<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23493614</id><updated>2011-10-10T02:09:02.855-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Moon Mission Death Squad</title><subtitle type='html'>put your hand to your ear... what's that sound?  it's indie rock.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23493614/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Mason</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10307642191786798408</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://breakfastcore.googlepages.com/masonhead.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>39</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23493614.post-4020890240936698162</id><published>2010-02-22T09:02:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-22T09:11:17.453-08:00</updated><title type='text'>My Joke is Ruining Your Joke - 2009</title><content type='html'>&lt;br&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W0F6QqQexkk/S4K6OX5hPgI/AAAAAAAABSo/UytdEiQtBwA/s1600-h/MMDS2009.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 399px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W0F6QqQexkk/S4K6OX5hPgI/AAAAAAAABSo/UytdEiQtBwA/s400/MMDS2009.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441116055913184770" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm in the process of uploading everything to SoundCloud so you can listen in online and download in full quality for free.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="325" width="100%"&gt;  &lt;param name="movie" value="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fmoonmissiondeathsquad%2Fsets%2Fmy-joke-is-ruining-your-joke"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;  &lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;  &lt;embed allowscriptaccess="always" height="325" src="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fmoonmissiondeathsquad%2Fsets%2Fmy-joke-is-ruining-your-joke" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="100%"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt; &lt;/object&gt; &lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="http://soundcloud.com/moonmissiondeathsquad/sets/my-joke-is-ruining-your-joke"&gt;My Joke is Ruining Your Joke&lt;/a&gt;  by  &lt;a href="http://soundcloud.com/moonmissiondeathsquad"&gt;moonmissiondeathsquad&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23493614-4020890240936698162?l=moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com/feeds/4020890240936698162/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23493614&amp;postID=4020890240936698162' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23493614/posts/default/4020890240936698162'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23493614/posts/default/4020890240936698162'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com/2010/02/my-joke-is-ruining-your-joke-2009.html' title='My Joke is Ruining Your Joke - 2009'/><author><name>Mason</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10307642191786798408</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://breakfastcore.googlepages.com/masonhead.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W0F6QqQexkk/S4K6OX5hPgI/AAAAAAAABSo/UytdEiQtBwA/s72-c/MMDS2009.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23493614.post-7872957742737745984</id><published>2010-02-14T07:17:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-14T07:30:35.674-08:00</updated><title type='text'>The New Studio</title><content type='html'>&lt;br&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_W0F6QqQexkk/S3gW9Wx0HcI/AAAAAAAABSg/8TlQIpto0eM/s1600-h/IMAG0071.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_W0F6QqQexkk/S3gW9Wx0HcI/AAAAAAAABSg/8TlQIpto0eM/s400/IMAG0071.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5438121793392221634" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'll post some better (daylight) pictures when it's done.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23493614-7872957742737745984?l=moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com/feeds/7872957742737745984/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23493614&amp;postID=7872957742737745984' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23493614/posts/default/7872957742737745984'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23493614/posts/default/7872957742737745984'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com/2010/02/new-studio.html' title='The New Studio'/><author><name>Mason</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10307642191786798408</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://breakfastcore.googlepages.com/masonhead.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_W0F6QqQexkk/S3gW9Wx0HcI/AAAAAAAABSg/8TlQIpto0eM/s72-c/IMAG0071.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23493614.post-5019511140502450781</id><published>2009-08-15T04:28:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-11-30T04:31:12.433-08:00</updated><title type='text'>New Album: "My Joke is Ruining Your Joke"</title><content type='html'>&lt;br&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W0F6QqQexkk/Sjr1LyQ75aI/AAAAAAAABQU/pugA9MAw--0/s1600-h/stereo11.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 189px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W0F6QqQexkk/Sjr1LyQ75aI/AAAAAAAABQU/pugA9MAw--0/s400/stereo11.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5348857090276058530" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The new album is finished (no artwork yet), but please download it.  It's the best record we've ever made.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.tinyurl.com/mmds2009mp3"&gt;the mp3 version - &lt;br /&gt;http://www.tinyurl.com/mmds2009mp3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.tinyurl.com/mmds2009flac"&gt;the flac version -&lt;br /&gt;http://www.tinyurl.com/mmds2009flac&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(if you don't know, which one you want, you want the mp3s)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Get the lyrics &lt;a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?nteaknylgwx"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.  Yeah, it's a text file.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23493614-5019511140502450781?l=moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com/feeds/5019511140502450781/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23493614&amp;postID=5019511140502450781' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23493614/posts/default/5019511140502450781'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23493614/posts/default/5019511140502450781'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com/2009/08/new-album-my-joke-is-ruining-your-joke.html' title='New Album: &quot;My Joke is Ruining Your Joke&quot;'/><author><name>Mason</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10307642191786798408</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://breakfastcore.googlepages.com/masonhead.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W0F6QqQexkk/Sjr1LyQ75aI/AAAAAAAABQU/pugA9MAw--0/s72-c/stereo11.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23493614.post-5226731529369578244</id><published>2009-08-01T04:35:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-11-30T04:35:50.273-08:00</updated><title type='text'>We needs that crunch.</title><content type='html'>&lt;br&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W0F6QqQexkk/SmZVLPp056I/AAAAAAAABRk/ovxBmnCnDTo/s1600-h/S900.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W0F6QqQexkk/SmZVLPp056I/AAAAAAAABRk/ovxBmnCnDTo/s400/S900.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5361066058100041634" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Having done hours of research today, it looks like I want a low cost, rackmount 12bit sampler, most likely an Akai s900.  Something late 80s/early 90s, but that doesn't use some insane and obsolete storage format (like QuikDisk - ha!).  S950s are better, but have scsi outs and are more upgradeable = too expensive.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W0F6QqQexkk/SmZZtnL8apI/AAAAAAAABRs/srj_zX7zWpg/s1600-h/Roland+S-550.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 67px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W0F6QqQexkk/SmZZtnL8apI/AAAAAAAABRs/srj_zX7zWpg/s400/Roland+S-550.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5361071046579219090" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The other (even cheaper, and in some ways cooler) option is a Roland S550.  It's the rack version of the S-50.  They're extra cool, because you can hook them up to a monitor or TV and program and edit with a mouse.  They're super cheap (&lt;a href="http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&amp;item=180386192380"&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt; is $100, shipped!).  Since I don't need to take sounds from the computer and dump them to a sampler, and I don't need to make hip-hop music with an MPC style interface, I don't need to spend $1000 on a digital production unit.  Basically either one of these is just a super advanced Casio SK-1.  I don't really need one, but having spent several hours looking at them, I might as well buy one.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My real plan is to take a look at what sampler software I have in storage from 10 years ago and just buy one of those.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23493614-5226731529369578244?l=moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com/feeds/5226731529369578244/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23493614&amp;postID=5226731529369578244' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23493614/posts/default/5226731529369578244'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23493614/posts/default/5226731529369578244'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com/2009/08/we-needs-that-crunch.html' title='We needs that crunch.'/><author><name>Mason</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10307642191786798408</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://breakfastcore.googlepages.com/masonhead.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W0F6QqQexkk/SmZVLPp056I/AAAAAAAABRk/ovxBmnCnDTo/s72-c/S900.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23493614.post-8910794308104041202</id><published>2009-07-20T04:34:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-11-30T04:34:51.945-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Now we are unstoppable.</title><content type='html'>&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/breakfastcore/3740549511/" title="Two Hand Tapping - Two Peavey Mystics by Breakfast for Dinner, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2647/3740549511_d1255bdc15.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="Two Hand Tapping - Two Peavey Mystics" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Ft. Worth Guitar Show once again delivers!  Our friend Rod told me about this blue Mystic he had at the Dallas show back in May, so he brought it with him.  It's not in quite as good shape as my red-orange Mystic, but it was only $150.  I now need to purchase white, silver and metallic red Mystics for my collection to be complete.  I've also got a line on a &lt;a href="http://images.google.com/images?source=ig&amp;hl=en&amp;rlz=&amp;=&amp;q=peavey+mantis"&gt;white Peavey Mantis&lt;/a&gt;.  Then I need a &lt;a href="http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&amp;safe=off&amp;um=1&amp;sa=1&amp;q=peavey+razer&amp;btnG=Search+images&amp;aq=f&amp;oq="&gt;Razer&lt;/a&gt; and then it's on to one of every American Peavey manufactured before 1986.  Let me know if you've got something you want to sell me.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/breakfastcore/3741339496/" title="Two Peavey Mystics by Breakfast for Dinner, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2645/3741339496_3fc3d4b3c6.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="Two Peavey Mystics" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23493614-8910794308104041202?l=moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com/feeds/8910794308104041202/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23493614&amp;postID=8910794308104041202' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23493614/posts/default/8910794308104041202'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23493614/posts/default/8910794308104041202'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com/2009/07/now-we-are-unstoppable.html' title='Now we are unstoppable.'/><author><name>Mason</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10307642191786798408</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://breakfastcore.googlepages.com/masonhead.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2647/3740549511_d1255bdc15_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23493614.post-7376839132979413249</id><published>2009-07-08T05:10:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-11-30T05:11:55.814-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Circuit Bent Walkman/Drum Machine/Tape Sampler</title><content type='html'>&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/breakfastcore/3511183871/" title="Circuit Bent Walkman w/speed control by Breakfast for Dinner, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3375/3511183871_eb40b0e4c9.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="Circuit Bent Walkman w/speed control" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I've had this broken old walkman (or portable cassette player) lying around for ages (I paid $1 for it at an estate sale two years ago).  I've added three pots for varying levels of speed control.  The one on the left is the master speed, the top left is double speed and fine adjust and the top right is 1/2 speed and fine adjust.  See that grey wire running across the middle?  That's an awesome bass boost I added.  This hits so hard now, you wouldn't believe it.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Big Idea here is as follows: you take a cassette tape with a length of drum sample on it.  You then press play on the deck and adjust the speed to the desired tempo.  If you're super cool, you'll turn the speed of your drum machine all the way, then cut the the speed by half.  What happens?  Oh no!  Your casio is now rattling the dinner plates.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/breakfastcore/3511997188/" title="Circuit Bent Walkman - board closeup by Breakfast for Dinner, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3656/3511997188_d9640c79bf.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="Circuit Bent Walkman - board closeup" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/breakfastcore/3511999186/" title="Circuit Bent Walkman - side view by Breakfast for Dinner, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3354/3511999186_948b810b14.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="Circuit Bent Walkman - side view" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23493614-7376839132979413249?l=moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com/feeds/7376839132979413249/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23493614&amp;postID=7376839132979413249' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23493614/posts/default/7376839132979413249'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23493614/posts/default/7376839132979413249'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com/2009/07/circuit-bent-walkmandrum-machinetape.html' title='Circuit Bent Walkman/Drum Machine/Tape Sampler'/><author><name>Mason</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10307642191786798408</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://breakfastcore.googlepages.com/masonhead.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3375/3511183871_eb40b0e4c9_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23493614.post-2897199062194860605</id><published>2009-06-06T05:09:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-11-30T05:10:05.421-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Controlling the Gakken SX-150</title><content type='html'>&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/breakfastcore/3644942237/" title="Gakken Synth Keyboard Mod by Breakfast for Dinner, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2447/3644942237_471272e47b.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="Gakken Synth Keyboard Mod" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For a while now, I've been trying to figure out how to achieve more control over my Gakken synth without spending a fortune.  Sure, I could go the midi controller route, but a c/v to midi kit is $50.  I'd read some stuff online about making ribbon controllers so I thought I'd take a shot at it.  You know that I'm lazy and don't like carefully executing well planned out projects, so it's no surprise that the end result is less than professional.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What you will need for this project:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;a cardboard box or a 3 foot piece of wood&lt;br /&gt;double stick tape&lt;br /&gt;four alligator clip leads&lt;br /&gt;regular point tip test lead&lt;br /&gt;a sharpie&lt;br /&gt;a chromatic guitar tuner&lt;br /&gt;an old data backup tape/pro-grade vhs tape/dat tape&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cut the flaps off the box and fold it down into a strip (or just find a 3 foot piece of cardboard).  Run the double stick tape down the middle of the cardboard.  Crack open the tape case and pull out about 50% more than the length of the cardboard.  Stick the magnetic tape (dull side up) on the length of the sticky tape.  Place the clips on each end of the tape (now stuck to the cardboard).  Unscrew the two leads from the Gakken's carbon strip [the thing you play it with].  Clip each lead to the respective ends of the cardboard.  Using the extra clip leads and test lead, extend the Gakken's stylus so you can reach the cardboard strip.  You can now play the gakken by touching the stylus to the strip of mag tape.  Look how much more range you have! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now comes the tedious part.  Hook the tuner up to the output on the gakken.  Touch the lower left end of the mag strip with the stylus and look at the note it produces.  It may be so low that it's silent.  Move the stylus to the right until you get a low C.  Mark it with a line and the note.  Now keep going right and marking every half step.  At some point (probably about 3/4 of the way up) the notes will be so high that you probably won't even want to play them.  I can't guarantee the scale will be the same for everyone - different brands and grades of tape will have different levels of resistance.  I couldn't be more pleased about the outcome of this project.  Instead of spending $50.00 - I spend maybe $0.05 - if you include the sharpie I used. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So congrats, your tiny monophonic analog synth is now actually playable.  Bueno, no?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23493614-2897199062194860605?l=moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com/feeds/2897199062194860605/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23493614&amp;postID=2897199062194860605' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23493614/posts/default/2897199062194860605'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23493614/posts/default/2897199062194860605'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com/2009/06/controlling-gakken-sx-150.html' title='Controlling the Gakken SX-150'/><author><name>Mason</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10307642191786798408</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://breakfastcore.googlepages.com/masonhead.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2447/3644942237_471272e47b_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23493614.post-4333299941867291745</id><published>2009-05-02T05:07:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-11-30T05:08:55.398-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Electro Harmonix Drum Machine</title><content type='html'>&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/breakfastcore/3379813803/" title="Electro-Harmonix DRM16 Drum Machine by Breakfast for Dinner, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3444/3379813803_8d843a1260.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="Electro-Harmonix DRM16 Drum Machine" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I traded off two cheap Teisco Del Rays that I'd been carrying around to shows for a while for this GOD of a drum machine.  Built in 1978, this little fucker destroys with it's built in patterns.  It has a dedicated BASS DRUM output.  Hmmm... that means it could have a dedicated out for each instrument.  After much searching I found the schematics on a German website - oh yeah, I can definitely get a separate out for each.  But I don't want to drill more holes in the case.  My plan?  &lt;a href="http://www.allelectronics.com/make-a-store/item/DIN-5C/5-PIN-DIN-JACK-CHASSIS-MOUNT-180-DEG./-/1.html"&gt;A 5 pin DIN jack&lt;/a&gt; in place of the current OUTPUT 2 jack.  Then a DIN to five female 1/4" squid cable for the breakout.  I'm also pretty sure that I might be able to bend it by adding some pots in place of the resistors after the IC chip.  I'll keep you posted.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Check the sounds straight out of it:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; color: #595653; font-size: 11px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 5px;"&gt;Discover Simple, Private Sharing at &lt;a href="http://drop.io"&gt;Drop.io&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;object width="400" height="100"&gt;  &lt;param name="movie" value="http://s3.amazonaws.com/stlth/static/production/swf/audio_controller.swf"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;  &lt;param name="wmode" value="opaque"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;  &lt;param name="flashvars" value="song_label=converted-electroharmonix-drm16-demo_converted.mp3&amp;amp;music_track=http://drop.io/download/public/c8iyxycxupurcu39fwwn/0394333c37a77d40779df5e9377d3598446ea7cd/bb42c050-fa25-012b-615b-f867efcd4dcb/70bb7750-fa27-012b-d430-f6425b268058/converted-electroharmonix-drm16-demo_converted.mp3"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;  &lt;embed src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/stlth/static/production/swf/audio_controller.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="opaque" width="400" height="100"     flashvars="song_label=converted-electroharmonix-drm16-demo_converted.mp3&amp;amp;music_track=http://drop.io/download/public/c8iyxycxupurcu39fwwn/0394333c37a77d40779df5e9377d3598446ea7cd/bb42c050-fa25-012b-615b-f867efcd4dcb/70bb7750-fa27-012b-d430-f6425b268058/converted-electroharmonix-drm16-demo_converted.mp3"&gt;  &lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W0F6QqQexkk/SdQZmQGh-wI/AAAAAAAABM8/WKR0jkmnaSw/s1600-h/DRM16-3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 311px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W0F6QqQexkk/SdQZmQGh-wI/AAAAAAAABM8/WKR0jkmnaSw/s400/DRM16-3.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319905204779481858" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W0F6QqQexkk/SdQZmJR8bMI/AAAAAAAABM0/zwNVnQLN8sU/s1600-h/DRM16-2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 305px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W0F6QqQexkk/SdQZmJR8bMI/AAAAAAAABM0/zwNVnQLN8sU/s400/DRM16-2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319905202948304066" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23493614-4333299941867291745?l=moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com/feeds/4333299941867291745/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23493614&amp;postID=4333299941867291745' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23493614/posts/default/4333299941867291745'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23493614/posts/default/4333299941867291745'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com/2009/05/electro-harmonix-drum-machine.html' title='Electro Harmonix Drum Machine'/><author><name>Mason</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10307642191786798408</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://breakfastcore.googlepages.com/masonhead.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3444/3379813803_8d843a1260_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23493614.post-288907698482346241</id><published>2009-04-19T04:59:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-11-30T05:10:36.115-08:00</updated><title type='text'>You know we love drum machines.</title><content type='html'>&lt;br&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W0F6QqQexkk/SaX60G0TEDI/AAAAAAAABLA/o6UH-wfQeXQ/s1600-h/hobnox808.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 221px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W0F6QqQexkk/SaX60G0TEDI/AAAAAAAABLA/o6UH-wfQeXQ/s400/hobnox808.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306923509016105010" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So having been a longtime fan of &lt;a href="http://www.keyboardmuseum.com/d_machines/vdrums.html"&gt;Audio Playground's Virtual Drum Machine Museum&lt;/a&gt;, I'm always into checking out new online drum modules.  Enter the n00b on the nettubes: &lt;a href="http://www.hobnox.com/index.1056.en.html"&gt;Hobnox Audiotool&lt;/a&gt;.  It's German, it's flash-based, it sounds awesome and it's new favorite timewaster.  It features a 909, an 808, a 303 and a ton of effects.  It's all point and click, it's easy enough for a kid to use but poweruser enough to keep me interested.  It would be an amazing way to teach signal path and effects chains to school children (or adults, most of whom don't seem to understand it).  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'd especially like to try it on a large 32" touchscreen.  It will be nice to see how they develop it and what other features they add.  I think a lot of users would be willing to pay for extra modules (other drum machines/synths/samplers - i'm thinking MPC) and you can't save your sessions (though you can record and upload your mixes).  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think this is an awesome (and free!) alternative to VST plugins for your average person.  It's simple, unpretentious, accessible and it doesn't cost $1000.  Check out the Stereo Detune and Bitcrush effects plugins.  They're neat.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_W0F6QqQexkk/SaX60Ob0OMI/AAAAAAAABLI/s5uoS3R99F4/s1600-h/hobnox-overview.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 314px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_W0F6QqQexkk/SaX60Ob0OMI/AAAAAAAABLI/s5uoS3R99F4/s400/hobnox-overview.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306923511060904130" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23493614-288907698482346241?l=moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com/feeds/288907698482346241/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23493614&amp;postID=288907698482346241' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23493614/posts/default/288907698482346241'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23493614/posts/default/288907698482346241'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com/2009/11/you-know-we-love-drum-machines.html' title='You know we love drum machines.'/><author><name>Mason</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10307642191786798408</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://breakfastcore.googlepages.com/masonhead.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W0F6QqQexkk/SaX60G0TEDI/AAAAAAAABLA/o6UH-wfQeXQ/s72-c/hobnox808.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23493614.post-1672653287331706916</id><published>2009-04-15T05:06:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-11-30T05:07:15.763-08:00</updated><title type='text'>New Album Title?  Confirmed.</title><content type='html'>&lt;br&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_W0F6QqQexkk/Se_BYkZ55ZI/AAAAAAAABPc/EBtLURLP24o/s512/portable-fisher-price.jpg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Megan came up with the best possible album title for the currently titled, "Moon Mission Death Squad #6", scheduled for release on Aug. 15th, 2009.  And the title is:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My Joke is Ruining Your Joke&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's perfect, isn't it?  It's a total stroke of brilliance on her part.  Thanks Meg!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23493614-1672653287331706916?l=moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com/feeds/1672653287331706916/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23493614&amp;postID=1672653287331706916' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23493614/posts/default/1672653287331706916'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23493614/posts/default/1672653287331706916'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com/2009/04/new-album-title-confirmed_15.html' title='New Album Title?  Confirmed.'/><author><name>Mason</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10307642191786798408</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://breakfastcore.googlepages.com/masonhead.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://lh3.ggpht.com/_W0F6QqQexkk/Se_BYkZ55ZI/AAAAAAAABPc/EBtLURLP24o/s72-c/portable-fisher-price.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23493614.post-5212378225902309985</id><published>2009-04-03T04:32:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-11-30T04:32:52.477-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Portastudio 414</title><content type='html'>&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/breakfastcore/3417003520/" title="Tascam 414 by Breakfast for Dinner, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3366/3417003520_d2ff030407.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="Tascam 414" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I love estate sales.  $15 for this perfect 4 track.  I was going to save it for the guitar show, but I think I already have a buyer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/breakfastcore/3417003532/" title="Tascam 414 (CloseUp) by Breakfast for Dinner, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3589/3417003532_48a0f9b604.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="Tascam 414 (CloseUp)" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23493614-5212378225902309985?l=moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com/feeds/5212378225902309985/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23493614&amp;postID=5212378225902309985' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23493614/posts/default/5212378225902309985'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23493614/posts/default/5212378225902309985'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com/2009/04/portastudio-414.html' title='Portastudio 414'/><author><name>Mason</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10307642191786798408</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://breakfastcore.googlepages.com/masonhead.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3366/3417003520_d2ff030407_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23493614.post-5978503116779866097</id><published>2009-03-30T05:04:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-11-30T05:05:13.944-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Drum Machine into the Tape Deck</title><content type='html'>&lt;br&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_W0F6QqQexkk/ScBZOIw7pNI/AAAAAAAABMY/AiXOxyei03o/s1600-h/2860620639_b5573575e8_o.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 355px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_W0F6QqQexkk/ScBZOIw7pNI/AAAAAAAABMY/AiXOxyei03o/s400/2860620639_b5573575e8_o.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314345659702944978" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/matrixsynth/2860620639/"&gt;pic via our friends at matrixsynth&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;OK, new tricks:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;VL-Tone drum machine --&gt; Input 5 on Tascam Board --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Submix Out 5--&gt; Tascam 122 Tape Deck --&gt; Tape Monitor Out on 122 --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Input 1 on Tascam Board --&gt; Buss 4 on Tascam Board --&gt; Fostex 250 4-track&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Does that seem complex?  Well... it is.  Basically what I'm doing is using the board and 122 to overdrive and eq, then tape saturate the signal before bringing it back into the 4 track.  In more simple terms I'm recording the recording of the VL-Tone.  It's fucking awesome.  Additionally I cranked the bass at about 60hz to make it hit a little harder.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You have to be careful with it, but you can also get an infinite repeats feedback loop going by feeding a little of Submix out 1 (the signal that's going to the 4 track) into the 122.  Cranking it past 1 or 2 will blow everything up (which might be cool if you sampled it), so be forewarned.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You get a lot of natural tape compression from the saturation which I think adds a ton of punch (or Dick/Fuck as we say in the industry) and I might start doing it with all drums/drum machines.  Sadly this technique can only work with the first track you lay down because of the several ms of latency between the original input and the output from the 122 back to the 4-track.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Remember you can only do this if your tape deck has 2 or more heads and both a TAPE and SOURCE monitor switch.  Of course if your deck has a speed switch and fine adjust knob, you can use it as a slap back echo.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23493614-5978503116779866097?l=moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com/feeds/5978503116779866097/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23493614&amp;postID=5978503116779866097' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23493614/posts/default/5978503116779866097'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23493614/posts/default/5978503116779866097'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com/2009/03/drum-machine-into-tape-deck.html' title='Drum Machine into the Tape Deck'/><author><name>Mason</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10307642191786798408</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://breakfastcore.googlepages.com/masonhead.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_W0F6QqQexkk/ScBZOIw7pNI/AAAAAAAABMY/AiXOxyei03o/s72-c/2860620639_b5573575e8_o.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23493614.post-5318990073936665300</id><published>2009-03-24T04:32:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-11-30T04:34:00.545-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;br&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W0F6QqQexkk/SdkZg_wwQyI/AAAAAAAABNU/g2t9FmUQiN4/s1600-h/img_3584.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W0F6QqQexkk/SdkZg_wwQyI/AAAAAAAABNU/g2t9FmUQiN4/s400/img_3584.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5321312489377383202" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Crushingly, my famed Fostex 250 is not doing so hot.  Considering that it's over 25 years old, and has seen umpteen hours of use in the last 3 years, this is less than surprising.  As luck would have it, however, I responded to a craigslist ad for a Tascam 464.  The 464 is the upgraded version of the classic 424 (not to be confused with the 424 MKIII - the 464 is still better).  Arguably the best tabletop 4 track Tascam ever made (the &lt;a href="http://www.videointerchange.com/images/tascam234.jpg"&gt;234&lt;/a&gt; is cooler, but rackmount).  A good condition 424 goes for $100-$175 on that eeebay, but no one knows about the 464.  I paid $65 bucks for this beast and am damn pleased about it.  The transport is super-stable and the pre's sound great.  I'm of course still running everything through the board, and the only drawback to this unit is that it doesn't feature direct tape inputs (which you could probably hack into by looking at the insert returns on the first two tracks and duplicating the wiring on 3 and 4 - it's probably a lot of work though).  I've dumped the tracks off the Minidisc and am ready to record some vocals, so we'll see how it turns out.  So far I'm immensely pleased with this purchase.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As for the Fostex, I'm going to try and either swap the pinch roller off a newer broken tape deck, or pay $35 for a reconditioned pinch roller from &lt;a href="http://www.terrysrubberrollers.com/"&gt;Terry's&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23493614-5318990073936665300?l=moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com/feeds/5318990073936665300/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23493614&amp;postID=5318990073936665300' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23493614/posts/default/5318990073936665300'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23493614/posts/default/5318990073936665300'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com/2009/03/crushingly-my-famed-fostex-250-is-not.html' title=''/><author><name>Mason</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10307642191786798408</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://breakfastcore.googlepages.com/masonhead.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W0F6QqQexkk/SdkZg_wwQyI/AAAAAAAABNU/g2t9FmUQiN4/s72-c/img_3584.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23493614.post-5495580454517412801</id><published>2009-03-10T05:01:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-11-30T05:03:53.363-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Korg EX-800 Mod, Part 2</title><content type='html'>&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/breakfastcore/3352192397/" title="EX800 Moog Slayer Mod - Finished by Breakfast for Dinner, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3643/3352192397_37c516bec8.jpg" alt="EX800 Moog Slayer Mod - Finished" width="500" height="375" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After seven years of talking about it, I finally modified something.  I went ahead and did the Moog Slayer mod (cutoff and resonance knobs for the filter), the FM mod for DCO1 and the noise control knob.  Here are some pictures of the process.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/breakfastcore/3352192799/" title="EX800 Grounded Pot Assembly - Step 1 by Breakfast for Dinner, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3638/3352192799_68dbf86d1b.jpg" alt="EX800 Grounded Pot Assembly - Step 1" width="500" height="375" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I drilled the case out, installed the knobs and grounded them together.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/breakfastcore/3352193495/" title="EX800 Pot Assembly - Step 2 by Breakfast for Dinner, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3473/3352193495_78f26c662e.jpg" alt="EX800 Pot Assembly - Step 2" width="500" height="375" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here I've attached the leads to the pots.&lt;br /&gt;Top Left is Resonance, Bottom Left is Cutoff, Top Right is Oscillator, Bottom Right is Noise.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/breakfastcore/3352194287/" title="EX800 Pot Assembly - Step 3 by Breakfast for Dinner, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3577/3352194287_c1be2948e7.jpg" alt="EX800 Pot Assembly - Step 3" width="500" height="375" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Larger view of compete front panel assembly.&lt;br /&gt;The pots with marker on them are the pots I added.  The middle three are original.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/breakfastcore/3352193139/" title="EX800 - Liquid Electrical Tape by Breakfast for Dinner, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3625/3352193139_f814e6333a.jpg" alt="EX800 - Liquid Electrical Tape" width="500" height="375" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Instead of using heat shrink I bought some Liquid Electrical Tape.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/breakfastcore/3353018176/" title="EX800 Liquid Electrical Tape Drip by Breakfast for Dinner, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3441/3353018176_770530bb15.jpg" alt="EX800 Liquid Electrical Tape Drip" width="500" height="375" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It works really well, but it smells awful and it's super drippy.&lt;br /&gt;It took two coats to get really covered.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/breakfastcore/3352194745/" title="EX800 mod finished pot replacement by Breakfast for Dinner, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3459/3352194745_fdbcc5381f.jpg" alt="EX800 mod finished pot replacement" width="500" height="375" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Internal board with mods wired in.  I chose not to replace the resistors on&lt;br /&gt;the board because I didn't want to ruin it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/breakfastcore/3352195075/" title="EX800 Grounded and Reassembled by Breakfast for Dinner, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3615/3352195075_1df7f8d262.jpg" alt="EX800 Grounded and Reassembled" width="500" height="375" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finally, I grounded the whole whole thing.  The red wire on the right&lt;br /&gt;has a resistor covered in liquid tape running to the cutoff pot.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The big question is, "How does it sound?"   It sounds amazing.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23493614-5495580454517412801?l=moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com/feeds/5495580454517412801/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23493614&amp;postID=5495580454517412801' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23493614/posts/default/5495580454517412801'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23493614/posts/default/5495580454517412801'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com/2009/03/korg-ex-800-mod-part-1.html' title='Korg EX-800 Mod, Part 2'/><author><name>Mason</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10307642191786798408</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://breakfastcore.googlepages.com/masonhead.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3643/3352192397_37c516bec8_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23493614.post-5338930695445281712</id><published>2009-03-06T05:03:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-30T05:03:38.955-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Korg EX-800 Mod, Part 1</title><content type='html'>&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/breakfastcore/3348221260/" title="Korg EX-800 by Breakfast for Dinner, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3623/3348221260_23b9784f6f.jpg" alt="Korg EX-800" width="500" height="375" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm going to attempt to modify my Korg EX-800.  "Atom Smasher" from synthmod.net has a fairly easy looking filter mod known as &lt;a href="http://www.synthmod.net/korg/moog_slayer/"&gt;"The Moog Slayer"&lt;/a&gt; for my rackmount Poly-800.  It involves removing two trim pots from the board and case mounting them so you can manually control the analog filter.  While I'm at it, I'm going to swap the NOISE control trim pot on the board for a case mount pot as well. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He also has a slightly more &lt;a href=" http://www.synthmod.net/korg/fm800/"&gt;complicated mod&lt;/a&gt; where you jump one of the points on the DCO's IC chip and control the oscillator's cutoff with a knob.  I'm not really sure what that means, but if the filter mod goes well, I might try the other one. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I went ahead and removed the trim pots and I've ordered the parts along with a step drill bit to put clean holes in the metal case.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/breakfastcore/3348221270/" title="Korg EX-800 Mod: Step 1 by Breakfast for Dinner, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3558/3348221270_a5fa294389.jpg" alt="Korg EX-800 Mod: Step 1" width="500" height="375" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;VR5 is the resonance, VR2 is the filter cutoff.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/breakfastcore/3348221280/" title="Korg EX-800 Mod: Removing Trim Pots by Breakfast for Dinner, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3599/3348221280_8a8c42cf87.jpg" alt="Korg EX-800 Mod: Removing Trim Pots" width="500" height="375" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/breakfastcore/3348221286/" title="Korg EX-800 Mod: Removing Noise Pot by Breakfast for Dinner, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3618/3348221286_29f4217b8e.jpg" alt="Korg EX-800 Mod: Removing Noise Pot" width="500" height="375" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;VR3 is the noise level.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/breakfastcore/3348221290/" title="Korg EX-800 Mod: Removed Trim Pots by Breakfast for Dinner, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3542/3348221290_230c4e6f13.jpg" alt="Korg EX-800 Mod: Removed Trim Pots" width="375" height="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Trim pots after I de-soldered them from the board.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23493614-5338930695445281712?l=moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com/feeds/5338930695445281712/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23493614&amp;postID=5338930695445281712' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23493614/posts/default/5338930695445281712'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23493614/posts/default/5338930695445281712'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com/2009/03/korg-ex-800-mod-part-1_06.html' title='Korg EX-800 Mod, Part 1'/><author><name>Mason</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10307642191786798408</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://breakfastcore.googlepages.com/masonhead.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3623/3348221260_23b9784f6f_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23493614.post-7559507057562950376</id><published>2009-03-02T05:00:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-30T05:01:47.276-08:00</updated><title type='text'>MMDS &amp; Springsteen::Kennedy &amp; Lincoln</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W0F6QqQexkk/SbMg23WmKjI/AAAAAAAABLw/v2cuIchfiUE/s1600-h/newsRockHallTeac.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 342px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W0F6QqQexkk/SbMg23WmKjI/AAAAAAAABLw/v2cuIchfiUE/s400/newsRockHallTeac.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310624512543697458" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;FIRST LOOK: ROCK HALL'S SPRINGSTEEN EXHIBIT OPENING APRIL 1&lt;br /&gt;The TEAC 4-track recorder Bruce used to record Nebraska -- that's it above, the very one. And you'll be able to see it up close and personal at Cleveland's &lt;a href="http://www.rockhall.com"&gt;Rock and Roll Hall of Fame&lt;/a&gt; in Museum in less than a month. On April, 1, during the Rock Hall's 2009 Induction Week, they'll unveil their latest exhibit, "From Asbury Park to the Promised Land: The Life and Music of Bruce Springsteen."&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href="http://backstreets.com/news.html"&gt;via backstreets&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hmmm... who's 4track does this look like?  Our Fostex 250 is almost identical to the TEAC 144.  See, we're just that awesome.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23493614-7559507057562950376?l=moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com/feeds/7559507057562950376/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23493614&amp;postID=7559507057562950376' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23493614/posts/default/7559507057562950376'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23493614/posts/default/7559507057562950376'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com/2009/03/mmds-springsteenkennedy-lincoln.html' title='MMDS &amp; Springsteen::Kennedy &amp; Lincoln'/><author><name>Mason</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10307642191786798408</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://breakfastcore.googlepages.com/masonhead.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W0F6QqQexkk/SbMg23WmKjI/AAAAAAAABLw/v2cuIchfiUE/s72-c/newsRockHallTeac.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23493614.post-229055499552057445</id><published>2009-02-10T04:58:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-30T04:58:51.456-08:00</updated><title type='text'>dbx Model 700 Digital Audio Processor</title><content type='html'>&lt;br&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W0F6QqQexkk/SaIFLDt8hEI/AAAAAAAABKQ/K4y01jTyDdM/s1600-h/28174__dbx_logo.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W0F6QqQexkk/SaIFLDt8hEI/AAAAAAAABKQ/K4y01jTyDdM/s400/28174__dbx_logo.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305808998530581570" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Uh... did you know &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dbx_Model_700_Digital_Audio_Processor"&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; existed?&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The dbx Model 700 Digital Audio Processor was a professional audio ADC/DAC combination unit, which digitized a stereo analog audio input into a bitstream, which was then encoded and encapsulated in an analog composite video signal, for recording to tape using a VCR as a transport. Unlike other similar pieces of equipment like the Sony PCM-F1, the Model 700 used a technique called Companded Predictive Delta Modulation, rather than the now-common pulse-code modulation. &lt;/blockquote&gt;Yeah, did you understand that?  It's a rack unit that records 644kbs audio to a VHS tape.  I would give up one of my toes for one of these.  Any information regarding where one of these units might be aquired would be greatly appreciated.  Check out &lt;a href=" http://aroundcny.com/technofile/texts/dbx700recorder86.html"&gt;this period review&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23493614-229055499552057445?l=moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com/feeds/229055499552057445/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23493614&amp;postID=229055499552057445' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23493614/posts/default/229055499552057445'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23493614/posts/default/229055499552057445'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com/2009/02/dbx-model-700-digital-audio-processor.html' title='dbx Model 700 Digital Audio Processor'/><author><name>Mason</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10307642191786798408</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://breakfastcore.googlepages.com/masonhead.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W0F6QqQexkk/SaIFLDt8hEI/AAAAAAAABKQ/K4y01jTyDdM/s72-c/28174__dbx_logo.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23493614.post-8383351271824899564</id><published>2009-01-12T04:55:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-30T04:57:58.462-08:00</updated><title type='text'>"Get Ready and Roll the Cassette"</title><content type='html'>&lt;br&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_W0F6QqQexkk/SXVMkW5v2lI/AAAAAAAABFA/ZB7YNzCN-ec/s1600-h/IMG_2472.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_W0F6QqQexkk/SXVMkW5v2lI/AAAAAAAABFA/ZB7YNzCN-ec/s400/IMG_2472.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293221124550679122" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Estate Sale.  25¢ each.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(05) Maxell MX 110 - Metal Type IV HIGHEST BIAS EVER&lt;br /&gt;(10) Maxell XLII 100 - Type II High Bias&lt;br /&gt;(08) TDK SA 90 - Type II High Bias&lt;br /&gt;(02) TDK SA-X 90 - Type II High Bias&lt;br /&gt;(02) Maxell UDII CD74 - [it always seemed odd to me that you'd manufacture a tape that was the same length as a CD since that makes each side 37 minutes long.  Most cds are about 45-50 minutes long, so it actually makes the most sense to buy 110 minute tapes and put an album on each side.  The drawback of course being that 110 minute tapes snap fairly easily.]&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23493614-8383351271824899564?l=moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com/feeds/8383351271824899564/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23493614&amp;postID=8383351271824899564' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23493614/posts/default/8383351271824899564'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23493614/posts/default/8383351271824899564'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com/2009/01/get-ready-and-roll-cassette.html' title='&quot;Get Ready and Roll the Cassette&quot;'/><author><name>Mason</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10307642191786798408</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://breakfastcore.googlepages.com/masonhead.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_W0F6QqQexkk/SXVMkW5v2lI/AAAAAAAABFA/ZB7YNzCN-ec/s72-c/IMG_2472.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23493614.post-4999466888784105</id><published>2009-01-03T04:54:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-30T04:55:23.338-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Ghosts of Moon Mission's Past</title><content type='html'>&lt;br&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_W0F6QqQexkk/SWVvW1SHB_I/AAAAAAAABDo/_wyeGwEfcSI/s1600-h/IMG_2327_crop.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 223px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_W0F6QqQexkk/SWVvW1SHB_I/AAAAAAAABDo/_wyeGwEfcSI/s400/IMG_2327_crop.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5288755775467358194" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today was transfer day, and by that I mean I finally got around to running a bunch of 10-15 year old cassettes to the PC.  (I ran them at 48/24... i know it's silly to use such a high encoding bit rate since they're old tapes, but it's just a thing I like doing.)  It was mostly some old 4track mixdowns from junior high (most of which is just bizarre), a tape of my metal band Malidiktor from the 7th grade - early 7th grade at that, and a MMDS show I taped from 2003.  They came out pretty well for using the IdeaPad's sound card (which does leave quite a bit to be desired for pro-audio purposes) and Audacity (which I love and swear by).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The live show was in pretty bad shape, but it's cleaned up fairly well.  I recorded it as an afterthought on a crappy 70's Panasonic school tape player (the same one I now use to listen to tapes on my bike) sitting in front of the tiny PA at Shooties' Lounge (no longer in existence) on Reno and Sooner in Midwest City, OK.  It's actually a pretty good show for me having called Daniel and said, "Bring your drums, we're playing a show tonight."  I know there are a couple of songs that he'd maybe only heard once and we just decided to wing it.  I think that's a strong testament to what a great drummer my brother is when he wants to be.  After soaping out all the motor noise and hiss, it's thin, and the vocals aren't quite as loud as I wish they were, but it sounds sort of OK.  I'll post it after I cut it up and convert it to MP3.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the whole there weren't really any "uncovered gems", but I didn't expect there to be.  I do wish I had more live shows taped, but oh well.  If you ever played a show with us that you recorded, let me know.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W0F6QqQexkk/SWVvg_PwpmI/AAAAAAAABDw/vEn_RkhnfSY/s1600-h/IMG_2334.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W0F6QqQexkk/SWVvg_PwpmI/AAAAAAAABDw/vEn_RkhnfSY/s400/IMG_2334.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5288755949940549218" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23493614-4999466888784105?l=moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com/feeds/4999466888784105/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23493614&amp;postID=4999466888784105' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23493614/posts/default/4999466888784105'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23493614/posts/default/4999466888784105'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com/2009/01/ghosts-of-moon-missions-past.html' title='Ghosts of Moon Mission&apos;s Past'/><author><name>Mason</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10307642191786798408</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://breakfastcore.googlepages.com/masonhead.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_W0F6QqQexkk/SWVvW1SHB_I/AAAAAAAABDo/_wyeGwEfcSI/s72-c/IMG_2327_crop.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23493614.post-5306207371737394626</id><published>2008-12-19T04:50:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-30T04:53:19.475-08:00</updated><title type='text'>No, the little door comes down, then you put the tape in.</title><content type='html'>&lt;br&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W0F6QqQexkk/SVG-wDxvtoI/AAAAAAAABCo/a5shwAyqzaA/s1600-h/i-3-146-64-1-A003A152.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 134px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W0F6QqQexkk/SVG-wDxvtoI/AAAAAAAABCo/a5shwAyqzaA/s400/i-3-146-64-1-A003A152.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5283213570739254914" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;HAHAHAHAHAHA!  &lt;a href="http://www.tascam.com/products/202mkiii.html"&gt;Tascam 202MKIII&lt;/a&gt; at Value World in Garland for $24.24 - this is my best thrift store find since Meg picked up that Martin last year.  This was a $400 dollar deck new, and this little beauty works perfectly.  It was dirty and that's all.  And by dirty, I mean it physically had dirt all over it.  Weird.  As I was walking away to check to see if the deck worked I spied a... wait for it... original 1/2 rackspace Alesis Midiverb for $1.91!  Not the crappy midiverb II, but the first generation lawsuit model.  Looks like they go for about $60 on ebay, so I'll probably sell it after I play around with it for a while.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;^^UPDATE^^ Uh, so it seems that all 80's Alesis products use a 9 volt AC current?  Weird.  I have no intention of buying that crazy adapter, so I suppose the MIDIverb wasn't as sweet as I thought.  Oh well.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23493614-5306207371737394626?l=moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com/feeds/5306207371737394626/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23493614&amp;postID=5306207371737394626' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23493614/posts/default/5306207371737394626'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23493614/posts/default/5306207371737394626'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com/2008/12/no-little-door-comes-down-then-you-put.html' title='No, the little door comes down, then you put the tape in.'/><author><name>Mason</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10307642191786798408</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://breakfastcore.googlepages.com/masonhead.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W0F6QqQexkk/SVG-wDxvtoI/AAAAAAAABCo/a5shwAyqzaA/s72-c/i-3-146-64-1-A003A152.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23493614.post-6839997838161113371</id><published>2008-11-30T04:49:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-30T04:54:17.414-08:00</updated><title type='text'>TestToneTape</title><content type='html'>&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/breakfastcore/3091000198/" title="Test Tone Tape by Breakfast for Dinner, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3149/3091000198_0a01dd2173.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="Test Tone Tape" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am such an idiot.  I've spent years working with tape recording... 4 tracks, reel to reel, multiple levels of mixdown between decks.  For some stupid reason I've never used a calibrating test tone to stripe the beginning of tapes.  I've read about it before, but just always blown it off.  This came back to bite me in the ass recently when I dumped some tracks back to the 4track and accidentally had the pitch just slightly off.  Re-tuning the track was the biggest hassle I've dealt with in months.  As a result, I'm now running a 440hz and 333.33hz tone at the start of every tape.  Later, regardless of what equipment the tape is played back on, the deck can be tuned to make it run at it's original speed and pitch.  Why didn't I think of this before?  Because I'm a moron that's why.  Honestly, I would suggest doing this even with digital recordings.  It can't hurt.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As a side note about analog vs. digital:  I still have 4track tapes from 1995 whereas I've lost whole records due to digital audio workstations crashing.  Think about it.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23493614-6839997838161113371?l=moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com/feeds/6839997838161113371/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23493614&amp;postID=6839997838161113371' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23493614/posts/default/6839997838161113371'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23493614/posts/default/6839997838161113371'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com/2008/11/testtonetape.html' title='TestToneTape'/><author><name>Mason</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10307642191786798408</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://breakfastcore.googlepages.com/masonhead.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3149/3091000198_0a01dd2173_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23493614.post-1592411716615429840</id><published>2008-11-11T04:48:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-30T04:49:23.402-08:00</updated><title type='text'>My Minidisc Brings All the Boys to the Yard...</title><content type='html'>&lt;br&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_W0F6QqQexkk/SR-A4sA6khI/AAAAAAAAA-I/mUB1RBnltO0/s1600-h/img_1810.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_W0F6QqQexkk/SR-A4sA6khI/AAAAAAAAA-I/mUB1RBnltO0/s400/img_1810.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5269071800422797842" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, I finally figured out what to do with my $2.00 minidisc deck.  I now use it as a lossless, transparent intermixing stage!  "But, Mason," you say, "What the fuck does that mean?".  Well, dear boy, I'll tell you.  When you're 4-tracking, sometimes you actually need more tracks.  One option is mixing down what's been done to cassette (what I've done in the past) before running it back into the four track.  This leads to over-compression, loss of highs and lows, pitch problems and the over-dubs sounding more clear and upfront than the original four backing tracks.  That sucks.  The other option (this is where the MD deck comes in) is mixing down to a lossless digital medium to run back into the 4-track.  HAHA!  Yeah, I know, I'm pretty happy about it too.  Is this cheating?  Maybe, but who fucking cares.  I really need a standalone audio CD burner with a really good A/D converter for the digital dump from the cassette master.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23493614-1592411716615429840?l=moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com/feeds/1592411716615429840/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23493614&amp;postID=1592411716615429840' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23493614/posts/default/1592411716615429840'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23493614/posts/default/1592411716615429840'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com/2008/11/my-minidisc-brings-all-boys-to-yard.html' title='My Minidisc Brings All the Boys to the Yard...'/><author><name>Mason</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10307642191786798408</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://breakfastcore.googlepages.com/masonhead.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_W0F6QqQexkk/SR-A4sA6khI/AAAAAAAAA-I/mUB1RBnltO0/s72-c/img_1810.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23493614.post-7216589369498509107</id><published>2008-10-29T20:47:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-29T20:53:35.842-07:00</updated><title type='text'>I finally fixed our myspace.</title><content type='html'>&lt;Br&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_W0F6QqQexkk/SQkvobebimI/AAAAAAAAA8Y/UKxsZfJuAdE/s1600-h/barack-obama-2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 287px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_W0F6QqQexkk/SQkvobebimI/AAAAAAAAA8Y/UKxsZfJuAdE/s400/barack-obama-2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262790011175799394" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For three years our &lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/moonmissiondeathsquad"&gt;myspace&lt;/a&gt; has been frozen.  Now, I hate myspace, but our old drummer set one up.  I didn't know the username or password to login to it, so it just sat.  Today I got a spam email from myspace, and via that, figured out the login, got the password and changed it around.  Friend us if you want, I don't really care, I'll probably never look at it again.  Just thought you might want to know.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also, the next record is about half done.  And don't forget to vote for Barack Obama.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23493614-7216589369498509107?l=moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com/feeds/7216589369498509107/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23493614&amp;postID=7216589369498509107' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23493614/posts/default/7216589369498509107'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23493614/posts/default/7216589369498509107'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com/2008/10/i-finally-fixed-our-myspace.html' title='I finally fixed our myspace.'/><author><name>Mason</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10307642191786798408</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://breakfastcore.googlepages.com/masonhead.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_W0F6QqQexkk/SQkvobebimI/AAAAAAAAA8Y/UKxsZfJuAdE/s72-c/barack-obama-2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23493614.post-4095039229003002502</id><published>2008-04-24T20:36:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-04-24T21:23:29.876-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Hello, I made a new covers album.</title><content type='html'>&lt;br&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_W0F6QqQexkk/SBFZVjV_VwI/AAAAAAAAAXc/QWrP3ai-yf8/s1600-h/mosaic6204037.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_W0F6QqQexkk/SBFZVjV_VwI/AAAAAAAAAXc/QWrP3ai-yf8/s640/mosaic6204037.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5193030072134489858" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;sorry John Prine, the picture of you wouldn't fit.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So I'm sort of into this covers thing lately while we're working on the next album.  (Songs are written for new record, drums and guitars are recorded, you'll probably hear it some time).  Anyway, it's called "Songs You Loved in High School", so here are fourteen songs by seven artists that I like.  It's pretty lo-fi (which is on purpose), tell me what you think in the comments section.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://crossedswordswaxedboards.googlepages.com/boysdontcry.mp3"&gt;The Cure-Boys Don't Cry&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://crossedswordswaxedboards.googlepages.com/afterthegoldrush.mp3"&gt;Neil Young-After the Goldrush&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://crossedswordswaxedboards.googlepages.com/candysays.mp3"&gt;The Velvet Underground-Candy Says&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://crossedswordswaxedboards.googlepages.com/everydayislikesunday.mp3"&gt;Morrissey-Every Day is Like Sunday&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://crossedswordswaxedboards.googlepages.com/losingmyreligion.mp3"&gt;REM-Losing My Religion&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://crossedswordswaxedboards.googlepages.com/samstone.mp3"&gt;John Prine-Sam Stone&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://crossedswordswaxedboards.googlepages.com/newage.mp3"&gt;The Velvet Underground-New Age&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://crossedswordswaxedboards.googlepages.com/fridayiminlove.mp3"&gt;The Cure-Friday I'm in Love&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://crossedswordswaxedboards.googlepages.com/roland.mp3"&gt;Warren Zevon-Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://crossedswordswaxedboards.googlepages.com/speedofthesound.mp3"&gt;John Prine-Speed of the Sound of Lonliness&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://crossedswordswaxedboards.googlepages.com/splendidisolation.mp3"&gt;Warren Zevon-Splendid Isolation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://crossedswordswaxedboards.googlepages.com/manonthemoon.mp3"&gt;REM-Man on the Moon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://crossedswordswaxedboards.googlepages.com/tellmewhy.mp3"&gt;Neil Young-Tell Me Why&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://crossedswordswaxedboards.googlepages.com/famousinternationalplayboys.mp3"&gt;Morrissey-Last of the Famous International Playboys&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23493614-4095039229003002502?l=moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com/feeds/4095039229003002502/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23493614&amp;postID=4095039229003002502' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23493614/posts/default/4095039229003002502'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23493614/posts/default/4095039229003002502'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com/2008/04/hello-i-made-new-covers-album.html' title='Hello, I made a new covers album.'/><author><name>Mason</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10307642191786798408</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://breakfastcore.googlepages.com/masonhead.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_W0F6QqQexkk/SBFZVjV_VwI/AAAAAAAAAXc/QWrP3ai-yf8/s72-c/mosaic6204037.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23493614.post-3069887562877475292</id><published>2008-03-24T21:14:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-04-24T21:21:55.331-07:00</updated><title type='text'>We recorded drums for our new album</title><content type='html'>&lt;br&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_W0F6QqQexkk/SBFb9TV_VxI/AAAAAAAAAXk/1tLv90n-U0o/s1600-h/2338387083_8d95491d18_b.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_W0F6QqQexkk/SBFb9TV_VxI/AAAAAAAAAXk/1tLv90n-U0o/s640/2338387083_8d95491d18_b.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5193032954057545490" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_W0F6QqQexkk/SBFb9jV_VyI/AAAAAAAAAXs/2ZTML1PFSac/s1600-h/2338387331_92730f05bc_b.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_W0F6QqQexkk/SBFb9jV_VyI/AAAAAAAAAXs/2ZTML1PFSac/s640/2338387331_92730f05bc_b.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5193032958352512802" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_W0F6QqQexkk/SBFb9zV_VzI/AAAAAAAAAX0/8FASr38BENA/s1600-h/2338387651_5d08618538_b.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_W0F6QqQexkk/SBFb9zV_VzI/AAAAAAAAAX0/8FASr38BENA/s640/2338387651_5d08618538_b.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5193032962647480114" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I went to Oklahoma in mid-March and recorded drums and guitar for 11 songs for our As-Yet-Untitled-2009-Album.  I forgot to post it when it happened, so sorry for that.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23493614-3069887562877475292?l=moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com/feeds/3069887562877475292/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23493614&amp;postID=3069887562877475292' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23493614/posts/default/3069887562877475292'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23493614/posts/default/3069887562877475292'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com/2008/03/we-recorded-drums-for-our-new-album.html' title='We recorded drums for our new album'/><author><name>Mason</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10307642191786798408</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://breakfastcore.googlepages.com/masonhead.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_W0F6QqQexkk/SBFb9TV_VxI/AAAAAAAAAXk/1tLv90n-U0o/s72-c/2338387083_8d95491d18_b.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23493614.post-55773577456965327</id><published>2008-01-10T08:54:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-10T09:22:27.987-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Sharp Dressed Fan: A 4-Track Tribute to ZZ Top</title><content type='html'>&lt;br&gt;&lt;img src="http://sharpdressedfan.googlepages.com/sharpdressedfan_cover.resized.jpg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Sharp Dressed Fan: A 4-Track Tribute to ZZ Top&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;OK, it's done.  I present to you our new EP "Sharp Dressed Fan: A 4-Track Tribute to ZZ Top" performed by The Big Black Bearded Caller.  Here are the links to the 256kbps MP3 files.  Let me know if you want the FLACs or if you want to give me $2 I'll mail you a cassette tape.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://sharpdressedfan.googlepages.com/01gimmieallofyourloving.mp3"&gt;01-Gimmie All Your Loving&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://sharpdressedfan.googlepages.com/02doubleback.mp3"&gt;02-Doubleback&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://sharpdressedfan.googlepages.com/03cheapsunglasses.mp3"&gt;03-Cheap Sunglasses&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://sharpdressedfan.googlepages.com/04sleepingbag.mp3"&gt;04-Sleeping Bag&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://sharpdressedfan.googlepages.com/05tush.mp3"&gt;05-Tush&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://sharpdressedfan.googlepages.com/06sharpdressedman.mp3"&gt;06-Sharp Dressed Man&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(you need to right click and save to listen)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think it's pretty obvious that I really dislike ZZ Top's music.  I purposely chose not to listen to any of these songs before I recorded them.  Consequently, you get a six new Moon Mission Death Squad songs that just happen to have ZZ Top lyrics.  I'm pleased with it.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's all analog up to the digital conversion.  Analog synths, effects and drum machines (and guitars, obviously); analog mixer to the 4-track cassette; analog mixdown to the cassette master.    No digital effects, compression, or mastering.  Just ripped from cassette to FLAC to 256kbps MP3.  I'm really pretty happy with the way it came out.  Let me know what you think.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And yeah, so I cross posted this to my personal blog... so what?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;The Moon Mission Death Squad hates ZZ Top&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23493614-55773577456965327?l=moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com/feeds/55773577456965327/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23493614&amp;postID=55773577456965327' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23493614/posts/default/55773577456965327'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23493614/posts/default/55773577456965327'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com/2008/01/sharp-dressed-fan-4-track-tribute-to-zz.html' title='Sharp Dressed Fan: A 4-Track Tribute to ZZ Top'/><author><name>Mason</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10307642191786798408</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://breakfastcore.googlepages.com/masonhead.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23493614.post-8768441025650083304</id><published>2007-11-06T21:23:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-06T21:38:48.208-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Five New Songs</title><content type='html'>&lt;br&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_W0F6QqQexkk/RzFPH3Pp2QI/AAAAAAAAAOM/0jrw0LgGlWc/s1600-h/bd17486_.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_W0F6QqQexkk/RzFPH3Pp2QI/AAAAAAAAAOM/0jrw0LgGlWc/s400/bd17486_.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5129968447058991362" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;the worst guitar clip art i could find.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I've written five new songs since I finshed the last record.  In case you don't know, that's a lot for me. I usually write about fifteen to twenty a year, but more spread out than this.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;The new songs are:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4-Track&lt;br /&gt;The Game Has Changed&lt;br /&gt;Calculated Seasons&lt;br /&gt;Excesses of Waste&lt;br /&gt;Thinning Out the Herd&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm pretty pleased with all of them.  I feel that they're all really strong and I'm definitely moving forward with 4tracker/attacker as a jumping off point.  Unlike most of those songs, I'll actually be able to play and sing ALL of these, having written them all on acoustic guitar instead of building them on tape and then writing words over them. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Come over and I'll play them for you.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23493614-8768441025650083304?l=moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com/feeds/8768441025650083304/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23493614&amp;postID=8768441025650083304' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23493614/posts/default/8768441025650083304'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23493614/posts/default/8768441025650083304'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com/2007/11/five-new-songs.html' title='Five New Songs'/><author><name>Mason</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10307642191786798408</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://breakfastcore.googlepages.com/masonhead.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_W0F6QqQexkk/RzFPH3Pp2QI/AAAAAAAAAOM/0jrw0LgGlWc/s72-c/bd17486_.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23493614.post-2727116407917064929</id><published>2007-10-01T21:26:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-10-01T21:28:13.415-07:00</updated><title type='text'>I love the Gin Blossoms.</title><content type='html'>&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/breakfastcore/1470170179/" title="Photo Sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1239/1470170179_1cb9e4c4f8.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="Hey Jealousy" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hey, I bet you'd say you don't really like The Gin Blossoms, wouldn't you?  Well, you'd be a fucking asshole then. The Gin Blossoms are totally fucking awesome.  I love them.  Here's a song I recorded on the most classic of lo-fi tape decks.  I'm too lazy to run it from cassette into the computer, so I just held my pocket pc over the speaker as I played the tape back and recorded a wave file.  It turned out exactly how I wanted it. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.twango.com/flash/audioplayer.aspx?media=breakfastcore.10008&amp;channelname=breakfastcore.public" width="145" height="60" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;feed reader users click &lt;a href="http://www.twango.com/media/breakfastcore.public/breakfastcore.10008"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;The Moon Mission Death Squad rolls joints made of power pop for you to smoke.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23493614-2727116407917064929?l=moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com/feeds/2727116407917064929/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23493614&amp;postID=2727116407917064929' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23493614/posts/default/2727116407917064929'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23493614/posts/default/2727116407917064929'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com/2007/10/i-love-gin-blossoms.html' title='I love the Gin Blossoms.'/><author><name>Mason</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10307642191786798408</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://breakfastcore.googlepages.com/masonhead.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1239/1470170179_1cb9e4c4f8_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23493614.post-7435803306002708895</id><published>2007-09-27T21:10:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-27T21:18:56.394-07:00</updated><title type='text'>moonmissiondeathsquad.com</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_W0F6QqQexkk/RvyATA0V-CI/AAAAAAAAALs/mdRuxK3AaQU/s1600-h/mmdscomscreenshot.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_W0F6QqQexkk/RvyATA0V-CI/AAAAAAAAALs/mdRuxK3AaQU/s400/mmdscomscreenshot.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5115104340911454242" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hey, Moon Mission Death Squad fans (yeah, both of you, you fuckers)!  &lt;a href="http://www.moonmissiondeathsquad.com"&gt;moonmissiondeathsquad.com&lt;/a&gt; is back in action!  I re-registered it for three years.  Unfortunately, whatever host I had been using before still has .org and .net locked, but we'll get those back eventually.  I chose to forgo the .biz or .info, because those are only for white-trash and Nigerian bank scams.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's just a mask of the virb, but all that matters is it's google-ability.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.moonmissiondeathsquad.com"&gt;check it.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23493614-7435803306002708895?l=moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com/feeds/7435803306002708895/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23493614&amp;postID=7435803306002708895' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23493614/posts/default/7435803306002708895'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23493614/posts/default/7435803306002708895'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com/2007/09/moonmissiondeathsquadcom.html' title='moonmissiondeathsquad.com'/><author><name>Mason</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10307642191786798408</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://breakfastcore.googlepages.com/masonhead.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_W0F6QqQexkk/RvyATA0V-CI/AAAAAAAAALs/mdRuxK3AaQU/s72-c/mmdscomscreenshot.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23493614.post-4256320624994205968</id><published>2007-08-15T10:01:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-27T21:48:34.937-07:00</updated><title type='text'>4tracker/attacker is HERE!</title><content type='html'>&lt;br&gt;&lt;img src="http://4trackerattacker.googlepages.com/4trackercoverfinalsmall.jpg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;pull the full size cover &lt;a href="http://4trackerattacker.googlepages.com/4trackercoverfinal.jpg"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ok, you've heard about it for months now, and it's finally here. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Download the 320kbs mp3 via the web &lt;a href="http://4trackerattacker.googlepages.com"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Grab the torrent of the 320kbs mp3 &lt;a href="http://www.demonoid.com/files/details/1301015/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Grab the torrent of FLAC files [if you have your shit together] &lt;a href="http://www.demonoid.com/files/details/1300906/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*****UPDATE******9/26/2007&lt;br /&gt;demonoid.com is having some issues, i will repost the torrents hosted somewhere else.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23493614-4256320624994205968?l=moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com/feeds/4256320624994205968/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23493614&amp;postID=4256320624994205968' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23493614/posts/default/4256320624994205968'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23493614/posts/default/4256320624994205968'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com/2007/08/4trackerattacker-is-here.html' title='4tracker/attacker is HERE!'/><author><name>Mason</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10307642191786798408</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://breakfastcore.googlepages.com/masonhead.jpg'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23493614.post-1639354295948872186</id><published>2007-08-04T11:56:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-08-04T11:57:58.929-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Some new artwork</title><content type='html'>&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/breakfastcore/1009555604/" title="Photo Sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1130/1009555604_4a786b0294.jpg" width="500" height="438" alt="one-off cover for a friend" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23493614-1639354295948872186?l=moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com/feeds/1639354295948872186/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23493614&amp;postID=1639354295948872186' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23493614/posts/default/1639354295948872186'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23493614/posts/default/1639354295948872186'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com/2007/08/some-new-artwork.html' title='Some new artwork'/><author><name>Mason</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10307642191786798408</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://breakfastcore.googlepages.com/masonhead.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1130/1009555604_4a786b0294_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23493614.post-7056148990253268973</id><published>2007-07-27T16:45:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-07-27T17:08:10.855-07:00</updated><title type='text'>4-Tracker/Attacker will be out 8*15*07</title><content type='html'>&lt;br&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://breakfastcore.googlepages.com/newstudio.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 700px;" src="http://breakfastcore.googlepages.com/newstudio.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In keeping with our schedule of releasing a new album every two years, our new joint "4-Tracker/Attacker" will "drop" on my birthday August 15th.  I've mentioned before that it's sort of a solo album by me, but that shit doesn't matter. In reality it's just an MMDS record that Daniel  doesn't happen to play on.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you haven't noticed, he's quite busy with &lt;a href="http://myspace.com/steeplesscream"&gt;Steeples&lt;/a&gt; at the moment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This album is all 4-track, all the time.  It's lo-fi like a mother fucker and I'm almost done.  One more level of mixdown and it's all yours my pretties.  I'll be releasing it on the &lt;a href="http://www.virb.com/moonmissiondeathsquad"&gt;VIRB&lt;/a&gt; and via bittorrent, so 1337s and n00bs alike will be able to download and listen.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23493614-7056148990253268973?l=moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com/feeds/7056148990253268973/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23493614&amp;postID=7056148990253268973' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23493614/posts/default/7056148990253268973'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23493614/posts/default/7056148990253268973'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com/2007/07/4-trackerattacker-will-be-out-81507.html' title='4-Tracker/Attacker will be out 8*15*07'/><author><name>Mason</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10307642191786798408</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://breakfastcore.googlepages.com/masonhead.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23493614.post-2889723332854334596</id><published>2007-05-27T22:14:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-07-27T17:17:20.506-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Our New Illegal EP</title><content type='html'>&lt;br&gt;&lt;img src="http://justacoustic.com/sample/fire_and_rain/James-Taylor-69374-14.jpg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Daniel and I recorded a James Taylor tribute EP in April.  Here it is:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://moonmissiondeathsquad.googlepages.com/countryroad.mp3"&gt;Country Road&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://moonmissiondeathsquad.googlepages.com/sweetbabyjames.mp3"&gt;Sweet Baby James&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://moonmissiondeathsquad.googlepages.com/fireandrain.mp3"&gt;Fire and Rain&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[you right click and "save as", ya know?]&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23493614-2889723332854334596?l=moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com/feeds/2889723332854334596/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23493614&amp;postID=2889723332854334596' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23493614/posts/default/2889723332854334596'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23493614/posts/default/2889723332854334596'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com/2007/05/our-new-illegal-ep.html' title='Our New Illegal EP'/><author><name>Mason</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10307642191786798408</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://breakfastcore.googlepages.com/masonhead.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23493614.post-5213177907947631271</id><published>2007-03-25T14:59:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-03-25T15:06:28.191-07:00</updated><title type='text'>More changes to how you access our music.</title><content type='html'>Ok, so the &lt;a href="http://virb.com/moonmissiondeathsquad"&gt;VIRB &lt;/a&gt;now has the last three albums on it.  &lt;a href="http://moonmissiondeathsquad.googlepages.com"&gt;This page&lt;/a&gt; has the first album on it.  Make sense?  Good.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23493614-5213177907947631271?l=moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com/feeds/5213177907947631271/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23493614&amp;postID=5213177907947631271' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23493614/posts/default/5213177907947631271'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23493614/posts/default/5213177907947631271'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com/2007/03/more-changes-to-how-you-acces-our-music.html' title='More changes to how you access our music.'/><author><name>Mason</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10307642191786798408</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://breakfastcore.googlepages.com/masonhead.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23493614.post-3228360067748967034</id><published>2007-03-24T20:53:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-03-24T20:54:44.226-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Indie Rock is Alive and Well in Texas</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_W0F6QqQexkk/RgXxq6XcG7I/AAAAAAAAAFE/dXx9vNjCVJo/s1600-h/COMPUTER.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_W0F6QqQexkk/RgXxq6XcG7I/AAAAAAAAAFE/dXx9vNjCVJo/s400/COMPUTER.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5045704677062876082" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I made us a &lt;a href="http://www.virb.com"&gt;VIRB&lt;/a&gt; account today.  &lt;a href="http://www.virb.com/moonmissiondeathsquad"&gt;Check it&lt;/a&gt;.  I think it's nice.  If you're not "hip" to virb.com, it's like myspace, but for people who have some modicum of taste in web design.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Registration is pretty limited for virb right now, so if you decide you'd like an invite, &lt;a href="mailto:breakfastcore@gmail.com"&gt;email me&lt;/a&gt; and let me know.  I have a hundred of them, and I don't know more than ten people, so I have tons to give away.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4 trakker/attakker (that's our new lo-fi record, for all the n00bs who aren't 1337 [leet] in the ways of the MMDS) is on it's way out.  I'll post something about it when it's done.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[I know this is a cross post from my &lt;a href="http://thatsgoodbread.blogspot.com"&gt;personal blog&lt;/a&gt;, but I'm a lazy fuck.]&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23493614-3228360067748967034?l=moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com/feeds/3228360067748967034/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23493614&amp;postID=3228360067748967034' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23493614/posts/default/3228360067748967034'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23493614/posts/default/3228360067748967034'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com/2007/03/indie-rock-is-alive-and-well-in-texas.html' title='Indie Rock is Alive and Well in Texas'/><author><name>Mason</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10307642191786798408</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://breakfastcore.googlepages.com/masonhead.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_W0F6QqQexkk/RgXxq6XcG7I/AAAAAAAAAFE/dXx9vNjCVJo/s72-c/COMPUTER.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23493614.post-2107586439775870327</id><published>2006-11-19T08:57:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-11-19T08:58:14.173-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Update, the record has moved.</title><content type='html'>Ignore all that other shit, the record is now hosted by the goog.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://breakfastcore.googlepages.com"&gt;Get it here, bitches.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23493614-2107586439775870327?l=moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com/feeds/2107586439775870327/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23493614&amp;postID=2107586439775870327' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23493614/posts/default/2107586439775870327'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23493614/posts/default/2107586439775870327'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com/2006/11/update-record-has-moved.html' title='Update, the record has moved.'/><author><name>Mason</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10307642191786798408</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://breakfastcore.googlepages.com/masonhead.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23493614.post-115066962371214077</id><published>2006-06-18T15:26:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-06-18T15:29:47.336-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The New Record</title><content type='html'>Here it is, the new album, &lt;a href="http://www.moonmissiondeathsquad.org/albums/albums_pages/fuck.html"&gt;FUCK WHAT YOU HEARD&lt;/a&gt;.  Two years in the making, so download it.  If you know me, you know that I truly believe with all my heart that music should be free, so all mine is.  The all new, super minimalist, text only &lt;a href="http://www.moonmissiondeathsquad.org"&gt;moonmissiondeathsquad.org&lt;/a&gt; has all four of our records for free, so get on top of it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In other news, the &lt;a href="http://www.okgazette.com"&gt;Oklahoma Gazette&lt;/a&gt; is running an article about us this week, so be sure to pick it up on Wednesday if you live here.  I'll be scanning and posting it next week.  It was written by notoriously bonkers local n'er-do-well Brian Mangeri, so god only knows what the hell it's going to say.  I'm crossing my fingers that it doesn't make me sound like an asshole.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23493614-115066962371214077?l=moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com/feeds/115066962371214077/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23493614&amp;postID=115066962371214077' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23493614/posts/default/115066962371214077'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23493614/posts/default/115066962371214077'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com/2006/06/new-record.html' title='The New Record'/><author><name>Mason</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10307642191786798408</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://breakfastcore.googlepages.com/masonhead.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23493614.post-114163294337466567</id><published>2006-03-06T00:14:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-03-06T00:15:43.383-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Daniel's New Album</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.iamadot.org/statisticalanalysis/"&gt;Daniel's new record&lt;/a&gt; is FUCKING AMAZING.  I highly suggest you download it.  After all, it's free!  Also, check out my sweet marker art on his site.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23493614-114163294337466567?l=moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com/feeds/114163294337466567/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23493614&amp;postID=114163294337466567' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23493614/posts/default/114163294337466567'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23493614/posts/default/114163294337466567'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com/2006/03/daniels-new-album.html' title='Daniel&apos;s New Album'/><author><name>Mason</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10307642191786798408</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://breakfastcore.googlepages.com/masonhead.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23493614.post-114162769328589972</id><published>2006-03-05T22:47:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-03-05T22:48:13.286-08:00</updated><title type='text'>MMDS.ORG</title><content type='html'>Welcome to the TerrorDome, motherfuckers&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23493614-114162769328589972?l=moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com/feeds/114162769328589972/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23493614&amp;postID=114162769328589972' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23493614/posts/default/114162769328589972'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23493614/posts/default/114162769328589972'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moonmissiondeathsquad.blogspot.com/2006/03/mmdsorg.html' title='MMDS.ORG'/><author><name>Mason</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10307642191786798408</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://breakfastcore.googlepages.com/masonhead.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
