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I just take it as playful banter and either laugh to myself or play along and return the gestures.

You mean parents are responsible for what they're children are exposed to???

Is it too late to sign up for this?

Do you hear it in headphones? If it's only thumping through speakers it could be your speakers or room acoustics.

Play it unplugged, does it buzz a lot?

If your computer has a hard time running a guitar sim like Guitar Rig or something, you can always bounce those tracks so you can turn the sims off. Just be sure to keep the original unedited take as well and just mute it, in case you decide you want a different sound later.

The FF7 album was pretty large as well. Large soundtracks usually require large albums.

Unless you double track each element (muting or not muting) it'll just end up sounding like 2 wimpy guitars. There are probably some genre's that don't double take guitars, but based on the link you provided, that genre does. You usually want the guitars to sound pretty big. With 4 takes, 2 for each element, one panned hard right or left for each and one panned a little under halfway, you can reduce the volume of the takes that are near the middle of the mix and still have a decent sound. Just remember that most of what makes the hard panned double takes sound so big is that you have 2 different (sound) yet identical (performance) sounds coming at you from 2 different directions - the left and the right. When one of those two takes are not identical it just makes the track sound like two guitarists that don't know which part to play. You can get away with it live because it's usually mixed in mono and not stereo, but for stereo recordings it's almost always better to double take all guitars.

Simply Amazing! I think this is the first ska remix I've ever heard, and as someone who grew up with ska music this is great! Love the vocals, you nailed it Luiza. Also, the brass players did an amazing job as well, very talented! Also the @#$shot at the end literally made me bust out laughing.

Less boring? Maybe. Thinner? Definitely. The reason for double taking each guitar track and panning them left and right is to give it a richer, fuller sound. I you only do one take and pan it one direction it may intrigue the listener for a moment, but will mainly just make the guitar sound wimpy. There are times where this can be a cool effect, but it shouldn't be used as a primary setup. If you're looking for a break in a song it can sound pretty cool to drop out one side momentarily and then pick it back up. It may end up sounding a bit better if you did 4 takes and panned one set hard left and right, then the other set around 33-40% left/right and messed around with cutting the hard pans out here and there, then you'd still have a pretty full sound but with the same effect you're going for. I'm still inclined to think that it's not a good idea to make this your regular approach.

I haven't seen it yet only because I've heard almost nothing but bad things about it from people/friends whose opinions I trust. I will see it when it goes to a cheaper matinee theater though.

Nobuo rules!

I thought they would stretch the book out over more episodes, but they've been doing a great job so far. My girlfriend has never read the books, so when we watched episode 9 she was flabbergasted, it was great!

I used pirated software when I first started. I was a high school student with no job and a family that struggled to put food on the table. Now that I'm older, have a steady job and can spend money on hobbies I purchase all my software. Snapple and Zircon have pretty good points. For people who don't care enough to save the money, or simply have no money to save, there are plenty of extremely viable free products out there. There's no reason to need to pirate the super duper latest version of cubase/sonar/flstudio or whatever program or sample library you think will magically make your music the best thing since sliced bread. Chances are that if you're not serious enough to save and purchase it, you're probably not serious enough to be able to use it correctly either.

It won't be anything amazing, but I'm planning on doing something for this one. Haven't ironed out a song selection though.

Wasn't Sony the company that arrested their customers for playing around with their PS3? It's just my opinion, but Sony deserves what they're getting. Not their customers, but Sony. I own a PS3 and it's been a crappy experience the last month, but I hope Sony is brought to their knees. They attacked their customers, and now they're getting attacked. Serves em' right.

Do pallies get Righteous Fury by level 15? It's been years since I leveled mine, so I don't remember.

Draenei and Blood Elves are the worst starting zones now. At least at level 10ish you can go to Darkshore and actually have some fun.

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/character/stormrage/shadowsrose/advanced is my main.

I play on Stormrage - Alliance. It's very heavily Alliance populated, you can find anything you want or need at any time. It's PvE.

You could get pretty close with a software synth, but nothing will match it like a real live take.

I actually compress EVERYTHING. The key is not over-compressing. Especially in guitar driven songs it's usually really important to compress everything. I don't hear any clipping. It may just be your speakers.

I've used Jazz III's and Tortex's for a very long time. Pretty interesting stuff though, I'll have to check it out.

As a consumer, I used to always prefer the physical CD. However, a few years ago I started migrating my library to digital and I've noticed my physical library hasn't grown much since then. CD's are definitely cool, and there are some artists I always buy a physical copy of, like Dream Theater and a few others. It's nice to have the CD, look through the booklet inserts and enjoy the art, etc. But for the majority of my music now, I stick with digital because I don't have to worry about clutter in my room and it's noticeably cheaper.

Brilliant interpretation!