K, here\'s the latest. The new release date from ION is May 4th. As hard as we tried to get it out sooner thats the official release date as of today. I have talked with ION and Bayside the manufacturer and distributor. They have told me they will supply me with CD\'s as soon as they are off the press and that should be well ahead of the official release date, perhaps 2 or 3 weeks from now, close to the original release date. Therefore I have decided to accept pre-orders for this CD. So if your so inclined you can pre order here
http://tdrsmusic.com/moforderform.html. Be aware, credit cards will be charged and checks will be cashed and god really know when the CD will arrive, but there is a good chance it will be well before anyone else has them.
Travis
Alright! I preordered mine today, thanks for the effort Travis!
Hey Travis,
Are you going to mail out the pre-orderer copies as soon as you get them -- even if it is before the official release date?
Oh yes, the day they come in they are going out. I truly hope it\'s well before the official release date.
Travis
Hey Travis. How about an mp3 sample?
I\'m working on it.
Travis
I\'m just going to try to sneak this track from Population Override on here till I smell smoke coming off my server. Then I may have to pull it and make other arrangements . So for today at least this is the only announcement I\'m going to make about the track for those who happen to be reading this thread.
http://www.tdrsmusic.com/cgi-bin/downloader/my_downloader.cgi
Travis, I can\'t (and don\'t want) stop singing your praises! Not only you take so much care of all Bucketbots, but for your great work on both Thanatopsis, Brain Circus etc., too. Then you added this brilliant new board. And now you make us this wonderful gift! Alltough your server started to strike... It\'s an awesome piece of music!
Thank you so so much!
PS: Do you ever sleep???
Thanks, I appreciate it. My poor server in this case is an old Mac 450 sitting in the corner of my studio and is at the moment lighting up like a Christmas tree. I fear it won\'t be up to the demand. If you folks can resist the temptation to stream the audio and instead download the file, that will help. I\'ll have a mirror site soon.
Travis
YOW! wiggly worm! Thanks for the snoot, Travis!
I think it\'s on my harddrive. It took a while to download, lots of megabites, so I don\'t think I\'m streaming it right now(?)
Megan
Forget that, it was streaming to me on the dsl. I played around with the keyboard to simulate rightclick and eureka! now it\'s clear I got the mp3 on my drive.
Thanks Megan, I should have warned you it real long and at the higher bit rate so it\'s real big.
Travis
the Unrestrained Growth mp3 download is awesome!
I hear buckethead is still very much loving everysecond of his killswitch!
THe Bass sounds really good, may i ask what the effects are or let me guess..... it\'s the micro synth and/or the moog?
one thing i\'ve notised WITH TDRS. the drums sounds...they are absolutly amazing! like on both thanatopsis albums and the live drums on cobra strikes they always sound perfect!
what mics/EQ did you use on the drums?
Nice job fellas..soon as i get some cash thats something i\'m not going to fret about getting..and the new cornbugs too.
Thanks Travis
No problem here, Travis, I dig big! The sound quality is great so it\'s a small price to pay even if unnoticed. I think the download seemed slow for the MB size because demand may be squeezing your MAC bot too tight.
Megan
Thanks guys, yes Chris that\'s the micro synth. The drums on all those tracks are my selected collection of vintage Gretsch drums as seen in the making Axiology page. The mic\'s are royer ribbons on overheads 421\'s on the toms km 84 on the hat 57\'s top and bottom snare and AKG D112 on the kick. Sometimes as on the Deli Creeps Flesh for the Beast I use a 10" speaker on the outside of the kick as a mic along with the D112. The mic pre\'s are Neve 1073\'s and 3114\'s. Room\'s are sony C37\'s.
Travis
oh yes yes yes to Pinchface\'s drumming your drums so! and I just was tweaked by that waa waa sound starting at 6:59 so like to me that deep repeating wail in TOTWM.
Megan
thats a wah wah pedal. or as frank zappa says "Tone Pedal" ;D it\'s pretty nice..
check out 3.14 on axiology bucketehad does what zappa does puts it in one place and uses it as a filter. very effective if you wanna hear how zappa does it check out muffin man.
maybe i over looked the point.... :-/
Hi Chris Moss! We all have points to share. I like the sound of that, a waa waa pedal. That is a classic effect. Is that that metal bar across the body of the guitar that sharps all the strings at once when you press it?megan
-but actually I thought it could be travis on the keyboards. you know I can\'t tell the keyboards and the guitar apart alot of the time. I\'m not sure which is which because I don\'t know how far the effects can take the sounds. So sometimes I think it\'s keyboards sounding like strings. I don\'t know guitar effects.
I like how unrestrained growth early on works the keyboards and the guitar fuzzy and sharp. There they were very distinct to me.
Megan
[glb]I like the sound of that, a waa waa pedal. That is a classic effect. Is that that metal bar across the body of the guitar that sharps all the strings at once when you press it? [/glb]
Hi Megan
whats your talking about is a whammy bar! Also a cool effect.
the wah wah pedal is a floor based effect which cuts treble and adds bass and vise versa when you push it down(bass) or push it up (treble)...uh check out electric lady land by jimi hendrix to hear the wah wah played at it\'s best.
kepping with the hendrix theme the wammy bar is used in the star spangled banner...another example if eruption...but not many peopel use them anymore.
far as i know buckethead doesnt use a wammy any more he uses the wammy pedal...i see his les pauls have no wammy bar.
to hear this effect listen to axiology track 9.
hope this helps
One of my favourite thanatopsis synth moments is pyrrhic victory the keyboard are absolutly unleashed buckethead and travis are like sewing and intwhing and are really tight. about the synth sounds there is all kinda of modulation you can do lfo\'s saw and triangle frequencies..but to save me alot of time, respectfully here is a link for the mini moog synth which travis uses
http://jpmullan.com/stan/index_moog.php?topic=moogminimoog
chris