(Sharbaugh)

Michael Ash Sharbaugh [ https://soundcloud.com/michael-ash-sharbaugh ]: base composition and electronic manipulations

Composed and Recorded ca. July 29, 2014 and May 27, 2023.

Base Composition: "Balm" [disquiet0135-soundofsummer] sm4lev.

sm1 [RAW] [32AIF].

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"For this week's Disquiet Junto assignment -- 0595 ("Filter Progression"), I was called to "make music by processing a static sound."

White noise or a field recording had been suggested in the assignment's notes, and My mind harkened way back to a junto assignment in July of 2014, when We were called to "try to record one minute of sound that would suggest to the listener the pleasing experience of air conditioning — of the air being cooled on a hot summer day" [disquiet0135].

I recalled how much that junto assignment had been the closest I had done professionally to a field recording (an air conditioner), and used that track -- "Balm sm4lev" -- as the basis for this week's study in frequency and resonance.

In My DAW, I first saturated it with the FabFilter "Saturn 2" saturator, then ran the signal through WAVES' "Renaissance Bass" in order to accentuate the track's lowest, prominent frequenc[y/ies] (65Hz to 75Hz), and then put it through FabFilter's "Pro-Q3," and, finally, SoundToys' "Phase Mistress."

Throughout all steps, I set out to accentuate the bassiest freqs present in the track:

1] I saturated 65-75 Hertz;

2] I automated the high-pass and low-pass filters of the "Pro-Q 3," slowly rolling both poles up/down -- respectively -- to 65 to 75 Hertz just prior to the tracks highest volume level;

3] I phased the signal, concentrating on 70Hz as the accentuated target frequency and resonance concentration, peaking the effect and its mix to apex at the track's loudest point.

Voila! Whoop (there it is!)."

~ Michael

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