Garrett Williamson

http://youtu.be/VW_yVHixevo I'm dying. count how many times this kid says "frikkin" you should watch his "stop hating on sonic" video. that one is glorious he claims he's 14.

saw the title and immediately just went to the answer no why do something in mono when literally everything on this planet is now stereo only mix in mono if you plan on the final thing being in mono, just for effect

Considering music nowadays and how boring it's gotten, for the love of God, changing around the drum pattern in certain parts of the song is freaking ridiculously important and it makes the song that much better. That is, unless you have the most genius groove in the world.

I've used other DAWs and nothing beats Logic for me. I still consider it one of the best DAWs out there. And the brand new upgrade just made what was already a great DAW a better one. I obviously recommend Logic Pro, personally

yeah. on the bright side (and while this forum has entirely gone offtopic), Robin Thicke's new record has temporarily brought my faith in humanity music-wise back.

freaking Robin Thicke's new album. my faith in music-related humanity is temporarily restored.

so wait, that's not venom

While this is true, there still definitely used to be a lot more good music on the radio than there is now. Only a decade ago music on the radio, in general, sounded better than it does now. Yes, there's always been the horrible music, but it was less likely. Now the likely-hood of horrible music is much higher than it used to be.

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As for live performance, I think I meant that overall the fakeness level of live performing is nearly impossible compared to a studio track, unless the person is just lip syncing everything. The reason for the "doom and gloom" is that change used to be cool. The way things used to sound was awesome. Part of me wishes we never moved on to digital recording. But of course, that would lead to this site probably never existing, and digital can create new sounds and many people have used it right. But then there's mainstream and most pop artists are just embarrassing nowadays. There's no getting used to it. I just hate it and I don't see how I can like it. Some new stuff is awesome. DubStep is starting to get old now, but when it first became a big thing a couple of years ago, I thought it was really cool.

SM64 doesn't even exist as a 3DS remake. And the 3D irritates me too, but it was quite an innovative idea and it works. But it hurts my eyes. 3D in that context hurts my eyes anyway.

I think simplicity is part of the complexity. When you have a great game that's really simple, that takes more thought than one may think. And Nintendo STARTED a lot of what we see nowadays, and they did it right the first time. They caught on to the idea of 3D gaming and how to do a game in the 3D realm quickly and nailed it better than anyone else. No competition. Super Mario 64 practically founded many of the 3D perspective ideas (with OoT following up) and Super Mario 64 was an absolutely outstanding game. Personally it's still my favorite game of any game. Lately, it seems to take a lot less to "patch things up" with a Nintendo game, but they still try to perfect their stuff as much as they can, and I can see it. It may not be a great game, but they try their hardest to polish it up.

Referring to your first two paragraphs, while I understand what you are saying, I entirely disagree. The better technology has gotten, the less talent and the more stupidity. Mainstream is absolutely embarrassing to listen to anymore, unless it's someone like JT or John Mayer, but they've been around for a while, they are talented, and they know what they're doing. Most artists nowadays have entirely lost talent and it takes no ability to record anything anymore because the computer can fix it. Everything is so digital and unnatural. The analog age was when music was done right. This obviously isn't to say that all music recorded in digital sucks. And I really want to get Logic Pro X. I was simply stating that the easier it gets, the less talent there is. Some people will be able to still do it right, but when it gets this easy, it's a piece of cake to turn a horrible band into a perfected and fake digital song. And it would make sense why older musicians would hate rock at first. Because jazz is a genius genre that can't be competed with. So genius, that that's the reason most kids nowadays don't understand it and think it's stupid. That's a very unfortunate thing. Rock, on the other hand, was honestly stupid music up against jazz. In some cases it still totally is. But I think rock back in that time still definitely required a heavy amount of talent and therefore you got geniuses like Led Zeppelin and Queen and The Beatles. Rock nowadays is really pathetic. They call "Radioactive" by Imagine Dragons rock. Nope. Foo Fighters is one of the bands that actually play Rock, but it's under Alternative, which is what "Radioactive" should've been under. Genre defining just doesn't even make sense anymore. Analog was so beautiful.

Live performance isn't changing any time soon. But having an extremely large amount of experience in the studio and in sessions (that's where music is for me), session musicians are having a harder time making a lot of money because of technology, and additionally the fact that so much music just sucks nowadays that the majority of session musicians hate their job anyway. It's really a very unfortunate thing.

finally. someone actually stated an entirely true statement about Nintendo.

In most regards that is entirely true, though for some reason a couple of my GameStop GCN controllers are still working and I've had them for 2 years. Honestly GameStop's GCN controllers were better than any other third-party attempt at the GCN controller because it actually felt similar to the original GCN controller and I honestly think it's more durable than any other third-party GCN controller. It still sucks, though. Just not as much. WTF is up with the TURBO button?

lol dude I've dealt with worse but theirs are pretty bad

The internet scares me.

oooohh we are overexaggerating what we are hearing cutscenes and stories are two entirely different things what bleck says is truth

Here's my hate for Gamestop. They don't sell any retro stuff. And there are tons of people who would definitely buy that stuff. Like me. When you want to sell a game there, they give you 3 bucks and sell it for 20+ bucks. And that is literally no overexaggeration. That is the big thing with them that just utterly pisses me off.

That statement itself scares me. I am quite aware that most of us here at ocremix that do most of our stuff alone just do acoustic drum programming, but when it comes to session musicians, technology is just pushing their ability to do their job further and further back until no one needs them anymore. Being a session musician nowadays is not much fun for most session musicians like it was back in the 90s and earlier.

Ya know, it's all good improvement, but it just doesn't seem like a big enough jump. Maybe they just aren't showing off everything and there's a lot more to it than what Apple is saying, but I think the improvements are awesome, but not as much as I wanted. The drum thing scares me. Just putting more session drummers out of business. I don't like that thing.

There's no story mode? Tiny bit stupid, Nintendo. I never cared for story mode, but seriously.

I have never used their physical, but obviously they have been really trustworthy and really great with digital for me. I would like to know someone else's experience with physical distribution, though, as I may be planning to do so at some point. I'm glad that so far I'm hearing some good stuff.

Yay as long as it's done correctly. There's some pretty awesome stuff out there that uses a heavy amount of sampling and it's genius. Sampling is an art that I seriously am heavily inspired by. I love it.