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Ghost.7 from our Forum asked this question:

http://krankhaus.net/forum/index.php?topic=10839.0

so..I’ve been playing guitar for a while now, and I’m getting more and more in to industrial music.
So do you have any ideas how to get a nice aggressive industrial guitar-sound?
Like what pedals/modules can I use? What do you use?
I’ve been looking att the moogerfooger freqbox (mf-107), kinda nasty, not to cheap though :/

Thanks for this. To make an aggressive industrial guitar sound you need an aggressive industrial attitude and the tools to realise it. You need the following things to make AWESOME GUITARS happen:

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Pissing your life away…

I am increasingly frustrated by people who have great plans but lack the courage to make them happen.

Talent amounts to nothing. if you ain’t got BOLDNESS, you ain’t got anything.
I’ve met so many gifted composers who make the most amazing music…but are content with burning a few CDs for friends and uploading onto their Bandcamp, constantly working and re-working the same tracks, building up an arsenal of gear, dreaming about rock-stardom…and lacking the boldness to take the step and DO IT.

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Metasonix TM-2

Brand: Metasonix
Model: TM-2
Link: http://www.metasonix.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13&Itemid=30

BLURB:
The guy who designed this really thinks “outside the box”. You can create standard (yet distinctive) bandpass filter sounds, or you can seriously and brutally mash the sound. The resonator does something scathing to the audio…it does not distort it, it HURTS it!
This is a double bandpass filter (2 Bandpass Filters working in Parallel approx 1 octave apart), so it sounds different to a Low Pass Filter (most filters are Low Pass). At it’s core is a valve…and you can really hear it’s influence on the sound.

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Angelspit Remixes Snog

Angelspit appears on the latest release from fellow Australians SNOG. The digital release “Cheerful Hypocrisy” is a timely and very constructive message of mindfulness and well-being.

Utilising the sciences of happiness and social optimisation, ‘Cheerful Hypocrisy’ moves with an energetic swing and makes an enthusiastic contribution to psychosomatic productivity and trans-humanist rationality. Lyrically and musically refined to maximise behavioural economic growth and social capital, ‘Cheerful Hypocrisy’ lauds calculated hedonism and rewards market-responsible libertarianism through vaudevillian verve and electro-pop precision.

Cheerful Hypocrisy and The Clockwork Man are from the album ‘Compliance™’
Available October 16th 2015 on Metropolis Records (Met994)

DETAILS AND PRE-ORDER

Question about Religion

 

Recently, Kala Gombos asked me this question via email. I thought it was such a good question I’d post it here…
I’d love to hear other your thoughts on this topic.

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MoogerFooger (MF-101)

Brand: Moog Music
Mode: MoogerFooger (MF-101)
Link: http://www.moogmusic.com/moogerfooger/?section=product&product_id=62

BLURB:
This is apparently an exact replica of the 24dB Low Pass Transitor Ladder Filter used in the famous Moog55 modular. This filter is AWESOME! I think we’ve used it on every track…although there were a few tracks in Blood Death Ivory that used the Doepfer A-102 or Analogue Systems RS-500e diode filter…these two filters sound as distinctive and BEEFY as the Moog.

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Riffs and Chaos

I got an email from Keegan who asked about making music. Keegan was kind enough to let me post my response here…I really hope this helps!

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Analogue Systems RS-500e EMS Filter

Brand: Analogue Systems

Model: RS-500e EMS Filter
Link: http://www.analoguesystems.co.uk/pdf/RS500E.pdf

BLURB:
We’d been wanting to get one of these for years…then one just magically appeared in Schneiders’ Buero. It was love at first sight. The RS-500e has a beautiful, gentle, thumping yet “whiney” sound. It’s got the beef of a Moog but it sounds completely different.

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NOISEFERATU SOUNDTRACK – LIVE!

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Angelspit’s original score for the 1922 silent film Nosferatu.
This hellish soundscape performed LIVE in 2014, then toured in 2015.

Featuring experimental noise instruments built specifically for the show, plus a large portion of the soundtrack being performed by the audience on their phones.

Noiseferatu Score by Angelspit Excerpt 2018.

 

Noiseferatu LIVE by Angelspit Excerpt 2014.

 

2015 TOUR

Oct 09:  Chicago, IL @ Elastic Arts : DETAILS 
Oct 28: Cleveland, OH @ Fastbacks Brewhouse and Grill : DETAILS
Oct 29: Champaign, IL @ Mike n Molly’s : DETAILS
Oct 31: Wilmington, DE @ Asylum 13 : DETAILS
Nov 02: Boston
Nov 03: Albany, NY

Poster design by Jessi Adrignola www.jes.si

Modular Advice Please!

Original post: http://krankhaus.net/forum/index.php?board=2;topic=9858.0

Zubermensch from Angelspit’s Forum asked me about STUFF…here’s my response..

Before we start, have a look at the article I wrote for THE DOSE (the most AWESOME CYberpunk eZine EVER!!)
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> How does one get started with a modular synth rack? Do you buy it all put together like that? 
> Do you buy a frame or something and just start stacking up the inputs?

The most import ant thing: make sure you NEED a modular. You might be able to make your music just fine with SoftSynths. Although I (personally) don’t like SoftSynths, many bands who I admire (The Prodigy, NIN…the list goes on) use SoftSynths to some degree.

Good music DOES NOT need to made from good gear – just good ideas!

First: play around with the SoftSynth versions…then bust out the big cash when you’re certain you NEED a modular. There’s a heap of starter systems that cost US$1000-US$2000. Synthesizers.com, Doefper, Analogue Systems, Analogue Solutions (and many more brands) have such systems. Refer to the article I wrote for THE DOSE for more info:
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…also jump on our forum – there’s a lot people there who are getting into modulars.
www.krankhaus.net/forum

 

> How do you (personally) send the sound from the computer in to the synth as seen in your blipverts?

We have an old Yamaha DSP Card connected (via Optical Cable) to our old 01V Yamaha Desk. (yes, it’s old gear, but it works fine and I HATE landfill!!)
We Bus the signals from the card to the desk, then assign them to our central patch bay…it’s very complex and old school…there’s much easier was to do it these days with new-fangled Audio Boxes that all the “cool kids” are using…these fancy-pantsy boxes have multiple outs…so you’d assign the drum sample out the “B” output, plug it into your filters and go NUTS.

Remember: Content is King! A song is rooted in a good idea…it does not need the latest/expensive gear.

Beasty Boys wrote an AMAZING album on a 4 track. Frontline Assembly did incredible things with an Atari ST1040, some samplers and a desk.

I hope this answers your questions and inspires you to MAKETH ROCK!

ZooG