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Sampleconstruct · Post by **Sampleconstruct** » Mon Apr 22, 2013 6:49 am

swartzfeger wrote:
Sampleconstruct wrote:Here is a little video featuring a patch from the next susbcription set (No. 26) - some male overtone singing on F (myself) slightly melodyned (cheat!), harmonics enhanced with a filter, then treated with some spatial plugs, then imported into Iris. I also sampled my new Djembe today and processed some single hits to huge and beautiful drones and strange textures to be then treated with Iris.
Simon, just watched your video -- I didn't know you were a Tuvan throat singer!

Eerie yet beautiful. I have some buddhist prayer bells that will match nicely with that patch.

Haha, still practising but I'm nowhere near the throat singing techniques of the Tuvan's yet

they sing real intervals not just harmonic transitions...

lnikj · Post by **lnikj** » Mon Apr 22, 2013 7:02 am

I think you're doing very well!

I had the good fortune to spend a couple of months travelling around Mongolia and witnessed a couple of performances, one arranged and one impromptu, both up close and personal in our ger.

It's probably the most astonishing thing I've ever heard in person (hang on ... or it could that have been on the same trip when that shaman loudly farted in the middle of a ritual he was performing).

Seriously, keep up the practice Simon!

Sampleconstruct · Post by **Sampleconstruct** » Mon Apr 22, 2013 7:08 am

lnikj wrote:I think you're doing very well!

I had the good fortune to spend a couple of months travelling around Mongolia and witnessed a couple of performances, one arranged and one impromptu, both up close and personal in our ger.

It's probably the most astonishing thing I've ever heard in person (hang on ... or it could that have been on the same trip when that shaman loudly farted in the middle of a ritual he was performing).

Seriously, keep up the practice Simon!

Thank you - LOL, mongolian overtone farting?
I also attended a banquet in Kasachstan (in 2011) where a this multi-instrumentalist gave a stunning performance, including some incredible overtone-interval-magical-singing, this really got me interested.

Sampleconstruct · Post by **Sampleconstruct** » Mon Apr 22, 2013 2:07 pm

Here is an ambient demo track using 5 instances of Iris, 4 of the patches were made with/derived from Djembe samples:

http://soundcloud.com/sampleconstruct/d ... -iris-demo

Sampleconstruct · Post by **Sampleconstruct** » Tue Apr 23, 2013 6:48 pm

It was time to sample my Espresso machine, it's beautiful and clear harmonics caught my interest long ago, so today I took some equipment into the kitchen. There will also be a patch with just the Milkfoamer valve which makes some incredible animal-like sounds when the excessive air has discharged from the machine. What an amazing instrument

So here is a little video messing with the Espresso Harmonics Drone, at the end of the sample it's just the sound of the foam (créma) on top of the coffee inside the cup (where else)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2AKYLb3O5o:

lnikj · Post by **lnikj** » Tue Apr 23, 2013 7:42 pm

Sounds like my Gaggia

Love these videos.

What mic(s) do you use for field recording? I would like to get one once I get over the forthcoming wallet emptying for new U-He plugins.

Sampleconstruct · Post by **Sampleconstruct** » Tue Apr 23, 2013 7:55 pm

lnikj wrote:Sounds like my Gaggia Love these videos.

What mic(s) do you use for field recording? I would like to get one once I get over the forthcoming wallet emptying for new U-He plugins.

Different types, for outdoor stuff and film work I usually use 2 Sennheiser MKH 70 mounted on a boom inside the windshield cages, then I also use an Audiotechnica stereo mic sometimes (like in this case), or some in-ear mics for binaural spionage recordings.

For quick and dirty ambiences I do carry around a Zoom H2, amazing quality for such a small gadget, even with the inbuilt mics and it also does quadrophonic recordings as it has 4 built in mics.

My main recorder is a Tascam HD P2, which has exceptional mic-preamps with a very good noise to signal ratio, so you can also record very quiet sounds and boost them later without getting a waterfall of hiss and noises. I used a Marantz PMD 671 before but the preamps are not as good as the Tascam ones.

Long answer to a short question...

Neon Breath · Post by **Neon Breath** » Tue Apr 23, 2013 8:04 pm

Sampleconstruct wrote: at the end of the sample it's just the sound of the foam (créma) on top of the coffee inside the cup

Not nice! Now I have a caffeine craving and need to go get a nice hot & fresh dark espresso!

Sampleconstruct · Post by **Sampleconstruct** » Tue Apr 23, 2013 8:07 pm

Neon Breath wrote:
Sampleconstruct wrote: at the end of the sample it's just the sound of the foam (créma) on top of the coffee inside the cup
Not nice! Now I have a caffeine craving and need to go get a nice hot & fresh dark espresso!

Lol

lnikj · Post by **lnikj** » Tue Apr 23, 2013 9:11 pm

Sampleconstruct wrote:
lnikj wrote:Sounds like my Gaggia Love these videos.

What mic(s) do you use for field recording? I would like to get one once I get over the forthcoming wallet emptying for new U-He plugins.
Different types, for outdoor stuff and film work I usually use 2 Sennheiser MKH 70 mounted on a boom inside the windshield cages, then I also use an Audiotechnica stereo mic sometimes (like in this case), or some in-ear mics for binaural spionage recordings.

For quick and dirty ambiences I do carry around a Zoom H2, amazing quality for such a small gadget, even with the inbuilt mics and it also does quadrophonic recordings as it has 4 built in mics.

My main recorder is a Tascam HD P2, which has exceptional mic-preamps with a very good noise to signal ratio, so you can also record very quiet sounds and boost them later without getting a waterfall of hiss and noises. I used a Marantz PMD 671 before but the preamps are not as good as the Tascam ones.

Long answer to a short question...

The twin MKH70s to capture a stereo signal? Ermmm ... binaural spionage?

I have been considering an H2 or H4. The tascam sounds good but a bit out of budget really at the moment.

Thanks for the info

Sampleconstruct · Post by **Sampleconstruct** » Tue Apr 23, 2013 9:22 pm

lnikj wrote:
Sampleconstruct wrote:
lnikj wrote:Sounds like my Gaggia Love these videos.

What mic(s) do you use for field recording? I would like to get one once I get over the forthcoming wallet emptying for new U-He plugins.
Different types, for outdoor stuff and film work I usually use 2 Sennheiser MKH 70 mounted on a boom inside the windshield cages, then I also use an Audiotechnica stereo mic sometimes (like in this case), or some in-ear mics for binaural spionage recordings.

For quick and dirty ambiences I do carry around a Zoom H2, amazing quality for such a small gadget, even with the inbuilt mics and it also does quadrophonic recordings as it has 4 built in mics.

My main recorder is a Tascam HD P2, which has exceptional mic-preamps with a very good noise to signal ratio, so you can also record very quiet sounds and boost them later without getting a waterfall of hiss and noises. I used a Marantz PMD 671 before but the preamps are not as good as the Tascam ones.

Long answer to a short question...
The twin MKH70s to capture a stereo signal? Ermmm ... binaural spionage?

I have been considering an H2 or H4. The tascam sounds good but a bit out of budget really at the moment.

Thanks for the info

Yeah, I don't do mono recordings - ever, all ambiences and sounds I record with the MKH70s are in stereo, the boom gets a bit heavy after some hours

- but the recordings are great and spatial, and if I want mono for the center in case of
L-C-R mixing I only use one leg.

Spionage meaning that sometimes it's better people don't notice you're recording - e.g. when recording ambiences in a pedestrian zone or a super market

Sampleconstruct · Post by **Sampleconstruct** » Thu Apr 25, 2013 11:52 am

Here is a demo for the patch "Catacomb Orchestra" which will also be part of Subscription Set 26:

http://soundcloud.com/sampleconstruct/c ... -iris-demo

lnikj · Post by **lnikj** » Thu Apr 25, 2013 12:07 pm

Sampleconstruct wrote: Spionage meaning that sometimes it's better people don't notice you're recording - e.g. when recording ambiences in a pedestrian zone or a super market

Understood. I guess we'll be having laws on that soon too

Like the latest demo!

Sampleconstruct · Post by **Sampleconstruct** » Thu Apr 25, 2013 3:04 pm

lnikj wrote:
Sampleconstruct wrote: Spionage meaning that sometimes it's better people don't notice you're recording - e.g. when recording ambiences in a pedestrian zone or a super market
Understood. I guess we'll be having laws on that soon too

Like the latest demo!

Yeah, laws for controlling field recording would be most important

It's just that walking around with a large boom carrying two big fluffy microphone cages (like 2 dogs on a pole), a headphone, a recorder on a belt, black clothes, maybe sun glasses and being +6 feet 4" myslef it's sort of hard to record without people staring at you, changing their behaviour, muting themselves or doing things they wouldn't do if I was not there. That's why spionage in-ear-mics are so valuable.

Sampleconstruct · Post by **Sampleconstruct** » Fri Apr 26, 2013 2:36 pm

Here is a little improv using 3 Iris patches with Djembe loops, the first 2 patches in the demo are running in Radius RT mode, so their tempo is fixed to 100 BPM, the third loop at the end of the demo is a fast triplet loop. Just jamming along here tweaking the assigned controllers on the fly:

http://soundcloud.com/sampleconstruct/d ... -iris-demo

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