Boards of Canada Covers!!

[Pantheon]

Here is a Eagle In Your Mind cover I have been working at, on and off for a week or two.

http://www.zshare.net/audio/7525980035ed2fcf/

Excellent job!!! What did you use to record this?

I used an Akai4000D reel-to-reel player. The trick is to play back the recordings with your finger lightly touching the reel to get some great flutter. All the other sounds were made with Ableton Live 8, and no other plugins.

Thanks for the comments both of you

No problem. But, may I ask, why go from an analog recording device and then dumping it onto digital platform. Also, how do you do it?

Great work once agin!!

Hey, sorry for the slow reply.

I ushaly sketch out the tune roughly how i want it to sound in Ableton, using only the "Analogue" synth. I keep them fairly clean, and i dont use many effects. I then take each track and indevidualy record them onto tape and then record them back into ableton.

This process adds loads of warmth to the sound. The reason i record all of the track sepouratly, is becasue old recordings were oftain multi-tracked over sevoural tapes and so syncing them together oftain contained small error. My process replicates this to some degree. It also means that because im not synthisizing anymore I have way more CPU to use up for other effects. Also adding effects after this process always sounds (to me) much nicer than if you add them before hand.

Also the tape effect sounds much nicer when used on tracks, individualy, rather than applying it as a final stage, before mastering. It also gives me more flexibility to edit, each track and master them sepourately for a cleaner and more ballenced final mix.

I have a soundcard with 10 inputs and 10 outs, so i just have this hooked up to my Reel-to-reel player, and route a channel into the recorder one track at a time.

I find that kick drums and other percusive sound dont transfer to tape to well, so i will oftain only play them threw the preamps of the recorder and not onto the tape itself.

[TrippyTrinity]

Here is a Eagle In Your Mind cover I have been working at, on and off for a week or two.

http://www.zshare.net/audio/7525980035ed2fcf/

Excellent job!!! What did you use to record this?

I used an Akai4000D reel-to-reel player. The trick is to play back the recordings with your finger lightly touching the reel to get some great flutter. All the other sounds were made with Ableton Live 8, and no other plugins.

Thanks for the comments both of you

No problem. But, may I ask, why go from an analog recording device and then dumping it onto digital platform. Also, how do you do it?

Great work once agin!!

Hey, sorry for the slow reply.

I ushaly sketch out the tune roughly how i want it to sound in Ableton, using only the "Analogue" synth. I keep them fairly clean, and i dont use many effects. I then take each track and indevidualy record them onto tape and then record them back into ableton.

This process adds loads of warmth to the sound. The reason i record all of the track sepouratly, is becasue old recordings were oftain multi-tracked over sevoural tapes and so syncing them together oftain contained small error. My process replicates this to some degree. It also means that because im not synthisizing anymore I have way more CPU to use up for other effects. Also adding effects after this process always sounds (to me) much nicer than if you add them before hand.

Also the tape effect sounds much nicer when used on tracks, individualy, rather than applying it as a final stage, before mastering. It also gives me more flexibility to edit, each track and master them sepourately for a cleaner and more ballenced final mix.

I have a soundcard with 10 inputs and 10 outs, so i just have this hooked up to my Reel-to-reel player, and route a channel into the recorder one track at a time.

I find that kick drums and other percusive sound dont transfer to tape to well, so i will oftain only play them threw the preamps of the recorder and not onto the tape itself.

WOW. That's quite the soundcard you have. I just figured if you were working in all analog world that you would have stayed in it completely.

But now that you explained your set up I can see why you do it that way.

In the end, I don't think you can ever really know what's going to capture someones attention. I've heard some horrendous fokey-overproduced digital recordings and some good stuff with a guy and a Mac!!

[Synthetrix]

OK, so I thought that I would jump on the band wagon and whipped out a little cover version of Olson this afternoon. I hope you like it.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/6jfl5k

[s7409651]

Very interesting cover, I like it a lot! Love the percussion.

[Synthetrix]

Very interesting cover, I like it a lot! Love the percussion.

Thanks. I did not put too much thought into it and did it in less than 2 hours. I think I might tackle Whitewater next.

What is the significance of the numbers in your screen name if you don't mind my asking?

Vic

[Techboy]

love it love it love it. i was going to cover olson too but now it would look shit hahaha.

[Synthetrix]

love it love it love it. i was going to cover olson too but now it would look shit hahaha.

Don't say that. I think we should do a compilation called "Twoism On Olson" of just covers of that song.
Heheh.

[Synthetrix]

OK, so I thought that I would jump on the band wagon and whipped out a little cover version of Olson this afternoon. I hope you like it.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/6jfl5k

Soundcloud
http://soundcloud.com/synthetrix/olson- ... nada-cover

Direct weblink
http://synthetrix.com/MP3/olson.html

[Shadowshocker]

wow great cover!

[Synthetrix]

I just finished up a cover of Whitewater. Dig it here.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/s9da5z

or

http://soundcloud.com/synthetrix/whitew ... nada-cover

[Cupz]

awesome work man.

[Synthetrix]

Here is my take on "Finity" from A Few Old Tunes.

Soundcloud
http://soundcloud.com/synthetrix/finity ... nada-cover

Sendspace download
http://www.sendspace.com/file/7c4xz9

[s7409651]

solid work!

[Synthetrix]

My cover of 5-9-78, from A Few Old Tunes.

Soundcloud
http://soundcloud.com/synthetrix/5-9-78 ... nada-cover

[747Music]

Synthetrix, dude, these remixes are awesome!

[Synthetrix]

Synthetrix, dude, these remixes are awesome!

Thank you sir. I am having a lot of fun doing them. I think I will try something from Geogaddi for the next one.

[Numerator]

Synthetrix, dude, these remixes are awesome!

Thank you sir. I am having a lot of fun doing them. I think I will try something from Geogaddi for the next one.

how about Julie and Candy?

[Synthetrix]

Synthetrix, dude, these remixes are awesome!

Thank you sir. I am having a lot of fun doing them. I think I will try something from Geogaddi for the next one.

how about Julie and Candy?

I was thinking of Music Is Math, but Julie and Candy might be interesting. It's a tough one due to the complex, dense sound. That opening bit always reminded me of some sort of calliope at an old-timey circus.

Carl Sagan was an awesome fellow indeed.

[Numerator]

Synthetrix, dude, these remixes are awesome!

Thank you sir. I am having a lot of fun doing them. I think I will try something from Geogaddi for the next one.

how about Julie and Candy?

I was thinking of Music Is Math, but Julie and Candy might be interesting. It's a tough one due to the complex, dense sound. That opening bit always reminded me of some sort of calliope at an old-timey circus.

Carl Sagan was an awesome fellow indeed.

you did such a great job on the others that I'm sure a Julie and Candy cover would sound awesome!
Besides, I don't think anybody's covered it before, I've heard a few Music Is Math covers...

Carl Sagan is definitely one of my heroes

[Synthetrix]

Synthetrix, dude, these remixes are awesome!

Thank you sir. I am having a lot of fun doing them. I think I will try something from Geogaddi for the next one.

how about Julie and Candy?

I was thinking of Music Is Math, but Julie and Candy might be interesting. It's a tough one due to the complex, dense sound. That opening bit always reminded me of some sort of calliope at an old-timey circus.

Carl Sagan was an awesome fellow indeed.

you did such a great job on the others that I'm sure a Julie and Candy cover would sound awesome!
Besides, I don't think anybody's covered it before, I've heard a few Music Is Math covers...

Carl Sagan is definitely one of my heroes

I just finished "Julie And Candy" this afternoon and will be going on to "Smokes Quantity" next as requested by Sandpaper.
I took J&C in a different direction and did it in a sort of drum n' bass fashion. So far I have about 22 min. of BOC covers. I am going to shoot for at least 60 minutes worth and then put the whole shebang up as a free download.
Stay tuned.

Vic