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Kidd Cabbage

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  1. Gain - Refers to the volume of a given track. Originated from hardware electronics, in which the term refers to the ratio of the output voltage/amperage to the input. As larger current waveforms are associated with greater volume, gain became synonymous with volume to audio mixers, even after DAWs (see below) rendered the physical association moot.

    Wrong. "Gain" is only a relative term meaning a raise in the loudness level (with attenuation being the opposite). The word you're looking for is the loudness "level."

    I'm also going to point out that "volume" is a marketing term, and has no real meaning in audio.

  2. It's very good! You feel like PMing me the score so I can see some of how you orchestrated it? :)

    Just a tip for your conducting - try not to get so lost in the score. Especially in the beginning, you seemed pretty tunnel-visioned on the score, rather than the orchestra, so you lost them a little bit early on. You fixed it in the latter half, though.

    Also, tell douchebag in the glasses next to the camera to quit dicking around and pay attention.

  3. No. Modal music is modal. Atonal music is atonal.

    Let's sum it up.

    Tonal music = V I and derivations thereof. The dominant to tonic relationship is what makes tonal music thus. Modal music does not do this. Modal progressions rely on the characteristic tones of the mode to cadence.

  4. 4/4, 3/4, and 6/8.

    When used tastefully, compound meters are fine... but in mainstream music, they never are and they're a crutch the pretentious writers use to be different and 'creative.' Absolute fucking crutch for bad writers who can't make anything interesting without them (see half of Dream Theater's newer albums).

    If you read that, and thought "Yeah, that's true! But when I use it, I do it tastefully, so that's good," then you're wrong. I'm absolutely talking about you.

    [This is all coming from a Meshuggah fan. But I'm fairly certain they're aware that it's kind of gimmicky.]

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