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AfterEmpire wrote:Im proud, cuz I just saved a bunch of money on car insurance!

Really tho, your only as good as your last track they say...

You couldn't be more wrong. There are plenty of hacks out there living off one tune they did years ago.

Switching from using only Reason, to Ableton/Rewiring Reason . Ableton is SO much better for my workflow, and it reminded me of that whole thing called... um, what? Sampling? Oh yea.

Not to contradict you but you did just call them hacks right?

And besides, that's just what "they" say. I'm speaking only in generalities.

AfterEmpire wrote:Not to contradict you but you did just call them hacks right?

And besides, that's just what "they" say. I'm speaking only in generalities.

one hit wonders is the better term

skanky beats wrote:

Promise One wrote:Got my first dub cut last week. The smell is quite sexual. In fact, it is the greatest smell my nose has ever come across. Track is below:

That's a BIG look!

Haha cheers. Note to any 1st time dub owners.... don't use an old needle like a fuct out Shure M44-7 set up with mega weight (from my days of scratching) on the tone arm. You'll find you'll destroy it in one play. Man I knew dubplates were soft but that takes the piss. Had to get it re-cut. Learn the hard way haha

deadly habit wrote:

AfterEmpire wrote:Not to contradict you but you did just call them hacks right?

And besides, that's just what "they" say. I'm speaking only in generalities.

one hit wonders is the better term

That is sort of what I am saying. People get known for making one big tune but most listeners don't go deep into their catalogs to realize that was the only thing good they are capable of. It is just a generalization. I can't even think of any good examples atmo ... not that I would want to call people out anyway. But my point is the what have you done for me lately thing is mostly in sports and shit, the Beatles are favorites of more people than anyone, when was their last hit?

Sooo Funny too Abz cuz i was gonna mention the beatles!

Was gonna say that the beatles are my favorite band even though they havent been a band in 40 something years, and how I wish more ppl were able to appreciate stuff like that.

Wouldn't you agree tho, That if an artist say, puts out one AMAZING track. Then consistently (in the public eye) drops failure after failure after failure, that artists clout would diminish?

I AM with you tho one hundred percent with what you said :
"People get known for making one big tune but most listeners don't go deep into their catalogs to realize that was the only thing good they are capable of."

This is 100% true you are not wrong.

AfterEmpire wrote:Sooo Funny too Abz cuz i was gonna mention the beatles!

Was gonna say that the beatles are my favorite band even though they havent been a band in 40 something years, and how I wish more ppl were able to appreciate stuff like that.

Wouldn't you agree tho, That if an artist say, puts out one AMAZING track. Then consistently (in the public eye) drops failure after failure after failure, that artists clout would diminish?

I AM with you tho one hundred percent with what you said :
"People get known for making one big tune but most listeners don't go deep into their catalogs to realize that was the only thing good they are capable of."

This is 100% true you are not wrong.

Well I have sort of a guilty pleasure with classic soft rock I could name you about 50 tunes off the top of my head to which you have probably never heard of the artist but the song you do know for sure. The crap they put out that didn't pan out you just simply do not remember. But that is with single based music. I suppose with Album oriented stuff it could be the way you say. Metallica is an obvious example. The owned for so many years and then for as many years but out garbage LP after garbage LP to the point I do think they are associated with the garbage. I still think of Master of Puppets and all that shit tho. I dunno.

abZ wrote:

AfterEmpire wrote:Sooo Funny too Abz cuz i was gonna mention the beatles!

Was gonna say that the beatles are my favorite band even though they havent been a band in 40 something years, and how I wish more ppl were able to appreciate stuff like that.

Wouldn't you agree tho, That if an artist say, puts out one AMAZING track. Then consistently (in the public eye) drops failure after failure after failure, that artists clout would diminish?

I AM with you tho one hundred percent with what you said :
"People get known for making one big tune but most listeners don't go deep into their catalogs to realize that was the only thing good they are capable of."

This is 100% true you are not wrong.

Well I have sort of a guilty pleasure with classic soft rock I could name you about 50 tunes off the top of my head to which you have probably never heard of the artist but the song you do know for sure. The crap they put out that didn't pan out you just simply do not remember. But that is with single based music. I suppose with Album oriented stuff it could be the way you say. Metallica is an obvious example. The owned for so many years and then for as many years but out garbage LP after garbage LP to the point I do think they are associated with the garbage. I still think of Master of Puppets and all that shit tho. I dunno.

I actually realized that didn't prove my point at all If you have never heard of the artist then there is no expectations or reputation. I dunno what about Photek or someone like that. Majorly influential on me but hasn't made anything that did anything for me since the 90's... I still think of him as a sick producer tho.

found one of my songs on a french download site... lol?

I recently picked up a Casio CZ-101 synthesizer and have been immersing myself into programming it through sysex commands, recording its sounds, and trying out patches from 20 year old mailing list posts. Like everyone seems to say, it has some great bass and quite decent other tones too!



I have a new appreciation for the flexibility of the rest of the hardware in my chain, as I've immediately been able to improve the sound of the CZ by running line out into a pre-amp, to run hotter into a spring reverb unit on its way through the mixer to "AD". The CZ-101 doesn't have built in reverb unless you manually alter waveforms to achieve the effect.

street_astrologist wrote:I recently picked up a Casio CZ-101 synthesizer and have been immersing myself into programming it through sysex commands, recording its sounds, and trying out patches from 20 year old mailing list posts. Like everyone seems to say, it has some great bass and quite decent other tones too!



I have a new appreciation for the flexibility of the rest of the hardware in my chain, as I've immediately been able to improve the sound of the CZ by running line out into a pre-amp, to run hotter into a spring reverb unit on its way through the mixer to "AD". The CZ-101 doesn't have built in reverb unless you manually alter waveforms to achieve the effect.

I totally forgot I had one of those. Actually it may still be at my rents house. It quit working tho. I also have a Yamaha module. I can't stand programing those things tbh. Me and FM just don't jive. If I have to it's going to be a VST, digital is digital...