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Oh good! Glad you're still digging it. :)

its got a real personality that's nothing like my vintage stuff and the keybed is fast and fun

only to swap to a 16

I think this guy is mean to contend with the undeservedly reviled prologue8.... it seems like it will slay my prologue apart from the multi-engine.... I mean, it COULD have VCOs and VCF from the prophet5, probably just the cheaper curtis chip filterrather than the V1 SSM or the V4 Rossum designed chip that sounds like the SSM. I would bet its just curtis chip oscillators too...

On paper, if you tried to compare feature-to-feature, I can see how it would seem like a 5-voice Minilogue at twice the price... but, so far, it seems (and sounds) more like a Prophet 5 Rev4 offered at 1/3 the price.

It reminds me of my mopho x4 and the good old 6 track.... only like.... better... a prophet 5 rev4? I dunno about that. Sounds like DCOs but its hard to tell, its lush but the attack is pretty immediate and punchy... it really reminds me of a rev2 with less voices and even more features packed in there. I'm pretty sure this is meant to be the successor to the x4 and a contender against the minilogue as suggested by Gchiaren. Frankly I have an X4 and a prologue8 and they're kinda both must have modern polies. But if this guy is VCOs (didn't get that from the video snippet watched) then watch out Korg..... it definitely sounds great either way

these days its unusual.... especially with low noise types like carbon film, metal film etc... carbon comps had a high failure rate and severe upward drift when exposed to humidity

I'm not sure what we're doing with this one.... I just ran with it after we were talking about a retro movie poster.... got back from vacation yesterday and finished off the bottom.... but how was I not doing the game of death jumpsuit when he had nunchucks?

https://imgur.com/a/ODD4hv4

glad you're feeling better enough to produce some new tracks!

Thanks this is amazing. I love DM so much. Actually it goes levels beyond just "love" 😆 A couple of my tattoos are heavily based on Dave Gahan's. I must have watched their One Night In Paris (Exciter tour 2001) DVD over 100 times. DM was the first huge concert I ever attended.

I'll definitely read up on everything you just linked!

one night in paris is a real high point of the post-Alan era... there's some really cool footage on youtube of rehearsals thata re on this 'studio sessions' playlist

Wrong and Come Back are standout demo performances and its really cool to see guys who are known for programming sitting in a room with their production team banging the tunes out.

the guy literally had one of EVERYTHING

I always really liked how Mark drew Iceman in Uncanny... he was really angular versus how some of the other future Image guys did him.

pencils going on the faux movie poster

Anyone oppose merging all iPhone models?

that's fine, you pretty much want the latest and greatest to get passable results for music.... same goes for iPads.

I saw this and started googling "Marvel Shield 60s psychedelic" to remember the name of the artist this reminded me of... then I noticed you beat me to it.

hahaha, I think Steranko is one of those toweringly influential guys who was the irst guy to bring pop art and op art into comicbooks and expand the Kirby style without going completely un-marvel... he laid a blueprint that the best guys at Marvel in the 80s started following and a lot of them took it to DC where in like the first Crisis that style is there.... but his comics career was really short, he laid down the road map and then went off to do other things so I wouldn't be surprised if some younger artists don't even know where they're copying from.... Steranko was a seriously weird dude. He was a musician and a stage magician (no really, he was like an escape artist) before becoming a pro artist. I feel like he may have left Fury to go pursue work as a secret agent or something...

anyway, I just started peliminary sketches for a large Steranko influenced 60s/70s movie poster in full color, I'm kinda working out sections today... its got a shelby cobra and Sid in the game of death and kill bill outfit. And an explosion and scnatily clad bond girl.... I think the top of the explosion will be a mushroom cloud with richie's face in the sky and a psychadelic circle logo with weird pattern art all around like the ebatles revolver maybe.... but slicker.... and of course there's nunchucks and a walther witha silencer, right? I don't usually share my prelims but the 2nd one is really entertaining, click through

McKean's always an influence on me, I can't relly draw in that McKean/Jae Lee style too well, but I do what I can with the bug to get near it, I think I get about as far as Sam Keith but I'm just so rooted in the Kirby/Eisner style that I can't go all the way...

Mike and I are are probably about the biggest fans of the whole history of comics you'll meet so we hang out into the wee hours mining our collections for stuff to homage (no Jim Lee pun intended), even if its subtley

went hard steranko:

my wife and I went to see that exhibit or something similar that was travelling... it was mind blowing, and its not like I haven't seen a lot of original pages at 100%, but those guys had such amazing body language and backgrounds.

I'm glad you're working with ppl that appreciate your talents. :)

I'm not exactly Jack Kirby, but I'm not dealing with a bunch of Kirbies

Just to beat a dead horse, this is easier than the guitar roll-up because while an older Mac might be sought after, it's 99% because it's available refurbished or on the used market for cheaper. Also no matter how elite of a gear hunter you are it's practically impossible to identify what Mac a pro is using down to its hardware specs.

agreed 100%

the guys who do this stuff on pads are undeniably talented, probably more talented than me or anyone I know.... the results are incredibly slick and professional and that style of comics is now over 2 decades old.... if you include the image computer color separations in that? longer. For me though, a lot of that stuff just doesn't look like the comics I grew up reading so there's an element of nostalgia to doing it the way Byrne, Miller et al did it. I like the end result to look like the old stuff and not so much like the early 00s marvel stuff and I feel like the technology seems to push people that way although there's been a return to more ink driven stuff that leans less on the colorist which is nice... its like, I love Manga, but I almost never do all those scratchy lines like they do (and I have school and school G tips, I just don't like them for my drawing style)... the old fashioned way just fits into my style and my end of the old fashioned way is very, very americana...

plus the professional Wacom is expensive as heck, you can buy a lot of cool studio outboard for that money. I briefly experimented with my iPad a bit for graphic art at the beginning of the pandemic ago and its just too general purpose for an oldster like me to use effectively. I struggle with touch screens. I need the scanning and stylus of the Wacom to even stand a chance of keeping up with some 25 year old kid who grew up using mom's iPad for art... for me the iPad was an epic fail and I ruled it out... plus it required me to get a bigger scanner to do comic pages, those flatbeds are pricey. Right now scanning is not my problem. I just crank out pages and turn them in to the other guys. Everyone oohs and ahs and then they deal with everything else.

but in answer to your query about how long? with sequential art being incredibly ancient and the comic strip/book being a solid century old now? well' we're just getting there to judge the longevity of this most;y digital method of creating a comic from conception to printer

I haven't really done a lot of drawing since college, so you know how long that's been... I don't know if I would be comfortable involving a pad, I'm pretty traditional and lament the death of the time tested ways of doing things

the actual squared off style of the graphiti is really boring so I jetisoned it in favor of splattines.... I emean, I didn't draw the building correctly, it was a lst minute add on

don't sweat it. you made the right call.

thanks, I sweat all of this stuff as I'm doing it, at the end of a piece I get really nervous... I'm always busy with the white paint... which aside from second guessing is useful for adding last minute style points in negative space. White paint, whiteout markers and white gel pens....

the actual squared off style of the graphiti is really boring so I jetisoned it in favor of splattines.... I emean, I didn't draw the building correctly, it was a lst minute add on

notice North Philly's famous "boner 4ever" tag?

That's a real and current building tag in Philly?

boner 4ever was on CNN... near my old job over broad and girard

notice North Philly's famous "boner 4ever" tag?

The light hit the right side poorly, greying it out (and the left side gets blurry) but you get the idea.

https://imgur.com/a/YeRTa5y

a groove box might not sample or do drums... look at the circuit monostation, arguably a groovebox because one of its sequencers can be used to send your groove to any other device with the proper connections... or the korg electribe stuff...where's the line between 303 and groovebox? you can defintiely have a bass groove... not strictly a drum groove

I second the bassman.... for guitar duty the blackface and brownface circuits split the difference well and as a pedal platform the bassman50 and 100 are great for guitar and are better bass circuits for my buck, and of course the fender showman owns for bass and guitar, a twin without reverb with a bit more oomph... then there's the concert and super reverb 4x10 combos, Carol Kaye used a super reverb in the wrecking crew, the concert is quite similar, no reverb, a bit rare but not as desirable as a blackface super... other contenders are the ampeg V2, V4 and B25.... any classic hiwatt, 50 or 100 watts... selmer treble n bass 50... vox ac50 (60s only).... orange or120... it depends what sound you're going for, all these amps are really different but handle bass and guitar with ease

none of these amps are cheap anymore, but they're great old workhorses that are easy to repair

Cakewalk, Logic and Cubase go back so far you need to specify a bit.... pre SX cubase is its own thing as are pre-apple logic and pre-sonar cakewalk, they were riginally just sequencers.... cubase added limited recording functionality first as far as I kow.

for starters, every bit of that studio tone is a highly distinctive sounding piece.... nothing sounds like an all tube V series head and the SVT is particularly distinctive does to its phase inverter arrangement. They're also chameleon-like in frequency response due to the unique inductor based midrange.... then there's the ripper. The ripper has a sound all its own distinct even from other gibson. Its part of that 70s line with the marauder and man was gibson ecperimenting on every facet of that line.... and of course, an 80 series neve and whatever microphone was on the fridge cab at whatever position and distance... who knows if they did a little epak limiting with an 1176 or something to tape.... and yeah, then there's the 2" 24 track... and oh yeah, the mix down by Andy Wallace, he mainly claimed to use what's on the console, an SSL G series if I recall, that's a sound. And the bass particularly sounds EQed to provide some separation from the kick on the bottom and the guitar in the midrange... if you want to get album exact live its just not going to happen.

But the core element is the SVT. You're not really getting there without a V series amp. A V2 or V4b may be close enough and cheaper.... but you will probably want a sealed multiple 10" speaker cabinet with no horn. I really think the sound of the SVT is the sound of 90s rock bass in general, there are exceptions.... you'll ehar the odd hiwatt or orange 200 watt head sometimes.... maybe a big sunn. But big tube amp is critical and that baxandall tonestack with active midrange will let you dial it in really well and color the sound with that inductor. Fortunately the tone controls of the SVT are common to the smaller V heads I mentioned. Of course all those amps use some oddball tubes. Good luck finding a 7199.... not even the reissues utilize that one... heh

if you're not a purist like me, maybe a helix or kemper would be more practical ;-)

I can't seem to add Höfner to the brand list - Is it the ö that's the issue?

umlauts ain't easy, bro

Yes. They only do business as Sequential now. All products are officially "Sequential" products, not DSI, even if they launched during the DSI era.

what's funny is I have a original sequential circuits synth and a DSI but in oldster fashion no 'sequential' gear yet

To be clear, it's all Sequential now, right? DSI is no longer the "official" name of these synths?

new to me but probably... they discoed a lot of the DSI branded synths

i have maybe 1% of the hardware you have that's all

right, you want to start a fight, not going to do it

hi i had used cubase 5 for long

that was a really long time ago... in a galaxy far far away...

but if you are satisfy with your audio with cubase stay like that.

yeah I guess I have awful audio and know nothing about recording.... I'm done, I don't want to come off as a troll. Best wishes.

cubase will just do that for you

I especially like that this could help upstart/boutique hardware companies, as they're often iterating faster than we could otherwise keep up with here. e.g. Black Corporation's Mk 1 and Mk 2 Deckard's Dream synths get pooled together for better numbers and, ultimately, better visibility on the site.

I really dog that effect too... the little guys have it tough enough already

I think you're spot on from where I'm sitting.... I mean, something like a Dynamite limiter could be heavily cnsolidated. The circuit NEVER changed even though the case construction and even brand name varied. I have 2 of the versions but I can tell you they're indistinguishable right down to the PCB. They're functionally the same item but we have separate entries. I may actually be responsible for it, mindlesly adding to my personal gear list.... we have a lot of that in studio gear.

you have to be using HB lead or harder for that, no blue line.... the guy is awesome although when you realize he's over 70 and has been doing it for like 55+ years? he oughta be. Totally mind bending art skills, he claims to average a page a day!

I'd love to see that once you've inked.

Still polishing off the pencils, but have you seen this? John Byrne has been doing unauthorized x-men stories (pencils only, but..) that pick up at the end of dark phoenix with an alternate ending that they separate the phoenix force (I know, not originally intended, but it didn't come from nowhere) from Jean... his pencils are so killer, you have to see it...

http://www.byrnerobotics.com/forum/forum_topics.asp?FID=6