Let's spread some musical misinformation

[Meffy]

Small cylinders of Muenster cheese is purported to be used in early, prototype Moog synthesizers as resistors... they couldn't stay in tune as the cheese heated and softened. So they decided to go with clay composite for their later designs. As a result, they lost some of their fatness.

All true, and in fact the first Moog filters used tubes filled with commercial pancake syrup instead of the now-famous extension-ladder design. We are fortunate indeed that Moog decided to abandon the Mrs. Butterworth filter.

Alan R. Pearlman's synths are known for a somewhat "thin" sound. Just imagine if he had used Chubbyshev filters instead…

[VitaminD]

Small cylinders of Muenster cheese is purported to be used in early, prototype Moog synthesizers as resistors... they couldn't stay in tune as the cheese heated and softened. So they decided to go with clay composite for their later designs. As a result, they lost some of their fatness.

All true, and in fact the first Moog filters used tubes filled with commercial pancake syrup instead of the now-famous extension-ladder design. We are fortunate indeed that Moog decided to abandon the Mrs. Butterworth filter.

It is somewhat of a shame too -- those Mrs. Butterworth filters were so Thick and Rich(tm).

[Meffy]

Tend to stick to a plate reverb though.

[pljones]

Tend to stick to a plate reverb though.

Depending on the send settings, you get empty or full sounds... or plate half empty?

[VitaminD]

Tend to stick to a plate reverb though.

Depending on the send settings, you get empty or full sounds... or plate half empty?

The plate half full sounds markedly better than when the plate is set to half empty.

[incubus]

Kylie Minogue has produced her first synthesizer for Korg. It's called the Minilogue.


(Next time you see 'Korg Minilogue' try not to think of Kylie Minogue...)

Luckily I'll forget about both after another beer or two.

Did you hear that coldplay has secretly been working on subliminal messages in TV commercials to get people to watch them lip syncing at the superbowl?

[garryknight]

Did you know that Coldplay's music sounds much better in winter?

[incubus]

I thought it was when the volume was at zero

[garryknight]

No, you're thinking of the temperature...

[harryupbabble]

In one of the several secret drum forums, it has been supposedly discovered, by a forum member named BadabingBabaDong, that it is possible to achieve a "muted-sort-of-like-conga-but-not-quite" sound by drumming on man-boobs.

BadabingBabaDong, a full-time practitioner of musiminimalism and the triangle and bare-hand percussion, claims that he has scientifically tested and proven the factual fact that the sound that he, and he alone, has discovered is even more superb if the man-boobs being drummed on do not exceed two.

Furthermore, by way of living the negative-to-sum experience and frequent brushes/clashes with the enforcers of consensus decency, the presently fully disappointed but sometimes half-committed BadabingBabaDong reluctantly advises, no... cautions, that future wannabe man-boobs drummers do their drumming on nobody else's man-boobs but their own.

[cryophonik]

Deadmau5 + Z3TA+2/(808 State^-3) = Zebra3

[Meffy]

Music was invented in 1879 by Thomas Edison, who spent much of his later life using a time machine of his own devising to bring music to the past.

[garryknight]

The very first Guiness book of records was recorded at 33 1/3 RPM

[cryophonik]

Aftertouch is the opposite of foreplay.

Polyphonic aftertouch is illegal in most U.S. states.

[sig-ex]

You can't write good songs without knowing music theory.