945 Reply by SketchMan3

(26 replies, posted in General Discussion)

They are not really very loud noises, and it only lasts temporarily. Maybe I shouldn't say "hearing damage" but "ear damage", because I'd think that anything that causes you pain is doing something harmful to your body. Or maybe it's like exercising where your muscles ache for awhile and then heal resulting in increased strength? yikes. "Gameboy soundchip improves hearing extra extra!" (but I doubt it, lol)

I never really measured the volume levels going into my ears, so I don't really know if it is simply the volume that is causing the sensitivity. I usually try to keep it at the lowest volume while still being able to hear everything but not always, especially with environmental noises. I was thinking maybe the specific frequencies were causing problems. The Gameboy probably has the "harshest" noise channel I've encountered in a classic game/vintage computer "soundchip". I wonder if the same effect occurs whether running lsdj on an emulator or gameboy with headphones (so far I've only done it with an emulator).

Now I am curious as to whether anyone else has used lsdj (or anything else) long and loudly enough to experience sensitivity to percussive sounds.

Edit: ah, I should have refreshed the page before posting :S

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946 Topic by SketchMan3

(26 replies, posted in General Discussion)

So some fellows and I were chatting in irc about various chiptune related things, and somebody said "imagine a song with noise as the lead" and so decided to link them to a couple of noise channel only lsdj tunes. The reaction to one was:

[00:51] <nick> okay I now hate that chip's noise generator wow that's grating
[00:52] <nick> what the hell is the chip actually called? a Z80?

And to the other

[00:58] <nick> better arrangement, sucky chip big_smile

But more to the point (with personal musical tastes aside):

[01:07] <nick> It's like the kinds of bad noise music that my ears tell me that it's very self destructive to continue to listen to it any longer and I should come back when the next set starts, before my ears get damaged

And this caught my attention, because last year when I was soaking myself in lsdj I noticed that after spending a large amount of time working on gameboy music (probably with the volume too high) my ears would become very sensitive to percussive noises such as my footsteps, snapping, clapping, finger tapping, utensils on dishes, doors closing and opening, my teeth tapping together. They didn't even have to be loud (like merely setting a mug down on a table) and it'd cause a light sharp pain in my ears.

Now I've never had this happen when working with any other type of music (and I'm sure it's not the only time I've had my music up too loud in my headphones), so I'm just curious as to what others think of this. Is long-term exposure to Gameboy music (or any other type of chipmusic that one could call abrasive) be more damaging to ones hearing than other lighter types of chipmusic? This is mostly about gameboy, especially when it relates to the noise channel (I've noticed many people complaining about the gameboy's noise generator vs. that of other chips like NES, YM, etc), but I put this in general discussion so you can "sound" off on any "chip". wink

Or maybe LSDJ users just favor more abrasive noise sounds in general, and it doesn't necessarily have to do with the chip itself.

Shoot.

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947 Reply by SketchMan3

(430 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Wow, I randomly have a Teknibanken module on my computer, haha.

Speaking of swedish chiptuners, athie and Strobe are pretty great, too.

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948 Reply by SketchMan3

(16 replies, posted in Nintendo Consoles)

I've briefly used ntrq on android tablet emulators and didn't seem to have any problems.

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949 Reply by SketchMan3

(34 replies, posted in Collaborations)

Aren't there other gameboy trackers that can save a standalone .gb file? Doesn't p5tracker export .gb files? would that be okay? hmmm... I wonder if boyscout can export .gb files...
Edit: nevermind guess I was wrong.

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950 Reply by SketchMan3

(100 replies, posted in General Discussion)

I wonder if there exists a type of synesthesia where certain visuals cause you to hear things, flavors register as visuals, or the smell of a rose feels like a gentle touch :3

IndigoChild wrote:

Strange how when your on the internet you can not defend yourself. Words are put into your mouth like a pig with an apple in its mouth. People lose respect and turn their backs at the slightest provocation. When you do try to defend yourself its considered spam, or an attack on other members. Alpine, I feel deep sorrow for you and the kind of person you must really be to spread lies about me like this..

mj-man_in_the_mirror.mp3

wink

(from what I saw all Alpine did was basically ask questions or make educated guesses to try to figure out where you are coming from)

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951 Reply by SketchMan3

(10 replies, posted in Other Hardware)

see if your computer has some kind of DSP settings that might be able to mix your audio to mono. One of my old computers had that. Soundmax4pnp or something like that.

Also, I wasn't trying to be rude about the two amps thing. But I'd highly suggest that you did acquire a second amp if you are able to (or if you happen to need a second amp for something unrelated to this even better). It opens up a lot of fun possibilities for how you present your sound.

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952 Reply by SketchMan3

(100 replies, posted in General Discussion)

The students with perfect pitch who develop a bad work ethic need to get involved in some other activities besides music from which to develop a good work ethic.

boomlinde wrote:

Much like the link between theoretical mathematics and <insert anything here>? I agree.

At first I was really confused by how it seemed like you were invalidating the link between music and theoretical mathematics by saying anything could be linked to theoretical mathematics including music.

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953 Reply by SketchMan3

(10 replies, posted in Other Hardware)

Yes it is a problem with putting a stereo signal into a mono amp. Try it with two amps and see what happens.

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954 Reply by SketchMan3

(42 replies, posted in Releases)

So... this was cool. Is stockwave limited to being produced only with lgpt, or can other production tools be used? Renoise, for example.

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955 Reply by SketchMan3

(71 replies, posted in General Discussion)

nitro2k01 wrote:
walter b. gentle wrote:

hey guys i drove my car into a tree and now it doesnt work sad   i figured that chip musicians use cars and i left my carts at home so how do i fix my car?

Which part of your car do you typically use to make chip music? yikes

He probably loads a copy of LSD Dream Emulator into the CD player. I mean, that's what most chip-musicians use when cartuning. Either that or GPSTracker.

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956 Reply by SketchMan3

(71 replies, posted in General Discussion)

@zombies8myneighbors: Yeah, I was trying to remember the name of that. It's really powerful (you have to be very careful with it). I have combofix on several flashdrives.

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957 Reply by SketchMan3

(71 replies, posted in General Discussion)

if you import acidjazz.mod into wordpad it creates an image kind of like that

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958 Reply by SketchMan3

(100 replies, posted in General Discussion)

when I was a child certain foods tasted like certain colors to me, but I don't know if that was actually synesthesia or just an active imagination, haha.

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959 Reply by SketchMan3

(88 replies, posted in General Discussion)

I think PulseWidthMusic is a bit too direct. I think P and W should stand for something else, but I don't know what. How about Pulse With Music? OH! MWP Music With Pulse? MPW: Modern Pulse Warfare!! Nevermind... >_>

sandneil wrote:

ive already seen some channels like this. the one i see most often is https://www.youtube.com/user/ReclusiveLemming

but theres always room for more youtube channels

sandneil your sarcasm-slip is showing tongue

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960 Reply by SketchMan3

(6 replies, posted in Releases)

Wow, this is sweet! Love the way you used the effects. Is that the hard-pan-to-effects-processor trick?

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