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Recently I have been in the process of recording a 12-song album with my band, and we’ve been doing a lot of tinkering in the studio. I’m really happy with the drum sounds we got on a particular song and thought I’d share a perfectly remix-able loop.

Here’s a two-bar drum pattern I played which I’m naming the Lucky Chopsticks Break for reference. Recorded in Studio A at BRC Audio Productions and processed at home.

• 18” x 14” Mahogany kick drum with coated single-ply coated heads on each side - AKG D112 placed on the batter side, very close to where the beater hit
• 14” x 5.5” Tama Brass Starclassic Snare Drum with Aquarian medium weight Modern Vintage heads - Sennheiser MD421 with a ton of 4k boosted on the Trident 90 EQ
• 14” Zildjan CIE Hi-hats - SE Electronics SE3 as an overhead

High-pass, buss compression, and the new Ableton Amp on the “blues” setting was all I did with this thing.

• Native tempo is 85.88 bpm
• 16 bit 44.1 khz
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A remix I did of “Salt” by The Sailor Sequence. Enjoy the headroom.

I was planning on sharing the Live set as well, but it’s pretty large. I’m holding out to see if Ableton’s Share feature can handle stuff like this.

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It’s finally released!

A while ago adcBicycle began working on and near completed a new album. He ended up disliking what he came up with, so he sent all the songs out to some “friends” in the “electronic music community” to remix them.

For some reason (mostly due to em411) I was one of those. There are a lot of great musicians on this compilation, including He Can Jog and one of John McCaig’s many monikers. After I heard everyone else’s remixes I realized I did the least rearranging/adding/fun stuff to the original, but I guess it still turned out pretty cool. The whole album is great, and it’s neat to see everyone’s style influence Matt’s original idea.

Definitely check it out. It’s a free download. My contribution is track 3, which was track 6 in Matt’s original album order, and is titled “Needs #5”. I hope that’s confusing.

I made the mistake of using “Albatrocity” as a handle again. Apparently there’s already a band or some band’s album named that. I should have just stuck with my original name. So just to make things clear: On adcBicycle’s _Through the Mirror_, Albatrocity = Ross Brown.

Spread the word about this if you like it.

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Started this a while ago. Sort of finished it the other day. It’s a weak ending, but I like the rest of it. Plus, I got to overuse my new Pro VLA II

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Original song is here.

This is an Ableton Live Pack (.alp) for use with Ableton Live. I created the set with Live 7 and I’m not sure if it’s backwards compatible. The set file should be, but I do make heavy use of some of the new features of 7:

• Gate Sidechaining
• Sampler ¹
• Drum Rack (awesome!)
• Analog (analog subtractive synth)
• Compressor ²

There are a few instances of Operator, too. I’m sure you can find viable alternatives ³ to these.

I’m also using a couple (free) third-party plugins:

• LiveCut from Smartelectronix
• mucoder’s wonderful hypercyclic

I’m having fun with my new copy of Live 7. I think it was definitely worth the student discounted price I paid for it, and I will surely use it -for educational purposes only-.

John Locke Syndrome by Ross Brown is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.

¹ I think this was introduced in Live 6, but I believe it got some tweaks for the new version.

² This replaces Compressor I and Compressor II from earlier versions and is way better.

³ Might I point you to studiotoolz?

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This is a piece I’ve been working on for a while. I tried to experiment with things I don’t usually do, and I’m pretty pleased with how it turned out.