Hello, it’s me again with another failure. My chord is Bm13, specifically the quartal voicing BEADG, which by sheer convenience consists of the standard tuning of a 5-string bass.
My sound sources: the open strings of three basses (a 5-string with neodymium pickups, a semi-acoustic 5-string with piezo pickup, and a 4-string U-Bass with piezo pickup), recorded clean DI, each processed through SuperCollider to reverse direction in the pattern Fw, Rv, Fw, Rv Rv at 150 bpm giving it a 5/8 feel;
myself performing lip trills, slowed down & pitched up;
an FM synth playing that 3+2 pattern.
I trimmed the bass recordings based on how long they each took to decay by 40 dB. These worked out roughly to multiples of 12 bars with the U-Bass much shorter, so I made 12-bar patterns with the synth from B up to G and distributed the bass parts round-robin style, with the lip trills sometimes acting like an independent voice and sometimes taking over from a bass part that’s just ended while the next one is still very quiet. (I wasn’t very formal about it.) Some delay & reverb, tasteful by my usual standards.
I’m calling it “another failure” because it doesn’t really sound like the prompt. There’s also an alternate version I made yesterday that was even worse in that respect (I recorded the basses with effects already rather than clean) buried in the mix.
