#4

Here’s mine! I used the Ableton project, which unfortunately had a few glitches, but I sorted it out pretty quickly. Played a few notes and recorded some loops, which I then passed through various effects (Izotope Trash features heavily). Then I played those loops live, tweaking volumes and filters.

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#5

Hey All, I had trouble to with ableton also so I just used a caught few tasty wavs to use. Added some other stuff. I hope the idea of a huge guitar is there.

Peace, Hugh

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#6

all iOS construction

#bigguitar individual samples
5 tracks in AUM
4 with Enzo looper inserts
1 with FAC envolver insert controlling some parameters in the other ones (Enzo)
live mix to an AUM mixbus track, with FAC máxima insert

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#7

noisy one this.
i ran 6 samples through protoplasm and guitar fx in podfarm
played around recorded the midi, then had some randomization on the notes on one of the tracks, and slowed it down

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#8

Hello everyone, I hope you are all well. I’m in England for a month, without my gear, so I’ll be exploring Audacity during the next few Junto projects. Major thanks to @bassling for all his hard work sampling BIG GUITAR. I used two samples:

S1F6-mic 3.wav
S6F22-mic 3.wav

and pushed them multiple times and in multiple orders through various delay, reverb, pitch and paul-stretch settings. Played with volume and panning and compression before discovering a new trick right near the end - using “sliding stretch” at different rates in the left and right channels. The intro is from my android phone recording of a thunderstorm that rolled over us on the very evening that this project was announced.

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#9

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The inspiration for this piece comes from my childhood/teenage observation of my dad’s guitars hanging in the living room and how human voices, impulse-like sounds and other musical instruments would - depending on their loudness and/or proximity - ocassionally cause these stationary instruments to resonate sympathetically and sound.

I started by selecting a few nice resonant tones from the Narrandera big guitar. Looping these in Ableton so that they drifted in and out of phase with each other, I removed the attacks from each of the notes to create a continous drone that pulsated periodically. I sent the output from Ableton - via a 20w amp - to a Digitech exciter (i.e. transducer) which I placed on the soundboard ‘sweet spot’ of one of my dad’s old guitars. This guitar has been in my possession for over 20 years - a 1976 Tama acoustic.

The surface of the Tama in effect becomes a resonater for the Narrandera guitar tones as they are ‘transplanted’ into the acoustic body of the Tama. Throughout the recording I occasionally strum the strings of the Tama - slack tuned and in approximate harmony with the Narrandera guitar tones. I also physically move the transducer from the Tama’s sweet spot to other areas of the soundboard surface; which in effect, articulate different resonant qualities of the Narrandera guitar tones, and also makes audible some of the discrete artefacts of the Narrandera recordings.

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#10

what a beautiful story and accompanying recording process… fantastic work!!

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#11

Thank you! Yes, it’s one of those enduring early memories/observations, which eventually dovetailed with the later discovery of those sound/acoustic poets such as Alvin Lucier and others. :slight_smile:

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#12

Ah, this is fantastic! Love those deep resonances and a wonderful spatial impressions too!

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#13

cool sounds :slight_smile:

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#14

Fantastic concept!

You might want to do a search on here for Garlands or Vulneraries to hear something else vaguely related exploring the body of a guitar as resonator. It’s also father and son duets, so there’s some background layer there…

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#15

All sound is but textures to form a pallet

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#16

https://soundcloud.com/matthewh538/acoustic-expanse-disquiet0395

Really great concept this week.

I downloaded the Ableton project and worked solely within that. I duplicated the track a couple of times:

  • Some “chords” which kind of set the rhythm of the track
  • A twangy melody playing over the top
  • A simpler version of the melody with some auto filter plugins applied
  • A long sustained single C note with a bit of frequency shifted echo applied towards the end

Reverb, delay, frequency echo and filter return tracks

There is what sounds like a bum note at some point. I couldn’t quite figure out where it was coming from since all of the tracks are built up of very simple (4 bar!) loops. I think it must be something on one of the effects tracks because it only happens when I listen straight through rather than if I go directly to the timestamp where the problem happens. In the end I decided to leave it in because its kind of unexpected so the brain suddenly becomes alert again and it gives it a more natural feel.

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#17

lovely drone, i really like this

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#19

The biggest guitar in the southern hemisphere is in Narrandera, Australia… also some of the biggest waves can be found in Australia. So I had to do surf music with the samples. I just took the individual samples and arranged them into a surf riff based on based on string and fret numbers. Add drums and reverb. It came out really strange :slight_smile:

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#20

The playlist is now rolling:

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#21

Thanks Marc for the prompt, and thanks @bassling for the great samples!

I downloaded the individual samples from big-guitar.com/download, dropped a couple into Ableton Live Simpler along with a percussion loop, then set up my Casio MIDI guitar to play the samples. “S1F12-mic3” comes in first, on the bass-- eerily reminiscent of a DX-7 FM bass, with a nice percussive edge. “S1F4-mic3” then comes in on the rhythm, sounding a bit like a subdued Hammond B-3. Last comes another copy of “S1F4-mic3” on the solo. I added a bit of chorus and reverb to make it stand out a little.

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#22

I used the first three “BENDS-mic…”-WAVs, because they contained voices and I liked them. I granulated these sounds with different tools and joined the results of 10 different sessions together again. I added some very subtile live sequencing accompaniment just to connect me to the guitar players.

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#23

I randomly started to play some arabic notes on my keyboard and this came out, maybe because I’m frustrated to not have seen Aladdin on the cinema. Then I only just added one note of the biggest guitar on the universe to this and voilà.

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#24

https://soundcloud.com/big-guitar/basslings-theme-for-big-guitar-disquiet0395

This week I tried jamming with the samples using my MIDI guitar and it sounded terrible.

So I went back to basics and made a bassline using the Live instrument, then added some of the sampled instruments from Ableton.

I liked the expansive theme and this result feels a tune for traveling highways.

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Pic by Wasabi Jones

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