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American 60s bass amp flip top character mahogany la bella flats electric bass, brushes-and-sticks drum kit, tenor ensemble honking attack 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": 748, "score": 459.638, "config": { "traditions": [ "souldies", "beach_music_carolina", "memphis_soul" ], "instruments": [ { "id": "voice", "slots": { "voice_register": "chest_voice", "voice_quality": "blues_shouter_voice", "voice_vocal_tract": "tract_neutral", "voice_effort": "effort_moderate", "voice_vibrato": "slow_vibrato", "voice_articulation": "hocket_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": "voice_sprechgesang_notated", "voice_ensemble_config": 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