{ "schemaVersion": "v1", "slug": "a-song-to-quit-your-job-to-track-production-commentary-scoobert-doobert", "title": "a song to quit your job to (Track / Production Commentary) - Scoobert Doobert", "kind": "solo", "listenUrl": "https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lovemusicmore/episodes/a-song-to-quit-your-job-to-Track--Production-Commentary---Scoobert-Doobert-e1cocei", "publishedAt": "2026-10-14", "source": { "provider": "whisper", "model": "faster-whisper:base", "normalizedSchema": "v1", "transcribedAt": "2026-06-09T08:11:12.374Z" }, "paragraphs": [ { "startSec": 4.05, "endSec": 26.53, "text": "Hello and welcome to music 101 I'm your host Scoobert Doobert. Today we're going to be talking about a track breakdown a production breakdown of a song that I just dropped last Friday called a song to quit your job toAnd so let's jump right into itI want to talk about some of the sounds that I got going on in this project and apply it to some of the things" }, { "startSec": 26.53, "endSec": 50.05408963585434, "text": "We've talked about already in music appreciation 101. So to start I want to talk about the synth stemThe synthesizers and here's what it sounds likeThis is in that intro section that we just listened to is a choir andA flute but obviously they're like a little otherworldly." }, { "startSec": 50.05408963585434, "endSec": 60.83429827103255, "text": "They're not exactlyJust like a standard like I had a choir come into my studio and Sing it's like now. This is this is something a little bit weirder." }, { "startSec": 60.83429827103255, "endSec": 82.45287067405539, "text": "It's using a tool called a Mellotron. Mellotron is one of the firstlike synth likeTools that musicians had at their disposal and this is obviously a virtual version of that I don't have the tens of thousands of dollars that it requires to maintain one of these relics these awesome thingsBut what exactly is a Mellotron?" }, { "startSec": 82.45287067405539, "endSec": 104.51347600059908, "text": "What does it do?it is a Sampler essentially it's something that you you press down a key and then it's going to play back atape recordingOf like say a choir. So record the choir and then you'll press the button and it'll play a recording of that choir singing say a C noteAnd so that's kind of cool, right?" }, { "startSec": 104.51347600059908, "endSec": 119.3, "text": "It you know, it's it's the The precursor to everything digital and that's why I kind of like bringing you back into my music that is you knowFundamentally digital and laptop-based. It's like hey, we've got this this thing. It's familiar" }, { "startSec": 120.02, "endSec": 133.98, "text": "But it's warped and it's being brought into this you know sterile digital space and then from there I add in even moreYou know modulationChanges of pitchby by using additional" }, { "startSec": 134.78, "endSec": 154.82, "text": "Emulations with this is what it's called but additional virtual versions of tape machines on top ofThe already recorded to tape soundSo like that's all good and all but why am I doing that?So why why don't I just you know use like a really clean sample library that" }, { "startSec": 155.7, "endSec": 168.59771573604058, "text": "Somebody might use if they're a film composer. There are plenty of those things on the internetI could go buy one and whatever use that instead of a Mellotron that is inherentlyFlawed in some way." }, { "startSec": 168.59771573604058, "endSec": 192.36, "text": "So that goes back to episode oneI think of music appreciation 101 and what I was talking about the kind of like centralidea of thatWhat are notes?My concept is basically whatever you want them to be Like it doesn't a note doesn't have to be 440 HertzIt's just kind of like we decide on that in the same way that grammar doesn't have to be the way that it is" }, { "startSec": 192.56, "endSec": 200.32, "text": "Anybody that knows a bunch of different languages is like gonna flip their head around for grammar because they're different frameworks and different rules that you're operating within" }, { "startSec": 201.04, "endSec": 226.64, "text": "All of that to say I'm trying to do that in my music where it's like taking pitch and then making a little bit more flexibleAnd I think that it gives like an emotional punch to it as wellThat is simultaneously comforting and unsettling and I really like that that mix of like this song is a chill songBut it's also like a somewhat uncomfortable song, but that's like what the whole meaning is like quit your job" }, { "startSec": 226.72, "endSec": 252.59, "text": "So you can be free. That's like free to do whatYeah, you know, I'm not gonna really get thereSo that's what I'm trying to do with kind of just something as fundamental as pitchSo let's listen again to these since I'll pull up like the second chorusWhich I think might just be exactly the same and listen to this and thenYou'll hear like the way that the pitch is changing and warbling a little different" }, { "startSec": 253.03, "endSec": 267.68, "text": "You hear it's like ducking downThe volumeIt's like not steadySo what what that's doing is that's interacting with the kick drum obviously the kick drum isn't here, but" }, { "startSec": 268.36, "endSec": 286.68, "text": "That that's like what it's doing is it's creating room. It's called side chaining creating room for that kick drum to really push through and punchWhich I really like because that's a blend of a very modernKind of technique older people like you know, Pink Floyd did it too, but it's considered, you know a modern sound to have the kick drum really present and cut through things" }, { "startSec": 287.2, "endSec": 298.8, "text": "Plus this very vintagey sounding warbled, you know tapeSaturated thingGoing out at the same time. So yeah to kind of contrasting" }, { "startSec": 300, "endSec": 323.9940652818991, "text": "Feelings which is why I named this upcoming record KŌAN because it's essentially is trying to capture a lot of thoseapparentStrange bedfellows or like things that are contradictory in nature, but actually work really well together orquestions that you know should be answeredBut also not at the same time that kind of stuff." }, { "startSec": 323.9940652818991, "endSec": 336.2029137340494, "text": "SoWith that Let's talk about the bass part. So the bass is I tried like I might have gone too farBut I was trying to add energy because the song's like very chill and it's pretty slow." }, { "startSec": 336.2029137340494, "endSec": 355.12, "text": "I think it's like 72 beats per minuteyep, andBecause of that I wanted the bass to kind of keep the momentum going because if you're in this like super chill spaceIt's easy to get Bored or tune out or like not really focused on the musicSo I wanted the bass to be that instrument that's like propelling us ahead" }, { "startSec": 355.12, "endSec": 375.31, "text": "So like listen for that in that so kind of like a chamber chamber something super roundlike also a little little sloppyBut like you hear like there's a ton of" }, { "startSec": 376.23, "endSec": 388.67, "text": "Fatness and warmth to it, which is why I'm trying to like pull out and then I have these phrases in the verses marked with anotherWhich is like you know, we've we've looped back around" }, { "startSec": 389.47, "endSec": 412.08434343434345, "text": "Most music is in you know, steady fours and so it's like hey, we've we've arrived againAnd then the bass drops in for the chorus to be like hey, we're really arrivedKind of a James Jamerson thing but like little stonery like a littleLucer but here." }, { "startSec": 412.08434343434345, "endSec": 438.6583975679121, "text": "There's like a lot of syncopationThe bass is trying to dance with the rest of the musicThat's what I like to think of it when I'm layering in parts And here like that these little like pauses. I think they'd add, you know drama and then another big pauserI like that." }, { "startSec": 438.6583975679121, "endSec": 461.65, "text": "I think it you know it creates creates like a certain tensionThat's in a bassBut yeah, it creates like a certain tension to the whole thing that I think that a really chill song sometimes needs not always but if you're if it's pretty slow and there's not a ton" }, { "startSec": 461.93, "endSec": 471.25, "text": "Going on. I mean, this is not a very dense arrangement in terms of like a bunch of bells and whistles kind of flying at youLike probably the most complicated thing was what I just showed you" }, { "startSec": 472.13, "endSec": 485.45, "text": "First with the synth stem like that's you know, but there's not even like a lot thereIt's just complicated in terms of the tamber the sound and the pitchSo let's let's go to like what the heart of this thing is" }, { "startSec": 486.13, "endSec": 507.73, "text": "And it it's a basically is a guitar part that I improvised so I got a really coolLow-fi guitar pedal and I am just loving this thing and it's bringing out something, you knownew from inside of me it like reallyI feel like it favors finger picking which is using your fingers instead of a pick and I don't really play like that" }, { "startSec": 507.73, "endSec": 522.73, "text": "So it's it's kind of like bringing something new out of me as somebody that's been a very pick-focused playerAnd so like I don't know I think that I think that findingFinding a new tone or a new way of" }, { "startSec": 523.85, "endSec": 536.1928571428572, "text": "Expressing yourself on an instrument opens up these different like compositionalanglesSo like every every single time I try and do like a new recordSo this is the first song of this whole album cycle." }, { "startSec": 536.1928571428572, "endSec": 559.77, "text": "You'll see it in the artwork and the sounds and theJust overall mixing picture all that kind of stuff and trying to keep it cohesiveBut I try and get something new to start every cycle It doesn't have to be very expensive this pedal is probably a hundred fifty bucks or something so it's like, you know, it's not cheapBut it's not crazyI try and get something that can be like an anchor for a new creative" }, { "startSec": 560.65, "endSec": 577.2246820809249, "text": "Exploration and sometimes it'll take me a few timesYou know, I get a pedal sell it get another pedal sell it and find the one that is like the guitarIdentity for a record and the same thing like everything forMixing for like finding plugins little bits of software usually againLike not spending a ton of money." }, { "startSec": 577.2246820809249, "endSec": 583.81, "text": "It's trying to find something very Unique they can be a stamp on something in the same way that that got Mellotron" }, { "startSec": 584.85, "endSec": 596.45, "text": "Plug in that thing is living in a lot of different places on this upcoming record becauseIt's just it's like a stamp, you knowIt's it's something that helps the whole thing have identity and I've also used it actually" }, { "startSec": 597.25, "endSec": 613.1133434650455, "text": "Speaking of that I used that on My Friend, Scoobert, which is my I think my first or second song that I released soumThe Mellotron has been like kind of a steady through line for this whole projectSo anyway all of that to say I got a new guitar pedal. I really like it." }, { "startSec": 613.1133434650455, "endSec": 633.0316039279869, "text": "It's bringing something new out of methis song is pretty much just cord in an improvisation to a drum beat and so I want to play the guitar and just kind of talk over itYou'll notice there are two guitar partsThere actually a few guitar parts but there are two main guitar parts in each ear and then there's some melodies and stuff like thatBut check them out." }, { "startSec": 633.0316039279869, "endSec": 658.45, "text": "I like again to think of it like dancing especially for improvisation based compositionsI like to think of it like you have a certain like central theme and vibeAnd then you use each of those instruments as identities to have a conversation with each other and dance with each otherSo in the way that the bass dude to get is like doing this funky thing the guitar is playing against itum" }, { "startSec": 658.45, "endSec": 677.1762334217507, "text": "It's it's you know, it's it's like it's like building a virtual band in your own head and trying to anticipateWhat if there were a bunch of use in a room what you would be doing against each otherUm, and that's only possible when you play in a lot of bands." }, { "startSec": 677.1762334217507, "endSec": 707.826896924269, "text": "So um, hopefully I'm accomplishing that but here is the guitar stemum of this songSo this starts with the little melody All using the same pedal some reverb and stuffThis is me this is me actually with a pick this time. I'm contradicting myselfBut yeah, a lot of the stuff I'm doing with this pedal." }, { "startSec": 707.826896924269, "endSec": 735.7234205370168, "text": "I'm doingfinger-pickedThat this main part is with a pick This is me just kind of noodling finding some chords and I like themThat's it. That's how you can go faster when you don'tWhen you improviseGet out of your own wayIt's kind of like a Jimi Hendrix thing at its core." }, { "startSec": 735.7234205370168, "endSec": 762.42, "text": "Do you hear it?ticacacoon It's it's basically what I'm doing. It's Jimi Hendrix against each other and then returns that melodyAll all of this is guitarsAnd here are the guitars are kind of likeGiving that pulse" }, { "startSec": 762.42, "endSec": 789.24, "text": "It's like like a little bit shaker like in that chorus because like it's filling in more of the rhythmThe guitar is like a bigA big part of why the bass is able to dance around it is that the guitar is like staying fairly steadyHere's the big moment just like in I love money where everything tucks in I roll off some of the high frequenciesMake some more low-fi and it allows you to explode into the next chorusboom" }, { "startSec": 789.24, "endSec": 800.58, "text": "You know contrastI'm just gonna play this out because it's not super longHere it feels loose that like that there's a certain vibe that improvising gives you" }, { "startSec": 804.31, "endSec": 808.23, "text": "And it makes you go fast because it's just like you it's just what's in your soul" }, { "startSec": 812.69, "endSec": 842.31, "text": "If you can sit down and like really think through a guitar part or you can just like play stuffAnd it all kind of wraps back around with this little melodyAnd we'll get to that whole thing in a secondBut um yeah playing with pitch playing with pitch that's that's like honestlyI think that's the core of this next record from like aWhatever this is music appreciation" }, { "startSec": 843.11, "endSec": 866.63, "text": "World I'm playing with pitch and I'm playing with space. I'm doing a lot of stuff with the spatial audio binaural audio stuffThat's around your head rather than just to each side of your earsThat's that's this KŌAN record in a nutshellSo before I get into kind of like what that means and that's gonna be a whole pod on itselfI want to talk about the drums and then we can talk about that outro section" }, { "startSec": 866.87, "endSec": 880.15, "text": "Because I think that's like another nod to kind of what I'm trying to doWith all of this music moving forwardFor this like whole cycle is like I'm trying to take you to a new worldI'm trying to build a new world and I want it like hang out in it and make it" }, { "startSec": 880.87, "endSec": 898.47, "text": "Interesting and pleasurable and like kind of like you know how I was talking aboutUm musical traditions informing things like pitch or harmony or rhythmI'm trying to kind of likeDigest all of that and then see what comes out in terms of like what would be my" }, { "startSec": 899.27, "endSec": 922.95, "text": "Musical tradition or like you know like how do you how do you sum all of that up to invent something somewhat newBut still familiar that's exactly the needle that I'm trying to thread that sounds like a koan too, right?You know a koan is something thatLike implicitly makes sense and doesn't make sense at the same timeThat's something that helps lead you towards a greater truth because it's like an apparent absurdity" }, { "startSec": 923.59, "endSec": 955.8, "text": "um, and so I'm trying to do that in terms of likethis sonicand compositional compositionalWorld buildingSo with all that here's like some fairly basic drumsYepTrying to play with the space in between rhythms too like where the hi-hat is positionedIs like electronic drumsBut sometimes I try to make them unsteady like J DillaAll right, so this is just gonna be cruising for a while" }, { "startSec": 956.84, "endSec": 981.5524418604651, "text": "But one of the things I want to mention is listen to how the snare drum doesn't have a lot of the top end informationIt's rolled offSo it gives you more of that likeless harshness and then more room to explode and more room for like the vocal and stuff like that to sit on top of itHere are the umThe hi-hat here." }, { "startSec": 981.5524418604651, "endSec": 999.3172154222766, "text": "Let me pause this for a second How the hi-hat in that previous section sounds kind of like it's in a room where it's further awayLet's listen to that again. It's that little upbeat that I'm talking about." }, { "startSec": 999.3172154222766, "endSec": 1026.48, "text": "Let me try and isolate it hereHear thatYeah, so that that hi-hat it's like in a space instead of just being on its own So that's one of the things I'm trying to play with too is like like that what do I say by what do I mean by world buildingIt's like it's everything from the way thatHitch is being transmitted to the space that you're in in terms of like room the laysUh" }, { "startSec": 1026.48, "endSec": 1046.88, "text": "Like the way that your head feels in terms of shapeIt's I know that all of this is kind of like weird stuffBut I'm trying to communicate as clearly as possible the goals the very esoteric goals that I'm trying to accomplish hereI'll get like deeper into more of these things in later podcasts that'll be you know a little bit maybe more understandable but" }, { "startSec": 1047.92, "endSec": 1063.36, "text": "This is what I'm trying to do in my music right now with you know the tools that I've gotSo I'm gonna do my best to explain kind of you know where I'm headed. So let's get back into these drumsGot a ride cymbal nowAnd your brightness is entered in to the picture" }, { "startSec": 1064.16, "endSec": 1068.16, "text": "So hoping to like point out to listener. Hey, this is a chorus is the thing to remember" }, { "startSec": 1070, "endSec": 1082.137084548105, "text": "Do you hear how the snare sometimes has reverb and sometimes doesn't it's like dryReverbYou know playing with stuff like thatNow here comes a little vinyl crackle." }, { "startSec": 1082.137084548105, "endSec": 1111.54, "text": "This is the I'm not gonna work not gonna workpartIt gives it gives it that like feeling like things have evolvedBut all I did is add in some vinyl crackle but now listen it's gone It's like that contrast those contrast moments are huge for me because there's it can be so subtle and so smallBut they can have a real emotional punch of like suddenly there is noise and crackle and it's so tinyDark" }, { "startSec": 1111.54, "endSec": 1127.89, "text": "And far away for the hi hatIt's kind of cool right now. I think soYou hear that hi hat suddenly get brighter in anticipation of the chorusI like stuff like that. I don't know what you're gonna know it is but now you do because I'm breaking it down for you" }, { "startSec": 1129.41, "endSec": 1140.45, "text": "All right, so yeah, this is the these are the drums. It's just gonna kind of groove on this for a little whileIt's just fade that out nice and slow off into the distanceI'm not sure if there's really anything to listen to the vocal, but why not" }, { "startSec": 1141.25, "endSec": 1160.56, "text": "Let's pull up the vocal in and see it's always a little bit embarrassing listening to yourself acapellabutLet's do itI think it starts off with like a pitched vocal alludingIt's kind of alluding to that main hook" }, { "startSec": 1161.68, "endSec": 1173.28, "text": "It's got a little hiss on that vocal too because I'm running it into a tape machineBut you know for a low-fiChill kind of song. I think hiss is really important to make it feel right" }, { "startSec": 1176.96, "endSec": 1197.36, "text": "All right here here how the vocal is is rolled off just like how he's doing with the drums like everything's rolled offBut then that gives you more room to get brighter as the song evolves, which I think is coolAnd also it's like think about where it's at like emotionally so this first verse is me talking aboutYou know being trapped in a corporate job like we all are" }, { "startSec": 1198.16, "endSec": 1228.8, "text": "And it's and it's like saying like there is a hierarchy of power. There are all these thingsIt makes me feel more dark about lifeAnd so it's like why don't we reflect that also in the EQ curve darkLittle vocal harmonyTrust us" }, { "startSec": 1232.24, "endSec": 1253.4004962779156, "text": "And there's three part vocal harmony and then like I've been that's been one of the things that I'm trying to do for this record tooAnd I did it and I'm an idiot andPeople seem to enjoy it and I've enjoyed it too. It's fun like writingI'm writing vocals of vocal harmonies in a new way which I will share hereso IStarted to write them in MelodyneSo what I do is I take my vocal." }, { "startSec": 1253.4004962779156, "endSec": 1258.72, "text": "I don't I tune my vocals And I like not super intensely and not all the time but you know" }, { "startSec": 1260.24, "endSec": 1270.4, "text": "Decent chunk of them all like nudge into place a little bit here and there try and keep it humanBut then on top of that I will create an artificial vocal" }, { "startSec": 1271.28, "endSec": 1283.92, "text": "Through you know like auto tune, but it's all by hand where you take every single individualsyllableI can put it where you want itAnd so I started doing that and that it kind of opened my brain up into" }, { "startSec": 1284.64, "endSec": 1296.16, "text": "Vocal harmonies that I wouldn't have not normally thought of just as a singer. I'm thinking of it as aAlmost like a like I'm writing in music theory class or something" }, { "startSec": 1297.36, "endSec": 1305.6, "text": "But in a cooler you know, that sounds like like in a cool way like like basicallyIt's like I'm thinking of it like I'm drunk. Okay. This is better like I'm drawing a midi notes" }, { "startSec": 1306.4, "endSec": 1328.48, "text": "In a piano roll. So if you've ever done that that you can just literally click and it likeYou drop the note on a grid and then it'll play it throughYou can do that like in garage band and stuff like thatSo it's it like kind of reframes my thinking into that world and then I get new ideas out of itIn the same way that I was talking about the guitar pedal bringing out new ideasIt's like a new work flow that" }, { "startSec": 1329.28, "endSec": 1351.12, "text": "Brings out a new site of your creativitySo doing this in Melodyne has been doing the exact same thing for me where it's likeI obviously I like these are singable partsBut the act of writing them in a computer rather than writing them as a singerOpens up new horizons" }, { "startSec": 1351.44, "endSec": 1375.92, "text": "So it also opens up new abilities to be fast and to stack things and build things in a like retroactive wayEven if I don't have a microphone on meThen flipping it all the way around a lot of times I'm starting to sing them nowSo I'll write them in the computer and then I'll sing them for real for realUm, I think I did half and half on this so let's listen to it push into the course with more vocals" }, { "startSec": 1380.48, "endSec": 1394.5010989010989, "text": "Yeah, so this is actually songYeah, this is all songBut the harmoniesThat was all song but the harmonies in the verse those ones are umMelodyneSo it's kind of cool." }, { "startSec": 1394.5010989010989, "endSec": 1418.16, "text": "It's like it like that's another texture right like like I was talking about how you can take away and bring back in theThe high end you can also do things like I'm doing where it's you have melodyne harmonies these artificial in-the-box harmonies that I'm writing still like you know by hand but where um" }, { "startSec": 1418.64, "endSec": 1440.805155131265, "text": "In the verse and then as soon as the chorus it's now you have like all the air and brightness and goodness that comes from actuallySinging it rather than having a computer do it. I'm feeling so free watching. I'm just sounds different." }, { "startSec": 1440.805155131265, "endSec": 1470.85, "text": "Both sound goodI just think it's fun that like I don't knowI'm trying to explore vocal harmonies in a way that's likelikeNot not a typical harmony that you would expect in a situation More like a vocoder if you know what that is then a backing vocalistYeahI" }, { "startSec": 1470.85, "endSec": 1498.131139896373, "text": "I'm deleting all of your apps from my phone. No, I look good teams. Yeah, you leave me alone. That's all melodyneSo those are the artificialThis tooSounds a little different. Can you can hear it?And then we'll get to the chorus. It'll be real vocals againIReal here. It's like brighter." }, { "startSec": 1498.131139896373, "endSec": 1526.87, "text": "I know that like I'm also bringing inMuch of EQ but just fundamentally the melodyne versus the real Little three-part harmony and I'm trying to likeNotSorry, it's hard to talk about the same stuff the vocals on vocals" }, { "startSec": 1527.67, "endSec": 1561.28, "text": "I'm trying to I'm trying to go between like three-part harmony and then just perfect fifth harmonySo like like things that like a power chord that feel a little bit more hollowSo it's like that feeling of going in between thick and hollow is what I'm trying to achieve with theseVocal part writing techniquesAll right, so that's that's enough vocalSo basically I think that the crux of what I'm trying to get at is" }, { "startSec": 1562.72, "endSec": 1578.24, "text": "Yeah, I'm using like a bunch of things throughout here like we let's just recapI was talking about the you know roll-in-off high-end orUsing melodyne versus real vocals or new guitar pedals and doing like Jimi Hendrixy things in new ways" }, { "startSec": 1578.96, "endSec": 1588.72, "text": "Or a dancing James Jamerson bass that's kind of waltzing with and waltzes a bad word. That's like groovingSyncopated with everybody else or like I was talking about with pitch" }, { "startSec": 1589.52, "endSec": 1603.2078048780488, "text": "In the Mellotron, you know combining the vintage e sound with the modern sound like all these things are techniquesSure, but like what I'm really trying to get at is the why behind reaching for those techniquesWe all kind of have the same tools." }, { "startSec": 1603.2078048780488, "endSec": 1611.6124317535857, "text": "It's just like knowing when to use those toolsThat's what defines you as a producer Whatever artist whatever is you know like or songwriter." }, { "startSec": 1611.6124317535857, "endSec": 1631.76, "text": "You're gonna reach for this thing to get something out of youSo like when I'm talking about vocal harmonies you have a three-part harmony three vocalist or a two-part harmony two vocaliststhey give a very different feeling to me It's like thickness versus hollowness depending on the notes that you're choosing and" }, { "startSec": 1632.16, "endSec": 1647.8215890410959, "text": "It gives like a different emotional punch if you have something that's highlighted as a three-part harmony and then it cuts downTo a two-part harmony. So like I'm not gonna work. Not gonna workThat's the big like three-part." }, { "startSec": 1647.8215890410959, "endSec": 1673.3230835977986, "text": "There's things going onNana two-part that's like it's that's supposed to like break down to the like childhoodPlayground taunt kind of thing That's so it gets simpler. It gets more hollow. It's not a bigStatement of you know freedom. It's aNana, you know, okay one last thing before I let you go." }, { "startSec": 1673.3230835977986, "endSec": 1689.157998237888, "text": "I want to talk aboutBe very end of this song So here it is. Let's listen to it and then we'll talk about a little bit." }, { "startSec": 1689.157998237888, "endSec": 1702.3693559783007, "text": "This is just the instrumentalSo doing lots of fun stuff thereAlmost too much to go step by step on but Let's talk about the why of what I'm doing." }, { "startSec": 1702.3693559783007, "endSec": 1720.0456393297836, "text": "So one of the things I'm trying to think of isThe open and the close of the curtain for a songSo I wanted this this song because it was like slow to get even slower And to like melt and so I like with that goal." }, { "startSec": 1720.0456393297836, "endSec": 1735.8663074904448, "text": "I did a bunch of stuff to try and make that happen with distortion with width With I did some stuff with like binaural reverbs so stuff that's like the if you heard spatial audio stuffThat's around your head rather than just in your two ears." }, { "startSec": 1735.8663074904448, "endSec": 1756.34, "text": "It's like, you know, it's fakingFaking you out to feel like stuff's behind youStill a little bit of that um and then also like playing withthe way that the low-end feels The way that things decay the way that pitch decays and then one of my favorite things is at the very endIf you listen really closely goes like this kind of like weird sound" }, { "startSec": 1756.74, "endSec": 1781.86, "text": "That's it decaying into a low-quality mp3 and like so this is something I'm going to be doing a lot on that I have been doing a lot on KŌAN. Which like I was saying is that next record probably I think it's coming out in SeptemberBut we'll be I'll be releasing a bunch of stuff on BeformerBetween now and thenBut one of the things to listen for is the low-fi-ness" }, { "startSec": 1782.58, "endSec": 1807.7630508474576, "text": "Of the two thousand's Napster LimeWire era. I was more LimeWireRIP my parents computer so sorry, but from that era if you if you I'll ever like a legally downloaded music which for legal purposes I never didumNever used the correct plugins either never I do I've been for the record." }, { "startSec": 1807.7630508474576, "endSec": 1827.06, "text": "I definitely do not anymore and I never didanyway umThe themp3 sound You know what let me just show you I'm going to put it on my vocal right nowThen you can hear what it sounds like on on a human voice as it decays hereI am with my vocal and I'm going to be running it into some tools to degrade the audio" }, { "startSec": 1827.3, "endSec": 1846.74, "text": "Specifically in the mp3 style of way there are a bunch of different ways to degrade audio all of which I like because I like lo-fi hi-fi combinationsBut as you can tell you probably can't really understand me very much the more we canBecause I'm turning into a digital cloud and that's awesomeAnd I said I'm turning into a digital cloud and that's awesome" }, { "startSec": 1847.22, "endSec": 1862.98, "text": "Because it is awesome to me. You know anything that at some point sounds badIn the future it'll sound like that time sovinyl like vinyl noise and dirty" }, { "startSec": 1864.1, "endSec": 1880.74, "text": "Needles like dusty new needles super cool. I have a plugin that does that. I've also recorded itYou know big fanmp3 sounds is a great example another great example is like digital reverb ordigital breakupone of the things that I'm noticing right now is" }, { "startSec": 1881.7, "endSec": 1901.5126633165828, "text": "Clipping so the the act of driving something way too loud you hear that a lot in hyper pop nowAnd it's actually pretty cool. It sounds like super futuristic and modernIt also sounds terrible, but it also sounds great because it sounds specifically terribleSame thing withcassette cassette sounds." }, { "startSec": 1901.5126633165828, "endSec": 1911.06, "text": "I use cassette stuff all the time and like specificallydegraded cassettestuff like with bad heads and You know like messed up" }, { "startSec": 1912.02, "endSec": 1932.34, "text": "Tape that you've recorded on 15,000 times that has a vibe and that's what I'm going for especiallyWhen we have this like pristine digitalWorld then we're able to populate with audio and visuals and all this kind of stuffThere's there's just a beauty in the contrast and that's what I'm trying to preach at I guess with all of" }, { "startSec": 1933.06, "endSec": 1957.14, "text": "The stuff that I'm doing right now and what I'm trying to kind of sum up here is we like eclipse 30 minutesWhich I did not expect to talk that long about a song that's like two minutes and 30 secondsBut it's kind of like I'm trying to give you the moOf where I'm at production wiseIt's it's likefindFind the contrast and then find" }, { "startSec": 1958.58, "endSec": 1969.54, "text": "The why and the emotional response you're looking to get out of the music and then look at your toolback rather than the other way aroundRather than like looking like I got this cool new trick. I got to find a place to use it" }, { "startSec": 1970.34, "endSec": 1975.94, "text": "Um, I know that somebody might hear the outro of the song and be like guys is doing production you think so it's like no there" }, { "startSec": 1976.9, "endSec": 1983.3, "text": "I did all of that stuff for a purpose that I predefined before I just started like doing things to audio" }, { "startSec": 1984.02, "endSec": 2011.38, "text": "If that makes sense and it's okay if it doesn't completely read to everybody, butIt makes it like feelrobust enough for meThat I can feel like you know feel like I can defend it and think it's like noThat's a cool choice because I was trying to do something and in my mind I did it whether or not everybody gets it on careAnd with thatThat's a song to quit your job to so I hope you're doing something" }, { "startSec": 2012.34, "endSec": 2041.38, "text": "Um, in your life that makes you very happy and if not I hope you do something to change thatumAnd I also recognize that you know, we all have to do stuff we don't want to doBut maybe someday soon we can all quit our boring jobs and do our fun jobsAnd hopefully I can do that tooHere's hoping Scoobert Doobert outBut first Scoobert Doobert dot pizza Scoobert Doobert dot pizza is got" }, { "startSec": 2042.18, "endSec": 2056.74, "text": "All sorts of links and stuff like that and you're going to see a music video for this pretty soonsoStay tuned and uh bookmark Scoobert Doobert dot pizza for all the good stuffLater bye" } ], "correctionsApplied": [ { "id": "scuba-duba", "count": 4, "note": "Host intro name ASR typo" } ] }