i've had a dream for a while of making a trombone trio consisting of drums, trombone and vocals. maybe the singer would double on bass, too, and play slammin' bass lines like geddy lee. but no guitar, no piano, no chordal instrument. this band would be very improvisational but also would perform mostly my original songs, songs which i create from the random perverted, sexually immature, sexually discriminatory things that pop into my head throughout the day. most of the songs would be about women's breasts, rumps, my imaginary sexual prowess, sexual dysfunction and absurd-to-the-point-of-comical sexual fantasies. the songs would be performed somewhat poorly with me playing simple bass/guitar lines on trombone, the singer improvising lines or screaming randomly, and the drummer struggling to keep time. in other words, this band would smash your shit up.
anyway, sometimes i put these songs together by playing all the instruments myself. for drums, i use my padkontrol and samples of cheesy 80s drum machines. i'm going for a sound that's somewhere between shit and ass with a little bit of retard mixed in, maybe a shit:ass:retard ratio of about 1:2:3. the lyrics for this latest song popped into my head while i was walking around the station and saw a very attractive young woman and thought to myself, "i'd like to see her naked." before i knew it, i'd written pretty much the whole song in my head while riding the train. that's what happens when genius strikes.
normally i use very few if any effects on these songs besides reverb, some compression and eq, but this time, i decided to try out fretted synth audio's safron2-va. what the fuck is that, you ask? well this guy, frettedsynth, has been making audio-synth plugins for a while now. not audio-to-midi (although they can output midi), but rather plugins with the synth built in so you get a much more flexible, responsive sound than with audio-to-midi. i've messed around with them the last couple years on trombone here and there, and although they were always fun, i never felt they were quite up to the challenge of accurately tracking trombone (they're made to track guitar). but the latest one, safron2-va, does a good enough job that i thought i'd go ahead and put it in this song to double the trombone part an octave down for a little more fullness. i should probably do a "tools of the trade" post about safron2 since it's pretty damn cool. i'm sure frettedsynth would be happy to know his plugin is being used in a song, but i don't know how thrilled he'd be that it's being used in a song about something as immature as wanting to see a naked girl performing numerous mundane tasks.
anyway, here's the song:
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