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I was shocked that I got a vocal channel to work last night! I went to start up my laptop, and went looking for my mic, and remembered I left it at my ex's place for our daughter to use. Oh, I have an old Logitech usb headset, maybe that will work? Heck yeah! Plug and play. The mic shows up as an audio device right away, and the gain is in the range where I can wrangle it. Victory! Look at this POS, lol  I can't believe that worked out so easily. It's old enough that the foam has long since turned to powder. B33rChiller fucked around with this message at 18:37 on Jan 5, 2025
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B33rChiller posted:I was shocked that I got a vocal channel to work last night! Reminds me of an anecdote I remember reading about when Groove Armada recorded At The River, they'd forgotten to bring mics for the trombone to the cottage they recorded in. There were some old bookshelf speakers in there though, so they just wired them up to the mixer input and played directly into the cone. That's part of why the horn sounds so buttery and lo-fi on that track. Anything can be a mic if you try hard enough! (advice I completely ignore every time I see the pretty condenser and ribbon mics for sale at a music store). Luckily for my wallet I haven't given in to the GAS yet. |
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Contact mics can be fun too. When I saw Dave Hillowitz build a spring reverb, I wanted to do that too.I just built this thing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSI764gQte8
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Some more https://voca.ro/14gz7pOcFJ7F I was watching a retrospective of Sunsoft, and heard that they had an expansion sound chip for some of their famicom games that actually did FM: the SunSoft FME7 (5B) sound chip. And that got me wondering if I had an emulation of that. You betcha! There's a free collection of modules from KautenjaDSP in VCV that emulates a lot of old videogame sound chips. They have the Genesis/megadrive/master system FM, a gameboy chip emulator, the delay from the snes, a handful of famicom expansion chips, and a full on NES emulator that you can play with gate signals, and load ROMs into for a wild sound source. So I used the Sunsoft thingy to make the bass voice in this, and the higher registers are covered by Vessek from Vult ( the freebie complex oscillator). I accidentallied a guy's voice shouting in the background with it. No idea how those tones showed up. I just fed a bunch of envelopes and lfos to the inputs and tweaked until I got an interesting sound, then let the sequencer and chaos handle the rest.
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B33rChiller posted:Some more https://voca.ro/14gz7pOcFJ7F i decided my loops werent about much but i took a lazy stab at bars over this https://voca.ro/17FYWwHZxf6L
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that beat deserves proper memphis/midwest vocals tho
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baka fwocka fwame posted:i decided my loops werent about much but i took a lazy stab at bars over this  If any of my nonsense inspires yah to do anything with it, go right ahead. That goes for everyone. My stuff is made for fun and learning, so please do that with it!
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I was messing with pigments granular engine today and ended up with the pad from underworld's pearl's girl https://youtube.com/shorts/pVUFlTnaiy8?si=Py3cXYDWCEfzZ0KQ |
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I went to the roland store today and had a good long play around with the TR-8S. Yeah, that there is a good drum machine. Still a learning curve to it, but I like how it's mostly one knob or button per function so you can just figure it all out on the fly. I love being able to mute voices with the sliders. Going to save up my pennies for one and maybe have enough by my birthday. |
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Finger Prince posted:I went to the roland store today and had a good long play around with the TR-8S. Yeah, that there is a good drum machine. Still a learning curve to it, but I like how it's mostly one knob or button per function so you can just figure it all out on the fly. I love being able to mute voices with the sliders. Going to save up my pennies for one and maybe have enough by my birthday. There's a Roland store? Is it in Japan somewhere?
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B33rChiller posted:There's a Roland store? Is it in Japan somewhere? There's one in London on Denmark street (a whole street of music shops!) |
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Oooh, that's cool. Sounds like an expensive place in New and surprising ways!
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Doodling again https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qD4qFvUeYAs |
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Arms_Akimbo posted:Doodling again That's rad. Doodle away! I've been doing a lot of messing around and recording a lot, but haven't listened through and uploaded anything. Just filling the SD card with field recordings, jams, patches, experiments, etc. For instance, I have a line recording of the signal going to the stereo in this video, but have not been bothered to find it and copy to my puter. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98Dz_44IqRI I also managed to get some of my buddy and his pastor pal playing guitar and mandolin around the fire at a BBQ last weekend.
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another goon and i just made a silly song and video about the work insect taxonomists do for the government https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYSIhzb14QI
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Trig Discipline posted:another goon and i just made a silly song and video about the work insect taxonomists do for the government
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https://soundcloud.com/sarahcenia I have a lot of catching up to do on this thread! I'm gonna get back into making noises. It was my therapy. All of these are like 10+ years old and most are just the few clips I didnt record and then immediately delete. Most of it is super blown out distorted and noisy, but I like to blend crazy noise with also drone stuff and other sound textures. And sometimes not abrasive poo poo, too. I like noise but I don't like to make straight up harsh noise walls. I really enjoy the weird stuff that happens when the frequencies of multiple strings or out of tune instruments collide. Binaural beats and stuff like that. The gear I used was just my many mangled and rebuilt frankenstein guitars, 70s Peavey bass gear, a contact mic, an SM-57, guitar pedals, some homemade, some boutique, some cheap. An Electribe EMX. Cassette tapes. A modified tape deck. A modified equalizer from the 90s that made drones and noise. No mixing and I used Audacity to record, lol. https://soundcloud.com/sarahcenia/armless I was a little proud of the result, it was for a noise compilation the I Love Fuzz forum was making. https://on.soundcloud.com/gxFVXMRqiZx5Utg4wv A series of cassette tape loops I made. Could record around 7 seconds of tape and you can hear where the splice is in the tape. I'm bad at it and enjoy the added sound texture anyway. https://soundcloud.com/sarahcenia/i-has-an-utter-stutter One take with guitar pedals run through an adjustable feedback loop. https://soundcloud.com/sarahcenia/seagull-toans Tried to make a chill beach atmosphere using an NES style synthesizer. https://soundcloud.com/sarahcenia/cake-pan-lid I was hitting a cake pan lid that resonated in an interesting way, through a contact mic and delay. https://soundcloud.com/sarahcenia/eh A chill little segue track i thought could go on my imaginary shoegaze album https://soundcloud.com/sarahcenia/melodica-wank Melodica with a contact mic thru guitar pedals. in my mind I was aiming for being in the depths of a sinking ship and hearing metal creaking and shearing. It didnt really turn out that way but I like the way pedalodica sounds. https://soundcloud.com/sarahcenia/ehhh Demo recording of my frankenstein double headed fretless bass + bass VI. It had a pickup behind the bridge and also one hanging over the nut. The pickup behind the bridge lends it a sharp metallic noise. I dont claim to be a guitarist so  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4x99umpJnQ Heres a weird video I made shortly after being gifted a digital video camera. I ziptied it to a bike I was working on and spun the wheel in front of a CRT TV. Sarah Cenia fucked around with this message at 06:40 on Jun 27, 2025
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