Andrew Huang

Guitar Power

Added 2015-06-07 20:33:26 +0000 UTC

This was a pretty intense project!

I was staying with Rob in Chicago just before we went on Tour Because Awesome, and we wanted to collab on a found sound video where we'd try to get every possible noise out of a guitar.

We spent maybe 20 minutes collecting sounds and then I edited for daaaaays. The range of sounds was quite limiting so it was a challenge to get things sounding dynamic but ultimately I made TWO tracks and I'm stoked on both of them. This one sounded like such a good beat I had to rap on it. You can watch the one on Rob's channel here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nY81v7mUIx8

These aren't going live until tomorrow so you get 'em early! Downloads attached to this post. WAV versions and chat link coming for $5+ patrons soon.

Some behind the scenes notes:

The rap one was originally going to be instrumental. I had almost the whole thing made when I decided it was too good not to rap on and would be a more interesting listen that way. But it was awkwardly slow. I ended up having to speed up all the audio and video by 9% to get everything to a spot that felt natural.

The "when it came down to the wire" line is a Haim reference. Days Are Gone is one of my absolute favorite albums of the past couple years and I'm still listening to it a lot. This was the first line I came up with for the song, after deciding I would try to incorporate some electric guitar puns - "Wire" is a bit weak maybe, but it got me started.

Rob owns a lot of fake moustaches.