Last night Mike and I did some recording in his basement. The brief was "extreme ambience" - inspired by hearing Eno's "Thursday Afternoon" over at the Ambientia podcast. Our recent podcasts have been rather dark and/or complex, so I was interested to do some classic ambient stuff.
We had lots of new toys to play with - I had my Nord Lead 3 (a bargain from eBay) which I've had for a while but never really gotten to grips with. Mike had a new audio interface for the Mac (yay! I don't have to lug mine over there in future). We also had my new Crossfade Loop Synth Effect plugin to give a workout. So plenty of distractions there. :) Plus various gear problems arose - bad hum, electro-acoustic guitar with apparently dead battery etc.
Anyway, we overcame all that. The results were, as I recall, excellent. (Not listened back to it all yet.) We didn't achieve the ambient I was thinking of, but we did achieve some fantastic drones. Maybe drones is the wrong word - the music was droney, but interesting and ever changing. Expect to hear plenty of it in future podcast episodes!
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