Screw the Economy

Screw the Economy, is blazed across the current issue of Topgear Magazine here. It is about lets have some fun anyway. In their case, racing two very expensive cars. I was thinking something along the same lines around Christmas 2008.
Did this track, Let's hope it is going to be A Really Good Year with a similar sentiment. Despite all the gloom from the media and politicians, lets have some fun anyway.

Been told my vocal sounds like Rorschach from Watchmen, but it isn't too removed from Batman either. We are still planning an animated video for it where the band is Voodoo Dolls or Little Cute Demons.... been working with Anime Studio Pro and Flash. But no delivery date.

The Silent Home Recording Studio

AUSTRALIAN guitar vol 68, has an article on THE SILENT STUDIO, page 56. Among other things, they mention using the Behringer V-AMP.

On our Boutique Guitar Pedals and Effects page we have a guitar amplifier dummy load and phantom powered speaker emulator to achieve the same result, using your own amplifier, and sound. A guitar amplifier's speaker is replaced by the load, then the emulator produces the cabinet sound that is DI'ed directly into a pre-amp for recording. Same approach is used by the Marshal SE100.

Green Cars, Green Car

Those are, today, the most common search keywords that get people going to the Art & Technology web site. An interest in cars that don't kill baby seal or cut down rain forests. And it leads to this Caricature... Jeremy Clarkson would be proud!

New wave of Australian Dance and Electronica Music

Band Cut Copy represent the new popularity of OZ electronic music, with a N0.1 spot in the Australian Charts and N0.35 in the American Itunes chart. Similary the Presets are doing similar things, mostly overseas.

Great to see.

VST: All you need

Relaxing Over the Easter break. And here is another little 1min 47 sec Techno ditty here:
AdrianBruce-Come_With_Me.mp3

Other than the vocal, everything is PC Software and free VST instruments and effects.
The list being: GTG Drum Sampler II, Alpha Free(LinPlug), Synth1 , Endorphin compressor, Classic EQ(Kjaerhus Audio), Polyblit (Andreas Ersson), Ambience (Reverb), Stardust (Arguru Software). All great. ASIO4ALL and Reaper make any PC with on board sound into a low latency multi-track music production system. Technology triumphs over talent (and Art), yet again.

This was pretty much just played into Reaper with an old Roland PC-180 Midi Keyboard Controller. Took about an hour, everything just off the top of the head... Recycled the drums from the track below.
Musically very simple, but then so is Smoke on the Water, Paranoid, Living After Midnight and a million other tracks.


And for some Distortion that may be illegal in this state, try guitar based:
AdrianBruce-After_Midnight.mp3

A short version of a Judas Priest classic, but the vocal sounds more double tracked country than metal. Just Intro, verse, chorus, short bridge, solo and ending.