Finished Patchbays, Experimental Tracks, night., Chapel Supremesus Mix Updateā¦
Finished up the wiring and patchbay update. Nice clean labeling on all inputs, color coded and much easier to read. Upgraded all the snakes to the console with much more robust cabling- more detail on that in the last post. Added all the studio instruments to the bay and console Line Inputs for quick and easy recording, filling up all those inputs on the bay. Nice also to get all of the outboard gear readily accessible.
The updated patchbay flexibility makes it quick to try some interesting signal paths on the fly and get creative with sound processing. Also itās very nice having the secondary patchbay and live racks linked to the main rack patchbay, and having them all interconnected and normaled to the console. Ā
Revisiting some old pieces of outboard gear which have been overlooked with the addition of so many amazing plugins has been pretty fun switching it up a bit. Though definitely I love the virtual modeled plugin versions of all those classic pieces of gear, and I will admit to being mostly immersed in the virtual software world for the most part in the last few years, there is something so nice and creatively inspiring about being able to get that direct experience of patching in a piece of gear and the tactile response turning the knobsā¦ not to mention that whole thing of having to get creative when working within the set of limitations actual hardware inherently imposes on the process.
Also upgraded the patch cables to some very nice military-grade ADC trs cables which were found at a crazy low price on eBay. Itās kind of insane, each of these cables if bought new, individually go for like $30ā¦ I have no idea who buys a 1ā patch cable at that price, I found 1ā,2ā, and 3ā for around $4-$5 each. I really like the ultra slim connectors, very much like the smaller TT jacks but in the Ā¼" format.
While testing the bay connections, I was watching an amazing John Cage / Avant Garde Documentary in the background and got inspired. I realized Iām not hitting record nearly enough, and over a few nights made a pretty crazy textural noise piece using ultra massively distorted guitar, and Moog synth triggering some nice side-chain compression on the guitars, lots of spring reverb weirdness and some mangled samples of John Cage talking about his chance operations composition approach.
In checking out all the connections and sound mangling, got very inspired to make more strange textural pieces so there just might be a series of avant-experimental-noise inspired tracks coming soon- I will post those as more of a theme and direction for the project take shape.
In other studio news, work on the upcomingĀ night. EP continues, andĀ all of Kerryās parts are recorded for the Chapel Supremesus, Day I Achieved Contact re-release so the mixing stage has begun. Very excited to get that and the new commentary DVD done soon. The addition of Kerryās flute, bass, melodica, and ethereal vocals are adding a new life and dimension to the project. We are all very excited for the next stage of the project. Progress has been slow moving as we have all been busy in other aspects of music, life, ect, ect. All new tracks are on the way as well, we will most certainly be adding some live dates to support the re-release so stay tunedā¦
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