Dark Track Chapter 3: Metallic Harmonics and Pitched Delays

In this chapter, I’m returning to the Cello Harmonics I discovered in the previous Chapter, to make a scary, overtone-rich treatment for these wonderful sounds. I’ll start by experimenting with varying Velocities for these notes, before Compressing the signal and then diving headlong into a unique Delay treatment for this part.

I’ll show you the benefit of experimenting with both tempo-locked and tempo-free Stereo Delays, and identify some parameters whose variations can bring something valuable to the overall sound. Having Automated these, we’ll end up with a pitch-manipulated, scary, clanging, hard-to-identify sound, which bridges a neat sonic gap between ‘real’ and ‘processed’ and which feels appropriately discordant to the track as it develops.

• 00:00 A reminder about the Cello Harmonics
• 00:30 Harmonics Velocity and Compression
• 03:33 Cello Harmonics Delay
• 08:35 Copying Harmonics and Automating Delay parameters
• 12:13 Summary and Mix parameter tweaks

Total chapter runtime: 13:41