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    OCR01683 - Secret of Mana "Thicket"

    in ReMix Reviews & Comments

    Posted

    You already know I love this...dissonance and all. Transition at 1:00 gets me every time, and the similar refrain at 2:18 perfectly pulls the empty space back from what might have been an otherwise overdrawn dropout. The bookended Angel's Fear is great as well, especially with the cool percussive work during 3:33-4:00.

    Nice work all around man.

    ASK A JUDGE: While we're busy NOT voting - your questions, we want 'em

    in Site Issues & Feedback

    Posted

    I was wondering why certain judges like Shnabubula, Harmony, and Israfel left or were removed from the panel.
    It was nothing more than a time constraint on my part. While judging was an amazingly rewarding experience, I'm also a grad student, and I couldn't dedicate enough time to do both well. So something had to go, and since judging doesn't pay the bills... :(
    I always enjoyed reading Shnabubula's write-ups.
    didn't we all :)

    How difficult is mixing really?

    in Music Composition & Production

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    Not knowing a lot of techniques can make your songs a lot quicker to complete, at least in my experience. When I first started out on FL Studio, my first few songs actually sounded pretty good and usually took only a few hours each. What I did was use the best quality samples FL came with, combined with default presets, in the best ways I could. You can make some very good sounding stuff just with that. But the thing is it almost certainly doesn't sound like you want it to.

    Exactly. Sounding good isn't really that difficult these days, but getting an idea from your head, into the computer, and out the speakers is where the trouble and skill is at.

    So generally when I say something like "this mix took me 3 months," after the first couple of weeks or so most people would probably say that the WIP sounds "good." Why the additional time? The last 10 weeks are spent fine-tuning details (big and small) that make the mix sound as close to what I imagine as possible.

    Wal-Mart No Longer Selling LEGO

    in General Discussion

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    Don't forget killing off countless local businesses, killing off other chains, manipulating suppliers, treating workers like crap, having a terrible shopping experience, and treating the environment like crap. By the way, how do you think those prices get so low anyway (hint: someone has to be pay for it). Also, I don't know where you got the 'convenience' part from. They're almost always low on cashiers, and you can barely navigate the isles with all the people there.

    Right, I've heard all of the reasons that Wal*Mart supposedly sucks, but I just don't get it. They are convenient because they are everywhere and have everything. They have low prices because...well...I don't particularly care why they are charging me less than anyone else for the same products. The worst shopping experience I've ever had at a Wal*Mart isn't any worse than the ones I've had anywhere else. And Wal*Mart was once a local chain and I don't recall Sam Walton whining about bigger competition edging his stores out. This is America, suck it up small business owners!
    Lego Technics were the shit. I made all kinds of stuff like cars with four wheel steering and suspensions.

    K'nex were ok, just seemed pretty flimsy often.

    Never got into Technics, but they always looked cool. I still doubt that they could handle the beating that I put the K'nex through though. Because they were based on rods and connectors, rather than bricks, I think K'nex were much better suited to building vehicles, and that's pretty much all I built...especially the K'nex rubber band racers. Those were the best.

    Wal-Mart No Longer Selling LEGO

    in General Discussion

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    I played with Legos religiously until my mom brought home my first box of K'NEX, whose awesomeness proceeded to utterly dominate the remainder of my childhood. So for me, the world is safe as long as K'NEX still line Wal*Mart shelves.

    Good. Hopefully WalMart will quit selling everything, and then they can disappear.
    Unparalleled low prices and convenience, and now this Lego thing...those bastards!

    Lost inspiration and motivation, what now?

    in Music Composition & Production

    Posted

    If that were true, then this whole website is a giant waste of time for all involved.
    In case you didn't realize, most of the remixes on this site were not created by the original authors of the source tunes. So, NeoS's question and my response to it don't apply.

    To clarify my opinion: Working on a song you created a while ago might be fun, and it might result in some cool new improvements, but I think that if your goal is to continuously improve yourself as a musician (as is my goal and I'm sure plenty of others'), making a new song will almost always beat dredging up past WIPs.

    Uses for an old laptop

    in Music Composition & Production

    Posted

    If you have to ask that question you're probably not going to find a compelling answer.
    I’m afraid you may be right.

    I’ve thought about making it the floating household media PC for use in the living room or wherever, but generally if I ever find enough free time to listen to music in the living room, I’m much more likely to want to use that time for creating music in my bedroom.

    Sharing the workload with my main DAW has always sounded like an awesome idea, but you guys make it sound like more headache than it’s worth. That’s a shame really. Someone should work on making that process much more seamless; with the low price of PCs these days, a product that easily facilitated the connection should turn a nice profit. Headache or no, I still may give it a shot, if not in a formal way then possibly by making the lappy a piece of dedicated offline audio editing/mastering/authoring hardware connected over a LAN.

    And analoq my friend, is a life without The Simpsons really worth living?

    Uses for an old laptop

    in Music Composition & Production

    Posted

    Alright, I admit defeat. I've poured a coupla hundred bucks, some super glue, and lots of tape into my Sony Vaio to keep it alive for 5 or so years as my main school/work/mobile PC. However, new problems are starting to show up and to really bring this baby back to life I'll need ~$300. I'd rather just get a new one.

    If I shell out for a new harddrive and keyboard ~$120 it'll be ok, so I'm wondering what suggestions people have for an Intel 2GHz, 512MB RAM, aging laptop. I'd like to dedicate it to music, but in what capacity? This video was a pretty slick example of what one could do, but all I have software-wise is SONAR and FL Studio I'm not sure if I could get something similar going. Any other ideas?

    Getting good guitar tone for FREE!

    in Music Composition & Production

    Posted

    I just tried out the Wagner > keFIR > impulse combo, and great jebus this is the greatest thing to happen to my guitar since I bought it. I’m in utter awe at how realistic these sound. I guess I should say “good” instead of “realistic” because I’m not experienced enough to really compare these tones to any of the actual setups. Which brings me to my questions sixto (or anyone).

    I’m coming from a strictly self-taught acoustic guitar background and as a result I know jack-squat about guitar amplification. I only have a general but vague idea of what a “header”, “preamp” or a “cabinet” are and how they come together to create the final tone. So, clicking through this extensive list of impulses is fun, and I can pick off a few things that I do know in the descriptions (SM57 = mic, off-axis = mic placement) but I’d like to be more systematic about it.

    1. How do different factors affect the sound?
      • Does off-axis typically give a warmer sound?
      • Larger cabinet sizes are better for what?
      • What’s “tweed”?
      • Why do people typically choose Mesa vs Marshall or _____ vs ______?
      • Etc

    [*]I gather that a preamp feeds into the cabinet (or cabinet sim here), but what if I want a clean sound? Traditionally, do I take the preamp out of the loop, or do I just turn down the drive of the preamp?

    [*]Why would the mix of keFIR be anything except 100% (full output)?

    [*]What impact do the eq/tone settings on the guitar itself have? Should I just set them to neutral and mess with the eq on the preamp? Does it matter?

    [*]Sixto, you made an awesome demo with a Rectifier impulse, but didn’t include it in the impulses you gave out. What gives? :grin:

    Thanks!

    Lost inspiration and motivation, what now?

    in Music Composition & Production

    Posted

    I don't think music has anything to do with inspiration.

    if you have the motivation then do it, when you don't, then don't. Music isn't like a sport, you don't have to always make music to keep the same skills sharp. they're in your head for good.

    Musical technique can disappear faster than muscles atrophy. Don't let your skills slip away thinking that it's just like riding a bike. From personal experience I can say that it's not.

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