Yep, it's that Halloweeny time of year again. A friend of mine designs and runs a haunted house with a circus theme and has had me do some music for it the last two years. I've got the newest stuff posted at www.purevolume.com/spyvsspy.
For those curious about these things, I used my CIJ Jazzmaster on everything. My recording rig is an M-Audio Firewire Solo into Cubase LE. Amp tones are courtesy of Amplitube 1. For drums I used the built-in drum machine from Cubase (it's pretty awful and generic but it keeps a beat).
"Bomp Chank" is direct, no amp sim.
"Plinky" rhythm and melody parts were Amplitube. The solo part was Fuzz Factory and Amplitube, and I might have disabled the speaker sim (can't remember). You can hear my AD-9 doing some self-oscillation at the end.
"Scary Surfer" (by far the lamest title I could bother to come up with) has me playing the melody direct through my Rat with the amp section of amplitube bypassed but still using a little 'verb and EQ. The "solo" section is me laughing maniacally, double-tracked, and pitch-shifted up a 3rd through a bunch of reverb. The bass is actually JM neck pickup pitch-shifted down an octave.
These are all mono - it makes the most sense given the setting in which they're heard. The stuff I did last year is on the haunted house's website: www.gillyshauntedcircus.com.
New music for a haunted circus
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New music for a haunted circus
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Re: New music for a haunted circus
That's great work. Sounds like a cool haunted house!
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Re: New music for a haunted circus
Thanks, man! I went through it (the house) the other night and it scared the crap out of me.
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