Adrian is spot on with his crits of the entries, so all that remains is to crit his:
@Adrian - a worthy opponent indeed. Delay was front and center and it's a nifty and unusual piece of music - well crafted, good recording, excellent production. Me love long time... If I were to find any fault at all it would be that the sampled voice was almost '80s synthpop (N-N-N-N-Nineteen) - something which was done to death (kind of like using Autotune as effect is today), so has negative connotations for me.
Adrian Rogowski wrote:
Alan: Ah, Alan, I don't think much needs to be said about your song. You say this is all one guitar? If so, you already have my vote! Then again, I am convinced your mother gave you a tape delay for your first birthday or something. You are born to use delay haha! Great track.
Delay and I go way back, but not quite to the days of tape. My first delay was a Boss DD3 digital in the early '90s. However I did end up with seven of the things, so do have more than a passing acquaintance with them. Best effect ever after - even more than drive.
Kalcium wrote:
Alan, I have no idea how you manage to think about and manage so many different signals coming from you guitar at once and make it sound so good!
Thanks! To be honest, not my best performance (there's a few clams and many missed accents), but I was pressed for time. I think key to using delay is locking in to it and feeling what is happening subconsciously, rather than listening consciously. With something like this, where the repeats are as loud as the original sound, listening too closely will mess you up as you will try to lock into the extra melodic patterns being created by the delay, rather than keeping on track with what you should be playing.
V8 wrote:
Alan : I reckoned I've heard this before - one of the tracks you did yonks ago demo for FX's uploaded to
http://ratcliffe.co.za/? Now expanded into a tune? I'll venture out of my cave to see you do this live, anytime.
That's exactly it - it's a piece I originally wrote with two guitars and a bass part ages ago. It is loosely based on King Crimson-style "rhythmic displacement", where the parts are the same, but played at different times, creating really complex rhythmic interplay. For a long time, I've been wanting to figure out how to pull it off as a solo piece live using delays. I'm pleased with where it is going so far, but next step is the drum part, which will likely screw up everything...
