Geoffrey Taucer

Most important part of getting started: don't expect to be awesome in a day. Or a week. Or a month. It takes time and practice to get good at this, and I guarantee your early attempts at remixing will suck. Don't get discouraged, keep at it, and accept criticism.

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Oh, man, looked these guys up after you mentioned them, and they're great! Looks like I'm gonna have to buy all their CDs...

Ohhhhhhh, man. I love this. Very very well done.

Great Big Sea

Holy shit! This is fucking cool! Asian instrumentation sounds awesome. Flawlessly executed, sounds very authentic. All of it sounds real. I would have loved to hear more development of the asian vibe but what's there is absolutely brilliant. Aah, yes, and then the guitars, just as well done. Great playing, great choice of tones, awesome arrangement. The wah solo is positively orgasmic. This will definitely go among my all-time favorites. I have but one complaint: the ending sucks. Horribly. Sounds like the mixer just lost interest and said "I'm bored, so I'll end it here"

You're older than you've ever been And now you're even older And now you're even older And now you're even older... Happy birthday.

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Huzzah! We missed you, Shariq

http://h.xerol.org/f.php?f=446 It's only 30 seconds long right now, but it will of course be longer when I'm done. Hopefully one of my girls will be using this as floor routine music this year.

The source is one of my all-time favorite songs. THis is definitely an interesting take on it. Sort of a laid back piano/guitar jazz thang; I'm definitely digging it. I'd make the guitar a bit quieter and add a touch more reverb; right now it sounds like the guitar amp is right next to my ear, while the piano is in the next room. Noticable mistakes on the guitar at 1:35 and 1:43, but I assume you already knew about those. As far as production goes, it's difficult to tell what's intentional and what's not; the piano is really bright and the guitar really dull, but to a certian extent that works with the style. The whole thing is very minimalist and my first impulse is to say that it needs bass, light percussion, and perhaps pads of some sort, but again, the minimalism sort of fits with the style, and adding other instruments could well destroy the charm that makes this mix so captivating. I think it could do with some more movement earlier in the piece. It's very slow and laid back, but that gets old quickly without any spice. This could work as just a guitar/piano duet, but you'll need to do a bit more to keep it interesting. It sounds like between guitar and piano, piano is your forte (forgive the pun), so I'd focus on spicing that up a bit. I'd love to see the piano take center stage at some point in the mix with the guitar sinking into the background; perhaps this could be done in the next section (I assume you were planning on making this longer than it is now). There are a few points where the chords on the piano sounded a bit wierd to me, but I don't know enough theory to say why they sounded wierd or how to fix it, and it may well be intentional anyway. I'd say for a first mix, you're off to a very good start.

DrumUltimA's mom did the strings for his cavestory mix -- does that count?

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.