Waldorf Bass Pack 3!
| Spine Salad | Waldorf Revive | Waldorf Bubble | Bubble Bass

These will also be available on the sound samples page shortly. Enjoy!

Waldorf Bass Pack 2
| Robot Murder | Dusty Sweeps | Binary Drop

These are also now available on the main sound samples page. Enjoy!

For example, did you know James Brown spent 3 years in prison for threatening pedestrians with firearms while high on PCP?

It’s the classic case of genius that self destructs into malignity. It’s easy to give respect when considering what he has done for music, but, in most cases his dark persona proceeds him.

What really stands out among electronic musicians is that he worked with some of the most innovative, funky drummers of the 1900s. One of those drummers, Clyde Stubblefield, is said to be the most sampled musician EVER. It’s clear that the signature sound of funk and soul was shaped by these performers.

The sound of many other new genres still echo with bits and pieces of James Brown’s music, from drum and bass to hip hop. Here is a nice little holiday treat for our readers, a small collection of James Brown breakbeats, grunts and funky yells that truly have been sampled to death. Enjoy and have a happy holiday. RIP James Brown.

The volume of the samples aren’t maximized / normalized so they won’t scare the hell out of you when you have the volume up really loud on your computer. There are 12 alert sounds and 4 separate login and logout sounds. More coming soon!

To change the sounds for Gaim, do the following. It’s quite easy.

1. In the Buddy List window, press CTRL + P or select Tools > Preferences.
2. Select the tab Sounds.
3. Highlight a sound event and click the choose button.

At Blue Distortion, we’ve gone frog crazy! Here is a small tribute of electronic media to our little green friends. First, we have some sound samples packs. The first is of a plethora of frogs going through random rhythms. This was sampled in the late summer of 2005. The second sample pack is processed one hits from the first pack.

Frog Ambience – (5.2 MB) A symphony of frogs, random rhythms.

Tree Frog Kit – (0.7 MB) Processed single shots of the frog sounds.

Below are some high quality photography for your desktop, all four are of the Green Tree Frog, also known as Hyla cinerea. All are sized for wallpaper usage.

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Today, we are going to teach you how to recreate a different version of this sound using common household items. Well, more common than the old projector and television set. The items you will need for this sound experiment is an electric shaver and a water jug (the big ones used in water coolers).

Here is a quick sample of the sound effect. That’s the source sample with no editing or eq work. To get the best audio signal, try placing the microphone right above the opening of the water bottle pointing down. You can adjust this as you begin recording and checking levels. You will have to hold the water jug off the ground. Letting it rest on the ground will decrease the amplitude and muffle the higher harmonics of the sound.

Take the electric shaver and place it against the water bottle’s side towards the bottom. For the best effect, keep the shaver parallel to the ground. You will have to press the shaver hard against the water bottle to create more of the low frequency hum versus the harsh sound of a shaver hitting plastic. Ok, the harsh sound is really nice and dirty; maybe that could be used as well.

Experiment with the placement of the shaver and you will capture far more strange sounds than just the lightsaber-like effects. For example, try placing the shaver directly underneath the jug. Also, try using different items like oil pans and plastic bowls. Use the pictures below as a guide for placement and micing arrangements. Stay tuned for sample packs from this session.

You would be hard pressed to find an electronic musician who didn’t admire Bob Moog or respect everything he did not only for the electronic music community, but, music in general. Moog synthesizers have been used by very big artists including, but not limited to: The Beatles, Pink Floyd, The Beach Boys, Depeche Mode, Trent Reznor, Stevie Wonder, Herbie Hancock, Phil Collins, Frank Zappa etc.

Moog’s synthesizers are the synths with THE sound. From the legendary theremin (orginally created by Leon Theremin) to the beautiful Voyager, Bob Moog and his coworkers have been responsible for some of the most desired electronic instruments ever. Getting to rock out on a Moog Modular with patch cords flailing everywhere mad scientist style is a great experience! Sound samples of the Moog Modular can be found on the samples page, more added below.

Bob’s family has established The Bob Moog Foundation dedicated to the Advancement of Electronic Music in his memory. Many of his longtime collaborators including musicians, engineers and educators have agreed to sit on its executive board including David Borden, Wendy Carlos, Joel Chadabpe, John Eaton, David Mash, and Rick Wakeman. For more information about the foundation, contact Matthew Moog at mattmoog@yahoo.com.

http://www.moogmusic.com/

Bob is survived by his wife and 5 children. Thank you for enriching our lives with warm analog sounds, Bob. I’ll be listening to “Switched on Bach” tonight in your memory. Here are all of the sound samples that we offer from the Moog, even those only offered on the forums:

Moog Modular | Moog Robotics | Moog Vibrations | Moog Bass

David Dunn, stands nearby at the edge of a grove of needleless, dead gray piñon that look like the backdrop for a Halloween play. Like me, he wears headphones and has a recording machine slung on his shoulder. But the device connected to his recorder is a microphone like none I’ve ever seen.

He apparently uses piezoelectric transducers found inside greeting cards to record these sounds and amplifies them 6 times. It also looks like he is also using a Tascam Portable DAT Recorder, but, I could be wrong. The recording was fairly noisy, but, very interesting considering what the subject of recording was. I recommend taking a listen. Check the link, or, listen to the segment in mp3 format.

Anyone ever experiment with microrecordings? If so, shoot us an email, I’d be interested to hear any samples recorded as I think they would be a great source for experimental / freeform music. David also does experimental music, samples from some of his compositions can be found here.