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Fender blackface amp American 60s amp spring reverb bright open string slide resonance single coil electric guitar, Hammond b3 canonical 1955 1975 jazz gospel rock standard gospel runs fast tremolo tonewheel organ, ampeg b15 amp American 60s bass amp flip top character thomastik infeld low tension electric bass, vintage ambassador asymmetric brushes-and-sticks drum kit, pearwood marine band tradition brass traditional hohner marine band 1896 canonical blues trossingen harmonica. electric blues defining room 1957-1975 indie-commercial chess studios chicago. large-diaphragm condenser, API 312 op-amp pre, API op-amp console, 1176 FET, API proportional-Q EQ. Studer 30ips tape plate reverb ibanez tube screamer TS9 / TS808.", "recipe_chars": 944, "score": 579.45, "config": { "traditions": [ "chicago_blues", "hard_bop", "boogie_woogie" ], "instruments": [ { "id": "voice", "slots": { "voice_register": "chest_voice", "voice_quality": "aspirated_voice", "voice_vocal_tract": "tract_neutral", "voice_effort": "effort_moderate", "voice_vibrato": "oscillating_vibrato", "voice_articulation": "hocket_voice", "voice_microtone": "bend_inflected", "voice_tradition": "jazz_scat_tradition", "voice_mechanism_compound": "voice_mechanism_M0_pulse_borrowed", "voice_estill_quality": "voice_estill_belt", "voice_speech_song": "voice_sprechgesang_notated", "voice_ensemble_config": "voice_ensemble_four_plus_polyphony", "voice_ornament_system": "voice_ornament_andean_huayno", "voice_pitch_organization": "voice_pitch_tonal_language_constrained", "voice_processing_chain": "voice_processing_talkbox", "voice_multitrack_stack": 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"amp_american_ampeg_b15", "body_wood": "alder_b", "pickup_config": "humbucker_mm", "string_type": "thomastik_jazz_bass_flat", "scale_length_b": "short_scale_b", "fretted_or_not": "fretted", "bass_technique": "fingerstyle_walking" }, "scores": { "amp_make": 11.764999999999999, "body_wood": 0.975, "pickup_config": 0.195, "string_type": 23.07500000000001, "scale_length_b": 0.78, "fretted_or_not": 0.39, "bass_technique": 18.985000000000007 } }, { "id": "drum_kit", "slots": { "drum_technique": "brushes_and_sticks", "drumhead": "vintage_ambassador_drumhead", "drum_kit_kick_pedal": "dk_kick_single_felt" }, "scores": { "drum_technique": 21.709999999999994, "drumhead": 25.54500000000001, "drum_kit_kick_pedal": 0 } }, { "id": "harmonica", "slots": { "harmonica_type": "chromatic_harm", "harmonica_comb": "pearwood_comb", "harmonica_reed": "brass_harm", "harmonica_technique": "harm_blues_cross", "harmonica_maker_school": "harmonica_hohner_marine_band", "harmonica_tuning": "harmonica_solo_chromatic" 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