Marble Tracks- Fast Hands Solo with sqrt effects

These are two effect heavy ambient mixes of relaxation marbles/balls solo I recorded in my house, performed by the renowned percussionist Fast Hands.  The dirt mix is layers upon layers of effects, all effects on everything, over and over.  The weedalivpmix is a live mixer mix of effects coming in at different times.

-----Marble Solo- dirt mix-----

-----Marble Solo- weedalivpmix-----

Cicada Field Recording plus a Tweaked Out Ambient Version

I just moved into a new house and the evening cicada drone near my new pad is amazing.  For hours each night, these bugs crescendo and decrescendo in this heat of summer in Lawrence.  These bugs are looking for love, and their are lots of them doing so.  It is like the booty club in college towns on a Friday after midnight.  I recorded about 12 minutes of this the other evening and then did a tweaked out ambient drone mix of it.  Below is playback and download links to the dry and EFXd 12 minute version, and a download link to a 1 min hi-res wav sample of the dry recording.  Signal chain- NT1A->MOTU 828 ver01.  Remix Signal Chain, I can't remember, but there were lots of flangers.

----A 1 minute wav file of the Cicada Crescendo----

----The 12 min mp3 of the Cicada Crescendo Original Recording----

----The 12 min mp3 of the Cicada Crescendo Tweaked Out Ambient Drone Mix----

Ambient Accordion Mix from New Years 2010 Owl People Jam

The Saturday after NYs, I took my trusty 828 and hit the Owl People's crib up and dropped some jamz on a hard disk. They had a friend of theirs come over and over dub some accordion. In my past I have been very critical of accordions, cause I ain't too fond of them. This young lady, however, play a cool drone that had a very lost and somber feel to it. I mixed a regular mix down for these cats, and then I did a 5 min or so sparce mix of the accordion as the main part with noisey pad pards fading in and out. Verb Heavy, ya feel me? I also used this big EV interface mixer I have in my house currently to mix it down (ran each track out of the audio interface into the mixer and ran the two track into another computer and hit record, kinda like they used to do with those funny tape machines, or so I hear). aka summing. I do recommend this, it seems to create space for every instrument naturally than what in side my old laptops do. I had a feedback loop recording too while they were running through thier takes (they couldn't hear) and I faded it up a time or two as well. I really had a good time mixing this track.

Owl People with Accordion Angie- ambient board mix