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Going into fanboy mode:

I, Cactus has seriously been some of my favorite chip stuff for the past few years just based on the 8bp release. This new track is out of control, man. Please come play a show in Phoenix or Los Angeles soon.

Yeah to be honest, using other mods or Midi files or what not is pretty lazy but really, I've transcribed some video game songs by ear to 100% accuracy, and fuck that. There was one time I had a great idea for a cover of an NES song (can't remember which), I spent a lot of time tracking out the song, figuring out each note...There was some pretty complicated shit going on in the song and I know nothing of music theory or anything so the only way I could really do this was export each track to WAV, open up the individual tracks, loop each and every note until I could match it with whatever tracker I was using. By the time I got the song tracked out, whatever inspiration I'd had to turn it into something interesting was completely gone, and thus, it was a complete waste of time.

Your definition of the word 'attention' is more a definition of the phrase 'attention whore'. Sharing your work to seek connection or communication with peers is still trying to get the attention of others. If you weren't interested in other people paying some form of attention to your music, regardless of your motivation, then you simply wouldn't release it to the public.

And I don't know why this is really a bad thing. I mean, why do people play shows? And when playing a show, do you want to play to a crowd (regardless of size), or no one at all? There are obvious attention whores who will do anything to get people to pay attention to them, but I think any artist who releases music desires some form of attention, otherwise they'd just be making music for themselves to enjoy and not share with anyone else.

All I can say is this, I mixed guitar and chiptune once, put about fifteen minutes total into the production of the track, and a bunch of people shit their pants with joy. Ok, not really, but it seemed a lot of people liked it. Listen: http://wizwars.good-evil.net/MP3/ccn016 … y_Away.mp3

Aside from writing the actual chiptune, that song took about ten minutes to record and like I said, maybe fifteen minutes to play around with the EQ and volume of the chip and guitar. The guitar tracks (two tracks hard panned) were recorded clean and then processed with some basic 'metal distortion' setting in Amplitube 2. It should also be noted that I recorded it using a very shitty Squier guitar, I think one of the lowest models you can get actually.

The reason I bring all this up (aside from shameless self promotion) is because sometimes it's a good idea not to over think things. Just play with the EQ and volume until you find the sound that is desirable to you, then take note of those settings and use them in future recordings as a reference point. I don't think there is really a right or wrong way to do stuff like this.

My advice: befriend someone who has the album. It worked for me. AND IT'S FUCKING GREAT!

No Glomag on either lists? What the fuck. He put out two great EPs last year, at least one of them should've made it. Your opinion is inferior to my opinion.

I seem to remember Saskrotch (I think?) doing a pretty useful triplet tutorial on that other site a few months back. I could totally be talking out of my ass though.