Beta Four

Fourth and final in the beta beat series. The beat is 10Hz, just a little higher than before and layered beneath a lot more music. The ebow loops were nice, but I thought it was past time to get a decent string sound back in. I did give the samplered harmonics one last go-round as a simple bass line, but the beat is drone derived once more.

Thanks to the folks who brought us ReZound - see the links section if you want to check it out. The final mix on this episode was plagued by clicks, but ReZound made short enough work of tidying everything up.

Beta Four

Beta Three

Another go-round with the 8Hz harmonics derived "bells." For most of the tune, the beat is sparser this week while the music takes on a little more density.

I am increasingly dissatisfied with mp3's - in particular, I think the compression favors some of the higher frequencies. I spend a decent amount of time equalizing those frequencies with the banjo, because there's often a metallic quality which jars with the mellower midrange chord loops that have lately served as the foundations of the beat-series episodes. Aside from being time consuming, however, the disadvantage to uploading (and then downloading...) .wav files is that podcast delivery typically features mp3's anyway.

So I'm looking to distribute CD-R's, for free, to interested parties. It's a fairly no-frills operation, but folks will be able to hear the tunes as I made them. If you're interested in getting a CD, please email me at earthmaestro @ gmail . com and we'll work something out.

Beta Three