Doggiebox September 2005

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by Sion Morris 01 Nov '05

01 Nov '05

Nice song Mike. I'd echo what Carl said - I think you can dispose of your vocalist - your voice is in fact great! You remind me a bit of Michael Stipe. Its particularly good when the harmonies come in. Seriously, you should be singing as well as playing. I banged this on my mp3 player this evening, set to 'repeat' and had it on a loop for ages and can't really find any fault. Its the best example yet of a believable 'real drummer' sound - that technique of slight speedup works really well. I'll be looking again at the nskit - it has a great 'clean studio sound. Any chance you could send the drum db over for me to look at for tips? Cheers Sion Morris Liverpool www.cinnamondesign.co.uk/music/music.html ------------------------------------------- > http://webpages.charter.net/mcarlyle/sounds/comealive-01.mp3 > > My singer didn't show up so I gave it a go myself. I don't know if > I'll be doing much more of this kind of singing. I'm going through the > "I hate my voice" thing. > > The drums are all Doggiebox using nskit v.7. I really like the polish > and natural feel of this kit. I need to tone the toms down a little > bit, but one thing at a time. This is an example of "pushing the > tempo" during the chorus to make the thing feel a little more human. > > I had posted this before, but at the time it had no vocals and was > fairly bare bones. This is an all new version using my new gear (MXL > 990 mic, M-Audio monitors, Tascam US-122 interface, Fender Pro > Junior... the list goes on.

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DB, Cubase, tempo, and MIDI
by Carl Edlund Anderson 23 Sep '05

23 Sep '05

This is only partially related to Doggiebox, but it's been quiet here, so I thought I'd post about it anyway. I had been yearning for audio interface for my iBook, and finally settled on a Tascam US-122 (which, having heard Mike Carlyle's excellent results, seemed likely to give good results without breaking the bank). It came with Cubase LE, and I've been having fun poking around with that. One of the things I've been trying to figure out how to do easily is create a "groove map" for a piece has subtle tempo changes so that Cubase will know where those changes occur and be able to use its MIDI quantize functions correctly if I were then to layer MIDI instrument tracks into the piece. So, I've created my DB drum track and have a fine two-channel stereo AIFF that I can import into Cubase. In this I guess I have some advantage over a recording of a real drummer, since I know exactly where and how great all the tempo changes are. Cubase has some kind of "find audio hitpoints" function that's supposed to scan my audio file and figure out where the beats are -- I'm just not sure how well that will work, since there are after all different amounts of drumming at different times and I haven't just got a techno kick drum whacking away at 1-2-3-4 throughout. I was wondering if I might be able to take advantage of DB's clever option to output a MIDI file. If I loaded that MIDI file into Cubase, presumably there's some way for Cubase to pull tempo changes from the MIDI file, and I could use that as a kind of "master" tempo map so that I could later quantize my shaky keyboard playing or whatever. I could just mute the MIDI drum file itself and have audio provided by my AIFF file exported from DB. Any Cubase wizards here have any ideas about how perhaps to approach this? Cheers, Carl -- Carl Edlund Anderson mailto:cea@carlaz.com http://www.carlaz.com/

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heavy metal/hard rock drums
by Sam Hansen 09 Sep '05

09 Sep '05

can anyone out there help me im into making heavy music and was wondering if anyone has a drum kit on doggiebox that would suit this style of music cheers sam

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Doggiebox September 2005