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Circuitbenders Forum => Noise, Tracks & Samples => Topic started by: noiseybeast on January 25, 2011, 08:43:24 AM
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We used a modded Electribe ER-1 as a gate, korg polysix, bass, guitar, and vocals.
Neat thing is that all of the gear I used to record this on has been repaired or modded by me.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/120201/claparound.mp3 (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/120201/claparound.mp3)
Let me know if anybody digs it.
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I dig it! Not bad at all!
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Thanks! I really love how the bass sounds played through the modded Electribe. The polysix, not as much.
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i like it , keep up the good (tenebrous) vibe and make more of that stuff , please .
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Someone asked how this song was made, thought I'd mirror it here.
The piece was really based around my pitch modded ER-1 acting as a drum machine/gate/bit crusher for :
Korg Polysix into the ER-1 then close mic'd with a Shure SM-58 micing a TINY Silvertone bass amp
Fenderish guitar going through an ElectroHarmonix Germanium OD (same micing situation)
Weird short scale bass direct in to ER-1 (same mic situation)
We had a moving blanket thrown over the amp after putting the mic really close at a decent angle. My dog then lay on top of the blanket.
For vocals I had a matched pair of overhead (drum) mics pointing roughly at us. We did some whistling tracks, some clapping tracks and then I dropped vocals I had recorded when we were talking after recording. I'm the louder person.
Everything went into my Alesis IO-26 FW interface then into my Macbook Pro and then Logic. Logic recorded the midi data and then we overdubbed from the various instruments into the ER-1 which was midi clocked to Logic. Doing it that way meant that the gate would open and close at the same time and I could make the drums sound thick because they were different pitches at different points during the overdub.
For mixing, I only added delay to the vocals and cleaned up the EQ on the various tracks. I then used a bit of compression and some automation for volume levels and a bit of pan control. I stayed away from using any reverb or delay in Logic for the main mixdown. I wanted this to sound rough and liveish.
Track count:
ER-1 + Bass
ER-1 + Guitar
ER-1 + Polysix
2-3x ER-1 solo
4x vocals.
Tenebrous. Nice word!
BTW, we're trying to do more for the RPM challenge.
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sounds like a good experiment-good to do things abit differently-i've given you some karma cause i dont think its fair your sitting at a negative!
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Thanks for the karma. I earned it by getting pissed at SCAT's trolling and so I engaged in a bit of troll baiting. Worked out in the end though.
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think you've probably done your time by now :)
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Thanks! I am now worth more than less than zero!
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I'd like to dig it but the links gone....
sounds an cool though'
I was also interested to hear you'd modded an ER 1.
I use mine a lot to gate my homemade oscilators.
I just wondered what mods you'd done to it?
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the only mod you can really do to the electribes are the ltc pitch mod as far as i know they are pretty much unbendable apart from that, i think thats the mods he referring to.
cheers
ian
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thanks
couldn't find anyhitng about that online
I guess it extends/changes the pitch pot somehow?
Is it easy/worth it do you think? I do have an unnecessary urge to mod/bend everything possible but my ER1 os probably my most expensive bit of kit!
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thanks
couldn't find anyhitng about that online
I guess it extends/changes the pitch pot somehow?
Is it easy/worth it do you think? I do have an unnecessary urge to mod/bend everything possible but my ER1 os probably my most expensive bit of kit!
just found the er1 thread....might have to try that crystal mod
http://www.circuitbenders.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,1697.0.html (http://www.circuitbenders.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,1697.0.html)
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Hi, sorry I haven't been on the site in while. I've update the link, it should work now.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/120201/claparound.mp3 (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/120201/claparound.mp3)
It's a fairly easy mod to do. I've had great success with every piece of gear I've put one in.