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Synthestesia · Post by **Synthestesia** » Thu Jun 24, 2010 2:57 am

Heard from telagraph lines cov.mp3 - 4.84MB
Not very good. Who am i kidding though, it's hard to copy boc, and that's all i do. copycopycopy
i can't do a single unique song.

The Voice of Reason · Post by **The Voice of Reason** » Thu Jun 24, 2010 3:17 am

Synthestesia wrote:Heard from telagraph lines cov.mp3 - 4.84MB
Not very good. Who am i kidding though, it's hard to copy boc, and that's all i do. copycopycopy
i can't do a single unique song.

You learn through copying. When you are comfortable enough, through this copying you will find your own style and way of doing things. The masters did it, learning to paint.
BoC emulated the national film board for a bit

(You missed a note or two here and there, but a pretty good shot at it)

TrippyTrinity · Post by **TrippyTrinity** » Thu Jun 24, 2010 4:28 am

Numerator · Post by **Numerator** » Thu Jun 24, 2010 3:01 pm

Synthestesia wrote:Heard from telagraph lines cov.mp3 - 4.84MB
Not very good. Who am i kidding though, it's hard to copy boc, and that's all i do. copycopycopy
i can't do a single unique song.

dude, I love your tunes, stop beating yourself up!
(note to self: don't say dude. I am posh and english)

TrippyTrinity · Post by **TrippyTrinity** » Thu Jun 24, 2010 5:49 pm

Synthestesia wrote:Heard from telagraph lines cov.mp3 - 4.84MB
Not very good. Who am i kidding though, it's hard to copy boc, and that's all i do. copycopycopy
i can't do a single unique song.

Really good. better than mine. What did you use to record it?

747Music · Post by **747Music** » Thu Jun 24, 2010 7:45 pm

Numerator wrote:
Synthestesia wrote:Heard from telagraph lines cov.mp3 - 4.84MB
Not very good. Who am i kidding though, it's hard to copy boc, and that's all i do. copycopycopy
i can't do a single unique song.
dude, I love your tunes, stop beating yourself up!
(note to self: don't say dude. I am posh and english)

This ^

And your remix was pretty good.

Synthestesia · Post by **Synthestesia** » Thu Jun 24, 2010 11:59 pm

TrippyTrinity wrote:
Synthestesia wrote:Heard from telagraph lines cov.mp3 - 4.84MB
Not very good. Who am i kidding though, it's hard to copy boc, and that's all i do. copycopycopy
i can't do a single unique song.
Really good. better than mine. What did you use to record it?

Audacity

Synthetrix · Post by **Synthetrix** » Sat Jun 26, 2010 12:23 am

Synthestesia wrote:Heard from telagraph lines cov.mp3 - 4.84MB
Not very good. Who am i kidding though, it's hard to copy boc, and that's all i do. copycopycopy
i can't do a single unique song.

Very nice. Telegraph lines always seemed like a reprise of the ending of Chromakey Dreamcoat. The same chord progression, just slower.

Pantheon · Post by **Pantheon** » Sat Jun 26, 2010 3:30 pm

Heya people,

I thought i'd share a little cover of Left Side Drive I have made today:

http://www.zshare.net/audio/776564986684a95e/

Im not well at the moment, and i cant realy hear properly because of it, so the mix might be poor.
I hope you enjoy it

Also:

Nice work there Synthestesia, it sounded good on my laptop speakers anyway. I'll have to replay it on my proper speakers soon.

s7409651 · Post by **s7409651** » Sat Jun 26, 2010 4:26 pm

Top Notch, Pantheon!!

Synthetrix · Post by **Synthetrix** » Sat Jun 26, 2010 8:01 pm

Pantheon wrote:Heya people,

I thought i'd share a little cover of Left Side Drive I have made today:

http://www.zshare.net/audio/776564986684a95e/

Im not well at the moment, and i cant realy hear properly because of it, so the mix might be poor.
I hope you enjoy it

Also:

Nice work there Synthestesia, it sounded good on my laptop speakers anyway. I'll have to replay it on my proper speakers soon.

Mmmmm good stuff!

747Music · Post by **747Music** » Sat Jun 26, 2010 10:31 pm

Pantheon wrote:Heya people,

I thought i'd share a little cover of Left Side Drive I have made today:

http://www.zshare.net/audio/776564986684a95e/

Im not well at the moment, and i cant realy hear properly because of it, so the mix might be poor.
I hope you enjoy it

Also:

Nice work there Synthestesia, it sounded good on my laptop speakers anyway. I'll have to replay it on my proper speakers soon.

That was really, really well done.

Pantheon · Post by **Pantheon** » Tue Jun 29, 2010 1:58 pm

I thought i'd share this little clone of Olson i made.
I was realy just trying to work out how they made the bass patch/drone sound.

http://www.zshare.net/audio/77777372dc3b4be0/

Numerator · Post by **Numerator** » Tue Jun 29, 2010 3:15 pm

Pantheon wrote:I thought i'd share this little clone of Olson i made.
I was realy just trying to work out how they made the bass patch/drone sound.

http://www.zshare.net/audio/77777372dc3b4be0/

fucking fantastic!
if you don't mind me asking, what were the parametres for the patch and lead? (it's just that I've tried for aaages to recreate the sound and you got it pretty much spot on)...

Tomisnever · Post by **Tomisnever** » Tue Jun 29, 2010 3:59 pm

Pantheon wrote:I thought i'd share this little clone of Olson i made.
I was realy just trying to work out how they made the bass patch/drone sound.

http://www.zshare.net/audio/77777372dc3b4be0/

Very impressive, sounds great.

I did Over the Horizon Radar on my guitar, it's the newest one on my channel. http://www.youtube.com/user/Tomisnever

s7409651 · Post by **s7409651** » Tue Jun 29, 2010 5:35 pm

whoa nelly, that's fantastic, Tomisnever!

747Music · Post by **747Music** » Tue Jun 29, 2010 9:40 pm

Tomisnever wrote:
Pantheon wrote:I thought i'd share this little clone of Olson i made.
I was realy just trying to work out how they made the bass patch/drone sound.

http://www.zshare.net/audio/77777372dc3b4be0/
Very impressive, sounds great.

I did Over the Horizon Radar on my guitar, it's the newest one on my channel. http://www.youtube.com/user/Tomisnever

Holy crap that was awesome!

Pantheon · Post by **Pantheon** » Tue Jun 29, 2010 10:56 pm

Numerator wrote:
Pantheon wrote:I thought i'd share this little clone of Olson i made.
I was realy just trying to work out how they made the bass patch/drone sound.

http://www.zshare.net/audio/77777372dc3b4be0/
fucking fantastic!
if you don't mind me asking, what were the parametres for the patch and lead? (it's just that I've tried for aaages to recreate the sound and you got it pretty much spot on)...

The settings for the bass patch were....

Single oscillator saw wave, with a low pass filter at around 550hz. I then had an envelope, that would slowly raise the cutoff a little over about 6 seconds. Then an LFO at 0.15hz is chainging the pitch by around 1% (for a little warble to the sound and chorus sound when played polyphonicaly).
Pretty much as simple as they come.
Also the filter key tracks by about 35%, providing a soft high end when chords are played.

But the secret effect is...

I have a little tape machine with a big speaker in it, and this thing has a wooden chassie. I just routed my patch into this tape machine from my soundcard. So im just using it as a speaker box/cabinate thing.

When I turn the volume up on this box, the whole cabinate starts to shake and resonate, adding strange harmonics to the sound. I just mic'd up the box with my field recorder and then imported my recording back into Ableton again. Im fairly sure thats the same kind of thing Boc did for that track, it has quite a distinctive sound to it.

PS. Tomisnever, that sounds great man. Do you have any plans to cover the full track? that would be amazin.

Post by **Aesthetics** » Tue Jun 29, 2010 11:30 pm

Pantheon wrote:Heya people,

I thought i'd share a little cover of Left Side Drive I have made today:

http://www.zshare.net/audio/776564986684a95e/

Heya Pantheon,

You sir, are amazing!

747Music · Post by **747Music** » Wed Jun 30, 2010 2:18 am

Aesthetics wrote:
Pantheon wrote:Heya people,

I thought i'd share a little cover of Left Side Drive I have made today:

http://www.zshare.net/audio/776564986684a95e/
Heya Pantheon,

You sir, are amazing!

Couldn't have said it better myself.