Geoffrey Taucer

Just got back from a Melee tourney, definitely the biggest one I've been to so far. Got a chance to play chudat -- his climbers 4-stocked my doc (my main) in about 2 minutes.

By "center of the speaker," do you mean aimed at the center of the cone or at the center between the two cones? (It's a 2x10)

The drumloop, as near as I can tell, is identical. I could be wrong about some of it, but I'm positive the snare is the same sample. Interesting.

... ... This is the most pathetic, awful, revolting, nauseatingly bad pun I have ever heard, and you deserve to have you head shoved in a toilet for it. Anyway, this mix is awesome. I was hoping I'd be the first one tog et a Pokemon mix passed, but oh well; this certainly does not dissappoint.

What's the best way to record an electric guitar amp such that it keeps the punch and smoothness intact? I'm using a Kendrick 2210 combo amp (a clone of the '59 fender bassman) and it sounds absolutely beautiful to my bare ears, but when I stick an SM57 in front of it, the recording comes out completely dead, overly crunchy and harsh, and completely devoid of the smooth, rich punch that makes this amp so awesome. I have two condensers (rode NT1A) and one dynamic (Shure SM57) available. What's the best way to record an amp with any or all of these mics?

Wow, that sword is unbelievably phallic.

Awesome work, both of you. Ambient, we still need to do Chrono Wigga and submit it to OLR someday.

The highest level girls at my gym competed level 8 last year. It hasn't been decided yet which (if any) will do 8 for another year, and which (if any) will move up to 9. On the girls side I mostly work with the level 4 and 5 girls, though I coach the entire boys' team (which currently includes levels 4-8 ).

Gymnastics competition season starts in a few months, which means I need music for my girls to do floor routines to. That's where you guys come in (I hope)! If you would like to try your hand at writing or remixing music for gymnastics routines, send it my way. If we end up using it, I'll send you a video of the routine (provided it's ok with the kid in question and her parents) Here are the general requirements: -Must be between 50 and 90 seconds. Because it will be short, it should get straight to the point early in the song -Needs to be energetic, but not overly frantic (ie no death metal, DnB, etc) -Needs a brief (10 seconds or so) somewhat quiter/slower/less energetic section somewhere in the middle. I'm not looking for a complete dropout to a slow part, just a slight drop in energy. -Needs a sudden, dramatic ending -Absolutely no vocals, or anything that could possibly be interpereted as vocals (choir synths, voice samples, shouts, etc). -Shouldn't be anything too overly abstract; it needs to be something that can be appreciated by your average joe (or Joanne, as the case may be) -I'll need tracks for the upper-level girls by the end of August. Here are the specific girls/groups I need music for: ROOKIES: (younger, lower-level girls. I'd need the tracks by November) -Should be cute, happy, bouncy. Last year I used the Dr. Mario theme from Smash Bros Melee. -Maximum 60 seconds in length NOVICES, PREP-1s: (mid-level, ages 7 to about 14. Tracks needed by nov) -No specific guidelines for this group aside from the general guidelines above. Songs we've used in the past include Calamitous Judgement by Zircon, Fuego by Bond, Christmas in Sarajevo by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, I Love Rock and Roll, the Pirates of the Carribean, and Splish Splash, Takin' a Bath. -Maximum 60 seconds in length If you have a track you want me to use or if you have any questions, feel free to contact me or just post here. And of course, if you need a guitarist, I'd be happy to pitch in and help (assuming I can play the part, and can find time to record)

Guitars sound great. The very beginning is almost identical to another arrangement I've heard, though I forget where I heard it. I believe it was an official arrangement. The whole thing is a bit muddy. The percussion, bass, and rythm guitars are fighting for control of the same frequency range, it sounds like. EQ them a bit, give them each some space. Snare is repetetive and annoying, with not enough variation in velocity. Good tone on the lead guitar. Piano sounds a bit thin, but not too bad. Strings, though very fake, are a nice touch, and work reasonably well in this context. Awesome synth solo. I love the synth, and the writing on the solo is great. Piano sound is way too thin to hold it's own for a solo. You need a better sample if you're going to have it do that. Organ is alright, but not what it could be. Steel drums? What the fuck? Or are those strings that somehow sound like steel drums? Whatever it is comming in at 3:09 is horrendously out of place. I'd love to hear more from the organ; you bring it in at the end, and then end the track without the organ getting a chance to really do anything significant. I'd bring the organ in earlier, lengthen the track, or leave the organ out entirely.

Overall, I thought this track was decent, but I've heard far better from AE and co. Many of the slightly-off rhymes ("next," "check," "basic," and "it," for example) are quite irksome. Musically, I like the arrangement, but overall this strikes me as something that would work much better in a live setting where the audience can get in on the energy from the emcee, whereas that energy sort of falls flat in the recording. Now as for KogeJoe... Koge, do yourself (and the rest of us as well) a favor and just stop posting in the reviews forum. Your reviews are consistently idiotic, and always based not on the merits of the individual song, but on your opinion of the composer, or the genre, or the game. It's annoying and unconstructive.

Ok, so I'm going to be buying this game. What do I actually need in order to play it? I mean, do I need to get just civ 4 and the expansion, or both expansions, or just the expansion, or what?

I thought it was Crouch who beat Moody in book 5.

I'll get drunk and yell "PENIS" in your honor.

Wow, today's update doesn't have a shred of new information.

Yoshi has a third jump now? 'Bout fuckin' time. His lack of one was about the only thing that prevented him from being one of the best characters in melee.

Source? ten characters

Ok, back with a bit more of a response. EQ, compression, and production in general takes a long time to master, as has been said before. I'm not surprised you haven't mastered it in 7 months; it took me about a year and a half between my first submitted remix and my first mix to make it past the judges' panel (and that one ended up not going on the site anyway, but that's a different story altogether). And even then, the mix was collaborative; I didn't do all the production myself. A good tip is to just do what sounds good, when it comes to EQ/compression; don't feel that you absolutely have to EQ and/or compress everything, but also don't be afraid to experiment.

Tip # 1 on the remixing and WIP forums: Accept all criticism. Do not lash out at those who criticize your work. So far in this topic, you have demonstrated a complete lack of maturity and ability to listen to others criticism. Criticism is how you get better; when somebody says "you suck," the correct response isn't "fuck you," it's "how can I improve so that I don't suck anymore?" And before you flame me for saying all this, please give it some honest consideration (and also consider the fact that you will be proving my point if you respond by flaming me). Now to answer the original question. There are other sites on which production quality is not such an issue: remix.thasauce, vgmix (if it ever comes back up), and OLRemix. If you want a site that is more willing to accept mixes with low production quality, try going there. I need to leave, but I'll give a more complete response later.

But what about the D-pad and buttons?

God damn I wish I could have come. Who made the OCR-tan guitar, and how did they make it? EDIT: also, Jill as OCR-tan = teh hawt

Archetype wins this thread.

Here's something interesting; there are exactly two wizards ever to have come in possession of all three Deathly Hallows: Dumbledore and Harry. Dumbledore never actually had all three at once, though. Harry was, at one point, master of all three at once, though he did not actually have the Elder wand in his possession at the time. I don't really like the story behind the Elder wand, though; it seems a bit far-fetched that no owner of the Elder wand has ever died a natural death, and even more far-fetched that Harry expects to live the rest of his life without ever being hit by a disarming spell, which evidently is enough to cause the Elder wand to change its allegiance.

Harmony teaching me and BGC to play Dragon Song:

Use SFZ. It's a VST soundftont player, which I believe comes with sonar. If you don't already have it, you can get it here