#41

I don’t know if this is a trick or technique, it’s just something i’m into at the moment.
Field recordings. I like nature sounds and storytelling and thought it could be useful to record stuff and use it in electronic music and/or audio dramas to add something organic and real.
Plus i discovered the sampler in ableton and use the field recordings to create my own sounds.
In this track i used a recording of a bonfire and extracted a short rhythm and some kind of melody by looping parts of the recording and adding a lot of effects. I also used a few of the tips like crossfading and send tracks.

It is also a nice way to collect memories, like you do with pictures. In that case, i remember a bunch of great people and awesome kids, some of them are friends, some are strangers, but all of them were my guests and we shared this evening together on the fire. The spoken part at the beginning is us, trying to calm down five kids, a bunch of adults and a dog for a minute. Of course we didn’t make it.

And because i learned another awesome massage method this weekend and now have to deal with some side effects (the central nervous system can be a bitch too) it represents pretty much my constitution today. Maybe working on it kept me from getting a panic attack.

Thanks for all the wonderful input.

https://soundcloud.com/rudzupuke/i-saved-you-a-seat-by-the-fire-disquiet0242

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#42

Thank you! Yeah I remember a friend telling us that’s how the did the intro on Yes-Roundabout, I don’t know if it’s true but am sure glad I have digital otherwise a lot of tape would have died an unnecessary death :wink:

#43

Mud mud glorious mud :slight_smile:

#44

It is like the echoes are gradually moving away into the distance. I like that effect. I usually have two echo pedals and a reverb on my effect sends - but one of the echo pedals (EHX #1) I bring into a channel on the main board instead of using a Return channel. In that way, I can pan, EQ, and also re-send that echo to my other pedals (and itself…carefully!). Allows a lot more creative control over the outcome.

#45

This is not only a great visual demonstration of the technique, but also a beautiful track!

#46

I keep trying to arrange face to face collaboration, but never quite get it sorted. Most of my ‘IRL’ friends are not into the same kind of music as me and have no interest in what I do - and the ones who do live a distance away. That’s the excuses out of the way… now I just have to make it happen!

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#47

Nowt wrong with Acid - I use it as my main DAW. Does all that I need and more.

#48

Love love love - that section around 1 min 20 makes me feel warm and fuzzy.

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#49

As much as I like Ableton, I still work with Acid quite a bit–as long as it doesn’t crash. Too bad Sony doesn’t seem to have enough enthusiasm for it to update the program.

#50

This is really an experiment–both in using archive.org and llllllll.co and also in terms of the audio. I used PureData to make a patch that was intended to simulate the wow and flutter of tape recording, with some exaggerated pitch shifting for effect. I did this by patching timers and random number generators that would alter the pitch of two oscillators independent of one another. The result was somewhat less lo-fi than I wanted, but with some work I think it could effectively replicate the sound of tape manipulation. I personally really prefer for the junto to not be platform-specific, because I’ve used Soundcloud for a few years now and basically I’m out of space on my free account. I want to be able to keep tracks up and continue to participate, and I can’t really do both with Soundcloud without buying the pro account. I’m not positive about embedding/previewing files on archive.org so this is a test of that also.

EDIT:
I’m not having any luck getting the archive.org player to embed with iframe. I don’t know HTML–open to suggestions if anyone has experience with this.

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#51

I looked at @sevenism’s post, and I’m pretty sure the best way to put in an archive.org player is to simply post the http:// url of the MP3 (the one that ends with .mp3). That I think will automatically produce a small player here.

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#52

You can’t paste HTML into a Discourse forum (which is what llllllll.co is). Instead, just paste bare MP3 URLs and Discourse will convert them into a player embed.

Also curious to see if a playlist URL works:

https://archive.org/download/apvague_6612/apvague_6612_vbr.m3u

OK, that didn’t embed a player, but it will likely launch a local player on your computer.

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#53

Oh, nice. I like the no-frills aesthetic of just the simple player itself too. Thanks.

#54

yeah i like the simplicity of the player

and archive.org automatically converts to mp3 which is handy for embeds

#55

Bad luck? Had to restart the computer with this url, not quite sure I listened to the music or a digital artifact :slight_smile:

#56

Bizarre. No idea…

#57

Maybe bad luck then. I now used the link to listen on the site. Wow, man, this doesn"t sound like flutter! :slight_smile:

#58

Hah, yeah this recording has the patch running a little… extreme. The pitch shifting can be made more subtle though and applied to things other than an oscillator; a recording of a voice or instrument for instance.

#59

I quite like the result, always interesting to push the settings a little further. Even if it doesn’t sound like wow & flutter, but who cares?