This past week I took delivery of a new pedal: a JHS Colourbox 10, thinking that could help with the frequency profile in direct recording. (I happened to find a demo copy at a notable discount, so it was worth springing for it.) I tried it out Thursday night, recording the first theme you hear on this one. There are three channels of PureSalem Mendiola, with the center (bridge pickup) not using the pedal, except for the parts at 1:21 and 2:42, which do. Left (neck pickups) and right (both pickups) use the pedal. There's a bit of frequency profile nudging, and a little bit of overdrive in there. The bridge pickup mostly sounded better direct through the UA Volt, except for those couple of rhythm parts.

Initially I was going to do something more sparse, but the part at 1:00 showed up Saturday night, and changed the feel of the piece to something more energetic, so I went in that direction. (I had recorded a few more introspective sections that no longer fit.)

On listening back, I'm a little uncomfortable at the audible section join at 2:20. And in retrospect I might've gotten a bit zingy with the pedal, but...here we are.

There's the usual convolution reverb send here, and the compression/eq on the stereo mix.

The title comes from Dovenest Top near Glaramara, with an elevation of 632 m.

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