'Ribbons' - Featuring Gold Tone Style 4+ Weissenborn

Video for 'Ribbons' shot with a Canon PowerShot S3IS and S95 and edited in Final Cut Pro.  This is my first video edited in FCP.  There are some great shots of the Style 4+'s beautiful natural wood grain in this video.  Thanks again to Gold Tone & Tommy Sivert for helping me acquire my first Weissenborn guitar.  This video also has a few shots of my Seagull Entourage Rustic Dreadnought guitar and my LP Laptop Conga.  You can help support Sound of Seventy Three by purchasing this song @: http://soundofseventythree.bandcamp.com/

New Song: "Ribbons"

This track features the Gold Tone Style 4+ and Seagull Entourage Rustic Dreadnought recorded with a R2 Mk2 ribbon microphone and a LP Laptop Conga recorded with a MXL V67Q stereo large condenser microphone direct into Logic Pro via the preamps on the TC Electronic Impact Twin Firewire interface.

credits

released 09 May 2013
All music composed, arranged, performed, recorded and produced by Douglas Hayward Johnson.

Two New Monotrons - DUO & DELAY

KORG appears to be introducing two new monotrons, the monotron DUO and the montron DELAY.  What's in a name?  Well everything in this case.  The monotron DUO will sport an extra oscillator for super-thick analogue tones and the monotron DELAY will have... well a built-in delay of course.  It appears that KORG has taken the original monotron concept and taken it to it's two most logical extremes making one monotron specialized for fat, musical, analogue tones, and making another for spacy sci-fi sound effects.

What is most exciting to me is it looks like the DUO at least has the option to trigger fixed-pitches in either chromatic, major, or minor scales.  This is exciting because anyone who has tried to play the original monotron as a musical instrument as I have (see the post below) as opposed to simply as a noise-maker will attest to what a challenge it can be to find and stay on pitch with the little beast.  The monotron DELAY looks like it may not have the fixed pitch option which makes sense as it appears to be geared more toward noise and sound effects side of things.  Needless to say I will be purchasing both.

I am glad to see KORG expanding its analogue-line of synths.  I can't wait for them to come out with a dedicated analog drum machine and also a microKORG like poly-synth.   I would even hazard a guess that KORG at some point may recreate its legendary mono-synth the MS20 in miniature form, as it did with its software controller for the original KORG Legacy Collection, but this time instead of it being a simple controller for software it will be an actual true analogue mono-synth.  One can dream anyway.

Korg Monomania Sound Contest - Monotron As Lead Synthesizer

What is old is new again. This is my entry into the monotron Music Category of KORG's Monomaina Sound Contest. Long time readers may recognize this as a shortened version of my video from last year and the third most viewed video on my YouTube channel "Monotron As Lead Synthesizer". I'm still rather proud of this one considering what gear I used and how quickly I put it together.

"The Mono Song" by: Sound of Seventy Three; Video by: Paperhouse81

Paperhouse81 made this video using Sound of Seventy Three's 'The Mono Song'. Enjoy!

So73 "A Farewell" - Ebow, Reverend Warhawk & Squier Jaguar Bass

'A Farewell' is the second song on "The Way We Feel" available now on iTunes, Amazon.com, and Bandcamp along with other online retailers.
This song features Ebow playing the melody line, my Reverend Warhawk electric guitar and Squier Jaguar Bass playing their parts and the Vox AmPlug AC30 and Bass as amps.
Cameras used were the Canon S3 IS, Canon S95, & Digital Harinezumi 2++.
All recording and video editing done in GarageBand and iMovie 6.
Thanks for watching!

So73 - Summer Soft

The single for this song is available here: http://soundofseventythree.bandcamp.com/track/summer-soft

I've been very interested in working with acoustic textures lately and this is my first track using them. It contains a Seagull Entourage Rustic acoustic guitar, a Yamaha Guitalele, a RhythmTech Laptop acoustic snare drum played with brushes, an SX LG1 lap steel guitar, a Reverend Warhawk, a Squier Jaguar Bass, various Behringer guitar pedals, a Vox AmPlug, and everything was recorded using an Apogee One as mic or interface.

This is also my first video using my beautiful new Canon S95IS for video. I think you will be able to tell a big difference in the video quality if you watch in HD. I love this camera for it's ability to shoot in very low light and still produce a clear image.

Hope you enjoy it and thanks for watching!  :)