It’s been a while since I have posted a rough mix, or musical idea for the One Sound Every Day category, so here’s an excerpt from something I wrote recently. It’s in very early stages, but has a high melody in 3/4 time along with some lower melodies in harmony with each other. The lower pitches are made up of the Rhodes Feedback that I posted an example of yesterday.
I cut up the feedback into sections that had specific qualities I was after, then I pitched them so that they worked underneath the high melody played on the Rhodes at an upper octave. Finally, after a couple of run throughs, I arranged the pitched feedback in real-time to form the passages heard in the excerpt.
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In order to get this example of feedback I ran my suitcase model Rhodes, which I confine to my studio, through an outboard processor with some nice amp modeling and cranked up the gain. For the processing I used an eleven year old Yamaha A3000 sampler. The A3000 allows you to edit and apply processing to an incoming signal and it has some pretty nice sounding effects. Once I had adjusted the processing I held down the sustain pedal on the Rhodes and let the amplification do the rest. Tapping or gently knocking the instrument also produced some nice sounds. Here’s a snippet of the results. 
I came across this old late night session of sleepy Rhodes melodies and decided to render about fifty eight seconds of it. It was originally recorded on November 3, 2006 at about 12:53am. I love electronic timestamps. 
A lack of galactic space time has forced me to go backwards for the 
Now that I have a title for the piece in my last entry, I may as well post a segment from a different layer. This is the main melody. It’s a section of Rhodes Electric Piano that I recorded back in 2005 while testing a live looping technique in