A Present Well Out of Hand

Esté es una canción que yo componé muchas meces hace. Ayer, mi amigo major, Davíd quien toca los tambores, lo tocó conmigo. Su parte realmente completó la canción. Davíd está convirtiendo un gran baterista. Fue un gran viaje dentro de la tierra de musica!

This is a song I wrote with my good friend David. this is the second time we played it all the way through. Come to think of it, I think I gave my mom a kiss while we recorded it when she walked through our makeshift recording studio.

Gear/equipo:

Epiphone Casino ->Tube Screamer, EHX Holy Grail, RC-30 Twin Reverb y SF Bassman.

A weird thing I made while screwing around with my looper an a microphone. a few cool people will know what the voice samples were inspired by.

I decided to make a little demo reel for some of the cool tones I’ve been able to elicit from the new Electro-Harmonix Superego. For me, this pedal is like an ingress to a world of unearthly tones. The pedal works by capturing a split second’s worth of sound when you press the footswitch (or when triggered in auto mode). This produces a steady, infinite tone that can closely resemble that produced by the oscillator section of a synthesizer. The Superego has four knobs, a 3-way mode selector switch and an effects loop. The controls read as follows: Speed/Latch, Gliss, Dry and Effect. The speed knob is essentially just an attack/release rate control; and the Dry and effect knobs simply control the levels of the dry and effect signals. The most interesting feature is the gliss effect. Gliss (referring to glissando) is basically like an electronic portamento. The gliss knob thus controls the amount of “slide” between the note.  The pedal has three modes that differ in how they capture the signal. Latch mode allows the player to capture the signal by pressing the footswitch, the signal can then be layered with additional captures(this effect is utilized in the opening of the audio clip). Momentary mode sustains the capture as long as the footswitch is pressed, with decay speed set by according to the speed knob. My favorite mode so far is the Auto mode. This mode sustains the signal when it crosses a fixed volume threshold, then decays it at a rate set by the speed knob. In my favorite setting for auto mode (As heard on the majority of the recording) I set the speed to 3 ‘o clock, Gliss to 2 ‘o clock and Dry to 0. This creates an otherworldly “always-on” synth effect. I am also quite intrigued by a particular setting in latch mode. I turn speed, gliss and dry all the way down with effect at 12 ‘o clock. This setting creates a single solid tone with immediate note change. I use it about a minute into the demo (along with my DD-7 in its loop function). Anyway, so far I’m really thrilled with this pedal. I see a lot of artistic potential in it and it already seems like the perfect vessel to transport me into the realm of shoegaze. I do think that it could be improved slightly however. The design would benefit greatly from a larger, dual footswitch enclosure as it is not true bypass and sometimes I feel like the footswitch is given too much to do. besides that I’m ecstatic to have this new piece of gear.