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    whats your personal favorite format of music?

    in General Psytrance

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    1. Vinyl (till the end of the world :D)

    2. CD

    3. Digital (don't care if it's wav, flac or high quality mp3)

    "Physical": vinyl - one and only, call me old fashioned, I passionately love all of my vinyls with inexplicable intensity!

    That's not being old fashioned but having sense of quality. No digital format whatsoever can compete with vinyl when it comes to sound quality (unless the record player is really bad and creates distortion, unstable speed etc.). That's not just my personal taste but a physical fact; the resolution of vinyl is infinite (since it's analog) which no digital format can compete with since it's limited to, well, whatever resolution it has.

    On a lot of tracks the difference may be hard to hear (very easy with other tracks) but in most cases you can feel difference.

     

    When I got Etnica's - "Trip Tonight" on vinyl ("Hell's Kitchen", 2001) it was a whole new experience; I already liked the track but it suddenly had totally new level of vibrancy, dynamics and depth and the mp3 version sounded completely flat in comparison.

     

    That doesn't mean that music played digitally are necessarily bad at all (I'm very fond of my cd player and cd's and playing mp3s through my stereo works nicely too, although I'm very disappointed with the crappy sound quality of Ipod - high-end earphones just exposes the flaws even more.) Unfortunately the production of new music is getting worse and worse due to most new music is now being produced to be match crappy systems (most portable mp3 players, cellphones, radios, cheap in-ear phones, build-in laptop speakers etc.) that can't handle dynamics.

    What new gear [equipment] did you get today?

    in Music Making and Production/Industry

    Posted

    Yep yep yep!

    I bought a pair of Adam A7´s today, and I must say.... they are totally wicked! :posford: This is my first pair of monitors and I have been producing on and off for a couple of years now...

    In the moment, the only thing that I can think of is... How the * ¤#!#¤%! did I ever manage to tweak sounds without studio monitors :blink:

     

    boom boom!

    I'm gonna have a pair too when I can afford it

    Oldest Goatrance Albums

    in General Psytrance

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    well we should know the origins of goa trance. some people say it was created by hippies in goa. others say israeli citizens were often going to goa (because they didn't want to go in army) the album i named u there is mostly REAL goa sound. i mean trance defenetly entered goa from europe. there was one country were probably a little group of artists were creating goa trance. probably this country had been israel. because first goa trance albums that i know appear in 92 or 93. 90 and 91 are not goa (as i know and what i know) there are some ambient and low bpm goa sound things, or just beat, bass and other things mixed with indian cultural or religious elements (mantras and et.c). BTW the TB303 and Juno-60 which made goa sounds were created in 82. that means goa trance was much earlyer and much more than we know. now the whole week while i have a vacation and can't go anywhere because of war in my country :ph34r: i'm gonna join some info and after 7 days i'm gonna post all the things i find out in this topic. tell us everything you know bout the old goa. middle of 80.

     

    now about electronic psychedelia, those are probably made with guitar effects. and it is impossable to have goa sound :unsure: well if you tell us what's the album that would help. well i think there's much we don't know about music we listen to :)

    Soundwise everything TB 303 and Juno 60 can do could be done since 1970 and even earlier.

     

     

    It is indeed possible to use guitar effects for goa trance and with very good results too.

    What music are you listening to right now?

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    Etnica - Hells Kitchen

     

    Man, this track is awesome and more so when your listen to it on vinyl. I've heard this track plenty on mp3 but on it vinyl it really gets new life.. I've never heard this track so lush, so vibrant before (just got it on 12"). Same goes for the even better flip-side: Trip Tonight remix :drama: (yeah I feel like a wanna jam along but that would probably ruin a thing or two ;) )

    What new music did you get today?

    in General Psytrance

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    Today I got:

     

    Cosmosis - Synergy (2LP)

     

    Hux Flux - Crypric Crunch (2LP)

     

    Etnica - Hell's Kitchen (12"LP-s)

     

    (uh didn't even notice the Etnica single's b-side is "Trip tonight" remix - what a nice surprise :) )

    (edit: This is what I actually thought was the original verson of "Trip Tonite" - things just got even better as I now have the best version ever made of one of my all time favs)

     

    I don't know what these are worth but 20 euros for all three seemed like a fair deal

    Excellent Compliations thread

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    My Favourite Compilations

     

     

    Best Goa

    Order Odonata - The Technical Use Of Sound In Magick (Dragonfly Records)

     

    01. 09'12" Kaaya : Circular Sanctuary

    02. 08'17" Tripster : Skitsophrenik

    03. 09'45" Phreaky : Over The Moon

    04. 08'38" Witchcraft : Witchcraft Magic

    05. 06'27" Zodiac Youth : Atoms (Angel Fish Rmx)

    06. 07'05" Nucleus : Superluminal

    07. 08'13" Mandra Gora : Wicked Warp

    08. 07'02" Menlo Park : Paste

     

    Best Dark Goa

    Black Rhino (Flying Rhino Records)

     

    1 Slinky Wizard - Sacred Fist (8:28)

    2 Slide - Saturnalia (7:44)

    3 Twisted Travellers - Strange Creatures (7:57)

    4 Slinky Wizard - Fist Full Of Mutants (11:15)

    5 Alienated - Not For Children (8:31)

    6 Darshan - Black Magic (9:23)

    7 Planet Slink - Suffocate Bullet (6:48)

    8 Space Tribe - Ultraviolet Catastrophe (11:44)

    I totally agree

    How to start?

    in Music Making and Production/Industry

    Posted

    The not so secret secret is that you need to have a good equalizer and know how to use it, after that maybe a compressor can help out + knowing exactly how to program your bass synth. If you want to sound like everyone else and 95% of psytrance out there (please don't) use VB-1, if you want better basslines that can do more than sound like smooth black rubber, grab Muon Tau 2, its what I use.

    Alien303 is very nice too

    Tangerine Dream

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    somehow I think I really should listen again to Phaedra...

    You should. I think it's an awesome piece of work and Phaedra was the first thing that came to my mind when I saw the topic.

     

    Btw you guys who are into Tangerine Dream and want some more in that style, I can really recommend discovering

    Klaus Schulze (especially "X" from 1978) and

     

    Wendy Carlos (classical music gets a whole new dimension you wouldn't imagine when played all by synthezisers and don't miss her webside btw).

     

    Older Vangelis albums are worth checking too

    NordModular

    in Music Making and Production/Industry

    Posted

    Somewhere else I was asked about how i used the compressor modules sidechain input for distortion so I thought it was time for NordModular dedicated threat. My idea was that here, you can post patches and screens of your creations. Advanced tricks, special sounds, synthesizer architecture and just plain good sounds are all welcome. In short, everything you'd like to share.

     

    Before I can post anything of interest myself, I have to admit I don't know to post files in here :blink: (so please tell me)

     

    And btw - I'm using the original Nordmodular and not G2, but that shouldn't keep G2ers from sharing their stuff as well. And for micromodular users; this threat is as much for you too :)

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