SEEKING
Band to Join, Acoustic Guitar, Bass Guitar, Drums, Electronic Music, Keyboard, Other, Other Percussion, Piano, Rhythm Guitar, Saxophone, Steel guitar, Trombone, Trumpet, Vocalist, Vocalist - Alto, Vocalist - Baritone, Vocalist - Bass, Vocalist - Soprano, Vocalist - Tenor.ABOUT
Started off as a teenager mixing records in clubs, festivals, and house partys in and around Bristol in the UK and London. Mainly played breaks, Uk Garage, Jungle, Reggae and scratch dj'ing on Technics 1200 turntables and Vestax mixers.
I still Dj a little and scratch etc but the last few years have focussed more on producing my own music mainly Reggae and making my own "dubs" as I have gained a fair understanding of using DAW's such as Logic, Ableton ,Maschine and playing keyboard, melodica, fingerdrumming and some vocals as an Mc toasting rather than singing however I do sing a little also. My tone isn't the best for singing but is not bad for talking and toasting with big delay fx and reverbs using Roland Space Echo and other effects for added depth and variations to the original live lyrics on the fly.
Right now Im looking for partners to make dubs! I have a pretty good setup and have all of the necessary gear to engineer and produce good original "dubs"
My format is basically compose a Rhythm drum track usually by fingerdrumming, tighten up the beat and perhaps add little swing etc add some organ bubbles and piano skanks, horns, bass, vocals and perhaps even subtle turntable scratches etc.
Then bounce all of the midi to audio and then separate the four or five elements into groups that are then re sent back to a mixing desk through sends and returns to make a "dub" via many fx routings and processing for big delays, massive reverbs on snares for example.
Im looking for people to who want to play music and or engineering, produce, process these dubs to eventually play at pubs clubs and basically have a lot of fun along the way. Having said that this whole process of making music is as you know! actually very hard work but the results are rewarding.
- Screen name:
- Zach Kennard
- Member since:
- Aug 18 2017
- Active over 1 month ago
- Level of commitment:
- Committed
- Years playing music:
- 10
- Gigs played:
- 10 to 50
- Tend to practice:
- More than 3 times per week
- Available to gig:
- 2-3 nights a week
- Most available:
- Days
Influences
King Tubby, Augustus Pablo, Gregory Isaacs, Burning Spear, Suns of Dub, Addis Pablo, Mad Professor, Massive Attack, Portishead, Smith and Mighty, Congo Natty, Joseph Cotton, Bigga Ranx, Damien Marley, Madness, The Specials, UB40, Barrington Levy, Horace Andy, Gappy Ranks, Shabba Ranks, Pinchers, Sanchez, Thievery Corporation, Nightmares on wax, Isaac Hayes, Phyliss Dylan, Buju Banton, Top Cat, Supercat, Kraak and Smaak, Carla Morrison, Norah Jones, Fob Shop and many many others.
Instrument experience:
- DJ:
- Advanced
- Keyboard:
- Moderate
- Piano:
- Moderate
- Flute:
- Moderate
- Other:
- Moderate
- Electronic Music:
- Moderate
- Vocalist - Baritone:
- Intermediate
- Drums:
- Intermediate
EQUIPMENT
Maschine software and hardware with 9 expansion packs, Logic Pro X, Logic Pro 8, Ableton Live 9 Suite, Reason, Mackie 16 track premium analogue studio mixing desk with perkins eq, Kawai Es4 digital full size piano with hammer action keys, Novation Impulse keyboard 61, Korg Microkey Air 61, Korg Gadget, Korg Module, Traktor S4 mixing dj console, control f1 remix deck, Technics 1200 turntables. Macbook Air, iMac, iPad air 2, Roland Space Echo, Rigsmith ES4 delay and reverb unit.
5 melodicas including 2 vintage hohners, guitar, studio speakers, portable home made dub cart for festivals with portable loud speaker, iRig pro DUO portable soundcard, microphones and few fx pedals, rigsmith dub siren and more.
