“Kindly Light”
Adak City
Kindly Light, by Adak City
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Clean — Loveless Twins Quartet, New Jersey, 1927
Steep sweeps; bad gramophone simulations
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A little movement — eighth notes synced up with Bass tremolo in Trem Control
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Beatific ghosts left a message on your voicemail
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Snaps
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Clean — Reverberated snaps
Increased lumens in a dark room
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Deep Harmonic tremolo for a subtle triplet decay
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Back and forth, with spectral and phase
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Drums
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Clean — At one point this was Bernard Purdie
Purdie’s winning entry for the tenor drum competition
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Larger kick drum, faster tremulations in stereo
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Gradually diminishing "Inverse" compression
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Clean — Baroque synth below
Hi-pass, hitting the eighths in both ears, tightened up with crossfeed
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Offbeat-synced the tremolo, then automated some low-pass squelches with Lohi
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Or don’t overthink it, just spend 5 minutes tweaking Vulf Compressor
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