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Member Since: Aug 18, 2002

www.mp3.com/derek_dubois Psychotropic - check it out

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Chief Cook and Bottle Washer
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Since: May 10, 2002


Apr 23, 2003 01:28 am

Most interesting. Very clean mix with a lot of attention to detail. Care to elaberate on how it was created?

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Since: Aug 18, 2002


Apr 23, 2003 06:33 am

Sure, the beat is all fruity loops, i spent so long getting that together. then i added vocals in panned right that i heaped lots and lots of auto wah and phaser on. the thing was i didnt feel like writing so i read off tracklistings to radiohead albums and mumbled (so i wanted to cover that up). then for the messed up front repition I used my Korg Kaoss pad. the bass i recorded clean and used the sound forge 6.0 plug in to add distortion. o yes, and there is a chiming riff panned left done with the electric piano setting of my keyboard. all recorded into a behringer UB502 mixer straight into my SB Audigy and into Sonar 2.0

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Since: Aug 18, 2002


Apr 23, 2003 06:36 am

o and the stings are the same left and right just recorded one side at a time left is one octave lower. again keyboard usage.

Chief Cook and Bottle Washer
Member
Since: May 10, 2002


Apr 23, 2003 10:20 am

Very nicely done! That is impressive. The "voices", key, bass, are very well blended and you have dirived a very unique overall sound. I wondered especially about the vocals. Very interisting application. I am looking forward to hearing more!

By the way, have you given any thought to using HRC for hosting? It would be a lot easier for critiquing than digging around MP3.. Just a thought.

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Since: Aug 18, 2002


Apr 23, 2003 01:03 pm

I would like to, I don't have any money to become a pro member, but I would like to be a standard member and do what I can with that. How would I go about doing that?

Member
Since: Aug 18, 2002


Apr 23, 2003 01:17 pm

Hell, i didnt realize it would be three dollars a month. I probably will join then. thanks

Administrator
Since: Apr 03, 2002


Apr 23, 2003 01:17 pm

Without having an HRC Pro membership you are able to link to your MP3.com site from the "Member's Music" section and adding links to your personal profile...thats the best you can do as a free member.

There has never been, and there will never be any file uploading options at HRC for free members just because it does put an incredible load on the server, and I made the HRC Pro program because quite a few people had asked me if HRC would ever host music. My only option was to make it a pay option so the extra costs that come from the disk space and bandwidth usage would be paid for directly by the people that are using it.

I would love to be able to build an mp3.com or NoWhereRadio (which beats the heck out of mp3.com) and offer free services to all, but currently the revenue streams that HRC generates are not enough to cover the costs it would add.

Odds are that there will be little added by way of new features to the free memberships aside from everything we already have (which I think is substantial) but for the Pro memberships me and blueninja spend our days day-dreaming over Instant Messenger about what we could do next because we really want HRC Pro members to feel they are getting far more than their money's worth from the experience and expense.

Administrator
Since: Apr 03, 2002


Apr 23, 2003 01:18 pm

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Hell, i didnt realize it would be three dollars a month. I probably will join then.


You can always donate more :-)

Or should I raise the price?

Member
Since: Aug 18, 2002


Apr 23, 2003 06:33 pm

Didn't mean to sound so cheap. you guys have an amazing site that is well worth 10x's the dinero, its just that I'm only 16 and paying bills for audio hosting is another hassle that i dont need. So when I was surprised by how low the price was I meant it as a good thing

Administrator
Since: Apr 03, 2002


Apr 23, 2003 06:52 pm

Oh, I know what you meant, I just wanted to bust yer chops a little bit :-)

Contributor
Since: Dec 30, 2002


Apr 23, 2003 06:55 pm

damn it dB you are already pimping me for all I'm worth!

I just spent £148 on a flight-case! You know that's an expensive bit of hardware!

Czar of Midi
Administrator
Since: Apr 04, 2002


Apr 24, 2003 10:40 pm

Ya know jues, I have 4 flight cases for my Juno and some various guitars, and I dont even play on the road anymore. But I keep them just in case, who knows I might get a bug up my wazzoo and wanna do it one more time for posterity.

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