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Recorded our fictional band's greatest album during a 3-day power outage in Tulsa
Had to track vocals by candlelight and use a generator that kept cutting out every 47 minutes, but somehow the blown fuse hum on track 4 ended up sounding like a vintage synth and now I'm afraid to ever record with proper electricity again, has anyone else accidentally made their best work because everything went wrong?
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the_kevin4mo ago
Man, talk about turning lemons into a weirdly delicious fruit punch. That generator timing sounds like a cursed metronome, glad it worked out for you but I'd be paranoid the ghost of a busted amp is gonna show up demanding royalties. Honestly though, that blown fuse hum is probably just your brain tricking you because you associate the struggle with the art. In my experience, the magic usually disappears the second you try to intentionally recreate it with a proper setup.
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riverwhite4mo ago
Gotta disagree with you there @the_kevin, I think some of the best sounds come from leaning into the chaos instead of trying to fight it. That weird hum or blown fuse thing might be a happy accident that you can actually use if you stop trying to chase the "magic" and just let it be.
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