4,807 Forum Posts by "Khuskan"
http://www.shure.com..nes/models/ksm27.asp
I reccomend that.
Shure make the BEST microphones. Have a look around their site.
Try this. Credits to me ;)
http://iamacup.net/m4m/pacman.wav
Its not perfect, i ripped it straight out of the game, so theres probably better ones out there.
Its hard to get band members around here. Most of the AP submitters use computer software to make music, and to do that you normaly have to play keyboarded instruments. Good luck though. Leave the thread up for a while and come back and check on it
This might help-
Types of microphone and their point of existance:
Dynamic microphone- Looks like an icecream. They're cheap and hardwearing and suit drums, electric guitars and basses. They dont need a power supply to work, and the upper range models are extremely high quality.
Stereo microphones- Normally smaller than dynamic microphones, they look similar except with a cylindrical end as opposed to a ball. They can record on stereo channels so you only need one mic to simulate a persons position in relation to the sound. They're great for sound effects due to the stereo-recording properties, which adds to rhe realism of the sound.
Rod mics- Studio quality rod mics are normally very expensive, and 9/10 you get them in pairs, one for each channal. they are VERY sensitive, and are normaly employed for performance and theater use, where the mics are affixed to the edges of the stage.
Studio mics- Forget getting one of these. they are circular capacitor-mics which are suspended from the celing so they dont pick up the vibrations in the floor. they are amazing quality, and are normaly used to do vocal recordings for proffesional tracks. Pointlessly expensive.
Thats pretty much the list i consider when i'm looking for new mics for my collection. Now for the types. Mics come in two types: XLR and Jacks. If you're going to be using an amplifier or recording straight to your PC, you'll want jacks. If you're going to be recording through a mixing desk then to the PC, you'll want XLR's. You can get XLR to Jack converters, but they're so hard to find i normaly end up making my own.
It also means you can tell who the 0-voters are, and give them the correct ammount of stick if you catch them.
Reasons people vote 0:
1: You're at the top of the charts in a perticular genre, and they do it to knock you off the front page
2: You submitted after them pushing their music down the list
3: They're unfair and biased and only like rap music
4: They're people from the flash portal who dont really care and realise they can vote and review pretty much anything here and get away with it.
You cant mark a review as abusive in the AP, and once a review has been made it dosnt show up in your review totals, so that should be introduced if to aid nothing but moderation.
Not, to be honest, have i ever had a single abusive review, well not a negative one anyway, because most people who do review are other submitters. Of the 98 reviews i've got for all of my tracks, only two of them were from non-audio submitters, and one of them was the author of a flash movie thanking me. it got on the front page. *snigger*.
Begs the question, whats the point of the voting system when there is a better one already built in reviews? If the AP used REVIEW scores to judge the charts, it would be a lot fairer, and there would be less movies with scores of 0, 2.50 and 3.33. Infact there wouldnt be any because it would be done in 10s.
I dont know how many topics i drifted over in that last post. Its 10 am. i'm tired. leave me alone.
At 8/9/05 08:28 PM, Fafara wrote: Get me a working FL studio 5!
what? IT EXISTS? Blimey.
probably the best thing about reason is the fact that you're not stuck to a VST editor or a drop down menu of effects and such. You're free to make your own, plug things into other things in ways they should never be plugged, and make some seriously good sounds. It also teaches you how to use things which is useful. I've learnt more about synthesizers, effects modules and sequencers in reason than i did in the entire gcse music course.
At 8/9/05 06:56 PM, TedJohnston wrote: sorry to spoil the party. cheers an g'day.
-Ted Johnston
I was having fun, i was.
:'(
Right click the MP3 file, go to properties>summary>advanced
Viola. ID3 tagging. Just put whatever you want. Its great fun to put rude things then send it to people on msn...
Of course, thats if you're evil like me. It has loads of other uses, like getting into OCremix. Dont bother id3 tagging tracks you upload the the AP though, because the system overwrites it. devious bastard.
i'd be able to do it too, its not hard. You just plug the audio out from the Gameboy/console into the audio in on your sound card, then record the sounds you want. Can be tricky to record it without music overlapping though.
A lot of games have a 'sound test' as a secret... that can be awfully handy.
me and the iamacup.net crew are in process putting together a basic audio submission website. It wont be ready for ages, and it wont be the AP, but it will be dedicated and have its own forums. All submissions will be screened and marked fairly by the judging panel, and all will be open for review.
Now its not going to be anywhere near as good as the AP, but its just a little project that i'd like to see get off the ground. Meanwhile, i'm going to spain so expect an early alpha in a week or two.
What converter are you using?
Its possible its been corrupted or encoded/protected in a way newgrounds dosnt recognise. Make sure it is sampled at 44.1 khz.
Look, i told you. I SUCK AT MATHS. i'm suprised i got that far, despite getting the units wrong.
There arnt many remixes of playstation games. Why? Because people dont recognise them. The only game most people can instantly think of if sombody says 'playstation' is 'final fantasy' (or crash bandicoot), and final fantasy isnt truely open to remixes because a lot of the tracks are slow and orchesterated and remixing them would involve having to re-orchestrate the track yourself then remixing your reorchestration. *cough*
The games with catchy songs are the nes, snes, gameboy and sega games. Simple, beepy and easy to replicate
RSN files. To be honest, i've never heard of them.
Even soundforge dosnt list that file type.
cknow.com says its a 'winamp file' without giving any perticular details. Is it streamed web audio?
Only way i could think of converting it is live-recording it using recording software and setting up your soundcard so it records directly from the sound output, but only certain sound cards do this. if you havnt got at least a SB live you probably wont be able to.
You can always do what i used to do when i was.. 12. Get a jack to jack and run it from audio out to audio in. Play file on winamp and record on whatever recording program you have handy. Worth a shot ;).
I doubt that, because part of the submission contract is that all music is loyalty free, and bands probably wont like that. Anyway, theres only one, maybe two good *real* bands on ng imho.
Woah i helped...
and i normaly suck at maths :D
1337 posts is the ultimate landmark...
I have a pair of shure unidyme b's, and they're great. Old. but great.
There are these special clip-on pickups you can get for clasical guitars. They arnt really pickups, but more microphones that pick up the vibrations of the wood. Useful if you want your terrible singing drowned out.
If all else fails, you can make a ghetto microphone by plugging a pair of headphones into the microphone socket, shouting really loud into it and pumping the volume up in sound recorder.
To my knoweledge, winamp cant convert. its just a player. I think windows media player can though...
IDEA.
You have to have over 10 audio submissions to be able to vote and get blam/protect points. :D
/IDEA
I'm sure theres some simple equasion to come up with.
BPM = beats per MINUTE
20 hz = 20 vibrations per second
60 hz x 60 seconds = 3600 vibrations a minute = 60 mhz
I got fl studio for free with my sound card, along with cubasis VST. Creative do some great bundles.
Anyway, after using it, i can say that if you want to make music, but havnt had any experience (as in playing a notated instrument, or you play an instrument that uses tabs) with written notation, fruityloops is for you. You can learn fruityloops without a musical background and make some awesome stuff on it. However, if you have musical background (i first started computer aided music with grade 7 piano and a GCSE. Sorry. i'm british :P) i'd reccomend going for somthing a little more advanced like reason or cubase SX, because i found that fruityloops was somwhat limiting in a compositional sencse, and you were pretty much stuck doing trance/techno/d&b.
If you have base musical knowledge like basic composition and such, try the reason trial. http://www.propellerheads.se/
but i'd go for FL if you're an absolute biginner.
just a joke, dont take it the wrong way :O
and dont diss my remixes :P
This will get locked soon i bet, like the other pentition/liberation threads
First off, dont make threads purely asking people to go check out your music, it could get you banned.
As for what music, Loops are favoured by game creators, while short (30 second) tracks are more favoured by animators. Anything longer than 2 mins rarely gets used in the portal.
If you really want your tracks to get used, do game remixes, noteably Mario, zelda and final fantasy. Sprite movies are always demanding good quality music, so we're here to provide.
