Colin OOOD

To go from blank screen to final mastered playable mix can take me/us anything from 3 days (Voice of Cod - We Are Free) upwards. It's impossible to say how long they take in general though, as who counts the hours they spend on it? If I spend 5 minutes a month, and take 4 years, is that really longer than eating + breathing the track for an entire week solid?

Cubase will do this too.

Now there's an offer you don't get every day. A/S/L?

I've been thinking for a while of putting some of our early tracks online.

"On me not in me", eh Charlie?

you did a good job, mate! cant wait to hear kob! love ya!

I'm sure Mars and Anoebis absolutely love Filteria and the other artists on Suntrip. After all, they work hard for not much return to release their music. For them, I'm very sure that Filteria etc. write some of the best music in the world. What would it say about their commitment had they voted someone else in the top spot? And I see a troll. Not quite in the same league as Ishwara/pants-on-u-head/acid fart or whatever he's calling himself on Psynews today, but a troll nonetheless. If I'd voted in this poll I'd for sure have put OOOD - Free Range in the top spot. Why? Because I think it's fucking great.

Veeeeeeeeery interesting...

"I don't like it therefore it's crap". Grow some perspective, will you. Well done for deciding on your favourite 2007 releases already though, even though they're not all released yet. Takes guts to commit so early in the year. As for the genres thing, does the phrase "definition is limitation" mean anything to you? Scuse my irascibility, I've just got up and haven't had breakfast yet.

From another forum...

Fantastic work Moni ... the same super-comprehensive job as last year Big big hugs to you... On behalf of myself and the other guys in the band, thanks to everyone who voted for our album in their top 5. If my arms could reach that far I'd give you all a big hug too. Inseijn, I hope the new medication works better.

Billy Cosmosis recently posted this little review on Psy-Forum:

It can happen. When my monitors were reviewed in Music Technology magazine in the early 90s they were compared to other brands twice the price or more. 10 years later I can fully vouch that they sound better than £250-worth.

Zakli

No, the doppler effect is due to the relative motion of ones' ears and the sound source. Think passing ambulance. I don't know, but I'm glad it does - it's why trance music works. The trick is to find a 2-bar loop that still sounds good after 3 minutes. If it sounds good at the time, but uninteresting the next day, don't worry. It's the 'good at the time' factor that counts for people listening to the track. As a producer you should remember that nothing sounds fresh and interesting to its creator once its ceased to be fresh and interesting.

Yup. Pig's pizzle... mmmm....

Tracks can sometimes sound like they're in a completely different key when you hear them with headphones on.

Do try and keep up, old chap. Battery 3 is the pig's pizzle, btw.

We'll get you yet muahahahaha... [EDIT] maybe

Woo! About bloody time! Can't wait to hear this in its entirety!

The first link doesn't work... you can buy The Unknowns direct from the Organic Records digishop here... but why stop at just the one track, hey? The rest of the album is pretty good too, apparently

Not really... I just have a talent for writing convincing-sounding bullshit.

You're not still using kickdrums are you?

All well-designed analog kit has something about it that software has a hard time matching. In the case of the TB303, I think there are some things it does - some magic, golden combination of the unique pattern entry system and the instrument's oscillator, accent and filter response - that are not (so far) emulated exactly in software but are just sublime in the context of electronic dance music. And they bloody well should be too; after all, it was precisely this exact same specific combination of the unique step sequencer and oscillator, accent and filter response that **started the whole acid revolution in the first place**. Psychedelic dance music as we know today it exists specifically and solely because of the TB303*. In trying to emulate this specific instrument as closely as possible, plugin designers are, in effect, trying to do nothing more than bring dance music home. IMHO Another factor in the classic 303 sound is distortion or overdrive. In the old 1990s we didn't even have a stompbox to do it; whenever we wanted a distorted 303 in our tunes I just turned the gain on the 303's mixer channel up to 'full' and pulled the fader right down; I could swap between the distorted and undistorted gains and fader levels blind after a few gigs! My favourites for distortion at the moment are Antares Tube, Green Machine, Guitar Rig and of course the trusty Quadrafuzz.

I use the MK1 version of the Richard Allan RA8s: