Moseph

I'll probably sub mine to OCR eventually, but I'd like to get some better headphones and rework the mix before I do that.

I wish I had money.

Thanks. I may clean up the mix a little and sub it for OCR consideration.

No wonder you gave me a Jill of the Jungle tune for FBRC.

Actually, that SA thread was better than the Pokemon pics.

^^ glove + ER = Glover

You have to enter the bot-stopper code in the middle of the page and hit submit.

Maybe we could start a new thread? I'm interested in seeing where this discussion leads.

One sort of recent one that comes to mind is Giana's Homecoming.

His irises match -- Photoshop artifacts FTW!

Thanks. I'd forgotten how long it takes for me to upload anything to the Web.

Grrr. The deadline hit as I was waiting for the upload to go through and it killed the submission. Help plz.

So, and correct me if I'm wrong, the gist of your argument is "I deserve to have whatever music or software I want, but music and software aren't important enough to actually pay someone for, so musicians and software-makers therefore don't deserve to be paid, and they're bad people for wanting to be paid."

Whee! The arrangement itself is done -- I'm in the process of mixing. I hope people like Rhodes and marimba.

Britney makes so much money because people are idiots and buy her music and love to read about her in the tabloids. American culture is driving the hype machine that nets her so much money -- Britney herself has little to do with it. I think you're confusing actor/musician with pop culture superstar. For every Britney Spears or Angeline Jolie, there are countless other actors and musicians who are just barely getting by and have to supplement their meager incomes by waiting tables. Visit a college campus and find a musical theater major or a music performance major and talk to them a bit. These guys are not going to make much money when they get out of school, at least not from their performance abilities, because there's not much of a market for them -- and they know it. I, for example, would love to compose art music for a living, but that just ain't gonna happen because there's no market for it. Not enough people want to listen to the stuff I want to compose for it to be feasible. To make any sort of living in music, I'll either have to break into the film/media market (difficult) or or find a university to teach at (my current long-term goal). Last I checked, no one was offering me a Britney Spears-type deal. Do you believe that as an architect, you deserve to make more money than firefighters who risk their lives doing their "job"? Do you believe that as an airline pilot ... ? Do you believe that as a business consultant ... ? Do you see what I'm driving at here? All of these occupations are potentially more profitable and less dangerous than firefighting, so why single out musicians? The amount of money someone makes is determined by market forces, not by who is arguably morally superior.

If you decide it wouldn't be too politically incorrect to touch, I think a comedic subplot about a group of incompetent terrorists and the TSA officials chasing them would be a lot of fun. ("What? I thought you packed the exploding shoes!")

You can always just rewrite a myth or folk tale, too.

World of WarCraft. And if you think I'm joking, you're wrong.

Someone needs to make an app called "LIONTAMER VS DPJ" -- you get to choose whether you want to be an Oji-ite or a Lloyd-ist and then do battle with your friends who are on the opposite side. When you win, you get points to upgrade your mixing gear! And it automatically invites all your friends to add the app! It has ugly pictures and many grammatical errors! It publishes pointless data to your newsfeed! It clutters up your Facebook page! It doesn't do anything useful!

B&H Photo/Video has it for $259.95, but you have to add it to the shopping cart to see the actual price. I expect ZZounds would count B&H as official, but I don't know if they'll match that kind of hidden price or not.

I hate to sound like I'm bragging, but I've screwed up piano performances more major than this. The trick, I think, is to not dwell on it, and more importantly, to not let it turn you off of your piano studies. EDIT: Video link doesn't work for me, either.

Good stuff; this hadn't occurred to me.

I second the 0404. I haven't used it for anything really heavy-duty, but I haven't had any problems with it. EDIT: Make sure your computer supports USB 2.0 before getting a USB interface, and make sure the interface is also USB 2.0 (which the 0404 is).

I'm not sure if it's the same thing you're describing or not, but I sometimes feel like the midrange frequencies of things I'm listening to are, for lack of a better description, too close to me in relation to the other frequencies. It happens even on professionally produced music, and it's caused by the headphones I'm using -- they're kind of cheapo. What kind of listening setup do you have? I've never seen any actual evidence that mixing at above 44.1 khz improves anything. Everything I've heard about it has been anecdotal. Personally, I don't see any reason to do it unless you plan on making a version of the music with a higher sampling rate in the future.

The Cool Edit Pro guy? I was speaking specifically of music -- CDs, cassettes, etc. There are plenty of pieces of software with TOS statements that forbid license transfers.