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I'm chasing a sound, which means I'm chasing a design, a workflow, a setup, figuring out what works and what doesn't and to be honest, this might go on for a while cuz it's definitely a 50/50 working/not working at best right now.

This sounds "good" but definitely missed the mark all over the place for goals and that's fine. I learned some things.

This is my Gretsch semi-hollow, run through Guitar Rig to emulate a Vox AC30 amp and tremolo with a little bit of added delay and reverb, and then it's run out into the rest of the setup. This week, I kept it simple - recorded a few little chords into five tracks on the Tempera (a granular instrument that I'm still learning), and then after that was setup, just the guitar into Microcosm for some live-looping experimentation.

The microcosm aspects sound good but it's not gonna work for this project. The looper is a little too simple, and quite frankly, I can't do much else with a guitar strapped to my shoulder, have to use the foot switch to toggle the looper, and that means bending down to adjust effects, etc.... this just isn't gonna work. And while I was debating a Soma Cosmos as an alternative (and always am), I don't think playing live guitar and looping will be the solution for this workflow.

The sound is big wall of sound and it's big and granular and enormous but probably too big, too granular, too much dropped into the ocean and left to dissolve. I suspect some of the solution there will be elements added after the live setup - more guitar, possibly drums, possibly a more traditional post-rock approach ... I dunno. That's what these sketches are for. Lots of experiments.

Rambling. Too much to do.

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Weekly trash, because I'm stuck on a bigger piece.

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experimental gabber noise?

when old ladies attack

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Pure Data Patch

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Picked up the template from last week, grabbed a couple of the guitar samples, switched the temp, rewrote all new patterns for drums and synths, restructured a new guitar progression, adjusted fxs chains, sidechains, filters, delay, reverb. This is kinda a mash of a bunch of random stuff. I kinda like the wall of sound I ended up with. Total work time about 2 hours on  Sunday afternoon.

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I started out with the opening synth sound, just messing with some MPE, and then I added the synth bass, which I had to strip most of the MPE channels out of because it was too messy. I wasn't sure where I was going but I had listened to a bunch of Genesis (Master Drive) music so I knew i wanted a crunchy bass synth.

It took a turn as I was scrolling through random synth presets and I happened to play a silly little 5th sequence on a recorderesque instrument, and it just sounded so grade-school like and poppy that I decided to make the rest of the song themed to a playground/Gameboy (or GameGear, but almost nobody had one of those and their 45 minute battery life!)

The Westcoast synth just happened. 

I need better drum samples, but they worked okay here. Was really looking for high-hat sounds to replace what I had but don't know where to get drums (or how to make them), and never found a good rim shot (that I ended up leaving out).

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This month finds me moving away from the OP-XY back to Ableton Move. This track was written and recorded at the beach away from the home studio. It's been left intentionally bare bones as I wanted to keep the vibe in the moment and also horrible time constraints. Covering for a co worker who just had a baby so working 10 to 13 hour shifts 5 days a week for the rest of June and into July X_X ...at least my gear fund will be pleased by the end of this!

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