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ash ash single coil electric guitar, ampeg b15 amp American 60s bass amp flip top character swamp ash ash electric bass, pre muffled edge muffled brushes-and-sticks drum kit, single row diatonic Cajun tradition bellows chop drone foot cajun accordion. 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": 830, "score": 428.347, "config": { "traditions": [ "swamp_pop", "doo_wop", "souldies" ], "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": "maqam_inflected", "voice_tradition": "gospel_pentecostal_tradition", "voice_mechanism_compound": "voice_mechanism_M0_pulse_borrowed", "voice_estill_quality": "voice_estill_belt", 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