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Fender tweed amp American 50s amp tweed breakup dearmond vintage jazz archtop, growly gut upright bass, vintage ambassador asymmetric brushes-and-sticks drum kit, soft felt lacquer voiced 17 ply hard rock maple Asian spruce grand piano, phosphor bronze selmer mark vi canonical 1954 1974 jazz paris continuous-airflow legato saxophone. dry but alive 1948-1965 indie-commercial early tape us small. passive ribbon, tube pre, German tube console, vari-mu, Pultec passive program EQ. tape 15ips.", "recipe_chars": 690, "score": 242.16, "config": { "traditions": [ "early_rock_and_roll_50s", "chicago_blues", "jump_blues" ], "instruments": [ { "id": "voice", "slots": { "voice_register": "chest_voice", "voice_quality": "blues_shouter_voice", "voice_vocal_tract": "tract_neutral", "voice_effort": "effort_moderate", "voice_vibrato": "oscillating_vibrato", "voice_articulation": "hocket_voice", "voice_microtone": "bend_inflected", "voice_tradition": "gospel_pentecostal_tradition", "voice_mechanism_compound": "voice_mechanism_M0_pulse_borrowed", "voice_estill_quality": "voice_estill_opera", "voice_speech_song": "voice_sprechgesang_notated", "voice_ensemble_config": "voice_ensemble_four_plus_polyphony", "voice_ornament_system": "voice_ornament_connemara_unaccompanied", "voice_pitch_organization": "voice_pitch_equal_tempered_12", "voice_processing_chain": "voice_processing_talkbox", "voice_multitrack_stack": "voice_multitrack_mid_1960s_double_tracking_era" }, "scores": { "voice_register": 38.74500000000001, "voice_quality": 12.544999999999991, "voice_vocal_tract": 0, "voice_effort": 0, "voice_vibrato": 24.555, "voice_articulation": 14.169999999999998, "voice_microtone": 22.044999999999998, "voice_tradition": 10.984999999999996, "voice_mechanism_compound": 2.4699999999999998, "voice_estill_quality": 2.34, "voice_speech_song": 17.614999999999995, "voice_ensemble_config": 14.364999999999997, "voice_ornament_system": 1.8849999999999996, "voice_pitch_organization": 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"voice_pitch_organization": "voice_pitch_equal_tempered_12", "voice_processing_chain": "voice_processing_unprocessed", "voice_ensemble_config": "voice_ensemble_solo_accompanied", "voice_multitrack_stack": "voice_multitrack_single_lead", "voice_microtone": "tempered_voice", "voice_ornament_system": "voice_ornament_none", "voice_estill_quality": "voice_estill_speech", "voice_vibrato": "slow_vibrato", "voice_mechanism_compound": "voice_mechanism_single_source", "upright_play": "pizz_upright", "upright_strings": "gut_wound_upright", "keyboard_technique": "keyboard_block_chord_pop", "piano_pitch_standard": "a_440_modern", "wind_articulation": "wind_bebop_runs", "sax_size": "tenor_sax", "sax_technique": "sax_bebop_runs", "archtop_body": "archtop_full_hollow", "archtop_pickup": "archtop_floating", "archtop_top_wood": "archtop_carved_spruce", "archtop_strings": "thomastik_jazz_flat", "archtop_technique": "archtop_walking_chords" }, "chain_mic": "dynamic_mic", "chain_pre": "tube_pre", 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