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aw frig aw dang it posted:It's super cool that you made tapes of your music! It sounds like a lot of fun It is! Although, next time, I'll make sure I have all the packaging planned out and have the tape plant make completed tapes. There's just something awesome about cracking open a package with a bunch of identical tapes, putting one in the player, pressing "PLAY", and hearing something you did.
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I got my NTG-1 shotgun mic, and it's not any better for my purposes than my NT1. So I'm returning it, and now my "gently caress around music toy" budget has increased by a bit over $200 Let's be real, I'll almost certainly end up getting nothing and spending it on groceries, but I'm _trying_ to spend it on something for myself! I swear!
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Achmed Jones posted:I got my NTG-1 shotgun mic, and it's not any better for my purposes than my NT1. So I'm returning it, and now my "gently caress around music toy" budget has increased by a bit over $200 Here's something I've always been curious about.. it seems like mic electronics are really stupidly simple - I once bought a really good PC mic for like $15 at Radio Shack in the early 2000s. So, what in the ever loving Christ do you have to add to one to make a mic that costs like thousands of dollars actually worth the money?
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Aug 10, 2022 03:50
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manufacturing line consistency a $4 pc mic will sound like whatever. a $99 shure sm58 generally sounds somewhat like an sm58. a $2000 sennheiser or akg will always sound exactly like that model is known to sound
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idk the difference between a $200 and a $2000 one but a $200 mic sounds way better than a $20 one. it's a lot more obvious when you're micing instruments or singing than when you're just using it for regular ol speech. more sensitive, better frequency response, etc. and different mics will have different sounds to them (flat or whatever)
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Woolwich Bagnet posted:lol this is extremely my vibes today, thank you for this good post.
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banged out another remix for a buddy, could probably have spent more time polishing it but sometimes things don't always need that the red dragon - Hate & Love Remix in the meantime i found i had what's apparently a nice mid/side eq so i'm figuring that out. so far the difference is v subtle but i'm starting to get the hang of it. never hosed with m/s before so idk what i'm doing
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Tomorrow, I have to run a call where I have to stay overnight in a small town in remote northern Alberta. They have a pizza place, but they don't have any beer or weed stores, so I'll have to bring some along. I'll also be bringing my Unos, a Microfreak, and a Tascam DP-006 recorder (with no idea how to properly use any of them). Also packing the Volca Modular, just in case I get motivated to learn that, too. I'm hoping the minimal setup gets me to actually make something with hardware. I've never really done anything with all my hardware stuff besides a few dumb jam tracks. im_sorry fucked around with this message at 04:17 on Aug 11, 2022 |
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that sounds like a real fun adventure and now i kinda want to book a hotel room night an hour away and bring my laptop and my midi keys
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Jonny 290 posted:that sounds like a real fun adventure and now i kinda want to book a hotel room night an hour away and bring my laptop and my midi keys Well, it would be more fun if the drive there wasn't around six hours... theoretically, all I have to do when I get there is swap an old hard drive into a new computer and that's it, but sometimes, simple things like this can go really, really wrong. On the way back, I have to stop at three places to install a software update, which is supposed to take less than 10 minutes per place, but as usual, I'm worried that I'm going to accidentally gently caress them up in some horrible, terrible way. I'll also have my laptop, but it's from like 2013, so it'll run Reaper and Renoise just fine, but I'm a little limited in VST choice - I generally just use romplers on it. I also got my old LPK-25 back, which will go in my laptop bag as soon as I find a USB-B cable for it... im_sorry fucked around with this message at 04:43 on Aug 11, 2022 |
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in my experience the less gear i bring with me, the more i get into it and learn something also a laptop from 2013 can run a lot of cool audio stuff. i did a full 1h30 live stream copying my ableton set to my 2009 mbp while the main laptop was away being serviced embrace the limits and all
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Aug 11, 2022 06:39
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4lokos basilisk posted:in my experience the less gear i bring with me, the more i get into it and learn something ive got this little setup that is a paperback-sized 50w amp, a ripoff fender jaguar that i did a fret job on that plays great now, and this 2017 era dell laptop with my plugins and its a lot of fun to plug into just that and nothing else
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if I ever get back into playing live gigs then my live rig is going to definitely involve a MacBook air, and five years ago I wouldn't have even imagined having a guitar rig that involved a laptop let alone a fancy piece of apple kit and also didn't have a cabinet at all but here I am, running ableton and the helix editor on a mac that doesn't even have a fan and a distressingly efficient battery
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Jonny 290 posted:ive got this little setup that is a paperback-sized 50w amp, a ripoff fender jaguar that i did a fret job on that plays great now, and this 2017 era dell laptop with my plugins and its a lot of fun to plug into just that and nothing else for the purposes of learning the mpc1000 i only have that and a laptop. i am so used to playing on a piano like keyboard that its hard to do it on the pads, but its ok because i am learning
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Well, this sucks... after driving for about 6 hours, I get here at 4:15, because I'm told that the call is at 6. I get here, rest a bit, go to site, and I'm not supposed to be there until about 9, and I just can't do anything productive if I have a call that I need to worry about. Then, I didn't get back to the hotel until about 10:30. I don't have to get up *too* early, but today has just loving killed my motivation to do anything productive. Anyways, I've started screwing around with a program I impulse bought on a sale called Visual Synthesizer. It does visuals for sound you feed at it, and you can mess around with how the image is generated. I've just been messing around with presets. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rGMXfH-QuI. I want to get more into making videos - I bought a horse mask for this purpose, but I'm still too shy to actually appear in a video. im_sorry fucked around with this message at 06:38 on Aug 12, 2022 |
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Aug 12, 2022 06:35
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I finally picked up some flat-response monitor headphones and oh my god I can hear everything. 
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aw frig aw dang it posted:I finally picked up some flat-response monitor headphones and oh my god I can hear everything. what make & model?
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4lokos basilisk posted:what make & model? I got the old Sony MDR-7506es. I was also looking at the ATH-M50X but people seemed to complain those were a little uncomfortable, so I went with the Sonys. I was wearing them for a good 3 hours just now working in Ableton and they never got uncomfy, so I'm pleased with that choice.
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aw frig aw dang it posted:I got the old Sony MDR-7506es. I was also looking at the ATH-M50X but people seemed to complain those were a little uncomfortable, so I went with the Sonys. I was wearing them for a good 3 hours just now working in Ableton and they never got uncomfy, so I'm pleased with that choice. those look good. i think i have used them once or twice my daily driver since like 10+ years ago is beyerdynamic dt770 pro, and recently i started using it with sonarworks reference which flattens the freq response even more, and i am pretty happy still its a good idea to listen on different speakers / cans to get an idea how the mix translates, too (this is mosty advice for myself because i seem to only listen on the main headphones recently)
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4lokos basilisk posted:those look good. i think i have used them once or twice For sure, I also try to also listen to my stuff on my phone and on the crappy speakers on my TV. I figure if it sounds okay on those then it's probably good to go
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AtomD posted:thinking about number stations had me wondering you could use DUGA interference as the backbone of a beat if you hosed with it enough I'll post it when I find it again.
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the Mods, they knew!
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aw frig aw dang it posted:For sure, I also try to also listen to my stuff on my phone and on the crappy speakers on my TV. I figure if it sounds okay on those then it's probably good to go I too like to role play as a person whose music will ever listened to by someone else
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aw frig aw dang it posted:I got the old Sony MDR-7506es. when my folks brought home their first cd player, it was a pair of discmans with 7506s or their predecessors. 30 years later and i'm wearing a pair now. wish the cord didnt tangle so drat much tho current music status: at the computer with a dx7 emulator and chowning's FM Theory and Applications. gonna understand this poo poo once and for all
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I finished up making video/visual content for the 4 tracks i'm done with. This comprises "Music Folder #1" from "Goth Billionaire". It's an EP more or less. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLej83f6G8NQt-5WTfm8MOEBiTVeyD9OAS Pretty fun experiment and one of the few music things I've "finished" in the decade + of music production. I ran out of time on the visuals, so they're pretty spotty. I don't think I'll attempt this again because it took forever and don't add as much as I'd like, because I don't really have that much experience in the visual side of things. I'd rather focus on the music and maybe do visuals for one thing at a time. The clip that looks best overall is the one that probably took the least time, with the song that has the least time spent on it : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkkNhbZCZGE I'll probably either go make some more chill house music or double down on the distortion chaos.
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good job on actually finishing something, that's one of the hardest bits. Nice tracks and vids too. Last night I stumbled across DJ Q-berts YouTube channel and it got me all inspired to get a new mixer, new needle and get back into scratching for the first time in like 10 years. I'll be using my old breaks/scratch records for now but the mixer I got works with Serato so I might give that a go in the future. Also made a Reaktor patch a few years ago that was supposed to generate random music...was a bit useless for making 'music' but it did basically generate grotty scratch loops on demand so looking forward to giving that a shot. Might plug it into the modular too and play with the expression pedal I got for my guitar. Man I'm gonna suck but I can't wait
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it's very satisfying to pull off a reaktor patch that does what you want
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Pollyanna posted:Two books were massively ace in helping me grok what's happening in FM synthesis:
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Oh man, teenage engineering has a modular thing now? I'm definitely tempted, though I do think their stuff is a bit on the overpriced side.
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been working on this off and on for that last week or so. started putting it together while doing some world building with some friends for a new game campaign with lots of space stuff in it. the back half of synth stuff is still super rough but it's fun to work on https://soundcloud.com/poltzart/space-lol-wip1/s-KzyQM9tfPXk?si=51db9ff4086640cda84304ce6e79b717 also completed this last week but have been too lazy to upload it. chill type electronic type stuff https://soundcloud.com/poltzart/go-to-sleep-already it's been about a year since i started making music stuff. looks like i did 33 tracks last year. not bad at all.
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is covering daft punk haram? because I have an idea for a modern coheed-esque prog synth rock cover of "get lucky"
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InternetOfTwinks posted:Oh man, teenage engineering has a modular thing now? I'm definitely tempted, though I do think their stuff is a bit on the overpriced side. i saw a youtube and was pretty meh.
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did a remix EP for some pals a while back and it's finally officially released here https://open.spotify.com/album/0Fyd86ufliIWnKalSy0aHF?si=OMZRuK6uTT2atuXGeFN1_g i'm really happy with this one tho the levels might be a little hot
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Kazinsal posted:is covering daft punk haram? because I have an idea for a modern coheed-esque prog synth rock cover of "get lucky" just do it
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echinopsis posted:just do it
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echinopsis posted:just do it
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something for the fans of slow moving music like earth https://soundcloud.com/trent-hawkins/2022-3452a
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double post, but today my album got released by what appears to be a real record label. really happy about it although it took a long time click if you might like 47 minutes of generative ambient https://slowtonecollages.bandcamp.com/album/generations-20200612 also shout out to TayterSwift for in a way inspiring this stuff with their weird and cool delay thing they shared a while ago and i for some reason can't find anymore
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I barely remember but glad to be of service <3
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some shop is trolling me by putting this thing on blowout wanted one for a while now. RESISTING! for now When i first saw a pic of it, i was like "that's cool, too bad they don't make it in right-hande----ohhhhhhhhh"
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