MABB v6.6.6

UGH, winning a contest you might as well be dave grohl

It just means I'll have to play New England Metal & Hardcore Fest and I'm pretty sure that's one of those 'make the bands buy the tickets' shindigs.

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It just means I'll have to play New England Metal & Hardcore Fest and I'm pretty sure that's one of those 'make the bands buy the tickets' shindigs.
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yeeep they are
 
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I've been meaning to share this with you all. Check out the description, it will tell you about this composition. There's also
a track (movement) listing.
 

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very cool, bob could you share any info on the production / performance of this? would love to compose my own music like this one day.
 
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thanks zim
Sure, I performed all the parts first and foremost. This way there's some semblance of human feel. In fact I work a great deal on that aspect, even after performing it,
I will still using nudges to "imperfect" the MIDI. I'll layer the same instrument as well using two different libraries. Here I used Eastwest holly wood strings as the main
string suite, which is very powerful. I used many loaded articulations so that for example if I wanted to created staccato playing, it would be a mixture i.e. some stac, then a note here
there spiccato and then a variation of even those. Because HW strings has so many articulations and variations of such articulations it expands on the realism. I used Eastwest
quantum leap orchestra for extra layering of strings and as well as my primary woodwinds, brass, and percussion. I even used the click samples for the woodwind instruments lol
ya know, more realism. So since I perform these parts, I used maudio keystation 61es with a Korg nanoKontrol which allows me to really, play these libraries as an instrument. I
think zimmer mentioned this before about how he makes film music. This aspect of playing midi/computers as a new kind of instrument. Having the keyboard and the extra nanokontrol,
I'm able to activate and utilize any and all CC's which control articulations and technique on a particular sample library. Finally for a couple of solo instruments I used embertone and
again, a couple from the quantum leap. Then came mixing time! But I will say, composing correctly, using good layering, and getting the performances right while constructing the music
gives you a huge head start in mixing it down later. Basically, I exported every single instrument as a spot mic source. Then, I mixed down stereo ambient mic sources or "stage" mics
per instrument group. Then also a stereo pair of out riggers per instrument group. This gives you tremendous control although it's so time consuming! Mostly because for example, you have to load and unload different mic banks when it comes down to exporting these tracks out. You don't have all mics on while you are composing right, so you have to turn them on one by one, export then on to the next mic. I have a composition rig and an audio/mixing rig, so I would transport these huge audio files between the 2. But I have a network so the transfer is pretty quick. Both rigs are
based around Sonar Producer. Sonar's MIDI with the channel feature per note no less! is awesome. I think that's everything

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It just means I'll have to play New England Metal & Hardcore Fest and I'm pretty sure that's one of those 'make the bands buy the tickets' shindigs.
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yeeep they are
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Fuck everything about that business model. My band gets irritated with me sometimes because I refuse to play those types of shows. (We didn't know ahead of time the lead in series was semi like that - optional but still...)

aye i usually keep tabs on my FB messages so hit me up there and let me know the deal. we shall work something out

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It just means I'll have to play New England Metal & Hardcore Fest and I'm pretty sure that's one of those 'make the bands buy the tickets' shindigs.
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yeeep they are
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Fuck everything about that business model. My band gets irritated with me sometimes because I refuse to play those types of shows. (We didn't know ahead of time the lead in series was semi like that - optional but still...)
 
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ha, I dont blame you for feeling that way. Back in the day with divine rapture, we used to play those metalfests a lot and yea its a racket man. Make the bands pretty much pay to play while
bringing you the customers. It's crazy when you think about it and it exploits the undying passion you have to want to play out with the band in front of as many people as possible. But you make the best of it: take advantage and promote like crazy while at the fest. That's what it comes down to at these fests. Own it some how. We would bring flyers, sell cd's, shirts, etc. We were the first band to play the same fest on the same day twice and the first band to ever play without a drummer lol and it was legendary.

I didn't get to meet up with Stormy because my singer fell off the stage on his head and toppled the monitor off on top of himself

dear god is he ok

he clearly said he fell of stage on his head

so he's dead

He finished the set fine but we had to make sure after that he was okay. The end verdict was no concussion but the size of his ego is directly proportional to how hard I laughed when it happened.
 
(and I laughed every 5 or 10 minutes the entire drive home as the ememory played through my mind)

he finished the set? i figured you didn't even play

Oh we always finish the set. Unless he's unconscious.
 
Actually, he's never been unconscious for a gig so maybe we would anyway, I don't know. But there have been minor bone breaks, excessive blood loss, and other miscellaneous happenings before. Our policy is to go unless we can't.

Honestly, I expected the sound hard-on bearer to do a much better job, but he did look awfully pissed off after the fall. Maybe that had something to do with it.
 
It happens at 2:30 
 

Holyshit Abzu