what is going on in your musical life

haha

anyone know how to get around bandcamp's idiotic upload limit without selling $25 worth of music first?

i am furious

sorry, $20

this is bullshit

absolutely ridiculous

who uses bandcamp anyway

fuck a bandcamp

upload limit?

I mean the 291MB

(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.

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

yeah totally do the flac thing, i've used that before to get around length restrictions xpost

have you tried making the mix sound better on the laptop speakers then seeing how it comes across in the cans?

xp - listen to it on speakers, even a car stereo, because that is how a lot of listeners are going to hear it

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).

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!

ty all the advice was super helpful

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

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.

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.

It sounds like NKOTB. We'll see if they like it.

lol hangin tough

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.

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.

Finally had another barbershop rehearsal. Shit is mad fun, y'all.

very curious as to what sort of music puff puff post makes

Anyway, I bought a guitar, a Jagmaster. It's in my living room right now, I look at it sometimes.

One year of drumming! Today! Proud of myself tbrr.

Oops, I'll wait til tomorrow to be too proud. The real anniversary is tomorrow. Ha.

well congrats for 364 days of rock'n'roll rebellion!

Panipulator is free and relevant to thread:

timely! after playing a livestream show last week and wondering why some of my tracks with a lot of stereo information were cutting out, i finally figured out that it's a phase issue in my mixes. while i understand the basic of phase intellectually, i thought i wouldn't have to worry about it with 'in the box' synths/samples, and i've never actually summed my mixes or tracks to mono to check them.

it seems to mostly be a problem with tracks that i've used autopan on, or stereo samples that i've panned to one side. looks like i have some homework + clean-up to do.

btw it was an old-school, mustachioed sound guy at a public television studio who clued me in. he showed me what was happening on a hardware phase meter. love dudes like that.

My band Atomic Thrillride is making it's long trip to play some gigs next weekend as we are going up into NE Ohio to play again in Canton at the Buzzbin on next Friday 6/27 and making our first sojourn into Cleveland to play the Spitfire Saloon on Saturday 6/28. This will put us up to 15 gigs by the end of June, where we only did 15 all of last year. We got 2 more shows booked in July and then a festival in KY. on 8/3 then we are going to start doing some writing and recording. April to June we will have played 11 shows and only practiced 3 times.

If anyone knows of any good rock/punk/metal dive bars in St. Louis, Memphis, Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, North Carolina - pass on their names. I'm looking for the smaller clubs 75-200 people than the bigger touring band places. Those are some of the towns we want to road trip to play at some point. I can pass on tips about Louisville, Indianapolis and a few other clubs.

i need a tip for small metal clubs in louisville!!!!!

memphis: try P&H Cafe! or murphy's (people aren't cool tbqqh but it's easy to book). there's also the courthouse co-op.

Wick's Pizza (Highlands)
Metal Monday @ Highlands Tap Room (They do some other metal shows.)
Jim Diamonds (bigger club, does smaller metal shows through week)
Phoenix Hill

I finished this album I've been working on for a long time, I'm really happy w/ it. At this point if I were to describe it I would say it's like, uh, sample-based free-jazz-y or sample-based classical stuff. I watched a RBMA interview w/ Caribou dude from a long time ago, and it fits his description of what he was doing like ten years ago, but it doesn't necessarily sound like that work of his because I have different interests when it comes to composition maybe (it probably has a closer affinity to Koushik's stuff from ten years ago, but even then the compositions unfold differently, and the sampling's done differently). Anyway, I'm working on album art now (having never worked on any visual art before), and sent it to a cousin for some mastering. I have no idea what to do with it after these last few steps are done. I can't hope to release it because it's all sampled and it isn't the 80s or 90s anymore or w/e and even really small labels that made their name from sampled work are running away from uncleared stuff, but whatever happens, I learned a ton doing this and it sounds amazing. I hope I can use it for something down the line other than giving it to my friends (which isn't really the worst outcome in the world).

link? :)

I don't have any streaming links, just got it up on dropbox, I'll email 2 you if that's ok

Would like to hear this, too.

I think I ilx mailed it to you emily, the followup screen after the mail screen was blank so if for some reason you don't get it then let me know and I'll do it again

Awesome, thanks!

Doesn't seem to have come through to my email. Am pretty sure I'm looking in the right account.

ah, fuck it did the blank screen again, email me at aj_lo✧✧✧@ya✧✧✧.c✧✧ (w/ no underscore) and I'll send it over

apologies for this scooby-doo-chase-scene-like routine to get this I'm not ready to throw the traxx up online yet

ah fuck

a j l o l i o @ y a h o o

sorry, I'll stop shitting up this thread, anyone who wants this, just send me an email and I'll try and get it to you

sorry not sure if it was this thread or another where yall were talking about sampling, but i just made a song off a very short vocal sample (barely recognizable i think) and i'm wondering how you handle these situations if you want to put the song up on bandcamp. not saying i would be selling it per se but would definitely have it on an album with my name on it. is a credit all that's needed?

you don't even need to credit unless you want to (and for me this comes down to if the sample is supposed to be obvious and the track is closer to a remix, or if you're just using it as a sound source and flipping it), it doesn't matter unless there's money or official licensing involved imo.

Cool. That's what I was hoping.