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DigiTards

admin — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 01:06:04 +0000

As we all know, Pro Tools is the Devil’s Work.

What you may not have known, is that Digidesign hate you. They hate me too, seeing as I’m NOT about to spend tens of thousands on their shit (at this point in time).

My conversation with them went thusly:

Me: Hi, I’m looking to buy Pro Tools Academic version but can’t find any retailers in Australia.
DD: That’s because we don’t sell it in Australia.
Me: Oh, why is that?
DD: Because we don’t.
Me: Well that’s not a very helpful answer.
DD: Look I’m not in the business of answering semantic questions and I’m actually on annual leave so I don’t have time to answer these kind of questions.
Me: Right, well I’ll let you speak with the dial tone then.

Water as a controller

admin — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 02:13:37 +0000

‘Nuff said.

And again…

admin — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 04:19:20 +0000

though it kinda looks and sounds like the guy is busting some crazy flatulence.

But seriously, how’s the fucking bass. Gino-tastic.

Fully Sick Subwoofer Action

admin — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 04:11:29 +0000

For the gino in us all. The clip gets good after about 30 seconds.
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Telepathic Talkback

admin — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 11:28:18 +0000

Eddie, Eddie… Raw and Delirious are pure comic genius. That’s about as far as it goes. This clip features a blonde Rick James (superfreak, c’mon people) as ‘producer’. By far the best bit is when he says ‘put your phones on man’ then Eddie responds. Think about it people… logic… funny.

Prank calls with a Kaos pad

admin — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 03:43:58 +0000

Too funny. Phone calls with ‘weird interference’ and feedback…

http://host.mnrgig0a03.com/~mwga0320/stuff//prankcalls/09%20Track%2009.mp3

http://host.mnrgig0a03.com/~mwga0320/stuff//prankcalls/04%20Track%2004.mp3

Diamonddave speaks! Radness

admin — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 15:23:57 +0000

audovox (1 day ago)

As if you don’t do drugs Mr. Diamond. What happened to the video of you showing off the view from the hotel room huh? Keep ‘em coming…

From:	diamonddave103
Sent:	July 21, 2006, 01:29 PM
Subject:	New Comment Poste

NO ITS MY HOUSE HERE PROFF CHARTER 4 IN SHORT
AND I DONT DO DRUGS. DO YOU.
THEN STOP ASKING EHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHE
CHRIST SAY KEEP THOU BODY CLEAN.
SO I DO GIVE ME A DRUG TEST
OR BETTER YET.
DO A REC. WITH ME AND YOU WILL FIND OUT.

Diamond Dave… fucktarded as.

admin — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 06:57:02 +0000

This guy is doing the rounds in all the audio nerd blogs. No one is sure if it’s real or if its the studio’s janitor having a laugh after hours. I think due to the mish mash of gear (expensive as it may be) and coked-up sniffling… yes, he is for real. Love the way he only refers to gear brands “this is a TC Electronic” and the “analog Mp3″ call is pure gold. As for “masterfication”, well, you be the judge.
There are so many things wrong with this. Diamond Dave we love you.

UPDATE – DD has removed the videos – I think he was copping way too much shit over his fucktardedness…

Taste the Radness… c64 DJ Controller

admin — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 02:16:23 +0000

Give it a year or so, whenever Native Instruments commercially develops these DJ controllers… laptop DJ’ing will explode…
Not sure what they are doing with the SID’s, but considering I am a slut for c64 hacks… who really cares.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fibra/171159401/

Sexomodular in the House – Extreme Synthesizing

admin — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 01:38:52 +0000

Mexican wrestling masks and modular synthesizers on stage. It’s a winning combination…

http://www.sexomodular.com/gallery.html

Kraftwerk’s Vocoder on eBay… oh yay

admin — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 05:13:15 +0000

More eBay shit…

“The mother of all transistorized vocoders, prototype of early 70´s custom built for german electronic duo of that period:
documented by back cover photo of KW’s album “Ralf & Florian” and in some part in the artwork on inside sleeve.
The device was used for two studio productions, title “Ananas Symphonie” including synthetic vocals and rhythm track in conjunction with lapsteel guitar and rhythm machine , as well for “Kristallo” with rhythm machine and EMS-Synth.”

No bids, starting at US$3800… one day I will add this puppy to my vocoder collection. One day

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=+300001522431

Gary Numan’s Virus on eBay

admin — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 05:09:26 +0000

Well it’s actually Ade Fentons but who cares, they have both signed it, and it was used on Gary’s latest record ‘Jagged 2006′…

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7422997801

Engineers…

admin — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 19:35:37 +0000

and analog electronics. Love ‘em like maths.
From a guarded, intellectually lubricated distance…

Or was it socially lubricated.
Just don’t mug yourself.

Max/MSP… almost in the hizzie

admin — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 10:12:44 +0000

All my favourite bpitch control artists are using max/msp.

When I finally get it sorted… the taste will be sweet. Like honey. And saccharine.
Chip sounds will be a sinch with mmonoplayer.
Electronic music + nerd = c64 max/msp patches. Noice…

http://www.mmonoplayer.com/projects.html

MOT

admin — Wed, 24 May 2006 07:20:13 +0000

Big ups the Museum of Techno…

Check out their collection of exotic South American badboy kick drums.
Funny fuckers.

http://museumoftechno.org/exhibition_detail.php?id=9

Brooklynn is an Audio Engineer…

admin — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 05:30:05 +0000

and she’s in a calendar.
Hey, hot girls can be smart too…

At least that’s the premise behind this lameness.
Anyway, it still doesn’t stop her from being ~~totally~~ somewhat moist

http://www.geekgorgeous.com/brooklynn.htm

sCrAmBlEd?HaCkZ!

admin — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 07:19:27 +0000

Crazy audio/video resynthesis, chop-up madness. If I could control this with a Lemur, I would be so cool and futuristic.
They like using Hammer’s “Can’t touch this”. You’ll see. I think its a thing.
“Copyright infringements have never been easier than with sCrAmBlEd?HaCkZ!”

http://popmodernism.org/scrambledhackz/?c=4

Sex with C64s.

admin — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 12:02:53 +0000

Synth, sequencer and VJ hacks/mods…
The SID lives.
I want.

http://www.ucapps.de/

The scrub wheels appear to be 7″ weights from a pair of 1200′s.

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/yves.rouquier/midibox/MidiBox-00.html

Hans Zimmer Studio Pics

admin — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 07:46:48 +0000

Do you know Hans? If not, you have certainly heard his music. He started off with Trevor Horn (heard of him?) in the Buggles – you know – Video Killed the Radio Star. Now he scores about every major Hollywood film that’s made. He is the master, I think, of combining electronic, orchestral, acoustic sources. He is not the best composer per se, but he understands musical mood and the effects of every instrument and muscial style like no other.

Below you can see the setup he used to use for orchestral sampling. Each of those Akais is like a section of strings or horns (painstakingly loaded by interns). Nowadays he uses Gigasampler on a PC (if my knowledge is still current).

Click the images for full-res versions.

George Massenburg and Blackbird’s Studio C…

admin — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 00:42:11 +0000

For all you fuckers who don’t know George Massenburg… Get your head out of your anus and pay some respect.

He created parametric EQ, has just made the first 48-bit EQ plugin, and designed an ‘ambechoic’ studio using 90 tons of timber. Ever heard of GML equalizers? GML stands for George Massenburg Labs and you wouldn’t have because they cost $25,000, while you are happy with the cheap sound of your natively processed reverbs.
School yourself.

http://www.digidesign.com/digizine/dz_main.cfm?edition_id=101&navid=907

Turntable guitar for all you posers

admin — Sun, 19 Mar 2006 11:34:21 +0000

For the quintessential rock Dj… Thank god it’s only a prototype.
The Vestax STC-V1. They call it a ‘stage controller’. I call it gay.

http://www.djsource.co.uk/news/turntables/vestax-stage-controller-stc%11v1

Lemur Controller Again.

admin — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 14:48:51 +0000

Found it. Stream this. It’s the one where you kind of see how the Lemur works. Kind of…

http://www.sonicstate.com/news/shownews.cfm?newsid=2138

Sonic State Gear Videos

admin — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 14:45:44 +0000

While you’re there check out the NAMM and MESSE videos. Product demo videos of more audio hardware and software then you ever knew existed. Waste a whole night and go through it all.

http://www.sonicstate.com/news/videos.cfm

Multi-touch Interaction Research

admin — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 14:37:31 +0000

From those crazy nerds at Cycling ’74.

There is also a cool video somewhere you see it explained by one of the aforementioned nerds. I saw it ages ago on Sonic State…
This one is just a guy noodling around… Nice though…
I’ve gotta get YouTube working on this fucking blog.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=DtFLkA9zZtU

You need to watch (and listen)

admin — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 12:06:15 +0000

If you are even the slightest bit interested in music production.

Michael Mayer, Legowelt, John Acquaviva, Carl Craig, Bob Moog (RIP), Atom Heart, Alexander Robotnick, Claudio Simonetti and shitloads more…

Red Bull Music Academy. Corporate sponsorship is evil. Isn’t it. Educate yourself… seriously (about music, not the politics of corporate sponsorship). I’ve never tried Red Bull, as if you give a shit. Just watch the videos.

Videos (Real Player but really worth it):
http://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/LECTURERS.95.0.html

Videos (Embedded Flash player):
http://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/FEATURES.96.0.html

Podcasts:
http://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/PODCASTS.132.0.html