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what has em411 taught you?
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Author: monty on December 11 2006 Viewed 6518 times. 34 people liked this blog. You can rate it below if you haven't already.
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I thought about a post i made recently (when drunk) where i said:
"i dont come here to "learn" anything"
but i thought about it and realised that Ive picked up much valuable knowledge without intentionally seeking it.
if you know what i mean.
i started thinking about what i have learned as a direct result of this site:
bass - i never used to think about it or explore it seriously in my tracks...my basslines were always random, accidental things. I now spend a lot of time thinking about how the bass sounds.
circuit bending - i hadn't even heard of the concept before. now my flat is filled with strange sounding audio weapons.
playing live - I used to think I needed a band or a laptop to play gigs until i started seeing blogs/photos of ordinary people from around the world doing gigs with essentially the same gear ive got.
the site also got me to stop trying to do IDM cos i realised too many people are churning that out. i think because i started making music with a 4track and some fx-pedals the quickness/slickness of computers dazzled/spoiled me slightly.
This site made me realise not all computer-music is good. So i started getting back to my more off-the-cuff, one-take vibe...rather than fiddling about putting reverb on every second snare hit etc etc...
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nagrom
i no big words now to.
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fakeBlooper
strategery
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fakeBlooper
lol those geeks are either talking about lithium isotopes or football. both have nill to do with em (well except that one thing).
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kidko
I've learned a lot by getting to know the people who did a lot of critiquing of releases. Sometimes I feel like critiques of other people's tracks are critiques of mine too because I relate to the creator... I learn from the critiques and try better the next time.
Just listening teaches me a lot too. Listening to 10 releases in a row can spur so many ideas that my head spins. One will inspire me to go back to basics while the next inspires me to cram more changes into my tracks. I seek a happy middle then get to work.
I often get lazy when working on a track for a long time. I leave a boring patch in there somewhere or let a beat loop too much... then someone calls me out on it and I get inspired to fix it... sometimes even with breakthrough results.
Mixit was the biggest experience for me. I learned so much about wave editing, eq, mixing... it goes on and on. I listen back to my earliest mixits and cringe, but then I smile because I remember how kind people were with showing me where I could improve.
I love how EM411 has been here the whole way... from my honeymoon wide-eyed wonder days... to my dark times where I hated everything I did and went months without playing a single note... and now to what I feel is my renaissance. I won two laptop battles in a row and I just got an offer to join a sound design company and I’m still just as humbled by em411 as I was my first day here.
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monty
kidko said: "I won two laptop battles in a row and I just got an offer to join a sound design company"
HIGH FIVE!!
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astroid
yah fer kidko!
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Artsigreg
hey man cheers.
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Roshi
Sweet, kidko! Congrats!
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breakscience
Nice, a sound design job!...that's a dream come true. good work, kidko.
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kidko
Thank you all! You've all been instrumental in me getting the guts to go for the dream. breakscience is right. It's like a dream come true.
The company: link
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blockhead
astroid: from bla, the concept of midi-audio-midi-audio generative feedback
eh? How does that work?
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astroid
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electrodan
...that the poetic/nonchalant dichotomy is alive and well here on the internet, maybe here alone... if so, it is a special thing.
There are folk here who will touch you with their sincerity, through both humor and straight forward script. Nowhere on the internet have I witnessed such devotion to a purpose as well as to each individual.
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bla
blockhead- the midi-audio feedback thing is basically like :press a key,synth makes sound,sound triggers midi note,midi note triggers new sound which triggers new midi note which triggers new sound..........etc
i use a roland pm16 to trigger midi notes from its audio inputs but you could probably do it on a computer with the right software
it varies from random sounding (but its not really random) to weird machine rhythms- delays on the midi and audio will help keep things more regular
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yghartsyrt
bla said: "blockhead- the midi-audio feedback thing is basically like :press a key,synth makes sound,sound triggers midi note,midi note triggers new sound which triggers new midi note which triggers new sound..........etc
i use a roland pm16 to trigger midi notes from its audio inputs but you could probably do it on a computer with the right software
it varies from random sounding (but its not really random) to weird machine rhythms- delays on the midi and audio will help keep things more regular"
listening to your stuff and hear you talking about it and all the little ideas you have about it...is one of the most amazing things i witnessed through this website
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