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Great to see y'all before i left! I don't know how many of you heard, but right after i got back to baltimore, my loaded-up car was broken into and the backpack with my laptop, external hd, soundcard, mixing headphones, wacom tablet, laptop stand, and wireless keyboard/mouse duo we're stolen. However, lots of stuff was left untouched (like my games, vibraphone, and marimba!), so i have that to be thankful for. Guess it'll be a little while before im mixing again!
Holy crap, dude. I am so sorry to hear that.
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Good to hear, you long haired man, you.
So there was a small video preview at the OCR panel this year for a few projects, including NiGHTS. It was super-duper awesome because there were two people in the audience cosplaying from NiGHTS! Someone from the NiGHTS forums went as NiGHTS and someone else went as Reala. Definitely a very pleasant surprise since I got to meet at least one fellow fan and have NiGHTS out there while the preview was played. The response was extremely positive, so we know people liked it and want more.
YOU HEAR ME, I SAID MORE, so that means I want more too.
August 9th edit: For all you folks who missed the June 1st WIP2 deadline and said you'd have something in by the end of Summer, I fully expect some kind of update by August 30th. Otherwise, I will release the hounds (read: I will release the project co-directors to pester you).
You've got less than 4 months to get your final in at this point, and even less time if you want to get a free physical copy of the project when it comes out.
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Sorry to hear about your troubles, Xerol. Maybe next year, and again, happy birthday.
The BBQ was awesome. Thank you to everyone who came out and had fun with us. It was an honor and a pleasure to have so many cool-ass peoples in my place all at one time. I will DEFINITELY be planning on doing the exact same thing next year, so count on coming back!
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I just have to say that the panel was beyond any expectations I had. Considering our bum time, the panels we were sandwiched in, and how tired most of us were, I didn't really think a large amount of people would be there. Our crowd took up probably half the panel room we were given, which was actually quite large. We went on, we did our thing, everybody laughed, some people walked away with prizes, shirts were taken off, trainers were "molested" by Flareons, jerseys were misidentified, and overall everyone left far more ashamed than they came in. The amount of laughter was awesome, and in-general everyone made that a fantastic night. Hopefully the video and audio turned out okay!
We just wanted to thank everyone who came out for it.
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I'm still in. I will bring my speedo for the waterpark. It will be...."fun".
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I should make it, but my worry is not being able to stay too long before leaving for home. I'll decide what to contribute when I arrive at the O tomorrow morning.
You can contribute phat rhymes and chop sucky!
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Big awesome congratulations to Abadoss for this achievement. While the soundtrack is short, it contains a deceptive amount of complexity. Definitely give it your attention, it's worth it!
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I hope everyone is having a fantastic, relaxing, and productive Summer. Best of luck to everyone, especially the mixers and the artists, as we fly into August and then back into Autumn.
Keep that nose to the grindstone!
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Favorite kind of cake would either be vanilla ice cream cake with mounds of that tasty frosting the usually use on it, or funfetti. Of course, the funfetti would be served also with a scoop of ice cream. and CHOCOLATE TOP COOKIES!
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Three days without a reply on this thread. That's unprecidented!
We very quickly became small and irrelevant in the grand scheme of things.
New episode will HOPEFULLY be out tonight. I planned on doing it last night, but a little voice in my head demanded that I unwind a bit.
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I'm moving to Lawrence! I'm going to KU next year for grad school.
Tell your Dad that he can come too. We'd like to meet DadUltima if it means you get to swing by at all!
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doug if you don't come to the bbq, i will have no choice but to punch stevo in the ovaries in retaliation. >
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I imagine Jimmy celebrated his birthday by walking down the stairs, into the kitchen, and immediately doing the "Can the judges BGC" dance for about half an hour. May all your circles be big and giant for this year and many more!
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Congrats, dude, and can't wait to see how quickly this takes off on Escapist. Now I get my intelligent gaming lectures on the same site as I do my fast-talking foreign dude rants about gaming!
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Brandon: We're going to be in VEGAS, baby. I don't think anyone is bringing instruments. This isn't really a meetup for sitting in your room playing guitar when OMG VEGAS is right outside. There will, however, be karaoke.
Hemo: Gario will be driving in but I know you're a bit south of him. He was offering rides, maybe you can meet up with him and catch a ride to Vegas with him. I've asked Longe if he could try to get a ride with him too, but I'm not sure that they've talked. I'm driving in and leaving a couple days early too.
As for rooming, if Stevo and Gario are rooming then Obtuse is the only one left that needs a roommate. I believe he only wants 1 roommate so if this works for you, I'll mark you down for it. I suggest people try to do 1 roommate rather than cram rooms full like Magfest - here the rooms are relatively cheap, and you get the comfort of having a bed guaranteed for you. If you wanted to stay with him, then that would complete all rooming and no one would be stranded
This is based on the registration I've been running, and doesn't include people who have not signed up. There are 18 confirmed people so far including a couple locals. We are trying to have as organized a meetup as possible, Ari has even set up a twitter account to organize events, so if you follow it and allow alerts to your phone, you'll get a text message with updates to the twitter.There's little ironing out to do
If you have NOT signed up using the registration form, I have NOT taken you in account for rooming and rides. I'll link it again here:http://sgtrama.wufoo.com/forms/ocr-las-vegas-registration/
THANKS GUYS
Mama Starla rules this roost!
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Might want to be a little more discreet about the stuff you're buying...
How can I make Kebabs without Mushrooms?!? and Co- Oh, I see what you did there. Clever, Waldo.
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Awesome list so far, I just went shopping today and got a boatload of stuff. See updated list for more info!
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The way you two talk at each other makes me feel like this could go very BDSM at any moment
Dire dire docks + Level 99 = a very confused Gario - why aren't people checking it out...?I'm not sure what draft it is, but it's currently messy with the soundscape. Combine the fact that the acoustic guitars are mixed so powerfully (not a bad thing, in itself) and the accompaniment is fairly thick, when the orchestra plays, and you get a soundscape that is hard to listen through. Trust me when I say I know what it's like mixing your guitars with a full background, and it's not easy at all. The synth accompanies the guitar quite clean, though
The mids are a bit too powerful for the distorted guitar, for me. Perhaps it's personal, but I feel it's just too much. Tone the mids a bit.
I like the idea of the arrangement - a calm, soothing guitar arrangement with some ballade distorted guitar (and a hint of awesome orchestra). It's a good track as it is, in fact. It can be better, though - I expect an update within the week.
Don't be late.
Maybe people are checking it out but they have nothing to say? Or they're all mutes? Or maybe they're busy checking out all the other awesome WIPs around here, which is quite likely. Lots of awesome songs to hear!
I can hear what you're saying about it sounding a bit...messy. I planned on adding more instruments but first I have to balance out the guitar dominance in this mix. My biggest issue is that the guitars are definitely the highlight so I don't want them taking a backseat (and I've been told before whenever I did push them down below other things that it sort-of ruined the mix) so I have to make lots of small changes in order to get it to sound right. I realize the other stuff is drowned out at the moment and I will try my best to change it so that there is a better balance.
I agree that the mids are too powerful on the distorted guitars, I need to change that as WIP 1 had none of the accompaniment that WIP2 has (it was just guitars) so the mids helped the distorted guitars punch through the acoustics which are very low/high. I'll scoop the mids and see about exciting the highs just a tad on the distorted guitars. Worst comes to worst I'll try re-recording with different tones.
You nailed the idea on the head: acoustic/electric ballad with building support instruments that combines conventional soft-ish rock with orchestra (and I couldn't resist a plethora of choirs in there).
May be longer than a week to update it though, Mr. Gario! As always, thanks for the feedback and criticism.
Fine, I guess I can poke this with a stick. Lets have a peeksee, pokesee? Eh, right.-Insert standard hewhoisiam post disclaimer here-
As it turns out, the more advice I seem to give, the crazier I'm pretty sure I am. Or something. I just seem start going, mewantsthis! I'd feel more comfortable if someone came along and went: I DISAGREE! SIR! woop woop woop woop woop woop! Anyway, moving on.
Guitar balance: not awful by any means, could be better IMO. I'd like the clicky strumming in the intro to be brought down in volume a bit, I think it'd help clear things up when the distortion guitar comes in and during the snare part in the intro. With that out of the way, the acoustic might need a bit more reverb and/or volume. Hard to speculate without hearing it.
Drums: I want them sooner. I just do. You don't have to have them sooner. It's total opinion, I just picture tribal type drums in that intro filling out the sound. Another thing I could get behind is just a snare part, rolls, flams, orchestral style. (EDIT: Holy crap! that part is there! Bring that sucker out! (also pushing the strumming down a bit might help)
@2:14 when the main distortion comes in, there is the faintest hint of a guitar part harmony, up down up down up down thing. I'd like it brought out a little bit more. It's so subtle I can barely hear it.
@2:54 hats are too heavy here. I'd think about just putting them on 1 and 3, and playing the rest on a ride cymbal. Or play all ride starting at 2:41 - bells on the beats, then 2 16th notes. 1e& 2e& 3e& 4e&a Thing is you switch to ride right after that bit, so I dunno.
@3:07 harmony guitar here is too quiet for my taste, see above statement.
Gario is a stickler! glad I don't work for him... I'm is was still already a month and more late with Laguna. So fired...
Guitar balance: do you mean have it pushed down a bit the whole time or lower it progressively as other instruments come in? I think the second one would be easier for smoothing out overall volume levels. I'll see what some volume automation on the acoustic guitar bus yields next time I work on this.
Drums: Hmm, I'm leaning against drums in the intro but maybe an orchestral crash before verse 1 and add some hand percussion to it, up until and through the snare rolls and flams, ending as the standard kit comes in. Depends on what kind of hand percussion I can get my hands on!
@2:14: yes, I think what you're hearing is there, but it's the same part that plays through other parts of the song and also at the ending outro. I'll bump it up just a tad.
@2:54 hmmm, I liked the hecticness of the hats here but I'll tweak it a bit. I like your idea about the bells, but not in the way you think: I'll switch up the final chorus rides to use the bells
@3:07 there's no real harmony guitar here but there's a guitar playing a compliment that was pushed down considerably due to the cluttering. Will see if changing levels makes any difference
A lot of the levels issues might be resolved once I get the mix and EQ of the other instruments proper, but definitely a lot of good advice. Thanks for listening and giving some tips!
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Here's your cane, old man (read: have a happy freakin' birthday. This year has been very awesome for you so you live it up the rest of it, ya? I RAISE MY BEER TO YOU!)
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As in plates, cups, and utensils? Or just the utensils? (Sorry, don't know exactly what qualifies as plasticware!)
Yeah, that means plates, cups, and utensils. If you don't want to cover all of it just let me know what you're going to cover.
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Hey Steve, what is the cover charge for the chuckle heads that are coming in my camp?
Which chuckle heads and are they staying at my place?
We can bring hot dog buns. And do you need any plastic cups, plates, and/or utensils? If you've already got that covered, we could bring the burger buns as well.I have a small amount of plasticware but it's definitely not enough, so feel free to bring that and the hot dog buns!
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Well, now that the Otakon scheduling has been released for the year's events, I guess we should plan on wrapping up the weekend the right way considering all the cool people's that will be in town.
This year's Otakon OCR-BQ (Yes, it's an OCR-focused BBQ) will be hosted by myself, the other OCAD hosts, and any of the folks who mooched their stay at my place for the weekend. It'll be at 1 PM on Sunday, August 1st, at my house.
There will be burgers and grill stuff, snacks, beer and spirits, Super Street Fighter 2 HD Remix amongst other games, and of course, rocking tunes. If you're coming, please feel free to bring anything to contribute to the Q.
If you're interested in coming, send me a PM so I can give you the address, directions, and parking info. We can also figure out what, if anything, you'd be bringing to share. Take a look at what everyone else is already bringing and see if you can bring something different. Also, monetary or booze donations are welcome.
Here's the list of attendees:
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Level 99 - Ground Chuck, Hot Dogs, Red Yellow and Orange Peppers, Mushrooms, Coke, Coke Zero, Pita Chips, Tortilla Chips, Chip chips, salsa, dipping sauces, assorted fruit, SNACK PACKS!, potatoes, tofu, some of the booze
Brushfire - Peach Dumpcake, Ice cream, and wuss alcoholic drinks.
Epicenter - pickle in a bag
OA - Watermelon
DragonAvenger - kitty ears
Bahamut - bulgogi or ice cream
djpretzel - his appetite
Zircon and Pixietrix - Hot dog buns and plasticware
Vimk (might need ride)
Arrow - A CAR FULL OF CHIPS!
Palpable and diotrans - veggie burgers and probably some kind of pie/cookies/dessrty sweet thing
Kizyr and Jenner - Corn on the cob
GeoffreyTaucer
Velocifero - Burger buns and some beer
Kulaman - non-alky beverages
Jose the Bronx Rican
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You know how they say it's usually a minority of people that have the loudest voices?
Yeah, this time that minority got it's protesting ass handed to them in the form of the best people in the world: Nerds.
I am so happy that this happened you have no idea.
OCR @ Otakon 2010! (July 31st, 6-8PM, Panel 3, Baltimore, MD)
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Here's a copy of the pix I got from my buddy for Otakon.
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2309923&id=18410679&l=cc01c6c64a
Also, I believe at least one, possibly two, got footage of the panel. I will check my laptop.
Edit: Yup, it all turned out awesome. I will be working with Brushfire to get the best of the best footage out relatively soon.