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My excuse, whether it's true or not, is that it's getting to be summer. I don't have any A/C. In order to make sure the place is cool enough to sleep at night, I have to get the fans going and keep the doors and windows open.

Oh man, I remember growing up with no AC. We lived about 1,000 feet from the Delaware River in NJ. If it was a dry summer and the river was low the smell and humidity was horrific.

+1 all:

Yeah, Robby, N.J. smells great in the fall ... the leaves and all.

I try not to invade the forum with every 2 cent song-child ... but wish to reciprocate you other prescious listeners (you know who you are).  Your time on this earth is extremely valuable to me.

Again, the greatest insult I feel is when one of you does not crit my latest song-child ... month after month ... year after year.  That may be neurotic, but I'd bet most of you feel exactly like I do in this regard. 

Or you/I poured your heart to perform/collab with another ... just to be diss'd by your collab partner(s) ... ha ha!  OK, but that also prevents many of one-another's productions.  But, at least we learn who our best collab friends really are and our singing gets better regardless!

Techniques forum is almost as helpful to me as Songs forum ... where some of 'us' are less *shy* about throwing our song-ideas out to be trampled upon by my indiscrete notions. 

Either way, we are fixing/perfecting our songs by loving dialogue, I'd hope. 

BTW Robby, I got your comp-duck notion working well on my kick & bass ... with Sonitus Compressor (last night on a tinny mix) and am keeping it.  I suppose I'll bounce the bass track (compressed) and try side chaining the comp again with different attack release settings.

They plant honeysuckle in a lot of the little slots in the sidewalk along the roads all around my neighborhood and apartment complex. Around this time of year sometimes you'll just get an incredible burst of it as you walk along. Particularly after it cools down in the evening.

I'm not complaining too much about the heat or anything. I live in the Silicon Valley area, probably I guess a mile and a half as the crow flies from the southernmost tip of the bay. So it's very mild around here almost all the time. But, you get used to it being mild, so when it gets hot for a few days in a row it starts to become a problem, particularly at night sleeping.

The first day it's ok because everything in the apartment is still nice and cool. Then the second day it starts to get a little rough towards the end of the day and doesn't cool down enough by night to sleep well. The third day I'm cursing my fate and barely sleeping, because I live in an apartment complex and beside a (small) highway, and having to keep the windows open makes it hard to sleep.

But, finally the big air conditioner in the sky kicks back in and it's like aahhhhhh.... And it literally feels like that. The cool air flowing off the bay. We get the hot spells when it stops now and again. Then you'll be sitting on the patio sweating at the end of the day and suddenly it's like someone turned on a huge air conditioner just down the road.

Philip


+1 all:

Yeah, Robby, N.J. smells great in the fall ... the leaves and all.

I miss that a lot.

Out here in Iowa (the land of wind and hog $hit as I lovingly nicknamed it), we don't get very many nose friendly aromas. But right now the corn is chin high and when I sit on my back porch and close my eyes while the wind's blowing, it sounds like I'm at the shore from the corn stalks brushing against each other in the wind.

I was very fortunate to live on a 200+ acre farm in NJ for many years. We rented the farm house and the owner lived a mile or so away. I was surrounded by pines and forest in my own private world. The house had a huge fireplace the owner built from stones he pulled out of the fields. There was small lake we went fishing in. Not many private places left like that in NJ. His son is a raging alcoholic and will probably lose it one day when he inherits it.

Getting OT ... sorry.

I've replied to a ton of posts in the song forum tonight. You guys gotta check out Ben's When I Was Born ... it is awesome! He posted 2 songs in the same thread and you will want to skip the first song if you don't like blue material (it's really good too though).

Yeah Bub, it's horrible what they've done to this place since you left. You got out at a good time, that's for sure. Everything is so high man, it's just nuts. When the central air goes on, that's what kills me the most. I have my house set at 77 so it's realistically 75 there....bill is like $250-$300 in the summer, $180-$190 in the dead of winter. In the studio however, because I run all the gear and the air sooo long with the hours I keep, it gets nuts especially keeping it at a solid 71 degrees. I'm definitely not proud of that bill, that's for sure. But I use very little heat in the winter in the studio other than to heat the other rooms when people are here.

When I'm just working myself in the control room, the computers keep the place nice and warm believe it or not. But heck man, even our property taxes are pure insanity. Up to $2000 per quarter now. I have another house that's worth way more than this one in Florida that only costs me $1200 per year in prop taxes. It just don't make sense. Yeah, between phones and electric bills....I'm an absolute loser. LOL! I've tried so hard to cut the costs when possible and even switched to a new electric carrier that promised to save me money....wound up paying more and going back to the other company. With phones, (2 house phones one I got for my dad, 2 cell phones one for dad, 1 business line) I need scopes/international calling plans on my business line and cell, that gets nuts too. But as long as I keep the business where it is thank God, I'm ok...for now. LOL!

Mmm, Iowa...I loved it there. Had a girl I used to fly out and see 2 times per month in Cedar Rapids then she moved to Vinton I think it was. I really loved it there and nearly stayed....those tornado things were a bit much for me though. I'm not afraid of anything....except for tornados because I'm so afraid of losing my life, house, gear etc and bee's because I got about 12 minutes to live if I'm stung. LOL! You should see me throwing kicks and punches when a bee comes around me...it's the funniest thing man. I used to get called "the bee boxing champ". I must have punched, kicked, swatted, head-butted thousands of them through the years just about always knocking them out. There was this one though...he just couldn't be hit...he must have been laughin his lil butt off at me....I got so frustrated, I yelled at him like a banshee....dude seized the moment and flew in my mouth at that exact second. LMAO!!!! I spit him out before he bit me, then we both ran. LOL!

Sorry, I'm horribly off topic now...maybe I'll stfu and post a song or something. :)

Well, here I go with my 2cents......I like many have not been able to get here much with new job and life stuff in general. Anyway what I think is KILLING this forum and keep in mind this is my personal opinion....There is too much "Hey I posted on your song you better post on mine going on" I myself feel pressured to write something on certain threads that I could not possibly have anything constructive to say but well just do it or I`ll feel like I`m an outsider. Some people here have to remember that we are amateurs posting here and I believe some may not feel like posting because they don`t have the credentials or experience to post on a thread. I myself don`t feel I have the full knowledge and therefore usually just post hey I liked that or that was cool or something like that...And too me that`s not constructive help it`s just a slight help someones EGO boost.... and lastly it is real hard to actually take in any of the constructive stuff here because there are so many different people ...who like different things ...I mean some people would let you know you have too much compression when others say there`s not enough...you get what I mean......Recording, Mixing and Mastering are all SUBJECTIVE...So find out what you like and do it ... sometimes I find the FORUM a bit too much too handle ...And I know there`s a song in that somewhere LOL!!!!!!

Last rites because songs aren't moving off of the first page fast enough? That seems a bit extreme. I would think that the longer a song is on the first page the more likely it is that more people will listen to it. isn't that a good thing? Regarding an assumed obligation to comment on other people's song if you post one, I comment more when I've posted a song because I think it's the polite thing to do and I know how rewarding it can be to get constructive feedback. If I want that feedback I do feel an obligation to give that back to the forum.

I would comment a lot more but, frankly, sometimes I hear a song and I just don't know what to say about it. Plus I know that I'll say something like "that was a cool song" and then somebody else will break the song down and make comments like "you need to raise/lower the 6 kHz-8.5 kHz frequencies on your closed high hat 2db" and then I feel silly and pointless. Why can't I hear these things? Then I get depressed and eat ice cream and donuts while I watch TV. Then I go to sleep and have nightmares about people making fun of my comments.

That's exactly how I feel.  :( 

No wonder I'm gaining weight. 

But hey, someone's gotta say 'atta boy' or 'atta girl' so I guess it will be you and me.  :)

Chappel

jamesyoyo

Chappel


Last rites because songs aren't moving off of the first page fast enough? That seems a bit extreme. 

No, not at all...rather that the bottom of the first page had posts that were over a week old. Thus not a lot of posting action overall. There are plenty of days where the last post of the first page is only ten or so hours old.

So you think it's better that more songs are posted rather than the songs that are posted being listened to by more people?

You have it all wrong...I think it is a better thing when more people are posting more often. What I am pointing out is a lack of posting, and I am not saying anything about more songs/less songs.

I feel like Chappel in regards to the song forum. I tend to post more when I have posted a song.
I want to reply to every person that has taken the time to give a listen. To post here and not comment on other peoples songs is not right, as far as being a contributor to the forum, but to not reply to the people that have responded to your song in a post is really wrong to me. I have listened to posts and have thought (just an example) that  "this would cook if the timing were tighter" as I listened. Then I read what others have had to say, and everyone loved it. Now it could be that my listening has gotten better, (doubt it) or honesty is selective, depending on who's posting. This keeps my tongue in my cheek often. But I do comment on others work more than I post my own songs. Not that my post count shows it. LOL

And there are some songs posted that play in Quicktime or something similar, which do not sound good when listening to them. (clicks, pops, and generally not as good as some other places.)

I keep getting messages like "this webpage is not responding"
It sucks all the fun out of it for me...
I'd post here more often if it weren't such a pain in the ass...

morenoise


Anyone started writing that requiem yet?

Ha!... that would make an interesting collaborative project.

and we go in cycles, i used to comment on almost every single song, but i don't spend much time here now tbh, i will comment on certain member's stuff, eg Philip, James, DT, SMB and CHB, along with a few others, but i'm sure that might change in the future and i'll be back more often...

mgh

Chappel

morenoise


Anyone started writing that requiem yet?

Ha!... that would make an interesting collaborative project.

actually, the last forum collab may have been the reaper's axe...so bowel-shudderingly awful even the magic ways of mr yoyo couldn't save it, apparently...

Collaborations are hard. My one experience trying to work with someone here ended up with my work being ignored and my PM's unanswered. That was sure a waste of my time.