It was already friday, when I started to find an idea for this weekly beat. It became an ambient drone with clicks and cuts in the mix. It had a vinyl static feel to it, but it is not to compare with the polycarbonate version I am doing here with this song. But something still was missing. By chance I stumbled over a recording, that I recently did with a friend. He came around to show me his new guitar, which should be a Les Paul and a Stratocaster in one instrument. He played some short ideas and used several switch positions, looking for the right sound. You can hear it clicking in the recording. It is not me playing the guitar, but I really like it, the way he does, so I ask for his OK to release the material. (it would have been lost in a sea of data on my HDD!) It was not his intention to show his skills, while testing, but something awesome came out of his new guitar. I was surprised how sensitive he could control his new instrument. Not only he sounds like 3 guitars at once, the bassline, the rhythm and the melody, he also can create an ambience between melancholy and a confident mood. I liked the recording I did by accident and mixed it over my ambient drone.
I thank Aris very much for this nice tones and congratulations, he is a happy daddy for a few weeks now!!!

In this polycarbonate record lath version I used other fluids for the surface of the record, before cutting the groove. I even did the cutting process beeing wet with a wax furniture politure. This made the surface noise extremely strong, but the sound a little bit better and closer to the orginal.
Thanks for listening.

Tags: ambient, drone, guitar, week 15 2024, View by:Wilcox Raw-Cats