33 Reply by ForaBrokenEarth

(16 replies, posted in Constructive Criticism)

Mixing is 90% arrangement, 5% levels and 5% everything else. I've been trying to follow the roboctobus school of thought recently. Make it sound as good as possible in LSDJ alone and then maybe doing some gentle stuff on the masterbus at the end, which is what you're doing by the sounds of it.

If you're recording the tracks separately and you do a lot of stuff with grooves, sometimes they don't match up properly in the end. And also, if you're using hardware, you can end up with a pretty nasty noise floor imo.

One thing I seriously recommend is comparing your levels with musicians you really like. Think about where X artist sits their kick/bass/etc in the mix.

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34 Reply by ForaBrokenEarth

(101 replies, posted in General Discussion)

theghostservant wrote:

I'm still kind of proud of that. The guy who posts gibberish while high has been gone for a long time though.

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35 Reply by ForaBrokenEarth

(101 replies, posted in General Discussion)

SketchMan3 wrote:
Feryl wrote:

Real life harassment and online harassment are two very different things...

They are different, as different as slicing a banana with a knife and slicing a banana with a credit card. Did you know that online harassment happens in real life, not in an imaginary fictional world? Don't worry, it's pretty common for people to get confused on that point.

I have very fond memories of the time in 2012 when online streaming bedroom concerts were a thing. And the duck spiral.

What constitutes a historical chipmusic event?

The spiral is my only lasting contribution to chip history.

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36 Reply by ForaBrokenEarth

(101 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Feryl wrote:
Jellica wrote:

Profanity and Chip Music Don't Mix

I remember that shit

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

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37 Reply by ForaBrokenEarth

(101 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Brickcore

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38 Reply by ForaBrokenEarth

(6 replies, posted in Releases)

more zan zannnnnnn yesss

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39 Reply by ForaBrokenEarth

(8 replies, posted in Constructive Criticism)

Thanks, I figured that I was never going to approximate the warmth of all their analogue synths so I just went with what comes natural to the gameboy. But I find making angry wav basses kind of easy, so I was probably being lazy.

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40 Reply by ForaBrokenEarth

(8 replies, posted in Constructive Criticism)

Yeah that's all in LSDJ. I'd show you the file but I have a lot of trouble transfering at the moment, can't afford a drag n derp.  The delays are basically just your standard LSDJ style echos with a bit of detune and an automated pan thing in the table.

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41 Reply by ForaBrokenEarth

(8 replies, posted in Constructive Criticism)

ahaha, I'll take that.

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42 Topic by ForaBrokenEarth

(8 replies, posted in Constructive Criticism)

I've been focussing on my other music for a few years, and the gameboy has been more like a single instrument in a mix rather than the whole track.
I decided to put the effort in on a whole track as practice, but I feel like the details are failing me.
How're the instruments sounding?
Anything you'd change?
Do the melodies feel natural enough?
Feedback appreciated by this very infrequent poster.

https://soundcloud.com/forabrokenearth/ … lsdj-cover

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43 Reply by ForaBrokenEarth

(14 replies, posted in Other Hardware)

write + pattern + one of the 16 instrument buttons now I think about it... I've done it a few times. I'm sure that's it...

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44 Reply by ForaBrokenEarth

(14 replies, posted in Other Hardware)

function + pattern +one of the 16 instrument buttons I think.

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45 Reply by ForaBrokenEarth

(10 replies, posted in General Discussion)

MP3 Conversion affects the frequencies present in your music.  128 mp3's have a noticeable roll off on high frequencies, as well as a weird, quite noticeable distortion. Chip music has a lot going on in the high frequencies, so exporting as wav and then letting bandcamp convert to 320 or V0 is the way to go.

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46 Reply by ForaBrokenEarth

(2 replies, posted in Releases)

It's probably not what you expect, I hesitated to call it toriningen. I played it live a couple of times with guitar accompanying it, but never got around to recording it with the guitars.

Maybe one day tongue

As for Genuine Torningen stuff... It's coming.

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47 Topic by ForaBrokenEarth

(2 replies, posted in Releases)

This is half a concept album I wrote around 2012 + 1.5 bonus tracks!

Enjoy a thrilling adventure through the secret underground world of the homeless Roman Emperor and his brother the Caliph!!

Also included are some pictures from my journal at the time that had a few scribbled ideas for the concept (if you can read them).

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1ISQp … sp=sharing

This isn't available for streaming and is kind of a bootlegish thing I guess, because zak wasn't involved.


This was heavily Inspired by Zan Zan Zawa Veia and Jay Tholen and was in part my attempt to channel some of their madness. Also, originally I wanted to ask Jay Tholen to do the Album art, but I never actually finished the album.


If you ever read this Jay, maybe I can throw some money your way and get that done eventually....

Anyway. Enjoy.


_CMYK_ RECORDS

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48 Reply by ForaBrokenEarth

(2 replies, posted in Releases)

SONGS IS AWESOME.


EDIT: Giantraven has been a long time friend of mine. We did TORININGEN together. You should all listen to this because its actually really fucking cool.

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