Gario

Ask them if they know how recording equipment works first. If they don't, then bring in your laptop and tell them that you like the amp software on your computer or something, then do your magic. Let's see it happen, Brandon.

Woo, looking forward to it!

This wine I drank made me clip off the end of my track. I think I'mma submit it right now. brb, subbing sucky clipped track to compo.

Yeah, gonna ride on Prophecy's line of thinking and add that if the audience hears something as an issue one should pay attention to what they're saying - even if what they said is technically incorrect, the fact that they heard it in that light means that there is something in your track that sounds like the issue that they're hearing. Whether or not it needs to be addressed is always up to the author, of course, but it should be noted that the audience may not be hearing it the way that you do.

MOD REVIEW: Aww, no worries about genre discrimination here - we rain on the electro lovers and acoustic addicts alike, here. You have some really cool sweeps in this track, and seem to have a good deal of control over your effects. However, the sound scape is very cluttered in this track, and I hear clipping everywhere when most of the instruments are playing at once. Your instruments all use the same frequency range, which in turn causes them to all fight for the space, to which it sounds like you've increased the volume of the instruments to make it easier to hear them (which has done the opposite). I'd suggest either fewer instruments, or change your instrumentation around a bit - use synths or samples that don't sound so similar to one another to make them stand out without raising the volume as much. When you do that, turn off your limiter (if you're using one) and lower the volume of your tracks until it's not clipping anymore, then work on raising your volumes from there. The arrangement knows to drop out from time to time in order to give some variety & allow for some breathing room, which is good. The sections with the source do sound pretty conservative for the site, though, if you were planning on posting it sometime (which, since you've requested a mod review, I'm assuming you are). You have some other cool music on your channel - don't be afraid to insert some of your personality into the theme, here. The production issues are pretty large ones, though, and with electronic music the production is very important. Work on getting your levels straightened out, and try to use instruments that don't sound so similar so that the whole track becomes clearer. Good luck!

Oh hey I got started on mine early. That's a good thing. For me, anyway.

From what I gather, the reason people continue to bring up such things is because rather than trying to justify it's existence they're simply explaining why they feel it exists, in the first place. If you thought that it was a problem, and you believed something biological caused it, wouldn't it make sense to first acknowledge what you feel the problem is? Right or wrong, DjP simply wants to point to what he feels is the underlying problem (that is, it's biological/evolutionary) - that doesn't imply that he feels that it's therefore perfectly fine. In fact... I would say this statement pretty much confirms that he doesn't think (or even imply) that it's "okay". On another note, there is one role that is based solely on gender that biology is responsible for - giving birth to a child - that is not 'sexist' to assume is solely for a woman. The idea that this role could possibly affect how women have evolved over time (and thus became physically less suited to certain tasks due, for example, to how the hips had to shape for this purpose) does have some objective (i.e. not sexist) logic to it... though it admittedly doesn't affect the DiD trope very much, imo, so perhaps it could be saved for another part of the Anita series. It'd be just as silly to deny that women are very different from men in a biological sense as it would to say that women should be subservient to men (because nature), even if the former would potentially undermine the idea that women are considered equal to men in every way. Both statements are simply untrue, and to base an opinion on either would hurt your stance.

Alright, I'm about to send my mix -

Holy shit, it's... SHINESPARKS! I literally dropped everything that I was doing in order to give this legendary track a listen. *Ahem* Very nice and different interpretation of the theme that everyone knows so well. The instrument combination is great, and it's smooth as all hell - I can see why it was on the 'conditional posting' list for so long, as I wouldn't want to downright reject it, either. I would be very happy if Nathan knew that his music was finally posted, and was encouraged to produce more awesome musics for the site!

Holy shit, Moses was gonna fuck those kids up. Just sayin'.

As a very large fan of the series, I really hope for the best. Being available on a mobile platform doesn't kill it for me right away (unless it's Square Enix, in which case their track record dooms them to failure), so I'll keep my ear out on how this develops.

Yeah, going to have to agree that her attack on Spelunky is a bit overzealous. The ability to gender/species swap the 'damsel' actually should show just how unimportant the gender (or even species, if that kind of thing bothers you) actually is, in the context of the game. The very option completely deconstructs the context of the damsel trope by making the gender irrelevant. You could argue that making the woman the first choice still makes her the most obvious one and argue some discrimination from there. Her to claim that it compares women to dogs is ludicrous and nonsensical, though, considering it compares the man to a dog, too - he's yet another option for the damsel.

It's a nice sentiment from a few posters here, but I disagree that you can't get a good idea of how much you like a track without listening from start to finish. I can give something a quick listen (only covering ~15% of it in that time) and have a very good idea of what style, structure and production values the track has. I wouldn't just listen to the beginning, though - I skip around, listen to short segments at a time, hold the track down when something different and interesting catches my ear and judge from there. I don't think I'm disrespecting any artist by doing this.

Not going to lie, it's kind of how I review tracks (though I skip around to listen to the arrangement aspect of it - not just the first thirty seconds). You'd be surprised how much you can surmise from a short viewing of a track, actually.

Ouch, man, right in the heart you strike. I'm saying she's posting standard methods of playing through a game - nothing spectacular or special. If there was something special about the videos that she were posting (speedruns, glitching/hacking, mods, creations in a game, etc. - something to make it stand out from normal play) then I'd say she really would need to give credit where it was due, but just playing a game, or even just showing cutscenes from another video... No, that's not 'creative input', that's playing through the design of the game. I think you're hanging a little too much on the romantic notion of 'creative input' - not every little thing that we do on video games should be seen as creative, else we hang ourselves up on minute details like this. I love Megaman 3, but I don't consider myself an artist for moving him forward and jumping - at best, I see myself as solving a problem that the designers provided for me. That's not very creative, in my book.

If she's using other people's ripped footage that doesn't necessarily mean that she hasn't played the games before. As the Coop said, we can't just assume that because she decided to post other people's playthroughs that she didn't play the games herself. Also, using other people's ripped footage without crediting them is perfectly fine because it's technically not theirs to put on YT in the first place (it's the developers/publishers material), and she does give proper credit as to what games she's posting on her videos. It's nothing like posting material that another user has created, as an average playthrough of a game has virtually no creative input from the original poster - not even creative commons can apply to something like this. I'd rather complain about long waits between videos - when do y'all suspect she'll be done with video #3?

If you need help with that, I'm down with giving some help in that area. Also, yay, moon.

If I start acting batshit crazy on the forums then y'all know that my passwords were taken by the government and they're hacking my account. Just giving the heads up.

Nice, sexy mix from Hoboka! Also nice collab with Flexstyle, here I like the arrangement of this one - glitchy, thumpin' and pumpin' drums and an awesome source to boot. A very nice debut from Hoboka, indeed!

Amazing, and with one of my favorite MM tunes, no less.

Aww, DS, don't be hatin' on outsourcin'

... I actually kind of like all three versions, for what they are. The original is funktastic, the Daft Punk version has some sexy vocoded robovoice that I can't hate, and to be honest there are some neat harmonies that Kanye spices things up with, and he breaks up the samples in some interesting ways, to boot. If you ignore that it's Kanye, it's not THAT bad.

Nope, not even close - that whole "original audio" is pretty much the entirety of sampling, and unlike covers/arrangements, songs using sampling can be completely different from the source(s). Anyway, if the samples really make something new and interesting, I'm all for it. Something like is a very good use of sampling, imho.(For you non-pony folks, here's an alternative, but the arrangement quality isn't as good) For an example of something that's just no good, . No credit to the source, virtually untouched (just sings over the source).

I would have to argue that, while butt is funny, the word 'poop' holds the current title of being the funniest word in any language.

Double post: Also noticed that they revamped FFTA in the same manner just a few days ago. FFTA: X I'd love to try that out... though I think it'd wipe the floor with my face since I'm not nearly as familiar with the original game, lol. Thought it might be relevant.