I would love if you could say a little more here - what exactly do you mean by making the guitars less detached in the highs?
Currently iterating my creative process for the next album and one of my main areas of focus is creating a better strategy for constructing my mix. This album has many layers of synth parts and I found it nearly impossible to preserve all the detail I wanted.
This is wonderful. I've actually been wishing I could create music like this for some time. I have some guitar background, but zero DAW experience. I just downloaded FL Studio last week and have been playing around with it. What would you suggest I do in order to learn how to make music like you?
Check out Perturbator - Dangerous Days. Synthwave used to be very heavily influenced by metal, both aesthetically and musically, but a lot of that has been lost as the 'chill youtube mix' side has taken over
Thanks for your interest - it's been a lifelong pursuit. There was an old upright piano in the house while I was growing up that I always gravitated to. Had about 10 years of piano lessons as an adolescent; had a love/hate relationship with the structure of taking lessons but it was invaluable. Ended up playing tuba all through high school in various school bands, which got me in to playing electric bass in the school jazz band. Around this time someone gifted me an old electric guitar and I fell in love with that distorted feedback you get when you crank the volume and stand in front of the amp. Started a really bad high school rock band. This led to several more rock/emo bands over the years. Concurrently, a buddy in school gave me a pirated copy of Propellerhead Rebirth, which emulated several of Roland's old drum machines and groovebox-style synthesizers. Found this super interesting. Spent a lot of time in college making bad techno with Fruity Loops. Kind of gave it all a rest while I did startup life for a while... then I had the good fortune to be working out of a building near a recording studio and we sort of got to go hang out in there every so often. At some point, a band was set up in there and I laid eyes on an old Roland Juno-60. I was so intrigued I immediately bought one on craigslist and that has sent me down this enormous rabbit-hole of hardware synthesizers... which, to my eyes, is this wonderful center of the venn-diagram that intersects design and music and technology. Putting together a solo album has always been on my bucket list and this last year of isolation was the perfect opportunity... and here we are!
Thanks. I really struggled with mixing the guitar and so many layers of synth. At this point it is what it is but I am definitely iterating on my process for the next album.
Of all the services I've had to interact with to get this album out digitally, Bandcamp was easily the most streamlined and easy to use. Definitely recommend them to anyone as a first-stop in getting music distributed.
I think you've touched on one big source of this problem, which is that many of these icons have been trademarked and saddled with all manner of usage restrictions and licenses.
As an entrepreneur or designer, am I going to waste who knows how much time interpreting the usage guidelines from Share This, or devote valuable space on my site to giving the Open Share people an attribution?
No. I'm going to spend 5 minutes designing something that won't cause future legal threats or trouble at acquisition time.
Good! A person operating a moving vehicle should have 100% of their attention focused on the road. I have yet to see an argument to the contrary that doesn't attempt to rationalize unsafe behavior.
Any device that actively creates distractions occluding a person's field of vision should be prohibited while driving.
>Do you think that drivers should avoid listening to the radio?
Yes, radios are distracting and therefore dangerous, especially if drivers take their eyes off of the road to adjust the controls.
>Should they pull off the road before manipulating their heater? Windshield wipers?
No. It is often necessary to adjust windshield wipers and climate control systems to ensure safety, and sometimes those adjustments must be made in situations where pulling off the road is unsafe or impossible. For example, if it starts pouring rain while on a narrow bridge (no way to pull over), you will need the wipers to keep the windshield clear. The heater can be used to de-fog.
Sounds like an attempt to rationalize unsafe behavior to me. You can always roll down your window and stick your head out for an unobstructed view until you arrive at a place where you can pull over.
Operating the controls of your vehicle to respond to environmental conditions increases your safety more than it decreases it. Turning on my high beams does take a few brain cycles to flip the switch, but it also lets me spot the deer on the side of the road.
It's almost as if there are legitimate reasons not to have 100% of your attention focused on the road, that aren't simply attempts to rationalize unsafe behavior.
You cannot always. In heavy downpours your eyes will be blocked by all the water. In severe cold your eyeballs will burn from the wind. The shelter of a car's cabin serves a purpose.
Unless you have some kind of crazy zen meditation technique, getting an email alert on Google Glass is 100% certain to distract you from whatever you are doing. Your eyes will automatically focus on it for a short period of time, your brain will then spend time processing it. That's how we are wired. And you can get notifications at any time.. perhaps while you're doing something that requires extra care.
People here are doing what they do best: rationalize a situation until it somehow makes sense that they should be allowed to do what they want to do, regardless.
When I started reading this thread I thought I would not engage in a discuss where people cannot accept a distraction is a distraction is a distraction. Apparently, I'm weak in that regard.
I'm simply criticizing a person who took a completely inflexible and dogmatic position, namely that "A person operating a moving vehicle should have 100% of their attention focused on the road." And further stated that all arguments otherwise were simply attempts to rationalize unsafe behavior. All I'm doing is pointing out that this implies that arguing you should be able to e.g. turn on your headlights is "rationalizing unsafe behavior" according to that metric.
This is a pretty silly statement, because it implies that what someone could do with google glass they don't normally already do.
What about a TomTom? Is that illegal? Is it better to look at its screen wherever you positioned it in the car?
What about billboards? Aren't they there to catch your attention while driving? Are they illegal?
What about checking your speedometer or the gas level, or gas mileage?
In the future things like google glass or even active screens/windshields will be more and more able to show the same information and more, without necessarily implying any unsafe behavior on the road.
John Mayer speaking at Berklee College of Music had this to say on the subject:
> “The tweets are getting shorter, but the songs are still 4 minutes long. You’re coming up with 140-character zingers, and the song is still 4 minutes long…I realized about a year ago that I couldn’t have a complete thought anymore. And I was a tweetaholic. I had four million twitter followers, and I was always writing on it. And I stopped using twitter as an outlet and I started using twitter as the instrument to riff on, and it started to make my mind smaller and smaller and smaller. And I couldn’t write a song.”
> the 0.01% of the time where they are "activated", they do their job just fine.
Several homes I've lived in had smoke detectors that would false positive on a somewhat regular basis from (what I deduct were) sudden changes in humidity. This tends to happen in the middle of the night. Unfortunately, the only fix at times was to unplug the smoke detector and go back to bed. A "silence for 15 min" option, sensitivity adjustment, or any kind of interactive control would be amazing.
Also, who wouldn't want to get an alert if their house is burning down?
If Nest released this tomorrow I would replace every smoke detector in my house with one.
I propose that one factor exacerbating the negative feelings around this particular product launch is that Google has failed to create a good customer experience during purchase (particularly order confirmation).
People don't like to wait[1]. In a world where Amazon gets orders to a person the next day, a checkout flow that doesn't set extremely clear expectations for the timing of order processing, fulfillment, and shipping will make people angry. Google forced consumers to work particularly hard to find this information. Here's the confirmation email I received: http://i.imgur.com/CbMSu.png
I'd argue that the design of this email is particularly poor, in that the ONLY thing I care about at this point is: when will the thing I bought arrive at my house. Every single piece of information other than: what was purchased, when it will arrive, and the delivery address should be moved much lower in the information hierarchy.
Embarrassingly enough, I sent Google customer support frustrated complaint that I hadn't received a notice about an expected ship date, only to have them (rather mechanically) direct me back to this original email.
Apple still does a great job at this experience. When a brand new iPhone is taking a couple weeks to arrive, the folks I've witnessed are usually not angry - they're excited.
For someone who's not familiar with the app, I have to do a lot of decoding of your home page to figure out what exactly the product is and why I should be interested.
Your /tour "Features" page explains it much better:
"TEAM INBOX & CHAT
Replace IRC, IM or Skype chat with Flowdock."
That's something I can quickly parse and immediately understand.
I also echo the sentiment that more screenshots (hopefully with call-outs/highlights) would probably help out.
Agreed, I went to click on the image of the chatroom on the homepage thinking it would zoom in on it, and instead I'm taken to a page with even fewer images.
We used Lockitron at the Cloudkick office. Super convenient, as it let anyone at the office buzz a guest/delivery through our outer door without leaving their desk. Also awesome: the ability to give visitors temporary access without having to keep track of making keys, ensuring they're returned, blah blah blah. Lockitron eliminated the dumb, day-to-day-headache-type-stuff involved in getting people in and out of our space.
- https://open.spotify.com/album/6YS0IJarvrzMtZzYMiN51z?si=GAI...
- https://soundcloud.com/spacepiratesguild
- https://spacepiratesguild.bandcamp.com/
- https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-good-ship-cacophony/154...
- https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nC0XLATC5H8i...