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altruistica said:
Hey Dr.

I've just googled a Hohner Pianet T.....it looks a bit like my first keyboard, a Crumar electronic Piano. We used that through a phaser. It's so long ago now, I forget whatever happened to that piano. What I find interesting about your track is that all the sounds sound 'old school' and authentic. What I mean by that is the drums playing the ride pattern and tom fill, the descending chromatic guitar riff, the distinctive plectrum type sound of the bass mid to late 60's bass sound) and the 'ethereal' keyboard melody....ooh! nearly forgot the use of delay too. All of it is probably blended together with the frequency response of tape (natual tape compression too) to give an extremely authentic sounding track. I wonder what anyone under the age of forty makes of it? Do you know?

Al
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I'm certainly a fan of 50s/60s production aesthetics :D glad that it sounds somehow authentic
The bass was actually played fingerstyle, and yeah, the Hohner Pianet T is a electromechanical piano
Here is the Hohner Pianet again:
 
I thought I'd plug my album just one more time. Cassette copies are on sale right now, $5.00 each.
 
The other day a piece of jugband music entered my head and wouldn't leave. I don't like jug music much, and decided that it might be interesting to try and make a 1980s synthpop version in the style of Gary Numan. IMHO it ended up sounding more like Apoptygma Berzerk, though.

So, here we have: Granny Takes A Trip (darkwave cover)


The original song was recorded by The Purple Gang in 1967 and promptly banned by the BBC who assumed - without actually bothering to check - that it was about drugs. It appears on the 'This is Psychedelia' collection.

Drums: Roland MVS-1 (TR-808 samples)
Polysynth: Roland MVS-1 (Sequential Prophet samples)
Bass: Roland MVS-1 (VCO.oct bass)
Everything else: Minimoog Voyager

For the vocals, verses were put through an EHX Small Clone BBD chorus pedal and Watkins tape delay, the chorus was put through a Behringer overdrive pedal

Vocals were recorded on a TASCAM TSR-8 and bounced to a TASCAM MSR-24 tape deck, in the end only about 10 tracks were used anyway so it could probably have been done on the 8-track anyway.
Transferring the vocals to the 24-track did not go well since I made the mistake of recording them with the Cakewalk backing track and the final song was done using Rosegarden. Because SONAR is shit, the timings were way off and I had to play with the sync offsets on the ATS-500 to get it work properly. In some places this is noticeable. If I ever do another version I may rerecord the vocals from scratch to fix it.

Mixdown was done to a Studer A807.
 
Here is an original song I just finished.I had this kicking around for years partialy written.So, I decided to complete it and record it.
Done on my Tascam 388

 
Your voice sounds a lot better. Have you been on the Strepsils?
 
Mark7 said:
Your voice sounds a lot better. Have you been on the Strepsils?
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Haha :)

No, I just started drinking again!
I'm not too happy with those vocals. A little shaky. I think I could do better, but i'll just leave it as is...... for now.
 
j.harv said:
Here is an original song I just finished.I had this kicking around for years partialy written.So, I decided to complete it and record it.
Done on my Tascam 388

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I like this song. It sounds a bit David Bowieish. Were you using a fretless bass on this? On my TV speakers the bass sounded like it needed a bit more body, when I get the chance I will listen through stereo and see if it sounds different. Good job.
 
Illsidgus said:
I like this song. It sounds a bit David Bowieish. Were you using a fretless bass on this? On my TV speakers the bass sounded like it needed a bit more body, when I get the chance I will listen through stereo and see if it sounds different. Good job.
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Thanks for checking it out. Yes, I played a fretless bass on that one. I'm guessing it's all what you listen to it on. In my car, the bass is fatter, and jumps out more. But on my monitors, not so much.
 
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