You can get blisters from both fire and ice, right? [kaun]
Love this extremism. .with the voices and the sparkling single coil it sounds so esoteric
- the Wilkinson pick ups on this Strat copy have a great retro sound - I've been hunting for another one, and got another one the other day - this time a black Strat copy with a maple neck and Wilkinsons - these are real gems and so cheap!
The voices, I heard them in my head first! So I had to manifest them on the track. Downloaded short 4 second free audio clips and the repeated them, sequenced them etc to get the choir thing.
I keep promising myself a good maple neck .. hope you realise that you are convincing me even more! :)))
You have to experience the reality of the neck and fingerboard being one and the same - and very bright sounding piece of blond wood at that [with a skunk stripe along the back, of course]!
Those humbuckered runs are simply divine, Bill..complete deconstruction of conventional tonal thinking, hence very exciting
- reading Derrida had an effect on my guitar playing after all!
: Aha! Il n'y a pas de hors-texte, mon ami! ;)
what an opening
Oh, and that gong. Just right. (And hell! Celebration just started up all on it's own, what a segue!)
Yeah, there's a kind of pagan, pseudo Christian mish mash there, a tawdry fabric of a late civilisation which has found a lost childhood, if that makes sense [it doesn't, but that what the sounds are there for - they say it]
Good use of space in this one, by which I mean, of relative silence.
Yeah, there's much less on this one, than is my usual gamut. It's because I wanted to keep that intimate sound that picking on two out of phase single coil pickups with your fingers can make. As soon as you start adding more and more then the aura of that can be lost. It gets obscured, or other frequencies suck it up. It's the nuances, the nuages ... I wanted to contrast that with some crazier Les Paul passages. The choir, bells, gongs etc. were added to give that sense of place you pick up on. The bass synth thing also had a rotary on it, so there's a bit of faux carnival organ that peeks out too - carnival of souls
and there's the arcade after hours, when the pinballs come out to play
Yeah, you're extending those almost filmic images and topography - it's certainlly late evening in a god forsaken forgotten place in the middle of no where, half in and half outdoors, smoky, pale neon
maybe we should make a movie
: be careful what you wish for ...
blues for the carnival mid-way, after hours
Nice blend of images and scenarios, sounds and smells, locales even in that image - the way sounds evokes those various worlds
song of a master
nicely contemplative passage
Using right hand fingers, no pic on the Strat copy
Thus ends the reading of the bells!
Yeah that last gong strike just came at the right moment - if I'd tried to make that happen it would've sounded contrived - but there it just went 'Bdong' and knew that was my ending.
Love the pitch-shifted almost synth.
That's the kind of synth sound I like to hear - somewhere between guitar and synth
Yea, if they made a synth that sounded like that, I'd buy six.
I want a broken cuckoo clock with this playingout of it.
Aren't cuckoo clock's so bizarre - especially broken ones which may strange cuckoo noises at random
Intriguing journey, Bill! What are you using, other than the Les Paul and Strat? There seems to be an array of preumably MIDI sounds (choir, gong, etc.). And how do you get that arcade game sound on the Les Paul?
The atmos sounds are just very short free audio samples which I then sequenced and so forth. The Les Paul sound was very heavily treated and pitch and time shifted variously - I was going to say in post production, but that's not quite correct as I was still playing bits to add as I went. The results were duplicated as two stereo tracks and then an EQ filter and delay put on the duplicate. To destabilise things further I used the Zvex Lofi Junky which I use on a lot of leads. The arcade game sound was isolating a very short phrase and rapidly repeating it in post prod. What amazes me is that after all that, the Paul still sounds like a Paul
Also, just to add, the Les Paul was tuned to open fifths, except for the top two strings which are a fourth apart simply because if I'd put the top string up to a 5th it would have snapped.
Another thing is there is a five string bass on there through a Boss synth setting getting that slow filter
lyrics
The Carnival of Fire & Ice
From the free play and conflict of these two opposites,
Worlds were born,
From these joyous extremes,
Was existence generated.
credits
from Cosmic Juice,
released August 18, 2017
Another back to the basics with primarily two guitars, a red Les Paul [Fire] and a white Strat [Ice]
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