Call For DJs bands and ideas

[rustcycle]

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Sorry guys, had to cancel due to illness :-(

Hope everything went smoothly -

[rustcycle]

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If someone can bring a guitar, my friend will be able to rock out on it.

I will have one, and will be able to rock out on it ;-)

[shagghie]

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Also Shagghie

I like the placement of the upside-down Furman in your rack :)

That's what she said.


Ok, so like, no idea about a location. I'd personally like to have a sky boxen...
But whom do we contact to find out what parties (read: people/clubs/haxor groups) have what boxen and whether they'd enjoy some livesound PA acid jamming mood music. *cough* Bueller?

[bloofar]

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Also Shagghie

I like the placement of the upside-down Furman in your rack :)

[bloofar]

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Wow...wtf is that thing? Can you send me some .mp3 of that Radio Shack action?
How come I haven't seen one of these???

It's the newest incarnation of the RadioShack 300-in-1 project lab thingies. I had 2 of those when I was a kid (probably in the parents basement somewhere). The newest one still has springs for shit like poteniometers, speaker, transformer, leds, etc. but instead of having all the components embedded in the middle, it has breadboards and loose components. The annoying thing is that all of the discrete components aren't labeled with the values, so you either sit there with look up tables or an LCR meter for identifying components. (.1 uF caps were labeled '104' and such)

Built on it was a voltage controlled oscillator. Pitch was controlled by the buttons on the bottom with which let you play the notes from a fifth chord. Root of the chord varied based on the position of one of the potentiometers. The other pot controlled the amplitude. The VCO was based on a FM Mims design using a 555 timer IC. It was plugged into the er-1 which was used for gating and delay as well as a acidy drum line. When you touched the cap on the output circuit the tone got really nice and nasty.

A few drinks later I tried to add an additional 555 and set up a feedback loop. Unfortunately either I was too drunk to draw out the schematic properly or I was too drunk to connect the wires correctly. There was a high-pitched (migrane-inducing) tone I could control with the voltage input but not to the point where it was low enough to be useful.

Unfortunately there's no mp3s. My buddy didn't have the appropriate cables handy and I didn't have my laptop there.

The ER-1 should be great.... and if you are chopping up samples, what are you bringing for a sampler!?

Samples will be trigged through Reason running on my laptop. Renoise and Reason are the only reason I ever boot into Windows anymore.


At this point the gear list is:
o Laptop running renoise
o Yamaha UX-256 midi interface
o Korg ER-1
o Akai MPC24 midi controller
o Alesis Nanoverb
o Shitty minimixer
o Flask of whisky
o Ungodly amounts of red bull


How many people are in at this point? Has a jamming location been confirmed? I can set up the gear in about 3x3' of table space.

Oh and if anybody wants to pay for frieght I can bring my Allen & Heath SR-424 :)

[shagghie]

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Ok so I'll be bringing the ER-1, a midi controller, and a few effects devices.

In a sort of drunken preparation for getting my techno on, this is what I built tonight:

(pics linked due to size)
http://pohl.ececs.uc.edu/~k/tandy-techno1.jpg
http://pohl.ececs.uc.edu/~k/tandy-techno2.jpg

Wow...wtf is that thing? Can you send me some .mp3 of that Radio Shack action?
How come I haven't seen one of these???

The ER-1 should be great.... and if you are chopping up samples, what are you bringing for a sampler!?

[bloofar]

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Ok so I'll be bringing the ER-1, a midi controller, and a few effects devices.

In a sort of drunken preparation for getting my techno on, this is what I built tonight:

(pics linked due to size)
http://pohl.ececs.uc.edu/~k/tandy-techno1.jpg
http://pohl.ececs.uc.edu/~k/tandy-techno2.jpg

[MitchMitchem]

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If someone can bring a guitar, my friend will be able to rock out on it.

[bloofar]

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I've secured an ER-1 for the funness. I'll get those samples chopped up into glitchy goodness this weekend. I've also got a small handful of guitar effects pedals for general audio destruction. Unfortunately I won't be bringing the A or the MPC but with Renoise and the ER-1 I figure we should be able to shit out some audio gold.

[shagghie]

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As far as I know, pool parties Defcon style are 100% out at the Riv.

I'm staying at the Riv, showing up on Tuesday.

Cool 'lope!

yeah, I was afraid of that. last year some twit threw just one plastic cup off a balcony that landed 30 feet from a security guard patrolling that pool and 50 seconds later the penthouse renegade raging room party was shut down and dismantled for good.

We need a playground, not a frigging ward!

OK, I'm pretty sure if we need a 3rd PA, a couple 'a decks and a mixer, we could pool together and rent a set.... skippy's got the RAM 1500 again this year. :)
But now, ironically, if the PA's aren't the challenge, sounds like it might be a LOCATION to accomadate all of us technoids!

[DJ Jackalope]

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You guys all at the Riv? (we are)

Ok, last but not least.... does anyone know any scoop on a PA system for us 'live jammers'? I don't know who or what's up in the skyboxen.... I was kind of hoping poolside like AP-style...but can you do that at the Riv without being arrested or homeless?

S

As far as I know, pool parties Defcon style are 100% out at the Riv.

I'm staying at the Riv, showing up on Tuesday.

[rustcycle]

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Jackalope, Rust, Bloo... I'm driving out with VJ (producer and acid house cohort) sometime on Weds, and leaving Monday afternoon after Skippy's post haxoronnaplane return bonvoyage sixsigma partee UFO.

You guys all at the Riv? (we are)
S

Very cool!

I'll be at the Hilton Fri, Riv on Sat / Sun....

If people want to throw in a few bucks for a gallon of fog juice I can bring a hazer and two moving heads - they're just little guys - http://youtube.com/watch?v=37GmbMEXTi8

[AcidicA]

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Bring it!! hOW'S it goin', Acidica.... we were going to do that sound destruction competition thingy this year, remember? Lol.

Yeah, then I went on tour and got to busy :( . Oh well, looks like we have enough people here to make Pink Floyde look like a 3 peice :)

[shagghie]

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LOL - too much!

When is everyone getting in? I'll be driving out Fri, driving home Mon....

Jackalope, Rust, Bloo... I'm driving out with VJ (producer and acid house cohort) sometime on Weds, and leaving Monday afternoon after Skippy's post haxoronnaplane return bonvoyage sixsigma partee UFO.

You guys all at the Riv? (we are)

Ok, last but not least.... does anyone know any scoop on a PA system for us 'live jammers'? I don't know who or what's up in the skyboxen.... I was kind of hoping poolside like AP-style...but can you do that at the Riv without being arrested or homeless?

S

[bloofar]

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Hey Shagghie et al

I'll be bringing my laptop and yamaha ux-256. And possibly an electribe A mk ii and an MPC 2000. I'll get some nice samples ready ahead of time.

I'll be getting in to town early on Thursday morning.