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ART / Re: Getting old!

« on: January 19, 2010, 11:14:21 am »

First, may we all be so lucky to live into our 80s. Learning an instrument is a good way to stave off senility, so at least on that level, we should all keep plugging away.

I assume most of us here make music that on a conceptual level could be called electronic. I wonder if that concept will survive forty years from now? At a certain point, art based on the exploitation of new technology should naturally fade away once the novelty is no longer there.

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SYNTHESIZERS + SOUND-MAKING HARDWARE / Re: teenage engineering OP-1

« on: January 19, 2010, 10:42:15 am »

True, but these things take time and money to produce. They perhaps should not have started hyping the idea two years ago, but presumably they did so to interest investors.

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OTHER MUSIC / Re: What are you listening to?

« on: January 17, 2010, 06:35:20 pm »

New Low Light Mixes mix:

http://lowlightmixes.blogspot.com/2010/01/slo-mo.html

This has recently become my favourite podcast/mix site, discovered it while checking my website traffic logs (one of my tracks had been included in one of his mixes).

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ART / Re: one year today.

« on: January 17, 2010, 02:55:47 pm »

Congrats, Marcus. I've been following almost from the beginning, it's been inspiring to watch.

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SYNTHESIZERS + SOUND-MAKING HARDWARE / Re: teenage engineering OP-1

« on: January 15, 2010, 02:17:53 pm »

I'd be comfortable with them shedding some features to get the price down. If they dropped the built-in mic, speaker and radio receiver, I wonder how much they could reduce costs?

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ART / Re: the whiskey thread

« on: January 15, 2010, 01:52:32 pm »

I only have half a bottle of Woodford Reserve bourbon left in the house at the moment. I should remedy that situation soon.

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ACOUSTIC ELECTRIC / Re: FX pedals

« on: January 08, 2010, 01:35:44 pm »

I used a lot of pedals and desktop effects when I played live, none DIY though. I'm not really good at committing to DIY projects.

Regarding impedance, I never bothered to worry about it. As long as I could get a sound I liked out of it, I never cared if I was doing anything technically wrong.

The only pedals I've encountered that really didn't like a sampler's output were newer EHX pedals. They don't seem to have the headroom on the input to handle it, lots of clipping unless the input is turned way down.

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ART / Re: Reading!

« on: January 08, 2010, 01:25:54 pm »

I think there is nothing wrong just putting down a book that you haven't finished if it just isn't getting you anywhere.

I agree wholeheartedly.

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ART / Re: Reading!

« on: January 05, 2010, 08:56:43 pm »

The Great Derangement by Matt Taibbi, about just how messed up American socio-political life is at the moment.

After that, not sure, possibly Nicholson Baker's Human Smoke if I feel up to it.

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OTHER MUSIC / Re: What are you listening to?

« on: January 03, 2010, 10:18:50 pm »

David Kristian, Room Tone

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12K + LINE / Re: THE FORUM IS BACK

« on: January 03, 2010, 07:18:20 pm »

Nice to see the forum back. I like the new look a lot.