bobbass4k

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1372245973' post='2123263'] Damn! Should've added a backbeat! [/quote] And what exactly is wrong with backbeats? (he said, sheepishly...)

EZ Drummer is what I use, it's pretty involved, and programming realistic sounding acoustic drum tracks from the ground up is an extremely difficult art I hope to master one day. All my composition comp entries except the drunk Santa one use it if you fancy a listen.

[url="https://soundcloud.com/bobbass4k/luna-desertis-tenebris"]https://soundcloud.c...sertis-tenebris[/url] Contrary to how it normally is I actually finished writing within a week but it's taken ages to get it sounding even halfway decent. Not everyone's cup of tea but it came together quite nicely, although I think I may have overdone it slightly on the first bit, there's too much going on so it never really locks into a groove like I'd intended. Also please forgive me the pretentious latin title, I was a bit stuck.

Recognisable might be a bit of a stretch but I love this: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBDVKJRXmGQ[/media]

http://www.spin.com/articles/stream-palms-debut-chino-moreno-isis-deftones/ It's pretty great, maybe a bit... aimless, but good stuff nonetheless.

I was going to have a bash this month, but it seems unnecessary now, my composition competition entry has been an absolute bugger to mix, I just can't seem to get a decent sound out of the VST's and I've had to do a lot of rescue jobs, you should see the EQ on one of the ambient tracks...

Has anyone floated the idea of a remix competition yet? Could be kind of cool although I suspect it would attract the same crowd as the composition and mix competitions and 3 things a month is probably too much even for the die-hard. Might be kind of cool as a one off for the composition competition? We all remix one of the previous winners, if they're happy to part with the stems. Just a thought.

They'll do a demo video pretty soon I imagine, does sound interesting, depends how well it handles actives though, the impedance buffer on the Mastotron is probably the greatest control ever put on a pedal. I've been interested in the loop gate for a while too, that could open up a whole new world of options.

Justin Chancellor Jeff Caxide Neil Mahony Steven Hodson Jon Ellis Troy Sanders Jesse F. Keeler Dominic Aitchison Scott Reeder Chris Wolstenholme

[quote name='Myke' timestamp='1371068100' post='2109521'] I really love it! [/quote] Then you sir, are in for a treat. If you also like 3/4, power chords and 7 different time signatures in the space of 5 minutes you might want to sit down before listening to mine.

Final pointless update from me: I've decided to track and mix mine after all, the technical problem appears to not be debilitating as i first thought and it's proving a nice distraction from giant black cloud hanging over my foreseeable future. Unfortunately I've reached that inevitable point where I've written a pretty good riff, but after listening to it over and over again I'm convinced I've subconsciously stolen it from somewhere. Oh well, hope you all like B minor...

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1370989312' post='2108471'] This is all academic, surely..? It's GREEN, ffs. [/quote] This. Why you'd take a lovely streamer and cover it green paint is beyond me.

[quote name='Marvin' timestamp='1370976085' post='2108227'] I have nothing against the use of capo's per se. It's when I'm being told, insistently, that x chord is being played when it clearly isn't. Piss and boil etc etc. [/quote] All that fiddly music theory stuff annoys me, it just seems so unnecessary. Cb and Fb? Oh, you mean B and E? What do you mean they're not the same? Show me the Cb key on a piano that isn't also the B key, then I'll believe they're not the same.

I use a capo on bass fairly often, does that make me some sort of malevolent goblin?

There is, sounds perfect for me, but geography has conspired against us. Hope you find someone.

Losers are streaming their new album for today only, I figured some of you may be interested: [url="http://www.rocksound.tv/features/article/losers?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=rocksound"]http://www.rocksound...paign=rocksound[/url] Losers is one of the guys from Cooper Temple Clause, one of the guys from yourcodenameis:milo (and young legionnaire) and a DJ fellow, and it pretty much sounds like you'd expect those 3 things together to. Excellent stuff.

Finished writing mine, but an unfortunate confluence of events means I won't get it all tracked and mixed. I might record the gp5 (it's how I write them) and put it up if I can muster the time and inclination.

[quote name='SpaceChick' timestamp='1370499239' post='2101767'] "You can't sing, your singing is out of tune and you sound welshy.... Do you know I really don't like your singing voice. The mix is all over the place, it may sound better if you sort that out, but ultimately if you do, don't play it to me again as hearing it once was enough. It really is a depressing song you know. You aren't really going to enter it are you?" you sure you are ready for a female entry boys [/quote] Don't worry, mines going to be pretty gloomy too, and instrumentals are the way forward. Mine might sound interesting, provided you've never listened to ISIS....

[quote name='Mornats' timestamp='1370347134' post='2099379'] I'm in for this one! It's been a while as I've been busy with my band but I've put something down that just needs tidied up. I think it was in me and was desperate to get out for a while as I got it down in a day It's snuck past the 5 min mark though and is 5:26 so far. How strict are we with this? I think I could cut it down... (if I remove all the bum notes I'd have it down to 0:26 hehe). And it has some Miroslav in it (As an aside, I need to fix a weird bug with Miroslav in Reaper. The Miroslav track sometimes cuts out the sound or leaves a note playing all through the track. It changes each time I play it... weird!) [/quote] One of mine was 6 minutes and I didn't even realize there was a time limit until I actually read the first post of next months thread properly, we're quite a laid back lot, I'd say you're fine. I had a bug with one of my VST's last month, it would occasionally, and completely at random, slip into horrendous feedback, or suddenly introduce a really piercing constant high note, but it was called "Element of Surprise" so I suppose I had it coming...

Worryingly, I've already got the bones of an idea laid out, it usually takes longer...

Hmm, I was planning on going heavy this month as my last two have been kind of quiet, it'll probably be kind of gloomy too for depressing reasons. I did decide I was going to do nice simple drums for once, no shifting poly-rhythms, no fancy snare stuff that takes 3 hours to program, and no 30 unique fills, unfortunately the idea I'm currently nursing probably involves a complex drum part, oh well.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1370199210' post='2097529'] Er... ha, ha. [/quote] Entropy, it's just not what it used to be.

Quite liked this weeks actually, the poet chap was excellent, more of that please. That is why Jools Holland is still worth watching. I honestly struggle to think of another TV show, or indeed any media outlet where you could see a young poet reciting intelligent, well crafted verse in a lovely lyrical drawl, and then cut to Liam Gallagher, a man whose entire musical career could be ended at any time by over the counter sinus medication. Re: Deap Vally, they are quite possibly the most important band in the world at the moment. Not for the music, good god no, bland, insipid mulch every single song, but somebody has managed to extract Quentin Tarantino's thoughts and manifest them physically as a female generic rock duo. I for one find that spectacular.

I don't use loops but I've got a few sample libraries that don't seem to be up anymore, all my electronic/glitch drum stuff comes from there, I can host them somewhere if anyone's interested?

Excellent crop this month, although no surprise at the eventual winner...