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Tell me what your diet is, and I'll make suggestions which I can almost guarantee will allow you to lose weight. Also, stop running every day. Prolonged and frequent steady-state cardio like that causes chronic cortisol (stress hormone) release which leads to fat deposition AND insulin resistance (AKA enhanced fat retention). Instead of running, walk. This on its own will set you on a more effective weight-loss path.

... why the hell would you want to avoid fat absorption? It's in your food for a reason (assuming it was not artificially added/a vegetable oil).

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You dudes should give Leangains a shot. I used it last year for a clean bulk, and it worked excellently. I added almost 20 lbs in 4 months (noob gains) with VERY little of that being fat. If you do Paleo like I do, leangains is the perfect approach. The only caveat is that your rate of gaining may be slightly lower compared to a traditional bulk cycle, but you get to skip cutting, so it makes up for that lost time.

OCR fantasy MMA, and I'm in. I'll even settle for finding just one fan to whom I can communicate all my shitty, misguided picks.

Like I said before, I won't do Earthbound because I know I can't do it justice with FL demo sounds alone. It's my favorite music ever. If I'm going to arrange it, it's gonna be with 100% of my effort and technology

Welp, Lufia is known in some parts of the world as Estpolis, so that being the case, I'm actually remxing the title theme to Estpolis and the Fortress of Doom instead of EVO.

Same here. Except when The Gym Douchefag does curls in the squat rack. wtf...

Butter's in the fridge. But srs, folks, I'll get a whole track done ASAP, which in dental school time is 1-2 months. Have I started yet? Nope, but once I get the time to get going, it should only take a couple of days.

Certainly, but I've just never much cared about whether or not the source is used heavily or creatively, probably because I'm not a very strong arranger myself. I guess I just appreciate composition more than arrangement since that's what I focus on myself. ... funny that I gravitated towards a site about arrangement, but I guess you guys cool or sumthin.

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100% agreed. In any compo, the last thing I care about is the arrangement and such. Is it a cool, creative piece of music? If so, you get my vote. My whole angle with the compo has been to do the most creative sound design I am capable of in the hopes that 1) I will learn something (oh, have I ever) and 2) others will vote for me based upon that creativity. 2 2nd places later, I guess I can say I'm not being creative enough As a side note to the One Hour Conquistadors: please stop writing cool, creative music. I would love for our team to win this compo

I wrote two tunes for halc's label, 9-bit Records. Both went on the 9-bit Blizzard compilation album which featured a ton of OCR regulars and BEYOND. It was an AMAZING album! Below are links to my 2 tracks on the album and a link to the bandcamp page for the album itself which is available for FREE download! Snow Storm (fun tune with DnB, drumstep, chip ballads, and fully modern orchestral breakdowns) Losing Daylight (relaxing tune to warm your frozen heart, you cold bastard ) THE WHOLE ALBUM

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^^bingo. Myself? If I could use my full suite, Earthbound, no question. With FL shit only... EVO? Evermore, Secret of? 3up edit: EVO. Holy shit, dat title theme.

And I'm stuck in this seat for a 3 hour lecture. I'd love to know what the theme is this week so I can utilize this time effectively

One score and one year ago, your father brought forth on Fallopians, an abomination, conceived inadvertently, and dedicated to the proposition that not all mixes are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great submissions war, testing whether that abomination, or any abomination so conceived and NO-dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-forum of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that forum, as a final testing place for those who here gave their mixes that that abomination might judge. It is altogether annoying and bullshit that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we cannot MIDI-rip -- we cannot chiptune -- we cannot sample -- these remixes. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled there, have half-assed it, far above Rozo's poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what you NO here, but it can never forget what you YES here. It is for us the aspiring, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which we who were NO'd here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored rejections we take increased devotion to that cause for which we gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these rejections shall not have died in vain -- that this abomination, under djp, shall have a new term of judgeship -- and that panel, against the people, against the people, against the people, shall not reject me from this site. GOOD DAY TO YOU, SIR.

Ooooooooook. I'm going to get started on this sometime this week, school permitting. Sorry for not having a wip done, but it was my birthday today, so fuck off

Seconded. Plus, he's a hell of a teacher. WATCH THOSE VIDEOS. All 2 dozen of them ;o

Holy shit, Graal. Fun fact: I was playing that when the planes hit on 9/11.

Fun Loving Enigmatic Xtra cool Stylish Turtle-lover YES Loving, again Eats Merry emergence anniversary to you, sir.

Glad to see you kept out that kick intro It's sounding much better processed than it did last I heard it. The plucked guitar in the beginning is still very cheap-sounding. It possibly needs some layers. Maybe something a little brighter and sharper, maybe a teensy bit of stereo delay. Something to widen it and color it. Drums are getting lost around 1:04. That means you either need to EQ your distorted bass better or sidechain some of the drum hits into it to duck it a little so that the drums are not drowned out. At 1:46, the drums are very weak. The snare needs some pop in its fundamental frequency (~200 Hz, depending upon the sample you use. To achieve this, I would recommend putting a rather narrow EQ band on that frequency and increasing it to taste. Also, it doesn't hurt to lower the frequencies just in front of that fundamental slightly (in the 220-350 Hz range) to prevent things from getting too muddy (that 100-500 Hz range is the major muddy component of mixes; if we boost at 100 Hz, we should cut some mud elsewhere to retain clarity). Maybe a little waveshaping would saturate it enough to be heard better in the mix. To that end, the kick also needs more oomph. A little overdrive is nice for that, as is good EQing. Like the snare, if you bring out the fundamental of a kick, you'll get a much clearer hit. The fundamental of a kick is usually in the 50-100 Hz range. You'll need to sweep a narrow, boosted EQ band in that region til you hear a distinct, tonal thud. That's the kicks fundamental frequency. Now reset that EQ band to normal, narrow it a bit, and boost that particular frequency some. Also, add a little high-end EQ to add some pop and sizzle to it. It should be much clearer. All I heard of it in the mix was a click. That's not good D: AND COMPRESS YOUR STUFF MORE !!!

OK, I'll do it. edit: AS A STAAAAAARRRRRR

Is a gitaroo an instrument?