this is the problem with open-format music competitions. It takes me fifty takes to get one run through a 3 minute song that I'm only partially happy with.
electronic music? You can sit there and bash at the same damn track for weeks, and then turn it in at the end, nicely polished.
sigh.
Anyhoo, this is the first MFC that I've seen that's had so much techno in it. And in any case, a simple acoustic ditty can be very effective against all the electronic madness. ----- imagine dancing banana here[ Parent ]
That said I should try doing Save As..'s more often and branching out. It takes hardly any disk space. ----- imagine dancing banana here[ Parent ]
I think that electronic music's rich heritage of drug use and abuse works well for the theme. Not that rock and other genres don't have their fair share, it's just that techno seems to have been so intertwined right from the beginning.[ Parent ]
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I mean obviously you'll never win that way. But they tell me it's the taking part that counts.
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I don't regret the time i spent learning a tune for the MFC, even if I didn't record it. I now know a fun little tune pretty darn well.[ Parent ]
Getting a track sounding even moderately "polished" is a pretty non-trivial task. Getting it so as it sounds moderately polished on every sound system on which a person might be listening to it is an order of magnitude harder still (something at which I failed this time around). Getting "electronic music" sounding moderately polished is several times harder than getting "acoustic music" to the same state, as acoustic sound sources (steel-strung guitars, voices etc.) are generally incapable of spitting out the kind of spectrum-meddling frequencies and tone-mixtures which play hell with the "polishing" process.
On top of this is a time issue. Decent engineering takes time -- time on top of that taken to make the track in the first place. With MFCs, people have minimal amounts of time to spend on these things. You're hearing people "trivially knocking up some stuff that sounds decent"; I, on the other hand, am hearing people performing minor miracles given the lack of resources and time at their disposal. If it's so damned easy, might I humbly suggest you try it some time. As someone who can do both (to some low standard), it's been my experience that knocking out a track on an instrument and recording it is actually the "easy" part. Sure; it might take a few "takes", but then it's pretty much done. People who've made hay in both fields will take a different view to someone in one thinking the grass is greener in the other.
Secondly: I dispute your arbitrary taxonomy. I'm not sure where this line between electronic and other music is supposed to exist. This is the first time in an MFC that I've posted a track with absolutely no live playing on it. Herring and TPD's entries are almost all "real" music in some nebulous sense, but they've had similar amounts of bodywork to the more purely "electronic" tracks.
Lastly; this issue doesn't seem to have adversely affected Blixco much, does it?
But those issues seem almost unapparent on my headphones. Rock Hard Abs are just a sw-sw-swivel away![ Parent ]
and the solutions are almost always an unsatisfactory compromise of one sort or other. It's often the case that, in order to make something sound better on one type of equipment, you have to make it sound worse on something else. It's pretty unsatisfying. I'll do a diary in the next few days discussing the problems I usually have and what I usually do (but often don't do for MFCs, just because it's so much hassle) to try and solve them. We might be able to get some sort of "tips exchange" going.
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Then I burn my mix onto a CD, listen to it on my stereo, and go back and tweak some more. It's never quite good enough. ----- imagine dancing banana here[ Parent ]
But I'm not about to do anything about it.
I feel that future tracks could be improved with a TPD guitar solo though. What's your weapon of choice for recording? I have been using Tracktion because for £30, it kicks arse.When my grandfather became ill, my grandmother rubbed goose-fat into his back. He went downhill quite quickly after that. - Milton Jones[ Parent ]
If it sounds good enough that I don't feel like re-mastering it, then I call it the final mix and move on. Suffice to say, one pass was good enough when I mixed my track.[ Parent ]
My own track I'm still a long way from being happy with (it's a cover of an Avenged Sevenfold tune and unfortunately Avenged Sevenfold have a couple of rather good guitar players) so in that sense if I were of your mindset I would probably not be posting it, I certainly knew there wasn't even a hope of the thing winning, but I've never really seen that as being the point.
I hope you do record the tune at some stage though and hopefully let us hear it. Rock Hard Abs are just a sw-sw-swivel away![ Parent ]
I won early on, never got to run shit, haven't run since. I'll get my power and influence the old-fashioned way; weapons used for violence!
What can I say? Competition really fucks with my head.[ Parent ]
I for one am glad I'm not gonna "win" on account of how lazy I am.
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