EXPLORING CHIP TUNES - new youtube show (Page 2 of 3)

Other than the video being almost an hour long I enjoyed it. The format works really well I like that you have someone there who doesn't know a great deal about LSDJ to ask the right questions for people starting out. Definitely branch out into other trackers though LSDJ is getting saturated with knowledge while other trackers fall to the wayside.

this was the best part of the video IMO. There were some interesting things that i picked up but discussing the reasoning for your choices in the song is really what will keep me coming back.

West Wing reference?

First of all, epic thanks everyone for the epic feedback, especially bryface and noobstar. I can't respond to everything but I agree wholeheartedly with almost everything you guys said.

I agree that tech diversity would definitely make it a better show but I'm also limited because so few people in Rochester make chip music with anything but LSDJ. A lot of people suggest trying to use skype so if I can get that to work well, then diversity will be a priority. If not, then I might have to stick to what I have around. I can do episodes on Famitracker and VGM MM though.

I think this is an AWESOME idea and I'll definitely do it going forward.

We shot it in a few hours and then I edited a little chunk of it ( ~10 minutes ) every night for a week.

This is a major priority going forward. I thought I could do it myself but I realize now that I should go to someone who knows what they're doing. Hopefully you'll see a dramatic improvement in sound quality with the next episode.

I think this is a great observation. Initially, I was going to make the video alone. Then I thought it would be better to have a friend there too so the conversation could flow naturally and I'd be less self conscious. Then I thought it would be cool to get a "noob" and someone more experienced so that we could cover a lot of ground. I think you're right that certain parts are boring to the experienced users and other parts go over the heads of the beginners. I kind of like casting a wide net though because the main goal of this is to be useful, not necessarily entertaining. I don't know, I'm actually going to give this question a lot of thought before we make the next one.

I'm getting some comments saying the episode should be shorter and some saying the length is fine. Personally, I love longer episodes when the show is educational. However, I definitely think there's no point in a longer episode if there's no enough content to fill it. I'll be more aggressive with my editing and more focused in the material I want to cover next time.

A lot of people have said things like this which is really interesting to me since this wasn't my intention at all, haha. In future episodes, I'll be acting more as a host / interviewer, I think, so I can ask a lot of questions that deal with songwriting, motivations, influences, etc.

YEP. :-)

Yeah this is a great point. With this episode, I just thought "Let's kind of ramble through it and then I can edit it and we'll see what we get". It was just kind of an experiment, in a way. Now that I see how that worked out, I definitely want to organize it more clearly into sections. With future episodes, I'll be able to "interview" the songwriter and guide the conversation more so I'm going to try and pick out like, the most interesting five sections of the song to discuss in depth and then the rambling will at least have some kind of organization.

And I definitely agree about the episode titles. Bryface mentioned something similar and I think it's a smart idea.

I really enjoyed listening to this!

Thanks for the reference. Good stuff.