Wiesty

hey you're right! Never thought of it as a tritone sub! Neat.

Yeah that is grossly over simplifying what has been in common practice for hundreds of years. Having a ii-V7 progression written as just Dmin to G does not take into account how chord tones resolve, and if a composer wants a 7 or a 9 extension to resolve properly they will notate it, which is why we do it. Stripping down an entire harmonic vocabulary to major and minor chords does not take into account dominant 7ths, diminished, half diminished, augmented, etc. Furthermore, if I write C 9 and you would rather I just write C and have the melody play a 9 extension that does not indicate the quality of the chord and an uneducated writer may have the harmony as a Cmaj7 as opposed to a C7.

Favourite alternate chord for a cadence especially in slow ballads: ii-V7-bii maj7. (Then resolve to the normal one shortly after) This sounds great 100 % of the time. Ex. Dmin9 - G13 - Dbmaj7 (add9) - Cmaj (etc. etc.)

I've been shedding my Lydian b7s recently. 1 2 3 #4 5 6 b7. Sound great over dominant harmonies.

Wiesty, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. It's moved me twice. I currently reside in Montana.

Ragnarok Online?!?!?

Whoa! Nice work man, definitely digging the vibe you're laying down here man. I think the guitar could use a little less treble and maybe some verb to let it sit in the mix a bit nicer. If you need any live vibes/drums, hit me up

Thanks guys! Hoping to finish this up soon! The production will take a bit of work...

Hey everyone! This is a piece from a couple years back on this forum...man time flies! This is a bit of an updated WIP. It now includes live drums/vibraphone. It's still missing some horns and a horn solo... Production is !@#$%## #@$!@#%$ right now on the piece but it'll come along. Solo's were shortened as well. Hope you enjoy! https://soundcloud.com/wiesty/terras-theme-jazz

Yes but the male 1/8'' mini or 1/4'' plug on the end of his headphones is already a stereo plug, so that adapter would be doing the same job twice.

I'm not to sure about this one to be honest. Your device is only sending mono so the only way to to turn that into a fake stereo would be to send two of the same mono channel out...so you'd essentially need two cables coming from your receiver into your headphones...somehow. You'd need a third device somewhere in the middle of that chain that could take two mono signals and pan them left and right. From there it could send stereo to your headphones.

Things that strike me as odd: Intro...needs a lot of work. Cool concept, but theres too much of it and it gets messy. That gated snare...just makes the beat sound sloppy. Lots of cool concepts here...just need to go at them in some new angles.

Interesting...Seems like a tough album to remix considering most of the songs on the album are also arrangements haha. Best of luck!

Hey Brandon, if possible I'd like to jump in on this with Final Beacon!

This is utter awesomeness.... Best of luck to your label!

+1 on those bullets! Karma makes some great budget microphones!

Updated...I'll try and stay on top of this.

Happiest of Birthdays you talented bastard!

My two cents: I've been a gigging musician, private instructor, freelance composer, and most recently a music educator. I've also had the opportunity to work in other industries such as photography for many years as well. While I think that everyone needs to go through the phase of working for chum change to get their name out there, I think the problem is that too many people remain in this phase. I've found that this problem tends to occur more in photography than in music, but nevertheless both fields still experience it. When there are two many amateurs or unprofessionals out in the field advertising to do work (and usually not very good work) for next to nothing, it grossly oversaturates the market and makes it really hard for professionals to ask for fair pay when the client can go elsewhere and get an "adequate" product for a 1/4 the price. In terms of photography, I mainly keep it as a hobby now, because I know I'm competing with a thousand "photographers" with canon rebels and pirated copies of Photoshop who will shoot entire weddings for $200, original negatives included... Music has tended to be a bit better, but it does create a bit of a dancing game when you're negotiating a wage and you have to hear things like "oh well we had a student group play the gala last year for $200 and they did a fine job". Well that is fine, but if you're expecting a group of 4 Proffesional musicians to come out to your gig, set up, play for 3 hours, and take down for 50 bucks a head, you have to be absolutely insane. In situations like that I usually just tell them I will play solo piano with 15 minute breaks between sets. Where I come from we have a sort of unofficial musicians union which dictates pay, working conditions, etc. The problem is that a lot of bands do not follow it, and are happy playing for free beer. Again, this makes it very hard for real working musicians to justify asking for a fair wage. That's my rant... Moral of the story is that everyone needs to start somewhere, but if you have a product, you better damn well sell it for what it's worth, for yourself and the sake of your industry.

I hopped in on the ffxiv beta as well in the summer. While it was an improvement on the original, if still felt very linear, and the grind factor was heavy. Nothing like just following markers around on the map for hours on end to collect exp and gil...

Great Game!

It lacks in a lot of areas...but it was better than WoW, a hell of a lot better...which is all I was hoping for. I'm still waiting for a game to come along that beats Ultima Online.

Well I wouldn't go that far...but it isn't as great as I'd hoped. It feels like you're playing an elder scrolls game...which is great. If they can implement some strong crafting/housing systems I think it will take off. The crafting system already seems pretty solid. They seem like they will have a bit of an open pvp system in cyrodil, which would be awesome...Graphics and game play wise, it is very close to skyrim.

Oh I see, so its like fight club

I did! I don't recall it not allowing us to share our personal thoughts on the beta, as long as details/footage were not shared. But if thats the case I will remove this thread.