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Some of my stuff might be described as ambient, but I'm currently leaning towards abstract as a better description.
It's a mixture of fun pedals working on sounds from various sources and the resultant sound files chopped up and messed around with in Audacity.
I occasionally go through periods of "should I make this more musical/normal/typical ?" but tbh I enjoy what I do, regardless of whether anyone else does so I just keep on doing my own thing.
I find that with abstract paintings, even if they're all by the same artist, I like some and not others, so my approach is to make something I like and put it out there for others to try if they like, if it's not for them then that's fine by me.
My next album will take me up to 400 pieces made, and each one has been fun to make - it keeps me amused (and maybe sane too, to some degree) and passes an evening better than drinking a bottle of wine
I agree with this a lot too. If pushing tmy reflection I would say that musicians that cars too much about the form and too little about the impulse are very likely missing a point.
Very often I find that the artists that define a new genre are far less concern about fitting in that genre as the ones that jump in the bandwagon and milk and often ruin it.
By ruining I mean claiming and protecting the codes and boundaries of a style. Conservative ( almost academic ) thinking
An observation on the Flint. The 80’s reverb with full decay adds a lot of volume and power, the signal gets dirtier even slight feedback, it seems to get out of control. Which can be cool of course but I think I might need something more pristine or controllable.
Eventide - space
Empress Reverb - Ghost mode
Bigsky - Cloud
Source audio - E-dome
Walrus - Slo but also love the Fathom
delays
Anything Strymon really but the Ventris does some really cool unusual ambient stuff on drum setting the Dig also
FTT sound awesome
Empress echostation has loads of great delays and some unusual delay modes which work great
im trying to put a similar ambient type board together now to inspire thats not the normal stuff also struggling as to what to sell haha!!
Fairly sure I never got the hang of stacking delays. When I was in a band I had two delays ( one short, one long) generally used separately but I could make a crazy noise if I had both on but only if the short one first, the other way around the short delay seemed to do nothing. I suspect it would help if they were more different sounding.
I now have an OBNE Minim. It's incredible. It might be the first pedal that has really blown me away. So many different sounds can be made from this, it's incredibly inspiring. I'm feeding the reverb from the Slo into it. I have an Alexander Sky Fi and a Walrus Audio Arp 87 on the way. Also a Ditto X4. And watching a few yoo toob tutorials from the usual ambient suspects.
First clip sounds amazing!
I guess I'll throw a clip out.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/0w4jvdax6r8bysa/DarkMenuMusic.mp3?dl=0
I don't really remember what the chain was, but I'm pretty sure the Volante was in it!
This is from The start of 2019 when I almost quit my job to be a games composer. Mate was offering me a job but he couldn't get the funding in the end, which was a damn shame!
I’m surprised how well my phone recorded the clip I posted. It was on the floor in front of the amp. I have a mic now, I’ll attempt recording with that next.
Pity about the job, that would have been an awesome way to make a living.