Comments on: Culture Clash

Culture Clash

snsranch — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 16:58:21 -0800

Micayetoca and I in a fun collaboration. Features banjo, vocal percussion and a big bass.

Hey thanks micayetoca, that was a blast!

By: micayetoca

micayetoca — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 17:10:54 -0800

Thx to you, it was a lot of fun. I hiperventilated the whole song through, that psst psst psst psst can be hard to do, thankfully the song was not one of those 21 minute pieces.

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 17:25:22 -0800

Nice work, y'all! This is great fun. Mouth percussion! Yeah!

By: snsranch

snsranch — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 17:53:59 -0800

micayetoca, at the end when you go "psssssss" it sounds like you ran out of steam at just the right moment.

By: edlundart

edlundart — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 20:48:48 -0800

Heh, this is pretty quirky. What kind of bass is that? I mean... is it an upright bass?

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 02:11:42 -0800

is it an upright bass?

That's a pretty big round fat consisitent sound... my guess is... it's a sample. Am I correct?

By: micayetoca

micayetoca — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 04:18:43 -0800

it's actually not a bass at all, it's supposed to be a bass drum (actually, a surdo) but the sound came from an agonizing MC-303. Since the poor MC-303 is dying, it gives pretty inconstant sounds, so I had to tweak it a bit with its own controls, that's why it doesn't sound percussive at all.

By: cashman

cashman — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 07:49:47 -0800

Bravo!

By: goodnewsfortheinsane

goodnewsfortheinsane — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 17:12:10 -0800

It takes too-kuh-too-kuh-two to tango. Awesome.

By: spiderskull

spiderskull — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:03:57 -0800

What's wrong with the MC-303? From what I gather off of the Wikipedia page, it's got some sort of microprocessor in it. Maybe you can try upgrading the internal software? Unless I'm overestimating it's digitalness...

By: micayetoca

micayetoca — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 03:51:04 -0800

I've always assumed it must have an internal battery and that battery is ding, because it shows the exact symptoms of other electronic devices when their batteries die.

It still works and everything you program in it stays there, but the sound of, say, a bass drum will change within minutes (it may sound deep the first time around, and if you check out other sounds and come back to it, it may sound all muffed and dead). That happened a lot while recording the song next to this one.)

Why don't I just have it opened and have someone replace the battery?, you might ask. Good question. I could (and should) do that.

By: melissa may

melissa may — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:13:54 -0800

Aw! You guys sound like you had a blast. I love the mouth percussion, man. I would hyperventilate and die if I tried that, I think. Nicely done, fellas.