Last night I played an awesome show with three great bands that I recommend to anyone who will take a recommendation.
It was a lot of fun. Real Live Tigers and Brown Bird are on tour and Felix joined us from New Orleans.
In other news, it looks like I’m doing recording work for the Gary Gonzalez / Geraldo! split that they’ve been planning/putting off since forever ago. I’ll probably post samples when we finish.
This is an awesome free album put out by Ghostly International and Adult Swim. Lots of good electronic music on here, and it features a live mix by Tycho.
I think my favorite track is Light Powered by Daestro, but I’m only about one and a half listens in.
The whole album seems terribly squashed, but it’s probably appropriate for the style.
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
- Drum Rack (awesome!)
- Analog (analog subtractive synth)
- Compressor
There are a few instances of Operator, too. I’m sure you can find viable alternatives to these.
I’m also using a couple (free) third-party plugins:
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.
Download it.
“John Locke Syndrome”
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.
I’ve also uploaded the Live Set if anyone wants to play with it.
Download it.
“Cascade Fat Head Test Song”
Here’s a little test song I did mainly with the Cascade Fat Head.
Drums: MS Stereo — MXL 991 as Mid and Fat Head as side. In front of and about two feet above kit. About a foot right (low tom side) of snare to try and stereo image the toms a bit more. My high tom is right above the snare, and MS accurately depicts that. SM57 on snare and some cheap Nady kick mic in front of the kick. I was more concerned with the overhead sound. No EQ on Fat Head, scooped out some high mids on the MXL.
Electric Guitar (both): Fat Head about 6” from speaker, on-axis.
Acoustic Guitar: MS Stereo with Fat Head and MXL 991.
Bass: Fat Head about 4” from speaker, on-axis. Rounded off low frequencies at 100hz.
Tambourine: Fat Head. Duhhhh.
There are no effects on any tracks, save for some EQing I talked about above and light compression on the drum bus and master track.
I talked about the Fat Head a little more in my original post.
