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like this well, the arm needs to be balanced just so, and to weigh only so much, and no more. the motor that turns the wheel needs to have just the correct amount of torque, and so on.

what I mean by wackier bands... well, now you pin me down. I guess Pink Floyd, Radiohead, Tool spring immediately to mind. Many of these bands' songs do not follow a typical chorus-verse-chorus-repeat-as-necessary type of approach.

and futhermore how about calling it the distinction between horizontal and vertical construction? As in, horizontally the song's overall structure is considered, and vertically is where intricacies and virtuosity come into play. of course, a virtuosic passage has horizontal extension, but it's...

okay thanks, but what is it?

or you could try a totally different structure and see if that turned your crank. listen to some wackier bands that build songs differently. maybe

it's touche. it's French. it helped me personally define progressive music when I began to think of it this way: most music has a circular structure, in that it repeats the chorus, everything is repeated, and the appeal lies in the fact that we can become very familiar with the music before the...

structure yeh, I don't usually write lyrics, but when I do they come first. But without lyrics the structure and rhythm are what I tend to focus on, rather than virtuosity or melodic richness. and yeh, recording ideas is key for me. write them down or record them. I've developed a pretty...

man that was concise and well-said, and valid. I'm feeling like a mentor would be a good thing to find. but also they say that teachers come when they're needed or whatever. we'll see. Well-said.

okay, let's say I was going to purchase a turntable from a secondhand store or pawn shop for under $100 Canadian. obviously I won't be getting one with the versatility and radness of a bonafide dj table. Real dj tables are much more like musical instruments than just an old clunker that plays...

hey what's a vsti sampler? is it hard or software?

yes indeed

haha, before I posted this I scanned down the forum to see if it was addressed already, and didn't see the Poll just a few posts down from this which seems to be very relevant. but still, answer this one if you want.

(I'm new at this.) Let's say my studio environment is a guitar, amp, microphone, and 4-track. my first instinct is to plug my guitar into the amp, and send a cable from the OUT on the amp into the IN on the 4-track, so the signal passes through the proccessing of the amp. (rather than simply...

okay, anyone know a fancy trick or something to help me? y'see, it's the motor I guess... it's a ye olde Tascam 244 Portastudio. Fast forward works, but not play, but play does work when there's no tape in there, so I'm led to believe that the motor is pooped out, and doesn't have the torque to...

no, the speed's not adjustable. and yeah, at this point, stereo schmereo I'm just about to try this, as I have only just found all my cords and adaptors. cross your fingers

or try figuring out all the chords which have a certain note in common, i.e. Abm, B, E, G, C#7 all have a B in them, and there's more too. You could make a small melody and extrapolate chords out from each note

Call me wacky, but I sort of like hiss on some recordings, adds an authentic realistic sort of mood or atmosphere. I also like samples and clips in songs, a practise informed by hip-hop but now borrowed far and wide. I think the hiss fits and yeah, I really dig it man, keep it up

hey, I liked it if I were to say anything that hasn't been said already, it would be that the whole drum kit has a slight ... quality of seeming like it was played as if it were somewhat fragile, and just miced loudly. I had it explained better in my head, the land of no words, and in words my...

aaaand, if there were no difference, then there'd be no difference and it wouldn't matter where people posted their shit. Seems to me you perceive a difference, otherwise you wouldn't be so vehement...

yeah, you become a conduit for the song to arrive here. Makes copyrights a little less important, or something... of course, someone had to be the conduit, and if you do it first.... sometimes I think there's musical archetypes floating around in that Universe of Ideas place, too... many which...