Shinbones Man - VF160
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Waiting on Distrokid to deploy this album elsewhere :-)
1 303 Clouds
Trying to make the TD-3 sound pretty, rather than acid. Pushing it against type!
2 Prepare To Engage
rd-6 with a Korg Monologue playing a guitar-style noise and a sample from a Teenage Engineering Pocket Operator.
Download Prepare-to-Engage.mp3
3 Scenario 5
Played everything live into Foxtex VF160 digital multitracker.
First layer: drums (RD-6) and bass (Deepmind 6) Next layer: chords (Deepmind 6). Not delighted with the tone here but hey I was working fast! Top layer: Vocoder (V256), which I love to play with the Korg Monologue as for some reason it works amazingly as a MIDI controller (Deepmind wasn’t having it for whatever reason)
4 He Got Jumbled
All sounds from the Korg Monologue! Layered up one by one. It’s not perfectly in time - it’s all free played sound-by-sound, just a bit of fun :-)
5 Swamp Shriek
Multitracked a Monologue over an RD-6 beat to create a soundscape. Recorded and mixed on a Fostex VF160 multitracker.
6 YaM22
I recorded a Yamaha DD5 drum kit (which belongs to my 3 year old!) onto a 90’s era Fostex VF160 digital desk, then layered 4 tracks from my beloved Korg Monologue (which top boy Adam kindly fixed for me recently!). All effects/eq come from the VF160, no outboard trickery.
Dunno what it is about the monologue, but it’s very much my go-to synth. I think it’s so hands-on, plus - battery powered! One less darn cable! And the batteries last a reasonably long time.
The DD5 is fun to play, so long as you keep it simple! I’ve been known to drum in my time but never been great at it, so 4 pads is about right for me!
7 Backwoods
First electronic track I’ve put out that I haven’t performed and mixed live. That’s not to say I put much time into it - just over an hour I think! Recorded on a Fostex VD160. I don’t want to mix on a computer, I am in front of computers all day, so I’m trying out hard disk recording :-)
8 Padded Unit of Moog
iPad Moog Model D controlled over Midi. Experimenting with using chords in my music.
Download Padded-Unit-of-Moog.mp3
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