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So for this one I rolled a 4 - MIDI AND VINYL

I started messing about with various MIDI parts that I had made with the PadKontrol

and decided to completely mess up what I had played using various inserts

• Compression
• Channel EQ 
• Phase Distortion - In signal processing, phase distortion or phase-frequency distortion is distortion that occurs when (a) a filter's phase response is not linear over the frequency range of interest, that is, the phase shift introduced by acircuit or device is not directly proportional to frequency, or (b) the zero-frequency intercept of the phase-frequency characteristic is not 0 or an integral multiple of 2π radians.
• Clip Distortion 

I then copied and pasted what I had done onto other tracks, making a thick distorted sound that sounded like interference.

I then decided I would invite somebody else to Play with me, so I bounced what I had done to a WAV and took it around to my friend and fellow band mate Tim's house, where he had his turntable, mixer etc set up and my turntable etc set up(see pics above).

Due to Tim's laptop being slightly outdated!! we couldn't use a soundcard to record in and as I was running my laptop through the 2nd channel on my mixer to trigger the WAV, we had to do a one take live recording into my IKEY.

So I played the WAV I had made, Tim played a sample and I added background noise (traffic etc), looped the WAV a few times and recorded the whole thing.

We then listened back to the file and talked about restructuring it.

I then took the full recording back into Logic and added it the sounds I originally made to the full piece Tim and I recorded, chopping and restructuring the new WAV, changing the volume of certain tracks.

Things I learnt:

various inserts (see above)

Expansion -  opposite of compression

In it's extereme form makes a noise gate

- which only lets a signal through if it is loud enough eg. gates out unwanted background noise

source

Time Taken: 1hr 50mins

Track

Tim's Sample

It's just a few examples of his sample, not chopped or tidy (cant do all the work for you!)