Album Released 07-07-07 (spam)

Acrobat · 14 Jul 2007

hey nice stuff, I enjoyed quite much..!

Me too have an album on indiestore, it's here:

http://www.indiestore.com/acrobat

Hope you like it too!

A.

Styli · 16 Jul 2007

Great programming, great vocals, great mixing... Nice stuff Acrobat 🙂

Acrobat · 16 Jul 2007

Styli wrote: Great programming, great vocals, great mixing... Nice stuff Acrobat 🙂

I think yours has a more pro sound, I can't achieve that because I use totally custom made timbres and work at home... anyway thanks!

A.

Styli · 17 Jul 2007

Acrobat wrote: Styli wrote: Great programming, great vocals, great mixing... Nice stuff Acrobat 🙂

I think yours has a more pro sound, I can't achieve that because I use totally custom made timbres and work at home... anyway thanks!

A.

I was gonna say that about yours... I guess it's just that we know our own songs so much that they never sound as good as other's tracks, cos we're removed from them.

And 99.9% of my album was recorded in my bedroom studio. I had a fairly modest set up by any standards. Mostly computer based with mainly free plug-ins. My full set up:

Desktop PC (AMD64 Athlon 3000+, 1024MB RAM) running

Cubase SX* (upgraded from VST 5) FLStudio 6* (upgraded from 3.5), Sound Forge 6 Tons of mostly free plug-ins and VST Synths (FM7, EZ Drummer*, B4, Guitar Rig 2) E-mu 1820m Audio Interface

PRS Santana SE Electric Guitar* Hohner Electric Guitar Richwood Semi-acoustic Guitar Epiphone VJ200 Jumbo Acoustic Guitar Squier Bass Guitar*

Microkorg* Novation Super Bass Station* Yamaha keyboard (used as a MIDI controller)

A Zoom 505II FX pedal Boss Tremelo Pedal E-bow

Behringer BCF2000 and BCR2000 controllers*

Rode NT-1A mic (popshield, etc...), T-Bone Valve Mic* T-Bone matched pencil condensers*

Alesis M1 Mk2 Active monitors JVC Hi-Fi Amp and speakers 2 x Sennheiser HD-25 headphones

Full set of blues Harmonicas*

Acer Laptop* (AMD Turion 64 2ghz, 2 GB RAM) running

Cubase SE3 Sound Forge 6 FLStudio6 Plug-ins (same as desktop) E-mu 1616m PCMCIA Audio Interface Also running Pro-Tools LE 7 with Mbox 2 Mini for location recording

2 x Logic Keyboards* (for Cubase SX and Pro-Tools)

*= added/upgraded during end of or after album

Acrobat · 17 Jul 2007

I work with M-Audio hardware (the Delta 1010 card and 5 inches speakers, the good ones from 2002).. lots of plugs me too but for the album you've heard I decided to use just a few sounds as basis, to have a "trademark". Despite I'm a proliphic synthetist and have huge archives of sounds from so many machines, HW & SW --- no no no ----, in that occasion I used just 5 sources, 4 synth patches and a drum machine loaded with 18 samples. And I did in 2004, when was not so clear as today that electronic music would take a sort of a punk attitude. It was just my idea, then I realized how many people were thinking accordingly to me..

Actually I was bored from those horrible times when I was struggling between thousands of different sounds and never came back with my own recognisable sound. Instead, with "Crono" I think I reached the aim prefixed and now I'm simply working on a follow-up, adding guitar ad much more harmony content. But that's only my recent story, of course!

cheers,

A.

Acrobat · 18 Jul 2007

Styli wrote: I guess it's just that we know our own songs so much that they never sound as good as other's tracks, cos we're removed from them.

"Removed from them"? Oh then I got it, that's a fantastic expression.. and really true, but if you stop listening for some months and then go back to your stuff, in my case, well I can feel some vibe again...try!..

A.

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Styli · 19 Jul 2007

Acrobat wrote: Styli wrote: I guess it's just that we know our own songs so much that they never sound as good as other's tracks, cos we're removed from them.

"Removed from them"? Oh then I got it, that's a fantastic expression.. and really true, but if you stop listening for some months and then go back to your stuff, in my case, well I can feel some vibe again...try!..

A.

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Exactly. When you leave a track for a while you forget how you came up with it, you stop hearing it's different elements and instead hear it as one composition. Just like when you listen to other artists' tracks.