lurksalot

Great Vid Chris , how long did that take to put together ?

Ours went off on a cowbell solo in the middle of Dakota ,soooo funny we damn near wetting ourselves

[quote name='MoonBassAlpha' timestamp='1503339982' post='3357414'] Don't forget to take your cowbell too ! [/quote] . The bands drummer has got the collective cowbell , and takes great pride in throwing random sequences through a different number each gig , though it had got a bit tired of late , it used to crack us all up

Ive had a good listen through now , top work so far , though I think mine is a bit quiet , but that is probably in the listeners favour

[quote name='MoonBassAlpha' timestamp='1503253244' post='3356726'] Maybe I'm just a bit afraid of the learning curve on my new DAW? I'm sure Blue Oyster Cult would have some sage advice on the matter... [/quote] Oh No , there goes Tokyo , go go Godzilla ? seems a touch random to me TBH I'll get my coat

Ok then, for my sins I am in, there is a schpeil and the lyrics on the soundcloud , and when I get my new credit card through I will pay the subs on there , it seems only fair https://soundcloud.com/lurksalot/es-a-giza-master enjoy

[quote name='lowdown' timestamp='1502876875' post='3354063'][color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif][size=3]a lone traveller crossing the scene on his camel..! Doha..![/size][/font][/color] [/quote] quality , I missed that one

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1502873261' post='3354013'] ..., but a lone traveller crossing the scene on his camel..! D'oh..! [/quote] Good try Dad, but I think you'll find that actually, he's a Giza who has a specific part to play in the scene, and my story will tell exactly what he is doing there, granted your heads will drop as you realise this involves a vocal , however, to add some cheese , they are properly lurksalotesque in both content and delivery. still trying to get Lurksalittle to add some tone to the BV's , but she is a touch wary of compromising any prospective university applications by association with my work , bummer!

[quote name='Mornats' timestamp='1502576349' post='3352324'] Wanna borrow my Doom array? [/quote] An array of overly Cheesy Doom , now that certainly sounds ominous

[quote name='Mornats' timestamp='1502569714' post='3352283'] I went for what I think is quite an appropriate feel to match this month's pic. [/quote] I normally try and do 'appropriate' but I think I will be way wide of that mark this time , mine is taking shape but , well just ....but , even I think the lyrics are a bit cheesy on this one

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1501813017' post='3347528'] Here's mine, too, equally inspired by the beast's progression ... [url="https://soundcloud.com/dad3353/inexorable-what-goes-up-must-come-down"]Inexorable (What goes up must come down...) ...[/url] Something of a tone poem, really, or atmospheric piece, rather than EDM. I was looking to create a sense of both the immediate and yet the eternal; the ephemera and the timeless. A touch of human in an insentient landscape, an incongruous passage past the immobile monuments. There's a couple of 'jokes' in there, too, in both the form (a pyramid waveform...) and the repeated rising and falling of both the 'melody' and the key. Incidentally, the scale used is not authentic Egyptian, despite its familiarity; it's really the Hungarian scale, which better serves my purposes, being symmetrical (the twelve semi-tones are spaced 1-3-1-2-1-3-1...), as is a pyramid..! Kontakt 'World Percussion' for the darbukas (playing in 7/4 and 4/4 time...), a Ruby acoustic bass, Kontakt Pearl piano, a snatch of Desert Song and some home-generated samples of oud snippets, all sanded down with some slightly complex desert winds, made up of three instances of the Wind module by Xoxos (Sounds Of Nature...). Thanks for listening, if you already have; if you're about to, enjoy. [/quote] It is always my policy not to listen to other entries till mine is done , I'll have to try not to read them now as well as I had exactly the same idea as that ,word for word Yeah , right

[quote name='xgsjx' timestamp='1501918124' post='3348155'] I often seem to be able to write music that put's people to sleep. I don't know if that's a good thing or not! [/quote] What, hello , did I miss something

[quote name='Mornats' timestamp='1501666467' post='3346322'] Definitely needs a bit of Doom then! [/quote] Especially if those are mountains of mordor

[quote name='fingers211' timestamp='1501596195' post='3345767'] I see a chap, going through the desert on a camel with no name,.... [/quote] He's a Giza !

Well done gents , great acceptance speech Dad , another great crop of entries . Have we got to get ready for a triptych this month then

[quote name='MoonBassAlpha' timestamp='1501538005' post='3345430'] OMG! It's a three way tie. I'm so excited, I just can't hide it! [/quote] I went to see how I could possibly have caught up to the leaders and realised ..........I hadn't

[quote name='MoonBassAlpha' timestamp='1501538005' post='3345430'] OMG! It's a three way tie. I'm so excited, I just can't hide it! [/quote] Are you about to lose control ? I think you'll like it

Played st my local on Friday night , but it was strangely flat, we got some great compliments from a few. But overall we just didn't engage them , odd. The singer was tired and probably didn't really try hard enough with any banter , though the song delivery was top notch. Thinking about it, we did rattle through the sets, put an extra number in near the death , stretched out a couple of endings and still finished 10 mins early

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1500997690' post='3341645'] Change your job. [/quote] Just had my first run through , whittled it down to 5 , so another go tommorrow to get to the 3

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1500544131' post='3338557'] If it's for you own amusement then I'd look at getting a better keyboard than your current Akai and its mini keys. Alternatively get a bigger or second monitor (your Mac will support 2), especially if you are considering moving to Logic, where you almost never have too much screen real-estate - I currently run 3 x 23" monitors and even then I could sometimes do with more space! For doing anything more, here is a cautionary tale... I've always been a home recordist. My first band in the late 70s was a recording project only. A band that had to borrow its bass guitar and had only one (10 Watt) amp and no drum kit, there was no way that we could gig, but we could fake the lack of conventional instruments on tape, so we stuck to experimenting with recording at home and got pretty good at it. Come the 80s and I joined a synth band and we had 4 track cassette recorder fed from an HH 12:2 mixing desk and a handful of guitar effects pedals. We made some fairly decent recordings with this set up, but I couldn't help but think that the need for over-dubbing to get all the instruments and vocals recorded with only 4 tracks was holding us back in terms of sound quality and production. Something that was seemingly confirmed when we booked a proper studio with racks of outboard gear to make our last recording. Then in 1990 two things happened. I inherited enough money for me to go out a buy pretty much all the gear I needed for a decent home studio set up. An 8-track cassette based recorder, 12:8:2 mixing desk, a decent sampler and synth and some outboard. At the same time I bought a house that had a suitable room for a dedicated home studio. After that I pretty much spent all my disposable income for the next decade on the studio. Over the decade I must have spent at least £30k on the room and equipment to go in it. By the end I had moved over to a Mac-based recording system with a MotU interface, 40 channel digital desk, huge Tannoy monitors, racks of onboard gear and synths. The quality of my recordings definitely improved, but no matter what I did and how much money I spent on new gear, they never really came close to sounding as good as those by my favourite bands. Also everything took much longer when time was no longer a constraint. Over the decade with various line-ups of my band I produced 3 demos, a 3-track self released CD EP, and was half way through recording a full-length album when the band split. Not a brilliant work-rate when you consider than my first band completed 5 albums worth of material in under 4 years. When I joined The Terrortones, recording at home was out of the question, because I had neither the Mics or the sound proofing to record acoustic drums, so we used a series of local studios to record our initial demos and then our debut single. One thing that struck me straight away was how quickly the engineer in each studio was able to get a great sounding track together, sometimes with significantly less equipment than I had at home. It was at that point I realised that the limiting factor in my studio wasn't the gear, but was me. I had reached the point where no matter how much more time I spent working on a track or what hot new piece of kit I went ought and bought, my recordings were never going to sound very much better. In retrospect, the band I was in during the 90s would have been much better served if I had saved up the money and spent it on a month in a good studio with a reasonably well-known producer overseeing it all (easily achievable within a £30k budget). At the end of it, if nothing else, we would have had a great sounding album with a name producer attached to it, instead of a handful of good sounding "demos" and the rest of the tracks in various states on unfinishedness. To the OP I'm not saying that you won't end up being a great recording engineer/producer, but the chances are you'll never be capable of achieving the results you hear on your favourite recordings. With what you currently have in your home studio you have the potential to produce results that are technically far in excess of what was possible when some of the greatest recordings in the history of rock music were made. It is my experience that a good engineer is far more important than the gear. Over the last 5 years I've sold nearly all my studio gear. I've down-sized to a Mac Pro a basic Focusrite interface and a hifi amp and speakers. I'm getting back into synth-based music so at some point I'll be buying a decent keyboard. I think I'm pretty good at writing and arranging music, but if I end up making music at home that I think is worth releasing to the public I'll be taking it to a proper studio for mixing. I hope that helps and is not too discouraging. [/quote] Brilliant post BRX

[quote name='the boy' timestamp='1500511409' post='3338406'] Very good, I enjoyed that. Have you been taking lyric writing lessons from mr Lurksalot? Very lurksalotesque lyrics. Doesn't quite have the same ring as kafkaesque but I think the term lurksalotesque may catch on. The dictionary will describe it as 'lark a little like lurksalot'. [/quote][quote name='fingers211' timestamp='1500537755' post='3338483'] Why, thank you.. but one feels it falls short in wit,acuity and precision of phrase,to be considered as lurksalotesque.. Nige [/quote][quote name='the boy' timestamp='1500564726' post='3338745'] Noble and wise response. [/quote] ROFLMAO , Now, I have seen that phrase used and thought it pretty stupid , but gents, have I just ROFLMAO And thank you

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1500241947' post='3336481'] If you tell me which ones of mine those are, I'll send 'em to you. ... [/quote] I'd send you a list but I've just run out of ink........

I had an earth loop recently so pronounced that the tuner was picking it up , G# I think it was , now that was a noise , it eventually turned out that a new consumer unit in the garage had been fitted with the tails the wrong way around so the whole house was reverse polarity !!

A company re-visiting a policy is one thing , but when a customer is obviously genuine and spends £5K when dropping the basses off in the first place , it should surely show £30 worth of goodwill !

I'm in , with heavy cold and even heavier use of autotune , but you are welcome to have a giggle at this if you wish . [url="https://soundcloud.com/lurksalot/the-tango-of-bognor-regis"]https://soundcloud.c...of-bognor-regis[/url] enjoy ed to add , ive just learnt how to use a de-esser so I put a new version up as I think it sounds a lot........... better