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i want to do an interview.

It wasn't a real venue, but a shop in Hollywood...

I always argue that yes, a properly EQ'd Game Boy Color can sound just as bass heavy and full as a grey brick. I've played just over 50 shows, probably half with a DMG and half with a GBC...I knows my shit and yes, you can get a GBC sounding just as bassy live without mods, as you can a DMG.

I can't remember ever really hearing a mod for GBC that makes the bass that much louder than just turning up an EQ knob...there is however a good mod for reducing the noise from a GBC, I just don't have a link to it off hand.

But it's all personal preference whether or not your recorded output sounds the same or not to your live stuff. Personally, I've reached a point where I want to make records that sound a bit more full and produced and have the live stuff sound more stripped back, kind of like what it's really like to see a band perform (y'know, where a guitarist does 15 overdubs but live he can only play one part). But dats just me.

However if I had a decent laptop, I'd totally run my mixer into it and have cubase process the the signal with my crazy brickwall compression / EQ settings and then output that into the PA...god how I've fucking wished for so long that I had the capabilities to do this.

I believe on the notes for that album I say it was recorded and mixed at "Analog Wizards Recording Studios in Norwalk, CA"...that was my bedroom, not an actual studio, haha...and I did all of the production on it, originally Kool Skull's ex-roommate Chad (indie rock people might know him as Emperor X) was going to record it on tape at their apartment (aka Datamoshpit Recording Studios) and mix / master it there but there wasn't time before he went on tour...

Anyway my production was basically, recording the tracks raw from my GBC into cubase, and I made a preset in the amp simulator Amplitube of all things, mainly because I like pedal compression and EQ...so yeah, EQ'd and brickwalled it with the Amplitube preset, and then added another Compression setting from Cubase, along with additional EQ. The thing was to get it as loud and in your face as possible.

I personally think chipthrash with no production sounds like absolute fucking shit. When you're recording directly from a GBC, it totally lacks balls. You gotta give it balls. I mean it doesn't even have to be post production, recording through a mixer or something can do the trick. I'm sucking my own cock here but I personally think the overcompressed sound I use for all my chipthrash stuff is pretty much the perfect Chipthrash production, very in your face and harsh. I also used it when I produced one of Kool Skull's live albums - http://koolskull.bandcamp.com/album/lyy … aye-lounge

For the record if any harsh motherfuckrs agree and want me to produce their albums, hit me up.

Jesus, how tiny are your songs if you can fill up all slots but only use 8A blocks? I can't even halfway fill up the slots before I run out of blocks!

IAYD posts on Facebook pretty much every day. I just commented on something of his last night. He responded. I also sent him an email, and he responded to that. I think he's alive.

Fucking solid. Some of the best LSDJ I've heard in a very, very long time.

I wish I still had the various pre-Wizwars but still basically chiptune tracks I made in Acid, Reason, and various midis and shit from 2002-2006...would be a trip to hear that stuff again. Some of the melodies were pretty great and occasionally I've re-used what I remember of them.

These days, I'm more embarrassed I guess by my newer stuff (the chipthrash days) than I am some of my older stuff, and a typical Wizwars set now is mostly tracks from 2008-2010. I went through an angsty phase and just wanted to beat people up with sound. Somewhere along the line I forgot that I can also craft fairly decent melodies. Some people like that stuff and that's cool, if I'm at all remembered in the scene when I eventually go away it will most likely be for Chipthrash and not happy stuff like "Game Boy Rock". Put a lot less work into the chipthrash tho, to be honest.