Whenever I’m stuck in a project and don’t know how to continue I take a few minutes to try something different and generally opposite of what has already been done.
This could be making the long lush reverb really short, or running the vocals through all my guitar pedals at once, or making the drums really thin and lo-fi, or one of my favourites – copying and reversing a sound.
weird processing chain for a synth
Sometimes this little diversion from routine results in something cool that helps make the mix special or leads me to 2-3 other ideas and gets things exciting again.
If it doesn’t work, then I can feel better knowing that my first instinct was probably the right path already and I just needed a break.
This doesn’t have to involve effects either, changing to a different set of monitors, or headphones and continuing for a while this way can really help too.
My latest addition to the AGZFX store has been released. HELL PIANO is the result of intentionally short circuiting and reverse-engineering a Fisher Price toy piano from the ’80s.
256 mono wav files recorded and edited at 24bit, 96kHz. 10 KONTAKT instruments were created from these samples. This library/instrument is great for apocalyptic sound design, scoring and electronic music production. Find out more and buy AGZFX03: Hell Piano More AGZFX Sample Libraries
Attention
My collection of circuit bent toy samples is now $10. What!? Why???
This is closer to the price it should have been from the start. Since it is a niche product I could have charged way more for it. I feel this is still a very fair price. This price change does not affect previous purchases.
The details of the sample pack are here: http://www.audiogeekzine.com/toys-breaking-sample-cd/
Free Sound Of The Week is a new weekly series here on AGZ, once a week I’m going to share a couple sound samples I’ve recorded or created and manipulated.
This time I’m sharing some more samples of one of my circuitbent toys. This is a V-Tech Talking First Words toy, I modified it with a 1/4″ output jack and pitch control. I’ve included the 18 original sounds and 24 of twisting the pitch knob, I’ll post the rest of the set (54 more) another time.
Free Sound Of The Week is a new weekly series here on AGZ, once a week I’m going to share a couple sound samples I’ve recorded or created and manipulated.
This time I’m digging into the archives. What I’ve got this week is sounds from my circuit bent Speak & Math, from a few years ago. These are taken straight from my Toys Breaking library, if you like glitchy weird samples check that out.
There are 89 wave files, mono, 16 bit, 44.1kHz. DOWNLOAD HERE
A quick example of the sounds, just barely scratching the surface of what you can do is below
