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the red balloon

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"The Red Balloon" is essentially an exercise. I decided I wouldn’t use any sample libraries or anything that wasn’t my own. At core, it’s using a couple of different passes using guitars and outboard gear and then using recordings of a whistling tea kettle.

Initially, I used my guitar routed through a looper pedal. It’s a simple three chord progression and then reversed. It’s routed through two distortion pedals and then through a dual-delay module. It’s all running through a small amp that I have mic’d with an sm57 and going into Nuendo. I basically let it run and record for several cycles. After cleaning it up a bit in Nuendo, I grabbed the guitar again and did the little melodic passages using essentially the same setup (although I changed settings on the delay), although I didn’t use the looper. I recorded that stuff live.

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released March 8, 2012
Music & Mix: Zachary Quarles

Artwork by Andrew Trabbold: andrewtrabbold.blogspot.com

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singlefrequency, an experimental music project by award-winning sound designer Zachary Quarles, merges post-rock and cinematic motifs with analogue grit. Each track is a tape-worn journey through mysterious soundscapes.

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