Concept:  Create a drone ambient noise work of drone sounds passing by a wall of grey and white noise. 

Mastered on August 19, 2025 using Bandlab mastering: Master Preset is Tape, Intensity is 50%, Input Gain is -4.5 dB. Effects were changed prior to mastering. 

Instruments used: 
* Benidub Filtro 4-Pole VCF (resonance, LFO depth, cutoff, LFO Rate, Rate multiply, LFO Waveform (used the square wave), Bypass button on the whole time, Bypass knob just past half way toward the right. 
* Rucci Maximal Drone - used three oscillators for low and three for high

Signal path:  Rucci Maximal Drone Audio-OUT to Benidub IN, Benidub OUT to channel 5 IN on Dude Mixer, Dude Mixer OUT to MIC/LINE IN on USB Audio Adapter to USB IN on Chromebook to Bandlab DAW web version. 

Bandlab effects:  
* Guitar input
* 120 BPM, 4/4 Timing
* Gain is -3.5 dB
* Feedback Killer is 2.6
* Stereowise (Spread is 5.6, Low is 73%, High is 51%)
* ST Chorus (Depth is 34%, Speed is 40.8%)
* EQ3-M (3-band EQ with Mid Sweep) ( Low is -6.4 dB, Mid is +3.0 dB, High is -4.0 dB, Mid Sweep is 1004 Hz)
* Univerb (Mix is 32%, Type is Union Stairwell)
* Vintage Limiter (Gain is +0.77, Attack is 1.51, Release is 4.57, Knee is -6.13, Enhance is +1.48, Volume is +2.38)
* Dimension B Chorus (Preset is 04)

File format:  WAV, 16-bit, 44.1KHz
Photo by Matthew DeVries, Pexels License

"Passing by the Noise" is copyright by jtechno electronic music. Email for permission to use.

Passing By The Noise

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June 2025 - Not posting new songs for a bit as I am applying mastering to the current songs here. I am also redoing some of the effects for certain mixes so mastering comes out better. I'll announce when that is complete and return to creating new songs to add. 

I listen to tons of techno, trance and EDM. I grew up tho with 60s and 70s rock and jazz fusion. I took piano for five years. My dad played piano, accordian, xylophone, bongos and little bit of guitar. Mom was an oil and acrylic artist. In college I practiced piano in the listening rooms and hung out in the music degree buildings and went to bunches of concerts in the SF Bay Area. 

In 2018 I landed a writing gig with DJD UK Global Music and wrote 74 listener reviews of songs for their artists. The label owner later retired after a long career in music production and marketing and closed his label.

I released my debut digital album on the DJD UK Global Music label in March 2019 called "Off Grid Analog", 13 tracks, 48:05 minutes of experimental/electronic/noise original music available for just a year on all major online outlets.  It was fun working with a label and to create an album. 

In the past I've created music on a Korg Poly-61, Korg X-50 and an Alesis Micron and mixed on a Mackie 1402-VLZ3 14-channel mixer. Today I've been creating electronic, experimental and noise music with a Teenage Engineering PO-28 Robot Pocket Operator, Stylophone Gen X-1 Analog Synthesizer, Bastl Kastle 1.5 Synth,  Meeblip Geode Synth, Alesis Q25 Controller, Kieth McMillen QuNexus USB MIDI CV Gate Controller, Alesis Micron Synth, Rucci 8-bit Power Synth, Rucci Maximal Drone, Rucci 16-step CV Sequencer,  Moffenzeef Modular MSG II Black, Stylophone Gen R8 Synth, Bastl Dude Mixer, Korg Volca FM Synth, Make Noise O-Coast Synth, Korg Monotron Delay Synth, Korg NTS-1 Synth Benidub Filtro, Arturia Keystep Controller, etc. I got away from melodic pieces to explore music and to dabble in electronic, experimental, noise, drone and experimental techno, ambient, trance styles.

My home studio includes m-Audio BX5 powered monitors and use of Beyerdynamic studio headphones, Sony and Beats phones. I use a Chromebook and the cloud-based in-browser Bandlab DAW and I do my own mastering. I use both a Baslt Dude Mixer and the Behringer Xenyx 1002B 10-chnl mixer. I use Mogami cables, Roland Gold MIDI cable, CV cables, iConnectivity MIDI to USB cable. I use a Boomstick Psychoacoustic DAC for added richness of dynamics. Final signal path output goes through the USB audio adapter into my Chromebook.  I rarely do multitrack preferring a straight signal path from one device to the next till final put goes through a mixer to the audio adapter into the Chromebook. 

I'm active on synth and music groups on Facebook under my name:
John Koudela III.  My music name tho is jtechno on Soundcloud. 

I'm located north of Seattle, WA. Contact me at:  jtechnoelectronicmusic@yahoo.com
All music I create and post are copyright by jtechno electronic music. Email me for permission to use my tracks.

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