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but by the time you've set it up, you'll be too bored to make music

orange goblin, plus q and not u. But I live here, so fnaaar!

what a meaningful contribution.

If you're making music, I like SX. I tried nuendo at the SAE studios (and on a laptop) and though it's better for syncing video and such, for making music it seemed to leave out too many annoying things (like drum maps). I think nuendo 1 had them though.

an acappella of bring the noise by public enemy. it's fucking excellent.

I'm going to see bob dylan with my dad. Bring the ruck!

yup, i enjoyed the first two pages, but it increasingly looks like someone's stayed up past their bedtime.

I think it's the concept that music "needs" to reinvent itself or revolutionise itself every generation instead of acknowledging the influences and continuation of creativity. Another thing that annoys me is the concept of generations. How do you define a generation? By their age and the period of being creatively active? Because this doesn't take place during a single musical cycle. When can you judge that a generation of music is over, closed and should never be revisited? Also, how can you take the responsibility of deciding what derivation of music best embodies the current generation. I'm sure people in a different culture have different ideas about that.

I just think it's odd to classify a genre and then dismiss it, as that naturally blinds yourself to the fact that people are creating their own sounds in those genres. For instance, metal keeps diversifying and changing, from bands taking on prog influences like opeth, heavy bands like pig destroyer and burnt by the sun, and more electronic orientated bands like the kidney thieves. I'd find it pretty hard to draw the line under metal and dismiss these bands as being unoriginal. As far as punk goes, I'd say that Atari Teenage Riot are totally punk, just evolving it. Obviously there are going to be less inspiring artists, but that's not limited to specific genres, it's just as possible to be uninspired with a copy of cubase as it is a guitar. There are enough crap amen breaks out there to prove this.

Although I totally agree with stripey about the question of skill in electronica production, I disagree with the stance that you have to break away from the music of past generations. I'm sure you could argue with the fact that using a funk beat in the 70's, used by eric B in '90, and constantly used by electronic artists isn't exactly breaking new boundaries. I think that anything that pushes the envelope of music, not just technology has to be good, but it's egotistical to think that musical creativity hasn't been going on in past generations and to turn your back on what they did, as even rejecting this material or breaking it down is a reaction and evolution of the same creative thread. Excuse me, I've gone a bit Mikey Subsist.

Bit poo! For lo-fi, there are far more fun things you could do than spend $250 on a mic.

that's a pretty big question! Get audio from samples, instruments (usually bass, double bass, guitar, keyboards (woooooo!!! The flat has a moog!) and vocals using my delta 66 omni and some mics, midi instuments (battery and lots of synths, though I only usually use a few I have), controlled via my ex7 (sadly mostly just used as a master keyboard). All this gets bunged into cubase. I usually use production as a fairly creative part of recording, then mix it roughly. If I decide to record something properly, I'd get a friend to mix it (gav?) and give it to a mastering company.

I just use cubase for chopping and fucking up breaks. Either all on the same track, or slice them into different tracks and use a group channel. I've been recording a band with my friend on his 828 setup, and quadrafuzz is damn goodfor mixing a live kit. Quadrafuzz is just excellent for everything. Live, I just bung most things into ableton.

That's what you get for letting people who aren't me interview converge, bri xxx

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a mixer with an interface to the computer, a soundcard with lots of mic inputs, submix a mixer to a soundcard. Just bung it straight into a sequencer package. One of my friends uses an acoustic kit with midi triggers hooked up to a roland v-drum brain.

Benighted's page with mp3s http://perso.wanadoo.fr/benighted/disco.htm They're from France, play funky death-grind, and are playing at furyfest with Soulfly, The Haunted, Killswitch Engage, D.E.P, Slipknot, Nasum etc...

Me and punk drummer Norm went out on his birthday a few weeks ago and a party of 5 girls offered to fuck our spikes.

The interface for reason is ace and lots of fun. not as fully deatured as cubase. I know reaktor can be used for pretty much everything, but I can't be arsed making my own synths.

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well, that's the kind of response you'd expext from someone with a surname a letter different from ben's.

Me and my non-rent paying, scrounging, hiphop flatmate did something awful to one of their songs the other day. It's terrible what cubase can do to music.

yeah...just watch where you leave your shoes, Ben xxx

Bugger. As well as having virtually no muscles, I also have virtually no gag reflex with which to vomit. I'm sure if somene feels like forcefeeding me alchohol I could make a decent attempt.