username:

password:

 
 Songs
 Albums
 Diggers
 Comments
 Blogwalls
 About
 Email Me

445,329 Albums + 604,843 Individual Songs
Send
Send
 
 
Descriptions

The Bontempi KS5600 (is not great) - with Fostex XR-3 4 Track


Playing Next: D*Votion
Random Page  /  Random Song


Bontempi KS5600 and Fostex XR3 Four Track Tape Recorder

So I have some time not to be in the studio working on music and sound design for Sonicware while I wait for the updated version of the XFM to arrive, so I spent it in the studio doing something else 😁 Same thing will likely happen tomorrow.

Today I chose to try to write something with just the Bontempi KS5600, but it's not a great keyboard! For a start the output is super super hot, like surface of the sun hot, so the Behringer mixer is there just to get the level down to something I can record. Even then it'll distort internally while playing chords if it's not turned down on the front panel which increases noise vs signal a lot. Uggh.

As far as I can tell from the sound it's an FM based board but a lot of the sounds are quite similar. I found nothing with even the slightest bit of vibrato and very little that has a nice fade in that would be useful for strings. The sounds either die away too quickly to be useful or just have an instant on off volume envelope and play in a very static manner. So this was a bit of an uphill battle. Why do I do this to myself? 😆

It was recorded on the Fostex XR3 with mixing done on the Inkel MX880E and effects added from the Zoom 1201. Kind of messed up the video of the bottom left frame, but the whole thing is a bit of a mess so never mind...

Please check out my other social media bits:
https://www.facebook.com/ChrisLodyMusic
https://twitter.com/ChrisLodyMusic
https://www.instagram.com/ChrisLodyMusic/
https://www.mandy.com/professional/profile/chris-dodsworth
https://www.patreon.com/ChrisLodyMusic

#ChrisLody
#Bontempi
#4TrackTape


© 2021 Basing IT