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Stripey

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  1. thats an urban myth with a few variations, one being the chicken burger in mcdonalds...
  2. IMO compression is pretty widely misunderstood and overused. It's only necessary if there is a problem with the mix which needs to be corrected, i.e maybe you've put your drums through a tape emulator to get some character into them, but that's flattened the dynamics so you would use a compressor to bring the attack/decay, the snap and punch, back into them. Then again you could achieve the same result by mixing back in some of the dry drums... If you put heaps of compression on the elements of the tune all you're doing is actually increasing the peaks in the waveform and pushing down the volume of the track. People do this and it sounds punchy and it pumps, but once it's rendered it sounds quiet compared to other tunes, so they will then go and stick a brickwall limiter over the whole mix and chop off those peaks they've just created in order to bring the volume up, making the mix a bland wall of noise that's incredibly fatiguing to listen to. It's much nicer and more natural to hear the dynamics of the sounds themselves, rather than dynamics imposed on the whole mix by sidechaining compression.
  3. the lead synth sound that runs through the whole piece is kind of too dry and uninteresting to sustain interest, tbh I thought "oh no" as soon as I heard the first few bars. The rest of the synth sounds were pretty dry too, there's not really anything there that excites or holds interest and the same goes for the drums really. Mixwise, there's not really any bassline coming through and you're really overdoing it with the compression! There is like a fine line between a bit of subtle pumping and full on sea-sickness inducing compression hell.
  4. vaios are overpriced, they used to be good value and I've bought three altogether, but now they are really just far too expensive for the spec. I guess it's no coincidence the price went up and the styling went OTT since some judicious product placement in films over the last few years. Toshiba offer good value for money at the moment, but tbh with a budget of 500 quid there are loads of good deals around regardless of brand, especially if you're just looking for something to use for general internet shit and ms office. 300 quid these days will get you a perfectly acceptable laptop. I still have a toshiba laptop I bought in 1997 when I was at uni and it works perfectly, whereas the p4 2.4ghz vaio I bought roughly 4 or 5 years ago I've had to remove the lcd panel from because it failed and the battery doesn't last over 15 minutes. It's basically not any use as anything beyond a NAS and shell machine. Also it weighs a ton, something to watch out for with these "desktop-replacement" laptops with ridiculously huge screens. I second avoiding fujitsu siemens btw, the build quality is poor and I've seen a couple with cracked cases and also suffering from overheating problems.
  5. I think I would be physically sick if I took a bite of a ginsters "chicken and mushroom slice", snail or not.
  6. yeah that's him. Can you honestly imagine kode9 hatching some plan with norman cook to release an album under a pseudonym in order to con the whole dubstep scene. I mean can you honestly imagine norman cook writing those tracks. l o l.
  7. What do you think they stand for?
  8. i heard it's a mobo he's nominated for actually, but dont get me started on that
  9. sing in a wierd accent, maybe it will distract people from the fact that your lyrics are fucking banal and your band is utterly pointless except in it's role as a vehicle for your own ego. It worked for the arctic monkeys afterall.
  10. I don't think that's really the case, obviously all these "movements" over the decades had their mindless easily influenced followers, but at the core of each of them was some genuine agenda, some genuine action, and some genuine belief that things had to change. What's the core agenda and motivation of these kids? Fuck all other than rampant consumerism, narcisissim and self indulgence.
  11. I'm a homeowner actually, but thanks for your interest. Anyway back on topic. Some of my "ethnic" instruments Basket of random percussion and whistles Rarely used and consequentially rather dusty didgeridoo
  12. The most interesting thing I've read all week: Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization | Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters rise of the idiots indeed.
  13. In which case the mainstream music industry is in the business not of promoting good music, or letting people make their minds up amongst themselves, but in the business of telling people what is good music, and that music just happens to be the stuff they own the rights to.
  14. the drivers are working fine, it's just a misconfiguration of the WPA settings Terminally Incoherent Blog Archive Linksys WPC54G ver. 1.2 with WPA on Hardy may help
  15. they're either compiled into the kernel or compiled seperately and loaded as kernel modules using modprobe / insmod google wpa_supplicant I've not set up wpa myself with linux before.
  16. did you have any luck taking down eth0 and then ifconfig wlan0 up and adding the new default route?
  17. This just in: graduates with no experience = liability. People in other disciplines are happy to work 6 months WITHOUT PAY just to gain experience.
  18. GetDarker.com :: [Article] Burial reveals himself! i feel bad about posting this because the whole thing is about as absurd as banksys facelessness act, but here you go anyway.
  19. don't wear an iron maiden tshirt to the interview either
  20. Well it's nice to able to listen to music in a mix without knowing or caring who made it, and deciding for yourself wether you like it or not purely on its own merit. I don't see what's funny about that. I enjoy talking to people to try and suss what that amazing tune is on that mix from the other day, it gets people communicating and gets people excited about the music. Then again I suppose some people just enjoy waiting for the latest press release from radiohead while suggesting that anyone who does any different is pretentious...fair enough.
  21. I'm only being honest, no need to take the piss.
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