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MFC XIII - The Voting | 49 comments (49 topical, 0 hidden) | Trackback

On the other hand... by 606 (4.00 / 3) #4 Sat Nov 24, 2007 at 08:48:11 PM EST

You can stare at the same track 50 times and go "hmm, maybe if I pump the bass up 2 dB. No, wait, throw a filter on that. No wait, maybe compress it a bit? No, this song needs to be restructured," and after 50 listens you hate it and want to throw it out and start over.

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.

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incremental saves by discordia (4.00 / 1) #18 Mon Nov 26, 2007 at 07:12:07 PM EST

and/or source control

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: It's not that... by 606 (4.00 / 2) #20 Mon Nov 26, 2007 at 08:51:22 PM EST

It's just that after listening to a song, any song, 50 times you get sick of it. You either feel it's too boring and load it up with superfluous stuff that makes it worse, or you just get so annoyed you want to throw it away and write a new song.
That said I should try doing Save As..'s more often and branching out. It takes hardly any disk space.

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I got so sick by skippy (4.00 / 2) #31 Tue Nov 27, 2007 at 03:01:01 PM EST

of my stupid track after hammering on it all weekend, making those 2 dB adjustments, trying different filters and whatnot. Finally I just decided, "This is good enough, I am sick of working on this crap and I don't want to hear it for another month."

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.

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: You got my No.1 vote by cam (2.00 / 0) #47 Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 11:58:12 PM EST

that is wonderfully textured trance song. Kudos. More please.
cam
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MFC XIII - The Voting | 49 comments (49 topical, 0 hidden) | Trackback