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Geoffrey Taucer

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  1. I don't know details, but I know there exists places to publish/purchase loop libraries for this purpose. I'm sure somebody around here can point you in the right direction (and you might have better luck asking on Discord)

    I will also pass along some advice that virt once gave me: if you charge nothing, your music is worth nothing. It's fine to release it cheap, but both for yourself and for your fellow musicians it's best if you do at least charge something.

  2. OOOOOOH This is gorgeous! Really cool how you managed to make so much out of just the first few seconds of the source melody, and it works really well here!

    Love the synths, and I especially love the glitching around 2 minutes in. The whole thing has just the right amount of edge and grit, and dropping back to the music box-ish sound at the end was exactly the right choice imo.

  3. On 12/14/2023 at 5:24 AM, Nase said:

    they got lucky.

    the official solo. they kinda wrote it.

    hotel california is like the solo, isn't it. is there any other song that's as much the solo?

    it's just too officially the solo.

    you can say something like Back in Black - ACDC, but it's a joke in comparison.

    Which is ironic, because it's not a solo -- it's a duel

  4. Technically this is a duel, not a solo, but I gotta go with good ol' Hotel California.
     



    There's nothing all that technically difficult about it -- other than a few bends that Walsh pulls off faster and more accurately than I ever could -- but I've probably learned more about lead guitar from this guitar duel than from just about any other single track. It's fun, it's expressive, it's melodic and doesn't lean heavily on wankery or "watch how many notes I can shove into one measure."

    Love it.

  5. Man there is so much to love about this mix, but there are two things I have to mention in particular:

    First, the off-beat chord stabs in the intro, that sound almost but not quite guitarrish, and almost but not quite synthish Is it a sample of a guitar strum that's cut super short, or is it a synth with similar tonal characteristics to a guitar, or what? Whatever it is, it's incredibly compelling.

    Second -- and this is MkVaffe's signature -- is the way every single element has space to breathe. Absolutely nothing gets lost in the mix; I feel like I can hear every single drum hit, every single note on every single synth, every reverb tail, everything. I don't understand how MkVaffe does this, but he does it better than anybody. Every single element shines through.

    Absolutely delightful

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