Re: [TB-303.org] YOU BE THE JUDGE, If you can D/L 6 Megs fast!...

Mon, 20 May 2002 10:47:18 -0700

oh.. BTW storm..  I have been talking to most of the major UK and US distro houses. They WILL NOT sign any artist that cannot prove that they have gear. They hate reason, Rebirth, all those softsynths, goove boxes, and all-in-one sampler units (which are pretty much hardware versions of trackers made in the early 90's). The distros want you to spend 35k on a studio so they know they got you for the long run. Any kid can borrow 399 form daddy to get reason and write some great tunes with it.
 
This was a shock to me, b/c I use to think "If it kills writers block and excels creativty..then using  new digital equipement along with old analgue stuff must be a good thing."  I cannot think this way now.
 
They feel if you spend 1500 on an access virus Digi KB, then its cool, but not if you spend 400 on the TDM plug-in of the same KB.  Soft synths make it too easy for joe shmoe to become the Techno Rockstar of the World Over, and if this continues to keep getting more known, it will devalue the face of techno all over the world. Pretty much making my 35K studio worthless, b/c of over saturation of the market place. This will also raise the price of vinyl to try to close the door on the reason users fingers (ouch!), which, in turn,  will kill of most underground small time indie labels (like mine). Records cost alot as it is and you do not make any money off them.
 
I'm not trying to be negitive, and I'm not trying to discourage anybody. But to the people that run the show, there is a big difference between a 909 sample and a 909 even if it sounds the same, or better. It's all about the investment. This is why I would love to give people with reason or Rebirth and talent a chance to work in my studio and make records. I feel this is the best way to combat everything said above. But these are MY opinions and others may not view everything this way. If you don't believe me about the distros call alpha magic or intergroove , and let them tell yah.
 
WoW.. I'm out of breath now..
 
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Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 4:33 AM
Subject: [TB-303.org] YOU BE THE JUDGE, If you can D/L 6 Megs fast!...

OKay.. Here is my sound...
This will be the second release for my label, and its not out yet. Sneek peek if you will. The track is not the most recent, it's about 2 months old.
 
This track has not been touched by my engineer. This was encoded from my master DAT Recording. I record All my songs live to DAT, then recorded it back to my PC for encoding or burning. No multi-track, no overdubs.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 9:50 PM
Subject: Re: [TB-303.org] Does your 303 experience the same trait as mine?

Never-the-less,  If Jaybird spent $35,000 (U.S. Philadelphian dollars) on his equipment... Then your music should have a more professional sound, [even on the web..].  I'm sorry,,, No insult intended Jaybird....You've got some sweet tracks......
 
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 9:34 PM
Subject: Re: [TB-303.org] Does your 303 experience the same trait as mine?

In a message dated 18/05/2002 02:06:47 GMT Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:


Kill the samplers..  Why sample when you can use the real thing. Samplers are only for Vocals!




the 303 doesn't have the computational power and "cleanliness" of a sampler.
we're not neglecting the 303 ..it just hangs back and chills out whilst ...
we use its armada of real genuine pure 303 patterns with additonal equipment
The dist, noise gate, sampler, mixer does all the donkey work!
And hopefully new sounds will evolve than from using just 303 and 909 and mixing equipment.

A friend of mine who works in a studio said he used a mcp4000 on a 808 and 909 bass drum and he said it sounded better than any loop cd of retro equipment he's ever bought. If it kills writers block and excels creativty..then using  new digital equipement along with old analgue stuff must be a good thing.

I'm sure all those songs u hear on the "Dance" charts nowadays don't use real authentic gear and standard "vanilla flavoured" 80's dance equipment ... infact  im sure Jomox's are more prevalent than 909's.

cya,
shaz

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