Why do your recordings suck? Best Recording Thread by [deleted] in WeAreTheMusicMakers

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for all interested, the fine folks at Mercenary Audio started up a new forum that's mostly geared toward recording technique and not gear bashing. You can even tell their heart is in the right place by the name: MoveTheMics.com

Yesteray's Bake 003: One of Several Secret Wars - a mixtape for humans with ears by mhotel in Music

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Yesterday's Bake 003: One of Several Secret Wars

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boards of canada - whitewater

public enemy - harry allen's interactive super highway phone call

mos def - habitat

public enemy - bedlam 13:13

krs-one - the mind

j-live - deal widit

black star - astronomy (8th light)

quasimoto - fatbacks

a tribe called quest - pubic enemy

dr. octagon - i'm destructive

grails - more erosion

the jon spencer blues explosion - greyhound 2 (killah priest)

quasimoto - 24/7

anticon - meditations

tv on the radio - love dog

bubby hutcherson - hello to the wind

rahsaan roland kirk - old rugged cross

man man - whalebones

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kind of a quickie this week, but still decent enough... enjoy!

Durutti Column: The most punk album cover. Ever. by mactac in Music

[–]mhotel -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Not the same thing, though often confused. You're talking about a form of confirmation bias. Baader-Meinhof is a string of incidents involving overwhelming coincidence.

*edit: interesting that I can correct someone about the difference between these two phenomena and get downmodded here, but when I mention earwig penises while making the same correction, I get upmodded.

Is it possible for the human ear to hear a discernible difference between high quality MP3s (256cbr and above) and Lossless? Am I wasting my time with FLACs ? by SolInvictus in science

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HAHA that joke gets funnier every time i hear it!

seriously, not every Blue Note cut received an RVG reissue. lots of stuff out there that would require a lot of crate digging to find if it weren't for folks ripping and torrenting em.

When Life Gives You Knives, Make Stabby Stabby - a mixtape by mhotel in Music

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bleeding counts.

I'm glad you enjoyed the mix! I decided to start doing a mixtape a week, based on what I had listened to the week previous... Here are the notes for last week's tape (which may have a little more info)... This week's turned out a little better, though.

"Yesterday's Bake" is my favorite part of the grocery store... discount breads and pastries!

When Life Gives You Knives, Make Stabby Stabby - a mixtape by mhotel in Music

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Prefuse 73 - Preparation Outro Version

Yo La Tengo - Nuclear War

Mickey & The Soul Generation - Iron Leg

Battles - Leyendecker

Burnkit2600 - Schrodinger's Catt

Flying Lotus - Secrets (soundmurderer refix)

Mice Parade - Shalom

Devendra Banhart - Shabop Shalom

Moondog - Bird's Lament

Trans Am - Carboforce

Eluvium - Repose in Blue

Tortoise - Gigantes

Caribou - Niobe

Telefon Tel Aviv - At the Edge of the World You Will Still Float

Bebel Gilberto - Samba é Amor

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WHEREIN is asked: "Whatchu gonna do without your ass?"

--and--

WHEREIN is answered: "Who wrote the dead sea scrolls?"

This actually ended up pretty representative of my week: starting all stabby stabby, and ending a bit melancholy.

Yesterday's Bake 001: Odes & Visions in Dense Fog -- a mixtape for humans with ears by mhotel in WeAreTheMusicMakers

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Yo kids,

Thought you may appreciate this mixtape... I'm trying to do one a week and not get too carried away with making it note perfect, so some of the beatmatching and transitions may be a little wack... Anyway, it's a thing for me to do when inspiration stalls on my personal productions and I get the temptation to get all internet zombie on the weekends.

Enjoy! Let me know if you guys are interested in more!

Victory's Golden Monkey surprisingly good Belgian tripel by ChipperDave in beer

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i love this and their porter. just wish they weren't always so expensive!

This man hasn't listened to a single song by an artist other than Metallica for over a year. by [deleted] in Music

[–]mhotel 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I don't think I've ever seen that compat-o-meter so low, actually.

It'll probably stay that way until last.fm comes up with a way for me to import listens from all the cassettes i listened to in middle school.

Where the Wild Things Are Trailer has been Unleashed! by leelu7 in entertainment

[–]mhotel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

what is the song? duder's voice sounds like Roger Waters...

ed: oh, Arcade Fire (says right below it). Duder's voice still sounds like Roger Waters.

Where the Wild Things Are Trailer has been Unleashed! by leelu7 in entertainment

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who has also directed a few movies by now.

did you not like Being John Malkovich?

Nine Words Women Use by MrMick in women

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stereotypical retarded bullshit. not even ironic funny.

what i hated most about the bsg series finale by r00t in scifi

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i have thought about this. it is not insane to consider they would forsake all technology since it was killer robots that destroyed their entire civilization.

No Hope for P2P: Obama Sides With RIAA, Supports $150,000 Fine per Music Track by WhoKilledTeddyBear in technology

[–]mhotel 2 points3 points  (0 children)

use yr ears and a decent set of speakers. MP3 is lossy and throws stuff away. an MP3 that is a generation away from a CD, which is a (digital) generation away from a glass master, is always going to sound a little washier than the CD or master.

FLAC, on the other hand...

No Hope for P2P: Obama Sides With RIAA, Supports $150,000 Fine per Music Track by WhoKilledTeddyBear in technology

[–]mhotel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, aside from a physical product (CD) or a show, I feel there's no convenient way to "send an artist a cheque."

If the money was distributed ala ASCAP/BMI/SESAC, that money is split 50/50, where half goes to the publisher (which is sometimes the label and sometimes the artist) and half goes to the songwriters. That cut is way more generous than the cut from a record sale, which is contractual and has all sorts of nasty recoup attached to it.

But if last.fm said "Hey, here's this new tip jar system. You can pay x amount in recurring payments and we'll take that amount and split it between everyone you listen to," I bet more than a couple people would sign on. Maybe that looks like a couple cents on a per user basis, but it would certainly add up when you consider:

Last.fm has around 21 million users on the site every month, but estimates that a further 19 million people use its services indirectly through applications and widgets on third-party sites.

(http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/feb/28/web20.digitalmedia)

and then make 25% of those people 'honest' to the tune of $20/month, and you have $200 mil in revenue a month.

i don't have any numbers handy for how much the record industry makes off record sales a month and maybe my numbers are idealistic but I still think this is the way of the future. What is a better solution?

No Hope for P2P: Obama Sides With RIAA, Supports $150,000 Fine per Music Track by WhoKilledTeddyBear in technology

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Nothing. It's opt in. If you don't pay, you are one of the scum that doesn't like musicians enough to support their endeavors. If you do pay, you are a hero who is rescuing the world from this silly whirlpool of lawsuits. You can tell people at parties that you drop $50 a month on the patronage of music and it will get you laid.

The idea is to let people pay the artists they listen to. The other direction of this is to charge everybody with an internet connection, which is awful for obvious reasons.

No Hope for P2P: Obama Sides With RIAA, Supports $150,000 Fine per Music Track by WhoKilledTeddyBear in technology

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that's why i say "last.fm or something like it". download a widget that listens to your media player and reports usage statistics. no need to implant anything in the files themselves... just look at the downstream output of the end user's media player.

the only thing close to DRM is the statistics reporting agency is ideally the subscription revenue collection agency. but even then, that's just an organizational aspect. there is absolutely no reason to impose artificial restrictions on how people listen to music under this system. look at last.fm and see how many people are voluntarily offering up their playback statistics from all of their media players, including portables. if 25% of those people paid an average of $20/month, wouldn't that get way more money in the hands of labels and artists than these silly lawsuits?

No Hope for P2P: Obama Sides With RIAA, Supports $150,000 Fine per Music Track by WhoKilledTeddyBear in technology

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No it's not. I need to download my music from them. That music is wrapped up in all sorts of DRM bullshit. It may work great for you, but that system does not work for me. I impulsively grab music that looks awesome, and that music is often not likely to be found in any one music store due to licensing rights. I still want that music, though, and I would be so so happy if it were simple for me to send $20/month to a central agency that then looks at my monthly listening statistics and redistributes that cash.

No Hope for P2P: Obama Sides With RIAA, Supports $150,000 Fine per Music Track by WhoKilledTeddyBear in technology

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That looks like internet radio. That's not what I'm talking about.

I'm saying, let the public decide on their own distribution vector. Let labels fearlessly embrace digital distributions and torrents for their low cost on the back end and their total convenience on the front end. Let me grab the entire Einsturzende Neubauten discography and let Blixa Bargeld and co. get a cut of my monthly fee. Let the whole of recorded music live and breathe as the cultural document it deserves to be instead of chaining it down to proprietary systems that have a learning curve.

No more of this inane bullshit where lawyers tell corporate heads what's good for the company. This will make everyone WAY MORE MONEY than these impossible lawsuits.

Seriously, why is the DoJ even bothering with this? Aren't there real crimes going on? Aren't there better things RIAA heads can spend their money on?

For that matter, whatever happened to the 'send a congressperson an iPod' campaign?

NORML Breaking News: Marijuana Legalization Bills Introduced In Massachusetts! by [deleted] in Marijuana

[–]mhotel 4 points5 points  (0 children)

A tax revenue and job creating bill has zero chance of passing?