Day 4 - Scott

I actually recorded this one yesterday, but my Thursdays are really busy, so I decided to get ahead. Besides, I figured out how to reverse tracks (had to do it through Audacity and import it), so I wanted to use my new skillz.

For this one, I started by grabbing the original "jingle" clip from yesterday's song and reversing it in Audacity. I then slowed down the playback speed by a bunch and lowered the pitch to a menacing drone. After that, I imported the modified track into GarageBand and put it into three separate tracks that all play the same thing simultaneously. I created different effects, panning, and volume tweaks for each of the tracks to give it some texture and additional ominousness(ness?). Once I was happy with the results, I grabbed my bass and plugged into my pedal with the old Death by Deathray preset "EXP158" cranked to maximum delay loopage. I recorded two tracks this way; the first has some atmospheric clicks and other noises, and the second is an all-out sonic blast that starts at zero volume and slowly crescendos (with peaks and valleys) until it overwhelms the other tracks in a final burst of energy.

And finally, I took Pete's advice and created a video for the song and uploaded it to YouTube, which took much longer to do than it did to actually record the song, even when compressing it into the lowest res version. (Look for the special cameo appearance by Lester):



P.S. I've decided that some of my next pieces will be inspired by the output of all y'all artistes.