Swindle creates a funky, club-ready guitar part

UK producer Cameron Palmer is known for his eclectic take on grime and dubstep, fusing bass-heavy UK rhythms with elements of funk, jazz and latin percussion. He ran through the making of his 2016 track Connecta for us, breaking down its South American rhythms and fusion guitar licks.

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The guitar part is Cameron’s favourite bit of the track, but it took a fair amount of processing to get the results he desired. He applies Waves Renaissance Axx guitar compressor, specifically its Plucky preset, to punch up the first guitar track’s dynamics.

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Next Cameron adds Logic’s Simple Delay, then Logic Multipressor to balance the signal’s frequency content. “Recording this guitar we didn’t use an input, we mic’d an amp,” he reveals. “So there is loads of fuzz all over it, which I liked up to a point, but I found myself kind of contending with it a little bit.”

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Channel EQ is applied to tame the first guitar track’s noisy top end, and Soundtoys FilterFreak 1’s low-pass filter cutoff frequency is automated to open up to gradually bring the track into the mix.

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The second guitar track is warmed up with Waves Guitar Amp, very slight EQ and Space Designer reverb. A duplicate of this track with Guitar Rig’s Harmonic Synthesizer rather than Guitar Amp creates a fuzzy, auto-filter effect that’s panned heavily to the left to create an unusual stereo texture.

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Cameron makes a duplicate of this track, and adds Oktaver after the Harmonic Synthesizer to create a pitched-down version. EQ is used to take out the highs, giving the track a low, rumbly sound that makes the composite part sound beefier. A Space Designer reverse room preset gives the track an abstract ambient feel.