Open Battle #4 - Mix first, ask questions later(ed)

Did you manage to get the caramel out of your sheets?

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Tanx for compliments y’all!

I just muted the verbs and performed it without :slight_smile:

For the gear lurkers: MD+LPB2ube, M:C, AR (just 1 hihat), H9 delay, Xone:96 (mixing, crunch & filters), a little RNLA comp, recorded straight to USB drive via RME UCX2

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Told your mum to text me if she saw anything when she hung them out to dry, mate. Haven’t heard anything back so… yeah… you should sleep well :wink:

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Volca Drum + DIY Atari Punk Console + Behringer mixer= whatever the flip this track is. My apologies in advance.

Any reverb-like sounds are from the weird “wave guide” on the Volca Drum.
I’m just glad I finally found a use for that picture… :joy:

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Here’s my submission. I created it using Output’s Rev with Rev Loops. It was recorded with a Tascam DR-05 recorder.

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Glass refers to the samples I presume, but maybe Philip Glass too?

Glass refers to the samples.

The busier parts remind me of a Philip Glass opera.

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Two days to go, reverb wankers.

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How did I miss this? I’m going to try and jump on this tomorrow. If you don’t hear back from me, I’m either dead or still making embarrassingly shit music.

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Dang, that month flew by.
Total creative slump as well…

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Snuck this one out tonight. An extension of a few ideas from a Deluge couch session.

Delay from Matriarch and Bluebox. Minimal arrangement, fading in and out parts using the Deluge song view and SiX. Recorded into H2N with (of course) no post-processing.

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That was the bees knees’ bees knees. Excellent.

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Happened what happened.

Jamming on Digitone + Octatrack

No thinking, no planning
No editing, no mixing
Only live playing and silly things.

Gore tek®

Edit: track disqualified, I pushed the no-thinking instruction too far and forgot the no-reverb rule.

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hopefully this works, I can change it from private if needed. Everything mixed live but I did use a hard limiter in my recording program to just get the levels up to more normal levels with out worrying about clipping… which is maybe slightly cheating or something.

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This is all done in one take in Reaktor with its built in recorder. There is reverb on the track, but I built it myself with lots and lots of delays and filters, so I think that gets a pass. 100% homebrew sequencers, synths, fx and dynamics processors

Soundcloud is murdering the high end on this unfortunately

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really digging this track

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Lovelovelove those bass stabs that start around 1:10. excellent track, super heavy

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A lot of cool tracks in this challenge. I’m bummed I didn’t see this before today or I would have taken a stab at it. Oh well, there’s always the next one.

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Just make one anyway… art of not giving a shit.
Post it here, bollocks to the deadline.

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