Feb 2022 casio casiocore spacey expansive big reverbanddelay
I haven't done a big sonic palette yet this FAWM and I was inspired after hearing a great song by @loveonamixtape that is a completely different style than this one. But, she has a Casio CT360 just like me and I wanted to play it. I recorded the 16 bar drum beat as slow as the keyboard would go. Then I recorded it again going through my Donner White Tape delay pedal, which has two separate L/R delays and controls for each. I panned those left and right in the mix and cut between the 'normal' drum track, which has a boatload of reverb on it and the delayed tracks.
Next I added the chords (pretty much making them up as I went because, you know, there are not many) with the fabulous "Synth Sound" on the Casio. Love that... I played the same part on my Roland RX202 string synth to add to the texture, and then played a bass part on the string synth.
Then, to really give it some sections, I played an electric guitar into a bunch of pedals (listed below) and headed into my 1973 Traynor YBA-1 amp. I was nearly there, but needed to make it bigger, so I added a synth bass part using my VolcaBass. :)
I have been thinking of the new James Webb Telescope, which is now fully deployed and zooming through space. I can't wait to see what it focuses in on, as the successor to the Hubble Telescope.
***Gear List***
Casio CT360 (1987)
-Donner White Tape dual tape delay
Roland RS202 String Synth (1970's)
Squire classic vibe Jazzmaster
-Lovepedal MkIII fuzz
-Lovepedal Eternity overdrive
-EHX Canyon delay (DMM analog/mod setting)
- Behringer Ultra Vibrato
- MXR analog chorus
-Surfybear reverb
VolcaBass synth
1973 Traynor YBA-1 amp
@leslie is having a go with this one! Stay tuned... :)
@gubna Apr 2022
This feels like a soundtrack to a post-apolcalyptic sci fi film where the people are having a car chase across the desert. Oh wait, there won't be any gas...
@bethkille Feb 2022
Epic!! This is huge and gorgeous. Will have to check back to see if Leslie adds vocals. Rad!
@sailingmagpie Feb 2022
Love how it starts like a lost John Carpenter soundtrack before it blasts into space with the guitar work. Looking forward to seeing what direction it'll take with vocals.
@guitarpatz83 Feb 2022
Oof this is huuuuge!
Paints a vivid picture this one man, almost like panning up over a desolate landscape after a brutal war. Though I can equally feel the spacey imagery when you mention the telescope inspiration. The choice of instruments lends so much to what you’ve created here. The Casio drums and the synth strings are a fabulous pairing. I love the riffing over the top. As others have said, it’s really in soundtrack territory and I’d love a whole concept album in this vein. Superb stuff. And the ending is great too - cutting abruptly and letting that guitar delay wash out.
@judypie Feb 2022
Mamma mia, this is large! I can barely fit it all in through my ears! :D
@mosley Feb 2022
This is great, I really dig the huge sounding lead guitar!
@karlsburg25 Feb 2022
How have i missed this beauty!!! I adore the (i think) A min descending chord progression on what sounds like the biggest church organ with effects in the world. Then BAM the delayed guitar lead kicks in. Utter beauty. I can imagine it being the soundtrack to the end of a disaster movie with one character mooching through rubble with a huge backdrop as the camera pans out . so so atmospheric. Wow i loving these morning listens. I AM FULLY AWAKE ;-)
@owl Feb 2022
This sounds huge! Love the vibe of it, someone else mentioned Phantom of the Opera x Pink Floyd and that seems about right! I like how the simplicity of the drumbeat makes it sound almost like a heartbeat with that big reverb on it.
@elesimo Feb 2022
Love this! The textures are amazing, love how you made everything so huge and wide (while the original piece is small and sparse). Listened to it a few times, it's really good.
@jwhanberry Feb 2022
Oh my word, it's soooo big!
@kirjis Feb 2022
This is astounding.
@leslie Feb 2022
Spectacular soundscape. I can feel myself soaring into it. I agree with the Pink Floyd vibe. If you think my voice would match what you're thinking of I've got a melody brewing.
@anthonykapfer666 Feb 2022
this is great. very cinematic. nice work!
@jcooper Feb 2022
This is very creative. Kind of eerie. Love that guitar. Well done!
@gilhari Feb 2022
Everything you have used to compose this piece was used imaginatively and appropriately and gives the piece a really awe-inspiring depth. It’s a very textured scape you created here.
@bachelorb Feb 2022
Cool!!! Modern “Phantom of the Opera “ type vibe for me with a Floyd guitar solo in there for good measure. Great deep bass synth part about 2/3 of the way through.
I fully expected this ambient type of song reading your liner notes and just said “Whoa” out loud when it started
@dragondreams Feb 2022
This so richly atmospheric! I can totally see it as a piece of film music. In fact, I'm seeing a scene from Moonraker in my head as I type this.
That guitar tone is awesome!
@davidtaro Feb 2022
Woah. This is mega. This is what Pink Floyd would have sounded like had they had access to a Casio CT360 in the 70s. I love how crazily you're experimenting with sound and texture, and thank you for sharing your process and tech, that's such helpful context. You're just smashing the hell out of everything and it sounds bloody amazing! Such a cool track, well done!
@chroes Feb 2022
The sparseness of the drums and the guitar lateron is wonderfully juxtaposed by the synths. For me, the synths could play a bit more with the panning, or the guitar could open up a bit more into the stereo room. The overall idea, the slowness of melodic exploration, are terriffic!
@w1n Feb 2022
Set your controls for the heart of the sun, has really cool dystopian space film vibe, images of rusty broken down spaceships held together by tape, strips and wires, churning towards their eventual doom on the last fumes of their antimatter engines.
@nadine Feb 2022
Wow this side has been complete unknown to me. I hated the typical Casio sounds and you turned it into something awesome. Works so well with the fuzz guitar.
@vomvorton Feb 2022
Ooh yeah this sounds massive. Love the mix of Casio and string synth, and the guitar tone is so nice and fuzzy / broken up. Sounds really cool and slightly apocalyptic!
@sp4cek4a3n Feb 2022
The darkest reverb possible. And 400-foot tall casio cliffs. Epic guitar tone, daaaaaang. There's a stereo thing going on in the wall-o-chords that is tickling the inside of my brain - and that's super amazing.
@tuneslayer Feb 2022
You lost me at Casio CT360. But I like the result, it sounds like it belongs in a post-apocalyptic movie score.
@eargoggle Feb 2022
That’s HUGE. Love that string synth, and everything else too!
@resonut123 Feb 2022
Cool BIG. Spacious vibe here.
The Guitar, Keyboards and Drums mesh well together.
You widened the aperature on this glorious sounding tune.
@fearlessflight2014 Feb 2022
Wow, this is like a big slab of polished granite, heavy and yet exquisite!!
@metalfoot Feb 2022
That's huge sounding. Massive. This song contains galaxies within!
@mikeskliar Feb 2022
wow, this has a big-as-the universe sound, and sounds like a great soundtrack to... something, not sure what! all that equipment did some really neat things, whatever you were using! great chords and nice guitar soloing over it- doesn't seem to 'need' lyrics in its current form (If you want to make this a vocal thing, I'd start with alot quieter backing and then have the meat of this after the vocal)
@driftwood1 Feb 2022
Oh man, this totally had my head filled with space images. Like a sci-fi movie score. And then I read your liner notes. You nailed it. Killer sound. Super suspenseful. I love when the guitar first comes in, that delay tone is massive.
@valeriecox Feb 2022
Super cool soundscape. I'm always blown away how people can make these amazing things from electronic instruments. But that guitar is pretty spectacular too. I can definitely see how this was inspired by the Webb telescope. It has a huge and open sound about it, with that edgy drone. Very space like.
@gubna Feb 2022
I see this playing as the lens scans the heavens, stars, nebulae, comets, planets, panning across the sky. Really cool tune! I think I listened to this three times!