Doggiebox October 2004

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Vintage 70s Ludwig Kit vII (23+MB!)
by David Holloway 16 Nov '04

16 Nov '04

hi folks, i have finally found some time to assemble a version II of the ludwig kit. it is quite different from the first effort, and probably won't appeal to everyone, but feel free to download and play with it. the url is: the url is: http://www.slugworth.com/blog/70sLudwigKit_vII.zip it includes a test arrangement. cheers, david. the official word: ---- Vintage 70s Ludwig Kit vII (23+MB!) Here's my latest DoggieBox drum kit. It is based on my 70s era Ludwig (toms and bass), with Zil crash and ride, a nasty old trash, and New Beat hats. It is recorded to DAT using a Rode NT4 stereo mic. A bit of compression and normalization has been applied. Caution, compressed this is 12+MB, and uncompressed it is about 23+MB. This kit is a much heavier sound than the previous kit. It is not useful for everything, but edges a little closer to that big boomy Bonham sound. Enjoy!

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Wish List
by The Reverend 10 Nov '04

10 Nov '04

>As I am not a MIDI expert, I'm open to as much detailed discussion on how >to impelement MIDI as you folks might require. Can you explain more how >you would envision the start/stop and section changing to work? What I would love to see would be to be able to plug in something like the Behringer 1010 and then configure it, for example, to have the expression pedal control tempo, pedal 1 starts and stops, pedal 2 turns loop mode on/off, pedal 3 selects section 1, pedal 4 selects section 2, and so on. (The Thing I was talking about in the above paragraph: http://www.musiciansfriend.com/srs7/sid=040420161243068064252239513915/ g=home/search/detail/base_pid/182469/ ) This would let me play a live gig and switch between verse and chorus on the fly. *********************************** -- The Reverend Rat -- Rock and roll like it still matters. http://www.revrat.com ***********************************

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New demo made with DB
by Carl Edlund Anderson 28 Oct '04

28 Oct '04

It's been a bit quiet recently, but I thought I would quickly mention I've put a new song demo using Doggiebox drums on my web site: <http://www.carlaz.com/music/current.html>. Titled, "On the Hill", there are MP3s of both the full track and the drum part only, as well as (of course) the dbsong :) I did it using nskit6 samples, but it's mostly snare/kick/hat/crash and maybe a few toms, so the dbsong could be converted to any kit fairly easily. I recorded DB straight out of the headphone port on my iBook to 2 tracks on my Roland VS-1680 -- DB's MMC feature were a major help in the early stages of getting the demo sorted, since I kept going back to nudge the drums around :) I ran both guitar and bass through my recently acquired SansAmp GT-2. I didn't spend a lot of time dialing in sounds, but they're OK. On the high gain settings the GT-2 gets a bit noisy (greatly aggravated by proximity to the VS-1680, actually), so I clamped on the noise gate from one of Roland's onboard amp sims. Seemed OK. The vocals are horrible (and the lyrics cheezy) but I've never claimed to be a singer (or poet); good fun though. For what it's worth, I've been making a new version of an earlier demo I did with DB drums ("Afterburner), and both the old and new dbsongs are on my Web site, too. I cannot overstate how handy the MMC feature is. Man, you've got to shell out some bucks for most sequencer software that does that. I wouldn't be shy about playing up that and DB's capability for MIDI output when spreading the good word. In other, kit-bashing news ... I'm continuing to messing around with an nskit7 dbkit, based on Mike Carlyle's. Though the complete sample set is too big to be very practical, I though I would make a dbkit that referenced every sample, and then people could cut it down to the complexity they prefer easily enough. And I'll try to get the MIDI info there, eventually including velocity info. But this is an "occasional lunchtime" project, so it's taking a while :) And I gotta say I'm having real difficulty making icons that look as good as Mike's (color-coded shapes with numbers are very handy for multiple-velocity kits). I sit there staring in Photoshop, trying to capture the look and feel, and the results always turn out ugly! :) Still, gotta keep trying .... Cheers, Carl -- Carl Edlund Anderson http://www.carlaz.com/

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Doggiebox October 2004