Looping: July 2025
05 Sep 2025Here are the loop jams I captured from the month of July. Overall this month didn’t come as naturally as some. A lot of loops were a struggle, and I didn’t get as much time with the guitar as I’d like. But I soldiered through regardless, because… that’s what practice looks like.
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Loop 1
Using the “bit crush” mode on my new Dark Star Stereo to get that low bitrate gargle that makes me think of Disasterpeace on the FEZ soundtrack. There are al of chiptune-like tracks that use that I like. I’m still trying to figure out how to harness it.
Loop 2
Leaning into starting with the bass and also vibing with the bass drum rhythm. For a rhythm layer on top… hyper reverb warble tones? Again playing with the Dark Star trying to have a bit crush follow the lead. I’m not sure it works.
Loop 3
This one didn’t come together until I plugged in that rhythm on the bass. Arguably I still didn’t know what to do with it, but it definitely had a beat to it.
Loop 4
Again, trying to make sure my bass rhythm locks in with the kick drum. I really like taking the two harmonizing bass lines together. That gave it the sense of self enough to then let the final guitar melody on top be… sweet? It sounds sweet to me.
Loop 5
An exercise in what happens when you have something “stationary” and then put chord motion on top of it. I think I had been listening to some Pumpkins recently, because this is really going for wailing and sentimental distorted guitars. My daughter actually came in while I was playing to give me a hug, which was super sweet, but then mid-hug she remembered I was recording and sheepishly exited very quickly. I cut that out of the recording, but that’s what I’m smiling about.
Loop 6
The core part reeks of “random noodling I would do when sitting down to a guitar”. There’s just a type of thing I’ll probably default to playing, and it’s pretty much always something like this. I do dig the large delay with the single note slides.