March Composition challenge

[lurksalot]

MoonBassAlpha takes a deserved win for February and of course, has the honour of the picture choice for March.

 

He muses...

 

"I've been thinking about the photo and this came to mind. I  was working a short contract in Oxford with a group who make instruments for satellite and lander missions and had a spell in the clean room. I  thought this could suggest more sinister stories though..."

 

 

 

 

✅ Entries must be <5 minutes and recorded between now and the deadline.

❌ No illegal samples, copyright infringements or other snide goings-on

❌ No Bagpipes, They would be impossible to decontaminate for a clean room! 

❌ No voting for your own entry. We'll know. And we'll shame you..

 

Deadline-wise, we will go for Midnight on Starsky's birthday, the 25th March 

 

A line or two of blurb as usual for the vote thread will be super duper smashing lovely. 

 

Good luck, Have fun 

 

[Baloney Balderdash]

Just recorded this:

 

As last time recorded through this setup (bar the added Orange Juice overdrive in place of clean blend with the Turbo RAT distortion) :

 

5 string 28.6" scale Ibanez GSRM25 Mikro Bass (strung with Elixir Nanoweb guitar strings, of the gauges .080 - .062 - .046 - .036 - .026, tuned in G# standard tuning, that is one half step bellow the upper 5 strings of a 7 string bass in regular B standard tuning) ->

 

->> XVive Undulator (tremolo pedal, but never actually engaged and used exclusively for its great buffer) ->> EHX Black Finger (tube driven optical compressor, with 2 preamp tubes operating at proper high 300V plate voltage, primarily functioning as a tube preamp stage, driven to just at the edge of the tubes's breakup point, but with some very subtle compression dialed in as well) ->> TC Electronic Sub'N'Up Mini (for adding a 1 octave up, mimicking an effect somewhat similar to that of an 8 string bass, using a custom made Toneprint) ->> DigiTech FreqOut (feedback generator) ->>  Boss LS-2 [A+B Mix <-> Bypass] (parallel effect loops mixer/switch) ={ [Loop A Send] ->> Mosky Black Rat (RAT clone, in Turbo RAT, LED diode clipping, mode, quite raunchy, high gain distortion, always used blended with the Orange Juice overdrive from parallel effects [Loop B]) ->> [Loop A Return] ->|+|<- [Loop B Send] ->> Orange Juice (Orange amp like medium gain overdrive, always blended with the Black Rat distortion from parallel effects [Loop A]) ->> [Loop B Return] ([Loop A] + [Loop B] mixed at an approximate 70/30 ratio) => [LS-2 Output] }=>->> Boss LS-2 [A+B Mix <-> Bypass] (parallel effect loops mixer/switch) ={ [Loop A Send] ->> Joyo Oxford Sound (clone of the Tech 21 Oxford, which is an all analog emulation of an Orange Amp type preamp, dialed in to deliver a high gain overdrive, always used blended with "clean" signal from parallel effects [Loop B]) ->> [Loop A Return] ->|+|<- [Loop B Send] ->> ([Loops B] empty, used to blend in "clean" signal) ->> [Loop B Return] ([Loop A] + [Loop B] mixed at an approximate 50/50 ratio) => [LS-2 Output] }=>->> Zoom B1Xon (used predominantly as reverb and delay unit, including my always on {very subtle Plate Reverb -> subtle Spring Reverb} subtle reverb patch) ->> Mosky XP Booster (Xotic EP Booster V.1 clone) ->> NUX Tape Core Deluxe (amazing digital emulation of the legendary Roland RE-201 Space Echo tape delay, most of the time dialed in to deliver a lush reverb like effect) ->> NUX (NBP-5) Melvin Lee Davis Bass Preamp + DI  (loaded with a digitally emulated Aguilar Tone Hammer amp, and an Ampeg SVT-212AV IR cab simulation, with HPF @40Hz, LPF @14kHz, and a subtle low gain overdrive blended in at a 50/50 clean/drive ratio) ->

 

->> ART Tube MP Project Series (tube preamp and DI, with build in HPF, fixed @40Hz, engaged, tube driven to just on the verge of breakup point) 

 

-> Zoom H4n (handheld recorder)

 

With all units being engaged through the entire recording (bar the tremolo at the very start of the signal chain, used exclusively as a buffer).

 

 

Sunn O))) -esque feedback-laden (thanks to the Digitech FreqOut)  drony solo bass doom sludge. And as last time a first take. Exactly as recorded, with no post-production whatsoever.

 

 

 

Edited Saturday at 12:10 by Baloney Balderdash