{"id":5170,"date":"2013-12-13T09:39:30","date_gmt":"2013-12-13T17:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=5170"},"modified":"2016-10-05T18:01:04","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T01:01:04","slug":"alternate-tunings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/13\/alternate-tunings\/","title":{"rendered":"alternate tunings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Been fiddling with the new pre-amp and ribbon microphone I built. Also with alternate tunings; I&#8217;ve found that tuning up a half-step really resonates my zouk; I&#8217;ll be doing that on the soundtrack album for Something&#8217;s Coming.<\/p>\n<p>Reminder: everything on <a href=\"http:\/\/music.crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\">Bandcamp is still set to pay-what-you-like download<\/a>. Grab while grabbing is good! Some of you have been and some of you have thrown tip money too, for which I think you muchly. ^_^<\/p>\n<p>I also found that dropping three steps but keeping the high string on E on the zouk results in kind of an E sus 2 opening tuning; it interacts interestingly playing against a mandolin in standard tuning. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/48493064\/blog-pre2016\/2013-12-12-pretty-cool-sis.mp3\">I made a quick recording of a simple progression &#8211; it&#8217;s rough, but you get the idea<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s recorded on the ribbon microphone and new pre-amp, too if you&#8217;re wondering what those sound like. I&#8217;ve no idea how to use this mic to best effect yet, but I&#8217;m liking the sound so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Been fiddling with the new pre-amp and ribbon microphone I built. Also with alternate tunings; I&#8217;ve found that tuning up a half-step really resonates my zouk; I&#8217;ll be doing that on the soundtrack album for Something&#8217;s Coming. Reminder: everything on Bandcamp is still set to pay-what-you-like download. Grab while grabbing is good! Some of you [&#038;hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diy","category-recording-gear","category-songs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9777,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5170\/revisions\/9777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}