Pretty tense track, first one I've heard so far (i'm not deep into the submissions but still) that is going for a super eerie style, cool low end and weird recording, I'm curious what did you record to achieve this.
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thanks for checking it out! The layers are as follows:
the “roar” of the monster: I sampled a classical Italian play on the radio when o was in Tuscany, Italy into my OP1. Specifically there was a group chanting in Italian I grabbed for this. Then I slowed it down 20x, and put an effect on it that changes the low and high pass frequency filter based on the volume of the sample. That gives it that windy sort of sound, like when the monster roars it creates wind. If you speed the recording up about 20-22x speed you can make out the chanting voices. Then I put 3 copies of that track and panned one left, center, and right with a slight delay.
ambient Rain, church bell, ambient lake tide splashing: my own field recording from lake como Italy. played slightly delayed between plannings to give it that off kilter effect (reminds me of some of the sounds in lynch films personally)
a pretty constant low bass: an ableton move drift bass preset, pulsed a little at the end.
“Heartbeat” bass: OP-1 fm synth preset
The ghostly sort of drone going on that plays off the roar is an Ableton move preset called “haunted” I got from an online pack but underneath it’s just the drift synth. I’m adjusting the filter on it to swell that sound in and out most of the time.
finally, all of this was mixed and had some extra panning and reverb effects in the koala app since I was on travel and did not have access to my daw (it was so painful omg)
Lmk if you want to know anything else!