Cold war quacking

[zeekat]

I've got a small Line 6 floor controller with expression pedal, I can use the wahs and stuff now so I made a tune with some slightly quacky guitar:

https://soundcloud.com/zeekat/cold-waves

Took me a while to figure how to record MIDI and audio simultaneously, ended up with having MIDI-controlled POD Farm (with wah) on a folder track and audio in inside the folder. I wonder if I'm doing it the kosher way.



Samples are taken from various cold-war era broadcast recordings I found, I think one of them talks about a guy nicknamed "dick-butt". Everything credited on soundcloud.

I mixed myself into numbness, so I'm not sure how it sounds. Fortunately it's hot here now and I have a noisy AC box behind my back so I have a great excuse to not fix anything until the heatwave subsides.

[Glennbo]

Originally Posted by zeekat

I've got a small Line 6 floor controller with expression pedal, I can use the wahs and stuff now so I made a tune with some slightly quacky guitar:

https://soundcloud.com/zeekat/cold-waves

Took me a while to figure how to record MIDI and audio simultaneously, ended up with having MIDI-controlled POD Farm (with wah) on a folder track and audio in inside the folder. I wonder if I'm doing it the kosher way.

Samples are taken from various cold-war era broadcast recordings I found, I think one of them talks about a guy nicknamed "dick-butt". Everything credited on soundcloud.

I mixed myself into numbness, so I'm not sure how it sounds. Fortunately it's hot here now and I have a noisy AC box behind my back so I have a great excuse to not fix anything until the heatwave subsides.

Great groove, and I love the guitar tone and what you do with it!

[Timothy Lawler]

Sounds balanced to me. Very creative stuff. I liked the Cold War radio clips.

[mschnell]

I like the complex rhythm sounding rather innocent

-Michael

[sammydix]

That was kinda 'headsy.' That delayed guitar is what takes me there.

[zeekat]

Originally Posted by mschnell

I like the complex rhythm sounding rather innocent

I can't do complex stuff, I'm trying to do it varied, though!

[mschnell]

Hmmm
in some places you can count it 1-2-3-1-2-3-1-2-3-4-...
Something like an innocent 13th
-Michael

[morgon]

Another way cool track. Imo the ld gtr would be even better if there were just a couple more articulations thrown in e.g the occasional hammer on/pull off [toward the next note] technique.

'Fast' Eddie Clarke [Motorhead] would often play quite straightforward pentatonic notes occasionally employing hammer on/pull off/slide etc.

"Fast Eddie" never actually played very fast, but, like you has fine sense of note selection, so imo there only needs that touch of technical variation to improve what is already very good.

[zeekat]

Originally Posted by morgon

Another way cool track. Imo the ld gtr would be even better if there were just a couple more articulations thrown in e.g the occasional hammer on/pull off [toward the next note] technique.

Keen ear for detail. I was wondering if it sounds audibly flatter - I used the fixed bridge guitar this time, I normally prefer floating one (second guitar has a nice Schaller FR) because I think it makes things a bit more liquid and alive, even if you don't do any dive bomb stuff. I feel naked without a tremolo bar, when the GAS strikes I'm buying another FR-armed plank.

Didn't notice that, but maybe sparse legato is caused by the wah pedal and that weird reflex that make you pick at every down-wah? Or down-wah at every pick.