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This sounds amazing (I dabble in gypsy jazz). You guys have anything recorded?

If I remember correctly, the guys at chiptunes=win have been experimenting with booking tours, and had a successful NE run with like three artists on it. I think it's all starting to come together. But let me tell you, not making much money from a tour is something that transcends genre. I toured three times with my last band and every single time you come back home with more fans but less money.

I've had some chip show offers recently and it's always come from personal connections with other artists. Stuff like I was on a compilation with this guy, reached out and mentioned I dug the track, get to talking, become friends, somewhere down the line they mention an opportunity to play a show together, etc.

Can assume it'd be hard work to make stuff like that into a consecutive tour, though.

I use a lot of SNES sounds in my music/game soundtracks and I've come to this conclusion:

I don't think these sounds are Nintendo proprietary, and so the only issue I can see them having is with the cracking of their ROM's to extract the sounds. And this is something I don't think you would be accused of if you just found the soundfont online and happened to like it. A lot of the sounds you hear in SNES games are generic synth patches which have been reduced in quality to fit on their games, I believe. Anyway as someone who has used and built many SNES soundfonts publicly for years (my music using these sounds has been featured by the likes of Kotaku and Destructoid, I can't really imagine me going much more public than that), I wouldn't worry.

I just made a ridiculous speech synthesis Stockwave 3 watermark I'm putting all over my track, if anyone would like the watermark sample lemme know B)

Don't do sound subtraction. What it does is it tries to do too much and ends up becoming an at least as annoying problem. Go through your recordings with a parametric EQ (if you've got a visual EQ that can be helpful too, I actually just use the one that FL comes with) and narrow the bandwidth on a band, sweep through the spectrum to find frequencies that jump out and/or "hurt" your ears, and try dipping those down a bit. That usually makes the background noise at least not offensive, even if still present.

:')