Submissions from 2017-02-27 to 2017-03-06 (12 total)

An overly sentimental guitar thing I came up with this afternoon. Strangely, this is the first thing I've posted with guitar so far, despite it being my main instrument.

Okay, so I sorta squeezed this one in last minute. Been preoccupied this past week with trying to find a new place to live due to my landlord selling his condo, so I kept it pretty simple. I've been wanting to explore more ambient sax sounds for the other project I'm involved in, Kylmyys and decided to invest in a new reverb/delay pedal for that, which I tested out on this track.

Basically this song is a two track mix, one simple, more ambient sax line and one lead sax line, both recorded through the Afterneath Reverb pedal from EarthQuaker Devices into Logic Pro on two separate tracks. Next, I EQ'd the ambient sax line to give it and even more pad feel and layered further reverb over it. I used my standard sax eq and reverb settings on the lead track to help it cut through the ambience of the backing sax. Finally, I ran a vinyl warp filter on the main bus out to give it a little "Boards of Canada" vibe.

While not my best track this year, I feel I got some good ideas out of this experiment that I'd like to explore further on other songs down the road.

For this track I used the following:
- Afterneath Reverb Pedal
- Logic Pro (DAW/various VST/FX)
- Alto Sax

*Another week with no movie sample...

An original Surdu Beat. Made relatively quickly. Sounds pretty dumb but I like it.

half-assed remix of a track from a few weeks ago

(Production notes coming. Mostly in-the-box Ableton, with two tracks of Res-O-Glas guitar and one track of Kastle modular synth.)

Title from the nine-tailed fox of Japanese and Chinese mythology.

From the Dust
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I did a song over six years ago. The beginning sucked but it had a catchy melody close to the end that I never finished.



http://compo.thasauce.net/rounds/view/OHC098



I've always wanted to redo the song. Now I have a chance.



The song was kind of a goofy song based on space asteroid drilling. The theme still fits (space is awesome) and I've also been playing FTL so this totally jives.



This isn't done, I didn't get to finish any individual sections, the mixing, or even the sound design, so it's a collection of ideas that need to be worked together still.
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Sat. March 4. 21:25 - 22:50. Drilling to the Core Remastered.



Things I'm doing:



1. Hunting around in Stutter Edit. I know how to use it, but I don't REALLY know how to make it cool, you know?



2. Playing around with Alchemy. Alchemy sounds great, but its patches are so complicated that I don't know what I'm doing most of the time.



I can tell that I'm not going to finish this sing tomorrow morning - I might upload what I have and work on it more because I am having fun with where this is going.



Sun. March 5. 10:15 - 13:40.



I didn't really finish this track - didn't finish the sections or the production or the sound design. It's not WeeklyBeats-allowed but WeeklyMusic here is less strict so I'm going to upload this and continue the progress next week.



Total time: 4h 50m

Was going for an AB structure with this song, but the A and the B are kind of off kilter. I was trying to use the A part to build a ton of tension and then release it in the B part, but it seems as if the B isn't even in the same song as the A part. Perhaps an ABA structure would have worked better for this.

Track Notes/Self Feedback:

Melody: Just played all "melodic" parts improvised. I think I did a few different takes and picked the best ones, not a whole lot of effort went into making a good melody here.

Harmony: Simple Progression, nothing complicated needed or desired here.

Dynamics: The hand played dynamics probably could be more elaborate,

Groove/Beats: Only two beats really used here and a bit of chopping. Wasn't really focusing on the beats in this go around.

Sound Design: Spent a good amount of time on getting the sounds to gel together well. Was looking for kind of an ambient feel that would sound ok with an analogy style arp bass motion. Percussives could use a lot of work, very static.

Ambience: No significant ambience in this track.

Mood: Definitely a good mood (going for a frustrated tension) in this track especially the first part, I just feel like it could have resolved better with a different B.

Structure: AB structure probably isn't the best for the divergent ideas used in this track. Ideas in this track are probably better suited for an ABA structure.

Mix: Very little time spent on mixing, probably could stand to have a bit more focus on foreground/background

Plans for this track: May revisit it a few months, not in love with it, don't hate it.

little beat with some sounds.

a collab between vienna based producer Gerhard Potuznik and me


sketch from a couple weeks ago that I've built out some. this one has arps, watch out!

Hey all! I did Weekly Beats 2016 for maybe 11ish weeks at the start of last year before running out of steam! Didn't realize there was a 2017 edition but I'm glad I found it. I've been recording pretty regularly again and am having a ton of fun but don't get much feedback anymore so I'm looking forward to hearing from you all.

Just finished this track in a few hours tonight. I've been trying not to nit pick too much lately as I find I end up sinking a lot of time into what amounts to very little in audible results. So I can think of a few things I might do to the arrangement on this one but for the most part I'm happy w/ how it turned out. Lately I've been spending way too much time using plugins and wanted to return to my roots by recording stuff off hardware.

The opening drone is a noisy patch I made on my new 0-coast that I put through my EQD Avalanche Run and just tweaked the living day lights out of the time and repeats nobs until fun stuff happened. That clip sorta ends w/ some nice even repeating so I just tapped to match and decided it'd sound pretty cool if some drums started up in time w/ the repeats. Those drums are my Volca beats. The bass part is a bit more of those fun times w/ the 0-coast. I tuned it up w/ my microbrute and just sorta went for the fattest grimiest sound I could come up with. The bass part is going through Ableton's stock overdrive. When the drums thicken up that's a 2nd track of drums coming in (Smackos 808 - check it out if you haven't, it's instant fun) and both drum kits are going through Smackos Tape Station.

Didn't spend too much time mixing or anything so let me know if there's anything glaringly obvious there that I should have noticed. Some of the things I'd do if I wanted to give it that extra couple hours of polish: drive the ending a little more insane, actually record my volca beats into clips (I exported w/ the external instrument and I think it may have resulted in some clicks and pops throughout :-/), give that volca some tweakin love for better clip transitions, add some chords or melody or something (right now it's just kinda zombie brains). Let me know if you have a thoughts.

Enjoy!

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