Phonetic Hero

OH SHIT GOT CARRIED AWAY AND DIDN'T PAY ATTENTION TO TIME Rendering and uploading now! EDIT: Sent, apologies for the lateness

Dang it, pressed for time again... wasn't expecting to have to work today, and I had to go in at 10:30... I'm done at 4. It's going to be a race against the clock

That ain't no secret...

Please relay your secrets... I need them to finish my track today

Sounds like a sweet opportunity, I personally can't really do dubstep (at least very well right now), but I've been spreading the word to people I know who can. Good luck with the contest, hope you get some cool tracks out of it!

Ethan didn't choose the thug life... the thug life chose him

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Wtf I didn't comment on this? Still one of my favorites. The interp on Magnet Man is just so damn good. Too well done, Gario

That's where I was at too EDIT: Granted, i didn't end up taking theory past high school (I took it for a couple weeks in college, but I was also working two jobs and playing on the drumline at that point, and school was really not doing it for me, so I dropped) I can attest to him not being too difficult

I think they're talking more about transposing sources to fit together better, as opposed to modulations haha AHA! Nice one

Hey man, you should post this in the remix workshop forum, this one's really for originals Sounds cool so far though

I already showed everyone who was online on facebook... was I not supposed to?

KgZ recently started a new job I think, and Tunstall's been really busy as well from what I hear. It *is* too bad though, if they'd ever take more than a day on a track they'd be owning the competition heh

I think it's time I go to dental school just to take our friendly rivalry to the *next level* Which I think is probably marriage, right?

It's not even midnight yet ya biscuit baker

Yeah dude, that remixer profile badge looks good on you

You ditched me to work on your mix, and now you're not even WORKING ON IT?! ...asshole...

So anyway, on a different, more positive note, I'm crazy pumped to hear all the tracks this week. I LOVE all of Zero's themes, and I grew up with X4 and X5 in particular (didn't have my own SNES until I was about 13 or 14). I played the original X when I was really young a bunch of times at relatives' and friends' houses, and Zero's theme from that one was a track that stuck with me really hard over the years even though it's so short. I got X2 and X3 as soon as I could afford them (shit's EXPENSIVE) when I was younger, and X6 around when it came out, so I'm really familiar with 1-6, and love all of them. Can't wait to see what everyone's done with them this week! I hear Brandon had a crazy good track, I hope everyone's followed suit

You're essentially getting the dry signal and the compressed signal in "parallel", so you're getting the dry transients of the unaffected signal and backing it up with the compressed for a bit of extra meat

Haha, mine does too, just the actual sound is kinda balls. If you want to spend more money than EWQL, look at Cinesamples (maybe 8Dio or Soundiron, not really sure what either have on the brass front though), I guess... their stuff is really, really pricey, but damn does it sound good EDIT: Looks like Soundiron doesn't have any brass, but they've got some other good stuff DOUBLE: I guess 8Dio doesn't either. Maybe brass is hard to sample, who knew

I have an assy brass ensemble sample (from Komplete Elements 6, when N-I was still selling it), which is why I take such care to make it sound decent. I do volume and EQ automation manually Komplete Elements 6 was about $120 for a ton of shit. Actually ended up being quite a good purchase... it's too bad they don't offer that specific package anymore, and KE sucks now

Brass is something that I personally would rather automate volumes and frequencies myself, rather than have a compressor squash the waveforms. I find that with most organic instrumentation, it's a lot more natural sounding to tame wild waveforms with this method rather than squashing everything. If you listen to an orchestra recording (a lot of which are mixed and mastered after the fact now) you wouldn't be impressed by how *flat* sounding they were... talking about how flat someone plays or sings conveys terrible musicianship. It's something that I feel needs to be dynamic, even if it's implied. The overall volumes can be brought up in the mastering process, but "taming" is something I like to take care of in a context that I have more control over what's going on But, as mentioned, I suppose transparent compression and parallel compression are other methods that could work in certain contexts, people just need to be careful where they're using it and make sure they know what they're doing when they do it. That's not to say "if you don't know what you're doing, DON'T DO IT" because then nobody would ever learn. But we also need to be careful of saying "this works, so do it" when talking about certain methods (there are TONS of ways to do things in the production world). Just pay attention to how things sound and look for contexts that whatever sound you're experimenting with would be a good fit in

Please don't compress brass... pls

Haha, I was actually planning on making the whole mix pretty Metroid Prime-y, but it didn't end up going that way. Like I mentioned, I had to scrap my previous ideas and start completely from scratch at about 3 AM Saturday morning, and had to roll with the first thing that was functional instead of really taking the time to refine things. The late start also accounts for the length (though admittedly I probably should've taken out about 8 bars of the build). I bolded that last part, because now I'm curious: how do you figure? Perhaps being closer to the mix I'm more familiar with where the sources were used, but I'm curious to see where you thought the usage was so that maybe I can figure out why it appeared to be so sparse to other listeners.

You mean to tell me you're not familiar with Nathan's questionable tagging methods?! THIS SONG IS THE BEST DUBSTEP ELECTRO HOUSE TRAP I'VE EVER HEARD IN MY LIFE! <3 u bby