
Pedullist
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Jesus on Pot, man...it sounds like you already have PLENTY of people telling you you suck.erichenryus said:Back to Ed's original point, which is, I think, when he hears someone say 'you sound like a pro' it makes him want to vomit cause it's not true and 99.9% of what gets posted here is so far from professional that.........
Personally, I really like constructive feedback and am very used to hearing it in brutal fashion. I have one friend who is a trained audio engineer and he's particularly brutal (I think it goes with the profession) and never shows mercy. He zeros in on the tiniest flaw (not like they are hard to find in my mixes) and explodes it for me to see how absurdly awful it sounds and how he wouldn't be able to sleep, etc..... I spend a lot of time on things now before I send them to him for comments, but I have improved in my opinion and that's why I'd love to have a forum where guys like Ed just run your stuff through the gauntlet on every post. That stuff is invaluable to me.
As for songwriting, my most trusted critic is actually my wife (i am truly blessed). I spent about eight hours working on my last song and was totally proud of what i'd done, then i ran it by her and she said 'it's painful to listen to'.
So if I ever post something in this forum again and you ever listen to it Ed......thanks in advance for your honest brutality.
SLuiCe said:.............And realizing more with every post, that we keep coming back to this subject. Thread after thread after thread, it turns into a debate about what a critique should be.
I'm with SLuiCe...SLuiCe said:And realizing more with every post, that we keep coming back to this subject. Thread after thread after thread, it turns into a debate about what a critique should be.
Aw man......look what you did to my guitar!Track Rat said:.......snatchs guitar out of Bob's hands and smashs it into pieces and hands the neck back to him.............."sorry".
Son of Mixerman said:On the drum issue...Im an old drummer...and I hate drum machines..but I have to use them while writing alot of the time..its an evil I live with. If someone says to me I hate your canned drums...Well guess what... me too :0) But..depending on the type of music..you can make it work.. The biggest thing you can to remove the monotony of machines is to use varying volumes through out the song, I usually copy the snare patch 4 times with different volumes and usually another 2 that sound close to emulate a missed hit off to the side. Cymbals...edit those stupid things...Take part of the sample and paste it to back end several times then fade it out s othe decay is not truncated. PC's can work for you and not against you. Use different volumes for cymbals too and pan them differently. Don't get stuck in presets, I did that and man it grates on me....but then again, some music needs that very thing.
Originally posted by WATYF
We don't need someone to hold us by the hand and say, "OK... you're a good wittle boy.. and your mixes are good wittle mixes.. but you need to do this and that to make them gooder mixes."
Lt. Bob said:.......I know there are those that believe a high bit-rate MP3 is virtually the same sonically as a CD but they are not and I can hear the difference.