I'm starting to discover some of the bits I played over the course of the last year during snippets of time stolen from life's demands Prominent among the current tools are a pair of Montreal Assembly Count to 5s, Eventide H9, Pigtronix Infinity Looper, Echolution, EH Superego, Stymon Timeline, King of Tone and others on the pedalboard. Alchemy, Iris, Falcon and a host of UVI & Arturia keyboard tones abound usually with the aid of an instance of Augustus Loop. All of these pieces are live to 2track improvisations with no overdubs or mixing after they were played. I owe much to the stellar programming of Simon Stockhausen!

Ambient 2018-2019

Forest Of The Bells For Daved

Another track for the amusement of a friend. Just some silly fun...

Throw In The Towel

Magneto

This piece features a nifty new (and instantly extinct) pedal called the Klein Bottle which provides 3 mono effect loops that can be crosspatched in interesting ways which harkens back to the methods I started using for ambient music back in the mid 80s when all we had was a little mixer and 3 processors. This piece uses a Count to 5 (2014) on the 1st loop, an EHX Super Ego w/ Dr. Scientist Bit Quest in it's effect loop and another Count to 5 (2018) in the 3rd loop. Prominent among the current tools are a pair of Montreal Assembly Count to 5s, Eventide H9, Pigtronix Infinity Looper, Echolution, EH Superego, Stymon Timeline, King of Tone and others on the pedalboard. All of these pieces are live to 2track improvisations with no overdubs or mixing after they were played.

Klein Bottle 1

Alien Birds

Crow Rock

A first poke at the Chase Bliss DarkWorld Reverb pedal as one leg of my Klein Bottle

Welcome To DarkWorld

Early morning meditation on the wonder of the lover returned to my life after decades apart... another live to 2 track ambient guitar performance from Squidwerks HQ.

The Blue Of Her Eyes

A morning meditation on Sometimes I feel like a Motherless Child.

Meditations on a Motherless Child

Sorting through many hours of playing stolen in the cracks of an extraordinarily busy winter and spring, many of these pieces were gifts of the wee small hours. Absolutely loving new plugins from Acustica Audio! This features their Fairchild 670 and Manley Massive Passive incarnations and they have stunning depth and tone. CPU hogs to be sure but fantastic new tools!

Ghost Temple

Another in this years series of live to two track pedalboard adventures

Surrender

Squidwerks aka Greg Heimbecker is a Northern Colorado based recording engineer, sometimes saxophonist & longtime fan of music across many genres. I have a particular soft spot for ambient music in the tradition of the "great bald one" Brian Eno. As my SoundCloud develops there will be collections of my engineering efforts as well as a section of ambient music composed and performed by myself and a few of my close friends over the past 30 years or so...(be sure to check out https://soundcloud.com/nine-horse-johnson!) enjoy!

And if you're in the mood to check out one of the finest university jazz programs in North America point your ears over to https://soundcloud.com/uncjazz to check out more of my work for the University of Northern Colorado Jazz Studies Department!