There's some kind of saw chord synth thing I'm trying to recreate. It comes from LMFAO's Party Rock, Giga's Bring it on, and probably quite a few dubstep songs. Try as I may, I simply cannot figure out how to do it. I'm attaching a sample of the saw chord from Bring it on to this post. If anyone can tell me how to make this sound, I'd appreciate it. #Musician#Music
I hear the supersaw, there's some unison going on, a really tight envelope and/or some kind of gating/ducking effect. Someone else mentioned noise and yeah seems like there's some noise in it, or it's run through a saturator/distortion effect, or both. Could definitely be a wavetable of a supersaw being modulated, or possibly pulse width modulated saw like the classic Hoover synth (yes, you can modulate the width of a saw wave!).
@VectorP@dangero could also be some chorusing or other FX. With modern sound design the FX are nearly always a big part of the sound, so you have to take them into account.
We (myself and @liquid_clear) don't claim to be making the best music in the world, we definitely don;t claim to be making the most accessible music in the world but we do make music which expresses ideas and concepts in novel and sometimes strange ways. #ExperimentalMusic
@RickiTarr it's a fantastically stupid and, frankly, not very good movie (also more than a bit problematic 😅) but Grandma's Boy fucking kills me every time.
Of course, it is a dumb stoner comedy and I only watch it when I'm ludicrously high, so...
One of the things I love is when a noob starts watching Trek shows for the first time, and they're like, This is so silly, it's ridiculous, that guy turned into a lizard and impregnated his captain, that lady got possessed by a sex ghost that belonged to her grandma, the captain is sorting a room full of floofy guinea pigs, the ship runs on mushrooms, this theme song makes no sense, and I'm just like Yeah, isn't it great?! You either get it or you don't, I don't know what to tell you.
I am amazed that I somehow never realized that the Midnight Special, a TV music show that ran from the early '70s thru the late '80s, existed until like... six months ago? Less than that? (Honestly, nothing's ever made me more inclined to believe in the Mandela effect than this 😅 , considering I was a professional music journalist for most of a decade and a lifelong music fanatic).
Anyway, I've been catching up on it via YouTube, where they're slowly archiving all of the episodes.
It's an interesting show... a pretty nice variety of musical acts, mostly mainstream but some pretty unusual, underground guests from time to time (the one I am running in the background right now has Jobriath as a guest!).
A lot of the performances are pretty mid, but there's an occasional barnstormer on there. I caught up on all the Steely Dan appearances for example, and it made me profoundly sad I never took an opportunity to see them play before Walter Becker died.
But one thing that is profoundly lame about it is how much the audiences fucking SUCKED. Almost without exception the audiences are completely checked out-- just sitting there, looking bored -- no matter what's happening on stage or who's playing. It's like they fed them all quaaludes before the shoot 😂
Must have been hell to go out there and play to such a bunch of dead fish.
Still, an interesting historical archive if nothing else, and if there's a musical act you particularly loved that existed between 1972 and 1981, it's worth visiting their YouTube archive and seeing if there's a performance or two in there you might not have seen. There' are some pretty sweet ones (and plenty that are... less sweet).
Oh, and here's a link to the YouTube account for the archive. Looks like they upload an episode a week, in order, plus there's a bunch of excerpted performances in standalone clips.
Oh, one last thing! I didn't mention it but it probably bears specifying: these are all live, in-studio performances. No lip synching, which is the typical thing on TV music shows. Some of the acts seem to use backing tracks (or at the very least, their backing band is ensconced offstage) , but they're actually singing at the very least
Another last thing! If you are a fan (or hater) of the show, either from its original run, your mom's VHS tapes of it, or the YouTube channel, feel free to chime in with your thoughts on the show in general, favorite performances etc.
If you were ever in that audience, I REALLY want to hear from you...