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I'm not going to tell people how to do it because as noted I have been working on ideas of my own with the local crew for sometime and don't want to spoil anything.
Well, regardless of what you do, I'm extremely proud to have something as great as SoundBytes in my own hometown. You're definitely doing something right!
I think the main thing lacking, that could easily solve many short comings, would be to have a stream host or an HQ to cut back to between sets. I have a shit load of ideas and suggestions on how to make it awesome but I think I'll save those for myself to use when we're going to properly launch a Soundbytes stream worthy of everyone's attention.
Couldn't you just take the camera off the tripod and go interview artists backstage or something of the like between sets? Maybe some of quick discussion-type thing?
I think it's great, although after a little while I'm bored of watching artists play with knobs.
It'd be really great to incorporate some actual performance along with the chip, for example muting one of your pulse channels and grabbing a real keyboard instead to play along with.
That's why non-chip or non-dj shows are exiting because you're witnessing a lot of skill and muscle-memory, not to mention the potential for huge failure.
That said, the WWCW is a fantastic thing we should all be proud of (and keep pushing the boundaries of).
Friggin' awesome. I love EL wire.
How was the syncing done?
For the sake of curiosity, what did you do to make it work? : P
I gave it about 20 minutes of scrubbing (on the metal contacts) with cuetips soaked in white vinegar.
Once everything was nice and wet, I scratched at the rust that had built up (because of the corrosion?) and then hit it with a bit more scrubbing and vinegar.
I kept testing it every 10 minutes or so and would get disappointed each time. Just as I was about to give up, that beautiful little red LED came on. I wish I could have recorded my face at that point, I feel like a king.
Then I went on to fix a few other gadgets that had similar problems and they work now too 
It worked! I fixed it 
This could the start of something beautiful, thank you!
That looks decent enough, but it's not as though I could tell you how or why it doesn't work from a picture.
There are a ton of good threads on basic DMG cleaning and maintenance, but in short:
91% Isopropyl Rubbing Alcohol is the best general cleaner for circuits and case parts. Lightly apply to oxidized contacts or grime to remove.
White Vinegar dissolves corrosion (the green/blue circuit funk) in a chemical reaction. Lightly apply white vinegar with a damped cotton swab to corrosion on battery contacts or other surfaces to repair some intermittent connections.
Use rubbing alcohol once more to clean switches and potentiometers: Use rubbing alcohol on a damped cotton swab to soak a few drops into sticky switches and scratchy potentiometers, then switch the switches or roll the potentiometers back and forth a couple dozen times. Let them dry out and see how they function.
Hopefully some of that helps.
Good luck!
Thanks Telerophon, I always see you around these parts and you're always helpful to everyone. I'm going to go find some white vinegar
So I got this old dead game boy at a garage sale a few years ago for 5 bucks.
It doesn't work, and the battery compartment looks like this:
Do you think if I cleaned it with electrical contact cleaner or something similar to clean the corrosion, it might work again?
Obviously there's a stack of other things that could be the problem (and this is my first time so be gentle).
Another crappy internal shot:
Are there common things that tend to kill old DMGs (other then kids)?
yewwww!
Ahh, thanks man! Works great now. Will keep this in mind in the future!
As a total noob to chip, I'm experiencing all those delightful things that I hear happen to everyone.
And today, it was my DMG's batteries dying on me and after replacing them I realised my song was scrambled. That was fine, I went back to an old save.
What was strange though, is that no matter what I set my key delay to, it refuses to move more then 2 cells before (almost) coming to a complete stand-still. If I hold it down for ages it eventually moves, but it's long enough to be infeasible.
Is there a common fix for this I didn't find with a few google searches? WIll I have to reformat the sRAM?
Thanks for your understanding.
make sure your recordings are really good before you do anything else.
generally i just scoop mids a little and slightly compress. most of your "mixing" should be done at the tracking stage though, imo.oh and if you're using a gameboy try to find that one thread about noise cancellation. a very sharp notch at 9.25Khz removes the high pitched whine in the background noise.
Thanks a lot for that. I'll definitely try that 9.25khz trick too.
Yeah, the levels are all fine on the dmg, what i'm trying to achieve is a full bodied sound where all four channels are nicely placed in the soundstage. I think this might just come down to more practice and experimentation.
Apologies if this has been asked before, or recently, but do you seasoned professionals have any particular tips and tricks for mixing chiptune specifically? I know mixing can be fairly open to interpretation, but what are the main staples to make your music sound full bodied and tight? Limiter, EQ, Compressor, etc?
Also maybe things you always like to do to your tracks that others don't, etc? As you can tell, I'm pretty noob at mixing, so try not to flame me too hard, but i'd really like to get better and contribute to this community at some point in the future (probably under a different name though).
Thanks for your time :)
kitsch bent i have a probelm a maid a order on your stroe from dalton lambert and i sent it to the wrong address it's seppose to be "992 s. 4th ave brighton colorado 80601" could you help me!!!
...Probably not the wisest thing to put your address on an internet forum. You'd hate to have those grammar nazis showing up at your house D:
Yessss!
Turns out my phone's box works almost perfectly too. 
Wouldn't mind having a little more padding or something though.
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