ectogemia
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Actually, yes, haha. I'll be releasing a 5 track chip rock soundtrack this coming Friday, and then a few days after that, I'll be releasing about 20 tracks on another soundtrack. I've got a Yoshi's Island remix coming out on GameChops in a couple of weeks. Aaaaand Ben Briggs and I are working on another remix album. But what I really want to do next is a SNES prog album which already has a couple cool wips going for it. ecto jams are coming
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we can have a little heart-to-heart.
but briefly, in my opinion, the key is in mixing at a low master bus rms (like -10 db to -20 db) so you can avoid triggering the limiter while mixing. the power in this technique is that it allows you to balance the levels of each track as best as possible because the limiter is not obfuscating the dynamics of the track. being that level balancing is the most important part of mixing, it doesn't much matter if you're familiar with eq, mb compression, etc. if you can't balance levels, all the other techniques are just different ways to polish a turd.
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also, a little compression on the master (totaling about 4-6 db of gain reduction with no more than that much makeup gain + a moderate to long attack and release like 30-40 and 250-400 ms respectively and a soft knee -- just as much transparency as possible) does wonders for bringing out the quiet parts of the whole mix and suppressing some of the peaks which hurt the balance of the mix. i add this compressor after my master gain reducer to bring down my rms (any plugin with a gain control works), and i usually toss it in after i've laid down the first fleshed-out part of my track. pretty early on.
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well, the advantage of mastering your own music is getting it to sound the way you want it to sound. i don't buy that whole "unbiased perspective thing" so long as you're a competent producer. the advantage of someone else mastering it is getting it to sound the way someone else wants to sound. sometimes that different perspective is what you *really* wanted all along, but you couldn't possibly have conceived of the other guy's vision for the tune, so you didn't *know* that was the sound you wanted. other times, the other person's master of your work will sound completely wrong to you.
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Gotcha. Sorry if I came of a little harsh in the thread! I'm open to talk about biochemistry and nutrition any time, so long as you're open-minded and willing to actually read the studies I cite
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I do in fact know something about blood, haha. Quite a few somethings. And that shot of me on the forums is me doing a little simulated surgery, awwww yeaaahhh.
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Welp, you figured out the origin story for my name for the most part. My intention was to make a construct for "blood of the outsider," but I was being hasty and made it ectogemia instead a better translation, xenoseme. But I think ectogemia is a lot more unusual than xenoseme. Xenoseme also sounds kinda final boss-y and cheesy... not what I was going for.
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Hey, dude. I've made a lot of changes in my life and reconsidered what's really important to me. The internet isn't the place for me anymore. I'm trying to simplify my life as much as possible and keep things at arm's length. This is what happens when I read too many books about Eastern philosophy
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Ohhhh man, I am excited for those, haha. Nah, Ben is up this round. I'll be getting my Disney on next week.
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sounds like something to do RIGHT. FUCKING. NOW. expect a cellular telephone communication from me shortly.
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I had always thought that Callum only had one 'l' in it, and I almost replied telling you that you had spelled your name wrong. Almost.
Why does this always happen to me!! I should have so many Uncle Sam photos by now!!!
