steevio wrote:on Europeans unquestionably worshipping Berghain Techno - i'm sorry but thats absolute nonsense.

But unquestionably worshipping modular synths, now that's a different story. Say anything against their unmusical blippy-bloopy sh!t and you get burned as a witch.

Although dedicated software certainly exists, you could take your 24bit sample and drop the volume to half, then boost it up again. Some audio programs maintain even higher sample rates internally, just to allow the aforementioned type of operation without losing quality, so exporting after lowering...

tape is like that :-) you are using a new tape, right, and not some random 80s cassette with wham and ub40 on side b? you might try eqing away a lot of the low end, or just lowering the kick and bass in the mix to suit the tape results. I find that on my tape machine a lot of bottom end tends to squ...

not in minimal techno anyway

most of my stuff is made by worriers like me and designed to last until the human race destroys itself from overconsumption and leaving all their machines running 24/7!!! :) We have charts and tables at work showing the likelyhood of hard drive failure per month for the first three years of the pro...

Vintage (or just older) gear is quite often built with components of much higher tolerances. Think of it like this, if you design a resistor or capacitor that can tolerate a huge amount of overload, then you've designed it too well. They are often bulkier and heavier and so more expensive to produce...

Unts, Unts, Unts!

I spilt beer into my Virus B and it released a cloud of smoke and never worked again. Interestingly, it weighted 21 grams less afterwards.


obilbilbio i love you too.