more hieronymous moogerfooger music

[hieronymous]

I started using a different site to post my music - it's called "audiostreet.net", and it seems pretty good. There's more room for text stuff like credits, etc. Also, songs become available for download within a couple of minutes, not a week or so like "music.download.com".

So anyway, here's the link:

http://www.audiostreet.net/hieronymous

The tune is called "minus prolegomenon". It's a live improvisation (or "spontaneous composition" in Can/Damo Suzuki terminology) of drums and bass (Gibson EB-2 through Crowther Audio "Prunes & Custard"), and then a drone added beneath. The patch I used to make the drone was simple but effective:

I took the LFO out of the phaser, fed it into the fourway multiple of the CP-251. That split the LFO into two, one controlling the frequency of the (moogerfooger) low-pass filter, the other controlling the frequency of a frostwave resonator. I considered reversing the LFO for one filter, but liked it better having them sweep at the same rate, though they're set at slightly different frequencies.

[Matt Davies]

That song kicks @$$! What effect did you use on your bass? I'm looking into getting the Low Pass Filter and wanted to hear it on bass, so if that was it, hot damn.

cheers,

Matt

[hieronymous]

Hey Matt, actually, the effect on the bass is a pedal called the "Prunes & Custard" by Crowther Audio from New Zealand. They call it a "harmonic generator-intermodulator". It's a little different than a normal low-pass filter/envelope filter - for one, there's distortion added into the mix, and I forget what else. There's a write-up of it here (scroll down) and here. Part of what makes it sound cool here is the interaction with the other sweeping filters of the drone. Also, I think results will vary a lot depending on the signal going in to it - on my track I used an old Gibson EB-2 - extremely hot signal with almost no highs or mids.

[Matt Davies]

Oh ok, I'll check that Prunes and Custard out...