577

(15 replies, posted in Audio Production)

1) I assume you're taking the headphone output of the GB and plugging it into the Mic input of the computer, and that's a big part of your problem. Headphone outputs are already amplified, and you're putting it in an input that has a cheap pre-amp on it. Use the Line input.

2) Put the GB's volume to the maximum, that will make the signal much louder than the noise.

3) If you want to nitpick, plug in the gameboy, volume to the max. Then monitor the input and apply a noise gate. Move the threshold up until it cuts the noise. Then test it out with music, and adjust it if it cuts off some of the music.

4) Use a noise reduction plugin. Record some noise, empty of music, and use that to make an image of your noise. Then you use that to filter out this noise print from a recording. Don't go too crazy with it or it will also remove a lot of the music.

5) Noise is part of any recording. You can fight it, but there will always be a bit of it. The GB has a crappy amp and crappy DAC. Same thing with the built-in soundcard of any computer. Crappy DACs. Your signal goes from Digital to Analog in the gameboy, then from Analog to Digital again in the soundcard. Crappy pieces at these points will always add noise. You can alleviate the problem by getting a decent soundcard with good DACs.

In your case most of the noise comes from the gameboy. And using the Mic instead of Line input doesn't help at all.

578

(30 replies, posted in Trading Post)

My "meh" wasn't directed at the price. You have a right to charge as much as the fishes are going to bite for and it's nobody's business but yours. My meh was at the machine itself. The demo seems to indicate you randomly click stuff, hoping something will happen, then sweep the knob for added effect. Very little use of the actual pad, with is the entire point of such a device. And the sounds you get from it are just generic glitchery with very little musical purpose. That said however, it's still your business to sell whatever you want at whatever price you want, but if you post it on a public forum, you need to learn to take replies like a man and not just respond with bad attitude.

579

(9 replies, posted in Other Hardware)

Depends on your needs. But me, I'd go with the M3 because of the killswitches, the EQ placement and I'd rather have the cue mix controls on the front panel rather than on top, but that's a personal choice. If you don't need/care about the kill switches, then the M2 is a good choice. Or if you don't need the kill switches and you'd rather have more channels, the M4 is the same price as the M3 but it's essentially an M2 with one more channel added.

580

(3 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

Can you run a GBA emulator on it? tongue

581

(9 replies, posted in Other Hardware)

Numark and Stanton have fairly decent mixers in the sub-100$ range. I'd save up a bit more money and buy one of those if I were you.

582

(30 replies, posted in Trading Post)

Meh

583

(6 replies, posted in Trading Post)

Mint C64 are worth nothing at all.. you'd be lucky to get even just 2$ for it. So I'll offer you 10$.

wink

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585

(81 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Stuff I've discovered in recent years that made it to my Permanent Stash Of Music To Be Preserved For All Of Time And A Day(tm)

Of course not all of it is new.. I tend to get into bands 20 years after other people have stopped listening to them...but meh. Not embedding the videos otherwise it would take too much space...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImbW-p4c4gQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgaHy7DYs3g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyE2MLq24OE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yRqGx2V7k0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVaqQe3V498

Oh shut up. He's asking people to make an offer. Either he does that and gets your kind on his back telling him he's fishing for prices, or he puts in a specific amount and gets called retarded because you'll think it's too much. Just.. shut up, go away and unless you plan on buying the thing, don't participate.

Annnnnd another one.

Last boring tutorial I make, I swear. The rest will all be fun music-related thingamajigs!

Aaaand another tutorial is up.

all ages + free booze?

only in Texas wink

590

(19 replies, posted in Releases)

Who gave skrillex a god damn gameboy? show yourself.

Seriously though, good stuff. Makes me want to shoot speed in my eyeballs and murder cute fluffy animals. I suppose that's a good thing.

I'm curious.. how GBs are we hearing there?

Yeah it is based on the actual chip. And I've read the entire specs for the chip (http://www.retromicro.com/files/atari/8bit/pokey.pdf) and I think it broke my brain. I mean I can see them giving instruction on how to generate musical notes with it, but as far as I know this doesn't translate to how klystrack emulates it... at least not inside a single instrument.... Maybe through a combination of multiple instrument it would be possible to generate a full octave of musical notes, but if I'm not mistaken this wasn't the intention in klystrack. But... I honestly don't know, and it's not documented on KT's wiki.

All I know is it makes weird noise things smile

w00t thanks!

I'll have to edit a few old songs now wink