It's been a madness-inducing stretch in the studio the past few weeks as tracking work progresses on several records simultaneously and a looming deadline for mixing -months- of work rapidly approaches. Seeing as how interacting with the modular seems to directly access whatever subconscious state my mind is in, it is little surprise that today's track would be more than a little chromatic and unsettling. I'm actually mixing the bassline, percussive element and arpeggio together with the brilliant "spectral panning" filter, Three Sisters by Mannequins. By slaving a highpass, lowpass and bandpass filter to the same set of controls, it acts very much as a mixer in addition to a frequency-carver. This was my first real outing with it as a master controller for the patch and I'm digging just about everything about it.
Some live drums make their way into the fold in the middle of the track. I had a minimal ribbon-based drum setup built for a jazz record I'm cutting (with an early 60's Ludwig bop kit no less) ... so the temptation was too great and sweet sample-y drums became a necessity.
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