quote:Originally posted by Roy: Do you need special headphones for Skype?
Just a headset and a microphone. In fact, I don't suppose you need the headset at all, just speakers and mic, but the proper call centre set is probably more comfy.
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There's an extra thing you can get at http://www.voiceemotion.com which lets you play music over the phone too, although it's a little intrusive. But if you just want to say, "You know the song... this one" and play a bit, then it's ideal, probably.
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quote:Originally posted by H1ppychick: still here fiddling with skype
Hippy, I just connected to you, and could hear you (or sounds of a microphone). Did you hear me going, "Ello? Ello?"
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dang did you just call me? sorry I don't have a headset yet and was just talking to mikee on messenger and he said to try it out anyway. or was it mikee who called?
confused.
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As above, was me. I'll call again. Try speaking. Just for the hell of it.
Edit: No response. Oh well. Argos do the headsets for a few quid. I got a posh USB one with volume controls and all that, because I can claim the money back, but anything will do the job probably.
I sent you a contact request. You have to accept, then I can call you just to check it's working. Unless you've done that already.
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OK well I hope after I listened to their track 3 times and spent 20 minutes offering my thoughts, Interloper will be able to find my post about it amid this fascinating thread.
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We did, Kovacs. Again, thanks for your interest and comments. We've had some pretty diverse feedback ranging from appreciative teenage punk girls to my utterly confused, Elton John loving boss.
After a while of recording, rehearsing and listening to the tracks, I sometimes feel like I've lost any sense of how they would sound to someone who is listening for the first time. We're always keen to hear peoples' opinions.
Did you have a chance to listen to our other track, *Menthol?
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vikram ignored the body on the sofa, concentrating instead on the one lying on the floor. The sunlight was spilling across the stripped floorboards, yet failing to penetrate the xanax slumber of his responses. It was as if the morning was passing though him; as if he wasn't there. Ten thousand bottles of wine and a million fags. He remembered to breath. The rancid memories had manifested as silence, and by sighing he attempted to crawl away from the splintered reality, to find a place to hide. But the body was still there.
Single images were intercut with long periods of simple void. A splash of disco red. Spittle on the lapels of a thousand dollar jacket. A scream. These things had changed overnight. The vibrant red was now a sickly black enemy, snaking across the ceiling. The spittle was a ghost. The scream was bouncing like a broken CD player. The scene demanded response, so Vikram sighed again, and sipped from a murky cocktail that had been thoughtlessly left in the sink. All the effort in the world could not drag feeling from inside the well of medication and alcohol. Was this?
The body on the sofa stirred and moaned. Benway lifted a bruised head from underneath the egyptian cotton sheet. The brief eye contact felt to vikram like a mirror reflecting a mirror. There was simply nothing in between. Vikram stood over the body on the floor. There was a faint scent of butchery. It was little more than a postcard from a world of cause and effect, a world where a beautiful corpse had a presence beyond the aesthetic. Vikram crouched, and lifted the thick matted hair from the face. The girl could have been asleep, had her nose and eyes been intact. The fine hairs on her jaw and cheeks revealed humanity, and they existed awkwardly against the bestial truth of the wounds. Her skin was cold, but not unpleasant to touch. The weight of her buttocks in his hand brought about a mechanical response.
'vikram......don't....'
Again, the mirror reflected a mirror.
'I was....'
but there were no more words. Vikram moved over to the sofa. The black stain had flowered underneath the sheets. Lifting the sheet, it was clear that Benway was unlikely to ever move from the sofa. Still, there was no memory behind this vision. Benway hadn't yet noticed, and he grabbed for the sheet. It wasn't cold in the room, yet his body was shivering. a pitch black sludge was oozing from underneath the dress he was wearing.
Vikram ran a knife gently across his own inner thigh.
But the pain couldn't escape from the cage.
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I like Menthol more -- the loopy, retro synths like a science fiction 70s strip bar, and the combination with tight drums (eg. at 0.33) kicks in very well. The robot-vocals give it an Air-meets-Kraftwerk cool vibe.
Still I prefer it when it's not so stripped down: there are moments at various stages in the track where the drum, for some reason, sounds clumsily (maybe deliberately) crude and off the beat (eg 1.30-1.50 approximately) -- maybe that drum's just too loud and flat but it's disappointing compared to the much more groovy snare sound that comes back around 2.20.
The Japanese-type string picking shape is a good constant through the song. It's all quite gentle though, and on the same level (except for when the snarey percussion kicks in and drops out) -- I wonder if you could beef it up into something bigger and clubbier.
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Thanks. As I said *here, it's a long way from being finished. The drums aren't final and there's a whole mess of guitar noise missing from this mix. Saying that, I think the beats are in time (or at least consistently out of time) throughout the track.
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It's a bit of a one off. The device in the middle is fitted with two plastic pick strips which hit the strings when it rotates. The resulting sound redefines the phrase wall of sound. The best use I've found for it so far is to tune it to an open chord and use a slide and volume pedal to fade the almost synthy noise in and out. It only has one pickup, so the former selector switch is now an on-off switch for the rotator.
It's called the Avonator as it started out as a '70s Avon Les Paul before I butchered it. It runs off a 12v mains adaptor which delivers power via an XLR cable. I was sick of trying to cram 8x AAs in the back, each time it ran out of juice...
I have a couple of other projects in the works at the moment, including the Bassonator and an FX Briefcase.
quote:Originally posted by MiscellaneousFiles: It's a bit of a one off. The device in the middle is fitted with two plastic pick strips which hit the strings when it rotates.
Does it make a similar sound to the ebow ? That would ROCK !
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