At 12/15/12 01:32 PM, LiquidOoze wrote: My room is pretty much a no-go when it comes to acoustics. First of all it's not even square-like, and the ceiling part above the right side of my bed isn't horizontal but descends in a 45 degree angle. All my walls are plastered though, which is a pro I think.
Also that cut-off top left corner just fucks it up even more.

Its not a no-go, but it does suck for sake of ease in treating. You can still attack the first reflections, its just that they are going to be in weird places and look weird. The biggest problem with the room will probably be coupling, but thats definitely treatable. Having a perfectly square room makes things symmetric, easy to treat, and overall nice looking, but that doesnt neccesarily mean awesome sound. Your room already has some natural diffusion to it, in its own unique way. Thats not bad, just different. Nobodies room is ideal brah.

At 12/15/12 10:33 AM, LiquidOoze wrote: I-Mortal, why don't you and your gf sleep in the same bed? :P

I livez at home with bros.

At 12/15/12 12:43 PM, Breed wrote: Well first important thing is getting the desk in a better place. You want the desk to be centered on one of the walls...

Cheers for these tips! Unfortunately, both beds are too big to re-arrange in the room like the picture you posted, and the desk position is at the best position I can get it at. I will keep the tips in mind for those bass traps!

So, I'm still around. Yup. Just been working on my album, writing/practicing bass for the folk thrash metal band, taking care of my daughter, playing video games and what not. It was actually slightly difficult writing bass for thrash metal since I'd never done it before, but soon realized the macinations of thrash and got down to writing thrashy bass tunes.

The thrash that thrashed my thrashing thrasher.

In any case, my album is all mastered and done to the farthest I can/felt like going. It came to a total of ten songs and I have the album art being worked on. I'm aiming for a December release and I'll post it here in the forum when it's all done.

Modern Popular Country and Western Music

Why does this shit suck so much degenerated nuts? It's almost all just shitty pop rock songs about the opposite gender with an accent (sometimes not even an accent). Almost all the male singers sound exactly the same. They make unfailing references to cottonwood trees, honey, 'big 3' brand beers and whiskey...

Look, I'm a friggan hillbilly who lived in a forested valley with the closest populous being Amish my entire life until this year and I generally hate honey and Anheuser-Busch/Coors/Miller, am not an avid whiskey drinker and I don't constantly think about the opposite sex! This music isn't real country and western! It's written, performed and listened to by city and town folk who think they're country! I just want to slam a Waylon Jennings album over their heads and tell them how they forced me to do it! In fact, I don't think Johnny Cash died because of his wife's death. I think he saw this shit coming and got the fuck out!

So I was looking at one of the locked advertisement threads, and I found some guy advertising this:

http://www.beatport.com/release/sync/997624

WTF! A 13-year-old produced that??? Kid's gonna be freakin' huge...

At 12/17/12 05:22 PM, The-iMortal wrote: So I was looking at one of the locked advertisement threads, and I found some guy advertising this:

http://www.beatport.com/release/sync/997624

WTF! A 13-year-old produced that??? Kid's gonna be freakin' huge...

Not if he also uploads that on here and gives it away for free...

At 12/18/12 01:25 AM, LiquidOoze wrote: Not if he also uploads that on here and gives it away for free...

A lot of songs sold on iTunes and Beatport have actually been released for free from the artists. My Name is Skrillex was free download, and I think you could have downloaded Knife Party's EP for free from their website at one point... maybe not, can't really remember.

BUT, his production skills are still incredible for a 13-year-old, and I'm thinking of his future projects. That track won't get too far due to lack of melody to give it rememberance and distinction.

At 12/18/12 01:29 AM, The-iMortal wrote: A lot of songs sold on iTunes and Beatport have actually been released for free from the artists. My Name is Skrillex was free download, and I think you could have downloaded Knife Party's EP for free from their website at one point... maybe not, can't really remember.

But not during the contest is on.

At 12/18/12 01:35 AM, Yoshiii343 wrote: But not during the contest is on.

Contest? And why you not on Skype, brah?

At 12/18/12 01:37 AM, The-iMortal wrote: Contest? And why you not on Skype, brah?

Oh wait I was talking outta my ass there lol
and will be on soon. Just need to get some chow

At 12/15/12 02:23 AM, krssvr wrote: Just Bought Audio Technica ATH-M50s, Anyone else had these? whats your opinion.

been borrowing a pair from a friend,

really worth all the fuss people make about them,

bass response gets beyond low, doesnt feel loose or boomy at all to me.

Bought myself a present for the first time in about 8 years. I always spend alllll my money and even money I dont have on gear and software.

Feelsgoodbro.jpg

xbox + wifi + wireless controller + headset + live membership + halo 4 ------ $200 well spent

Well, it's been a few days since my last obligatory "post pictures of your dicks" post. I've since come to the realization that persistence is the best means of taking full advantage of probability. On that note....

post pics of your dicks ;)

On a more serious note, I'm officially set in Oakland California. I found a job that pays really well, a place to live, and a means to pay for...

... actually I haven't made it common knowledge yet. I'm going the gender reassignment route. I'm open to discussion about it but I figure I'll just post info as people ask for it. I hate making a big deal about things in my life because it never seems like anyone gives a fuck anyways.

At 12/18/12 06:14 AM, Quarl wrote: ... actually I haven't made it common knowledge yet. I'm going the gender reassignment route. I'm open to discussion about it but I figure I'll just post info as people ask for it.

Are you pulling this shit outta your arse for the lulz, or are you serious?

At 12/18/12 06:17 AM, The-iMortal wrote:

At 12/18/12 06:14 AM, Quarl wrote: ... actually I haven't made it common knowledge yet. I'm going the gender reassignment route. I'm open to discussion about it but I figure I'll just post info as people ask for it.

Are you pulling this shit outta your arse for the lulz, or are you serious?

I've been pulling this shit out of my ass for the lulz for years but I've also been serious about it my whole life. I have a really eclectic sense of humor and I have no issue making a joke at my own expense but there's always been an underlying hint of seriousness in my gender bending.

I can assure you that I'm being serious. I just found a clinic in Oakland that offers services "on a sliding scale." Being broke as fuck gives me a huge advantage as it grants me free services.

Since getting to Oakland I've tried out escorting, marijuana farming, canvassing and just about anything else you could think of. My lifes been hella crazy but things are finally falling into place for me. I'm an open book. Like I said, ask a question and I'll reply. I'm done aimlessly posting shit in the hopes that people will listen.

At 12/18/12 06:52 AM, Quarl wrote: I can assure you that I'm being serious. I just found a clinic in Oakland that offers services "on a sliding scale." Being broke as fuck gives me a huge advantage as it grants me free services.

What's wrong with being your current gender?

At 12/18/12 06:54 AM, The-iMortal wrote:
What's wrong with being your current gender?

It's too phallic.

At 12/18/12 07:01 AM, Quarl wrote: It's too phallic.

You do realise that if you go through with this, cock jokes in the lounge will never be the same for you...

At 12/18/12 07:01 AM, Quarl wrote:

At 12/18/12 06:54 AM, The-iMortal wrote:
What's wrong with being your current gender?

It's too phallic.

Only good answer to a question like that.

But seriously, good luck. Pretty sure it's a bigger thing to go through than you made it seem with that quick post about it.

also sorry, no dickpics from me

At 12/18/12 07:26 AM, The-iMortal wrote:

At 12/18/12 07:01 AM, Quarl wrote: It's too phallic.

You do realise that if you go through with this, cock jokes in the lounge will never be the same for you...

I don't care what anyone says. A cock joke is always a cock joke and everyone should be entitled to enjoying themselves some good old fashioned cock. Why would getting a sex change affect anything I post here on newgrounds?

At 12/18/12 07:39 AM, Quarl wrote:

woman

KNEW IT. For years....in fact I thought youda gone the Echoz route before echoz did

At 12/18/12 06:14 AM, Quarl wrote:
... actually I haven't made it common knowledge yet. I'm going the gender reassignment route. I'm open to discussion about it but I figure I'll just post info as people ask for it. I

people who cross dress as a "joke" are the ones who always end up doing this shit lol

yay the world is getting more chicks

At 12/18/12 04:41 PM, Buoy wrote: yay the world is getting more chicks

you may want to rethink what you just said....

At 12/18/12 06:40 PM, Sequenced wrote:

At 12/18/12 04:41 PM, Buoy wrote: yay the world is getting more chicks

you may want to rethink what you just said....

what,

Since most systems tend to smiley face EQs.

should i make the mids TOO loud (on neutral systems) on my tracks?

I was mixing to what sounds right on my new more neutral headphones, and kept on scratching my head as to why the drums were sounding too loud on speakers (under 200& apiece) while sounding just right on my cans. And i figured it had to be this issue, but DAMN is the difference the two ridiculous.

At 12/18/12 07:25 PM, jpbear wrote: should i make the mids TOO loud (on neutral systems) on my tracks?

What I started doing the other day is chuck an EQ on the master when mixing, and bandpass around 100hz-15khz. I keep it disabled most of the time, but when I want to make sure the meat of my track will translate well on most systems, I enable it.

As for making the mids too loud, I don't know about that, but just make sure they don't get overrun by the highs (like you wouldn't already know that). Have you ever brought in a recent EDM track into your DAW and chucked a spectrum analyzer on it? The loudest part of the frequency spectrum in electro tracks these days is definitely in the low end. The mids and highs are usually pretty even (depending on the track, of course).

When I got my Yamaha MSP5s, which have a really good high end for monitoring, I'd get a track really loud without being squashed to hell and be like WTF THIS IS AWESOME I'M WINNING LOUDNESS WAR! Then I realised my highs were way too loud compared to the mids, and it sounded bleh on my headphones, and I'd imagine on most systems. In fact, when the mids are nice it definitely does sound better on my monitors, it's just that if most of it is up in the higher end, my speakers will hear it clearer than most systems.

The main thing is to make sure that the lead synth/vocals are clearer than anything else. When I do remixes for contests, I usually hear that my mixes have way louder vocals compared to most other tracks. But that's what people want to focus on: the vocals; not the complex synths or drum riffs I got coinciding with the vocals.

I do find it ironic though, that you're asking this question, coz I got two of your tracks in my iTunes library, French Poop Yummy and Jelly. The mids are really nice and thick and I'm like "how the hell did he do that?".

http://www.terriblefate.com/

At 12/18/12 07:56 PM, The-iMortal wrote:
I do find it ironic though, that you're asking this question, coz I got two of your tracks in my iTunes library, French Poop Yummy and Jelly. The mids are really nice and thick and I'm like "how the hell did he do that?".

get on the new shit lol, mix is shiet in both those :P

this clip is one of the few mixes i cant pick a problem with the mix, http://soundcloud.com/masqofficial/masq-the-circus-prev

its true though, most people would be surprised at how quiet mids, low mids, and highs are in louder edm tracks, my fav mixes are by artists such as aeph or memtrix who are LOUD but really neutral all around.

I put a har on my icon. I win! Wheeeeeeee.

At 12/18/12 08:13 PM, jpbear wrote: this clip is one of the few mixes i cant pick a problem with the mix, http://soundcloud.com/masqofficial/masq-the-circus-prev

Nice mix. The main improvement I notice with this track compared to your other mixes I've heard is the percussion. Drums sound so much more powerful and better in that mix.

aeph or memtrix who are LOUD but really neutral all around.

I just checked out Aeph - Breakneck Speed, and the bass was heavy as. My eyes felt like they were gonna water lol

I then checked out Highway Thirteen - that doesn't sound too heavy in the sub. Still some good bass though.