Alkaline

Watched the 2016 remake of the Jungle Book yesterday and was pleasantly surprised. It's probably not as young kid friendly as the animated one but older kids might enjoy it. Stand outs for me were Bill Murray as Balloo and Christopher Walken as King Louie.

8/10

22 hours ago, Soda van Jerk said:

I rarely do download music illegitimately these days, unless it's for something I really can't track down. Took me ages to get on board with paying for mp3s, but now I do. Bandcamp is the best. In this case, it was the Broccoli LP, which I even own on vinyl, but I've never had digitally, and I've got a hankering to commute to it.

My judgement call: If it's out of print, it's fair game. If you buy a second hand copy, the band aren't getting that money anyway. It's a difficult debate overall though, because it's illegal in the UK to rip a CD you own for the purpose of putting the mp3s on your mp3 player, which is madness.

 

I think file-sharing still has a legitimate use. Besides the piracy, there's still an incredibly active circulation of demos, mixtapes and music intended for free distribution, as well as live recordings. I remember buying shitty bootlegs when I was young, but some of the live recordings you get now sound excellent.

Yeah, I can be at peace with something that is legitimately hard to find. 

1 hour ago, Soda van Jerk said:

Downloading an album via P2P, and it ends up not having the tracks properly tagged. What sort of piece of shit human being do you have to be to not tag your mp3s? Disgusting.

I can't bring myself to download music or movies illegally. Sad times.

3 hours ago, Jaaakkkeee said:

I think it was a cracked video, but i saw somewhere that spotify is actually in a massive amount of debt. they're not hoarding money. the problem is that the payments go to the record companies first, who then divvy it up at their own discretion. meaning spotify give money to the record companies, who then keep most of it for themselves and pay next to nothing (they could pay nothing if they wanted to) to the bands.

I know it's proportional but you have to have fuckloads of plays before Spotify even look at paying you, then they pay your record label sweet FA, which kind of leaves a percentage of sweet FA for the artist.

That's how it works for me. So please, but my shit (preferably direct from the label) over streaming on Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer or whatever.

Having said that, I'm just happy if you go and listen to my shit at all  

hmmmm, I guess, fuck knows, I can't be arsed getting an app I won't use except for this though. 

Well, you've got two for Facebook so far... 

Facebook or on here for me.

3 hours ago, Gypsum_Fantastic said:

Anyone preordered this yet? Just a reminder that if you get it via steam you get 5% off the price for every previous FM game in your steam library up to 20%

Brexit could make Big Bastard and his pals job a lot harder http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2016/10/18/brexit-is-simulated-in-football-manager-2017-and-its-going-to-ma/

Reckon big bastard prefers proppa players anyway.

 

 

Looks like that offer ended last Friday

32 minutes ago, Soda van Jerk said:

Canned food without ringpulls. What is this, the 80s?

Brandston need to sort their shit out. When you make the best baked beans on the market, you have a responsibility to not be shitty about it. Put a ringpull on it, as Beyoncé almost says.

I had the exact same thought whilst opening a can of tuna today. I think it's the twin connection thing.

I could be available semi-regularly as well.

Yeah, what happened to the tattoo photos.

9 hours ago, ca_gere said:

Watched all 3 Purge movies recently.

Ropey acting throughout but I really like the high concept and that's enough to keep it going. They could make a hundred of them and i'd watch each one I think. You're constantly asking yourself what you'd do if the purge was a real thing, and questioning how different it'd be in real life, etc. Some great costume design too. The first two totally passed me by - I just happened to see the trailer for the third and thought the concept was really interesting. I'd have ignored them based on the name, it sounds like a bog standard horror film. 

I felt the same about the Saw films.

58 minutes ago, scottyboy said:

 

Also:

Wait. Wait. What?

 

 

I was chased up a tree by a Badger once, they are a lot bigger than you expect, a lot more bitey and infinitely more grumpy than you can imagine.

19 minutes ago, James Broonbreed said:

I got my first cowp in peterheed. After a night in Passion. Superb nightclub.

I have no idea what that means so I'll just assume you got broken in by a burly fisherman after your eyes met across a pint of Belhaven.

1. Adelaide

2. Bellagio

3. Brussels

4. Paris

5. Aberdeen

59 minutes ago, Soda van Jerk said:

Just don't get a TV Licence. If they write to you telling you to get one, say you either don't own a TV, or that your TV is a monitor for your games console.

I'd say that's about 95% true in my case anyway. We watch hardly any real TV. It's all Netflix/Prime and Sky Boxsets. I definitely don't watch anything on the BBC. Paying for something I don't use can go to hell. Especially at £20-odd quid a month. That's more than we pay for Netflix and Prime combined. We have a basic Sky package pretty much for the Internet, as its half the price of BT including TV, though we only really use it for the boxsets.

Fuck the TV licence. Just get adverts and stop billing and prosecuting people for not paying for something they don't even want. 

I'm pretty sure TV license is £12 odd. I watch plenty of stuff on BBC so don't have a problem paying for it.

10 hours ago, Jaaakkkeee said:

Cheers. Looks like I was at last-resort. No way to really do all this stuff. The tracks are home-recorded by the artist and he's too far away for me to go and double check all these variables. 

If it's something you're getting paid for it might be worth trying to get him to re-do his vocals with the methods above (at least the diagonal facing to the mic and a pop shield), it might save the hassle later and it'll sound better.

If not, yes, you can minimise the issue with a de-esser but that can cause other issues with the vocals as well if you're not able to get rid of it with very minimal usage.

1 hour ago, Jaaakkkeee said:

What routes would you go first? 

Recording it properly in the first place

Seriously though, if you're listening back to a vocal take and it's heavy on the sibilants I'd make sure you're micing the vocalist correctly and with a pop shield and maybe a reflection set-up as well. Changing Mic types as well can make a massive difference as some channel sound completely differently and can amplify negative elements of vocals.

A de-esser should always be an absolute last resort.

Top 5 Games (in no particular order):

Secret of Monkey Island

Final Fantasy 7

Escape from the Planet of the Robot Monsters

The Last of Us

Metal Gear Solid

2 hours ago, James Broonbreed said:

Work forces getting more than halved.

Are you on the not so good half?

EP should be released by Binary Trax in the next few weeks, I'll update when I get a date and where it can be downloaded from. Until then here's a preview of one of the other songs:

https://soundcloud.com/binary-school-trax/preview-ladywantsaudio-hunter_hunted-from-ghostwood-ep-binary-trax0022016

11 hours ago, Hakuba Mountain Wizards said:

I get the impression that the key to getting the most out of any of these sounds is the compression and reverb. Practice makes perfect and all that. I've already demoed one song and with basically no mixing it already sounds better than my old Tascam 8 track, hooray!

Most sampled drums are compressed already so be careful with that process. 

33 minutes ago, HeinzHines said:

What really pisses me off is that it turns hobby masturbation into a crime. 

I'd just keep tugging furiously and look them dead in the eye while they were watching. They'd know I knew, but I'd finish dammit. And then I'd Spider-Man that mother Hubbard.

Dumps like a truck, truck, truck