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...which composers? you didn't bother to mention them in the youtube writeup, either.

congrats, everyone =)

for my first game with alistar - a really fun tank, i must say - i think i did ok. i died a lot early, but once i got the hang of his survivability i think i got him now. he must be really dangerous if he gets a bit fed early. i'm willing to bet that he could easily take out two guys, maybe three in a teamfight with those stuns he has, and he's so tough with his ult.

that's why he swears by them =) when it comes to different models of high-quality, high-end headphones, what you're used to and practiced on is almost better than something with a more accurate response. i still think that certain styles mix better on a crappy logitech 2.1 system than my current set of studio monitors.

i've got some lightly used computer parts that i'm looking to, ahem, part with. so, here's a sale for the summer! in short, this is a 2.8ghz 8-core system with 8gb of RAM, either 1tb or 1.75tb of HDD space, in either a rackmount case or a tower. overclocking is an option, as is going with 12gb or 16gb of RAM. the Windows Experience Index rates the processor as a 7.4 out of 7.9, and the RAM as 7.6 out of 7.9 (aka, pretty awesome ). it'll have either W7 or XP on it, whichever you prefer. processor: i7-860. 2.8ghz, quad core with hyperthreading (so, eight cores). really fast, and has been my primary cpu for my mixing computer for about six months, with roughly three weeks of 24-7 usage total in there. i'll overclock the processor, and should be able to get it up to 3.3ghz or 3.5ghz easy. i'll put a (new) hyper 212+ cpu cooler on it to aid in keeping the temperature down if you decide on a tower case instead of the current case. ram: 8gb of DDR3 1333mhz RAM, made by g.skill, with heat spreaders to keep the temperature down. motherboard: EVGA P55 motherboard. it's easily the nicest motherboard i've ever purchased. it has optical and coaxial audio, firewire, lots of USB ports, dual gigabit LAN ports, and (awesomely enough) a small digital display to show where boot errors are happening to aid in the over-the-phone support i offer with all my systems. it's also got a panic button to reset the overclocking settings to stock, just in case =) case: you've got a choice here. i currently have the system in a 4U rackmount case, for use in a flight case, stage rack, or server rack (like, what you'd see in a recording studio). you can either go with that, or i'll put it into the tower of your choice. note that i can't overclock in the rackmount case that it's in, since i can't fit an aftermarket cooler in there, so if you want OCing you'll need the different case. power: i've currently got a 430w SeaSonic power supply in there that's part of the deal. 430w sounds low, but since there's no graphics card draw, it's more than enough to run for the long term. it's also ridiculously efficient - over 90% for the load that this computer pulls! - meaning that it generates almost no heat and costs next to nothing to operate on a monthly basis. hard drives: i'll include a new 1tb western digital black drive, and i've got a used 750gb 5400RPM drive that's great for storage of large sample libraries and backups if you want it also. most people say that it's a bad idea to use a 5400RPM drive in a music computer, but it's fine to use as a backup drive. in this case, since you've got a terabyte of the fastest hard drive you can get, it's ideal for being a backup and secondary drive. dvd burner: it's a burner. it burns things quickly. isn't too noisy. nuff said. graphics card: the system currently has a basic 7300LE card in there - not really enough for gaming, but great for running dual monitors (which is what i'm using it for). i'm willing to sell this system for the round price of 950$, shipping to the lower 48 included. we can work out something if it's to canada or wherever. incidentally, if you're in australia, i might be able to get you a deal on shipping if it's relatively soon. that price includes the computer as listed above, with no secondary hard drive, 8gb of RAM, and the rackmount case. for the extra hard drive, add 50$. for more RAM, add 30$ per 4gb. for a tower case, add 50$. if you want overclocking and an aftermarket CPU fan, add 50$. it's worth noting that this isn't really a gaming computer. that said, i'd be willing to part with my GTX 460 - a card that can pound most any game on the market at high resolutions on high settings - for an additional 170$. you'd need a larger power supply to power both that and the computer, so you'd be looking at roughly 225$ or so for the total upgrade, bringing your total from the base package listed above to just under 1200$ shipped. that'd be a monster machine, though, bigger than my gaming computer. as always, i'm willing to be flexible on the build and price. let me know if you've got some specific interests and i'll see what i've got. happy summer, folks!

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i've got a pair of sennheiser hd 280 pros that i'll use with mixing, but my primary headphones that i use are a fantastic pair of open-ear headphones made by alessandro labs. highly uncomfortable, but just stellar sound quality. good open ear headphones beat great closed ears every day of the week.

you gots the syzzurp?

no, i mean the ones in irc and in-game where you said you did. i don't have them, fireslash does.

it sounded like a normal cymbal roll to me, not a reversed cymbal crash or hit.

annie is great if she single-lanes and isn't properly harassed. if you get in her face and drive her back, she's terrible later in the game and in teamfights because she simply can't survive.

yeah, you blew up my stuff. the old admins had a chatlog of you talking about it in IRC

400$ is a tough number, simply because of how pricing works with me. i charge 50$ for system testing and OS installation, and 10% of the parts for a handling and assembly fee. for a big system, 50$ is piecemeal, but for a smaller system, 50$ is a major chunk of change. you'd be looking at roughly 325$ for parts max, which is a very, very minimal amount. for 400$ plus shipping, i could do a tri-core AM3 system (3.1ghz, 3 cores) with 4gb of RAM, 500gb HDD, dvd burner, and basic integrated graphics. i don't like AMD systems, but that's all that's available in this price range. the graphics are next to nothing, but most casual internet games are flash- or silverlight-based, which is dependent on the CPU and not graphics card, so you should be mostly fine for that kind of stuff. you can always add a cheap graphics card in for under 50$, just plug and chug and install the drivers. i'll pm you some more information.

i've actually never done a sax mix for any of these. i've never recorded anything for these competitions, period. first time heroe, your track is pretty fun to listen to =) it needs way more balls, though, particularly in the intro. add some more juice to the intro and i'm in lurve. you did so much creative stuff with the melody itself, and your use of effects as a whole was really creative and varied for the most part, i thought. dress it up and have blind or zircon show you how to add the bump to it, and you've got a really spectacular song. for those wondering, the guitar isn't live. it's from BGC's acoustic revolutions pack...and it was in 4/4 and not in the right key, and didn't include some of the chords that i needed, hence why it doesn't sound right all the time. it did a decent job for what i was asking of it, though, so i was pretty happy.

i submitted my track this morning. 7/8, jazz/pop, managed to use BGC's acoustic revolutions pack even though it's not the right meter OR key. huzzah for melodyne editor's ability to change minor chords to major =) i'm excited for this round. this isn't necessarily the best i possibly could have done, but i approached this totally differently than in the past for this stuff. instead of asking myself what the best genre and chord progression was for the track, i chose the oddest genre i could think of and wrote most of the chords before i started getting the melody worked in. i only added one chord - that pesky major III in bubble man that you just can't get around - to what i had originally already written. for coming to this track in such a bass-ackwards kind of way, i think it turned out pretty decent.

the multiple endings thing was supposed to encourage the use of the New Game+ option, particularly since it was so easy to get most of them. now, chrono cross's multiple endings were really hard, imo, to get. i worked for days to get the best ending.

he's a riot to play, isn't he?

you didn't get the good ending, brandon. go watch youtube. it's basically impossible to get the good ending if you don't know what to do when, since there's no on-screen cues, but the good ending is significantly better than that one.

ffx2 is considered by most japanese game writers and reviewers to be one of the better jrpgs to have ever been released. i think famitsu has it listed in the mid-30s all-time among any game, ever. maybe 32? i forget. i did a little research on it for a writeup a did a while back. it's got a high metacritic rating, too. that's almost more notable, showing that it was well-received in all three major theaters of the gaming world, unlike some other high-scoring games that weren't ever reviewed overseas. i got the information off of wikipedia, so i'm sure it's still there since it was referenced and supported.

i could NOT understand this until i realized that brush hotlinked an unlinkable picture that didn't render until i quoted it. still don't get it, but yeah.

chat's broken again. anyone online?

fantastic track. the homecoming track is pretty solid as well =)

no, we need more Neskvartetten =)

kthnx. bs, you're a doll if you didn't mean that, what did you mean? there aren't very many ways to take your statement there. you want blind voting because you feel it levels the playing field - but the only thing it removes is the name. what are we supposed to think you meant? i doubt this just popped into your head, so i'm assuming that it's related to this tournament, and the last match you had pretty close as it was. names might have swung it either way - but i know at least one person voted for you because they felt your track was so much better than what they expected from you. so name recognition swings both ways. that one person might have swung it in your favor in a different matchup. how did yours turn out, heroe? mine's really, really different from what i was originally going to do, and i'm stretching the source a bit to get there, but i think it's going to turn out ok. i have to record for it, which is something i've never done for one of these compo mixes. i always synth everything, but i can't get the right sound otherwise. but then again, what exactly IS the right sound with a mixed-meter guitar-driven jazz/pop track?

no worries. all couples have those conversations once and a while, married or no. i'll be on in an hour and a half or so (930pm EST) if anyone else wants to visit with me... =)