Glockenskull Guitar by Karoryfer Samples - a late Soviet guitar gets hit with a pencil, and stuff

[DSmolken]

https://shop.karoryfer.com/glockenskull

Last fall I had the chance to borrow a weird guitar made in the last days of the Soviet Union. Instead of sampling all the usual techniques on every fret on every string, I did chromatic sampling, did stuff like hit the strings with a pencil and a drumstick, and sampled three kinds of muting.

$19, period. No intro price, and no sale price for at least the remainder of 2021. Instead of doing a different sale every 24 hours or 90%+ off or other such games, let's just release this thing, put a price on it, and see who wants to buy it. At least it'll be simpler for all of us.

Walkthrough.



And a demo with lyrics about Glocks and skulls, and also using our Big Rusty Drums and Secret Agent Bass, so all the instrumentation is from our side of the Iron Curtain.

[Michael L]

Only at Karoryfer, a prepared guitar!
Great sonic variety and many surprises when combining controls.
Two outstanding demos by doctoremmett, too
Consider a prepared 12-string with things between the strings...

[DSmolken]

Yeah, there's a lot more stuff which could be done with prepared guitar, and doubled strings would make it even more interesting, so there's a lot of potential for the future. I didn't want to scratch up a shiny borrowed guitar, or chew up its strings with alligator clips, so in this case I kept it pretty careful.

[doctoremmet]

Only at Karoryfer, a prepared guitar!
Great sonic variety and many surprises when combining controls.
Two outstanding demos by doctoremmett, too
Consider a prepared 12-string with things between the strings...

It was great fun playing with this guitar. It has a wide range of sound potential. Highly recommend this one!

[Winstontaneous]

Thanks as always for keeping it weird, DSmolken!

[Michael L]

Here's another dziwaczny demo, with less Glock but more skull:
"Kremlin Watchers" by doctoremmett:

[doctoremmet]

That one was heavily inspired by Karoryfer’s Torgbe choir, which makes a very brief cameo in there as well. Now excuse me while I Google dziwaczny

[doctoremmet]

Ah haha! Gotcha. I’ll take that as a compliment for the library. It makes one do dziwaczny things I guess, which in my world is a good thing

[Michael L]

Is good. Among other things, your demos show how using multiple Karoryfer libraries with their unusual timbres can transport listeners into strange & unexpected sonic worlds

[DSmolken]

Indeed, often unexpected even by me.

[DSmolken]

As promised, this was not on any kind of discount for the first year of its release, but since we have a spring sale now, it's $9 until May 14th.

And a new track that uses this, Nanfo, Hadzi-Fia, Hadzi-Hevi, Torgbe, Orcophony - everything except the drums and flute is from various Karoryfer releases.