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Keep your number-comparisons out of my project thread, boys. Go play outside or something, just stay out of Mr. Tamer's yard. You know how he hates it when kids play in his yard. He just likes to sit on his porch and whittle while reminiscing about the good ol' days of "NO OVERRIDE".
The number of projects people are on doesn't matter. Like Jade and bLiNd have said, it shouldn't feel like work. It needs to be all about the love.
Looooooooove.
Considering some new project rules and regulations because of the moratorium, I must have a talk with Mr. Cho and Mr. Burr soon.
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Is it time for me to say that I'm on this project too?
>_>
>_<
If and only if I'm able to meet the deadlines with something satisfactory. Oh, and just so people don't jump down my throat or anything, this has been something I've been talking to pu_freak about for a while.
Damn you, and your 80's-style fadeouts. -
Guys, I need my OCAD fix... I'm starting to have withdrawal symptoms D:
First half of the OCAD MAGFest video podcast uploaded sometime soon to you-boob, once second half is here, I'll edit that too.
And the latest podcast will come out once Deven emails me his portion of the podcast...come on, Deven! Gallofan is waiting on you!
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I'd much rather the first set of dates. There's a potential work conflict if it's the later dates, and I don't want to miss a second of next year's awesomeness.
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exactly. Who needs to wait a whole year when we can crash steveo's place anytime the desire strikes!
You're all BANNED! BANNED, I TELL YOU!
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I did forget one specific resolution of mine...
...organize a set of songs to play with people who I know will be at MAG next year so we can all rock out. Time to start forming diabolical plans, heh heh heh.
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Ah, my last secret weapon has arrived. Only took a few months from USPS to get here! Glad you hopped on, Mr. van OH-Faces!
THAT'S IT! All regular tracks have now been claimed. There will be at least two announcements between now and next week. Hope everyone had an amazing new year's.
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I may be missing it staring me in the face, but do you have a date set for next WIPs?
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Then of course, Stevo had to ruin it all with that weird game of his that I was too drunk to play
You have no idea how many times I've heard dates of mine end this way as well.
Can Brushfire have one of these too?Maybe a whole OCAD themed one.
There may be monies in it for you ^__^
Wait, we have monies to throw at people? How come this is the first I've heard of this?! I'm in need of access to this petty cash for my insatiable desire for hookers and booze! (well, more like video games and rock)
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Prototype Raptor has the stuff he needs. We're getting underway soon.
*puts on his suit and fedora*
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Indeed, but the last night was pretty awesome...
Getting to see the hilarity of DBZ Abridged which I must now see in full, how good Starla/Injury/"I've-never-played-this-game-before" is at MegaMan 2 even while tipsy, and Steveo's pretty face post-coitus. (Wait, what?)One sucky thing is that I didn't realize people would be heading out as early as they did. Party 'till only 1AM? Ffffeh!
And ironically, I happened to pass a Quebec license plate on my drive back home. It did little but remind me of previous company, and just how spread out we all are with few chances to gather like this.
Yo, don't complain it ended early. Be glad it happened period! I got back at like 4 AM anyways.
T'was a blast.
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Thanks to Stevo for hosting the final night of MAGFest for us* last night, which was totally awesome. We've got a set of pics and videos that probably won't be making it onto Facebook. Speaking of which, I left my sweater there in a fit of passion. I'll have to trade you your hat back for it next time I see you, Stevo.
*is it truly gone if we remember it?
Yeah, if any of those pics or videos of a compromising nature make it onto facebook, there will be a few less judges and mixers in the world, heh heh heh...
It was really really fun last night. Definitely depressing at the end, though, especially taking Rama and Starla back to Brushfire's and saying goodbye, and then dropping Vilecat off at the train station. However, seeing Vinnie dance as white as bleach was worth the entire night.
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You know you're welcome to do OCAD here at my place if you want.
Same issue with the distance from everyone though, bro. Just easier this way, plus I have my set method of recording and whatnot.
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Apparently, Juanita, our OCAD house maid, stole the rent check to pay a ransom to get her four children back from aliens that have traveled from beyond the farthest stars. The children are safe, our site is the victim of her heroic deeds, though.
Will be up post-haste.
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I hate when claims fall through!
But at least you tried!...
If I didn't smell sarcasm, I'd be puzzled as to what would've made Portrait of a Plumber a bad project...
It's not sarcasm: the project really is going to be great. We OCAD hosts just like being, or looking like, or acting like, complete and total douchebags. It's in our blood. Fishy is the man and it's just easier to goad him into requesting a presence by catering to his ego.
OCAD: We take the internet seriously. Seriously.
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I'm down. I'll be bringing my laptop as well as my mic. I could attempt to record with my laptop, but I'm not sure it'll like that. We'll see. Stevo, I need directions.
PM me for address and directions. If it's at my house, I'm using my desktop for the recording. Oh, desktop, only marginally more reliable than my laptops combined...how I love you.
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We repeatedly poked David Pretzel at MAGFest about his mixes (upon Taucer's instructions, of course), but I gotta give the man some crazy respect: he is a multitasking GOD. Puts me and others to shame, so I'll poke him RESPECTFULLY from now on about it.
Excuse me, kind sir, *polite poke* is your mix done yet?
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We don't care about a storybook or any other bonus features: we just want to hear the music.
Quoted for truth and great justice. It's all about the music, man. Bonuses are all well and good, but it shouldn't be what holds back some awesome music for release. I'm sure the people who took part in the project have been waiting eagerly for their stuff to be released, so you've got the listeners AND the artists wanting this thing to go.
Pretty please with a cherry on top?
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Eh, more than one person can do a track - for example there are two claims on Blizzard Buffalo, and I can pretty much assure you that they'll be two quite different takes on it.
Oh, it's a guarantee on that one.
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Like I said, it's my opinion. None of you have to agree. I never said I was aganist this or anything else that's going on, but I believe eventually OCR should put a limit of how many projects are going on per year. Too many projects exhausts any artist. I don't care how long it takes to finish a project, that wasn't my point.
It also begins to take away from the listener perspective. It's a tough balance between releasing music too frequently and then not frequently enough. If more projects are started, and even more seen through to completion, the amount of time in between projects would dictate that sooner or later there will be a queue of finished projects waiting to be released. No project wants to give up their share of the spotlight, after all they worked hard on it, so there does need to be some space in between. Also, too many projects released to frequently can overwhelm potential listeners. Consider the time it takes for people to listen to music, and then again at how much is released, and you see that people have to pick and choose as there's only so much time available.
I'm not saying don't start a project, I'm just saying there are many things to consider. You seem to be gathering quite a few people already and a couple staffers, so I wish you luck and hope your project finishes one day.
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I didn't mean stop making Remixes, I meant stop doing it wrong..If you're trying to make a good remix at least hear the original one first.. secondly take a specific genre you like to listen to and you know what the samples you need to use for your mix.. then listen carefully what is the right chords at the right order.. that is the least I can give you..
If you wanna hear how to make a good remix listen to this!
The moment you tell anyone that what they're making in a creative fashion is "wrong", you've lost all credibility to your judgement. There is no right or wrong, proper or improper, or any of that. You're looking at this from a perspective that your opinion is fact, that what you're looking for in a remix is "right". Sorry, that's not how music works.
You're looking at remixes as if they were systematic upgrades to sound quality, not as interpretive arrangement. Therefore, you could basically plug the midis into a program and upgrade them without the human interaction. Not what we were going for here. No one's forcing you to listen to this, nor to like it, and it's offered for free regardless. Any objections founded on an idiotic principle such as "right remixing" are thrown out the window. The project coordinators are there to check for appropriate usage of the source, and the OCR staff does make sure albums submitted are up to at least some of the standards, so there's always a mix of the original as well as the arranger in there. Don't like it, don't listen.
*breaks out his guitar for a classic rock version of the Final Fantasy Prelude track with ALL THE WRONG CHORDS*
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I'm still figuring out how to do all this. In regards to OCAD, I just discovered the first half (the portion where we had to stop temporarily because of a recording issue, though it seemed fine) ended up completely garbled. I'm hoping to lift the audio off of the video from Brushfire next time I see him, but since the laptop still only worked for half the time (and is STILL not running audacity, it keeps crashing) I have no idea how we're going to do OCAD anywhere but my house unless something changes. Y'all are welcome here for that, and it would probably make Dyne's drive down easier, pretty equidistant from everyone. Much appreciated your offering of your place, diotrans and Palpable, but it'd only be a logical option (because of extensive driving) if we did OCAD there as well, which I just can't see happening without a reliable laptop. Heh, first the Mac loses the Christmas podcast recording, then the laptop garbles half of the magfest recording. Note to self: laptops are evil.
Right now, unless there are any objections, here's the tentative plan (feel free to bring some board games, food, alcohol, or whatever):
* Brushfire's bringing his crew to my place in the early afternoon (2ish/3ish).
* OCAD recording gonna start around 4, it'll be the MAGFest recap episode and we'll get reactions from the people around us. Hopefully it will not descend into chaos. Epicenter will be dialing in.
* After that, we'll just hang out the whole night, playing video games, board games, and have some alcohol available. Sleeping space might be a bit limited, but let me know in-advance if you're thinking of crashing.
I just have to clear it with my housemates and we'll be good to go. If there are no objections, can I get a list of people who will be showing up, please?
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Let me just say how much I love that fistpump picture. The shirt is mostly unbuttoned for a reason: each button represents two drinks I had taken.
This is awesome, I'm putting all these on my digital picture frame at work to keep me company until next year.
OverClocked After Dark - The Former Thread of Days of Yore
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Yeah, this is getting a little ridiculous...
Just a rundown of all the issues we've had lately:
1) The Holiday podcast had issues with the skype call because, apparently, skype only takes mono input for mics and if the source is stereo, it just takes the left side. Also, because of this, I found out that the stereo-merge switches on my Lexicon Lambda only merge stereo to mono for the monitor jack and not for the USB audio, so I could heard it in mono but the computer was still getting it as a divided stereo. Lastly, even though we jury-rigged the call so it would work, the laptop (my Macbook) froze recording the stream, so the recording was completely lost.
2) For the MAGFest podcast, we had a whole host of issues. The audio froze on that laptop (an HP laptop) mid-recording and I had to restart it, but it sounded fine at the time. However, after getting home to check it again, the first hour was garbled and completely messed. I could still hear some things, but it was literally chopped up audio and beyond unacceptable for use. The second bit was fine, but it was a lot shorter so in the end, we basically lost most if not all of the audio. We had a camcorder recording as well, but the power cord was left at home so that ran out of juice before an hour was up. The audio for that is okay but you can't make much out (it's about as good as home videos of family activities that your Dad used to make), and we're waiting on the video from some nice individual who decided to record the second bit for us. The best we can hope for is a half-decent video of the podcast...
3) For the post-MAGFest wrapup at my house, everything was alright with the computer this time (except for some weird glitch on XP with my Lambda where the playback was glitchy but the files themselves played fine on other computers or on the integrated audio drivers) but, apparently, Epicenter's side of the call was lost in a reformat.
Needless to say, I'm currently
Y'all have waited long enough, so in the absence of Epicenter's side of the call, I'm going to tastefully edit in some stuff to make it seem like he's REALLY THERE and then upload the podcast over my extended weekend. I'm really sorry to everyone who's been waiting patiently for the next episode, so as long as no more technical fuck-ups happen, your patience will probably be half-rewarded.
Time for some more reorganization. Brushfire, Epicenter, watch your email.