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It all depends what your doing. Figure-8 mics can be handy for having 2 vocalists, adding in ambient noise, or being applied as room mics. If youve got a really noisy room in the first place, condensers arent really the best option, but in a nice quiet surrounding figure 8 mics are good for what i have mentioned. If your room is quiet enough, figure eight mics (and most condensers in general) will just give you a nice fuller sound because they pick up the reverb of the room and the sound as it travels further.

Yeh, look for used kits, you can get pretty nice models models from manufacturers like pearl and sonar and etc, for like 400 bux, sometimes even with cymbals included (which is the most expensive part). For teaching yourself, I'd recommend just learning alot of really basic beats from various genre's. For starters, its handy to have a swing beat, a shuffel beat, a blues beat, a rock beat, a funk beat, a latin beat (bossa/samba), and maybe a fun punk/metal beat (variant of rock beat). Once you learn basics of each style, youll start to form your own ideas and intertwine stuff to make your own style. Another path I reccomend, is starting by studying jazz beats (swing/shuffel/blues/bossa/samba), and getting good with comping with your left hand and what not. These can be some of the most advance styles to play and by learning them, you really are learning a universal language which is transferable around different genres. Another good thing to do is practising rudiments (your technical stuff, roll, double stroke roll, buzz role, flam, paradiddle, etc. etc. etc.). They build hand strength and show up in music alot in the form of fills and just general manuverability.

Well it seems just shortly after the departure of Rick Wright, Classic rock has yet lost another of it's truely talented gems. http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hAB55HVz01BxrJUrwe7GMl3uSntwD94DOFHO0

wow lol this made it to the oc forums before i planned on posting it. Oh well, sweet.

I'd definatley invest in one if your big into recording vocals. Its recorded some of the most clean, full, and accurate vocals ive heard in a long time.

its gonna be tough, the one audiotechnica is a condenser so it could get quite noisy on stage. I havent worked much with these type of micing positions but it wouldnt hurt to try an overhead system or like an offstage in front point up. You could try hanging the mics down at the stage with 1 back left 1 back right, 1 forward left (closer to centre), 1 forwarwd right (closer to centre) and one or two in the middle.

Thats mostly just in transitions and what not so i guess drums play a large roll in that. It just has to sound natural, i dunno. Listen to songs and study how they do it.

Alot of it seems to be the reverb imo. It sounds like different instruments are in different rooms which makes for a very synthetic non professional sound. You might also add a bit of stereo separation here and there. Id just pick a reference source and go through your song layer by layer and add stuff on making them sound good together and eventually all together.

look up keith emerson on youtube, prove me wrong.

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if your not looking for fully weighted keys i can reccomend the prokeys 88sx, its a full 88 key piano with a built in synth, and its very light making travelling easy. I have the prokeys88 which is the larger version with weighted keys. Google it.

this really choked me up as rick was one of my big influences. He's one of the forefathers of prog rock keyboards and though he wasnt always at the spotlight of pink floyd, he was the brains behind alot of the writing, especially in the early stuff. RIP rick

holy shit its out! wtf! how didnt i know! Ive been waiting for so long! The demos kick ass! This sentence has way to mean exclamation marks!

My friend you are my hero. I wana thank you for being the first to release a song for this very underrated soundtrack. I like your take on this piece and it brings back a lot of memories of playing the game (grinding, and grinding, and grinding) Anyways, great work dude. Many kudos. now i have to go and write a solo piano piece to follow this up.

an alternative would be to record your self singing the part, and then transcribe it.

pfftt. id rather have a voyager than a car.

you...you...y...you've got a voyager? YOu lucky bastard. Dont set that shit up midi, get it hooked up to some amps and record it retro style.

wow, this is quite an unpleasant suprrise. RIP to a very funny man.

downloading as i type, cant wait to listen!

I laugh at how you pass off Progressive rock and then say that screamo is pretty decent. Lets compare the too. Progressive Rock(not new prog rock, im talking 60s-80s) -As you've mentioned, complexed and different time signatures -Long songs which most of the time have constant change -A large array of instruments from theramins to sitars and who knows what. -Talented musicians -Lyrics similar to poetry. Screamo -4/4 with a couple of common back beats -Whiney singers, sometimes with a bit of harmony thrown in -Substandard guitar, not passing off the skills of the guitarist, but they rarely show it. -Whiney lyrics complaining about "how they didnt get the girl" or how "they hate their parents" yeh......

i listen to a lot of progressive rock, and it was progressive for a reason...

Dragonforce is just another metal band with guitarists who can just pull out fast arpeggios and harmony with one another, nothing new or overly pleasing to the ear.

awsome news, and its canadian!

man, if i had a ride down there id totally be hitting up the jam room. Id bring everything ha, though my hammond would be a bitch to carry.

Wow, thanks for the find man. I'm definitely considering this.