How to Make a Bass
Dearest Plague Rats,
This is a wavetable synthesizer.
You start with a basic shape—simple, raw, unremarkable on its own.
Then you run it through filters.
Envelopes.
Time.
Each passage shapes it into something else. By the end, what remains is unique. Impossible to replicate.
Last night, I was honored to be asked to speak about the Asylum book at a very special gathering.
Afterward, a woman came to me privately and said, “You’ve been through so much.”
Without hesitation, I heard myself say that I was the luckiest person alive.
I had been given these experiences—these filters and envelopes and effects—that shaped me into someone who had something to say.
I was grateful for all of it.
Because all of it gave me the right to be there with her.
You are not who you were before everything you passed through.
This isn't a flaw in the machinery.
It’s why you’re here.
Why you are impossible to replicate.
And why you have something to say.
A Note: That screenshot is from the Cubase session for "Girls Will Be Girls," coming February 14th. I don't usually reveal this level of production detail, but if you'd enjoy more, the Inner Circle is where we can actually converse about it—comments are open there.
