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Holy crap, I want that MIDI guitar so bad. I don't even have a console to play the actual game on, but I'm going to buy one of those guitars as soon as I can. Straight MIDI out into whatever synths I like? Yes please!

Another update! Finished the arrangement (I think) and polished it a ton. We'll see how I feel about the mixing when I listen with fresh ears, but I'm really happy with how it's layed out. I incorporated portions of "Deja Vu" off of the same soundtrack. Let me know what you think!

Neblix gets it, yo.

Haha, it's more like a hopeful statement. Like "Let us be contagious," or "I hope that we're contagious."

Update! Fixed the above mentioned issues, better mixing all around, and I extended it. Still not done with the arrangement but it's a decent bit longer now. Check it out, thanks for listening!

Wow, thanks a ton Stevo! That's exactly the kind of feedback I needed. I know what to focus on and what to smooth out for my next attempt. Thanks a ton, I really appreciate it

Hey guys! I decided to take a break from work and put together a mix of my favorite song from TWEWY, a catchy J-Pop song called Calling. Instead, I'm doing it like a punk garage band. I'd love feedback on the singing, since I know that's my week spot. Production and arrangement are WIP but criticism and comments of any sort are always appreciated. Thanks for taking the time to listen, let me know what you think! Update! Totally re-recorded the vocals and updated the mixing. Take a listen! NEW [6/26/10]: OLD:http://tindeck.com/listen/hgnb http://tindeck.com/listen/gulx http://tindeck.com/listen/lmpz Here's the source, for those unfamiliar with the game:

It's been mentioned, but I can't emphasize enough how much of a difference hi-passing and low-passing your tracks makes. Put a hi-pass on anything that isn't a central bass instrument (Kick, bass, etc). Try around 150Hz and increase it (not soloed) until you can hear the difference in the mix, then back off just a hair. Do the same on all of your tracks with a low-pass; You can easily low pass at 12KHz without losing anything on almost every track, and you can push it down to 7.5KHz-9KHz on guitars and other things no problem. Stuff like bass can be way lower, around 1.5KHz or so easily. Recently on my tracks, the only things that aren't hi-passed are the bass and kick drum, and the only things that aren't lowpassed are the hihat and cymbals. This will clean up "junk" frequencies that aren't contributing to the mix, allowing you to push it way louder without sounding as squished or harsh.

Oh man, I'm definitely picking this up. I bummed Portal off of friends before, but if it's free I'm grabbing that up.

Anyone listen? Comments / criticisms would be awesome. I worked on this for a long time and I'd really like to get some feedback. Thanks!

This Is Noise - May We Be Contagious I've just put the finishing touches on my first album, May We Be Contagious, which is available now as a free download! It's a heavy punk album with synth elements and a variety of influences. You can get it now at www.ThisIsNoiseBand.com or stream it for free on Facebook and Tindeck. Thanks for listening!

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Woo! I want my points!

Something that always helped me improve is to try and emulate others. Pick a song or artist you like and try to recreate that song piece by piece and figure out how it works. This is a lot harder than it sounds, and what you end up with will probably sound relatively different, but it's a lot of fun!

Have you tried reinstalling / updating the drivers for the Alpha?

That sounds like a pretty decent recording. I also use an SM57 for guitars and monitor on BX5as. I wouldn't worry about how the guitar sounds until you have it sitting in a mix- what sounds perfect solo'd can sound atrocious with the rest of the band, and what sounds great in a mix might sound terrible on its own (That's ok though, because others will only hear it in the mix). Try giving it a hi-pass filter at around 200Hz and a 2-3db boost between 1500Hz to 3000Hz to taste. I think once you have this with some drums and bass behind it, it'll sound great If it still doesn't sound good, try recording two performances of the same material and panning it left and right, so each speaker has a guitar assigned to it. You can get a huge amount of stereo width this way, and it's especially common for metal rhythm gutiars. A pan of about 75% to each side or so usually does the trick. If you want examples just let me know. As for which speakers to trust, definitely the BX5as, although you want to get it to a point where it sounds good everywhere. Listen to as much music as you can on your monitors and learn how they sound; that's what will help your ears improve the most. I didn't like how they sounded at first, but now I prefer them to pretty much anything else.

So I was playing around with the awesome new Remixinator and I came up with this. I hope you guys enjoy it, thanks for listening! You guys should try out the Remixinator yourself, it's amazing!

These don't sound bad at all, actually. I can definitely hear the Genesis influences here. I'm looking forward to this!

You can actually get a personal / home studio license for $60, which covers all uses up to making $20,000 a year off of it. It's a fantastic bargain and my personal favorite, not only because of price

This looks really interesting, I might have to play around with this later. The modular thing kind of reminds me of Buzz.

I should have a ton of time on Thursday to work on my song, so you should have another WIP somewhere around the end of the week

I just got done with my second listen-through on real speakers. In general, I think it was a solid album. My main gripe is that there were a lot of tracks where it was either difficult to identify the source or it completely changed the feel of the original. It made it seem like those tracks didn't get fair representation on the album. There were a few on here that I couldn't even link to the source without comparing them side by side, and I know this game really well. The tracks that were great, though, were absolutely amazing. Rare Respite, Dance of the Zinger, and Re-Skewed are probably my favorites. Tetanus, Beneath the Canopy, and A New Place were all fantastic as well. While I wish it were more coherent in places, it was good and I enjoyed it overall. Good work everyone!

Is this the track you're talking about? It sounds like a plucked stringed instrument to me (Maybe a harp of some sort?), but if you want a synth to sound like that I think you might want to try an FM synth. Others around here know way more about that than I do, but it should be somewhere to start.

Submitted! Wish me luck, y'all