6 A.m

Trailing down the dusty highway at dusk, soundtracked by Western-flavoured downtempo sounds. Lapsteels, anachronistic electronics, and deconstructed country ballads.

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Dust To Dust: The NTS Guide to Ambient Americana 160223

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baby i’m fool Melody Gardot cover

Domino - All In You Cover(demo)

Domino - Outside(Cover)

Drum beats for 15 of Coldplay's most memorable songs, played by BeatBuddy drum machine.

Coldplay- BeatBuddy Demo

The audio examples featured in this playlist were recorded at Tiny Room Studios (https://www.tinyroom.live/). The musician featured was Margot Lane (https://margotlane.com/).

AKG C314 Recording Acoustic Guitar in Supercardioid

Line 6 HX Stomp demo song by Pete Thorn. 

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Pete Thorn - Line 6 HX Stomp Demo

Pierre et Willy Quartet

Le vent - Minor swing

Axe-Fx III Firmware 12.08 features the best guitar pitch shifter I've ever experienced. It is insanely fast, which also makes it very tight.

Here's a quick clip to show my idea for a "Groove Shifter" effect where the shifted notes are offset in time to create weird syncopated polyrhythmic melodies. Using a dotted 8th delay technique to turn 8th notes into 16th notes is basically a cliché (a la "Another Brick in the Wall Part II" et al). Here, the pitch shift adds a cool twist. One expression pedal controls Input Gain of an extra Delay. Another controls Input Gain on a Plex Reverb. I improvised the guitar part to a drum loop and then layered synth bass and hihats. I'll try to develop this idea into something more structured.

It's a testament to this new shifter that you can't tell which notes are played and which are created by the effect!

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Denis Clède

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