Hi folks, today marks the four year anniversary of the infamous 3 Day Special Military Operation so I thought I’d share this tune.
Cheers and thanks for listening! 
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Wish no song like this one had to be written.
Sounds familiar yet fresh in a special. Can’t help but I like it!.
What’s the ~ 30 sec noizze at the end? Not a guitar on feedback ?
And how did you produce the drums?
Thumbs up!
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Magnificent, albeit that the occasion is a sad one.
That sonic grinder at the end appeals particularly to me, since I like to end songs with a massive feedback myself. But this is even better. Did you do it with a compressor? Or is it a poly synth, skilfully blended it? If it’s a trade secret, keep it, by all means!
Another one of yours with an intruiging dramaturgy, you have a real good knack [sic] for that, this one just confirms what your former uploads already suggested. Plus, the melodic arc the guitars build, incorporating slight dissonances every now and then is fab as always, quite inspiring.
From what I gather of the vocals, I assume the lyrics are a cynical transformation of the Modern-Day Tsar’s speech on that occasion. Do I hear “Meat Waves - Sieg Heil?” If so, the analogy works on several levels one of them being the fact that he’s a former KGB operative; secret police around the globe have adopted the deadly efficiency of the Gestapo, and Reinhard Heydrich rots in Hell, swollen with pride. I know I shouldn’t talk so loud or better still, shut my polemic mouth but I can’t help it…
Apart from all that, looking at the sheer musical aspects of it, I can only return the compliment: I hope your output will continue.
Sincerely, SCP
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Thank you both for listening and commenting
I stomped on my Electroharmonix freeze pedal when I struck the last chord on the outro then let it ring for half a minute or so then stomped the pedal again to kill the held note. I guess the pedals and Sansamp and cab IR that I use gave it that beautiful animated gritty tone when frozen 
You absolutely…! Meat Waves, Sieg Heil, and Juche, baby is the whole line.
Anyhow, you’re both spot on with the sentiment - it’s a shame that songs like this are born of unimaginable and despairing events / situations. But the world is full of bad people and bad things and if you write songs (and/or create any art) influenced by current affairs and politics etc, then I feel it’s almost like our duty to amplify a narrative and hopefully create something insightful and provocative.
And that’s what I was trying to do here, wholly inspired by the resistance and grit and and ingenuity and humanity that Ukraine has shown while acknowledging the human life on both sides and also the Russians who are fighting / dying for Ukraine’s defence as well.
Anyway again, aye, thank you both again so much for listening and commenting here 
I really massively appreciate it…! Nice one.
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And you succeeded, I’d even add “cathartic” to “insightful and provocative”. What you say reminds me of what Swiss poet Friedrich Dürrenmatt postulated: “A story is only complete when it has taken its worst possible turn”, you’re in good company.
Beautiful indeed. I’ve never heard of that Electro Harmonix pedal, just looked it up, cool thing. As you may know, I keep the amount of pedals fairly limited, as a matter of fact I have and use only two different treble boosters. But for THAT ultracool effect I’ll take the purchase into consideration.
OR… do you know if it’s possible to do that within Ardour itself?
(EDIT a few minutes later: Stupid question, of course it is, looked it up and there you go:)
Anyway - go forth Sir Dinglefinger, right honourable member of The Brotherhood of Underdogs, and bring back lots more armorpiercing tunes!
Not sure if I understand the docs correctly, but is the Freeze plugin doing something different than the pedal? I get the impression it creates temporary audio files from a midi track, so I can switch off plugins with heavy processing load. Similar to bouncing it to a new audio track? ( because Ardour doesn’t support built-in freeze AFAIK)
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Yes I’m afraid you’re right. I read the post again, the plugin appears to be not the inexpensive alternative to the pedal I thought it was. So I guess I’ll start saving up…
A poor man’s solution would be copying a slice of the audio many, many times with overlapping cross-over regions
At least that’s what I would try to do.
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My thoughts exactly. A compressor providing considerable sustain will certainly help to limit the amount of audio slices required. I’ll toy around with that one of these days.
And, anyway, the sheer happiness to use an EHX pedal will never be replaced by any amount of any plugins 
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On the other hand, yes. Yet, the reward of having created a working alternative is hard to beat either.
It depends on personal preferences and taste, as always. I wouldn’t go as far as to create an overdriven guitar tone with a plugin. That’s what I’ve got my AC15C1 and a treble booster for. The real thing, the sound I love. But Compression, EQ, and Reverb I trustfully put in the hands of LV2. And that’s about it.
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No, I had no idea until now. That looks promising.
Am I mistaken or is it Ubuntu specific? If so, the command
sudo apt-get install libfftw3-dev build-essential lv2-dev pkg-config
should work for Debian as well, since Ubuntu is a Debian derivate.
And the Eigen library should be found in the repositories.
I’ll try that, Thanx!
Cheerie-o
Absolutely perfect production! Everything sounds great, I had an impatient first listen on my phone and even that exploded nicely out of the speaker! You better put a pin in your current hardware and software production flow because it is killing it and giving amazing results!
One thought that flashed through my mind was thematically along with some of the vocals I got an Ozzy/ War Pigs vibe. No the song doesn’t sound at all derivative of War Pigs more like a distant modern echo from the same headspace.
Great stuff Wiley Dan Doodlefingar!
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110% 
I have a lot of LV2 and VST plugins but I record most guitar / bass parts as straight up DIs out of my pedalboards with stomping hardwired into the audio output. The bass board is simple (tuner → gate → wacky old cheap Danelectro flange pedal that weirdly works great on bass → HB bass DI pedal and Sansamp GT2 in parallel for 2 outputs) but the guitar board is a monster and has the EHX Freeze pedal at the very beginning of the chain. I used it extensively on another track too which I may or may not share here one day.
Thank you so much Glen I’ve always really liked the production / work you’ve shared here (and your vast experience speaks for itself) and hence your feedback is always über valuable…!
The current rig and production workflow is actually really simple. On other songs posted here I’ve shared screenshots of the editor and mixer windows and you can see there that I’m selective about plugins and automation and my sessions mimic a traditional analogue mixbus topology (with Airwindows Console8 added just before rendering the mix). I usually start mixing in mono using the Rokit KRKs at low level but most of the mixing is done with Beyerdynamic DT 990s.
The superb LSP Referencer has become vital to me though - I always have that on the master so I can visualise everything properly and keep my palette clean with reference tracks. In fact, generally speaking, the more I use the LSP plugs, the more I like them and I can see them becoming my go-to choice for straight-forward non-coloured processing (with Airwindows handling pretty much everything else).