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The envelope, please

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Here’s a track I’m working on, based around a couple of envelope filtered samples of Beethoven’s string quartet in A minor, opus 132, 3rd movement. Filtered Beethoven [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Me vs Guarneri Quartet vs Babsy Singer vs Don Henley vs DJ Trace mp3 download, ipod format download Envelope filter is [...]

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Jimi Hendrix, electronic musician

Monday, July 6, 2009

People had been playing electric guitar for decades before Jimi Hendrix. Mostly it had been used as a louder, less effortful version of the acoustic guitar. Jimi was one of the first to think of the guitar amp as a musical instrument unto itself, an early analog synth, with the guitar as a very sophisticated [...]

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Wow chicka wah-wah

Saturday, June 27, 2009

Say “oooh” as in “noodle.” Then say “aaah” as in “park.” When you say “oooh” your mouth is more closed, with less resonating space and a smaller opening. This configuration blocks the higher overtones of your voice. When you say “aaah” your jaw and lips open, creating more resonating space and letting more high overtones [...]

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