When I first received my S2400 back in 2021 the measly SD card I had for it performed sufficiently, but after the most recent firmware updates it no longer does. I recently upgraded to a 200 MB/s card and things are better than ever!

Gear:
Isla Instrument S2400 sampler
Behringer SX2442FX mixer
Electro-Harmonix Platform stereo compressor
Focusrite Scarlett 4i4 audio interface
Zoom Q2n digital video camera

Post Audio Processing: some manual attenuations here and there

Music © all rights reserved. Haze Anderson – 2024

#s2400

Happy May The 4th y'all! 🙂 I attempted this last year but I was unable to replicate a good input signal to the 2600. Let's try again! For the transcript, I used GPT to translate my voice (picked up from the camera mic) to text, and inserted that into the video.

Gear:
Shure BLX4 wireless microphone
TC Helicon VoiceTone Create XT
Behringer SX2442FX mixer (reverbs)
Behringer ARP 2600
Zoom B1on/G1on (more reverbs)
Electro-Harmonix Platform stereo compressor
Korg MKP2 x2
Donner DEL4 headphone amp
Focusrite Scarlett 4i4 audio interface
Zoom Q2n digital video camera

Post Audio Processing: none

Music © all rights reserved. Haze Anderson – 2024

#maythefourthbewithyou #2600 #r2d2

I would normally say "It's been a long while since I dropped a jam" but it's really only been about two weeks ... I have three jams pre-rolled and ready to be released in the months to come so be on the look out for those. And I will be releasing my first album on Bandcamp! 😃 Stay tuned for that as well ... In the meantime I wanted to play something mellow and somber because I find that hard to do. 😅

K2 sequenced by SQ-1 and effected by the Hypnosis. Samples from PO-33 into VC340 vocoder. MIDI out from VC340 into Solina. Lucious stereo spreads from Hypnosis and VC340 while mono Solina gets stereo phaser from the SX2442FX and more goodness from the G1on.

Gear:
Behringer VC340
Behringer Solina
Behringer K2
Korg SQ-1 sequencer
Teenage Engineering PO-33 (brown acid)
Dreadbox Hypnosis (chorus and delay)
Zoom G1on effects (chorus x3, rotary, phaser)
Behringer SX2442FX audio mixer (phaser)
Electro-Harmonix Platform stereo compressor
Korg Mini Kaosspad (mid phaser)
Korg Mini Kaosspad (low pass filter)
Focusrite Scarlett 4i4

Post Audio Processing: compression and normalization in Audacity

Music © all rights reserved. Haze Anderson – 2018,2024

Not my copyright, I just like to (poorly) edit and share this stuff.

Taken from "Insert Coin" (2020) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11916218/

An insert merely allows you to "insert" a new effect in series into the signal chain. The antithesis would be an "aux channel" that allows you to mix the new effect in parallel with the original signal.

Gear:
DJI Osmo Pocket digital video camera

Post Audio Processing: none

Music © all rights reserved. Haze Anderson – 2024

I will be featured in Matt Wright's (@mwmusic29) series about "First Synthesizers" on March 30th, and to celebrate that here's a Micro Jam!! It's been several months since we've had a proper Micro Jam, and to celebrate THAT please head on over to Matt's channel and give him a sub. Thank you!

PO-28 and PO-33 direct into mixer with aux sends to the B1on. Korg Volca Keys into Disorder for filtered fuzz into Hypnosis for stereo chorus and delay. Keys into mixer but bypass direct into G1on. G1on has reverb #1 and chorus #29 applied from mixer's internal FX. Korg Volca Keys into Bass Soul Food (full wet mix) into Lethargy into Polyphase. Polyphase in mono with external loop mood into Paragraphs into mixer with aux sends to the G1on. Mixer out into Platform stereo compressor into DEL-4 to split stereo signal for monitoring headphones with signal into the dual Korg MPK2 FX and finally into the Scarlett 4i4 ADC.

Gear:
Teenage Engineering PO-28 Robot
Teenage Engineering PO-33 K.O.
Korg Volca FM
Korg Volca Keys
Korg MKP2 (pump reverb)
Korg MKP2 (ping pong delay)
Dreadbox Hypnosis
Dreadbox Disorder
Dreadbox Lethargy
Vongon Polyphrase
Vongon Ultrasheer
Electro-Harmonix Bass Soul Food
Electro-Harmonix Platform
Behringer SX2442FX
Focusrite Scarlett 4i4

Offscreen:
Zoom G1on (compressor and stereo ensemble)
Zoom B1on (dual compressor stacked with another compressor)
Zoom Q2n video camera
Donner DEL-4 headphone amp
Post Audio Processing: NONE!

Music © all rights reserved. Haze Anderson – 2024

Not my video, I just like to share this stuff -- I did add titles, do I win a cowbell? I also just had to include a bit of the ending, Vinnie and Clem "working" at Pro Drums! What a class act!

Taken from "Fred Armisen: Standup For Drummers" (2018) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7924798/

Pepe on the 2600. I get by with a little help from my friends ... ACIDEEE!! 🙃

Analog Gear:
Cyclone Analogic TT-303 (silver)
Cyclone Analogic TT-303 (black)
Behringer TD-3 (lime)
Behringer RD-6 (lime)
Behringer 2600 (gray)
Behringer MS-1 (black)
Behringer RD-9 (tan)
Behringer Solina (hiding behind 2600)
Teenage Engineering PO-30 K.O. (TR-808 and Woodstock samples)
Blackout Effectors The Twosome (dual fuzz)
Tape Audio Co. One (fuzz)
Spiral FX Yellow (overdrive)
Beetronics Swarm PLL (fuzz)
Zvex Fuzz Factory (fuzz)
Montreal Assembly Too Positive (stereo overdrive)
Behringer SX244FX (with digital FX: delay #45/ chorus #30)

Digital Gear:
Squarp Pyramid (MIDI sequecer/controller)
Keeley Caverns (delay/reverb)
Catalinbread CSIDman (delay)
Catalinbread Bicycle Delay
Wampler Terraform (stereo panning tremolo)
Zoom G1on (dual phase/delay/stereo chorus)
Zoom G1on (overdrive/flanger/delay)
Electro-Harmonix Platform (stereo compressor)
Focusrite Scarlett 4i4 audio interface
Zoom Q2n digital video camera

Post Audio Processing: normalization in Audacity

Music © all rights reserved. Haze Anderson – 2024

#303day #tb303

In preparation for upcoming 303 Day, I go over how to set up a table and produce techno music without software digital audio workstations.

Gear:
DJI Pocket Osmo digital video camera

Post Audio Processing: fade out for jam

Music © all rights reserved. Haze Anderson – 2024

#303day #dawless

Reusing an old jam from 2018 for the background to this collage of videos taken on February 9th and 10th in the Florida Keys.

Gear:
Behringer Neutron
Roland TR-08
Korg Volca Bass
Teenage Engineering PO-12 Rhythm
Korg SQ-1 sequencer
Zoom B1on/G1on effects pedals
Boss DS-1 distortion pedal
Retrokits RK-004 MIDI hub
Behringer SX2442FX audio mixer (reverb and chorus)
Behringer UCA222 A/D converter
DJI Osmo Pocket video recorder

Post Audio Processing: editing, compression and normalization in Audacity

Music © all rights reserved. Haze Anderson – 2018,2024

The day is finally here. Can you believe another Jamuary has come and gone? I can. 😂 This performance was meant to merely be a sound check. On this day I was very burned out from cramming in 30 jams in 5 days. I didn't even want to stream to Twitch because I had yet to sequence drum parts. I pushed myself to stream anyway and set up the missing drum parts during the performance. When all was said and done, I decided that in the true spirit of Jamuary, THIS was the final jam, warts and all. But ... when I uploaded this video for a scheduled release it received a copyright strike during the first minute. What the heck?!?! Rather than deal with crooks I just removed the first minute and re-uploaded. So it starts out a bit weird, and the sync seems to be out sometimes ... that's Jamuary for you! 😅

(This was the first and only jam on Day Six, originally streamed live on Twitch, Jan 6th, 2024.)

Gear:
Sonicware Liven XFM
Sonicware Liven Bass & Beats
Sonicware Liven Lofi-6
Vongon Polyphrase stereo delay
Chase Bliss/Meris CXM 1978 stereo reverb
Electro-Harmonix Platform (stereo compressor)
Focusrite Scarlett 4i4 audio interface

(offscreen)
Berhinger SX2442FX mixer (chorus #28)
Zoom Q2n digital video camera
Blackmagic Design ATEM Mini Pro video interface

(software)
Audacity (capture audio)
OBS (capture video)
iMovie (mux audio and video)

Post Audio Processing: normalization in Audacity, slight attenuation in iMovie

Music © all rights reserved. Haze Anderson – 2024

#jamuary2024 #dawless

THE QUESTION WAS ALWAYS MOOT! I was always going to get the RD-9! 🥁😆🥁 Having reiterated that ... the Lofi-6 is a wonderful machine for capturing and using samples from drum machines. I hope to get back to a point where I can make more sample packs from drum machines. Can't do that with the Roland TD-09, you see. A long time ago I made a VoSyr sample pack of the TT-78 for the Volca Sample ... it's still available for free: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6n1LkR4afNI (Keep in mind I actually wrote the description for this video before Behringer announced the RD-78 a few days ago!) --- OH! And can you believe Jamuary is almost over? Time flies when you are jamming ...

(This was the second jam on Day Four, originally recorded on Jan 4th, 2024 in three takes.)

Gear:
Behringer RD-9
Vongon Polyphrase stereo delay
Chase Bliss/Meris CXM 1978 stereo reverb

(offscreen)
Berhinger SX2442FX mixer (guitar amps #94 and #96)
Electro-Harmonix Platform (stereo compressor)
Focusrite Scarlett 4i4 audio interface
Zoom Q2n digital video camera
Blackmagic Design ATEM Mini Pro video interface

(software)
Audacity (capture audio)
OBS (capture video)
iMovie (mux audio and video)

Post Audio Processing: none!

Music © all rights reserved. Haze Anderson – 2024

#jamuary2024 #dawless

This regurgitation of Jam #16 Break Beats wraps up our mini trilogy of cannibalized Jamuaries. At this point I had realized the EWI-5000 had not been used with the Lofi-6 so I rushed a new part in. Like a bull in a china shop, the EWI-5000 crashes the party, and leaves without saying goodbye.I should have attempted another take but it took six false starts just to manage this one. I was spent by this point. Jamuary Fatigue 😅

(This was the third and last jam on Day Five, originally recorded on Jan 5th, 2024 in one take.)

Gear:
Sonicware Liven Lofi-6
AKAI EWI-5000 wind controller (bass synth)

(offscreen)
Vongon Polyphrase stereo delay
Chase Bliss/Meris CXM 1978 stereo reverb
Berhinger SX2442FX mixer (chorus #30 and guitar amp #97)
Electro-Harmonix Platform (stereo compressor)
Focusrite Scarlett 4i4 audio interface
Zoom Q2n digital video camera
Blackmagic Design ATEM Mini Pro video interface

(software)
Audacity (capture audio)
OBS (capture video)
iMovie (mux audio and video)

Post Audio Processing: none!

Music © all rights reserved. Haze Anderson – 2024

#jamuary2024 #dawless

BIG BEATS are back for a double back to back attack! Didn't see that one comin did ya? Today's target was Jam #5 BIG BEATS and the end results are big in their own way. This turned out to be one of my favorite jams for the month, I hope you enjoy it too. On the current news side of things Florida is great. I have gotten quite a bit done just in the few days I have been here, focusing on doing things to get a job!

(This was the second jam on Day Five, originally recorded on Jan 5th, 2024 in one take.)

Gear:
Sonicware Liven Lofi-6

(offscreen)
Vongon Polyphrase stereo delay
Chase Bliss/Meris CXM 1978 stereo reverb
Berhinger SX2442FX mixer (delay #43 and guitar amp #97)
Electro-Harmonix Platform (stereo compressor)
Focusrite Scarlett 4i4 audio interface
Zoom Q2n digital video camera
Blackmagic Design ATEM Mini Pro video interface

(software)
Audacity (capture audio)
OBS (capture video)
iMovie (mux audio and video)

Post Audio Processing: none!

Music © all rights reserved. Haze Anderson – 2024

#jamuary2024 #dawless

This jam starts a new "mini trilogy" in which we cannibalize previous jams from this month. Up first is a revisioning of Jam #19 (Return of Son of BIG BEATS). Technically, the BIG BEATS are back! Full effects are also back.

(This was the first jam on Day Five, originally recorded on Jan 5th, 2024 in two takes.)

Gear:
Sonicware Liven Lofi-6

(offscreen)
Vongon Polyphrase stereo delay
Chase Bliss/Meris CXM 1978 stereo reverb
Berhinger SX2442FX mixer (guitar amp #94 and chorus #30)
Electro-Harmonix Platform (stereo compressor)
Focusrite Scarlett 4i4 audio interface
Zoom Q2n digital video camera
Blackmagic Design ATEM Mini Pro video interface

(software)
Audacity (capture audio)
OBS (capture video)
iMovie (mux audio and video)

Post Audio Processing: none!

Music © all rights reserved. Haze Anderson – 2024

#jamuary2024 #dawless

I'd like to think that, after NAMM, participants walk away asking a simple question ... this jam is dedicated to @microgrampy (whom I am fairly sure owns and operates NAMM from behind the scenes 🤣) This concludes the "movie quote mini trilogy" portion of sampling with the Lofi-6.

(This was the eighth and last jam on Day Four, originally recorded on Jan 4th, 2024 in one take.)

Gear:
Sonicware Liven Lofi-6 (Hell House LLC II: The Abaddon Hotel)

(offscreen)
Berhinger SX2442FX mixer (no FX)
Electro-Harmonix Platform (stereo compressor)
Focusrite Scarlett 4i4 audio interface
Zoom Q2n digital video camera
Blackmagic Design ATEM Mini Pro video interface

(software)
Audacity (capture audio)
OBS (capture video)
iMovie (mux audio and video)

Post Audio Processing: manually attenuated a few nasty spikes in Audacity

Music © all rights reserved. Haze Anderson – 2024

#jamuary2024 #dawless

I am now in Florida!! Yesterday I drove about 14 hours through Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia and Florida. I avoided Atlanta because it was raining. Once I got south of Birmingham the rain mostly stopped and it was a nice ride all the way through. I drove through Florida after the sun set so I didn't get to enjoy the sights but that's ok, the air felt really nice. Part 2 of this lil mini trilogy ... if you get inside The Hotel, just make sure you get out.

(This was the seventh jam on Day Four, originally recorded on Jan 4th, 2024 in two takes.)

Gear:
Sonicware Liven Lofi-6 (Hell House LLC)

(offscreen)
Berhinger SX2442FX mixer (no FX)
Electro-Harmonix Platform (stereo compressor)
Focusrite Scarlett 4i4 audio interface
Zoom Q2n digital video camera
Blackmagic Design ATEM Mini Pro video interface

(software)
Audacity (capture audio)
OBS (capture video)
iMovie (mux audio and video)

Post Audio Processing: none!

Music © all rights reserved. Haze Anderson – 2024

#jamuary2024 #dawless

I waited all day yesterday on UPS for my package of guitar pedal boxes to arrive, so I could repack those guitar pedals and put them back in storage before I leave for Florida. Never showed up -- even drove to their facility and learned that it won't be out for delivery until Thursday! (To be fair we were totally snowed it ALL last week.) So today I am the road to Florida! That project will have to wait until I return. In other news, sampling things with the Lofi-6 is super intuitive and fun! Still using stock instrument samples but this time we add some MOVIE QUOTES! 😅👍

(This was the sixth jam on Day Four, originally recorded on Jan 4th, 2024 in one take.)

Gear:
Sonicware Liven Lofi-6 (Hell House LLC Origins: The Carmichael Manor)

(offscreen)
Berhinger SX2442FX mixer (no FX)
Electro-Harmonix Platform (stereo compressor)
Focusrite Scarlett 4i4 audio interface
Zoom Q2n digital video camera
Blackmagic Design ATEM Mini Pro video interface

(software)
Audacity (capture audio)
OBS (capture video)
iMovie (mux audio and video)

Post Audio Processing: none!

Music © all rights reserved. Haze Anderson – 2024

#jamuary2024 #dawless

More sample flipping with the stock samples in this little BEAST OF A SAMPLER! 😆 I programmed in some Latin grooves and just layered stuffs over it that seemed cool. The snow finally started to thaw today, I have a few more things to take care of and then it is time to hit the road for FLORIDA! 🌴🤠🐊

(This was the fifth jam on Day Four, originally recorded on Jan 4th, 2024 in two takes.)

Gear:
Sonicware Liven Lofi-6

(offscreen)
Berhinger SX2442FX mixer (no FX)
Electro-Harmonix Platform (stereo compressor)
Focusrite Scarlett 4i4 audio interface
Zoom Q2n digital video camera
Blackmagic Design ATEM Mini Pro video interface

(software)
Audacity (capture audio)
OBS (capture video)
iMovie (mux audio and video)

Post Audio Processing: none!

Music © all rights reserved. Haze Anderson – 2024

#jamuary2024 #dawless

This is a really fun sampler! 😄 Still using stock samples that came with the unit, I am trying to completely change their parts. This is a real treat to sample flip with. 👍Three takes because it was tricky performing and muting tracks on the fly. One gotcha however --- where does one begin to store their own Projects? Everyone complains about manuals but me personally, the first thing should be discussing what is mine and what is yours. Or at least how to init/erase patches and sequences. It's no big deal of course, it's all in fun ... what happened to me here is I just tried to erase the tracks on the first Demo sequence and add my own stuff. The problem is the first Demo sequence had a literal PAUSE "parameter locked" on the last step of the sequence. I could not for the life of me figure out what was going on until a few days later when I read about it in the manual. So ... that pause is in this jam too! As a drummer, that kind of stuff drives me nuts! 😆 arrrr!

(This was the fourth jam on Day Four, originally recorded on Jan 4th, 2024 in three takes.)

Gear:
Sonicware Liven Lofi-6

(offscreen)
Vongon Polyphrase stereo delay
Chase Bliss/Meris CXM 1978 stereo reverb
Berhinger SX2442FX mixer (no FX)
Electro-Harmonix Platform (stereo compressor)
Focusrite Scarlett 4i4 audio interface
Zoom Q2n digital video camera
Blackmagic Design ATEM Mini Pro video interface

(software)
Audacity (capture audio)
OBS (capture video)
iMovie (mux audio and video)

Post Audio Processing: none!

Music © all rights reserved. Haze Anderson – 2024

#jamuary2024 #dawless

And now we move on to our third and final featured groove box for the month. As the display suggests, we are trying out the internal Arena verbs effect (paired up nicely with this stock drum set of percussions). No other effects used. I have been snowed in since the 15th, when the snow and ice thaws out I will head down to Florida for the rest of the month.

(This was the third jam on Day Four, originally recorded on Jan 4th, 2024 in one take.)

Gear:
Sonicware Liven Lofi-6

(offscreen)
Berhinger SX2442FX mixer (no FX)
Electro-Harmonix Platform (stereo compressor)
Focusrite Scarlett 4i4 audio interface
Zoom Q2n digital video camera
Blackmagic Design ATEM Mini Pro video interface

(software)
Audacity (capture audio)
OBS (capture video)
iMovie (mux audio and video)

Post Audio Processing: none!

Music © all rights reserved. Haze Anderson – 2024

#jamuary2024 #dawless

THE QUESTION IS STILL MOOT! I have the RD-9! 🥁😆🥁

(This was the first jam on Day Four, originally recorded on Jan 4th, 2024 in one take.)

Gear:
Behringer RD-9
Vongon Polyphrase stereo delay
Chase Bliss/Meris CXM 1978 stereo reverb

(offscreen)
Berhinger SX2442FX mixer (panner #84 and chorus #25)
Electro-Harmonix Platform (stereo compressor)
Focusrite Scarlett 4i4 audio interface
Zoom Q2n digital video camera
Blackmagic Design ATEM Mini Pro video interface

(software)
Audacity (capture audio)
OBS (capture video)
iMovie (mux audio and video)

Post Audio Processing: none!

Music © all rights reserved. Haze Anderson – 2024

#jamuary2024 #dawless

Son of BIG BEATS is back!! 😆

(This was the seventh jam on Day Three, originally recorded on Jan 3rd, 2024 in one take.)

Gear:
Sonicware Liven Bass & Beats (synth sequence from TT-303)

(offscreen)
Vongon Polyphrase stereo delay
Chase Bliss/Meris CXM 1978 stereo reverb
Berhinger SX2442FX mixer (phaser #37)
Electro-Harmonix Platform (stereo compressor)
Focusrite Scarlett 4i4 audio interface
Zoom Q2n digital video camera
Blackmagic Design ATEM Mini Pro video interface

(software)
Audacity (capture audio)
OBS (capture video)
iMovie (mux audio and video)

Post Audio Processing: none!

Music © all rights reserved. Haze Anderson – 2024

#jamuary2024 #dawless

For this jam I wanted to do something *not so* Bass & Beats with the Bass & Beats. The EWI 5000 returns. “A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the saxophone and doesn't.” ― Mark Twain, sax player 🎷🤔

(This was the sixth jam on Day Three, originally recorded on Jan 3rd, 2024 in one take.)

Gear:
Sonicware Liven Bass & Beats (synth sequence from TT-303)
AKAI EWI 5000 wind controller (tenor sax)

(offscreen)
Vongon Polyphrase stereo delay
Chase Bliss/Meris CXM 1978 stereo reverb
Berhinger SX2442FX mixer (same as previous jam [sic])
Electro-Harmonix Platform (stereo compressor)
Focusrite Scarlett 4i4 audio interface
Zoom Q2n digital video camera
Blackmagic Design ATEM Mini Pro video interface

(software)
Audacity (capture audio)
OBS (capture video)
iMovie (mux audio and video)

Post Audio Processing: none!

Music © all rights reserved. Haze Anderson – 2024

#jamuary2024 #dawless

By this point The Fatigue was starting to creep in. I ran downstairs and grabbed one of my TT-303 Bass Bots so I could use *it* to sequence the bass parts for the final jams with the Bass & Beats. It takes a bit of time to cull out a really banger sequence (or two) but the end results never disappoint me. I probably should have given this one another take but in the spirit of Jamuary I did not. I also learned some new things about the TT-303 which I could have used at the old place. But that's just how it goes ... ACIDEEEE!! 🙃 (And ... just to be 100% crystal clear ... all sounds are from the Bass & Beats, not the TT-303 ... and no samples ... the TT-303 was merely hijacked for its MIDI.)

(This was the fifth jam on Day Three, originally recorded on Jan 3rd, 2024 in one take.)

Gear:
Sonicware Liven Bass & Beats (synth sequence from TT-303)

(offscreen)
Vongon Polyphrase stereo delay
Chase Bliss/Meris CXM 1978 stereo reverb
Berhinger SX2442FX mixer (chorus #30 and delay #49)
Electro-Harmonix Platform (stereo compressor)
Focusrite Scarlett 4i4 audio interface
Zoom Q2n digital video camera
Blackmagic Design ATEM Mini Pro video interface

(software)
Audacity (capture audio)
OBS (capture video)
iMovie (mux audio and video)

Post Audio Processing: none!

Music © all rights reserved. Haze Anderson – 2024

#jamuary2024 #dawless