Pluto's Moons Pt. 5 - Hydra | Ambient Soundscape | Modern Sounds Pluto Synthesizer
This is part five of my tracks with the Modern Sounds Pluto semimodular synthesizer dedicated to every single sound modifier named after Pluto's five moons Charon, Styx, Nix, Kerberos and Hydra.
This track is featuring Hydra. Hydra is the most distant and second largest of Pluto’s moons. Nevertheless its dimensions are only about 51 km in diameter. Hydra was discovered together with Nix, independently by Max J. Mutchler on 15 June 2005 and by Andrew J. Steffl in June and August 2005, using photos of the Hubble Space Telescope.
Hydra, is named after the nine-headed serpent that Hercules fought in Greek mythology. She is also the sister of Kerberos, the three headed dog of the underworld.
The two moons were intentionally named that the order of their initials "N" and "H" honors the New Horizons mission to Pluto.
For processing the sounds of the Modern Sounds Pluto synthesizer the Dark Star v2 reverb from Old Blood Noise Endeavors serves as first pedal in signal path for achieving washed out pad sounds. Between the Dark Star and the end-of-chain reverb, the Eventide Space Reverb (Darkmatter/Blackhole algorithm), I used three great pedals from Chase Bliss, all in stereo.
First the new released Clean, then the Mood Mk II and finally the Onward.
Modern Sounds Pluto's Hydra is modifying voice 2/sequence 2. Voice 1 is played with Pluto's "keyboard".
The Old Blood Noise Endeavors Dark Star is my favourite effects pedal since years for more dark and mysterious pad reverb sounds. The Chase Bliss Clean is a great sound refining tool and compressor. The Chase Bliss Mood MkII was used on left side in "Slip" mode and on the right in "Stretch" mode to create some interesting micro-loop effects. Chase Bliss Onward creates interesting patterns of glitch and other sound degrading effects with surprising stereo effects. Eventide Space finally pushes the sound out in space using the "Black Hole" algorithm "Dark Matter".
Single track stereo recording, no overdubbing.
All audio and video material and mastering by The Pedalboard Orchestra.
Photos from Pluto and moons courtesy by NASA/JPL-Caltech/ESA and
NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute.
(Disclaimer: This is a non sponsored video. I bought all my equipment with my own money)
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