Kinda another hack track. Spent a little longer than last week trying to get things mixed right. Maybe once I get into a more consistent cadence for recording I can spend more time laboring over the arrangement. Still just trying to spend time doing things :-P

Smackos 808 for the drums, 2 ableton build-in sounds for rhodes + bells, 0-coast through an overdrive for the bass.

I've been battling with some depression over the last year or two and realized yesterday that even though I feel like I'm improving, I've stopped doing all the things I used to love doing even when times were tough. Decided maybe it was time to try putting something together and just finishing it in one sitting.

This is arbitrarily called orgeat since the word was fresh in my mind after making cocktails. The drums are Smackos Amiga 909. Percussion is just Ableton Core Kit Percussion. Bass is just the u-he Repro default patch (speed was of the essence). And the Rhodes was just a built in Ableton sound. Didn't really labour over the mix at all so I'm sorry if your ears bleed.

Highly recommend the hack track. Feels good to do a thing.

God bless

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!