Ambient guitar and synthesizer jam - Jaguar, Sub Phatty, Minitaur, Timbre Wolf, RS-09

Описание: Volume 2 of the "Circuits and Strings" series from subtractiveLAD aka: Stephen Hummel.

This jam is in a darker, slightly more psychedelic vein. An ambient guitar progression played on my Fender Jaguar is underlined by sequencer-driven synth lines. The Moog Minitaur and Sub Phatty are both sequenced by the Arturia Beatstep via Reaper which is also acting as the master clock. The Beatstep is sync'd to Reaper's clock but sending its step sequenced pattern back into Reaper via USB and then out of Reaper again to the Minitaur and Sub Phatty via each synth's respective USB connection. Reaper's master clock is also sent to the Akai Timbre Wolf but the Wolf's internal sequencer is doing all the work - in "mono" mode each of the 4 voices has its own sequenced pattern. The flow of the piece is punctuated by swells from my Roland RS-09 and a heavier guitar tone, again from the Jaguar.

Let's see if I can remember the effects chains...

The Minitaur and Sub Phatty are panned slightly away from each other and have a bit of reverb on them via the Line 6 Verbzilla on my mixer's effects bus.

The Timbre Wolf is plugged into my Boss RE-20 Space Echo before hitting the mixer. Some auto-panning was also applied in mixing.

The RS-09 is also getting some reverb from the Verbzilla and some additional reverb during mixing, in Reaper.

The main ambient guitar performance on the Jag is going through my Keeley 4 Knob Compressor, the Strymon TimeLine and my Walrus Audio Descent reverb pedal... with volume pedal swells on the VP Jr. Some subtle spacial effects were added in mixing.

The distorted Jag stuff at the end is through the Keeley again and into an EHX Big Muff fuzz pedal.

Both guitar parts were into my Fender Hot Rod Deluxe and mic'd by a Shure SM57.

Everything was recorded and mixed in Reaper.