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    MEETUP: Los Angeles/So-Cal - July 21st

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    Also, po!, mind if we come to watch said gig?

    :<

    well.. i'm playin in the accompanying band for susanna kwan. the show is at Pala Casino

    i actually have no idea what kinda show it's gonna be.. could be a concert, or a private performance. either way, you probably wouldn't be able to get tix, nor would u want to.. unless you happen to be into old skool chinese pop/folk music

    i got a studio rehearsal friday night, then saturday gotta drive to the casino, set up, sound check, rehearse, bla bla bla all that good stuff. so no OCR meetup for me...

    Who's a Music Major?

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    Lol, Nah. Last I checked, any musician worth his weight never truly considers himself the best.

    that's very true. the good musicians think they suck. the suck musicians think they good

    I am probably behind you in some areas. Guitar and Bass is where I excel the farthest.

    i excel at violin the furthest, and it's not very far. i prolly wouldn't be accepted to be a performance major anywhere. i wouldn't even want to do that anyways, i'm way too fickle and i'd get tired of it.

    that's why i mainly play bass and guitar nowadays, and it's quickly catching up to my violin level. although maybe not, considering i'm still lacking decades of practice. but it just feels like i've made fast progress since violin is just sooo hard.. many many years spent not getting very far

    aside from playing, i still consider my production/arrangement/composition skill greater than my instrument skills. too bad there isn't some kind of production major or school, that would probably be a really interesting curriculum. it would basically have to encompass a bit from ALL aspects of music

    i guess thats prolly why i fit the producer role well.. i'm just a jack of several trades, master of NADA. i always wonder how i would be if i focused all my energy on one thing....

    Who's a Music Major?

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    I am majoring in music theory, going after my doctorate. Still have a bit too go, but doing well so far. I find it odd that some people drop the classes because all they want is a high paying job. At least that is the way it is at my school. I sing Baritone/Bass, Play Guitar, Bass Guitar, Percussion, Piano, and a bit of violin.

    omg u play the exact same instruments as me, except i dont play percussion...... yet. i also sing in baritone/bass range too. you must be my musical twin... except, i'm prolly just a sucky version of u

    Frustratingly unsubmitted remixes

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    moonside meditation by po! never got on here did it?

    i have no intention of submitting that. it wouldn't pass the judges panel anyways. there's a lot of music out there that just isn't "OCR music"

    i would submit stuff that i think is appropriate for this site.. problem is i haven't done any recently :-P

    What's wrong with pop music?

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    to be my next question. How do you really "define" pop music? I'd like to say it is a different means of classifying music since it doesn't seem to be constrained by genre, in my mind at least. So, then, is pop just whatever is perceived to be more popular to the general public/whatever is making the most money at the time?

    i would say that there is a distinct pop genre, although it isn't really that broad. for example Toxic.. i would call it distinctly pop. it's not r&b or rock or anything.. it's just pop.

    i don't think the definition of pop as anything that's popular works, since there's plenty of rock or rap or r&b that are really popular. tupac was really popular back in the day.. but you wouldn't call that pop

    What's wrong with pop music?

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    nothing, that's what

    I'm growing increasingly annoyed with this ridiculous group of counter-culture bullshitters spouting about how popular music is "simplistic" and "manufactured" and "not real music"

    GO BACK TO YOUR HIPSTER CAVE

    i'm wit u on this. but don't ever argue with anybody like that.. it's a waste of time. actually i could say don't ever argue about art with anybody.. it's useless because nobody is gonna change their views based on an argument. everybody thinks they're right.. and everybody IS right, since art is subjective

    removing crackles

    in Music Composition & Production

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    ok i've made a clip so you can hear the crackles better

    http://wushuplaya.googlepages.com/clipp3.mp3

    i have no idea where the crackles are coming from. i don't see any spikes in the waveform

    i'd guess its a problem in your program when rendering/exporting. try exporting the same clip a few times and see if the crackles are in the same places. maybe try some slight variations (like slightly move a timpani hit out of time) and see if the crackles are different

    removing crackles

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    ok i've removed the crackles

    http://wushuplaya.googlepages.com/clipp2.mp3

    here's how i did it:

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    1) this is the crackle at the end of the clip. you can see a spike there, which causes crackle

    2) selecting the spike, i put a fade out envelope over it

    3) spike is smoothed out, no more crackle

    this was a special case tho.. usually crackles don't occur at the beginnings or ends, so in that case you can't use fade in/out. you have to manually edit the waveform to smooth out the spike

    EDIT: so the crackle is during the timpani roll.. hmm.. lemme go find it

    EDIT2: ok this is reaally hard to find.. sorry i don't think i have time right now to go looking for it

    removing crackles

    in Music Composition & Production

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    yea i don't hear any crackles, aside from the beginning and end.. is that what you're talkin about?

    that's usually caused by abruptly putting in a sample/waveform without properly fading it in

    but if that wasn't the problem then you can do the fade in/outs after mixdown

    removing crackles

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    I have this file, listening to it again I realized there was about 2 seconds worth of small crackling audible at a certain point. Very few people would notice it, especially since the entire track is six minutes. But, my question is, is it possible to be able to remove that small instance of crackling without causing harm to the track itself, or without redoing it. (Keeping in mind I am not a master when it comes to production and mastering)

    if you're talking about really short crackles, then it can be easily removed. you should see an abnormal spike in the waveform which you can manually smooth out by changing the actual sample values

    if you're not sure what i'm talkin about, you could post the 2 second audio sample i can show you how its done

    btw i would NOT recommend using EQ. you don't wanna ruin the balance of your mix just to fix a little crackle

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