There is intermittent bleating about some boom system across the street which has such bass it shakes the windows through the house. My familiarity with loud is deep and long-lasting and this is way, way the hell too loud. Any time I've been that loud, I've enjoyed another visit from the police and these visits have not been uncommon in my life. Nobody calls the police now because ... cops. Nobody wants that kind of trouble just for someone being an asshole.
So ...
Yevette went to look to discover what is happening but that's like the way men will go to look at a motor in a car when it breaks. It never does anything but seems important at the time.
My approach was different. It's time for Sound Wars.
This is absolutely a Fish That Got Away story as this was brutal.
Prior to doing anything the mike opens with, "Let's see just how much of an asshole I can be."
I don't believe I have ever opened a set with that one previously.
Kick into an absolutely brutal synth voice with heavy arpeggiation which meant it was effectively in an infinite loop. Kick that into the looper with a heavy house beat at 140 bpm. Savor the ambience at -20 dB because you know it's belting loud now, much louder than for an actual performance, but it can get a whole lot louder yet.
This is sound. This is war.
So the looper sucks that up and it's belting in an arpeggiation starting on F. That gets turned over to loop so that means find another voice with heavy arpeggiation and play that over the top in some sort of looney riff in F. This gives two heavily-arpeggiated high impact voices with monster drums underneath and it was vicious ... but it was kind of damn cool. Even Yevette came back and said she was diggin' it and I was thinking even she might be pissed off about this one. War is all very well but you didn't need to break the windows and the plumbing with it.
I broke the Record Everything Rule and definitely am crying about it now. That one should not have got away as there's no simulating this is one angry mofo driving dis bitch.
And dat angry mofo is the winnah! Sound Wars Champion 2015 and once again the world is silent.
(Ed: and you didn't even get shot)
Well, not yet. It's still Texas.
(Ed: well, if you do get shot, remember as you croak you could have recorded it but you didn't. Sleep well.)
So ...
Yevette went to look to discover what is happening but that's like the way men will go to look at a motor in a car when it breaks. It never does anything but seems important at the time.
My approach was different. It's time for Sound Wars.
This is absolutely a Fish That Got Away story as this was brutal.
Prior to doing anything the mike opens with, "Let's see just how much of an asshole I can be."
I don't believe I have ever opened a set with that one previously.
Kick into an absolutely brutal synth voice with heavy arpeggiation which meant it was effectively in an infinite loop. Kick that into the looper with a heavy house beat at 140 bpm. Savor the ambience at -20 dB because you know it's belting loud now, much louder than for an actual performance, but it can get a whole lot louder yet.
This is sound. This is war.
So the looper sucks that up and it's belting in an arpeggiation starting on F. That gets turned over to loop so that means find another voice with heavy arpeggiation and play that over the top in some sort of looney riff in F. This gives two heavily-arpeggiated high impact voices with monster drums underneath and it was vicious ... but it was kind of damn cool. Even Yevette came back and said she was diggin' it and I was thinking even she might be pissed off about this one. War is all very well but you didn't need to break the windows and the plumbing with it.
I broke the Record Everything Rule and definitely am crying about it now. That one should not have got away as there's no simulating this is one angry mofo driving dis bitch.
And dat angry mofo is the winnah! Sound Wars Champion 2015 and once again the world is silent.
(Ed: and you didn't even get shot)
Well, not yet. It's still Texas.
(Ed: well, if you do get shot, remember as you croak you could have recorded it but you didn't. Sleep well.)
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