General Music Chat

Recent gig MEDUSA got was after person promoting and booking requested bands send URL link for agent to listen to songs. I sent mine located at bottom of this post. I've listened to SANS latest Noisy Kung Fu and a few others like Jsantos, JimmyDanger. The three songs on bandmix are MP3, however they don't appear to have been corrupted by any over compression and such. TAKE A LISTEN. THANKS!

Alrighty then - exchanges of opinion concerning the rotten way music is listened to IN GENERAL these days. Give me vinyl through a vacuum tube pre-amp, a JVC power amp with stereo 7-band eq, maybe a Pioneer or Techniques turntable and JVC dual tape deck and a Stereo VCR using super high-end VHS tape. Yes, you can record onto VHS tape and the quality is awesome as the tapes's width is just shy of the Master you used to get uh, back then in pricey recording studiois. Klipstch Speakers ten feet apart raised six inches off the floor.

Was a time when an A&R dude would play 15-20 seconds of a each song off a four-song demo through a KILLER system AND they also had a beat up half melted by the sun $45.00 tape player with.................BASS BOMB. If it sounded like GOD on both, it went into a pile - a special pile. I HATE THE NEW TECHNOLOGY - MP3, .MWA .WMA. .WAV AND THEN ALL THIS kbps kbs skpsdk 128 328hz, this format, that format. Give me the record, slap it on. Done deal. Or not.

I like this guy. going to check his profile right now.

Cool,toxic. I liked a lot of things you have going on. I'm not a big metal fan, and I would be careful to not mark yourself as such. Songs are not as strong as you may think, but that comes with time. That is a whole different chapter.

Things I really liked was some of your guit work and vocal productions. Your drummer was kickin' butt on that last track.

Take this as a serious compliment, you keep putting this music together and you have the ability to cross the line back to R&R within the heavy metal realm. Hendrix was the only one who ever really did that, and nobody realized it.

Keep playing man.

does visual really mean that much in an audio art?
Or even, should it?!

Where my GF works the vendors that service her company give out these little USB drives with sample software and company info. Some what like a press kit. They seem to have a positive effect. Then the employees format them and use them for personal data/music etc. These devices are incapsulate in neat little promo packages with company logos, shapes and colors. I thought that to be a unique approach that any band could use to promote themselves and I hear that it's cheaper than making a CD. for example one shaped like a guitar or keyboard, microphone etc. Send them out to the masses... Everyone has a USB port somewhere in thier life, ya?!?

I think it's best to have both; however, recently at the NAMM show, I found lots of CDs still being exchanged. I've also run into a number of people who aren't as technologically advanced as we think. While there are numerous musicians who can do things on their phones and such, there are many people in decision-making positions who aren't. I think it's a good idea though that if you're looking to perform to have a DVD of a performance. Honestly though, many club owners care less about sound albeit how many people you can bring, that's the first thing out of their mouths.

Chaeya

Right you are my cinnamon coated princess!!!!!!......cover all bases......we (my last band) got a lot of cover/bar-type gigs with 'trashy' sounding reproductions, but we got EMI interested after a 48 track, down to 2 track stereo demo.

It depends on what you're going after, but more and more folks I talk to simply state, "MP3 sucks as a medium".

does visual really mean that much in an audio art?
Or even, should it?!

"Video killed the radio star"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iwuy4hHO3YQ

Recent gig MEDUSA got was after person promoting and booking requested bands send URL link for agent to listen to songs. I sent mine located at bottom of this post. I've listened to SANS latest Noisy Kung Fu and a few others like Jsantos, JimmyDanger. The three songs on bandmix are MP3, however they don't appear to have been corrupted by any over compression and such. TAKE A LISTEN. THANKS!

Alrighty then - exchanges of opinion concerning the rotten way music is listened to IN GENERAL these days. Give me vinyl through a vacuum tube pre-amp, a JVC power amp with stereo 7-band eq, maybe a Pioneer or Techniques turntable and JVC dual tape deck and a Stereo VCR using super high-end VHS tape. Yes, you can record onto VHS tape and the quality is awesome as the tapes's width is just shy of the Master you used to get uh, back then in pricey recording studiois. Klipstch Speakers ten feet apart raised six inches off the floor.

Was a time when an A&R dude would play 15-20 seconds of a each song off a four-song demo through a KILLER system AND they also had a beat up half melted by the sun $45.00 tape player with.................BASS BOMB. If it sounded like GOD on both, it went into a pile - a special pile. I HATE THE NEW TECHNOLOGY - MP3, .MWA .WMA. .WAV AND THEN ALL THIS kbps kbs skpsdk 128 328hz, this format, that format. Give me the record, slap it on. Done deal. Or not.

I like this guy. going to check his profile right now.

Can you be more condescending? Cause its takes a lot more condensation to get me sweating.

Eat the rich. I love you scratchy, you are such easy sport. You and a bunch of other guys that have come up here to rip this site apart. I promise you I will be here until you give up, or start being nice.

Have fun Scratchy... I will.

Eat the rich. I love you scratchy, you are such easy sport. You and a bunch of other guys that have come up here to rip this site apart. I promise you I will be here until you give up, or start being nice.

Have fun Scratchy... I will.

I am the nicest guy you will ever meet. But answer me one question.....why do you take the emotions this post has evoked.....into another post.

I might not agree with you here.....but I might agree with you in another subject/post.

Emotions are baggage......if we can learn to leave them behind then........

I am the nicest guy you will ever meet....but I will eat you if it comes down to it. Survival........human nature.

BTW........Are you RICH?

I love it . You dish it out all over the place and when someone calls your sorry little pitiful ass out you start to back down.
F U man. All of the real people here are real people and most of them are really GREAT MUSICIANS!

All the weak have to be protected, MIKE NOBODY, has some issues that maybe some of the great folks here can help him with. But you, you are just an arrogant M.F. with nothing to show.

Come on man give me another smart ass answer. You are either the funniest person I have met or the nastiest.

Peeps here get pissed at me because I am not afraid to tell the truth and really don't give a flying frito if they are wrong.

You just keep dishing it out. LOVE Glen.

I'm with you!!

Give me that vinyl any day of the week. I really miss that turntable rumble, the scratches, and low fidelity RIAA compensated compression.
Nothing as soothing to me as a needle banging side to side groovin to the furrows while adding that pleasant low frequency grind of the tip of the needle digging into bottom of the the vinyl groove. Man, like that was music, dude.

I truly loved and still miss the distortion of those tube amplifiers. Nothing I enjoyed more than that loud mushy music. I'll take that vacuum tube amplifier hum and gain hiss any day over this sterile sounding clean high performance crap.

It's bad enough that they took away my vinyl and microphonic tubes but those techy jerks just couldn't stop at that. Nope. Those brain dead bastards just couldn't leave my analog TV alone either.

I really enjoyed the old wavy distorted snowy fading in and out pictures we had with analog TV. I remember how we all sat around hoping the picture would remain with us long enough to see the end of a movie.

I really miss the good old days of electronics. But most of all I miss that cell phone that was as big as a military walkie talkie with the 4' collapsible antenna. It was great watching the "in crowd" carrying that thing down the street and proudly yelling into it so no one would not notice them and their high tech life style. Come to think of it, they still do that.

The problem today is they just don't build sh!t like they used to. Progress sucks.

I'm not sure anybody takes the time to listen to an actual demo CD. I've given them to many venue owners and I believe they all end up in the trash. You're probably better off telling people to check out tunes you have on various websites, like your Bandmix profile. I've used my Bandmix profile page tunes many times to get gigs AND show prospective musicians what I sound like. If somebody insists on an actual demo CD I'll provide one, but I'd rather they fire up the computer...

The way money will be made in the future will be from
selling the information connected with the consumers.
Whether the music is free or $1.29 or Whatever.
Information equals money to business.
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does visual really mean that much in an audio art?
Or even, should it?!

I doubt if even a small percentage of those whom would hear a Demo were "artists".

More to the point, another question if you will gents.

If "we" as musicians are in the position of providing entertainment, Would not the visual be important as well.

does visual really mean that much in an audio art?
Or even, should it?!

I doubt if even a small percentage of those whom would hear a Demo were "artists".

More to the point, another question if you will gents.

If "we" as musicians are in the position of providing entertainment, Would not the visual be important as well.

Whether deliberate or not, an artist projects an image of themselves and the work they represent. A choice is made to either take control over your image or it will be chosen for you by random chance. It doesn't necessitate going into a big production like KISS or GWAR. But, just simply choosing either a casual or more formal look will effect the audience response to the rest of what you're bringing them. You can't help but make an impression somehow.