]]>That said, I'm eventually going to mix/master my tracks. If anything, just to help clarify the sounds.
Bottom line? Unless your music is very complex, there's no point.
That said, when I was starting out writing with LSDJ, I wrote an EP, and on one track, I wanted the "drop" to be heavier, so I loaded it into Audacity, selected everything after the "drop", and literally just gained it by +10 dB or something stupid. I sent the EP to 8bitpeoples. I am so so so so glad I never released it. Don't do that.
]]>honestly though, mixing is an art and another component to your song as a single project. some songs can be post processed, some songs you might not want to. it's almost the same as asking someone if your instrument should have delay or not. it's up to you
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Record your stuff straight up (do your mixing on your device, whether gameboy or otherwise) and bump that shit with that gnar piece of downloadable-ness.
]]>i just put my gameboy up to the laptop mic and record it in sound recorder
can only be 1 minute long tho
I used to do this back in 2000-01 when I first started making music with my yamaha keyboard. What I'd do is press record, and then get ready to press record again as soon as the one minute stops. I got pretty good at it and sometimes you couldn't even notice the sound skip every 1 minute.
After awhile I got smart and realized I could actually re-record over previous recordings. What this meant is that I could record 5 minutes of ambience in sound recorder, "Decrease Volume" over and over until you can't hear it anymore, then rewind to the beginning and record the actual song over those 5 minutes without having any hiccups or the 60 second time limit. You just have to remember to delete everything after the song is over just in case you didn't actually "Decrease Volume" to complete silence. Otherwise after your song is over you'll faintly hear your mom in the kitchen or your brother and sisters playing 2Xtreme or something.
Then I found Acid Xpress but didn't realize I could actually use it to record multitrack music and not just short loops so I never used it except for little loopy beats.
And then I realized you could change the input device of sound recorder to line-in or mute it so you can just record silence without picking up sound from the microphone, but at that time I discovered Audacity and stopped using Sound Recorder except for quick "doodles" of song ideas.
One thing that sound recorder was really useful to me was with making music for Game Maker games. SInce wav files take up a lot of space, but mp3 files don't loop properly, I found out that you could compress wav files to a mpeg layer-3 format and it didn't sound too horrible, it took up waaaay less space, and it looped perfectly in game maker.
]]>This isn't even funny anymore.
It's painful.
It was always painfull
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