{"id":24740,"date":"2022-01-06T16:53:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T00:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/?p=24740"},"modified":"2025-03-02T16:55:23","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T00:55:23","slug":"utility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/?p=24740","title":{"rendered":"Utility"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>With this round of sonic therapy, I gave myself the limitation of single-take recordings. Last week&#8217;s rain gave a good bed of atmosphere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HOBxxjMEpHg?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>#Drums #MS20 #moog #prophetx #rain #keplingerdrums #qdrumco #sounddesign #synth #analogdelay #toypiano #drumlife #experimentalmusic #Darkmusic #gothicmusic #electronicmusicproduction #electronicmusic #distortion #musicproduction #musicflow #creatingmusic #studiojam #experimental #heavy #atmosphere #aheadsnare #zildjian #Darkmusic #gothicmusic #moog<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With this round of sonic therapy, I gave myself the limitation of single-take recordings. Last&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/?p=24740\">Read the post<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Utility<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-everything-else","excerpt","zoom","full-without-featured","even","excerpt-0"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/utility.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24722,"url":"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/?p=24722","url_meta":{"origin":24740,"position":0},"title":"Pedaling: Sunday Improv Experiment.","author":"Eric","date":"October 18, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"I've been feeling pedals as of late. Hooked up everyone's \"favorite\" Metal Zone and the DM-2w to a snare send. I easily get lost in playing over that delay while behind the kit. 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