my friends' blogs
- Emil Hansson — Primesounds sale in our web shop
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We're doing some cleaning at the warehouse and are selling out all our Primesounds sample CD's at half the price. Check em out below if you like:
A Funky Future
Previews (64 kbps mp3)
Distoteque
Previews (64 kbps mp3)
Flum
Previews (64 kbps mp3)
Metriam
Previews (64 kbps mp3)
Prime SFX
Previews (64 kbps mp3)
Session Strings
Previews (64 kbps mp3) read more... - HUMANOISE — See you again, everyone!!
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- Cood luck everybody in the contest !!!! I stay the hospital from November 18, next tuesday, about 2 or 3 months. I will be 37 years old in there. I honor about I could keep current top 30 about 2 weeks in the contest and I could make my friends 420 and more in this community!! I will never forget all your kindness. Good luck everyone, and See you again !!! RESPECT & PEACE. HIROTO. read more...
- niteshift — Unplug the Plugins !
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Well, what a harrowing week it's been. Having the time to sit down and actually get it all togther and create something has got to be a gift at the best of times. A month just to write, a collection of internet collaboraters to help speed the process along, and long days dfirting off into the creative ether. Nothing could be better right ?
Now, nothing at all is suppossed to go to plan, and with no agenda, the pressure should be off, to just go with the flow and let the mind have a mental splurge. That is, until internet collaborater No1 comes up with some lyrics, a great tune, and a great voice to sing the tune, to a musical piece first visited a couple of months previous.
So, it's into the dark recesses of the computer, to pull up the track, and see how it sounds with a new melody line. Sounds great, and everything is flowing along well. So, it's a quick mixdown, and onto the internet for peer review.
First comment : "There is something very wrong sonically like the music is playing from a separate source than the vocals. I have never heard you have this sound before, is something off on the set up?
Second comment : " ...but the vox sound like they are recorded in a room quite different than where the music is taking place "
Third comment : ".....had the same sense of something off, so I'll look forward to the next one? "
And so they went on . OK, check and recheck, and yep, there is a phasing issue, and yep, those vocals are sounding really different to the backing track, so what's the problem ? The problem was, that the backing tracks were recorded months ago, built up one by one, with various effects being added to the tracks. Sometimes 2 or 3 units per track, as it was a bit thin at the time and needed some "oomph" After adding a total of thirty five tracks, each with it's own clutter of little gizmos to make it sound "better" the whole thing ends up a sonic cosmic slop, spinning around in the phones like a demented cat in a clothes drier.
Only solution. Back to basics. Back to square one. Back to kindy school and back to the simplicity of the sandpit. Like a child scribbling with crayons, the plugins are unceremoniously detatched and thrown out the virtual window hopefully to be shattered on the ground into a million little bits never to return. Replaced with just an EQ, a bit of reverb, a smidgeon of compression, and a big dash of ears, all is well in sonic land.
We live, we learn, and try to remember that "better" does not always mean "burden me down with gadgets" So the next time you consider brewing up a batch of sonic soup, just remember....... unplug the plugins.
cheers, niteshift
read more... - Richard Thomas — 4 new (old) songs!
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- Hi friends, I've recently added four new songs to my page, relatively old for me but new for this site: Two more or less spontaneous instrumental improvisations (category: humor) and two songs, 'Bushmensong' and 'Mystery to Me'. The latter being based on an improvisation of words, guitar and Groove Agent. The lyrics seemed meaningless at first but in retrospect they reveal some meaning, at least to me. Song art will follow… I hope you like them. read more...
- HUMANOISE — Finally I entered these songs !!!
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- Finally I entered " DREAM9 ( I'LL BE WHO I WANNA BE ) ", " THE FLOWER AND BUTTERFLY ", and " My favorite Unknown Sound " to this contest !!!!! Everybody, Vote for me if you like them, All right ? I will do my best until when I stay the hospital !!!! Do your best, too!! Good luck, everyone! RESPECT & PEACE. HIROTO. read more...
- Emil Hansson — Micro-Phones contest open for voting!
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- Step right up and vote folks. This is more important than the US election! =) read more...
- HUMANOISE — Fortunately, I am still in my house ( not hospital ) !!!
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- But I will stay the hospital soon, the day will come. So I will do my best untill the day will come!! I can't still answer for your comments, but I'm thinking everyone is my friends. " Hey, you are all music lovers, right ? " RESPECT & PEACE. HIROTO. read more...
- Luciano — Unplugged Live music Club (Pub)
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Really sweet and emotional night with Verità Immaginate 2008 .... then music of really Grunge Artist.
read more... - HUMANOISE — But Vote for "DREAM9" if you like !!!!!
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- But I entered just one song " DREAM9 ( I'LL BE WHO I WANNA BE ) " so have a listen and vote for it if you like, O.K ? Wish you will get success and happiness !!!! RESPECT & PEACE. Everybody!! See you again !!! Regards, HIROTO. read more...
- HUMANOISE — I will stay hospital again from today during in the contest.
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- Unfortunately again, My mother has treated my injury since I came back to my house from hospital stay, but my injury got worse recently. I will have to stay the hospital from today and will be operated. I can't be back to my house about two or three months. But I will be back!! Stay helthy and creative, Everyone !!!! Good luck all of you in the contest !!! RESPECT & PEACE. HIROTO. read more...
- HUMANOISE — Sorry for I couldn't answer for your kind comments !!!
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- Unfortunately I had to stay the hospital about 5 month ago. Because I sat in front of the PC for a long time and I got injury on my hip depth and I got high fever that's why I staied the hospital. And then I was treated and I came back to my home but I had still the injury. that's why I have needed to take a rest long time, I mean that I couldn't sit in front of my PC long time. I couldn't answer for your kind comments, you know why ? Everybody, take a rest, enough sleep, eat much and move your body !!!!! Don't concentrate too much for your creating music also doing internet, All right ? Regards, HIROTO. read more...
- colab — New collaboration track - Panu Moon
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Hello world.
I've added a new track that I created for Panu Moon (ccmixter.org/people/panumoon/profile) - a more folksy traditional track than I have posted here before, but one that hits very close to home for me.
Hope you get a chance to listen to it - it features all "vintage" instruments (e.g., very nicely sampled instruments played on my MIDI keyboard):
- Bass - Kay Hollowbody
- Harmonium keys
- Challen piano
- Hammond RT3
- Vintage drum kit
/ Mikael
read more... - Lo Kivikas — Interview with Lo Kivikas!
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SR International Radio will broadcast an exclusive interview with Lo Kivikas on Saturday, 25 of October, 22.00. You can find the station at 89.6 on the FM dial.
read more... - Emil Hansson — And then it was friday again!
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This is really funny =)
"Light technician crashing thru the ceiling during a live broadcast on swedish tv." read more... - Luciano — Omaggio a Pier Paolo Pasolini
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- music&poetry read more...
- Emil Hansson — Amazing web based photoshop clone
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Very impressive!
http://www.sumo.fi/products/sumopaint/index.php?id=0 read more... - Emil Hansson — It's time for some blogging
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Gather around people. I will blog now. =)
I watched Michael Moores documentary Slacker uprising last night. I highly recommend it to everyone. You can download it for free even.
New track: Seems like it was forever since I finished any music. I have the attention span of a gold fish. Guess I need to find some other way of working to make it more creative. I've tried beer and it doesn't help at all... ;)
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Any other tips are very welcome! - Scali — Native Instruments Guitar Rig Contest
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- Some of you might be familiar with the Guitar Rig amp modeling software from Native Instruments. They've organized a contest where anyone can put a video on Youtube, using Guitar Rig. More info can be found here: http://www.native-instruments.com/index.php?id=guitarrigcontest Here's my entry: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erfR6Ij28nA Please rate the video if you like it. read more...
- aeronaut — Relics
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- I am finally working on my Relics pieces again. This will become a rather large piece of instrumental music. I have uploaded part III en VI in my player. More pieces will follow... Hope you'll enjoy it. Jef read more...
- Mindmovie — New song added: Theme for An Imaginary Mindmovie
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- This will be the opening title of my upcoming first solo album. If you find some time please take a listen and if you want to feel free to leave me a comment. Audio quality is below my normal standard as the song is 8 minutes long I had to go down with the bitrate to 160kb. Anyway I hope you may enjoy. read more...
