http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnxVVXzWhto
I love early Soft Cell demo tapes. There was a CD compilation called Science Fiction Stories (Discogs link) that had a collection of these early Soft Cell treats. If you like that super analog, detuned, noisy madness than you will love the new Analogue Systems rs440 delay. Liquid Sky music fans would also get along with this unit too. If your still reading and get what I am talking about AND lust as I do for such sounding things then watch the above video and find $325. Got the cash? Here’s the link: bigcitymusic
“Analogue Systems has just released a brand new module, the rs440 BBD Analogue Delay. This is an awesome sounding delay, utilizing a Panasonic 3011 BBD chip. Analogue Systems has done a great job keeping the price down on this voltage controllable delay. There is some clock noise at longer delay times but the use of a low pass filter after can easily rid you of it. Actually, the clock noise is pretty fun. You can use it as an effect!” – bigcitymusic
For more info: www.analoguesystems.co.uk
This entry was written by , posted on October 28, 2009 at 5:40 am, filed under hardware, sounds and tagged Analogue Systems, delay, modular, rs440. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
Nitro is one of my all time favorite plug-ins. It mangles audio in a high end way better than any other plug I own. To be honest if I had a $399 ready to blow I would buy Nitro instead of Komplete. It’s that great of an effect. If you’re a [k] fool go buy yourself some karma and go legit with Nitro. The deal’s at Audiomidi.com: click here
“It offers many filter types derived from analog prototypes in addition to other useful processing blocks such as phaser, bit-crusher/downsampler, waveshaper and interpolated delay blocks. These can be connected to each other using virtually any routing scheme. The advanced control signal generators are capable of modulating most of the processing parameters, making this plug-in an essential tool for sound design and experimental purposes.” – www.pspaudioware.com
More info about Nitro: www.pspaudioware.com
This entry was written by , posted on July 16, 2009 at 5:06 pm, filed under Uncategorized and tagged bit crusher, delay, downsampler, Nitro, PSP Audioware. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
Here’s a clip of a new song I am working on called “We Will Get Wicked” which will end up on my next album. A man speaks to a woman letting him know his dirty plans for her. I imagine those plans take place sometime early in the morning on a weekend night.
“And it’s something we must go through.” – The Horrorist
I know this music maybe isn’t for everyone but we can all appreciate the drums of from the Vermona DRM1 MKIII firing all full force. The snare (with analog Bucket Delay full up) and clap are panned hard left and right making a sweet stereo spread. The nice synth that plays behind the breathing section is a Korg MS20 I borrowed from a friend. The MS20’s nasal filter really shines there. My favorite part of the song is when the breathing echos every 8 or 16th time they appear. I know it’s a bit Kraftwerkesque but I think it appropriately fits in a song about sex. Part of the reason they echo so nicely is that I use a TC Electronic Powercore’s Chorus/Delay plug-in. Take a listen:
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Remember that music is only the soundtrack for a real life. Now go and find yourself someone to torture.
Related post: The Horrorist – Born This Way
This entry was written by , posted on May 2, 2009 at 1:53 pm, filed under music, song writing and tagged delay, echo, Korg, Korg MS20, Powercore, song writing, synthesizer, TC Electronic, The Horrorist, Vermona, We Will Get Wicked. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
Dr. Device Overview… from Audio Damage on Vimeo.
Ever since I saw André Michelle’s software physics demos I knew the concept would make it’s way into audio applications. Bouncing balls attached by strings colliding with walls, creating sounds all said to me: glitch sequencer. Audio Damage’s Dr. Device has kinetics built into it so you can start flinging filter and delay nodes around. Audio Damage does not offer demos so until today when Chris Randall posted the above video I wasn’t sure how cool this feature was. The good stuff starts at 7:55.
I expect a few years from now we will see sequencers that look like realistic rivers which you can drop objects/sounds into. You would control the flow of the water instead of tempo. The wind, sky, roads or even a heard of buffalo could be other “tracks”. Finally we will have a productive use for super expensive Nvidia graphics cards. And of course we will control all of these elements by reaching out and touching them on our screens. I can’t wait!
Check out André Michelle’s physics demos:
http://lab.andre-michelle.com/tag/physics/
To see more videos from Audio Damage head over to their new video channel on Vimeo:
www.vimeo.com/audiodamage
This entry was written by , posted on August 26, 2008 at 1:18 am, filed under plug-ins, video and tagged Andre Michelle, Audio Damage, Chris Randall, delay, Dr. Device, filter, kinetics, physics, plug-in. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
Ohm Force OhmBoyz from wiretotheear on Vimeo.
Here is a screencast I put together showing a few features of Ohm Force’s wicked delay plug-in OhmBoyz. I really think OhmBoyz is the best delay I own. After watching the video I encourage you to head over to the Ohm Force website and download the demo.
This screencast covers: Installation, Presets, Multiple Knob Control, LFO, Automation and Sustained Loop.
If you liked this screencast check out the other Wire to the Ear videos: click here
This entry was written by , posted on June 30, 2008 at 1:26 am, filed under plug-ins, video and tagged delay, ohm force, Ohmboyz. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
Gearslutz is a probably the most populated pro-audio forum on the net. There is a serious amount of traffic going on there. You find find threads discussing the minor details of a five thousand dollar micpre that go thirty pages long.
Yesterday I started reading a thread started by someone who just found on a vintage Roland RE-201 Space Echo to purchase. The RE-201 is a fantastic vintage tape echo machine. Soon after Mike Manthe’s first post 
claiming he finally found one another person “tstu102″ answers him also mentioning he just located one and how happy he was. Do you see where this is going? Yep. It didn’t take too long for them to realize they both were talking about the same unit. Seems like the seller said yes to both because the second guy was willing to pay more money.
At first Mike thought thought tstu102 had read the thread and went after the unit. But then tstu102 did a good dead and told the seller he wasn’t going to buy the unit and he should honor his first deal. I thought it was a pretty interesting read about the Space Echo and human nature. Read the thread yourself: click here
I’ve used a real Space Echo and they are very meaty. If you can’t get a real one there a nice emulation for the UAD-1 or the new Boss Space Echo RE-20 hardware pedal. Although not quiet the same beast I find myself turning to Fabfilter’s Timeless for a effects in that ballpark.
photo credit: Lorenzo Desiati
This entry was written by , posted on May 6, 2008 at 12:29 am, filed under hardware, plug-ins, political and tagged delay, fabfilter, Gearslutz, roland, Space Echo, UAD-1. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
Here’s a way to get a highly unique sound. You probably won’t want to use this technique on every song you record. I guarantee when you do people will ask how you did it. Take a microphone and aim it at one of your speakers. Carefully turn up the volume. When you start to hear feedback hit record on your DAW. Move the microphone around. That’s the basics but now let’s play more. Add a distorion or reverb plug in as an insert on the microphone channel. Now we have more flavors of feedback. Using these recordings in your purely electronic songs adds some real life.
I have a song called from 1996 called Dark Invader. It was the first release on my record label Things to Come Records. I was searching for bat sounds but instead I did the following. I had a Shure SM-58 microphone aimed towards a large nightclub style speaker. The mic was going through a Korg SDD-2000 digital delay. I had the delay times in sync with the tempo of my song. I recorded the feedback. Lastly, in an Akai S950 sampler I reversed and cut up the feedback and stragedically placed it in the song. Here is an audio sample:
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Early this year I was recording a song about Gary Ridgeway, The Green River Killer. The song is called The Grip of the Cobra. I wanted a dark feedback effect to (more…)
This entry was written by , posted on October 18, 2007 at 6:39 am, filed under plug-ins and tagged delay, fabfilter, feedback, microphone. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
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