Comments on: Album Track Preview, with a Twist…

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 21:37:19 +0000

Okay, put it back up now the album's out.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 01:48:40 +0000

Sorry—I thought it was a bit too much of a tease, what with the poor audio quality and all, so I deleted it.

By: stgn

stgn — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 23:54:51 +0000

where’d the video go? :C

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 11:04:13 +0000

@swi
Damn, that’s a shame — I hate it when retailers can’t keep their inventory updated.

About the Benbecula forum — I don’t know what happened to it; it wasn’t particularly busy, so perhaps that’s why it was taken down (though the link could do with being removed in that case). I must admit, I didn’t really frequent it as much as I could’ve.

Well, I hope Lemodie gets a repress at some point in the future. I guess it’ll depend on the demand set by the next album.

By: swi

swi — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 10:16:27 +0000

Argh, as suspected they didn’t have it after all. =|

Wow, not quite the image you expect from a webcam. I really thought it was filmed with something more fancy, cool.

Btw, do you know what’s up with the benbecula forum nowdays? It has been down for months.

By: Swami

Swami — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:38:48 +0000

dude that is really really cool!

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:08:16 +0000

Just tested putting a high-pass over the output from 300Hz upwards — really cleans up the sound quite nicely, though you lose quite a bit of the head movement energy, obviously.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 12:27:43 +0000

@swi
Fingers crossed for the new copy of Lemodie!
The vid was taken with my webcam, a Logitech QuickCam Pro 9000. It seems pretty good at focusing on close objects, doesn’t it? No doubt there’ll be a QuickerCam MegaPro 10 Billion out now though. That’s probably what you can see reflected in the disk — the HAL 9000-esque red ring (oh, the penny’s just dropped on the product name!).

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 12:23:03 +0000

Hey Dave,
Yeah, I had seen that when it was doing the rounds — very nicely done, with a lot of careful attention to detail, which I appreciated. So many of these proof-of-concept electronics projects are rushed out to Youtube with a shaky vid of the author’s workbench, with scant regard to aesthetics; it was nicely to see something carefully staged and shot like that. And colour-corrected!

By: David Marrs

David Marrs — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 12:08:44 +0000

Heh, cool. Did you see the radiohead nude remix already?

By: swi

swi — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:24:33 +0000

Nice one, I’ve just been pre-ordering Christ.’s Live and a bunch of other stuff which will be sent when Live is released. Will have to buy this one too, looking forward to hearing it.

I even found a brand new Lemodie on an online-shop today which I’m now waiting for to be shipped, but I suspect they have messed up the stock status… but my hopes is up! I’ve been slapping myself for not buying it in time before it got sold out everywhere =|

Which camera/lens did you use in this one? …and what are we looking at in the reflection of the disc? =>

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 12:08:08 +0000

It is a bit of a tease, isn’t it? Sorry! Just thought it’d be more fun to play something new through this than something you’ve already heard a few times.

It’s fun to do though, and straightforward — as long as you can solder something, you can put a cable and jack plug on a hard disk. I did find the contact points a bit different on the hard disk I used, compared to those used by some of the instructional websites though.

Might be fun to try and develop the sound of one of these though, either through contact mics or some sort of acoustic focusing/coupling. It sounds much nicer when sat on the wooden desk than in my lap, for example, as you might expect.

By: Nate

Nate — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 02:40:54 +0000

Seriously.. a huge tease!!! I check your feed like twice a day for new release info. Meanwhile money is fermenting in my bank account until I see ‘New Ochre Album, Out Now!’, at which time fermenting will cease and evangelism will begin (at least that’s the picture I have so far).

Now I have to go make a hard drive speaker… grrrr

By: bhairav

bhairav — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 02:14:29 +0000

Took about two minutes until it started to get to me. The beginning sounded halfway decent, in that I could see you setting up some dry/wet action with the actual mix to fade things into clarity.

By: Chris Hatton

Chris Hatton — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 22:42:04 +0000

Hah! What a thing to do! Just goes to show how fantastic the manufacturing on those things is. Aside from the rather amazing HDD arm hack, you’re a big tease Chris, you know we’re all aching to hear that in higher fidelity Can’t wait to buy your new album, keep up the good work…