So Peter Wade has been suggesting to use a Shepards Tone somewhere in our music since our first day writing music together.  A Shepard tone, named after Roger Shepard, is a sound consisting of a superposition of sine waves separated by octaves. When played with the base pitch of the tone moving upwards or downwards, it is referred to as the Shepard scale. This creates the auditory illusion of a tone that continually ascends or descends in pitch, yet which ultimately seems to get no higher or lower.^[1]

The U.B.C.L. (C.L.U.B.) hook on that record has always sort of dissatisfied us since we first made it.  It seemed like we didn’t try hard enough to come up with a distinctive vocal treatment.  So recently, Peter Wade put into place a Shepard’s Tone patch and inserted the vocals to create an ever ascending and descending effect to the vocals.  Very helium mushrooms.  It took a lot of concentration and focus to create this patch, but I think we got something very new for vocal treatment.

Here is what it looks like as a patch in ProTools.  So those of you who have the original version of C.L.U.B., get ready to hear an updated version.

C.L.U.B. just got featured on Wondersound Records home page.  Truly psyched.  They just put out a Michel Gondry audio book.

C.L.U.B. is up on Itunes.

keepin it casual

Hey everyone.
I am currently working on a collection of singles. I have my first one C.L.U.B. up on itunes right now.
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=309641365&s=143441

Dip yourself in chrome and let me know what you think.

So I originally brought in a demo version of C.L.U.B. that I wrote for another artist. When I played it for one producer they thought it sounded like white noise with a punch to the cha cha.
It was literally hilarious because I was just like, “really, you just don’t even hear anything?” They were all, “nope”.
Anyways, I played it for producer/friend Peter Wade and then we just started to re-work it.

The re-work is sounding truly outrageous.  I am WAY psyched.

I need to re-work the vocal line from the demo.

Take a listen to the C.L.U.B. Demo.