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  1. Comment on Rush - Red Barchetta (1982) in ~music

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    Are you talking about the short story Neil based the lyrics on? You can find it here. It's called "A Nice Morning Drive".

    Are you talking about the short story Neil based the lyrics on? You can find it here. It's called "A Nice Morning Drive".

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  2. Comment on Music makers - let's hear your recent jams! in ~creative

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    This is really cool. I really loved that lead guitar tone in the first track's end solo. Did you do the mixing yourself too? or just the tracking? Your voice reminds me of some desert rock band,...

    This is really cool. I really loved that lead guitar tone in the first track's end solo. Did you do the mixing yourself too? or just the tracking? Your voice reminds me of some desert rock band, but I can't think of which one.

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  3. Comment on Music makers - let's hear your recent jams! in ~creative

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    Hey, thanks! Retro video games are definitely a huge inspiration. I'll be sure to let the synth player know haha. I've never used Ableton before. What do you use it for, instead of Reaper? I feel...

    Hey, thanks! Retro video games are definitely a huge inspiration. I'll be sure to let the synth player know haha. I've never used Ableton before. What do you use it for, instead of Reaper? I feel like I'd have a hard time with a workflow that uses two DAWs.

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  4. Comment on Share your favorite musicians/bands! I want to discover some new music. in ~music

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    Fun fact that I'm sure you already know but I want shared with the class, Oingo Boingo was Danny Elfman's band. Yes, that Danny Elfman.

    Oingo Boingo

    Fun fact that I'm sure you already know but I want shared with the class, Oingo Boingo was Danny Elfman's band. Yes, that Danny Elfman.

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  5. Comment on Share your favorite musicians/bands! I want to discover some new music. in ~music

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    If you like rock music with good use of dynamics, I highly recommend Pineapple Thief. Especially this album Tightly Unwound, looks like it isn't on Youtube in full but this is most of it. The...

    If you like rock music with good use of dynamics, I highly recommend Pineapple Thief. Especially this album Tightly Unwound, looks like it isn't on Youtube in full but this is most of it. The tracks missing from the playlist, "Sinners" and "Different World" are pretty great though, if you like the sound.

    On the other hand, for folkier (but still rock, sorry) stuff, I'm sure you're already familiar with The Decemberists, but no one has mentioned them here yet, so I'll be the one to pick an album: The Hazards of Love

  6. Comment on Music makers - let's hear your recent jams! in ~creative

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    When you said "MIDI Controller that I built" I was expecting something far jankier. That looks amazing and professional quality, I love the exposed wheel.

    When you said "MIDI Controller that I built" I was expecting something far jankier. That looks amazing and professional quality, I love the exposed wheel.

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  7. Comment on Music makers - let's hear your recent jams! in ~creative

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    My instrumental prog rock band just recorded an EP in my tiny home studio and started working on the next, with me playing the bass and guitar. Our earlier 2 albums were recorded with a different...

    My instrumental prog rock band just recorded an EP in my tiny home studio and started working on the next, with me playing the bass and guitar. Our earlier 2 albums were recorded with a different guitarist in an actual studio but the engineer moved to another state, and by then my screwing around with Reaper for a long time had gotten me good enough my bandmates were on board with just doing it here. Or at least worth the quality sacrifice for the cost savings, can't beat free lol.

    I've also got a solo project (also prog rock but with vocals and less technical stuff) that I've put out a few singles under, and I'm working on a full album during the downtime for the first project. I need to be in the right headspace for it though

    Everything I record is DI, except vocals and occasionally acoustic guitar. Amps are done through BIAS 2, drums are Superior Drummer 3 either tracked on my electric kit or just based on the surprisingly-great MIDI loops built-in. For processing, it's mainly some combo of stock Reaper plugins, and Soundtoys & Fabfilter.

    I love how flexible Reaper is. It even has its own built-in programming language for writing plugins, which I've used to do some MIDI transformation stuff.

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