Bi-weekly record-diving sampling extravaganza | 15 | Alexander O'Neal - If You Were Here Tonight

Oh that’s unfortunate to hear haha - annoyingly my music setup is isolated from my computer, which is what I plug the mixer into the capture the audio. I’ll be mindful of that as I can’t say I noticed! Might use my H5 to capture off the recording output rather than going over USB next time.

The mixer itself does a fair amount of heavy lifting, those A&H analogs do add some juice.

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I think I only heard it on the drum track in the quiet parts. I was trying to do something with the bongo part and got a little sidetracked, but that’s the only place I remember audibly hearing it. USB is almost impossible to avoid chatter of some kind. The audio from your stems was so much leaps and bounds better than the youtube audio I started with that I shifted gears into something completely random lol.

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Got around to making something as a final send off for a recently departed OG. I also really didn’t want to leave you guys hanging and am beyond grateful to all of you and this community for the support recently, as it has been overwhelmingly uplifting. Thanks guys :beers:

Also, thank you to @natehorn for finding and sharing another fantastic track to sample and also @everyone for hanging out and sharing your talented works with us all. As always, wishing that you all have a lovely week ahead full of vivid inspiration and amazing jams, and I hope to see you all again at our next challenge that just went live. :hearts:

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thoughts are with you.

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Thank you man it was hard to realize just how much the lil guy was a part of each day.

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stay up man.

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Well better late than never!

I got a bit carried away with Baby Audio BA-1 and did a full Synthwave reimagining of the track.

I only used the vocals from Stem Roller and everything else is some Linn Drum samples and 4 instances of BA-1.

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Some beautiful chops here going in all directions, but I’d like to also state my appreciation for Alexander’s bedroom in the video, where he’s got a massive poster of some cranes with CRANES written underneath, presumably to minimise any questions the ladies might have. I expect he was out shopping in Home Sense one day, saw that and just thought Yes! The bedroom is finally complete.

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“Oh baby these CRANES are erecting a monument dedicated to our love”

I find his eye contact with the camera makes me a little uncomfortable.

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This is wicked!

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Thanks my favorite thing about BA-1 is that you can simulate the batteries running out which is what I did at the end :rofl:

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I put far too much energy into finding it, but I succeeded! :sweat_smile:

SAKAI HOITSU, Cranes, 1982

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Epic!

I’ve updated the cover art of my track in tribute!

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I was thinking…

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I misunderstood, At first I thought no wonder he’s not seducing anyone having posters of construction machines on his wall, but now I’ve seen the actual poster I can see it’s enough to get anyone going

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:joy::joy:

You’re a CRANE, baby! And I’m disgusted.