{"id":8435,"date":"2015-12-19T09:00:54","date_gmt":"2015-12-19T17:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=8435"},"modified":"2015-12-19T09:00:54","modified_gmt":"2015-12-19T17:00:54","slug":"3d-printed-working-gear-cube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/19\/3d-printed-working-gear-cube\/","title":{"rendered":"3d printed working gear cube"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Check this printed toy out. It doesn&#8217;t look like all that much for the first minute but the thing actually moves.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ArGg3fdqLj4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Recorded &#8220;scratch tracks&#8221; for &#8220;Supervillain For I Love You&#8221; yesterday, prep work for the big show at Conflikt in January. It&#8217;s basically so the other people who will be in the band for that show can learn it.<\/p>\n<p>Also comped the bass tracks for &#8220;Thirteen.&#8221; This time bass <eM>tracks<\/em> doesn&#8217;t mean multiple bass lines, tho&#8217; you certainly know I&#8217;ve done that before. This time, it means one &#8220;dry&#8221; (no-effects) track and one &#8220;wet&#8221; (effects) track, which I then mix together in a ratio.<\/p>\n<p>Normally the &#8220;wet&#8221; and &#8220;dry&#8221; are in one track, generated live via plugins. But in this case it&#8217;s actually two separate performances, because the effects I&#8217;m using &#8211; a <em>really<\/eM> crunchy bass amp, an overdrive box, a little bit of old-school chorusing &#8211; are all external to my computer. So I&#8217;m treating the recording of that external-effected performance as an effect in and of itself, putting it in a separate recording track, and mixing with the &#8220;dry&#8221; bass guitar recording.<\/p>\n<p>One neat side-benefit is that since once they&#8217;re both in the DAW they&#8217;re basically just two recordings, I can edit how long it takes each individual note&#8217;s instance of the &#8220;effect&#8221; to show up. It&#8217;s kind of like being able to set the pre-delay on a <em>per note basis<\/em>. I&#8217;m not doing much of that because in practice it&#8217;d be weird to do so, but there are a couple of places where it makes aural sense to loosen and tighten up the crunch timing. So hey, extra work, but bonus nonetheless!<\/p>\n<p>Best part of this bass line tho&#8217; is &#8211; well, there are two things. One: first recording of the Godin A5 Fretless that Anna got me for Bassmas last year. Two: crunky as fuck. Okay, so, three. Three things. Three: <eM>So goddamn deep<\/eM>. I am using <em>all<\/eM> of this fifth string. Seriously, this entire bass line is being played on the bottom two strings of a five.<\/p>\n<p>aw yeah. deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep bassing.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><i>Use cyber2015 at checkout for 20% off all music, including<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/music.crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/album\/bone-walker\">Bone Walker<\/a>, <i>the long-list Grammy Award nominated album.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check this printed toy out. It doesn&#8217;t look like all that much for the first minute but the thing actually moves. Recorded &#8220;scratch tracks&#8221; for &#8220;Supervillain For I Love You&#8221; yesterday, prep work for the big show at Conflikt in January. 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