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[quote name='Skol303' timestamp='1353547525' post='1876027'] Frickin' heck this is good, Nige! You've packed loads of ideas into it and they fit together very well indeed. Your bass playing on this track is just superb - completely blew me away in places. Sounds great too - nice and loud but with plenty of dynamics. Truly awesome music guys! The standard is very high this month and no wonder. [/quote] Thanks mate! I had a blast doing it. This competition has got me writing and recording again after a long hiatus. I learned a hell of a lot doing this, I REALLY enjoyed it. It's so nice to just be yourself without any commercial concerns.

[quote name='Stephen Houghton' timestamp='1353544798' post='1876011'] Very Zappa esk, trippy and very well produced and mixed. Nice one! [/quote] [quote name='krysh' timestamp='1353544358' post='1876010'] fantastic, very zappaesque, love it. [/quote] Thanks fellas! There's some wickid music on this thread. And I've never seen the Recording forum so busy!

Ok here's mine. It was FUN! You Can't Touch Me Now (or .. The Day of The Dead Demon Fiddler) http://soundcloud.com/silddx/you-cant-touch-me-now-or-the

[quote name='PaulWarning' timestamp='1353504559' post='1875287'] IMO it's a bit ott, last time I wanted a trap about 5 years ago I just walked into the local music shop and asked them for the longest one they'd got (it's got to be long if you want to rock, tin hat at the ready) it's a fluffy neon pink one, see my avatar I'd be gutted if anything happened to it, as you've probably gathered I don't take myself too seriously [/quote] Haha! Is that a Daisy Rock strap? My boss bought me the same one for Christmas a few years ago. Her daughter saw it and asked her if I was gay, she said no, just flamboyant

[quote name='xgsjx' timestamp='1353513433' post='1875466'] My original idea was to have a rocking 1st 1/2 with guitars & some screaming vocals & then going into some Latin American drumming with bits of the guitar & adding woodwind & doing the same melody. But trying to make an electro acoustic guitar rock is HARD, I haven't got the tools or samples for the percussion that I wanted to do & to top it off I've probably got the worst singing voice anyone could probably have. It's not bad in a funny way, more of a "SHUT UP YOU ANNOYING WAZZICK" sort of way. I hold no tune whatsoever. Back to breakbeat then. [/quote] Believe me, it can be even more annoying being able to sing expressively and in tune whithout being able to prevent oneself sounding like a f***ing hollowed out mallard.

[quote name='Skol303' timestamp='1353507798' post='1875359'] ^ Made me laugh there fellas [i][note to self - add a shedload of bass boost to help drop those b*****ks...!].[/i] I played mine to Mrs Skol and she thought I sounded "like Jarvis Cocker on a bad day". She has a way of telling it like it is, that's for sure [/quote] I would happily give up my bollocks for a really good singing voice!

[quote name='xgsjx' timestamp='1353482693' post='1875001'] Cheers for the uploading advice. I normally just export as mp3 & upload to soundcloud. I've abandoned what I was trying to do & gonna start afresh. It was going to incorporate both pics, but some things just aren't working. I can't sing a jot, so expect an instrumental again. [/quote] It has been tough. But there are some natural links between the two pictures, just! I had to do a fair bit of thinking before I started mine, and I've ended up with a story, it's like a tiny instrumental opera Nearly finished though! I also tried putting singing on mine, but I deleted it all, I can sing quite well but my voice sounds like a 12 year old girl's ffs Appropriate to the subject matter, but horrible to hear The entries have been great so far. And I find it fascinating how people interpret the same thing so differently.

[url="http://www.thesilverbullet.co.uk/"]http://www.thesilverbullet.co.uk/[/url] Saturday evening 8th December.

[b]Welcome to International Times, the Portobello party of intercontinental sounds brought to you by godfathers of the global groove Transglobal Underground and DJs Jamie Renton, Alex Stewart, and G-Man.[/b] [b]Friday 7th December 2012[/b] [url="http://www.rhythmpassport.com/event/1425/"]http://www.rhythmpas...com/event/1425/[/url] [b]Mau Mau - 265 Portobello Road, London, W11 1LR [/b] [url="http://notting-hill.london.myvillage.com/place/mau-mau-bar-london"]http://notting-hill....-mau-bar-london[/url]

Hahahahahaaaah! Sylvia!! These are super! Thank you! And thanks to the fabulous Basschat contingent for coming to the show. It was a great night! and NIFE were wicked, as were the other bands! I'm feeling so loved up right now xx

[quote name='Stickman' timestamp='1353015941' post='1870650'] Just a reminder, this is tomorrow night. [/quote] How was it man?

[quote name='Gordon Thudmaster May' timestamp='1352921561' post='1869444'] Still doesn't help as trying to sell now! We'll have to wait supose! Thanks! [/quote] Yes, you'll just have to wait a couple of hours to sell your bass on this amazing free resource. You could always use Ebay you know

What a great night! Clarky's band are wicked! Clarky had a nightmare in soundcheck which I'm sure he'll tell you about, but he played a blinder anyway The singers are wonderful, and they have a LOT of personality! The band seems to have a lot of fans too, the place filled up at about 10pm, before that there were few people in there. I really enjoyed it. I was not sure if I liked the band quite enough to buy the six track EP before tonight. I really liked the music but I felt the youtube clips and the odd streamed listen would be enough for me, but after tonight I want the EP (I'm skint at the moment and buy music carefully). The lesson is - seeing a band live can draw you right in to the personalities which is important to me. I'm buying! Great to see LowEndBee, Happy Jack and Sylvia there too. A lovely lovely evening of music and fun, thanks Clarky!

Fantastic idea!

[quote name='Marvin' timestamp='1352913699' post='1869348'] I was asked recently to join a band with some old school mates. We've had about half a dozen practices/jams and it's absolutely bloody fantastic. I'm playing exactly what I want, it's my style, there are loads of ideas and we're all just loving the groove. Only one snag, we need a singer. Really hoping we find one soon as we're itching to get out gigging. Great fun though. Feel I've really found my musical home [/quote] That's brilliant mate!

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1352728803' post='1866581'] ... learn to spell Londinium. [/quote] Londinivm sort of looks better though dunnit?

[quote name='charic' timestamp='1352894522' post='1868881'] Just remember you can't remove effects that are recorded on [/quote] Yeah, but I know what guitar, bass and keyboard sounds I want and have a clear idea of what I want the music to sound like. Recording dry adds a large extra level of work in the mix, I usually use reverb and compression and light eq if necessary at the mix stage. Most of the other stuff is all tracked.

[quote name='LukeFRC' timestamp='1352893707' post='1868863'] when's the closing date? is it the end of the month? [/quote] A week before month end, so next Friday 23rd I think is when the voting starts. Although charic is happy to add the odd latecomer's entry after voting starts.

One thing I have learned is to get the best sounds tracked in the first place. I'm not far off finishing mine, and I have not really had to do much EQing, the sounds I tracked are already EQed to sit in a mix quite well, an advantage of using the POD X3 for a few years and always EQing my guitar and bass patches with music on I suppose. I have to say, the entries so far are superb! Clearly loads of thought, skill, effort and imagination has gone into all of them. And you know what, the Recording forum suddenly seems to have a lot of posts and new topics in it Massive hat tip to charic for starting this composistion challenge, it's really got me into writing and recording my own music again and I'm having a blast

Let me add to what 51m0n has said. Kit had a studio engineer mix one of the songs on the EP. I wasn't happy with it and said so. I put it up on here and asked for critique. Most of the feedback concurred with my own thoughts, and 51m0n PMed me to suggest he have a crack at a new mix. I had a chat with Kit and she sent him the stem tracks along with a LARGE list of requirements After an epic, biblical, exchange of emails between the three of us (mostly between Kit and Si) over the course of a month, we had 'You Always Did' nailed. It sounded fabulous and Kit commissioned Si to do the other three numbers on the EP. Another 4 or 5 months later it was finished. As 51m0n said, we've had amazing feedback on the songs, the performances and the production on here, and we've sold a lot of EPs to Basschat members which is incredibly humbling and immensely gratifying. THANK YOU! 51m0n is fantastic to work with. His huge level of knowledge is one thing, his great ears are another, but the key thing that made this work so well was that he was very honest and open with his opinions and suggestions, you have no idea how much that helps. I will recommend Si to anyone on here looking for someone to mix their music, he's brilliant at it and worth every red penny. Elvis, sorry for derailing your thread mate!

[quote name='51m0n' timestamp='1352824275' post='1867957'] Yes, but you're certifiable mate just like FZ Actually given a couple of shandies I can manage a fair bit of Xenochrony on me own... [/quote] I know that feeling

[quote name='Low End Bee' timestamp='1352817945' post='1867785'] I'm not sure about your bands name [/quote]

[quote name='bremen' timestamp='1352819928' post='1867830'] What song was the bass player playing along to in that solo? [/quote] [i]ZAPPA [/i]: A classic "Xenochrony" piece would be "Rubber Shirt", which is a song on the [i][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheik_Yerbouti"]Sheik Yerbouti[/url][/i] album. It takes a drum set part that was added to a song at one tempo. The drummer was instructed to play along with this one particular thing in a certain time signature, eleven-four, and that drum set part was extracted like a little piece of DNA from that master tape and put over here into this little cubicle. And then the bass part, which was designed to play along with another song at another speed, another rate in another time signature, four-four, that was removed from that master tape and put over here, and then the two were sandwiched together. And so the musical result is the result of two musicians, who were never in the same room at the same time, playing at two different rates in two different moods for two different purposes, when blended together, yielding a third result which is musical and synchronizes in a strange way. That's Xenochrony. And I've done that on a number of tracks.[sup][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenochrony#cite_note-0"][size="2"][1][/size][/url][/sup]

[quote name='charic' timestamp='1352818122' post='1867790'] Fixed [/quote] I make people look into it, it's a convex body so they look like Pete Townshend

[quote name='flyfisher' timestamp='1352815100' post='1867730'] Sigh. I suppose there [u]is[/u] such a thing as an appropriate bass solo out there somewhere. Isn't there? [/quote] There is one. It's called Rubber Shirt.