Aphasiatic Fields

I've always found the sound of a big tuning fork wobbling freely on the strings of a guitar (laid flat) really mysterious and interesting. This track is a whole bunch of that, with a reverb patch that reverberates not the direct signal, but the signal passed through a bank of very short delays that act like a resonant comb filter. The track ends up with buzzing the rung tuning fork against various open strings. There's more of my stuff at https://soundcloud.com/seclude and it's all CC licenced. Hope you like.

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posted by nameinuse2 (5 comments total)

That sounds amazing! What's your signal chain?
posted by grumpybear69 at 2:15 PM on April 24, 2014

Cheers! For this one it was guitar -> line6 HD500 -> Gibson Echoplex -> Lexicon Vortex. The weird reverb is from the HD500 but otherwise the guitar tone is just a clean emulated fender twin. The Echoplex was just acting as a really long open delay, and I don't think the Vortex was doing much at all. Multitracked 4 layers of that in Ardour, then some Calf compressors, eqs, more reverb and a bit of tube saturation at the end.
posted by nameinuse2 at 5:03 PM on April 24, 2014

That was a real trip to listen to. Thanks for posting.
posted by greenish at 7:16 AM on April 25, 2014

Thanks greenish, a good trip i hope ;)
posted by nameinuse2 at 1:37 AM on April 26, 2014

Love this.
posted by jonathanbell at 3:18 PM on April 27, 2014