I legit really look forward to these, doing god's work

Wonderful

I mean I think the implication is they didn't have massive anti-dragon weapons at the time, and that the previous one in a million shot was against a fully grown and mature dragon, not a teenage one who was kinda fucked up from fighting it's undead brother piloted by an ice necromancer

cp_freight_b3

Absolutely beautiful

Petition to start the recast with the same frag movie showcase that was at LAN

One had a plane in it, I remember that much

This is the best thing to happen to TF2 in years

I see those high passes and I respect those. You do the mixing in Reaper then?

Also is that "I want a load of distorted mid sound so just gonna fuck them all in" EQ on the U87?

Yeah usually if you multi mic guitar parts for seperate tracks you can take for example, two different amps and mics with two different characters. For example you can have one that sounds "Dark" and one that sounds "Bright" and blend them after the fact to get a better sound. Like one might have fantastic low end, but really shit high end, and the other could be the opposite. By blending the two and EQing them to compliment each other you end up with one better sounding guitar part.

Not him but I work in music so I can give my input on some of these

Basically, mixing a track is taking the record "stems" (basically just the raw audio files) of each instrument, voice and whatever and adjusting them so that the track sounds as good as it can do, which are then bounced down into a single two channel stereo mix. You then master this stereo mix to make sure it sounds balanced across formats and playback devices, as well as making sure the album, EP or whatever sounds consistent. This is compression, very tiny EQ tweaks, shit like that. I've also seen people just master on the L/R output of the mixing session if they're doing it all themselves.

I think the main reason people don't do it themselves is it's a very particular skill and is also finicky as all fuck.

You can record guitars directly into recording desks, most famously Nile Rodgers from Chic did it to keep his sound very clean. However the amp itself has a certain "character" to it's tone, and even beyond that the speakers add their own character to it. Then depending on where you place the mic on the speaker cone, and what the speaker is, it can sound even more specific. A lot of people mark a "Sweet Spot" on their guitar amp speaker, which is basically where the amp sounds the best.

You can use Amp Simulators now to recreate a lot of that, or even take a line from just the Amp Head itself without the speakers and use a Speaker Sim, but for a lot of rock stuff the sound of a real amp with real speakers just sounds a bit better and more authentic.

Compression is basically putting a threshold on volume, but you can change how much is ducks it below the volume, or can set it to raise the volume, or "squash" everything together to sound flat. You can also adjust how quickly the compressor acts on the signal with it's attack, how quickly it stops, you can set a "knee" in the graph of how it adjusts, a lot of things.

I just fiddle with the knobs til good sounds happen

Supermensch is a cool documentary about Shep Gordon, the manager of Alice Cooper and others, I think it's an netflix.

Have ETF2L admins literally ever been good tho

Am I misremembering or didn't Arx have like a 90cm/360 for a while. I remember someone at like i43/46 having something like that

Anytime I see a 6 string fretless of I immediately think of a Miles Davis All Stars gig where the bass player just masturbated on it for 90 minutes and they now instill fear in me

Not entirely related but my sister got me a book called Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks that was pretty fucking banging