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Inspired by a Fox-Die picture I commissioned - the one in the icon - this song is about the manufacture of the robot panther guards in my Project Future webcomic.
The original picture is here: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/11696697/
Composed in Cakewalk SONAR 1.3 and performed using Rosegarden
Instruments used:
Korg Triton: Drums, industrial sounds
Minimoog: Sweeps, arpeggiation, additional factory sounds, sync solo at end
Hammond XM-1 at end
Roland MVS-1: Poly lead, bass synthesizer
Epiphone Thunderbird Gothic
Voice processing done using an Electroharmonix Small Clone and a Zoom RFX-2000 to provide vocoding.
Recording was done on an MSR-24 1" 24-track machine. with the vocals and bass first recorded on an 8-track TSR-8 and bounced.
Mixing was done to a Studer A807.
Things which could be improved include the line 'Robots of my own design' which seems to have gone flat and may need to be rerecorded.
I cranked the bass up too high at the end.
In addition, the master tape seems to have been bent out of shape and may also have been slit incorrectly, leading it drift vertically on occasion and causing slight dropouts. If I cannot straighten or replace the flange I may have to rerecord most of it on new tape, dumping some of the more difficult-to-reproduce parts back onto the TSR-8 which I used to record the bass and vocals on.
The future balanced on a knife
We take sheet steel and give it life
Atomic heart and quantum mind
A robot of the feline kind
In the panther factory
Unit 3A comes online
The robot army will be mine
Robots of my own design
Why have one life instead of nine?
The original picture is here: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/11696697/
Composed in Cakewalk SONAR 1.3 and performed using Rosegarden
Instruments used:
Korg Triton: Drums, industrial sounds
Minimoog: Sweeps, arpeggiation, additional factory sounds, sync solo at end
Hammond XM-1 at end
Roland MVS-1: Poly lead, bass synthesizer
Epiphone Thunderbird Gothic
Voice processing done using an Electroharmonix Small Clone and a Zoom RFX-2000 to provide vocoding.
Recording was done on an MSR-24 1" 24-track machine. with the vocals and bass first recorded on an 8-track TSR-8 and bounced.
Mixing was done to a Studer A807.
Things which could be improved include the line 'Robots of my own design' which seems to have gone flat and may need to be rerecorded.
I cranked the bass up too high at the end.
In addition, the master tape seems to have been bent out of shape and may also have been slit incorrectly, leading it drift vertically on occasion and causing slight dropouts. If I cannot straighten or replace the flange I may have to rerecord most of it on new tape, dumping some of the more difficult-to-reproduce parts back onto the TSR-8 which I used to record the bass and vocals on.
The future balanced on a knife
We take sheet steel and give it life
Atomic heart and quantum mind
A robot of the feline kind
In the panther factory
Unit 3A comes online
The robot army will be mine
Robots of my own design
Why have one life instead of nine?
Category Music / 80s
Species Panther
Size 98 x 120px
File Size 6.36 MB
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Yeah. Aside from the fact that I can barely play bass and guitar is a long, long way off. Also I'm not sure that's really the sound I was looking for in this song - I was a bit circumspect about even adding bass guitar on this one.
As for remixing it, I need to digitize the multitracks for the new album anyway so I could probably do this song at the same time. It would be quite a lot of data, though.
As for remixing it, I need to digitize the multitracks for the new album anyway so I could probably do this song at the same time. It would be quite a lot of data, though.
Overall I love this. The lead-in is nicelyy intense, it really does evoke Terminator and 1980s industrial-progressive as a whole. Before the lyrics it could easily be the introduction to some dystopian robot-v-human film. I think the lyrics, while they are short, do well in the song and hold up quite well. Watch the intro to "R.O.T.O.R." and see if that lends you any inspiration, if you decide to do another take on this? Otherwise I think it's pretty cool as it stands.
Thanks. The final version included on the album is here:
http://dougtheeagle.bandcamp.com/al.....yil-guy-anyway
You might also like the album cover if you've not found it already: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/14933895/
http://dougtheeagle.bandcamp.com/al.....yil-guy-anyway
You might also like the album cover if you've not found it already: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/14933895/
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