Jewel Dirks

This was a bear to master.  The low, opening tones are so deep as to throw everything dynamically out of whack, in addition to being muddy.  There are four different sounds developed from the frog call:

The opening muddy ostinato sound has an extra beat in it to provide a bit of lopsidedness.  The sound itself was isolated and snatched from a bit of the frog call which had an interesting effect of the lower, scratchy part of the frog call.  To help clean it up a bit, I had to resort to using the RX8 de-click and Steinberg’s SoftClipper.  Low frequencies are hard for me to master, in all senses of the word!

The drum-like sounds are the same as the previous piece, but now used a bit higher.  The higher snap sound was an isolated segment of the ring modulator when I ran the frog call through Phase Plant.

Finally, the tune is a return to the same melodic instrument used in the previous two pieces.  I liked the way that the standard, rather corny tune could barely be made out through all the muddiness and out-of-tuneness of the sound.