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Disquiet Junto 0750 Let’s Get Heavy

The Junto prompt this week is to "record something epic," which I took somewhat literally.

I had a cheeky idea to record a bad cover of the song 'Epic' and claim it was something!

Linda Perry on progress

“What I’m probably most proud of is that I never think I’m good enough,” she says. “But that’s also my damage; I was raised that way; you know, not being good enough. That little dark gift my mother gave me actually became a pot of gold.”

Rhythm Droid

naviarhaiku642 – a moment before sunrise

The poem shared by Naviar Records this week had me reaching for my modified guitar.

Having never heard those footsteps for myself, I knew there was a broad scope for creative interpretation!

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Disquiet Junto 0747 And a One

The Junto project this week is to "Record the first third of a trio."

This is a quick recording on my modified Nukulele electric guitar, where I mostly just jam on the D string.

Ableton Live seems to think it's around 117 BPM, which is where I usually land.

There are two outputs, each going through an Alexander effect pedal.

A Wav file and a Mov file are available.

I explain in the video below.

Reverb that goes places

Saw this on Pedalboards of Doom and it reminded me of one of those musical epiphanies.

I've been excited in the past by reverb models that offer recreations of famous spaces, like topline recording studios.

Then a friend invited me to listen to her performance while lying on the floor with my eyes closed.

She began a drone and my sense of the environment shifted.

I forgot where I was as the illusion of floating in a 'no space' pushed back the walls with a never-ending note.

Since then I've had similar experiences with classical Indian music and pondered the sense of spirituality that follows from losing sense of the self.

Playing to a Youtube

Another pickup experiment

After installing the bass pickup last week, I thought it would be interesting to have outputs for each pickup.

This is just a test.

Disquiet Junto 0745 Double Down

The Junto this week is to "Do something you do too much even more."

I'm often noodling away on a guitar and sometimes recording these unedited performances to publish.

So my Junto recording this week has a recording within a recording with the Chase Bliss Habit pedal looping back on earlier parts.

This is my Nukuele guitar with four strings and a bass pickup under the D, so that part of the performance is also doubled with the second output going to Ottobit.

Anyway, I talked about this guitar earlier...