not really, theyre just involved in how we map out the riff order for later referenceok runes are involved
― 1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 9 April 2014 18:01 (ten years ago) link
Heez, that's a really nice song. I don't say this often, but good guitar solo.
― Eyeball Kicks, Wednesday, 9 April 2014 22:21 (ten years ago) link
Thanks!! You're the second person today to compliment me on that solo. Feeling confident :)
― Heez, Wednesday, 9 April 2014 22:29 (ten years ago) link
<iframe src="//player.vimeo.com/video/86803085" width="500" height="281" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe> <p><a href="http://vimeo.com/86803085">Burning Cactus/Craigslist Lament</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user13924429">Andrea Magenheimer</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>
Here is a song and video I made. Questions and comments welcome.
― a.mags (The_Horse_With_No_Name(tag)), Saturday, 19 April 2014 02:12 (ten years ago) link
Oh goddamn it. fine. https://vimeo.com/86803085
The other day I changed my workstation by doing a simple place-switching of key objects: my computer monitor is now at head level so that I can record standing up, (crucially) free of the goodvibe-killing tendencies of that miserable miserable chair, while my preamp/monitor is now at hip level with the keyboard. This changes everything, no exaggeration - I feel like an idiot for not having thought of it before.
― Yarli Simon (rattled), Friday, 25 April 2014 18:29 (ten years ago) link
I released a vidya today:
http://www.popmatters.com/post/181255-resistor-narcissist-video-premiere/
― L'Haim, to life (St3ve Go1db3rg), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 15:57 (ten years ago) link
I'm playing more gigs than I ever have in any band. We played four shows in April, have three in May and three more in June setup. We have played eight already this year and have eight more booked through August. We played fifteen shows all last year.
― earlnash, Wednesday, 30 April 2014 01:31 (ten years ago) link
Going into the studio to record our debut 7" at the end of the month. Gigging lots at the moment too, including two (small) festivals and support slots with Perfect Pussy and the Julie Ruin. It's going to be a heavy summer.
― emil.y, Sunday, 4 May 2014 19:27 (ten years ago) link
Excited for you guys. Music making is slow at the moment, but my DJing is going well, playing a little on Brighton, and putting on a party in London which seems to have good momentum.
― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 6 May 2014 17:39 (nine years ago) link
do you guys get depressed when you finish a song you've been working on for a while
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 01:02 (nine years ago) link
this is ridiculous
like I've been concentrating on this one thing for a few weeks and now that it's done and I'm really happy about it I'm just kind of bummed
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 01:03 (nine years ago) link
Ha, sometimes. What's the cause of depression? That it still doesn't sound how you want it, or that you're letting "your baby" out into the world? Or I guess it sounds more like you're just sad that you don't have it to work on anymore?
― emil.y, Wednesday, 7 May 2014 01:10 (nine years ago) link
maybe it's that there's no gap b/w working really hard on something and it being finished, just like one directly leads to the other
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 01:28 (nine years ago) link
so once it's done it's slightly jarring
hmm, i get some post-partum depression after releasing an album (after the initial excitement dies down anyway). but after finishing a song or album i feel like a weight has been lifted and i can do normal life things again.
― festival culture (Jordan), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 15:59 (nine years ago) link
Usually (if everything goes right/the thing comes out as I'd hoped) I feel incredibly excited and happy. That feeling doesn't last too long, though; I try to immerse myself in the next project as soon as possible, or else I stew and think it'd be pointless to try to match or top what I just did.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 16:16 (nine years ago) link
having some interesting situations with vocalists lately...i produced a song for singer A, she ended up going in another direction with her album, but is cool with me putting it on my next record (which is fantastic, because it's some of my best work and this way i know it will actually come out).
then singer B gave me a great vocal for my album, but is kinda blowing up right now and i guess his label wants it to be uncredited. that's also fine in theory but i worry it could get complicated in the future, idk.
― festival culture (Jordan), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 19:47 (nine years ago) link
we now have vinyl copies of our newest thing on bandcamp if anyone cares http://argentinumastrum666.bandcamp.com/
― 1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Friday, 9 May 2014 16:31 (nine years ago) link
so if i am to summarize, talking with musicians is (and sometimes is not) a minefield? do other people share this belief?
― Bo Diddley Is A Threadkiller (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 10 May 2014 03:45 (nine years ago) link
Ha, totally rong thread.
― Bo Diddley Is A Threadkiller (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 10 May 2014 03:46 (nine years ago) link
This Sunday, we will be singing an arrangement done by a Swedish choir of the Sting song "Fragile" as one of our church anthems.
man, Unitarians
― chillin' on an "awesome pretzel" hoagie (DJP), Thursday, 15 May 2014 16:33 (nine years ago) link
haha
― the glimmer man (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 15 May 2014 17:09 (nine years ago) link
anyone know how to get around bandcamp's idiotic upload limit without selling $25 worth of music first?
― macklin' rosie (crüt), Friday, 6 June 2014 23:20 (nine years ago) link
i am furious
sorry, $20
― macklin' rosie (crüt), Friday, 6 June 2014 23:35 (nine years ago) link
this is bullshit
― macklin' rosie (crüt), Friday, 6 June 2014 23:39 (nine years ago) link
absolutely ridiculous
who uses bandcamp anyway
fuck a bandcamp
upload limit?
― doctrine the house (electricsound), Friday, 6 June 2014 23:43 (nine years ago) link
I mean the 291MB
― macklin' rosie (crüt), Friday, 6 June 2014 23:48 (nine years ago) link
(per file)
I'm gonna try converting my files to FLAC because they're just a few MB over the limit. I really don't want to have to cut them short.
― macklin' rosie (crüt), Friday, 6 June 2014 23:49 (nine years ago) link
hey quick Q to ppl who know or may be able to help: I make music w/ a laptop and use monitoring headphones to mix shit because I don't have any other speakers atm. The question is, what do I do when the mix sounds fine/great on monitoring headphones and a complete mess on laptop speakers
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Saturday, 7 June 2014 00:51 (nine years ago) link
yeah totally do the flac thing, i've used that before to get around length restrictions xpost
― doctrine the house (electricsound), Saturday, 7 June 2014 01:52 (nine years ago) link
have you tried making the mix sound better on the laptop speakers then seeing how it comes across in the cans?
― doctrine the house (electricsound), Saturday, 7 June 2014 01:53 (nine years ago) link
xp - listen to it on speakers, even a car stereo, because that is how a lot of listeners are going to hear it
― sarahell, Saturday, 7 June 2014 21:11 (nine years ago) link
otm
If I have to mix something in a less-than-ideal environment-- and switching between monitoring headphones and laptop speakers is a semi-lame reality, but you can make it work-- I like to keep a couple of "ideal" mixes as control examples, and actively switch between, like, mix to spec. But yeah sarahell otm, use laptop playback as your litmus test. I also like to throw mixes on an iPhone and play it from the speaker to check balances in a hyper-compressed environment (and it mono's the mix too so it doubles as a check for phasing).
― flamboyant goon tie included, Sunday, 8 June 2014 23:09 (nine years ago) link
I also like to throw mixes on an iPhone and play it from the speaker to check balances in a hyper-compressed environment (and it mono's the mix too so it doubles as a check for phasing).
oh nice!
― sarahell, Monday, 9 June 2014 03:09 (nine years ago) link
ty all the advice was super helpful
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Monday, 9 June 2014 20:18 (nine years ago) link
I ended up taking the entire song apart and starting from scratch and it went from being an agonizing thing to work on to being fun again
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Monday, 9 June 2014 20:22 (nine years ago) link
I just submitted a remix for Future Islands. Remix is fine, sure. But what was most interesting, for me, was to unpack those stems. They use this dagwood sandwich approach to tracking, there were some eight layers of individually-uninteresting synths layered on top of each other... together they sound delicious. Not the way, instinctively, I would make a track.
― flamboyant goon tie included, Tuesday, 10 June 2014 10:25 (nine years ago) link
yeah i love getting hold of stems and seeing the inner workings of a song. wish i could do it more often. <3 future islands right now, hope something comes of yr remix.
― now I'm the grandfather (dog latin), Tuesday, 10 June 2014 11:28 (nine years ago) link
It sounds like NKOTB. We'll see if they like it.
― flamboyant goon tie included, Tuesday, 10 June 2014 11:49 (nine years ago) link
lol hangin tough
― Dong Henley (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 10 June 2014 13:53 (nine years ago) link
that's really interesting re: future islands. generally i'm convinced that when your sounds aren't that great you end up filling up a lot more space and stacking layers a lot more, and things can end up sounding smaller. but if your sounds are amazing, then it's easy to mix and everything can breathe. on the other hand, with synths in particular i have had some luck layering different cheapo vsts where the result sounds much better than any one of the synths would be able to do on its own.
― festival culture (Jordan), Tuesday, 10 June 2014 15:46 (nine years ago) link
Panipulator is free and relevant to thread: http://www.bozdigitallabs.com/product/panipulator/
Even though you spent considerable time and effort getting your mix to sound amazing on your monitors, there is still one very important question: What will it sound like playing at a theme park? or at the dentists office? or on your old radio? What if they wired one of the speakers backwards?As much as we’d like to think that everyone is listening our music in stereo, the truth is that many many people are listening in less than ideal environments. Panipulator lets you hear what your mix will sound like in those environments so you can be sure that your mixes will translate across all systems.What will your mix sound like summed to mono? Flip a switch to find out. What if someone wires their system so that they can only hear the left channel? Flip a switch to hear what that sounds like. What if they reverse the wiring on one of their speakers? Flip a switch to find out to see how that will affect your song. These are all common scenarios, and the last thing you want to do is find out is that your mom’s voice, that you thought was buried in the mix, pops out when played over the loudspeakers at Nordstrom.Panipulator will barely make a dent in your CPU usage, so there is no reason that this plugin should not be a default on every single song you mix.
As much as we’d like to think that everyone is listening our music in stereo, the truth is that many many people are listening in less than ideal environments. Panipulator lets you hear what your mix will sound like in those environments so you can be sure that your mixes will translate across all systems.
What will your mix sound like summed to mono? Flip a switch to find out. What if someone wires their system so that they can only hear the left channel? Flip a switch to hear what that sounds like. What if they reverse the wiring on one of their speakers? Flip a switch to find out to see how that will affect your song. These are all common scenarios, and the last thing you want to do is find out is that your mom’s voice, that you thought was buried in the mix, pops out when played over the loudspeakers at Nordstrom.
Panipulator will barely make a dent in your CPU usage, so there is no reason that this plugin should not be a default on every single song you mix.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 12 June 2014 02:49 (nine years ago) link
Finally had another barbershop rehearsal. Shit is mad fun, y'all.
― Star Gentle Uterus (DJP), Friday, 13 June 2014 16:32 (nine years ago) link
very curious as to what sort of music puff puff post makes
― (maybe) (admrl), Friday, 13 June 2014 17:03 (nine years ago) link