Posts by Fudgers (Page 5) - Forums

I think, especially with chip, the best answer is to squeeze it until you can hear the compression, then back off a little and leave it. There's so little dynamic in the material itself, especially with VGM'y classic chiptune stuff that you can get away with mixing it pretty loud with very few perceptible compression side effects.

My last release ran at around -9 LUFS with almost no headroom, and it was a bit more dynamic than some of the standard fare originally.

tl;dr -10.5 seems fine, people are gonna go louder and softer, but I definitely wouldn't call it too loud. classical engineers are gonna think everything's too loud. chipmusic sounds pretty junky without compression anyways imo

Go to forum: Audio Production Go to topic: Proper LUFS "Loudness" level for Chiptune Albums Go to post 69

70 Reply by Fudgers Nov 12, 2014 9:20 pm

Re: KUNIO! (7 replies, posted in General Discussion)

the words say song but my gut says virus

Go to forum: General Discussion Go to topic: KUNIO! Go to post 70

71 Reply by Fudgers Nov 3, 2014 1:12 am

Re: Post Your First Chip Music (56 replies, posted in General Discussion)

https://soundcloud.com/fudgers/curses

Go to forum: General Discussion Go to topic: Post Your First Chip Music Go to post 71

72 Reply by Fudgers Oct 30, 2014 2:11 am

Re: FS: Shruthi w/ LP2/Delay filter (21 replies, posted in Trading Post)

pedals added!

Go to forum: Trading Post Go to topic: FS: Shruthi w/ LP2/Delay filter Go to post 72

73 Reply by Fudgers Oct 28, 2014 8:42 pm

Re: LoFi SES (65 replies, posted in General Discussion)

the lo-fi ses is ALREADY tearing us apart :'(

on another note, i think attitudes about process are pretty important. it's tough to get gigs when there's this perception that you're either a DJ or a "real" musician with no in-between.

i think it's important for outsiders to see chipmusic as an expressive and intricate style of music.

it's sort of like your favorite painting being exposed to outsiders as a paint-by-numbers

Go to forum: General Discussion Go to topic: LoFi SES Go to post 73

74 Reply by Fudgers Oct 28, 2014 6:54 pm

Re: LoFi SES (65 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Mrwimmer wrote:

How is this a thing to give even one fuck about? Are you guys seriously insecure enough in your craft that you think this will ever outperform any of you? This is not for us.
If someone new finds chip through this, whoop-dee-doo. They get bored of it and write it off, or they wanna go deeper and learn a tracker. Maybe someone uses it for the one potentially cool song it can make.
I think we're gonna be okay. This isn't going to take our tools away.

this seems like a bit of a straw man; i don't think anybody is concerned about like personal competition? i think my degree of investment in anything i read on cm.o really only ever reaches a certain threshold. i'm not burning a lofi ses effigy every night.

that being said, i do think it's worth giving at least one fuck about the attitude that allows a product like this to be popular and successful. it's no fun when chipmusic is essentially reduced to an ultra-simplistic, gimmicky little device like this. it does a disservice to a lot of our music (yours too!), to suggest that this little device is the method through chipmusic is produced.

it also seems to kind of reinforce the suggestion that chipmusic is some arcane and inaccessible feat that really needs to be dumbed down if the average musician wants to participate. chipmusic is really easy to get into, and this thing puts a visible face on chipmusic, that i think most of us would agree is negative

Go to forum: General Discussion Go to topic: LoFi SES Go to post 74

75 Reply by Fudgers Oct 28, 2014 4:24 pm

Re: Chiptune Rap Thread (28 replies, posted in General Discussion)

BLEO wrote:

we've made it this far and on one's mentioned a_rival!?!?

haha refer to OP's post

Go to forum: General Discussion Go to topic: Chiptune Rap Thread Go to post 75

76 Reply by Fudgers Oct 27, 2014 10:25 pm

Re: LoFi SES (65 replies, posted in General Discussion)

DeerPresident wrote:

Another RIGHTOUS INDIGNATION thread, I guess. Meh.

this kickstarter guy is like the grown-up version of the older kid who lived down the street from me who convinced me to trade my holographic charizard for his beedrill, because they were both "stars" therefore "equal rarity"

only in this case, the person playing myself is like an infuriating, "get-skilled-quick" dork with no desire for a working understanding of an artistic tool that they obviously hold in high esteem, hoping to replace practice and homework with "8-bit artisan designed sounds"

and honestly, as annoying as those smug dorks who buy crap like this cause it looks v technical (and also gaming?) are, the part that actually sucks is the genuine beginner who discovers chipmusic through something like this. they get excited, spend $110 to get all the sick upgrades, and end up with an extremely limited 8 sample library, and an unenclosed, weird-shaped tactile midi controller with tiny, cheap buttons

so yeah, righteous indignation i guess

Go to forum: General Discussion Go to topic: LoFi SES Go to post 76