Geoffrey Taucer

GAAAAAAAAH! I STILL DON'T HAVE A WII!

Another question: if people being wiis, does that mean we're going to be walking around NYC carrying wiis? Sounds like a bad idea to me.

So any updates on this?

This is fucking awesome.

Well, they sort of do, but without getting rid of the quality loss. I'm sure there are people who can explain this better than I can, but basically the idea is this. You start with the original wav file. Then you compress it to mp3 or ogg or whatever. You lose some data in the compression process. Now, even if you decompress those back to a wav, that data has still been lost; in other words, by converting an mp3 to a wav, you aren't decompressing it to it's original form, you're just creating a wav rendering of your mp3. Whatever quality loss or compression codecs came from that original compression to mp3 cannot be undone, because that data no longer exists. So if you then compress it to another format, or even if you compress it back to the same format, it will take that rendering of already-compressed audio and compress it again, resulting in further quality reduction and introducing further compression artifacts. The only way to get it in another compressed format without having artifacts and quality loss from double-compression would be to take the original wav (not the compressed-then-decompressed one) and encode it in that other format.

If your audio collection is already in a compressed format, you don't want to convert it to another format; that would mean compressing it twice. Twice the quality loss, twice the compression artifacts. Stick with mp3

Hopefully we'll be finished with a certain piece (the one with the folks, that we're doing for that thing) by then... perhaps we can work on that other thing. Or perhaps some entirely new thing.

We definitely need more weed so we can think out-of-the-box like zyko.

Definitely an awesome tune. I'll add it to my list of "songs I need to remix someday," but that doesn't necessarily mean I'll ever get around to it.

What's your price range? This will help us a lot.

That's a good point, and one I hadn't even thought of.

Ok, that we have had drama, this can be an official site project.

I was a bit worried when I saw djp mention stuff being out of tune in the writeup, but I think it works surprisingly well. It's not polished, but it's not supposed to be. Won't be everybody's cup of tea, but I love it. Actually, my biggest complaint is with the whistle; it really would have benefitted from a bit more reverb or delay; anything to make it sound less dry would have been good.

It may not be completely accurate, but the price is right, and it sounds good enough to be used in the same context in which you'd use the real thing. In other words, guitar suite models don't sound like the real thing, but they sound close enough that nobody except a few particularly finicky guitarists will care.

Yes. That depends on the quality of your current soundcard, but I'd say that if you're working with distortion, which will noticeably amplify any unwanted noise, a good soundcard would probably be a worthwhile investment. The E-mu 404 is only $100 (or was last I checked -- it might even be less now), and it's pretty decent. There are plenty of others out there, but the E-mus are the only ones I have any experience with. Creative's soundcards (SBlive, audigy, etc) seem to get mixed reviews. I've heard some very good sound designers declare them to be great, and I've heard some declare them to be crap. I'd tend to shy away from them, though, simply because they're consumer gear, not production gear.

To plug your guitar directly into the soundcard and get good results, you'll need an amp modeler. I know people around here probably get tired of hearing me say this, but Guitar Suite is awesome. And it's free. Highly reccomended.

Fixed

Now will this just be space for hosting remixes or could I host a website there as well?

Also, be sure check out zircon's remixing tips.

As far as programs, FL is fine, and plenty of top-notch remixers use it; zircon and darkesword, for example. As far as samples/soundfonts/synths/VSTi's, we already have multiple stickied threads dedicated to that.

I doubt they'll mind.

LMAO I agree BTW, I'd rather see brit clit than old naked gay men bleeding *shudders* Feel free to continue this discussion in unmod.

I would definitely be interested.

Harmonica requires very little musical know-how to play. To play it extremely well takes quite a bit of skill, but it's probably one of the easiest instruments to just pick up and start learning on.

When I was taking my driving lessons we where driving around some mountains. I looked down at my steering wheel and sure enough, I was driving a Toyota. I started laughing and my teacher looked at me like "what's so funny?" So I yelled "DAYUM I'M DRRRRRRRRIIIIIIIIIIIVIN' DA DA MOUNTAINS N SHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET." She didn't do anything but tell me how to drive after that That's awesome. I lol'd