A gritty, downtempo, lofi jam made with a few synths and a small handful of effects pedals, reminiscent of Grindhouse film style soundtracks.


Something a little different for me, but I loved doing this. To change things up a bit, I pulled out a few pedals that I'd been neglecting. After playing around for a while I started to love the dirty and completely (and very deliberate) overdriven sound coming from the ElectroHarmonix Mel9 pedal into the TC Mojomojo. I just kinda went on from there.


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Sound/signal chain: 2 Arturia Microfreaks. One is set to a very french horn sounding formant oscillator with some LFO on the pitch to give it a tape warble. This goes into the EHX Mel9 that starts on flute, but then changes to orchestra half way through. This then goes on through the TC Mojomojo overdrive. The 2nd Microfreak is set to plays some mildly altering pads throughout. This is being run through the ever present EHX Canyon delay set to Shimmer. The Shimmer on the Canyon sounds, to me, much nicer than any reverb pedal shimmer I've used and it gets used a lot. Such a great pedal.


Bass is from the Dreadbox Hysteria VCO module, passed through the Electrosmith 2144 LPF. This is being driven pretty heavily through an Electrosmith VCA.


Drums come from the Elektron Model Samples. I choe as my drum machine not too long ago. I had tried the Model Cycles and liked it, but didn't love it. Unfortunately, the trigger buttons started malfunctioning and it got returned. Well, I still wanted a drum machine and really like how the Cycles was set up, but was preferring the sounds from the Samples, so I gave it a shot. There are quite a few odd quirks as far as how that thing runs and is set up, but I m slowly figuring it out! And it sounds seriously lovely, so I am sticking with it. This drum sound is heavily filtered and overdriven using the Samples onboard effects.


The Microfreaks and Hysteria were sequenced with the Novation Launchpad Pro and the Samples uses its own sequencer. Everything seemed to be much easier using the Samples own sequencer. There are some strange settings when using an external sequencer with the Samples, things like seperate midi channels per track. Not sure if that is changeable, but the built in sequencer is pretty nice, so no real problem there.


Everything recorded on the Zoom R16. The lofi nature comes from the rather crappy preamps used on the R16. They are fragile and noisy and I think I blew channel 3 out a while back, but even the good ones are pretty loud and temperamental. I embrace the shitty nature of these preamps and happily push them to the brink further with some way too heavy gain. I used a little of the built in reverb to bring things together.


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