Drop Tuned - Another Experimental Guitar Track

Headphones highly recommended as there is very low bass parts that will not be heard on most speakers.

Here is a little piece I made in which I recorded just one track on guitar which can be heard continuously throughout the piece, but then digitally manipulated it to build up other parts. Here is a link to the original track without any editing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ic1vuiwQgrU

The resultant parts through out the track are 4 variations on the original track through EQ effects and one with a distortion. I used these to create a sense of space, i.e the opening passage has the mids cut heavily and as a result it feels very empty, the shortly fills in. There is also a track that is just a straight copy of the original but with all low frequencies cut and a distortion added and the result is what sounds like an electric guitar playing a pedal on the top.

I created three sample synths, one bass, one lead and one for chords by isolating frequencies from the low, high and mid range respectively and by compounding reverb, EQ and delay effects then looping the parts made playable "synth like" parts.

There is also several percussive sounds that were created in various ways. The kick like sound was created by taking a short clip of a full chord strum, duplicating it several times and pitch shifting the duplicates in different ways, mixing it down and applying a short amount of reverb. This track was then duplicated and a second track with more reverb and distortion is used later in the track/ The snare like sound came from a part where my plectrum scraped on the body of my guitar. The final part and one of the more interesting parts in the piece is what sounds like shakers or hi-hats, this was created by duplicating the original track again, cutting all frequencies below approximately 1500Hz then chopping the track every bar and reversing the audio of each bar individually. this gives it it's own stand out rhythm and adds timbre to the piece.