lurksalot Posted July 1, 2023 Share Posted July 1, 2023 Congrats to @AndyTravis on last month's success. We start the second half of the year with a reminder of some of the weather that broke after the lovely June sunshine. "Taken a good few years ago, walking home from the pub in a storm. Lightning and Street Lighting…" Simple rules ✔️ Entries must be <5 minutes and recorded between now and the deadline. ✖️ No illegal samples, copyright infringements or other snide goings-on ✖️ Bagpipes. please no bagpipes, there wasn't a truce worth noting this month, and if there was, we probably missed it! ✖️ No voting for your own entry. We'll know. And we'll shame you.. Deadline wise , we will go for midnight on the 24th which means you'll probably have till tea-time on the 25th A line or two of blurb as well for the vote thread will be lovely. Have fun 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doctor J Posted July 2, 2023 Share Posted July 2, 2023 (edited) . Edited July 2, 2023 by Doctor J Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doctor J Posted July 2, 2023 Share Posted July 2, 2023 19 hours ago, lurksalot said: Lightning and Street Lighting…" I'll need to get "Street lightning, go street lighting" to the tune of that song from Grease out of my head before I can dosomething useful 😩 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfram Posted July 2, 2023 Share Posted July 2, 2023 Can't use it because I wrote it back in 1994, but my song Dream of the Walking Dead instantly came to mind for this one. "It's a stormy night, crackle of light. Ghosts walk, spirits talk. Whispers of battles in days of old, Under an ancient sun long turned cold." Love the photo - I have a horribly busy July coming up but will try to come up with something new. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfram Posted July 3, 2023 Share Posted July 3, 2023 Is it just me or have all the Soundcloud embeds for the past challenge and voting threads disappeared?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dad3353 Posted July 3, 2023 Share Posted July 3, 2023 (edited) 1 hour ago, Wolfram said: Is it just me or have all the Soundcloud embeds for the past challenge and voting threads disappeared?! Not only, but also... The previous months are no longer there, either..! Spooky..! My individual tracks are still there in Soundcloud, but there are no longer any Soundcloud files embedded in the Challenge topics. Unexpected result of a recent Forum update, maybe..? Any Admin thoughts..? Edited July 3, 2023 by Dad3353 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
upside downer Posted July 3, 2023 Share Posted July 3, 2023 Curiously, I can't access Soundcloud on the laptop (403 error) but can on my phone. Sit tight, it may (hopefully) all blow over soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dad3353 Posted July 3, 2023 Share Posted July 3, 2023 I'll embed a new one here, just as a test... https://soundcloud.com/dad3353/kill-bass-9?si=77b9713301fb43d3915e3b7951f694f6&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing ... and I get this message... 'The link could not be embedded because soundcloud.com does not allow embedding of that video.' Some mighty oddness is afoot... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
upside downer Posted July 3, 2023 Share Posted July 3, 2023 16 minutes ago, Dad3353 said: Some mighty oddness is afoot... You don't think Elon Musk's got hold of it, do you? 😬 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dad3353 Posted July 3, 2023 Share Posted July 3, 2023 32 minutes ago, upside downer said: ... Elon Musk ... I can't remember if he was the Cornish smuggler in Blyton's 'The Famous Five on Holiday', or one of Ratty's friends in 'The Wind in the Willows'. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dad3353 Posted July 6, 2023 Share Posted July 6, 2023 Here is my contribution to the July 2023 Basschat Composition Challenge, illustrated with a picture chosen by AndyTravis. A stroke of luck, a lucky strike... One-take guitar track using my newly-acquired s/h Blackstar ID:Core 10 again. Guitar is my trusty black sparkle Xavière again, too. Bass is my Hofner Verithin into my Sonuus MIDI converter, to drive a simple bass Vst (4Front Bass Module...). Drums..? Played 'live' with my Millenium 850 MIDI e-drums into Superior Drummer 3. A fair bit of MIDI editing to tidy it all up, then the usual Cockos EQ and NY Bus compression (and some light Fx for the drums...). Thanks for listening, if you already have; if you're about to, enjoy. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xgsjx Posted July 12, 2023 Share Posted July 12, 2023 That’s a cool pic for writing to. I got a new synth yesterday, so it’s a good excuse to try get something recorded for this month. 😎 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leonard Smalls Posted July 14, 2023 Share Posted July 14, 2023 In my ongoing series of Songs From The Shows, here's my version of Rogers and Hammerstein's classic from South Pacific, "Happy Talk", as done by Captain Sensible. The lightning dictated the use of a vocoder and hence, the slight title change... Fun was had with vocoder plug-ins and getting funky bits out of a battered Strat. Bass is the trusty Wal, keys are through Iris, drums programmed from Digicussion sounds. All has been liberally smeared with Ozone 9... 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickD Posted July 15, 2023 Share Posted July 15, 2023 (edited) My contribution to the July 2023 Basschat Composition Challenge, inspired by the picture chosen by last months winner, AndyTravis. A tune about racing the weather home... probably from the pub. Tech stuff... Recorded in Cubase Elephants 12, Monster Drums, the Jake 5 through a Zoom B6, a Westbury Standard and a Vintage Strat (the brand,) treated with the bundled effects. A bit of organ from Halion Sonic, mixed way back, and some storm noises from Looperman. Vocals are my usual half arsed attempt, multitracked through an SM58 and treated with CLA Vocals. Edited July 15, 2023 by NickD 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean-Luc Pickguard Posted July 18, 2023 Share Posted July 18, 2023 (edited) oops! - wrong thread Edited July 18, 2023 by Jean-Luc Pickguard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lurksalot Posted July 22, 2023 Author Share Posted July 22, 2023 I'm in with lots of noise based on the photo from Andytravis. A bolt from the Black , I'll never get it back, did I ever have it, yakkety yak . EZ drummer and VGiron do the heavy lifting here , with lead guitar using Ibby 6er through Waves Gtr3 FX and my little 'Fleabass' stomping its way along the low end (warts 'n' all) . All in Reaper I tried using the Melda dynamicEQ from the free download but got lost in it., the 'tutorials' I found didn't really help me make any noticeable difference to the sound on mine , so it's probably just me 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xgsjx Posted July 23, 2023 Share Posted July 23, 2023 I'm in. The hats is an Apple loop that I manipulated a little & the final boom is a sample. Everything else played by hand on the Jupiter X. Just need to get a mic so I can make use of the vocoder! That'll be next month's entry. 😎 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
upside downer Posted July 23, 2023 Share Posted July 23, 2023 I'm in like Flynn. Yet another drunken evening. It helps him to pass the time here. He's waiting for something, but what? He explores the skies every night but, so far, nothing. When will they come back for him? He waits and waits. It's all he can do... Used Three Looperman drum samples, Yamaha YPT-240 keyboard, Westfield violin bass and a homemade baritone guitar built using an old printers tray as the body. Wobbly sounds come from a hint of tremolo off of a Roland Micro Cube amp and some delay from a Vivlex pedal. Recorded with the dependable duo of Wavepad and Audacity. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doctor J Posted July 24, 2023 Share Posted July 24, 2023 I couldn't shake off the feckin Street Lightning idea so tried to make it work. Conspiracy theorists wearing tinfoil hats and attracting sky-based electrocution was the best I could do. Yeah, I know. There's always next month. The technical stuff: Yamaha drums heard by thomann mics and behringer preamps, as always. Bass is L2k, guitars are a Gretsch 12 string and an Ibanez RG. Some of it has wah, fuzz, univibe, delay and probably more fuzz and more delay for extra zap using a real Fryette amp DI'd into a Palmer speaker simulator. Organ is a free Avid thing. All smooshed together in protools. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyTravis Posted July 24, 2023 Share Posted July 24, 2023 https://on.soundcloud.com/M6aypH6vc1qqB9D48 erm. last minute. all I could think of was Ride The Lightning and then when I set about it, I realised I haven’t played any metal, let alone early Metallica for about 25 years. oh well… here it is…”Hyde The Lightning” 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfram Posted July 25, 2023 Share Posted July 25, 2023 Once again, I just made it in time. I thought I'd get back to bass-ics with this one. I present a haunting solo bass improvisation to conjure up a surreal, distant thunderstorm on a long, dark night. The tech stuff: The bass is my Ibanez EHB1506MS, recorded into Cubase through my Line6 Helix. No other instruments, just effects from the Helix (Native), Eventide's Shimmerverb and Exponential's R4 reverb. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lurksalot Posted July 25, 2023 Author Share Posted July 25, 2023 the voting is up Not only are the tunes and songs superb this month but the production on these entries is just getting better and better , It's amazing, fair play to all of you 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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