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finished TLOZ: Song of Storms - Acoustic Remix
Geoffrey Taucer replied to Benjaipod's topic in Post Your Game ReMixes!
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.
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Post-recording manipulation of "live" parts
Geoffrey Taucer replied to Geoffrey Taucer's topic in General Discussion
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. -
Post-recording manipulation of "live" parts
Geoffrey Taucer replied to Geoffrey Taucer's topic in General Discussion
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?
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ATTN ReMixers: Profile pictures
Geoffrey Taucer replied to Liontamer's topic in Site Issues & Feedback
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.
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The song that made you want to remix
Geoffrey Taucer replied to YoshiBlade's topic in General Discussion
http://ocremix.org/remix/OCR00241 This one -
http://youtu.be/U0UR9BR0Xsg?t=2m12s Watch the right hand. .... Now pick your jaw up off the floor
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MAGFest 13 - Post-MAG Depression rears its ugly head
Geoffrey Taucer replied to Arrow's topic in General Discussion
Just show up, and you'll be welcomed with open arms! Everybody's friendly at MAGfest -
MAGFest 13 - Post-MAG Depression rears its ugly head
Geoffrey Taucer replied to Arrow's topic in General Discussion
Haha, don't be! It was MAGfest! -
MAGFest 13 - Post-MAG Depression rears its ugly head
Geoffrey Taucer replied to Arrow's topic in General Discussion
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. -
MAGFest 13 - Post-MAG Depression rears its ugly head
Geoffrey Taucer replied to Arrow's topic in General Discussion
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.
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Overall I'm enjoying AoT. But it definitely has some eye-roller moments.
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My biggest complaint about AoT is the fact that there's some sort of bloom lighting effect in EVERY SINGLE FUCKING SHOT WITHOUT EXCEPTION
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That zombie episode, tho. Wtf? And that baseball episode.
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Rewatching Samurai Champloo. It's almost as good as I remember it being.
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What was the first video game song you learned to play?
Geoffrey Taucer replied to duskvstweak's topic in General Discussion
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. -
OCR03034 - Final Fantasy VI 'A Legacy Forgotten'
Geoffrey Taucer replied to Liontamer's topic in ReMix Reviews & Comments
Absolutely stunning! Instant classic. Definitely going among my favorite mixes.