The Russians are coming!

State Sponsored Soviet Synth Rock with Choir.

https://soundcloud.com/athanorsoundlabs/red-menace-wav

I started this with BIAB but it is so heavily edited and revised I don't think much if anything is left from what it gave me. I think it still counts.

The Soviets produced some very cool and unusual synthesizers. Very unique and full of character. I was playing around with virtual versions of some and decided I wanted to do a piece with all Soviet instruments.

While there is a plethora of information on Soviet era synthesizers and even guitars, I have been unable to find any information on Soviet guitar amplifiers. Surely they must have played those cruddy Soviet guitars through something!

Using my imagination, I just took a wild guess as to what they would have come up with and played my bass through through a Sunn 1200S and two layered guitar parts through a Silvertone in Amplitube.

The rest of the instruments are:

LEL drum machine from Rhythmic Robot

Polivoks from Hideaway Studios

Soviet Synths from Mars

Vox Continental from Sample tank

EastWest Symphonic Choirs

Recorded and edited in Cakewalk.

Mixed in Harrison Mixbus 32c. The only effects are Harrison's console EQ and compressors along with IK Multimedia Tape Machine, Tape Echo and Sunset Sound reverb.

Mastered in TRacks.

Byron Dickens

BIAB. CbB. Mixbus 32C 8 HP Envy. Intel core i7. 16GB RAM W10. Focusrite Scarlett 18i 20. Various instruments played with varying degrees of proficiency.

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