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amp American 60s bass amp flip top character la bella flats Detroit soul bass canon electric bass, pre muffled edge muffled brushes-and-sticks drum kit, melodic orchestral imitation pitched sampler, contemporary full choir southern black gospel. treated studio. tube condenser, 500-series boutique pre, brick-wall limiter, dynamic EQ. 24-bit digital plate reverb digital delay pitch shifter.", "recipe_chars": 864, "score": 440.867, "config": { "traditions": [ "contemporary_urban_gospel", "doo_wop", "souldies" ], "instruments": [ { "id": "voice", "slots": { "voice_register": "chest_voice", "voice_quality": "praise_voice", "voice_vocal_tract": "tract_neutral", "voice_effort": "effort_moderate", "voice_vibrato": "delayed_vibrato", "voice_articulation": "melisma_voice", "voice_microtone": "maqam_inflected", "voice_tradition": "gospel_pentecostal_tradition", "voice_mechanism_compound": "voice_mechanism_M0_pulse_borrowed", "voice_estill_quality": "voice_estill_belt", "voice_speech_song": 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