New song . . . and yes, I did use the Warmoth. (Glo-fi/Chillwave)

[B3Guy]

https://vimeo.com/58524262

 

[Cagey]

How do you get it to play?

And why did you give it such a short title? I'd have called it "Time to Be Gone From Here Towards the Silver Sun After I Schitt, Shower, Shave, Brush My Teeth and Comb My Hair and Find My Keys, Money, Wallet, Cigarettes, Lighter and Cellphone"

 

[Updown]

I tried a few times.
:dontknow: ....  it's stopping & starting all the way though.

That's not a long tittle Cagey.
This is ....  :icon_biggrin:
http://thelongestlistofthelongeststuffatthelongestdomainnameatlonglast.com/long170.html

Check out the lyrics to it  :laughing7:

 

[Cagey]

Hehe!

I was being facetious.

But, you knew that.

I gotta give your find kudos for that one.

 

[B3Guy]

Follow the link, hit the play button bottom-left of the video. It is HD 1080p, and better-than-youtube quality, so your internet speed could be part of it. Try turning HD off, it will play in standard definition, but the sound quality shouldn't be seriously compromised.

 

[bagman67]

It worked for me when I clicked "Switch to HTML5 Player" in the lower right hand corner.  I've noticed Flash has really been doing some wacky crap in CHrome lately.


I'm digging the song, too.  The commentary does pretty well encapsulate the pull the 80's vibe exerts.


peace


Bagman

 

[Cagey]

Follow the link, hit the play button bottom-left of the video. It is HD 1080p, and better-than-youtube quality, so your internet speed could be part of it. Try turning HD off, it will play in standard definition, but the sound quality shouldn't be seriously compromised.

I've got bandwidth in the bank, so that's not it. I don't see a "Play" button anywhere. It acts like it's being blocked, as if one of the filters sees something questionable or the OS just natively isn't allowing a behavior. I run Linux, so it happens sometimes that a utility wants to do things that wouldn't be considered safe. External things are generally not allowed to write to system files/areas, for instance. A lot of vendors depend on the slutty behavior of Windows or irresponsible users for their routines to work. Apparently, Vimeo is one of them.

 

[bagman67]

THat's the same behavior I encountered before I hit the "HTML5" button, Cagey.

 

[Cagey]

I don't see an "HTML5" button anywhere, either. I did try to use the "Download" button, thinking I'd just feed it to another player once I got the file, but that doesn't work, either. There's gotta be something Vimeo's trying to do that just isn't kosher.

 

[bagman67]

Kosher-ness appears to be strictly optional.  Standards aren't; constants vary;  variables don't.  What's the world coming to?


Here's the switch I see.  Once it's in HTML5 mode, the link changes to read "Switch to Flash" or something like that.

 

[Cagey]

Thanks for taking the trouble to show me what to look for, but it's still not there. What's weird is usually that's a javascript thing, which I filter heavily for, but I'm not getting any warnings/errors/notifications about scripts, or I'd just allow it. Happens all the time. It's strange that none of the watchdogs are barking.

 

[bagman67]

Almost (almost, I said) makes you want to keep a stupid Windoze box around for situations that are too much of a pain to troubleshoot, don't it? 

 

[B3Guy]

Hmm. Usually when a download button feeds to another player, that means the browser is trying to open the file in-browser in a new tab/window. To tell the browser to download, you should actually right-click the link and select "download linked file" or some such. That's the last resort I can think of to get the video. I tried to attach the mp3 here but it is too big. I'll see about Soundcloud or Bandcamp or something . . .

 

[Cagey]

Almost (almost, I said) makes you want to keep a stupid Windoze box around for situations that are too much of a pain to troubleshoot, don't it? 

I recently got a Windows machine specifically because there's software I want to run that I can't get to work even with an emulator on Linux. But, I don't let it online. Short of an 8lb sledge, that's the fastest way to either wreck a Windows machine or get yourself in trouble. If Linux won't let something run, there's usually a very good reason for it, and that's usually because something is trying to read/write to system files it doesn't/shouldn't have permission for. You never want outside operations to read/write system files. That's how you lose sensitive data (like password files), or get infected with various types of malware.

Windows has always been terrible about that. It's possible to lock it down pretty damn tight, but then there are many programs that won't run. They insist on read/write permission to the registry, or worse. That's not necessarily Windows' fault - more the developer's - but if you don't go there you lose all kinds of functionality. Plus, Microsoft encourages it. They want everything to use the registry, which means everybody has to have admin access. Once you've got that, all bets are off. Security is out the window, so to speak.

 

[ptirman]

Caleb that is outstanding. Recording, composition, everything.
I listened with my Bose headphones- theater quality.

 

[B3Guy]

Thanks, PT. I learn a lot about audio work every time I do a song, and I learned a ton on this one, even though I am very happy with the end result, there is a lot I will do different in the future. One thing I can say for sure is to get better at this sort of thing you have to just make songs over and over. I have so many crap throw-away songs that it isn't even funny. But they were all necessary jut to get good enough to even make this one that I'm starting to actually be pretty happy with. Oh, and if you hear something that you want to emulate . . . a specific instrument sound, effect or even a certain genre you're after, Google it. Read blogs and watch YouTube tutorials. The most significant overarching principle that I've discovered applies to getting any song to sound "popular" (or professionally mastered, however you want to put it), is that . . .

. . . even though it sounds like everything is blasting out all at once, it is not. Most if not everything is side-chanied to the drums so that the drums are the loudest thing in the mix every moment they hit, everything is equalized carefully so that each instrument occupies its own frequency range, and especially so as to stay out of the way of the bass.

If you don't do these things, once you get up much over five different voices/instruments going at once, it turns into an impossible volume war in which you run out of headroom.

 

[ptirman]

Excellent! I'm still very amateurish at recording but learning tons and it comes from repetition - I completely agree!
I sense the frustration with the process but happiness with the result that comes from multiple attempts.

Keep them coming and please keep the "What I learned from experience" anecdotes coming as well!
I just learned how to send each component of the MIDI drums I use to the mixer as a separate channel strip!
Sure is fun as hell though.

 

[Nightclub Dwight]

That was great, loved it.  I love the cool sounds you get.

 

[pabloman]

So what are the specs on the guitar? What pickups did you end up going with? Did you ever get the P rails?

 

[B3Guy]

Nope, still rockin' the pickups you sent my way!  :guitarplayer2:

I still check ebay for deals on the p-rails every week, but no great steals yet. I'm finally escaping the moneysucker that is college, so assuming I find gainful employment this summer, "finishing" the Warmoth is one of those things on my to-do list. (It is finished, obviously, and it plays like a dream. But I do still want p-rails, TBX tone control and a different pick guard and chrome hardware before it is "finished" according to my standards.)