Happy Friday! And a happy accident:
One of those times when you're messing around and things just come together. A rare occasion when I use the saw tooth wave on the TD-3.
I've been trying to rework the regex patterns for search to be more accurate, provide for more edge cases and exclude instances where the search term is just in link and not the actual post text but it's tricky. Consequently, I've (temporarily) broken hashtag searches – I only noticed that last night after posting a new #acid track.
Rather than a straight search on the text in the database I was trying to process the markdown and then strip out HTML tags but something has gone wrong somewhere. It's complicated by the way I run two queries - one to identify the number of items found to set up the results paging and then one to actually return the results.
I'm going to revert back to the original queries and rethink how I'm doing it. I may just have to settle for a non-perfect solution that catches most items.
Early 90's vibe. Not overcomplicating it.
(Headphones or decent speakers recommended. Smartphone speakers don't do justice to the kick drum)
Something new. This took about 7 takes as I was playing the MS-1 live leaving one hand to do everything else and kept messing up.
I'll probably redo it at some point to get the MS-1 a bit higher in the mix.
One of the common criticisms of the Behringer TD-3 is that the sound is too 'bright' when compared to the Roland TB-303 – the cutoff frequency knob is set too high. This can be changed by taking the case off and adjusting the VCF Offset.
I've always loved really angry, squelchy acid so don't mind the brightness this gives but with two TD-3s I wanted them to have different personalities.
Armed with a couple of screwdrivers I tweaked the black TD-3 (how fitting) to make the sound a bit darker, just what sounded good to my ears rather than trying to tune it properly. I have to say, it definitely sounds more like a real 303 now – it's smoother and less raspy.
To fully test, I made a new track (appropriately titled 'Darker') with the acid lead played on the now tweaked black TD-3. 9 minutes of pure self-indulgence:
