Anderton

Beepster
The young electronic artists fully understand the advantages of having live instruments interspersed amongst the "zip, zaps, blaps" and "ooglety bloozles".

This is very, very true. The theme of this year's International Music Summit in Ibiza, which is concerned solely with EDM, was "Back2Live" because of the trend of traditional instruments being integrated with electronics. Some examples:
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykdvLAfG7gY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeCRfv_M35w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyiemSg_Tv8

I've listened to some of your own work and you seem to find a good marriage between styles and techniques. You've been doing this far longer than most of us and likely have a couple decades on me so it's more evidence that age matters not.
 
To imply otherwise is really quite insulting... from both ends of the spectrum methinks. When and if I ever get a proper studio together and fulfill my delusions of becoming a real "producer" (and I am indeed more interested in producing than "engineering") that type of agism and genreism would be an immediate ticket out the fracking door.
 
I have no patience for close minded musicians. I had enough of that in the punk and metal scenes. I will deal with a bit of that FROM those types of musicians because that's my wheelhouse and I enjoy the music but I have always tried to press those folks into opening their minds. Sometimes successfully, sometimes not. And I only do that because of my severe affection for specific people in those sub genres.
 
For anything else... nope. I have better things to put my time and effort towards and am perhaps getting too old to fight the intellectual battles involved when people are convinced THEIR style of music is the ONLY style of music.

dantarbill

 

I didn't know anything about the editing style in Vegas vs Adobe Premiere.

Who knew that some equate Cubase with porno?  Is that how they got all their users?You gotta love it!

Part of why they are so different is because Vegas is a video editor built on top of a multi-track audio program and it feels like it. Most video programs either follow the keyboard shortcut editing style of Avid or the Premiere Pro/ Final Cut timeline focused style. Vegas is more similar to the latter but still feels like an audio progam that does video. There are some advantages to that approach and imho, one of them is ease of use.

Beepster
 
I've listened to some of your own work and you seem to find a good marriage between styles and techniques. You've been doing this far longer than most of us and likely have a couple decades on me so it's more evidence that age matters not.

 
The music on my YouTube channel is admittedly more mainstream. A project like the Battery Park compilations, "Time-Stretch Paradise," or my live solo act go far more into the electronic end of the spectrum. Then again, I got mastering gigs because people liked the mastering I did on several classical music projects...which I love, even if the music is 300 years old. (And no, I was not there at the time.)
 
But indeed, age matters not...being addicted to music is what matters. I'm always looking for a more potent high   In the early 80s I did an album called "Trances and Dances" prior to my AES talk on Synchro-Sonic recording in 1981 that foretold the rise of today's strain of dance music...so in the late 90s it was easy to slide into the whole Euro EDM thing. I'm just as happy listening to Jimi Hendrix or Bach or John Coltrane or Carl Cox.
 

I have better things to put my time and effort towards and am perhaps getting too old to fight the intellectual battles involved when people are convinced THEIR style of music is the ONLY style of music.

 
Well, I have no respect for anyone who's not into Finnish death metal whaling songs. C'mon, Beepster, how can you be so terminally unhip?!? You officially have no more credibility with me.

Anderton
 
Well, I have no respect for anyone who's not into Finnish death metal whaling songs. C'mon, Beepster, how can you be so terminally unhip?!? You officially have no more credibility with me.

If you heard what I am quite literally in the middle of tracking you'd understand how funny this statement is.
 
lulzity...
 
;-)

Lemme see
$79 mic
$75 mic stand 
$10 pop stopper
$129 Scarlett 2i2
~$500 existing multi-use computer 
$300 JBL LSR305 (where the money went)
$30/month Plat membership
$75 existing Sony MDR-7506 cans
~$50-60 Those foam thingies for the speakers
My desk is the top of an executive desk on two file cabinets..
 
Pretty much a shoestring budget...