Geoffrey Taucer

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!

Ok, finally home. MAGFEST WAS AMAZING! Best one I've been to. Highlights, in no particular order: 1) SEEING EVERYBODY AGAIN! Too many people to tag in one post, but it's been between 3 and 8 years since I've seen most of you and it was so great to hang with you all again. Hopefully it won't be so long before the next time I see you all! 2) First night shenanigans with relyance and q-pa. 3) Next door neighbors knocking at 2am to tell us they were enjoying our jam session, and requesting that we keep going. 4) OCU concert 5) IRL PP&R with relyance and djp (among others). Gonna jump back in on that thread when I'm a bit more awake. 6) Shumkats reunion! It was great jamming with darangen, stevo, and luiza again. A bit disappointed Jill couldn't join us for our lobby jam session, though..... 7) That mini-concert on the back dock. Beautiful playing, glad I got to hear it. Playing tetris attack with bahamut, the SECOND-BEST player at MAGfest. 9) Delicious juicy butts for dinner 10) Relyance being REALLY REALLY REALLY HAPPY on the final night.

In 24 hours, I will be on a plane headed towards MAGfest

Shnab is a musical genius with no equal. His brilliance defies description. He understands music on a level that is beyond comprehension to most of us. And as brain-numbingly brilliant as his studio compositions are, his live performances are even more amazing. I'm actually not being at all hyperbolic with any of this.

Fun mix!

Overall I'm enjoying AoT. But it definitely has some eye-roller moments.

My biggest complaint about AoT is the fact that there's some sort of bloom lighting effect in EVERY SINGLE FUCKING SHOT WITHOUT EXCEPTION

That zombie episode, tho. Wtf? And that baseball episode.

Rewatching Samurai Champloo. It's almost as good as I remember it being.

When will the album be released?

My track is submitted

First song I ever learned on guitar (not just video game song, but any song) was the chords for Gerudo Valley from Ocarina of Time (though I transposed it to A Minor). Then the chords for Twoson from Earthbound. First song I learned to play fingerstyle was Radical Dreamers from Chrono Cross.

Absolutely stunning! Instant classic. Definitely going among my favorite mixes.

Might do something for this.

No, it's a full time job requiring extensive expertise and it pays accordingly. No, I have no such ambitions. I coach for a variety of reasons, and one of those reasons is that I have to pay rent and buy groceries. Would you go to a lawyer and offer her the "opportunity" to represent you pro bono? There's a difference between somebody volunteering their work and you soliciting work for free. When somebody offers to work for you for free, you should be damn grateful for it and respect that they are probably making an exception for you. It doesn't mean it is then acceptable to then go and ask other people to do the same thing. I'll do free work for charitable non-commercial organizations, and that's it (and even that only if I have the time for it, which I usually don't). My apologies for considering musical work to be worth more than $0. I don't know what could have possibly come over me to make me think such a ridiculous thing.

I want you to take a second and imagine you are talking to just about anybody else -- a plumber, a lawyer, a teacher, a doctor, literally anything other than a music composer -- and imagine you offered them the "opportunity" to provide their services to you for free. Does the above scenario sound ridiculous? It does? That's because it is ridiculous. In other words,

Initial character impressions: Yoshi: feels fucking great. Might be my new main. Shulk: fun. Fox: feels like complete ass, but maybe I'm just too used to how he handled in melee. Kirby and Ness: better than I expected. Ganondorf and Mario: Meh. Rosalina: how do I drive this thing? Palutena: I must Captain Falcon: Feels more or less right, but the timing is just off enough that I have not yet been able to sweet spot the knee a single time. Is there even a sweet spot for it in this game? Shiek: decent. Robin: loads of fun.