Help..... Fellow sound designers

[The girl next door]

Originally Posted by Khazul

Heh - good idea - Hes has been rather quiet

You meet that Geezer yet???
Or is he totally...Cyber!! or was it Cider,can't remember

[H5N1-Virusinfected]

Originally Posted by The girl next door

One of my Favourites also, but the best ever has to be Depeche mode for sure...

U2 is absolutely one of mine....definitely more into rock/pop than trance/techno/dance...

And here I am with a Virus...!

[Timo]

I think the reason I admire the Edge so much is that he has a strong synthesis and electronic influence. He increases the tones from his guitars ten-fold compared to others. You heard that mother fucking humungous phaser effect he uses on Zoo Station when playing live? woah. And he's not one of those egotistical nonces that have to play 748-notes-per-second guitar solos just because he can.

The whole band as a whole, to me, are just outstanding, though.

Anyway, TGND, the secret with the piano from New Years Day is distortion. Pianos sound fucking lovely distorted. EQ, compress, and reverb to taste. Distortion naturally compresses stuff anyway. Also play the notes two at a time, one one octave lower than the other. (If you have a good ROMpler piano available, simply use two oscillators, one being -12 semitones lower than the other). Don't fine-detune them at all, though, otherwise they'll sound like a crappy honky-tonk.

Also, break with tradition and apply reverb before compressing. Pumps it up like a giant mammoth mutha.

[Khazul]

Originally Posted by The girl next door

Mind you he does come from Chicago!! i've still got some Tyree cooper,Fast Eddie,Farley Jack masterfunk and ChicagoHouse records...
Fast Eddie say no more Fucking amazing

Thats a good point - and I do have a thing for Chicago style house piano

Originally Posted by Timo

Pianos sound fucking lovely distorted. EQ, compress, and reverb to taste. Distortion naturally compresses stuff anyway.

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Also, break with tradition and apply reverb before compressing. Pumps it up like a giant mammoth mutha.

Absolutely - love the sounds of a piano abused in that manner

The virus ti reverb + analog mode filter saturation seems to suit this kind of piano abuse quite well + if you're crafty and use the input follower, and mod off the resulting filter envelope - you can use the TI as quite a good transient shaper/compressor in static input mode.

I must get around to fully plumbing out the TIs outputs into the patch bay so I can loop it all back through again an apply the transient shaping post-fx - sadly hard to do this decently in one pass on the TI as its doesnt have the C internal aux1/2 busses - Grrrr!!!

Marc/TK - one for you - can we have the aux busses back please