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No (resub) just means that that particular judge enjoyed it and wants you to resubmit cause they think you have the skills to go for it. You can resubmit whatever you like as long as you actually made some changes.

Basically you want a pair of small diaphragm condensers of some kind (read above suggestions, all good) and if you've got the luxury of time maybe mic up the drum kit properly up close. You only really need 3-4 mics to do it. Shure sm57 on the snare and kick, and 1 or 2 overheads (414's or any cheapish condensers work fine). You don't have to shell out on drums mics, people are used to the sound of sm57's on them.

Good thanks, here's a front page summary: 10 finished 8 are almost there 14 less developed wips So we're looking at at least 32 tracks, but we've got a bunch more claimed. Not bad for only 7 months in compared to some projects.

FreQuency (best rhythm game ever) with custom tracks, import me some OCR tracks.

Holy cow, I'm on it like Donkey Kong. Awesome movie, awesome game with awesome music I didn't even know existed?

Satriani uses Dimarzio pickups.

Don't want to scare you but there's always some latent magnetism left in all magnetic storage devices even if you format. It might not be able to read itself but a particularly dodgy specialist can find something that can read it. The only way to be 100% sure is to put a nail through it. Alternatively you could juts write it full of garbage and format it a few times, that should mess it up enough.

Really enjoying A Scholar and a Physician's (old school OCR guys) original stuff: http://www.myspace.com/ascholarandaphysician Particularly counting song and she's a witch. Hope they make an album at some point.

1. You can use them in non-profit situations as long as you credit them. 2. You are not allowed to use them anywhere to directly or indirectly make profit from them. Technically speaking, you would have to pay royalties to the original copyright holder in order to do that I think.

Well, Logic is a solid choice for composing on the mac side. For PC Cubase is very popular among schools/colleges and a few professionals (Hanz Zimmer uses it). FL Studio is very popular around here but it's layout favours pattern-based electronica (before zircon shouts at me you can make anything in it, but you can't argue that's not what its layout is specialized for) so there are arguably better choices for orchestral music. Reaper is free, always worth a try for free and it is ridiculously efficient CPU wise (in my experience). I've heard you can get AU 'wrappers' that can make any VST work as an AU, but I've never tried it personally.

I know I know, I was keeping it simple. No one buys a mac for reaper .

I think you're approaching this question slightly wrong. You're better off looking at which music production program you think is best for you and buying the computer system you need for it. I can tell you right now that 90% of studio level music is recorded/produced with Pro Tools and the majority of film music composers use Logic Pro these days. Logic requires a Mac, Pro Tools can be either pc or mac (so most studios have both installed on one mac). Pro Tools is VERY expensive, don't buy it unless you actually need it for whatever course you're doing. Logic is cheap but macs are not. The majority of hobbyists around here will recommend the cheaper alternatives of FL Studio, Reason, Cubase etc. These are pretty much all pc compatible and viable options. If you're getting them for a music production course (which I assume is true as you said the word semester), ask the course director which program they are going to be using most and get that. In terms of using orchestral samples, you have to buy sample packs anyway and they usually (...usually) work the same on every program (although macs cannot use VST libraries as simply). If you have a free choice of program just download lots of demos of programs on your existing computer and see what you like.

Joshua Morse did that already. We haven't set a lower limit on track numbers or anything but if you have a fairly size-able EP of OCR quality stuff we can definitely talk :3.

DONE. I wasn't even lying or anything. Check the forums for final version doods.

I wrote a paper on that for a film music essay. It's definitely movie music primarily and wouldn't be allowed.

Yo, me track will be done by next weekend. You read it here first.

Happy birthday dood. Have a good un.

Hah. No it wasn't a mosh, thems is fun (long as you actually meant to enter it). You seriously think someone would want to not have a good time? Just saying, there's a big difference between dancing/jumping/moshing/whatever and just pushing for the sake of it. The former is fun, the latter is annoying and dangerous. Like I said before, its awesome when people are being reasonable and everyone has even half and arm of space so they can actually jump around and enjoy themselves without crushing each other. Its pushing from the back that ruins it for everyone.

Sorry? The people I just described make them less fun. If everyone just chilled out and stopped pushing forward concerts are awesome. You can chill and have a laugh/beer with the people around you. That happened ONCE at a Pendulum gig of all band and it was awesome. As soon as people start pushing it ruins everything and people start getting angry and even injured. Look what happened at the German festival recently? I spent 8 fucking hours defending my 5ft3 girlfriend at the front fence of a Muse gig from 4 people who I could hear audibly targeting her as a small weak person they could push in front of. I had a bar lodged under my ribs from the people pushing behind me for most of it. My arm was almost entirely bruised. How exactly is being crushed by idiots making concerts less fun?

That's why it would've be hilariously awesome.

I like both, but it is incredibly easy for one twat to ruin a concert for you. If I go to see a band it's because I want to see them play their music, I don't want to be stuck in a smelly crowd being pushed around and shoved because one spaz wants to get 5 metres closer. Ideally a nice relaxed seated viewing of a band is great to me. Obviously that doesn't work for every band but I'd always rather be further away and sitting so I can actually enjoy it. So yeah, it's nice to see a band creating music in person organically; but the pursuit of a perfect sound in studio work is incredibly interesting to me also.

Awwwwwww man. Steven Seagal turned it down? He was the only person missing from my list.

I know, I listened to them and replied in the thread?

Well the first post says you should send me a pm with an audition track to claim something, which I'm pretty sure I never got. That post sounded very non-committal too, you've gotta admit .