Nick Blanc

I don't know if that's a genre. Not really things that go together most of the time. But it kinda has that vibe.

This one came together a bit difficult, but the endresult is pretty good in my opinion. The Subsequent 37 really shines during the break. No Inge live, but luckily she had a free sunday, so she came by and recorded some vocals afterwards to spice it all up. I did mess up the camera angles a bit, nothing had entirely in frame what I wanted and 1 was pretty out of focus. So I need to check what settings I messed up. Well, still learning!

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.

I'm not quite sure what you mean. Like audible bass instead of the more subby tones I use now?

I had to record earlier in the week because of some big studio changes (visible next week, but you can already see a bunch of cables in the background on the floor). So sadly no Inge to accompany me. But still a very cool result. I did manage to sneak in a snippet of her voice, looped and strechted for some vocal assistance. See if you can spot it (well, it's not that hard).

We are slowly getting the hang of this. We keep practicing and making music. Everytime we learn something new. And everytime we make something awesome. We're both very happy with how this one turned out. On to the next!

It always baffles me how they come up with these prices. €999.95 €74.97. Yeah right, a thousand bucks for a couple of plugins 😵‍💫. For just 200-300 more you can get the hardware unit secondhand.

Here’s the result of an afternoon of music fun. Nice analog sounds, an amazing singer and (imo) a great track.

Poorly lit thumbnail, but at least the music side was fun Had a nice buildup and decided to roll with it. This is more techno-y without very clear breaks. Enjoy!

Thanks!

Lots of reverb and (granular) fx give this jam a lot of atmosphere with all kinds of glitchy textures. A bit live playing, even 2 synths at the same time.