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Martian Arts
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Posted : Jun 12, 2009 15:25
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On 2009-06-12 14:54, cyclone wrote:
which university did you go in the Uk?and how you go there?i mean exams?by paying?
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I went to APU (now named Anglia Ruskin) in Cambridge. Its a small university, but you make what you want out of anything in life. I studied a lot and tried to make the best from it.
I did not pay anything as my father is broke, so I got the british goverment to pay my tuition fees for the university and I was working as a bartender and then live sound engineer in The Junction, a live venue in Cambridge.
You need to do some sort of science foundation course in your country, or simply go straight there and do the foundation course in which ever university you apply to.
 
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shellbound
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Posted : Jun 12, 2009 16:53
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sweet. i love checking shit like this out (though myspace is blocked here at work so i can't listen to it right now).
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On 2009-06-12 11:11, disco hooligans wrote:
I always play lead lines/stabs, live over whatever part of the tune I am looping. Then I just quantise stuff and maybe move the odd note around to make things perfect.
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ah, so you do use a midi controller (which one?). how proficient are you on piano? did you formally study music (theory and such)? you probably started playing sax as a child or in school and then taught yourself everything else (because what kind of self-respecting adult makes a deliberate choice to pick up saxamaphone as their first instrument).
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Posted : Jun 12, 2009 17:02
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On 2009-06-12 16:53, septa wrote:
ah, so you do use a midi controller (which one?). how proficient are you on piano? |
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Not good at all, can play basic scales and chords, just enough for the dance tunes I make. Anything arrpegiated in my music, I use the arrpegiator module in Logic's enviroment, cause I can't consistently play that stuff live.
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On 2009-06-12 16:53, septa wrote:
did you formally study music (theory and such)? you probably started playing sax as a child or in school and then taught yourself everything else (because what kind of self-respecting adult makes a deliberate choice to pick up saxamaphone as their first instrument).
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Never studied music, picked up some basic stuff on my first music book when I bought the saxophone and I did 6 months of Tabla classes in my local indian cultural centre when I was in the UK.
I started playing guitar and drums when I was a teenager. I was a bass player but mainly drummer in bands in school where we played stuff in the style of Helmet, Deftones, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Faith No More...etc.
Generaly taught my self everything and learned by ear.
The saxophone I bought cause I was listening to my mom's bossa nova records (Stan Getz, Carlos Jobim, Joao/Astrud Gilberto) when I was young...so that sound appealed to me from a young age...although I did buy it only a couple of years ago.
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Posted : Jun 12, 2009 18:36
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aciduss
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Posted : Jun 12, 2009 20:39
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Nice info sir.
And what are your thoughts about psy production now that you have done so many other projects, owned so much gear and then went back to trance and became all software? |
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Posted : Jun 12, 2009 20:46
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On 2009-06-12 20:39, aciduss wrote:
Nice info sir.
And what are your thoughts about psy production now that you have done so many other projects, owned so much gear and then went back to trance and became all software?
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Today's software sounds great. Any shortcomings to my production, are entirely down to my lack of experience.
Other than that, it feels great to make trance tunes. 
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cyclone
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Posted : Jun 13, 2009 00:24
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On 2009-06-11 19:30, disco hooligans wrote:
I'm not bothered mate Just saying that there's alot of stuff to write for such a general question.
Like I have said before, all I use are the Logic synths, ESM, ES1, ES2, Ultrabeat, Sculpture and a lot of the analog synth sampler instruments in EXS 24 (favourites are Jupiter 8/6/4, TB-303, Minimoog, Prophet 5, Korg Monopoly, MS-20, Juno 60, Oberheim...etc).
My sound design is generaly simple, I look for strong riffs that are often layered over the same midi file I use on the bassline, maybe changing the odd note here and there to spice things up.
I love a good high passed distored saw, a good 303 resonant acid line, stuff that is common in old techno and goa tunes, just try to focus on the actual music, i.e. the notes I am going to play. And I generaly don't like the one note kbbb pattern, our first album is full of basslines that go up and down...i.e. Its Good To Be Alive has a bassline pattern that is 16 beats long.
I also experiment with non 16th saw basslines...Clear Skies and Easy To Get Lost have layered basslines (mixed square and saw oscillator wavefors) that have varying note lenghts, pitch bends, glides and coinside with the kick.
I also make all my kicks from scratch in Ultrabeat to fit the bassline...stuff like that.
Hope this helps.
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where do you find these analogue stuff in exs24?i start recently to use logic but it seems i cant find these in the sampler?i do something wrong?you said jupiter minimoog etc but i cant find anything... |
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Zoopy
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Posted : Jun 13, 2009 00:30
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Can you talk a little bit on the processing you use on your basslines? |
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makus
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Posted : Jun 13, 2009 00:56
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we should probably do this kind of Q&A threads with musicians here, as there are Q&A topics on gearslutz forum with famous slutz 
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shellbound
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Posted : Jun 13, 2009 02:54
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On 2009-06-12 11:11, disco hooligans wrote:
**WARNING-EXTREME-CHEESE**
We still have the myspace from our pop project "Gentlemen Of Fortune" http://www.myspace.com/gentlemenoffortuneakathepjs
where an agency hooked me and my mate Alex-The AVD up,with this pop "star" from Hong Kong, Yennis. So we wrote some tunes for her to sing, wrote the lyrics and coached her on the way she should sing.
I've played all the instruments there, sax, guitar, bass guitar, random live percussion.
It was great fun making pop music, I wanna do it again at some point. The best thing about writting pop music, is that absolutely ANYTHING goes, there are no rules, no bassline patterns to follow, anything can be used for anything.
That was the end of The Gentlemen Of Fortune 
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duuuude, this shit is fucking hilarious. i can totally see how doing something like this would be so much fun, without all the pressure of "expressing your soul" and all that.
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I also did the demo for The Defiled http://www.myspace.com/thedefiled that got them a sweet deal with various companies, although the tunes I produced in the studio with Alex (same guy we did the pop tunes with) are not on their myspace, but there is the Red Tape remix me and Alex did, kinda Nine Inch Nails style.
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by "did a demo" do you mean recorded/mixed/engineered? why did they approach you to do this, did you have some experience tracking band or specifically mixing metal? they sound pretty good. and that remix is pretty nice (though i think would've been better without the vox). so do you listen to much metal these days? i played bass with these guys for many years: http://www.myspace.com/trials
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Martian Arts
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Posted : Jun 15, 2009 13:02
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On 2009-06-13 00:24, cyclone wrote:
where do you find these analogue stuff in exs24?i start recently to use logic but it seems i cant find these in the sampler?i do something wrong?you said jupiter minimoog etc but i cant find anything...
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They are in the factory banks in Logic 8. Look in the categories for synth bass, synth leads...etc. JP8 = Jupiter 8
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On 2009-06-13 00:30, Zoopy wrote:
Can you talk a little bit on the processing you use on your basslines?
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ESM/ES1/ES2/EXS 24 into Channel EQ>Logic Class_A compressor and that's it.
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On 2009-06-13 02:54, septa wrote:
by "did a demo" do you mean recorded/mixed/engineered? why did they approach you to do this, did you have some experience tracking band or specifically mixing metal?
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I recorded all the guitars and bass, through guitar and bass pods, then did further processing with Guitar Rig.
Vox we recorded in the studio, and for drums we used a V-Drum kit, triggering drum sounds from Drums From Hell. Great bit of software that.
I had little experience from projects when I was in university. Most of my experience is from monitoring and front of house work I had done before. Live gigs ain't the same, but you learn some basic and important thing, that help with the studio recording as well.
I don't listen to metal at home, but I manage a big rock/metal bar in Athens, and I get to hear a lot of metal tunes through out the week. I love stuff like The Deftones, Tool, Soundgarden, Faith No More...etc.
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aciduss
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Posted : Jun 16, 2009 21:12
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Very Interesting... i belive i just have one question left: how come your nickname isn't blue  |
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Posted : Jun 17, 2009 12:17
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On 2009-06-16 21:12, aciduss wrote:
Very Interesting... i belive i just have one question left: how come your nickname isn't blue
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Free releases don't count. 
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