kaboodle, djkaboodle Kaboodle Sound
Bass Apocalypse [disquiet0022-sonicdecay]

This was created as part of a soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto assignment, but was chopped down and thoroughly mangled. It is kind of an offshoot from the assignment.

Equipment used: (some cheap, semi-shitty, and some decent stuff)

• a modifed Tanglewood Stratocaster copy with a sitar bridge
• an E-bow
• an old Panasonic tape recorder
• a Behringer bass amp
• a Digitech multi-effects pedal
• a Behringer DI box
• a guitar slide

I recorded over a cassette tape of 'The Very Best of Dollar' which was already in bad condition and very old when I bought it for 10p in a charity shop several years ago. To erase all trace of Dollar, I recorded feedback fed through a flanger first, and then recorded this guitar work with slide and E-bow.

As any guitarist can tell, I am not a guitarist. This is just an experimental piece that was going to be mangled to death. But I kind of liked it, so I stuck it up here.

The guitar sounds so low because the Digitech effects pedal was set to make the sound an octave lower. Also, I tune my guitar to 432hz instead of the usual 440, just for the Hell of it. And my guitar is tuned to DADAAD instead of EADGBE.

I messed about with the recording in Audacity, multi-tracking the guitar and pitching it down even further in the left and right channels. Also, I cut out about 2 minutes worth of guitar wankery because it was just too embarrassing. Other than that, it's one take, near enough left alone apart from what I just explained...

If you fancy remixing it or adding more instruments, go ahead - just let me know what you did with it. I'll probably do something else with it myself.

The track image is adapted from this one:
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