Electronic Sound Design & Effects Chains

(effect chain on base drum and snare tracks)

Why redo the work if it’s already been done?  That’s often my thought when going for a particular sound.  It’s usually easiest to take the closest preset available and tweak it until it is close enough.  I still whole-heartedly support this mindstate, as the minutiae can easily sidetrack and destroy whatever vision was forming when you sat down to begin work.

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The Throw Away Music Series

I spend alot of time working on initial ideas that never end up evolving into anything usable for any project.  Normally I just pack these quick one to two hour experiments up into a folder, where it then lays forever forgotten.  I figured that instead of doing that, it could be cool to post them on a somewhat hidden blog instead.  Here’s tonight’s throwaway experiment. It utilizes a source sound of the spring of the cup holder in my car (when you expand it to allow for a drink to fit in), with basic drum tracks and a very basic oscillator.

http://www.robothorseproductions.com/music/general/SpringBug.mp3