http://groups.yahoo.com/group/absynth-users/ Absynth users mailing list. Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:42:28 GMT steve scallion http://groups.yahoo.com/group/absynth-users/message/15657 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/absynth-users/message/15657 It's cool. Lux! We listened here and tried to imagine the scenario you described. It fits well, and my associate thought it was eerie because she was Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:59:26 GMT lux_seeker http://groups.yahoo.com/group/absynth-users/message/15656 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/absynth-users/message/15656 Not as good as Steve's and no video but it does use Absynth along with other things: http://soundcloud.com/lux_seeker/a-disturbance-in-the-clouds Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:22:19 GMT Colin Mansfield http://groups.yahoo.com/group/absynth-users/message/15655 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/absynth-users/message/15655 ... As a kid growing up in London in the 50s, we didn't have fallout shelters. We did have the three minute warning, but looking back, that must have been for Thu, 09 Jul 2009 03:50:48 GMT steve scallion http://groups.yahoo.com/group/absynth-users/message/15654 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/absynth-users/message/15654 Thanks Ash. I became so close to the work while it was in progress, that I sort of lost touch with reality, and headed into surreal territory. When it was Thu, 09 Jul 2009 03:32:18 GMT ashtangakasha http://groups.yahoo.com/group/absynth-users/message/15653 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/absynth-users/message/15653 Great work, Steve! Everything about it is right on. As a kid in NY in the 50's we all had to know where the nearest air raid shelter was, and there were signs Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:10:44 GMT steve scallion http://groups.yahoo.com/group/absynth-users/message/15652 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/absynth-users/message/15652 One interesting fact is that the alien "Singer" in my video is actually Sen. John McCain, giving a speech in front of a Green Screen, courtesy of the Comedy Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:38:49 GMT steve scallion http://groups.yahoo.com/group/absynth-users/message/15651 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/absynth-users/message/15651 Thanks Colin! And thanks for the nice comment on you tube. There are more videos to come. The next one is "Somebody Rescue Me" in wide-screen, with complete Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:13:46 GMT Colin Mansfield http://groups.yahoo.com/group/absynth-users/message/15650 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/absynth-users/message/15650 Excellent work, Steve! The song is cool, the video works well with it. And as some have noted, the vocals are spot on. :-) BTW, you can make videos for my Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:13:00 GMT steve scallion http://groups.yahoo.com/group/absynth-users/message/15649 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/absynth-users/message/15649 Thanks John! Kind words! If you listen closely you may hear "Skippy's Big Bad Bass". I use it when I really need some punch:) steve scallion P.S. My Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:09:29 GMT John McJunkin http://groups.yahoo.com/group/absynth-users/message/15648 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/absynth-users/message/15648 The C214 is a sexy beast indeed! And that's really smart for AKG to make a cardioid-only version available for a lot less money . . . ... [Non-text portions Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:06:17 GMT steve scallion http://groups.yahoo.com/group/absynth-users/message/15647 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/absynth-users/message/15647 ... "Until we know what reality actually is, we should not dabble in it!" -scallion, 2053 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:05:07 GMT Eddie Sullivan http://groups.yahoo.com/group/absynth-users/message/15646 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/absynth-users/message/15646 I bought it in 2001, I was keeping it around for vocoding (which it works well for) - but one day decided to start singing into it in my little home studio and Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:54:08 GMT John McJunkin http://groups.yahoo.com/group/absynth-users/message/15645 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/absynth-users/message/15645 Absolutely true - there are many albums on which the scratch vocal was recorded with an SM58 and they wound up keeping it. ... [Non-text portions of this Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:49:43 GMT Eddie Sullivan http://groups.yahoo.com/group/absynth-users/message/15644 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/absynth-users/message/15644 The one I've been using is a D880S- it's got this quality about it that reminds me of listening to a radio announcer in the back seat of a 70's Cadillac... not Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:44:00 GMT John Lehmkuhl http://groups.yahoo.com/group/absynth-users/message/15643 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/absynth-users/message/15643 AWESOME to put it out there - Steve !! By the way, at 2:48 that frame looks very much like inspiration for the album cover to Radiohead's Kid A....