Roflcopter
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I do think it's really different from sustainiacs and ebows etc. This is just a start - once someone spends a few *months* with it, you'll begin to hear stuff on their new albums that *noone* else can copy easily without one of these. I hope they make a poor man's version, too - or better, a DIY kit. Would probably still set you back a thousand euros or so.
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Salesman A runs into Salesman B: 'Whatcha selling these days?' Salesman B: 'Silence." Salesman A: 'Gittouta here' Salesman B: 'No, I'm serious, we're selling guitars these days other people can't hear' Salesman A: 'To autistic people?' Saesman B: 'Close. Home studio recordists. They call it 'artistic', BTW.'
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I'm a guitarplayer myself, not a bassist - but I do treat them as entirely different animals. Bass comes first in my book, accompanied with a basic drum pattern (this gets replaced in the end with a more 'humanized' or even drummed version (on my padKontrol). But you have to lay the basic pattern first, drum and bass both, and layer guitar and vox over that, IMO.
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oops Replied to the wrong one Abacadabra - The Steve Miller Band
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Without examples it's a bit hard to tell - maybe record something simple, so people can give meaningful hints?
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http://blog.wired.com/music/2008/06/moog-unveils-ba.html *Very* nice for certain types of music, I think.
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Yeah that's pretty spectacular - even though the cause was the wind making it vibrate, not marching traffic. Found a synth in a Reason expansion that will give me this glassy sound - found it by coincidence later that same day. I'll see if I can whip up a little mp3 using it.
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Yeah it does. Hope the seller accepts the bid. It's not very much lower than what she asks for it - but people can stubborn - well, so can I. Had a mountainbike that exact same metallic blue/greenish colour, a Specialized (despite the daft name, actually a *very* good brand of bike).
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Fostex makes decent gear. I have a set of their nearfield monitors - sound identical to the smaller Mackies, at a third of the price.
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You can't judge your own voice properly unless its from a recording, anyway. All the cavities, and bone reverberations change the sound a LOT, so you can sound 'better' or 'worse' than on tape, according to yourself. But what you hear yourself doing 'live', only *you* hear as such, noone else. I don't have a really really bad singing voice, but I don't particulary like it myself, I do have a pretty versatile reach tho, and can do pretty crazy sounds, so I think I will limit myself to voice-acting stuff for animations, where I can at least put it to work. Or maybe a Rammstein cover
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Well, I'm not a baseplayer but a guitarplayer that could fake it, and for my current projects I'm on a diet - no or hardly any guitars, and certainly no solos. That forces me to concentrate on other stuff, and the bass is the big surprise there, it's maybe even more important in 'free-style' music (without the staccato drum-kicks as a basis) than any other modern rock instrument. But also in some plain rock like the Strokes, you can hear they all rely on that Nikolai guy for the drive, and not so much the drummer. The drummer follows the changes, more - and fills in the blanks, same as the rhythm guitar.
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I think it also works with normal glass, as long as it's not duralex or heat-tempered or something. The idea is that the glass can be made to reverberate by rubbing. The note depends on size and shape of the glass. IIRC it's not so that it needs an exact high C note to shatter it, but the frequency that they call 'eigen-frequency' will do the trick every time. This is the note it produces if you rub a damp finger around the rim. If you sing that *exactly* at the right pitch into the glass, with sufficient force - goodbye glass. That works the same way a bit, as soldiers marching over a bridge in a march - you see that in movies sometimes, that they are ordered to break into a normal walk while crossing, only to resume the march after crossing. Or you get this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7GvGqJquCU
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For those of you that maybe think - err...who? http://youtube.com/watch?v=RdY-KAmj5fU
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OK, I'll come in again. I do use basses a lot, via keyboard - being a guitar player I do think I'm not doing a bad job even, but ofcourse I want the real thing. I've got a bid running on this one, an older 80's Ibanez 4 string with active pickups - I'm told they play *very* nicely.
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That's not fair. The 11-one was a fat stick too. Survival of the fattest, in that case.
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See your 11, .... and raise you one.
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[sorry - the offending neurons have been fired] Knowing me, Knowing you - Abba
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Maybe you have some blocker? I get that dead pages when I forget to allow javascript etc - and its not youtube.com itself that shows the vids - ytimg.com or whatever - and cross-server stuff is blocked sometimes by flash. Pfft - but maybe just try another browser and some firewall settings - if it's consistent, the vids are probably just there.... anyways: pretty dope (or dopey) heavy metal solo:
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IIRC Sting also ended up learning an instrument because an uncle couldn't take it with him to Canada.
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Best UK Indie rocksong of the eighties - well, 1985 anyway. Amazing drive. [smiley=acoustic.gif] (excellent sound quality BTW)
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New Way Of Finding Band And Album Names...
Roflcopter replied to thelevellers's topic in Songwriting
BTW nobody touch 'Wall in my room' - it's brilliant, on 2nd thought. -
New Way Of Finding Band And Album Names...
Roflcopter replied to thelevellers's topic in Songwriting
YMMV Band: Development Fund for Iraq Album: Wall in my room and the cover fits that well indeed: -
TBH you have to keep in mind PK is a past master, and a one-man band. He's a lot older now, but still tours. He is in a class all of his own, no joke. In the Ebow video he also uses a loop box and a delay (expertly, at that) - make no mistake about having to *learn* to get cool sounds out of it. Takes practice, like with everything.
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Funny enough I needed that typical NY police whine in the background, and no synth I have really did that well (and I have a few) - but with a slide and an ebow it's a snap.
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Without going into scathing detail maybe (I could but I don't get a kick out of bashing) - FWIW I stopped buying it after like 6 or 9 months. My advice would be to get a library card and hit the books. Much better plan. 85 pounds will buy you a stack of those 'xxxxxxx for Dummies' books, and I checked some of those for music, and they rock.
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