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<title><![CDATA[Black Cat]]></title>
<link>http://raivaescondida.wordpress.com/2009/04/10/black-cat/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 22:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tollwut</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[by janruss Black Cat A ghost, though invisible, still is like a place your sight can knock on, echoi]]></description>
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<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Black Cat</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;">A ghost, though invisible, still is like a place<br />
your sight can knock on, echoing; but here<br />
within this thick black pelt, your strongest gaze<br />
will be absorbed and utterly disappear:</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">just as a raving madman, when nothing else<br />
can ease him, charges into his dark night<br />
howling, pounds on the padded wall, and feels<br />
the rage being taken in and pacified.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">She seems to hide all looks that have ever fallen<br />
into her, so that, like an audience,<br />
she can look them over, menacing and sullen,<br />
and curl to sleep with them. But all at once</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">as if awakened, she turns her face to yours;<br />
and with a shock, you see yourself, tiny,<br />
inside the golden amber of her eyeballs<br />
suspended, like a prehistoric fly.
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<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Rainer Maria Rilke </em></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Vibe in a Metal Box:  the Deluxe Memory Man]]></title>
<link>http://jameschilds.wordpress.com/2008/10/08/vibe-in-a-metal-box-the-deluxe-memory-man/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:37:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>James Childs</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[There are a lot of things not to like about the Electro-Harmonix Deluxe Memory Man.  It takes up a t]]></description>
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<p>There are a lot of things not to like about the <a href="http://www.ehx.com/products/deluxe-memory-man" target="_blank">Electro-Harmonix Deluxe Memory Man</a>.  It takes up a ton of space, it&#8217;s noisy, and it requires its own special power adapter.</p>
<p>But if you&#8217;re like me, none of that will matter to you, because <strong>it sounds like butter</strong>.  In fact, it&#8217;s a lot like butter.  Take a piece of banana bread for example.  Sure it tastes fine on its own, but spread on some land-o-lakes and heat it up for about 15 seconds and you&#8217;ve taken the taste to a whole new level (chocolate chips help too).  Now, obviously butter doesn&#8217;t work on everything and it can certainly be overused, but it adds a whole new dimension to food.</p>
<p>Ok I&#8217;ll stop my over-extended food analogy.  But to me, that&#8217;s what analog delay in the form of the Memory Man does to my tone.  I&#8217;ve been recording with it a lot in the past few days and I fall in love with it again every time.</p>
<p>For those who aren&#8217;t familiar with it, it&#8217;s an analog delay pedal that also has the option to add a little (or an insane amount) of chorus or vibrato to the delayed signal.  The result is a warbly, chimey, warm atmosphere that lingers around the dry signal.</p>
<p>Since it has such a short delay time and you can&#8217;t tap out the tempo in a live situation, I tend to use it as more of a modulated reverb than a conventional delay.  To my ears the modulation on the signal also adds some sort of sweet top-end harmonic-like quality to the signal that&#8217;s very distinctive.</p>
<p>Another cool thing is that either the chorus or vibrato can be adjusted so that you&#8217;re only hearing the delayed signal and you can set it up to have just a straight pitch-vibrato sound with no delay.  Sort of emulates the Boss VB-2 warble.</p>
<p>For those applications, my settings are typically like the ones below.  That&#8217;s how I tend to use the DMM but you can do just about anything in the analog delay realm.</p>
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<p>For those interested, here are a few tunes that feature DMM sounds.  This is mostly speculation but I have a pretty good idea.</p>
<p>- <a href="http://derekwebb.musiccitynetworks.com" target="_blank">Derek Webb</a>&#8217;s &#8220;Nothing is Ever Enough&#8221; on the <em>I See Things Upside Down</em> record:  This definitely sounds like the DMM.  A Digitech Space Station also kicks in later in the song.  (<a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?i=158043186&#38;id=158042760&#38;s=143441" target="_blank">listen</a>)<br />
- <a href="http://www.brookefraser.com/" target="_blank">Brooke Fraser</a>&#8217;s &#8220;Love is Waiting&#8221; on the <em>Albertine</em> record:  <a href="http://www.michaelchaves.net/" target="_blank">Michael Chaves</a> definitely uses it a lot, and it sounds to me like the main part for this song has it on there. (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bTjDace9nY" target="_blank">listen</a>)<br />
- <a href="http://emersonhart.musiccitynetworks.com/" target="_blank">Emerson Hart</a>&#8217;s &#8220;If You&#8217;re Gonna Leave&#8221; on the <em>Cigarettes &#38; Gasoline</em> Record:  Listen for the 5-1-2 melody line in the chorus. (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SxKRIBH_9o" target="_blank">listen/watch</a>)<br />
- <a href="http://www.robbieseayband.com/" target="_blank">Robbie Seay Band</a>&#8217;s &#8220;Rise&#8221; on the <em>Give Yourself Away</em> record.  Taylor Johnson said this was the main delay he used on this song and that he tends to use it a lot in the studio (<a href="http://www.myspace.com/robbieseayband" target="_blank">listen</a>).<br />
- <a href="http://www.u2.com" target="_blank">U2</a>&#8217;s &#8220;An Cat Dubh/Into the Heart&#8221; on the <em>Boy</em> record and pretty much any early U2.  Before Edge had all his racks he used 2 DMMs. (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F76cn6tp3yw" target="_blank">listen/watch</a>)</p>
<p>In Conclusion:  If you play electric guitar and you could use a delay, you should go play one.  It&#8217;s a little pricey, but nothing else sounds like it&#8230;</p>
<p>Sorry to make a long post even longer, but here&#8217;s a cool video of a kid using one:</p>
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<title><![CDATA[An Cat Dubh - The Black Cat]]></title>
<link>http://u2liveatredrocks25years.wordpress.com/2008/05/13/an-cat-dubh-the-black-cat/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 20:08:54 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>oledtvreviews</dc:creator>
<guid>http://u2liveatredrocks25years.wordpress.com/2008/05/13/an-cat-dubh-the-black-cat/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[An Cat Dubh in Gaelic, The Black Cat in English. Number Three on the Red Rocks set list.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Eigentlich]]></title>
<link>http://uiscebeatha.wordpress.com/2008/04/20/eigentlich-2/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2008 09:49:19 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Aoife</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[gehöre ich ja zu den Menschen, die auf die Frage &#8220;Und was ist dein(e) Lieblings/passendes Subs]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>gehöre ich ja zu den Menschen, die auf die Frage &#8220;Und was ist dein(e) Lieblings/<em>passendes Substantiv einsetzen</em>/?&#8221; erst mal einen langen Vortrag halten, wie unmöglich es ist, sich da für einen/eines zu entscheiden, schließlich kann man ja z.B. Elizabeth George und Terry Pratchett nicht miteinenader vergleichen, schließlich schreibt die eine Krimis und der andere Fantasy, eigentlich kann man nicht mal Pratchett und Jasper Fforde vergleichen, die schreiben zwar beide komische Fantasy, aber beim einen spielt sie auf einem fernen Planeten irgendwo im Mulitversum und beim anderen auf der guten alten Erde, zwar in einer Paralellwelt, aber trotzdem muss man sich dort noch an das eine oder andere physikalische Gesetz halten. Genausowenig kann man Criminal Minds und NCIS miteinander vergleichen, weil es zwar beides amerikanische Krimiserien sind, aber die eine sich schon eher auf die Fälle konzentriert und in der anderen auch die Interaktionen zwischen den Charakteren eine große Rolle spielen&#8230;in dem Stil kann ich lange weitermachen und haufenweise Argumente finden, warum man X und Y nicht miteinander vergleichen kann, das endet dann meistens damit dass ich eine lange Liste mit meinen Lieblings/<em>passendes Substantiv einsetzen</em>/ liefere und nicht nur ein einziges.<br />
Das gilt natürlich auch (sogar ganz besonders) für alles was mit Musik zu tun hat: Lieder, Instrumente, aber ganz besonders Bands. Subway to Sally ist was ganz anderes als Saltati Mortis, und die sind ganz anders als Schandmaul, und Eric Fish und Hannes Wader kann man auch nicht vergleichen&#8230;oder Fiddler&#8217;s Green und Copellius.<br />
Tja, aber manchmal habe ich das Gefühl, dass ich ich eigentlich die Antwort auf die Frage &#8220;Was ist deine absolute Lieblingsband?&#8221; doch kenne.</p>
<p>Jedesmal wenn ich von An Cat Dubh &#8220;Ride On&#8221; höre und mir die Augen feucht werden, obwohl ich alles andere als nah am Wasser gebaut bin.<br />
Jedesmal, wenn sie &#8220;Another Man&#8217;s Cause&#8221; spielen und ich bei der Zeile <em>He&#8217;s going</em> <span><em>to die in a place he should have never been at all</em> eine Gänsehaut kriege weil so viele Emotionen darin liegen.<br />
Jedesmal wenn ich <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">das Kinderlied</span> &#8220;Rattlin Bog&#8221; von Anfang bis Ende mitgröhle, weil es von ihnen nie langweilig wird.<br />
Jedesmal wenn sie &#8220;Molly Malone&#8221; a capella spielen, weil das einfach die bester Version dieses Liedes ist, die ich je gehört habe.<br />
Und auch jedesmal wenn sie auf der Bühne so herrlich dumm schwätzen <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':D' class='wp-smiley' /> </span></p>
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