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by jast
Wed Dec 31, 2008 2:17 am
Forum: Fight Discussions and Reviews
Topic: ... And They're All On These Boards!! (Half a Million Nerds)
Replies: 91
Views: 15306

Re: ... And They're All On These Boards!! (Half a Million Nerds)

I'm just starting to think my ear for music is different. I can listen to my friends' (and my own) lo-fi acoustic demos for hours on end, and for some reason my mind just fills in the backing music, and I can enjoy it fully. Me too. I care less than half as much about the recording than about the p...
by jast
Tue Dec 30, 2008 9:08 pm
Forum: Fight Discussions and Reviews
Topic: Get your shovels ready (prefight)
Replies: 56
Views: 6115

Re: Get your shovels ready (prefight)

It's pretty safe to say that I won't be in this time.
by jast
Tue Dec 30, 2008 2:05 pm
Forum: Help and How To
Topic: CD Mastering
Replies: 33
Views: 3181

Re: CD Mastering

I just gave Ozone a test drive on a couple of my SF songs, purely as a master effect. To my ear, the defaults all pretty much mangled the sound, generally by doing too much in the mid frequency range. The only song that improved in my ears was my "Half A Million Nerds", probably due to the...
by jast
Tue Dec 30, 2008 12:00 am
Forum: Fight Discussions and Reviews
Topic: ... And They're All On These Boards!! (Half a Million Nerds)
Replies: 91
Views: 15306

Re: ... And They're All On These Boards!! (Half a Million Nerds)

I hate to be the one to ask, but ... if you think your song has no redeemable value and is a waste of disk space, why would you send it in? Because you can't improve if you never start. Of course, "no redeemable value" is overly harsh, but I used to be very critical of my stuff, to the po...
by jast
Mon Dec 29, 2008 11:59 pm
Forum: Introductions
Topic: Bonjour
Replies: 21
Views: 1883

Re: Bonjour

Dust wrote:But I've grown an appreciation for Barfknecht. It's sounds like vomit royalty.
If you want to spoil that for yourself, look up what the German word "Knecht" means.
by jast
Mon Dec 29, 2008 10:24 pm
Forum: Daily Roll Call
Topic: December 29, 2008
Replies: 14
Views: 406

Re: December 29, 2008

QotD: I don't which vegetable I'd be but the most evil one is asparagus. It's been running genetic tests on us humans forever and once it figures out how to make all of us... susceptible... it will destroy or enslave humanity in one swift move. Oh, cauliflower is pretty evil too since I find it real...
by jast
Mon Dec 29, 2008 9:50 pm
Forum: Sidefights and Highlights
Topic: Song Fight 2008 review
Replies: 6
Views: 1226

Song Fight 2008 review

I have been following Song Fight since some time around mid July this year. Now the year is ending, I thought it might be a good idea to collect my personal favourites of the year (these aren't reviews, they're declarations of love) now that there's a bit of distance. Feel free to join in if you're ...
by jast
Sun Dec 28, 2008 7:31 am
Forum: Introductions
Topic: Bonjour
Replies: 21
Views: 1883

Re: Bonjour

In what appears to be tradition on this forum:
Welcome to Song Fight, Dustin. Please be awesome.
by jast
Fri Dec 26, 2008 11:01 am
Forum: Fight Discussions and Reviews
Topic: ... And They're All On These Boards!! (Half a Million Nerds)
Replies: 91
Views: 15306

Re: ... And They're All On These Boards!! (Half a Million Nerds)

Oh, by the way. Jan Krueger | Heine - grouped together as paragons of (if I may) teutonic gloominess . Suppose you're a US citizen and your hear something like this on the news: "in a tragic accident in Vijayawada, three thousand people were crushed to death by a collapsing building. Among them...
by jast
Fri Dec 26, 2008 8:10 am
Forum: Monkey Business
Topic: Thank You SONG FIGHT!!!
Replies: 15
Views: 1110

Re: Thank You SONG FIGHT!!!

Song Fight! has given me two extremely valuable things. One is that I have deadlines now. Deadlines make me about ten thousand times more productive. The other is that I get reviews from people who aren't afraid of hurting my feelings and who have the knowledge to be able to provide rather more deta...
by jast
Fri Dec 26, 2008 8:00 am
Forum: Sidefights and Highlights
Topic: Lyric help
Replies: 8
Views: 1309

Re: Lyric help

QUESTION: She has gone to Wellington. Her flight home is delayed due to fog. Why does he think she will never come back? I'm thinking of the classic idea that you don't realize what you've got to lose until you lose it. Potentially, in this case. So maybe he didn't really care that much about the r...
by jast
Sun Dec 21, 2008 6:17 pm
Forum: Monkey Business
Topic: Awesome Youtube videos
Replies: 1217
Views: 103942

Re: Awesome Youtube videos

In case you didn't watch "Hoodwinked!", here's what I consider the highlight of the film: the song "Be Prepared" featuring Japeth the goat, including a bit of backstory. eOJY3ygcAtg (By the way, this is one of the rare movies where at least some of the voices, including this one,...
by jast
Sun Dec 21, 2008 3:47 pm
Forum: Fight Discussions and Reviews
Topic: ... And They're All On These Boards!! (Half a Million Nerds)
Replies: 91
Views: 15306

Re: ... And They're All On These Boards!! (Half a Million Nerds)

Chadderandom wrote:Paco del Stinko - This song might have multiple personality disorder or bipolar disorder or what ever mental disorder is currently popular.
Fixed that for you.
by jast
Sun Dec 21, 2008 10:21 am
Forum: Fight Discussions and Reviews
Topic: ... And They're All On These Boards!! (Half a Million Nerds)
Replies: 91
Views: 15306

Re: ... And They're All On These Boards!! (Half a Million Nerds)

For a sound that's part of a background texture, I'm happy playing horn lines on a keyboard. It's the chords that give it away as a "keyboard" arrangement, if I would have played keyboard chords instead of the lines that make up a more realistic horn section. The point is that had I three...
by jast
Sun Dec 21, 2008 7:03 am
Forum: Fight Discussions and Reviews
Topic: ... And They're All On These Boards!! (Half a Million Nerds)
Replies: 91
Views: 15306

Re: ... And They're All On These Boards!! (Half a Million Nerds)

I wanted just a snippet of horn sound for City in Fog that would say "big band", I had the horn sounds ready, then realized I had no idea what chords to use to make it sound like I'm not a keyboard player. I actually think that if you use keys for something that's actually supposed to sou...
by jast
Fri Dec 19, 2008 5:15 pm
Forum: Daily Roll Call
Topic: Friday, 19 December 2008
Replies: 30
Views: 871

Re: Friday, 19 December 2008

I'm usually at home when I post. Like now.
by jast
Thu Dec 18, 2008 8:12 pm
Forum: Daily Roll Call
Topic: 2008: Dec 15-16
Replies: 111
Views: 5920

Re: 2008: Dec 15-16

this is pretty silly. As is the idea that one of "on the team was I" and "on the team was me" is better. Both are horrible; one is wrong and the only way you can get away with the other is to put it that way in a poem. Actually I just noticed you already said that yourself. So w...
by jast
Thu Dec 18, 2008 7:18 pm
Forum: Fight Discussions and Reviews
Topic: ... And They're All On These Boards!! (Half a Million Nerds)
Replies: 91
Views: 15306

Re: ... And They're All On These Boards!! (Half a Million Nerds)

Some of the reviews are shorter than I would have liked but I don't have much time in the next couple of days and I really need to sleep now. Give me a shout if you require more details. Abominominous -- Mmm, that's some nice trashiness there. The part at ~1:00 is pretty cool. This is one fast movem...
by jast
Thu Dec 18, 2008 4:41 pm
Forum: Daily Roll Call
Topic: December 18, 2008
Replies: 31
Views: 2023

Re: December 18, 2008

And thanks again for taking the time to answer my questions. Sure thing. Actually I was going to tell you about my newest finds during mixing the current song, but then I noticed it sounded awful, so I went back to what you already know. Too bad. I may go and write my own gain compressor soonish, I...
by jast
Thu Dec 18, 2008 3:47 pm
Forum: Daily Roll Call
Topic: 2008: Dec 15-16
Replies: 111
Views: 5920

Re: 2008: Dec 15-16

You ought to practice your spelling, Hoblit. It's spelled this way.
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by jast
Thu Dec 18, 2008 3:46 pm
Forum: Daily Roll Call
Topic: December 18, 2008
Replies: 31
Views: 2023

Re: December 19, 2008

Teplin wrote:(not that the bar was set very high).
But the songs were rather cool so far, so keep 'em coming!
by jast
Thu Dec 18, 2008 3:44 pm
Forum: Fight Discussions and Reviews
Topic: You Shake My Snake & You Rattle My Brain-Rattlesnake Reviews
Replies: 94
Views: 20994

Re: You Shake My Snake & You Rattle My Brain-Rattlesnake Reviews

Teplin wrote:Quimby - This has got to be the first time I've heard a recipe in a song [...]. This is adorable.
Good thing I can give you more of that, then. Excerpt only, sorry, copyright and all that.