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rachmiel · Post by **rachmiel** » Fri Mar 13, 2015 2:42 pm

I grabbed the opening line from the song, slowed it way down (20x), kept EQing and reverbing, both forwards and backwards, over and over, until this popped out:

https://soundcloud.com/rachmiel/the-lion-sleeps-tonight

Enjoy!

Jace-BeOS · Post by **Jace-BeOS** » Fri Mar 13, 2015 7:44 pm

the dominant(?) frequencies are a bit ear splitting for me.

Also: spelling correction in KVR quick reply text boxes doesn't work on iPhone iOS 6.x while playing soundcloud tracks. HTF does that happen??

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Fri Mar 13, 2015 7:51 pm

This riff shows up in many of my jams, only 4 notes used, not bad for a no 1 hit

c - d - e - d - e - f - e - d - c- d - e - d - c - e - d

rachmiel · Post by **rachmiel** » Fri Mar 13, 2015 11:09 pm

Jace-BeOS wrote:the dominant(?) frequencies are a bit ear splitting for me.

I already reduced them quite a bit (using EQ), but perhaps not enough. Thanks for the listen and feedback.

rachmiel · Post by **rachmiel** » Fri Mar 13, 2015 11:11 pm

Numanoid wrote:This riff shows up in many of my jams, only 4 notes used, not bad for a no 1 hit

c - d - e - d - e - f - e - d - c- d - e - d - c - e - d

Maybe any melody will sound compelling sung an octave or two up?

Frantz · Post by **Frantz** » Sat Mar 14, 2015 2:54 am

Jace-BeOS wrote:the dominant(?) frequencies are a bit ear splitting for me.

Dominant frequencies + Lion Sleeps Tonight ?= The Dominatrix Sleeps Tonight

Well maybe not. But in ye olde 80s, we had fun. This record was an underground staple in NYC. Who knew there was a wacky video?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XX88XJaJ_bg

rachmiel · Post by **rachmiel** » Sat Mar 14, 2015 3:32 am

It's the era of the fabulous sci-fi heroin chic new wave movie, Liquid Sky.

seismic1 · Post by **seismic1** » Sat Mar 14, 2015 8:28 pm

I would never have guessed the source material for this had you not told us. In places it had an almost Ligeti-like texture. In others, I thought I could hear some heavy breathing! Maybe Frantz knew something I didn't.

Good work

@Frantz: Was that authentic soft-focus or misplaced Vaseline?

Frantz · Post by **Frantz** » Sat Mar 14, 2015 8:46 pm

seismic1 wrote:@Frantz: Was that authentic soft-focus or misplaced Vaseline?

My guess is a bit of both but you should probably ask someone who was there. While Tangerine Dream were slogging it out in Poland, Peter Baumann (

) was having fun recording this track in his Cronex studio in New York:

http://www.discogs.com/Dominatrix-The-D ... ase/475079

Producer – Ivan Ivan, Kenneth Lockie*, Peter Baumann
Recorded By [Basic Tracks Recorded With Peter Baumann's Cronex Media Studio] – Peter Baumann

seismic1 · Post by **seismic1** » Sat Mar 14, 2015 9:01 pm

The man who brought us Romance '76

Frantz · Post by **Frantz** » Sat Mar 14, 2015 9:08 pm

The Modular Moogs and Romance of '76 turned into the Samplers and Whips & Chains of '84. Herr Baumann was keeping up with the times.

rachmiel · Post by **rachmiel** » Sun Mar 15, 2015 2:23 pm

Frantz, if I might inquire ... are you a student of 70s/80s pop culture history ... or did you live it?

rachmiel · Post by **rachmiel** » Sun Mar 15, 2015 2:26 pm

seismic1 wrote:I would never have guessed the source material for this had you not told us. In places it had an almost Ligeti-like texture. In others, I thought I could hear some heavy breathing! Maybe Frantz knew something I didn't.

Good work

Thanks seismic.

Ligeti ... yum. In order to NOT get the buzzy nasal hum I originally got when I expanded the duration 20x I had to EQ and reverb a bunch, backwards and forwards, many iterations. That's what caused the loud resonant tones to emerge. In some passes I would begin by normalizing all the way down to -12 dB, apply a normal (not extreme) reverb, and some of the waves (resonant frequencies) would peak to 0 dB.

experimental.crow · Post by **experimental.crow** » Sun Mar 15, 2015 2:38 pm

a-weema-wap ...

Frantz · Post by **Frantz** » Sun Mar 15, 2015 4:06 pm

rachmiel wrote:Frantz, if I might inquire ... are you a student of 70s/80s pop culture history ... or did you live it?

I lived it. I survived Nixon, pet rocks, pong, disco, new wave, hip hop, Reagan, Space Invaders, and Rubik's Cube. They outta give me a medal. There are quite a few of us grizzled veterans hanging around here.

Sorry for hijacking your thread.

The Lion Sleeps Tonight