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2012/07/05 07:11:49
trimph1
IIRC it was on one of the many bickerfests in the X1 forum that it was posted on.....I do not recall it being in the songs forum...
2012/07/05 07:20:57
Danny Danzi
It may have even been posted here, trimph. I know it was played down and for educational purposes or John T trying to show us something or prove a point. It was definitely low key though and not something that was exploited on the song forum...maybe it WAS the main Sonar forum...but I sort of remember it ending up here because we were talking about something specific. What that something was, I have no idea. Whatever it was, the song was great. LOL! :)

-Danny
2012/07/05 07:25:36
John T
Could be any of a number of things. I do a bunch of different things. I do music, foley and voice recording for film, TV and video games, and over the last year and a half have been doing a lot of remixing, though we don't generally use much from the original tracks. We're carving out a niche doing more extensive re-workings of things with lots of new instrumentation. It's quite possible that whatever I posted, I didn't record the vocals on, but everything else would have been mine. I did something with a female singer and real brass players I'd recorded a while back, maybe it was that. I was pretty pleased with it, so I can imagine sharing it in an unguarded moment.
2012/07/05 07:27:50
John T
For me personally, I try not to get too much into the who's done what thing. I'm more interested in what people are saying and if it makes sense. Sometimes people have really good ideas about certain techniques, even if they haven't completely nailed using them themselves.
2012/07/05 07:43:12
trimph1
One of the things I've been playing around with is using my recorder and recording all kinds o strange things...somethings are along the line of this.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLAic2uVlWo a 1918 Bessemer hit and miss engine...a neighbour still uses one of these things to help run a sawmill up here..and incorporate that into some kind of piece of mine...it is best heard using headphones.
2012/07/05 07:45:16
Danny Danzi
I'm the same John. Like for example, Matt shared a few hypothesis type things he wanted to try on the forums. He had mentioned not getting the results he was hoping for, but I tried them anyway to see how they would work in my realm. From doing this lab work, you sometimes stumble upon something else that may be unrelated to the original experiment. Not only that, but Matt is a class act so I'd try anything he had to offer anyway....even if we both failed at it. :) LOL! But yeah, I'm with you...I don't just discount something from someone because they may not have shared a recording that sounds pro. It's all in the delivery and how they carry themselves that matters to me. Look at that Drew guy....I've said it before, I'll say it again....I don't need to hear anything from him to listen to what he presents. He's just a good dude that explains himself well and never comes off wrong in my opinion....and you can just tell that he knows what he's talking about. Or at least, I can. :)

There are several on here that I feel that way about. They have loads of credibility without posting a single song because they carry themselves like I feel a human being should. It's the guys that go off way too harsh that don't share or post up things that aren't very good yet are VERY stand-offish that get to me the most.

-Danny
2012/07/05 07:49:30
John T
Well, yeah, I think probably anyone strutting around and declaring themselves the authority on all that is awesome is kind of obliged to back it up. Myself, I don't see things in those sort of terms. I'm fairly proud of the work I do, but I'm always trying to learn and get better, and pretty much everyone will have something they do better than I do, and I'm always keen to find out about that stuff.
2012/07/05 07:50:38
John T
Anyway trimph, that thing about the recorder; one thing I like to do is try to come up with ideas on instruments I can't really play. They might not end up going onto a track on those instruments, but it's a really good way of breaking out of habits.
2012/07/05 07:53:52
mattplaysguitar
Well said, Danny.

And WOO! I'm a class act! Haha
P.S. your next post is 3000! An arbitrary round number invented by humans. A purely meaningless pattern yet in our society and the way we are taught it seems like a 'special' number. Sounds like I'm about to make a brilliant analogy related to the topic at hand, but I'm not.


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