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if/when I find a full copy of Max/MSP for OS X I'll try and do a "proper" version of it
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that doesn't sound too bad actually
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Isis are a very good live band and I'd disagree about the Russian circles vid. I found it pretty good and didn't get bored the music was good enough to hold my attention and they weren't just standing there. They did however seem a bit nervous? Maybe I'm picking up on things that weren't there.
They were pretty much standing at their pedalboards (obviously thats a given when switching effects)...the bassist has his own little headbanging thing going on, the drummer was good, and the guitarist seemed like he was really nervous and didn't really do anything impressive (his guitaring was quite good, but other than that...). Don't get me wrong, I listened to the whole song and enjoyed it, but I didn't watch the video while I was listening. It was also apparent that the majority of the audience seemed slightly bored/uninvolved, though some people seemed to want to be.
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depends on other stuff obviously, but an instrumental band really has to command attention as alot of audience interaction is through talking with them:)
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yeah, that vid definitely had no presence about it! We don't dive all over the stage, but I'd like to think we're more involving than that performance. Afterall, playing live isn't JUST about playing the music imho - it's about entertaining the audience, mainly with your material, but you can't just stand still really (unless you're really REALLY good
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Wow.
I don't get it? Twas a pretty cool piece, but they didn't really have much stage presence. We tried stuff like that and people just get bored. This stuff makes awesome album tracks, but sucks live imho...We do write quite similar things to that, and it's good to know that it gets some attention - we just haven't managed to grab enough attention yet
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that's about as good as the time when you recorded yourself singing and put it on here
I think I missed that!
Er dude, that's not it! I'm not even sure we're talking about the same song
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I just thought i'd paste our gigs list from the myspace, as we have quite a few coming up:
17 Jul 2007 20:00 Varsity Wolverhampton
26 Jul 2007 20:00 The Actress & Bishop Birmingham
6 Aug 2007 20:00 The Limelight Crewe (TBC)
9 Aug 2007 20:00 The GO! Club Birmingham
10 Aug 2007 20:00 Decades Northampton
27 Aug 2007 20:00 LA Rock Cafe Lichfield
29 Aug 2007 20:00 The Shed Leicester
4 Sep 2007 20:00 BonDs Bar Tamworth
22 Sep 2007 20:00 The Rigger Newcastle-Under-Lyme
14 Dec 2007 20:00 The Underground Stoke
Ah dude, 2 days before I get back off my holiday! Pity...I would've liked to see you guys!
You'll have to do loads of promoting to get a crowd in btw...who're you supporting? Or are you headlining? -
saw these guys last weekend, amazing performance! i want that mp3 now
Think I have that kickin about somewhere! Drop me an email at donbenjy at gmail dot com if you're interested
How are those guys now then? Getting big yet? -
cool, we've had like 3 offers to record stuff free, so we'll mess around with stuff then!
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oh that'd be Carousel then I think
unless you meant the end of the cowboy one? but I'm not sure if the riff was left on! -
OOOh, we have almost good quality recording on our myspace now!
They're about as good as a live recording gets really!I'd really appreciate any feedback (good or bad) on our stuff, especially as we don't believe any of our friends who tell us that we're good!
Any comments by internet people are really valued, as you guys can say whatever you like about our music!...Ignore my silly Aunt at the start of Rebel ( I DON'T look like john lennon!)
Apologys for the really crappy quiet guitar on Frostbite...it was all differnt guitars and levels for it
click my sig for the link!
Anyway, any critisisms will be taken on board!
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hehe yep
sorry, she's all mine! I didn't even ask her for the DMM...I just happened to be showing her the EHX website & mentioning that I wanted one it took me ages to get them to start random noisemaking though! the song was supposed to only end with some gentle dmm oscillatory antics, but blew up into some squeally groove with distorted vox
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yeah, my girlfriend is like an uber graphics student so she can sort out our publicity
just gotta make sure our music stands up to the flyer now Speaking of that, I finally managed to get us into a tangled web of noise at the end of the set :D warbling into a distorted 15w practice amp -
Gig in Leicester at the shed if anyone's from around there...
flyer attached (you should check out the flyer anyway, it's pretty impressive!)
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Hey, would people check out my bands old myspace in my sig? We're called IV now, but the songs are the same...really want feedback from people who can actually say if we suck, cos everyone we've asked seems to think we're good and I want some rel musicians who arn't friends of mine to comment on our stuff...the recordings are REALLY bad quality from our drummers mp3 player, but considering its on that they're not too shabby. No lyrics on there cos our singer is lazy really.
Carousel is very badly played cos it was the first run through of the song we did after writing it in the same hour
water is better played, but still not good quality either.
right angled jack and the sparklesharks is good up to the break, but instead of that crappy funk type riff, its gone just to chords
so try not ro listen to the whole versions of them! Anyway, seriously...if we suck, please tell us cos we havn't had any real critisicms yet
oh yeah, those recordings are all from like september and before, so we've advanced abit since then! new recordings sooncheers
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dwydave: yeah scratched & scorned is the best I think! love the intro & random probe bits you did!
Yellowsphere: top notch music dude! F for delay is very Gilmourish
if you're looking for constructive critisisms, vocals are slightly emo/americanified, and definately the weakest point. but only cos the music is so good.You guys mind checking out my band?
it's in my sig (although we've changed our name to I.V. now, but myspace is being a wank and we can't log into the new one to upload songs.) No vocals on these recordings as it's an old site...Carousel is probably the best song, although that recording was the first time we playd it after it was written and we were all reading notes so I apologise for the mistakes
Oh and if you imagine a kick ass trombone solo in the heavier bit of that, it helps too...Right angled jack and the sparklesharks was the first song we wrote, and it's lost all its funk overtones now for more cowboy/riding music
just imagine "galloping" style chords from the guitar instead of whatever crap I'm playing there! p.s. it's the top one! don't feel you need to listen to the appalling bottom one!!!PLEASE can someone give us some kinda constructive critisism? Everyone we asked after our first gig just said stuff like "awesome." There's nothing like the anonyminity of the internet for honesty though, so be as harsh as you like
cheers!
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what knobs? to my knowledge, there arn't any! just the actual pad, and the hold button :S
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sorry man! Spread the love
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the forum is NOT for questions like "where's the FAQ page?" or "pop tarts of marshall" Im fed up of stupid questions, and I'm sorry if it seems harsh when you do ask senisible questions, but you're just gonna have to redeem yourself cos most people here are pissed off. That's the end of this discussion now, I'm not gonna get into some internet arguement with an american kid, and if you make some silly comeback, I'm gonna ignore it so I wouldn't bother.
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are you really serious?! I suggest you actually READ about all this gear people talk about, rather than google image searching something and asknig stupid questions about how they work. The line6 filter pro or whatever it is, is a digital modelling device, and they all work in the same way: stored patches that you pre-program in...so you set all the parameters one after another for the seek wah. And no, modellings is nowhere near as goodas the an analogue pedal. now PLEASE stop asking stupid questions that are easily answerable elsewhere if you did a little research into it before posting!
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how much was it?
any luck trying to buy an M1D1 of hugh yet? I already have one in silver and one in red but i'm thinking about selling the red one cos it's just lying in the corner gathering dust
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wtf? He mimed on the recording also?
Whether its a back track or not, he would have played it at some time or other, and there's usually an artificiality (is that even a word?) to processed sounds
Anyone know what the link is to the article with the interview?
Good job!
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sorry, she's all mine! I didn't even ask her for the DMM...I just happened to be showing her the EHX website & mentioning that I wanted one 
the forum is NOT for questions like "where's the FAQ page?" or "pop tarts of marshall" 
Im fed up of stupid questions, and I'm sorry if it seems harsh when you do ask senisible questions, but you're just gonna have to redeem yourself cos most people here are pissed off. That's the end of this discussion now, I'm not gonna get into some internet arguement with an american kid, and if you make some silly comeback, I'm gonna ignore it so I wouldn't bother.
Tab Request Thread
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That's wrong, the A string part is what I tabbed out on the previous page