417 Reply by e.s.c.

(5 replies, posted in General Discussion)

i don't know of anyone personally around vegas, but for so cal area you should try contacting wizwars/kevyn gnartinez band and in the bay area maybe try crashfaster

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418 Reply by e.s.c.

(28 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

i agree on the prosound not being necessary.. only found it helpful when using a game boy alongside other hardware with much higher output levels (like the electribe esx-1)

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419 Reply by e.s.c.

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you can record with whatever.. pretty sure audition and ableton also have noise reduction (i haven't used audition since adobe bought it and renamed it from cool edit to audition, but cool edit has noise reduction)...just mentioned audacity because it's freeware, so anyone can get it

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420 Reply by e.s.c.

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kodek may have removed the noise after recording... doesn't sound like its room mic audio, he most likely was recording it using the line input on whatever interface he uses

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421 Reply by e.s.c.

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there are artists in chicago, but not much going on in the way of shows lately... not sure if they're still active, but I Fight Dragons had a decent relationship with venues and drew crowds of a few hundred so they might be worth a try.. i moved out of the city a while back, so i can't be of much help, and can't really speak as far as anyone else's availability but CCDM, Kkrusty & Saskrotch are all in chicago

edit: also as far as milwaukee, there's Awkward Terrible & Stagediver up there.. Nonfinite and I are both 40 miles or so south of Madison & i think The Laohu is in Madison.. his brother Keaton is somewhere in the southern Wisconsin area as well

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422 Reply by e.s.c.

(59 replies, posted in Software & Plug-ins)

well, he was temp banned for a week after all that nonsense in the music theory thread... we'd hoped he'd learn his lesson and behave a little better, but that didn't pan out... i've seen toddlers throwing temper tantrums that were more reasonable than him...

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423 Reply by e.s.c.

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i have a mackie onyx 1220i .. it's a 12-channel analog mixer that also sends each channel separately via firewire.. would be overkill for most people, but it's good for me since i still have a decent amount of hardware and like to do improv jam sessions.. comes in handy recording stuff like this album since i could just run through it once and have individual wav files for mGB, piggy tracker & the tr-626 so i could do a little more eq in post along with noise reduction passes on each one.. i also use an old (1999 or 2000-ish) creative usb soundcard for getting a basic stereo mix at the same time that goes from the main outs of the mixer through my FMR RNC 1773 compressor...

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424 Reply by e.s.c.

(28 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

hardware, though some software ones have a noise gate feature as well.. personally i don't worry about noise for live gigs (since often the PA setup would add some anyway) and just do noise reduction in audacity for recordings.. 2-3 passes of noise reduction can even make 60+ year-old garage sale vinyl sound nice and clean

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425 Reply by e.s.c.

(59 replies, posted in Software & Plug-ins)

haha thanks..

he's banned now though, so he won't see any posts

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426 Reply by e.s.c.

(59 replies, posted in Software & Plug-ins)

tbh, i wasn't banning him myself in hopes of you posting that picture again Brady.. makes me smile every time

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427 Reply by e.s.c.

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you have a few options:

prosound mod the gba: this improves the signal to noise ratio by bypassing some of the noisier components of the game boy

use a noise gate: some compressors have these built in, like the behringer autocom pro xl

use software noise reduction: this is the easiest option, just make sure to record a few seconds before and after your recordings to use to define the noise for software reduction. audacity does a great job and is free

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428 Reply by e.s.c.

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it's close enough that you could do the math on how long the measure should be for that specific bpm and time-stretch it in software in a matter of seconds if buying a nanoloop usb midi adapter seems like too much for you.. it's really not that difficult

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429 Reply by e.s.c.

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my.Explosion wrote:

What bothers me is that often licenses are very unfair, to be quite honest. Massive for example gets voided if activated more than 3 times I think? Something like that. And what do you get to do once you've maybe accidentally voided it. Nut up and buy another copy. sad
And you have to deauthorize it or whatever before you install it again, what if you forget? Yeah, exactly. I've actually already forgotten once.

yeah, that's pretty crappy.. if your system gets fucked up enough that it won't boot and needs to be wiped you can't exactly get in to deauthorize

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430 Reply by e.s.c.

(3 replies, posted in General Discussion)

lol... keep trying

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431 Reply by e.s.c.

(62 replies, posted in General Discussion)

i think this topic has yielded what very little useful information it ever could have, so its closing time

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432 Reply by e.s.c.

(1 replies, posted in General Discussion)

probably more the other way around.. trolls have become chipmusicians. anyway, since that topic is on its way to being closed may as well close this one too

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