Psychedelic samples
Here’s the outcome of our cosmic quest beyond the veil of reality in the form of two recent (but still, ‘classic’!) sample packs…
Psychedelidrone Robbie at Cyclick Samples opened the doors of perception with his exemplary array of spaced-out drones…
“This sample pack goes late-stage hippy, a blend of acid/space rock and festival drone. The guitars are soaked in phaseshifters, flangers and wah-wah, the drums are open and verby. There is also the unavoidable Mellotron, itself bathed in phase, Leslie rotary speaker and spring reverb. There are two loop/ instrument kits that split into two tempos each. These are made up of drums, bass, rhythm and lead guitars and a keyboard.
“The guitars and keys also feature in the One Shots folder as sets of chords and, in the case of FuzzWahLead, two-string bends. Other loops are provided by tripletracked guitar which drone different voicings of a chord into three different effects: a phaser/flanger chain, heavy tape treatment and chained echoes. There is also a folder of one-shot chords from the same setup. Turn on, tune in and drone out. Best enjoyed with flares, crushed velvet and plenty of paisley.”
Psychedelic Dub
Oli decided to plump for a more dubby approach to our far-reaching journey into oddness…
“We’ve taken core elements of ’60s psychedelic and ’70s dub and mashed them!
“On the psychedelic side, we created reverse loops from guitar, piano and synths. The Backmask plugin is fab for random motion within the loop. We also used Make Noise’s Morphagene Eurorack module to reverse, pitch and morph various samples. To add to the groovy chaos we ran it through our trusty Space Echo for added delay; it needs a new tape so the delay textures are dense and dark which we quite liked.
“For the dub side, we manipulated the open springs of a couple of reverbs via Music Thing Modular’s Spring module. We also fed some drum sounds through a couple of our spring reverbs for dubby percussion hits. The Frontline X-4 is a filthy delay and chorus/flanger from the ’80s. The dub siren sounds are from a couple of Korg Monotrons fed through an old Line-6 Echo park stereo delay.”