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Working on layering my synths, then overwhelming it with distorted guitars :)

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Sick ballad - on piano, looper, and electric guitar.

One take performance (with looper on footswitch) of a mini composition I made today mostly to not lose my weeklybeats streak, but I really wasn't feeling it today. I'm glad I did it, as always, and I am looking forward to hearing your impressions.

As you might notice in the video I have a host of new toys that I couldn't really fully enjoy because of this mild flu and some other minor drama that happened this week (minor heartbreak shit). But hey, the important thing is that the WB fam is here for me, and also I have nice friends that I can call up for some emotional support. So thanks for that!!!

› Gear and process‹ Gear and process

Yamaha YC61 with super nice acoustic piano sounds, played through my old midi controller with heavy keys. I used a cheap looper on the piano, that has a mono input, a single button plus a volume knob, and it's quite unwieldy because you have to double tap to stop it, which is hard to do during a song. But it forces you to have good timing, and I managed to find a way to use it creatively here by fading out the volume by hand (haven't figured out the good timing yet) (actually I faded it out with my toes).

I also have a new guitar, that you may have heard last week in my game Mr Woofmantic's On The One, but I didn't have it on video. It's an Epiphone Les Paul II Special with some custom parts, that I got from a local luthier, Dr Burer from Java Guitars. He's very cool! He installed a Bigsby pitch stick and a custom japanese pickup from the 70s!!! I think I'm playing on the non-custom pickup here tho. It's a nice guitar with history, and for as much as I know about guitar, it seems like a good one! Still discovering its quirks.

I used the Paradise Guitar studio from UAD for the amp simulation. Both because it's late and I can't play loud (I actually got an annoying neighbour now that always knocks on my door when I do, seems new), but also to give it some delay & sound. I feel like with the guitar I was hoping to get away from the computer but I will still be stuck on the computer to make really nice sounds. If I just go through the amp alone, I have to really play like a mofo for it to sound good, and I'm not there yet. Also I need to be louder for that.

Final touch: caked the two tracks in "vintagize" warbly effect also from UAD.

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A somber punch ends a haunted desert drive.

Definitely a sketch

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This track came together very quickly, but I was missing the melody in the first verse until about friday night when I cooked it up rather quickly as well. To me this track feels like a sequel/alternate continuation to my 2023 track 'Slow Collision' wherein a spaceship gets locked into a collision course with an asteroid and unfortunately crashes. Here, I played with the idea of the ship being saved by a laser-shooting hero, like the classic arcade game Asteroids.

Another really old and obscure ChillBitz track also makes an appearance during one of the transmissions. I think maybe only one person is going to recognize it, but it felt thematically fitting to include it and stretch it out.

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Routine - True Utopia

Tempo At 198/170 BPM

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What a great week for music, first a new Boards of Canada track (anyone get the myster VHS tapes?), then a new Massive Attack track and for good measure NIN drop a new live album.  On top of that it was RSD yesterday so local records store had sales on all their vinyl, great day to stock up on some classics. 

Ambient track for this week, not something I'm used to doing, tried to keep it flowing as much as I could.  Watching videos of Elta Solar 42, looks fun but I could put the $3000 towards other more practical things.  Thankfully youtuber Omri Cohen seems to feel the same way and provides a great video on how to replicate the Solar 42 in VCV rack using all free modules.  With some macro mapping can play the VCV patch on the ableton push.  Also then came across another free VCV rack patch that emulates the microcosm pedal, used that on the keys.  Long one this week, hope you enjoy.

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Dubby, Housey, Lovey

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going for a bit of beeper vibe. gross.

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I've been having a lot of fun working on vocals, especially distortions. Trying to produce something is spreading myself a little too thin so in the spirit of keeping a weekly creation and upload in music going, I searched for derivative licenses and picked one to sing over. I came across the track by Mamoriya called Unleashed that was exactly what I was looking for. Some timing, volume, tone issues, and better mixing I'd fix if given more time, warm up better, etc. but this is a fairly accurate representation of my current level in this only with a couple takes at it. Recorded on a phone mic while my son was patiently putting up with my vocal antics and watching a cartoon a few feet away lol.

It's fun to see my comments of ~6mo ago on youtube distortion videos and how much I've learned since then.

Looking forward to a more produced track with nailing the takes, actually writing lyrics and meaning them instead of on the spot cliche words and whatnot. Coming soon. I still have a song that's 90% written I've been sitting on and motivating me vocally since week 1 but can't sing yet and hope to publish before the year is over :)

Original source: Mamoriya wrote:Unleashed, https://weeklybeats.com/mamoriya/music/unleashed

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