I ,m constantly amazed by the vast range of excellent freeware AU plug-ins so I thought I’d star listing my favourite ones.
Here is a very interesting delay from VanhallaDSP , they say: “Bode-style frequency shifter + analog echo emulation = skull melting chaos. Perfect for dub, Dr. Who and all of your psychedelic needs.”
Set Phasers for stun and engage warp drive! (also available as VST for PC)
I was wondering who composed the Mac startup sound and after a little ‘Google’ I discovered that the Mac startup sound was a hack that was quietly dropped into the machine by an engineer with a home studio .
This [mp3] famous Mac startup sound (still installed in every new Mac) was recorded Jim Reekes, and first used on the Quadra 700, which launched in 1991 costing $7,000.which had these staggering specs:
Anyway gertting back to Jim Reekes, his most famous pop-culture moment was the scene in Jurassic Park where the park’s computers are all rebooted with his sound. But it’s most awesome musical use is as the bassline in Transformer di Roboter’s ace cover of ‘Stranger in Moscow’ - here [mp3]
I know these have been about for a while, but these ’shred’ Youtubes are hilarious here’s Slash
The UK is under the grips of severe winter and snow, during this cold climate it is easy to forget the beauty of snowflakes. Wilson Alwyn “Snowflake” Bentley didn’t, he is the is the first known photographer of snowflakes. He perfected a process of catching flakes on black velvet in such a way that their images could be captured before they melted or sublimated.
“Under the microscope, I found that snowflakes were miracles of beauty; and it seemed a shame that this beauty should not be seen and appreciated by others. Every crystal was a masterpiece of design and no one design was ever repeated., When a snowflake melted, that design was forever lost. Just that much beauty was gone, without leaving any record behind.”
image: snowflakebentley.com
Every day I have to deal with spam comments to my blogs!
Here are a few ‘prime cut’ examples:
‘I consider, that you are mistaken. Let’s discuss it. Write to me in PM’
‘I need an real working automated forex robots’
‘It is a pity, that now I can not express - it is very occupied. I will be released’
‘In my opinion you commit an error’
‘What magazine do cats like to read? Good Mousekeeping’
‘It agree, very useful idea’
Hmnnn, So it goes on day in and day out, indecently can anyone inform me what a ‘forex robot’ is?
So for all you spammers here is a real spam recipe for you from the official ‘SPAM®’ website, careful you don’t over do the ‘Marmite’
Or how about this spam guitar rig from Cigar Box Nation?
A friend of mine received the book ‘1000 Films To Change Your Life’ book for Christmas,
Whilst reading the horror section I was interested to learn of the Frankenstein (1910 film) version.
A quick look on Wikipedia gave me this information:
Made by Edison Studios that was written and directed by J. Searle Dawley. It was the first motion picture adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. The unbilled cast included Augustus Phillips as Dr. Frankenstein, Charles Ogle as the Monster, and Mary Fuller as the doctor’s fiancée.
Shot in three days, it was filmed at the Edison Studios in the Bronx, New York City. Although some sources credit Thomas Edison as the producer, he in fact played no direct part in the activities of the motion picture company that bore his name.
You can download it at ‘The Internet Archive’
I’m off to see Avatar later with all its massive expense and CGI quite a contrast!
I have been listening and really enjoying the album ‘Peace Machine’ by Phillip Sayce, some great guitar tracks featuring a great rendition of Niel Young’s ‘Cinnamon Girl’ with brilliant playing throughout and soaring Strat tones. If you like Hendrix, Cream, Lenny Kravitz and psychedelic guitar in general check it out. A particular favourite is track 11 the slightly more laid back ‘Alchemy’ which I do a version of in my solo set.
Unfortunately my trusty old Line 6 DL4 broke down and after over 3 months and numerous numerous excuses at a local music shop (where I put it in for repair) I have given up of ever seeing it again.
www.dolphinmusic.co.ukSo forced into looking elsewhere I have come across the fantastic T-Rex Replica. A great pedal made in Denmark very analogue sounding with among others Carlos Santana, Gary Moore, John Mayer, Greg Lake, Steve Morse using this pedal it certainly does live up to its reputation of being ‘probably the best delay pedal in the world’
Pedal-board latest…. Left to right: Boss Dimension C (circa 1985), T-Rex Delay, Electro-Harmonix Micro Pog, Blackstar HT-Dual distortion, Schaller Tremolo, Ibanez Keeley modified TS-9 and Planet Waves tuner.
Coming soon volume pedal that goes to 11!
I’d like to wish everyone a very happy New Year and thank all the people who have written to me for their support over 2009.
Good luck and thanks for listening.
Myself and master stratocaster blaster Goeff Webb are back cooking in the the kitchen with our Dangerous Kitchen project, expect some new recipes of sonic sounds and flavours. Mind you looking at our first meal on the season maybe we should have shot something (ref: blog ‘Recent Meal In Sweden’)
