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This, considering Macs are significantly more expensive compared to equivalently-powerful PCs. Unfortunately, not knowing about computers kinda puts you in a situation where a Mac might be the better option. If you're willing to learn a bit about computers, you'll get a lot more firepower out of a PC, especially considering your budget. For music production, CPU power, RAM, and a hard drive with a good compromise between speed are important, and video hardware is pretty much negligible (I invite anyone more experienced to correct me if I'm wrong on this). I'm not at liberty to recommend any PCs you might want to buy, as I build my own. I'll leave that to someone else.

I really appreciate that.

What a trip it has been.

Happy birthday. That makes the beard, what, 25? 26?

Change you main Mii's name. No, unfortunately.

Still got my fingers crossed for Lee Chaolan and Fei Long.

You're definitely not the only one to say that. It's definitely hella bad production. XD That mix was version 1. Reducing the volume/strain on the comp was the first thing I did for v2. The one sitting in the Judge's Queue is v8. The difference is literally night and day. I definitely learned my lesson with that mix. /offtopic, this is about Holland giving Siamey the thumbs up on his awesome Terraport mix.

This is wonderful. Truly wonderful.

It can. On top of that, you have no speaker emulation, so the sound won't be as good. I recommend a POD Studio Pro. You can plug into the instrument input (following what Neblix said about turning the volume up slowly from 0, of course), disable the amp in POD Farm, and choose a speaker setting/mic placement that you like. Bamf, sounds like you're recording your amp's cab using an SM57.

Props to you. And amazing mix to boot. That track's one of my faves. I remember feeling pretty cool when , despite the bad production quality. Getting that kind of notice definitely makes the effort worth it.

Now that he's the winner, I strangely feel like losing to him wasn't such a bad thing.

A chance to meet my favorite composer? Why would I pass that up?

A while back, a buddy of mine realized that he was bored not making music, and I realized that I missed the collaboration aspect of being in a band. So we decided to start making music together again, while providing me an opportunity to "guinea pig" it and learn more about production and performance, and a sort of resume for any future bands that might be looking for members. We don't plan on releasing albums or anything like that; we're just taking it song by song. You can check it out here. Constructive crits welcome.

I'll wait as long as necessary. It'd be better than waiting four months for three No's. I'll take a look at that panned lead too. I use a POD Studio Pro UX1, with POD Farm 2, and I'm always down for expanding my tone library. EDIT: If you're gonna put something in your home stereo, go with version 8. I panned that lead a little closer to the center and did a couple of other minor tweaks. And much thanks for helping me out so much on this track. Once this is done, a blessing from your beard should put this mix on its way to the front page.

Oh, you too? VERSION 7! With the changes you suggested. Sliding that lead did help quite a bit. I'm thinking maybe my POD's latency was messing with it when I recorded it. That synth during the solo got a slight volume reduction. It's really hitting that balanced sweet spot on my ATH-M45s and my cheap little speaker setup, so I'm hoping I did the trick there. Anyone got any more crits before I sub this little guy?

My mix is also done, but I'm still obsessing over it to make sure I have everything right. I have pretty much no chance at beating WillRock, but that doesn't mean I'm not gonna turn anything in.

Or you could have one bracket be for guys who got mixes past the judges panel and one bracket for those who didn't, provided the split is even enough between the two.

Challenge Accepted. 1. Spark Man 2. Wood Man 3. Elec Man 4. Metal Man 5. Snake Man

This is a straight cover of a track. I generally do these kinds of things because a) I wanna hear something rock-ified, and to learn more about FL Studio and music production in general. Both mixes that have been shot down so far by the panel have been due to production issues. This way, I can get a good standing of where I stand on that without having to pump out an entire remix. So, if you're reading this, could you just take maybe 15 seconds out of your busy day and listen to the track, and post some constructive crits to tell me what I did right/wrong and ways I could improve? It'd be a big help. "Shouldn't this be in the ReMixes forum?" you might ask. Well, it's not a remix, let alone something I'd be looking to submit, but rather a straight cover with next to no variation from the source whatsoever. If a mod feels it belongs there more than here, feel free to move it/close it off and ask me to post it there/whatever.

I really wish I could participate, but there are only 3 RM sources I'd actually like to pick. I'm not too familiar with the sources. That's probably because I only played 1-3.

Two weeks, no feedback. I know, finals week, but my thread gets cold and lonely out there on the third page. Especially when I'm still trying to get this song into a submittable state.

Apparently, some devs are making it so that 4:3 is the advantage, allowing them to see more vertical space than 16:9/16:10 users, essentially giving all players an equal horizontal FOV considering that's where most FPS action happens. Or, well, they're trying to. I haven't seen it successfully done.

That's what I was thinking too, but I think I'll hold out. The GTX 460 seems to be underperforming compared to the Radeon HD 6870, which was what I was considering prior. Not exactly in my budget, but I can put up with my 4870 until I can afford it if that's what it'd take. Pretty sizable boost, but I think I'd be willing to pay the extra $50. Still, if anyone's got some nice money-savers, I'm still watching this thread.

No, Modus, you're on the money. The HD 4870 is old. I'd like to get something with a little more balls behind it. Late mistakes, I'm looking to build an entire PC. I need pretty much everything that would go inside the case. That means that a setof combo deals that go over my budget themselves can't be done. Maybe something with the i5 Sandy Bridge? I actually found a DIY combo on Newegg that might suit my needs and budget, but I'm not that much of a hardware guy, so maybe someone could point out some flaws that I might have missed. http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboBundleDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.634266

In a couple of months, I'm gonna be building my very first gaming PC. Tricky part being I'd like to pull this off with a $700 budget. I'll be reformatting this one and setting it up solely for music production, which means that I can buy a new (cheaper) PSU for this one and put my 700 watt GameXtream into the new system, which also means I'd probably be taking out the Radeon HD 4870 as well. I'm not planning on buying a new keyboard, monitor, or mouse, and my OS purchase isn't factored into the budget. I'd like the motherboard and CPU to be fairly recent, but a good price/performance ratio is top priority. Any suggestions on a build?