Binhammer

March Music + Life lately
Randomly capturing clips is not a natural impulse to me but I’m working on it ok (also 80% would just be me sitting in the studio)

I’ve been playing with pitched delays automated on my guitar riffs with Lunacy’s Taps, adding a quick chord ‘shimmer’ that adds some nice colour 👌 (activate each time you see the taps light up)

Making a Cinematic Beat → I’ve been loving this chord movement ending with a bII maj7 to get back to I.

Using a resonator (corpus here) to bring out a pitch on percussion adds another dimension to the sound - here it enables the percussion to act as the ‘response’ melody to the distorted vocal part.

Can you hear tiny harmonic pitch bends? I saw another guitarist automate small pitch bends on their harmonics and I had to try it on this super poppy guitar track. Adds just a tiny bit of satisfying digital twang.

I’ve been trying new tunings to work in lots of harmonics into my guitar riffs and loving the possibilities it opens up - this one’s in EADF tuning.

I used to blindly stack layers to try to create a “bigger” “fuller” sound, but if a layer isn’t truly benefiting the final sound, it’s actually detrimental to the final product by eating up sonic space and masking the good stuff. If you don’t really miss a sound when it’s muted, it’s better to leave it that way.

Stranger Things style - Step 1: have a scary sick voice. Step 2: give every other synth filter a high resonance.