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check your PMS

You can acknowledge what you're doing without being gimmicky. 

Every time I play a NON-chip show people are very confused, and I make sure I tell them "I make music with a gameboy".  Just remember, what you're doing IS novel to 99% of the population.  Just make sure you acknowledge that you didn't invent it.

I make a big sounding kick drum, usually wave channel (it's loud and goes an octave lower than the PWchannels).  Same thing with the snare using noise channel shaping. 

Then I keep my instrument volumes relatively low in order to make the kick and snare sound louder, and bigger.  It impossible to make your kick louder, but it's easy to lower the volumes of everything else. 

Next I play around with a stereo effects in order to achieve a WIDE sound.  This can be tricky to do right, but adds a lot of depth to your arrangement. 

Check out some of the stuff on my record if you need examples.  I learned everything I know from critical listening.  If you purchase it, I also include the save files if you want to poke around and see what I did.  Good luck! 

Edit: these aren't THE ONLY answers, this is just what has worked for me.  The DMG is a surprisingly powerful instrument but it took me a while to be able to unlock it, keep at it and listen critically to what others are doing.

Fuck yes.  Live drum cover?  Stemage from Metroid Metal rocked those polyriddims

Love it!

Essentially we got a free video from a production company we've worked with.  They specialize in uber-generic music videos, but their production quality is pretty decent.  We didn't direct it, or edit it.

It comes down to this.  While the video isn't pushing the artistic barrier here, it's a really effective promotional tool.  Joe Public eats this shit up.  And that's why we go out of our way not to take it too seriously.  Yeah, there's a lot of cliches, we recognize it and try not to look like faux-artistic douchebags and we just have fun with it.  Remember fun?   I mean, you're knocking a style of video, and then knocking us for poking fun at that very style of video?  Make up your mind.   

We take the music part seriously, the rest of it is just goofball central.  We're not filmmakers, we're songwriters.  In the youtube age, you're going to get more hits just throwing your audio on youtube with no image than almost any other avenue.  So we're playing along and making some cheesy videos for fun.  Sorry for not re-inventing the music video, we weren't in the mood to storyboard a narrative or something.