Nick Blanc

We're going long this time! All the more time to enjoy the lovely vocals from Inge. We had a couple of practice runs to figure out the right placement, hit record and off we go! I didn't plan the melody I was playing on the MS-20 but Inge matched it perfectly.

This is the suspected (by me) trickery that's going on. Thomann Europe has it listed at €311. Not quite in the middle, but somewhere thereabouts. In Europe this stuff is never on sale. But the list price is lower.

Phew, I was bit worried about the order for a second 😝. Thanks!

Is it techno, is it melodic, is it industrial? Why not all. Trying out some new sounds from the Pulsar 23. Some live playing. Live arranging. Still getting to know the new camera's. My Pixel didn't record because of the clamp, so I'm replacing that. I still didn't found the time to setup my patchbays and it will probably take more time than I would like. Enjoy!

I'm a bit in the same situation. Haven't bought that much besides the some 'must have' (whatever that may be) things. Where as before I would buy every 'vintage emulation of this rare 60s pre-amp'. Making a lot of music (weekly jams and other projects) made me aware of things I acually use and the kind of thing I use. As I found out, I don't use so called coloured EQ's that much. So, those are off my radar. As I found out, I keep coming back to the same (coloured) compessors I already have. So, those are off my radar. Etc. I'm not off the train, I'm that loose wagon at the end that falls behind and catches up every so now and then.

I have some new gear and still some new gear to setup. I had planned to setup my patchbays for my FX pedals, but I had some cable issues so I had to postpone that. But I did manage to setup my new cameras. I've got 2 Panasonic Lumix G80/G85 with different lenses. I'm still learning but the basics are there. It will at least get me some better quality thumbnails I think (except this one 😅).

It has a funky, almost frenchhouse vibe. Cool. My advice, make the 1 downbeat more distinct. I walked away to grab a coffee and when I came back I had trouble finding the 1 (out of the 1 2 3 4). So I was basically listening to another song 😅

The last one for this year. I added some drum samples to give it some more drive, so it's not 100% analog and not 100% live. Also the Malevolent USB disconneted so I had to re-record that. 1 camera completely failed and I forgot to turn one on (I remembered haflway). So all in all not the most flawless jam, but I do like the endresult very much! I'm setting up the new cameras next week and hopefully some new gear and my patchbay setup. We'll see how far I get.

No not my 100th Christmas jam, I'm not a vampire. My 100th jam and who better to celebrate it with than Inge 🥳

I have Freepik, which I use for covers and general fun stuff. They also have a video creation department. These are 2 examples I created. First one was just trying some stuff out. The next one was for a friend who was feeling sick and I wanted to cheer her up. freepik__a-robot-with-angelic-wings-gracefully-turns-around__58383.mp4 freepik__this-heartwarming-cartoon-scene-depicts-a-lifesize__58384.mp4

It was a bit of a rush job, created, recorded, mixed, mastered and video editted everything in 1 day. Still, a pretty decent result. The patch I’m playing has a bit of an accordion vibe. I switched the XD off and realised I didn’t save the patch. Ah well…

Thanks, I would say I'm just scratching the surface. But I'm getting there.

Hmm, seems like an update just for Apple and Pro Tools users. I'm skipping it.

There are lots, Oora has an excellent video on it: And this is a mix of very chill dub techno, check out the track somewhere in the middle, minute 34. Just very relaxed, elements come and go:

While a bit inspired by it, dub techno is quite different from the reggae dub. That is often very bass heavy stuff, while this kind of more chill dub techno is more about the sporadic placements of the elements and the (subtle) modulation of space elements (delay and reverb). So for instance I have an extra bass note playing, but only every 4 beats, while you would normally have that bass play every beat or even faster (1/4 or even 1/8). New setup is coming along nicely. Everything is back in its place and almost everything is connected (again). But I still need to to do al lot of cable work because I'm switching to patchbays.