Geoffrey Taucer

Actually, there's one more track I should mention: Gentle Wind by Ailsean (from the Time and Space album) was the track that made me want to get good at electric guitar. To this day, when I am testing out a new guitar or pedal or amp or pretty much any sort of electric guitar-related gear, the very first thing I do to test it is play the chorus from this track.

I am always down to join in, though most weeks I probably won't be able to join right from the start of the show (unless my work schedule changes, which it might)

https://youtu.be/kjyUOT9pp4A First part of this melody sounds awfully familiar.....

Sign me up again as a star

Oooooh, just the right choice of tones and effects. And that PRS of yours is a beauty. Fancy fingerwork. The sax and the guitars blend far better than I would have expected. I am seriously digging this arrangement.

Holy shit, check this one out: https://youtu.be/Q73bkS4c5ZM https://youtu.be/Ohcsr0hOj1I?t=1m7s

Haha, I was just thinking yesterday that somebody should remix this track. This is sexy as all hell

Actually, we're hoping to do some version of this live at MAGfest this year in costume as Toejam and Earl, so hopefully you'll be able to see for yourself!

Ok, then I'll sign up to be a star, with the understanding that I won't be able to do make any direct contributions (MAAAAYBE some electric guitar stuffs, but no guarantees).

How exactly does the collaboration work? Is the idea for the stars to simply critique and offer ideas, or are the stars supposed to play a more active role in creating the remix? If it's just listening, critiquing, giving ideas/guidance, etc, then you can sign me up as a star. I won't be able to do much more than listen and critique, though.

I love everything about this mix.

If you're including crowd favorites, you MUST include Dragon Song My guess, though, is that this thread won't last long; we tend to shy away from "favorite remix" threads.

Ooooh, this is nice! Simple, but very pretty. I think it would benefit from some very light percussion. Some sort of hand drums, perhaps? Could perhaps use a little more variation towards the end. Overall very pretty mix!

During high school, I worked at a Renaissance Faire. My character was a juggler and a notoriously bad poet. I named my character "Geoffrey Taucer" as a triple entendre: 1) A pun on Geoffrey Chaucer, the author of the Canterbury Tales 2) Pun on "Tosser," because I was a juggler 3) Lol "Tosser" And I liked the name so much I kept it.

I KNOW RIGHT? The splicing is Haroon's work, and it blew my mind that he could get it to come out sounding so clean.

Well, to give an example, listen to this mix. There are two rhythm guitars: a low one panned to the left and a high one panned to the right. Listen to the high one. Most of that was recorded one chord at a time, meaning each bar is a separate take (and more than one take in a few spots). The lead, which sounds more-or-less continuous, is actually about twelve separate takes spliced together. Mild quantization on just about everything (though the quantization isn't super-strict). The hand percussion, while "played" by me on my acoustic guitar, is thoroughly chopped and spliced and quantized, and bears little resemblence to anything I actually played during recording. But it all came out sounding EXACTLY the way it sounded in my head. Down to the smallest detail.

What are your thoughts on this? Is cheating? Is it just another tool for an artist to achieve his/her artistic vision? To give an example: suppose an instrumentalist released a track with some really cool solos, but achieved the solos by splicing clips together, adding tremolo to sustained notes, correcting the timing so each note was right on beat (or off-beat by just the right amount), artificially speeding up the playing, and so on? To the point where what you hear in the finished product is something that the instrumentalist has never actually played and would not be able to play live? Here's why I ask: on all my older tracks (up to about 2011), whenever I needed to record a guitar or whistle part, I'd practice it until I could play it the way I wanted it to sound. This typically took days, weeks, sometimes a month or more. And sometimes I'd just give up and end up not finishing the track. Two things have changed since then: 1) I have a 40 hour/week job, and 2) I have a roommate who's an excellent producer. So for any flashy guitar part I want to have in my tracks, I can either spend a month or more practicing the part, or I can spend half an hour recording multiple takes at slower speeds and be done with it. Lately (ie for the last year or so) I've been doing the latter. But I'm sort of torn about the whole idea of manipulating my recordings like this. On the one hand, it's really great to be able to get some of these ideas to work that I've never been able to actually play. On the other hand, based on feedback I've gotten, a lot of the people who like my tracks particularly like my guitar playing, and this sort of feels like I'm being dishonest to anybody who is a fan of my guitar playing. What think you all?

While you're at it, can you delete the picture of me with the beer and instead use one of the other two pictures on my profile?

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10039173/babay3.mp3 Done in collab with ffmusicdj Probably the most shamelessly cheesy mix I've ever done, and I'm having a blast with it so far. No, I can't actually play rythm that fast -- the whole thing is artificially sped up. Mixing/mastering/volume compression/etc is temp.

http://ocremix.org/remix/OCR00241 This one

Ooooh, this is so smooth and nice. Love the vocals, love the driving swing rhythm.

http://youtu.be/U0UR9BR0Xsg?t=2m12s Watch the right hand. .... Now pick your jaw up off the floor

Severely badass

Just show up, and you'll be welcomed with open arms! Everybody's friendly at MAGfest

Haha, don't be! It was MAGfest!