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hey thanks for helping!

Moriokun: What Danimal's saying is that you can get awesome sounds without adding a post production EQ/compressors/etc. In fact, some of my personal favorite chip productions are just straight DMG (Ralp comes to mind). That being said, let's try some trouble shooting. Try going straight into the line-in on your mac, keep the levels in the green, and record the track. It will naturally sound softer than most other tracks you hear because it hasn't been normalized or anything, but that's okay for now. Plug in the same exact headphones you used to listen to it before into the computer and listen to it at the same level you listened to it on the gameboy. Does it sound really different here?

Yes, exactly! Let's get on the road to becoming the archetype for branching out with chip.

pixls nailed it right on the head. When I'm playing guitar with it live it's obviously a pre-written track, but when I'm just using the software I'm editing as many parameters that I can think of-Q, solo/mute/pan, even tasteful EQ tricks on the house mixer can help. If you watch videos of an an0va show sometime you'll see that even if a song is "press play and go nuts," I'm still obviously doing a lot of stuff live-because there are a TON of screw ups (unplugged cords, silly channel solos. songs playing on the non-active gameboy, hahaha). But that's okay-you learn to go with those instances and recover! Kris Keyser recently said to me that on-stage errors really can add character to a live set...that's something I'm beginning to whole-heartedly agree with. It's LIVE, be creative-don't be afraid to try something really wacky if you'd like to!

Another thing to note is that I re-arrange parts, edit instrument parameters (i.e. - beef up the mix and/or tighten rhythms), and add transitions that are unique to every live show so far. This ensures that every show is special and it keeps me interested but on the other hand, it also adds more probably to Murphy's Law-but that's what makes it so exciting!

The most important part is that I'm still learning more and more about this with every show I see. There is no wrong answer-if the music is nice, you can do your own thing! Experimenting with external outboard effects is something I also look forward to doing in the future. pixls and I talked about that a while back and it's something that really sparks my interest-time to whip out the guitar pedals!

Great interview-bookmarking this place! My release was released in the summer, but I think it's progressive/mathy (especially some songs more than others)-check it!

This is your jam. I LOVE these. Atmospheric and terrifying. One thing, I heard a bit of clipping in Growth//Contraction but not in Silence/Noise!

I really want you to show me how you do these sometime.

gotta hustle and shamelessly self-promo. There's a fine line between self-marketing and spam, though. ZZZV, in all honestly I think you'd be fine. Like stated before, playing out essentially is one of the better ways of promotion because it basically advertises itself.

i can't tell if that's coherent or not i've been up for 24+ hours by now sry

epic, thanks bucky will def follow this!