{"id":472,"date":"2024-12-12T13:53:01","date_gmt":"2024-12-12T13:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willkolb.com\/?p=472"},"modified":"2024-12-12T13:53:01","modified_gmt":"2024-12-12T13:53:01","slug":"this-might-be-better-if-i-didnt-make-it-on-a-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willkolb.com\/?p=472","title":{"rendered":"This might be better if I didn&#8217;t make it on a computer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-soundcloud wp-block-embed-soundcloud\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"HorseJockey by Will Kolb\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F1981856595&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=750&#038;maxwidth=500\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I dig the vibes from this but there&#8217;s a few big issues:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The bass sounds midi as hell, like doom 1 level of computerization<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I had trouble mixing the drums, I dug how robotic those sounded but it was hard balancing it with the lead synth<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Lead synth is cool as hell but really I would&#8217;ve rather a real distorted as hell guitar<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe I&#8217;ll go grab a crappy guitar and re-record this with real stuff to see if the problem is the lack of humanization or if it&#8217;s just a poorly thought out song in general. My bet is that once I try playing it, I&#8217;ll see some weirdness that will change the underlying song to be more of a real thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I dig the vibes from this but there&#8217;s a few big issues: Maybe I&#8217;ll go grab a crappy guitar and re-record this with real stuff to see if the problem is the lack of humanization or if it&#8217;s just a poorly thought out song in general. My bet is that once I try playing it, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willkolb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willkolb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willkolb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willkolb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willkolb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/willkolb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":473,"href":"https:\/\/willkolb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions\/473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willkolb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willkolb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willkolb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}