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StoreTags: Banjo, Cello, Bowing

Author: Roshi on December 12 2006

--> This is a track I am playing around with right now. I guess it's shoegazery with lots of other things thrown in. I spent a week at the coast at a friend's beach house with some music gear and my cello and guitar. He has an old banjo that I tuned up and strummed a little, and bowed a little.

I like bowing things. I think it's the best new skill I've picked up lately as a musician.

This is the first track I've played cello on, so please be kind, I know my playing is not perfect. But I think I'm beginning to be able to go where I want to go musically, combining shoegazer distortion with the cello.

Comments on the mix is welcome...the transitions need some work. I know the drums suck, I need to work on them. I may just actually record my kit after the new mics come in.

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Comments

12/12/06 + mlbot

wow, that was really a banjo? Unrecognizeable, at least to my banjo-deprived ears.

Yeah, replace those drums with a good recording... that'll be less work than trying to fix the ones you have, I imagine.

I still ove over-reverbed guitar solos. Or banjo solos. As long as they have tooooo muuuuch reverbbbbbb

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12/12/06 + monty

v-cool.
the drums need replacing. only cos the rest of the track works so well, its a shame that the drums bring it down a bit.
reverbed banjos are also good for hitting with drumsticks to get dubby percussion effects.

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edited: Dec 12 2006 + mlbot

what about pickin' a snare drum?

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edited: Dec 12 2006 + Roshi

The plucky thing/ethereal drone in the mix is the banjo...the guitar and cello take a lot of the room in the mix.

Have I mentioned that I love iZotope Trash? Best distortion plugin evar.

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12/12/06 + astroid

whohohoha

for some reason, this made me feel like a night walking around portland with a head full of lsd. really vividly.

love all the high details

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12/12/06 + subset

wow, portland must be depressing...
I agree with above comments. The drums must change.
I really like the mush of it all - great to 'get lost in' on headphones.
I don't think it needs a vocal necessarily, but I'd like to hear something breathy and ethereal to lead it along.
It's just the right length, too.

12/13/06 + Roshi

Thanks for the good feedback, guys...yeah, I'm gonna record drums for this definitely. Which means I have to go practice now.

Yeah, portland can get kinda depressing in the wintertime.

I hear you on the breathy, subset. I'm thinking I can dig out some choral "oohs" or "aaahs" and mix them a little low in the mix.

Recent blogs: Summer Reading - The rest is noise, oogazer set, Origins of Butterzone?

12/18/06 + midimacman

This song must echo the essence of Portland really, although I have never been there so I am only guessing.

I am quite unsure on how to fairly offer critique on this kind of "Shoegazer Distortion" type of style as you put it. I have never heard of such a thing, and since I live in Denver, Colorado I am often the last to know about all the cool stuff that is being developed on the coastal cities. Perhaps that is why I still use so many Quicktime Instruments, no oxymoron intended.

But sticking on focus here, I will agree with mlbot in his first comment, about the use of reverb may be a bit much. Perhaps more "Bowing"will be better brought out by backing a bit off the reverberation.

I thank you for sharing such a unique sound pallette, and mood is what this track was all about for me. I will certainly anticipate the release of your drum work.

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