We are the music makers - producers?

Some very interesting answers. Thanks all

SO want a machine drum and octatrack...bit spendy though

I don't quite get what the Octatrack does but I'm intrigued.

15% off Black Friday sale at Teenage Engineering, if anyone was after an OP-1…

http://www.teenageengineering.com/store

The marketing/design is typically Japanese and brilliant. Reminds me of Tamiya.

Octatrack, Moog, Dark Energy, Tetra, Rhodes slow jam. - YouTube

This guys always does good shit. Proper muso tho...

very good

The marketing/design is typically Japanese and brilliant. Reminds me of Tamiya.

They're actually Swedish. A couple of the guys are ex-Elektron IIRC. They also park their Lamborghinis in the studio.

Still can't stop listening to the last Father John Misty album. Got to be the most beautifully produced things I've heard in a long time. Really rate Jonathan Wilson as a producer.

Would love to spend some time here:

^Fivestar studios in Laurel Canyon

new Elektron analog keys polyphonic and sequenceable

Elektron Jam Session #2 - YouTube

patchblocks

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2012099678/patchblocks-programmable-mini-synth-modules?ref=patchblocks.com

Any tips on eq-ing (rather than cut/past/crossfade editing) string-on-fingerboard clicks out of an upright bass track?

Was recorded DI and through a U87 onto two separate tracks. Great take, just too many hf bangs. Regular eq is killing it, can't be arsed (right now to make identical edits on two tracks). Multi press at super high ratio on high frequencies only?

Oooooh... i'm going to try tat now?

I never have been great at eq-ing. But maybe try different types of eq plugin - parametric, mastering, etc. I'd imagine you want to completely cut very high frequencies, reduce the high ones and boost the low mids. You might get lucky with a vocal processor set to reduce plosives too, or something designed to clean up vinyl pops and scratches.

tight Q, sweep the frequency until you find it then sharp cut - got a spectrum analyser in your DAW?

Course! Will try again this morning. Ta.

So those guys are like SuperDry® with the nod to Japanese iconography.

That post was a good read. I wish they were smug cunts but they're probably really, really nice guys :(

“We hope that you get a little bit more focused and perhaps a little bit more creative as well. One of the most inspiring things about the OP-1 is that it can't do everything that a computer can do. Those limits boost the creativity. Limitations are OP-1’s biggest feature.”

^ reminds me of Saturday evening. I got a nice Carl Craig remix from a visit to Vinyl Pimp's record shop in Hackney Wick. Then I went into the little back room they'd been working on over summer. I kinda forgot about the modular project build in there and here is what I found:

0_O

I now know what those pedestrian nodders must feel when they're walking straight out into the road on Oxford Street now. The elektron stuff alongside truly modular 1v/oct synths is everything I'd honestly been wishing to find in a shop over the last few weeks. So it is London's first modular shop. What really blew me away was the number of new manufacturers entering the fray. When I got my modules a few years ago there were about 6 names I knew of. They had about 6 new set ups I'd never heard of. Amazing stuff.

If you're anywhere near the place be sure to make a visit and get some demos.

First on my list is what my system has been missing: a sequencer!

Also got to see the Octatrack in action. I 'get' it a little more. Maybe next year but for now it's gonna be more modules.

^ great stuff. My mate has got a Buchla set up. Cost him an obscene amount of money........it makes the most unusual noises.....and he's not even sure why........

Sod all this rubbish. This is what you want:

:)

the hell!

how long has that been in the back of vinylpimp?!
been there a few times and never ventured into the back.

tight Q, sweep the frequency until you find it then sharp cut - got a spectrum analyser in your DAW?

None of this worked btw. I cut out the offending clicks and bangs and added crossfades to the edits to eliminate pops.

Was easy to disguise the edits as the signal was recorded DI and with a mic. 90% of the clicks were on the mic'd track. Once it was cross faded you don't even notice the fraction of a second that one signal drops out.

Sorted.

^ another way of getting less of the clicks would be to put the clean signal through a noise gate in 'duck' mode, feed an eq'd signal that exaggerates the clicks into the sidechain and adjust attack, hold, decay and amount settings on the gate. Probably not as thorough as editing, but maybe a bit quicker.

Sod all this rubbish. This is what you want:

:)

[strike]Not without a midi to cv converter[/strike]

Tell it Karftwerk

[smilie]

the hell!

how long has that been in the back of vinylpimp?!
been there a few times and never ventured into the back.

Couple of months-ish. If you do go there, get prepped for sensory overload.

That white Countach.

Been messing about with a couple of mics on a live performance.

http://elvers.bandcamp.com/track/picture-in-a-frame

Been messing about with a couple of mics on a live performance.

http://elvers.bandcamp.com/track/picture-in-a-frame

Sounds fantastic. I think your stuff really works with that type of (anti) production - a good guitar and a good room and a good performance and fuck the bells and whistles. Nicely done.

Thanks Bref. That's my wee Guild's first outing on "record". Sounds ok for that sort of hybrid picked/strummed stuff I think.

hey, does anyone know a female with a nice clear voice could maybe record me some spoken word stuff for a track I'm working on? and send me the stem(s)?

will pay in mince pies