Startup, by Honey Wizard

Startup

by Honey Wizard

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1.	Intro 00:14	buy track
2.	Level 1 02:09	buy track
3.	Blink 03:01	buy track
4.	Say You Love Me 02:18	buy track
5.	Guilt 04:16	buy track
6.	Attacula 03:24	buy track
7.	INTERLUDE 1 01:15	buy track
8.	Holmes 02:31	buy track
9.	Treesus 03:32	buy track
10.	Kitsch 03:01	buy track
11.	Magicman 02:23	buy track
12.	Lair 03:23	buy track
13.	INTERLUDE 2 01:12	buy track
14.	Bugfree 02:00	buy track
15.	Witchbru 02:43	buy track
16.	Below 02:01	buy track
17.	Fluke 02:31	buy track
18.	Confidante 02:23	buy track
19.	Dying 02:16	buy track
20.	Complex 06:47	buy track
21.	Outro 00:10	buy track

about

Made through 2017 and 2018 on either one or two original Game Boys depending on the song (pro-sound mods and backlights added).

The low bass was achieved by flaw in the CPU-001 boards on my units in combo with the backlights. They tend to overheat due to a crappy voltage regulator. I noticed they get bassier right before overheating and turning off, so I'd play through the songs a few times before recording to "warm them up." It's most notable in "Magicman," where I left one Game Boy sort of warm and the other that had the bass on it much hotter. It's a fine balance. When recording, if it sounds too bassy at the start of the song, it'd be unintelligible by the end, so you'd have to cool the units down and start over. That said, no part's the same twice due to that constant buildup of saturation. Adds a little tension and life. The song "Dying" is actually a bit literal. By the midpoint of the song, my Game Boys were so overheated the screens were blank, and it's a miracle they didn't power off before the song stopped. That's why it sounds the way it does.

Also, don't worry: after I recorded this album, I went back and cleaned both Game Boys and resoldered the screen so it bypasses the regulator entirely. The screen now gets slightly dim (barely noticeable) before the batteries are drained, but they don't overheat anymore.

Recorded with a Hall of Fame 2 reverb pedal (for certain tracks) on a small delay setting for stereo width, then into a Yamaha MG10XU mixer plugged into a Focusrite Scarlett 2i4, then into Reaper. Mutli-band compression, stereo width, EQ, and Tape encoding added (AudioThing Type A).

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released March 10, 2018

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