Submissions from 2025-09-15 to 2025-09-22 (3 total)

This week's piece makes some intentional changes to see what kind of music would result. Departing from the all-one-guitar approach, I started this one with bass. Not just one bass, though: two channels of bass (80s Epiphone), playing off each other, mostly separated by high-on-the-neck vs. lower-on-the-neck. In response to these, I tracked two channels of guitar (PureSalem Mendiola, neck and bridge pickup, one on each channel). So it's still a budget approach, but with a wider set of frequencies.

Bass got a couple different presets of Ableton's Glue compressor, while guitar was uncompressed. Each track got a bit of send to a convolution reverb, a studio-sized space. And the stereo mix got multiband compression/eq.

The title comes from a lake in Italy, at 612 ft. elevation.

I did not have much time this weekend and did a very lazy track, dare I say a "speedtrash". However I appreciate the fact that I played some live guitar and that my learning of drums has improved my drums programming with more dynamics and ideas, like paradiddles instead of straight beat.