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Jazz Snob Lynch Mob - Rabid Space Weasel Cacaphony
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Pure crap An old recording I did to test out a 4 track Porta Studio tape recorder, never intended as a true effort in musical production. It documents an old electronic effect design project to synthesize feedback.
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New Wave electronica experimental fusion psychedelic
Aural Pleasure is an ongoing studio project mostly revolving around myself "Dave Moore" aka "sonicelestial" From time to time it will feature guest artists and other studio musicians. Aural Pleasure will not reach it's full development until late 2008. During the interim, I will use these SoundClick pages to post some sound clip demos of various electronic guitar effects that I have designed.
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Alternative • Experimental
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#10,346 today Peak #65
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Dave Moore
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April 18, 2008
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MP3 2.6 MB • 96 kbps • 3:50
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A song demo of a synthetic feedback effect I designed A ten year old recording I did on the fly whilst testing out an old TEAC Porta Studio that I got cheap and repaired. I'm kinda surprised the old thing still worked after a ten year layoff. Had to pull it out of mothballs to transfer the tape to the computer. The recording is pure crap. First off, since I was new to using this machine, I screwed up in that I recorded the tracks hot to get a good signal to noise ratio. What I didn't know is that, with the proximity of the tracks close together on this "cassete" type multitrack recorder, the real issue to avoid is crosstalk between adjacent channels, which get's worse the hotter you record. There is in fact so much crosstalk, that it's almost impossible to do a decent job of mixing. Not that it matters since the drum track is only a cheap casio synth double clocked and the bass guitar had two broken strings anyway. I mean, you can polish a turd all you want and it's still a turd. :-) Although it's crap, it's still interesting in that it documents an old experimental FX project of mine. An excercise in synthesizing feedback. There's two guitar tracks and both were recorded direct in. So, anything you hear that sounds like feedback is generated by the effect. It's a bit out of control sometimes in the high frequencies and you hear this from time to time as a high pitched squealing. Very annoying IMO I've improved the effect quite a bit since I did this recording and I look forward to using this effect on some new (and improved) recording projects after I get my new Multimedia PC workstation completed by the end of this year ( or maybe sooner )
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