I.O.U

I arrived home from a terrible day at work on Saturday, feeling horrible and grotey. I switched the computer on, listened to it bleep and clunk start up, and typed in my password. Had the intention to try and recreate dubstep using my bass and pedal, which I knew would be incredibly difficult.

So, I wired up my Zoom pedal and bass to my computer and began to experiment with the sound. Number 35, adjusting the tone, pitch, volume; messing around the pedal. I was lazily using my fingers and the pedal and began coming up with a really easy bass riff. It sounds brilliant though. I play the note a few times and then push the pedal back for a small bit and it turns the note into a rusty sound. Almost reminds me of something Kings of Leon would have done on 'Only by the Night' or 'Because of the Times'.

I then wanted to do this tune to a drum beat, to get a good sound. I found a perfect one, that I have in a folder of numerous sample beats I downloaded in 2008. It is a dry, rock beat with a few fills. The drum loop only lasted for 20 seconds or so, so I had to edit it and make it last an entire song length. Put the edited beat on Making Waves, recorded the bass riff, and then put them both onto Audacity. Sounds fucking awesome.

It was sounding so good, and I had had an idea a few days ago to re-record an old rock song, called IOU, written back in 2005/06. So, I started to re-learn the guitar riff, changed the fret, and it fit perfectly with this new bass riff and drum beat. Too good to be true actually. So recorded that. The timing of the beat is slightly odd, so at first the guitar is trying to find itself in the song, but as I got into it, it worked better than I would have expected.

At this point I wondered what else I could do to it with the time I had. It sounded so good. I thought, if I do something to the drums it could sound even better. So I copied the fills in the drums and layered them over one another, at slightly different times. This then created amazing drum fills. I was so happy with the result, that I edited the fills from the middle of the song until the end. It sounds pretty impressive. I ran out of time to keep working on it, but I will hopefully have this song finished soon.

Watch this space,
Wullae

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