thanks for the comments, and yeah I should have mentionned the clicky for linky but I thought rather people think I’m a noob for a sec than me taking them for noobs, if you get my drift.

I’m sorry for the poor sound quality, I recorded that through the audio in of my laptop with a bit of trial and error, and I must confess I’m not very good with all things mastering, I’m more the mad scientist piling up layers of stuff… (I did destroy a couple of speakers during my free party days though, luckily my friends and people were happy enough with the performance not to lynch me before I paid them back ^^)

So I’m always glad to get some hints and advice on how to finalize that creativity, the best thing would be to team up with someone like me but sound engineer wise, I only played at free parties (in France, thank you spiral tribe for the gift you brought us so long ago), and I know that if I want to do a bit more than just amateur stuff I need to work on the sound quality.

I recently purchased a Korg D888, I’m hoping it’ll help me to be more precise in this, once I managed to understand the manual, as usual.

hey no worries for the comments, I have time at work and I feel it’s the polite thing to do. Didn’t realize it was you though ^^

Thanks for the welcome, I created this account ages ago but as I moderate on a French tekno forum I didn’t have much time to wander here, I’ll dig up my intro post it’s gotta be there somewhere 🙂

@General Lighting 484755 wrote:

normally the audio in on a laptop is not the best. they are usually specified for mic input rather than line and even those which supposedly can handle both levels tend to distort badly when they are fed with stronger signals (similar occurs even with otherwise decent portable recorders that the Japanese make).

Outboard soundcards which can handle line level input and mixers are affordable these days.

if you are staying in London for a bit then buy your equipment in England, its cheaper (or has been every time I’ve compared prices).

as I said I went for the Korg D888, since I use my mixer to alter my patterns live I thought it’d be cool to have a mixer than can actually record my live completely, and allow me to go back on stuff.
Up to now I played live relying on inspiration, but that meant I never could reproduce the same performance the way I did, which is conceptually cool but makes you miss out on the value of post production (even though I see my live as jazz music, I make scales to guide my free flow, it was easier when we had our sound system to tell people who didn’t like it that they could actually buy speakers and start their own sound system… we were young lol)

Anyway I might need a sound card to expand on my use of the computer, for now I use only Reason to create instruments and I play them directly in the looper)

Hell I don’t know myself where this is taking me anyway, we’ll see !

I’ll post pics of my set when I manage to get everything right 🙂

@thelog 484732 wrote:

cool man thanks for the comments on my SC page to. I did listen to some of your mix and a few other bits but i diddn’t have much time, so I couldn’t comment. I’ll give it a thorough listen shortly ok mate 🙂

Welcome to partyvibe by the way

and thanks for yours, I’ve been trying to get back to music and it’s a good ego boost ^^