Amazing wall of sound Bro top quality love it, Al
You touched on something there - I'm fascinated by the the law of diminishing returns: the more sounds you put together, the weaker the end result if they cancel each other out. That's part of the art of mixing and mastering - how to put lots of sounds together to get more sound - how often do you get a great guitar sound, but the minute you put it with bass drums and keys it diminishes ... so my pieces are always trying to get to grips with that problem. What I like about this one is that as I added layers, the sound got bigger, more intense [not louder - I don't like those really loud mixes with no headroom] - it also built even though it was already big
It's a fab track matey lots going on but keeps ya interest from start to finish that's the trick with such a long track an ya did it in spades Bro!!!, Fab, Al
: Thanks Al - my tracks just come out long - I think I have a slightly unusual sense of time compared to most dudes - not sure where it comes from - might be an innate for of developed paranoia!
I'm still trying to figure out which I like better - the song or your description. :)
Ha! the description was borne out of relishing these sounds as they were in the making - so the words are the sounds and vice versa
tres vocal
: the final lick, which also finished my first collad with Solar Max is here given a choral overdubbing, sounding a bit choir like
its the totality, the ippississimuss - the max! It is full to the brim ike a good ale
come to a slowly roiling molten sea
roiling is favourite word of mine, combining boil and roll - 'boil and roll' - that's my genre!
the phalanx treads over mud and lava, battered axes yet gleaming, strat and paul.
You have the very image I was aiming for and feeling - Strat and Paul are the axis: look how JBeck strut those two way back - Oxblood Paul, White Strat - the two basic sounds right there. That is the axis for my sound palette too, although I acihieve that with a variety of guitars, not owning anything so grand as a Gibson or a Fender.
very compositional density, and there seems to be a blues harp buried in the middle.
I think that's actually bluesy slide on my SG which I have set up with heavy tapewound strings. Compostionally I am trying to build density up from density, creating tension by having the bass riff slow down gradually as the layers thicken, while a chromatic guitar line ascends - I also have arhythmic drum bursts to increase the tension
oh my, and maximus
yeah - I keep writing 'solar maximus' instead of solar maxium' - it must be the trickle of Latin blood in me
lyrics
This piece, 'sol invictus', Latin for ‘the invincible sun’ [an epithet for a god worshipped by the Roman centurions] recognises that all cultures begin with a creation riff.
Solar Maximum provide this godlike riff in the bass right here.
In its repetition, this splendid stripped down blues riff describes the ascent of the sun as it achieves its solar maximum at the very zenith, the house of the gods.
It reaches this red house and then luxuriates in timeless swathes and trailing rays.
To become ‘maxed out’, and refreshed - the sun god is then ready to begin his regal descent once more.
