me? even the larger reverbs here sound very tight to the source sounds. a delay between a sound and its reverb response can really help sell the sense of space. (i was also thinking about space in this week's post, with some weird small reverb but with a pre-delay to expand it)
