Jaaakkkeee

I miss the good old days of DUBstep. Listening to this all day. It's what got me in to music production. Think I might try and bang out a wee dubby tune tonight. 

I saw the ad for that. I don't know much about 2000ad except they're British and they did Judge Dredd? 
 

Currently trying to catch up with Secret Empire before Marvel Legacy comes out. I'm always behind on events so I'm trying to get out in front for once. 
Speaking of events, Dark Knights Metal has been amazing so far. Then Superman Doomsday Clock in November. It's been a decent year for events so far.

17 hours ago, Soda Jerk said:

Doing a band again, after ages of not doing one, is pretty ace. Even though my fingers are crap and don't do what I tell them to do.

Two finger powerchords ftw.

I know that feeling. Been playing in a band again recently myself. Definitely Ace-ic

Just Cause 3. Free this month through PS+. I didn't pick it up 'cause it seemed to repetitive. It is, but for free? It's one of my favourite games right now. Just flying about blowing stuff up.

Who caused the raise in business rates for small businesses in Aberdeen, the council or Scottish government? 

Aye that's a few steps too far. Has he never bought a record from a shop online before? Not one goes to that much effort. Not amazon, not indie labels, not private sellers, not anyone. That's someone being a dick.

22 minutes ago, Soda Jerk said:

Best part about selling your records on ebay is getting a patronising and incredibly detailed paragraph of instructions on how to package an LP to be posted, along with ACTUAL THREATS of negative feedback if the instructions aren't followed. That's a real thing that happened. One of them even linked me to the kind of mailers I should use.

I was selling over 100 records. You think I don't already have mailers at the ready? WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU.

I didn't reply. I sent him the record in the mailers I had. They were good mailers. Fuck him. Fuck Brazil etc

You gotta do what you gotta do to make sure you don't get a jiffy job.

8 hours ago, Lemonade said:

Selling stuff on eBay, listed only as posting to Europe. Get a message. 

"Hi can you post to Brazil?" 

I don't really want to post to fucking Brazil but fine, I'll make an exception. Of course the cunt wins the auction. Then as soon as it closes:

"Hi, can I pay you next week?" 

FUCK OFFFFFFFFF. Why bid for something you don't have the money for, cunt? 

Then he starts hassling me for an invoice. 3 messages in 3 hours. I absolutely 100% know for certain that if it doesn't reach Brazil within a couple of days he'll bombard me with "Hi, this hasn't arrived yet" messages. Fuck Brazil. Why does someone in Brazil even want a Bohemians 2011/2012 home jersey?

1 hour ago, Soda Jerk said:

Ebay is a nightmarish hellscape.

I got the same sort of shite when I sold all my records last year.

I also stated I'll post to Europe only, but message me if you're outside Europe and I'll quote you a price. A guy from Canada asks if I can post to him. I said yeah, but it'll cost you X amount. He said fine.

Like your scenario, he obviously wins the auction with a final minute bid. I send him the invoice, and the little shit then asks me to reduce the postage. Fuuuuuuuu. Because ebay now take their 10% off the postage as well, I'm actually losing money on the postage, and it didn't include the cost of the LP mailer and the padding. Just the stamp. I said no, it costs what it costs. He got arsey about it and didn't pay for another couple of days! Then also sent "where is it?" messages after a few days. Didn't give me feedback afterwards, even though I threw in a free LP (because it didn't sell in its own auction, and also to pad out the mailer).

Fuck late paying, postage haggling ebay bastards. Fuck Canada. Fuck Brazil.

Don't let this happen to someone else. Buy my records and comics directly through the threads I started in Trading Post.

Didn't think much of the track they did with Big Narstie, but holy jesus, I'm absolutely loving this. New album coming out in September and the deluxe* version has been preordered.
 

*deluxe preorder, which was £70, includes: Album on 12" vinyl (mint or silver, mint is ltd to 1000, with lyric book), 12" EP of non-album singles from the past couple of years (clear), album on cassette tape, album on cd, a t-shirt or longsleeve and slipmats.

13 hours ago, Soda Jerk said:

Converge has a single. Album coming soon.

Single totally rips though.

 

Are TUI still going?!

They stopped after Big Kiss Goodnight, but reformed late last year/early this year. The new album is decent but it's no BKG.

1 hour ago, Soda Jerk said:

WARBRINGER have a new album out, if you dig THRASH that is totally trad, tinged with a bit of hardcore punk and fast as all hell. It's totally great.

Speaking of hardcore, TUI have released a new album. And I'm sure I saw somewhere Converge have too.

4 hours ago, James Broonbreed said:

Today I'm mostly listening to all of the Thomas the Tank hip hop remixes. Old & gold.

11 hours ago, ca_gere said:

It's not out yet. October I believe. I've only got Zelda and Mario Kart. Can't wait to get more games because the console itself is amazing. I'll probably play it exclusively pretty soon just for the fact it's so easy to switch between portable and docked. Most of the games out just now are quite niche. Waiting for FIFA and Mario at least, and i'm sure there are a few hidden gems on the way too.

Skyrim will be coming out for it if that's your bag.

28 minutes ago, ca_gere said:

That game looks fucking ace.

Meanwhile, i'm still loving the Nintendo Switch. Took it on holiday and it was perfect for airports/planes and such. Gagging for some new games to come out but still only cracking the surface of BOTW. 

Mario Odyssey?

1 hour ago, AVB said:

the cutaway from Jorah's scabby tar tit to the pie crust was phenomenal

My gf boaks really easily. I was laughing at her while the scabs were getting cut off. Then the shot cut to the pie and I had a little bit of a dry heave.

Game Of Thrones has been back and for two weeks running they've intercut disgusting stuff with food. I no longer eat soup or pies. 

Also, the guy that plays Hot Pie has started an online bakery called "You Know Nothing Jon Dough", which is only slightly cooler than Hodor's Rave of Thrones.

5 hours ago, Teabags said:

Player Unknown's Battlegrounds, holy shit what a game. Still in Steam Early Access so it has bugs and needs a lot of optimisation/polish, but the concept of it is incredible. Some of the most intense fighting ever. In fact, most of the time I've been actively avoiding fighting, so when it happens its scaray as shit. Get it now in early access so it's half price, cos it's already worth it.

If you don't know what it is, the basics are: You jump out of a plane onto a 8x8km island with ~ 100 other players. None of you have equipment other than clothes. Scan the local buildings for guns and supplies. Then after a few minutes, a circle closes in that you have to be in. The circle gets progressively smaller the longer the game goes. Kill or be killed. Last one alive wins. Think Hunger Games/Battle Royal, but done way better than any previous attempts.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/578080/PLAYERUNKNOWNS_BATTLEGROUNDS/

I'm really holding out hope for console release. If I could, I'd build a PC for this game alone. But alas, I can't. So I'm really holding out hope for a console release.


Currently playing Crash Bandicoot N-Sane Trilogy. On to the 3rd game, my gf bought it on Friday. Everyone was complaining it was too hard, but to be fair I've never completed any of the games when they came out on PS1. So it's obviously not a massive jump in difficulty. I think it's people just not playing the game for so long and not remembering how hard it was, and how easy it eventually becomes after playing it for 2 days straight.

Just save yourself the hassle and don't go outside when it's sunny. If you've got a holiday booked, cancel it. Not worth it.

Netflix not having full seasons. Netflix doesn't have the last 7 episodes of Mad Men. Watched it from the beginning again. Got up to Season 7 episode 7 and it just ended. Thought it might have been a small season as episode 7 did wrap up some arcs while leaving somewhat of a cliffhanger. Felt like a good ending that just came too soon. Then I read that it got split in two halves, like the last season of Breaking Bad. So I've now got to watch the second half of the season on a dvd shop.

Selling off some of my 12" DJ records. Prices are going by discogs. Happy to sell as a job lot for £25.

Caspa - Back For The First Time / Geordie Racer [Sub Soldiers] - £4

Doctor P / Trolley Snatcha - Badman Sound / Slowdown [Dub Police] - £4

M.I.A. vs Unknown Artist - Paper Planes [Unknown Label] - £3

Skream / Benga - Kinky / Assumptions [Ringo Records] - £4

Borgore - Borgore Ruined Dubstep EP [Buygore Records] - £6

Magnetic Man (Skream, Benga & Artwork) - I Need Air [Columbia] - £7

Fugitive - Supafly (Tek-One RMX/Cookie Monsta RMX) [Hard 2 Beat Records] - £4

New Order - Blue Monday (1988 remix)/Beach Buggy [Factory] - £10

Updated my list of things I'm selling. Some first prints of current runs, some odds and ends of popular runs. All come bagged and boarded.

DC-

Batman/TMNT #1 Director's Cut

The Flash Rebirth One Shot 2nd Print

Rebirth Green Lanterns #1

Rebirth Justice League of America #1 - 2

Justice League/Power Rangers #1 Batman/Pink Ranger Variant

Mother Panic #1 - 2

Shade The Changing Girl #3 Black & White Variant

Rebirth Suicide Squad #4 Purple Variant

Rebirth Superman #1 2nd Print

We Are Robin #5

Comichaus-

Little Girl Black #1

Marvel-

All-New Guardians of the Galaxy #1 - 2

Extraordinary Xmen #1

Luke Cage #1 - 2

Man-Thing #1

Monsters Unleashed #1

Slapstick #1 - 5

Superior Spider-Man Team Up #4

True Believers All-New Wolverine #1

True Believers Old Man Logan #1

Venom #1 - 6 + #150

Venom Space Knight #1 - 2

The Vision #2 - 3

Web-Warriors #1 - 2

Where Monsters Dwell #2 - 4

X-Tinction Agenda #4

Dead No More: The Clone Conspiracy (All Issues + All Tie-Ins) -

The Clone Conspiracy #1 - 5 + Omega

Amazing Spider-Man #20 - 24

The Prowler #1 - 5

Silk #14 - 17

Tyler, The Creator - Flower Boy is out. Loving this. The album is more 911 than it is Who Dat Boy.
 

But all in all, it's very Cherry Bomb. Which hasn't came out on vinyl yet. Hoping it's because it'll be released as a double album with all the documentary stuff they made for it too.

1 hour ago, colb said:

Might be worth going really old school and use a whammy or pitch shifter? 

turns out I was using the wrong setting in the clip view. I was using complex pro but complex seems to give the best results. Just use the transpose knob. I was wanting to turn a knob and have it sound like some tyler the creator parts but there's obviously a whole chain on it.

Anyone got any good free VST sites? bedroomproducersblog seems like a great site. Anyone know of any others?

17 minutes ago, colb said:

Do you actually want to do a "proper" autotune or have an autotune effect on vox? 

For an autotune effect just use the vocoder on ableton, it's really good and pretty flexible.

If you're trying to make it sound like you can sing, go get singing lessons xx

https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/harmonic-sound-design-lives-vocoder/

It's more for doing the stuff thon rappers are up to nowadays. Making the vocals go really low. Using transpose doesn't seem to work but maybe i'm doing something wrong. I've got youtube open to do some research.

Oh for fuck sake they need to authorise the trial. Bollocks to this.