SnappleMan

Holding yourself to OCR's (or anyone's) ridiculous standards is the most crippling thing you can do to yourself as a musician. Make the music you want to hear, if it happens to fall within OCR's guidelines, then submit. Too many people see getting on OCR as a status symbol and arrange music just to meet that, this results in mindless, meaningless music that does nothing for anyone who isn't listening with a heavy pinch of nostalgia.

So get a $20 DI box and use that till you feel ready to advance to a fully functioning audio interface/monitor/mixer setup. http://www.musiciansfriend.com/product/Behringer-ULTRADI-DI400P-Passive-Direct-Box?sku=182498 That's the cheapest one I could find. My guess is that it'll work damn well compared to what you're used to.

While you're at it, get yourself some clearance bin expired supermarket sushi to see if you like sushi. Get yourself a decent keyboard. http://www.roland.com/PRODUCTS/EN/PCR-50/index.html Those retail for about $125-150 and are great. Also, that ebay auction you linked to has over 8 days left. That's gonna end MUCH higher.

Best way to practice is to compete in DoD ( dod.vgmix.com ). When I first started there it took me an entire month to start and complete a song, these days I can crank one out in 2-6 hours.

Tell your family to fuck off and stop making useless posts.

SFEX plus alpha is probably my favourite soundtrack ever. Great choice in source material! As for your remix, it pales in comparison to the original. All the key elements are gone. I mean, all you did was loop one part over and over, totally kills the original jazz feel, and most of the material in the original song is gone. A failure. Sorry man.

Sounds like everything else out in the market, veto. I'd love to hear some demos of this stuff that weren't all cheesy-summer blockbuster-movie score sounding.

Yeah, I always take you into account, you're always awesome enough to come down and lend a hand, so thanks! You're awesome for doing that, but I'm looking for someone who can be there the entire time along with norg. Thanks man! But as I stated above, this will take up most if not all your time at magfest, so I need someone who can do the whole deal.

.........why would you ask that?

I've been under some pressure from friends and family (who I bring to magfest) to reduce my workload on the concert sound team and spend more time with them. So for Magfest 7, I'm drastically reducing the amount of time I'm gonna spend working. The sound team right now consists of myself and Norg. We pretty much run the whole thing start to finish (a couple people are awesome enough to come and help out during a couple of the performances). Since I'm taking a break this year I feel that it's up to me to recruit someone to take my place. If any of you here have experience in live sound, or are good with routing cables, setting up mics/drums/amps and know your way around a mix, let me know and I can consider you for the job. I won't lie to you, it's a lot of work. You'll be on your feet most of the time, and you'll be missing a good chunk of time you could be spending at the events or with friends, but you do get to work with norg (and I'll be popping in from time to time to help out and check on his sanity), and you'll get to hear all the bands practicing, and it's generally a great time (though a lot of work). PM me or hit me on AIM (SNKFreak) and we'll talk. (Hell, if it works out well we can make you a permanent 3rd member, we desperately need more help...) P.S. You MUST be dependable.

Is that what the guy at Guitar Center told you? God I hate people who talk out of their ass.

I have 3, love them dearly.

SM58 is designed more for vocals, meaning it's EQed slightly differently. The SM57 has a very flat response, which makes it a great all around mic. As far as an audio interface goes, that all depends on your needs. The best option is always PCI as it's the most solid. A good option would be an Echo Layla or Delta 10/10, as it's very affordable compared to the more high end interfaces from RME and MOTU. If you don't need that many in/out channels, then you might wanna go with something like an Audiophile 192, Echo Gina or Echo MIA MIDI. For monitors, you should check out the KRK Rokit series, those are good, but if you can spare the cash, go for something higher up like a good pair of Mackies (HR824's are incredible for the price).

Search Ebay for Carvin guitars. End of discussion. http://cgi.ebay.com/Carvin-DC127-Killer-Guitar_W0QQitemZ130242539553QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item130242539553&_trksid=p3286.m14.l1318 BOOM! Not a Floyd, but a Wilky bridge is great none the less.

As far as mics go, you can do anything shy of miccing bass drums with a Shure SM57, and it'll sound great. As for midi controllers, your best bet is an Edirol PCR 800, the keys are fantastic, you get a ton of knobs and sliders, and it's very well constructed with good quality parts. Just stay away from M-Audio as they tend to produce cheaper stuff. Also, keep in mind that Steinberg makes a MAC version of Cubase, which pretty much rocks.

It's a matter of impedance matching. Instruments which use passive pickup systems like guitars, basses and microphones have high impedance output, while RCA and other digital sources are of low impedance. Guitar -> USB -> PC works because the input (SHOULD) be converted to a low impedance signal making it cleaner, more expressive and electronically safer, guitar -> RCA (assuming the RCA connectors are those of the soundcard) does not do that, and your tone will sound flat, lifeless, full of strange noise and it won't respond as it should (you can also overload the input and destroy your interface).

I'd go for either synth action or hammer action, semi-weighted keyboards feel like crap.

Yeah, that's right, I'll listen to some douche who just collects gear because he can and never puts any music up that's worth listening to. Aside from your mountains of gear, you have no cred, loser.

Reason is a plugin as far as I'm concerned. FL Studio is a glorified beat machine, not a real DAW. A DAW allows for a smooth workflow where you can work on music in a real world linear structure and have the options to edit, tweak, arrange and generally deal with it as if it were tape. FL does NOT give you a smooth workflow when it comes to dealing with audio, or dealing with songs written as songs, instead you get that ridiculous pattern bullshit. I know that zircon makes decent sounding music in FL, and one or two dudes make a living using it worldwide, that doesn't mean shit. It's bullshit software as far as I'm concerned, and people who recommend it as a good starting place to learn about writing and recording music are not giving good advice. Just because you spent your money on it, or spent your time downloading the warez'd version doesn't make it good, or worth using. There are so many other software packages that do an infinitely better job. With LOGICAL workflows and professionally designed user interfaces which make your projects FEEL musical, not like playing with a PS3 version of MTV Music generator. How many times am I going to have to complain about this shit till people start listening?

Cool idea. It could be useful for beginners to get an idea of how to set up a decent arrangement of a song. Though it's lacking in any real advice...

I wanna see you eat your own poop.

So buy the POD.

Or you can try reading the update

Who knows.

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