I've been thinking of different approaches to the weekly music composition project, though a head cold this weekend left me less time and energy to work on it, so...new approaches will be for other weeks. This one has a little difference, though: I'd started with three tracks of unaffected PureSalem Mendiola, and put together a piece...which I then started whacking away at: removing notes in the first iteration, and supplementing on a fourth track with little gestures and sounds from one of the clips in that section. So it's sparse, but not as sparse as it would have been otherwise.

There's the usual convolution reverb, though this one gets two channels of reverb send. Then the usual compression/eq on the stereo.

The title comes from a road that's part of Maryland route 615.

This one's odd. After several weeks of fairly naturalistic playing, I thought to do something with severely edited sounds--short cuts out of longer-duration chords and intervals. The signal chain was PureSalem Mendiola through Balls Effects KWB distortion (to a greater or lesser extent, depending on the clip), and into Vox Wah for tone shaping. The middle and end sections reveal a bit more of the original playing, but a lot of this is edited down from that. One emergent riff came from copying and pasting the short clips over some previous material--I wouldn't have arrived at this riff otherwise.

There's some convolution reverb and the usual wide&warm preset for compression/eq, but no funny stuff other than the hard edits.

The title comes from A493 in Wales, which (according to Wikipedia) avoids the town of Cross Foxes.