Recent content by DSmolken

What narcissists really need is self-reflection. Take a good, long look at yourself in the mirror.

One thing that has changed, though, is that in the old days you pretty much got the amount of humanity you got. Low budget, no punch-ins for missed notes, no budget for lots of takes, no splicing - lots of humanity whether you wanted it or not. High budget, you had the option of getting...

This guy's general theme in many of his videos is that rock music lost a lot when it went to digital recording, snapping things to the grid, writing songs with a drum machine and then getting the drummer involved later etc. He's big advocate of the magic of recording to analog tape, loud...

I did not know they had their own format.

Pre-chorus, or less formally prehook (no dash, I think dashed-words seem like they're from decades ago in general).

Is it fully hollow, btw? Just for grins, I recently recorded my ES-175-style BC Rich electric miked acoustically and didn't even plug it in. It's got sparkle and if you're gonna highpass a track anyway, the lack of low end is fine. It just needed a little extra compression to tame the...

Well, it took a while and close to $300, but here we are... got a late 70s Ibanez yesterday.

I know a guy who makes a living as a composer and has been keeping an eye on this. He thinks the recent Suno update which is getting DAWier is interesting, and way ahead of the music generators that are starting to get included in DAWs.

I'm more of a Warrior fan.

This might just be my general dislike of Phil Collins, but "sussudio" is no "ba-dee-ya".

Ha, as a lousy singer who can rap, I have a lot less trouble with things like that than a lot of good singers, even when the syllables get dense.

I'm still thinking about how the word "round" sounds rounder than the word "pointy" to people with zero knowledge of English, and how very dense rhymes which repeat certain sounds a lot probably build up a feel or vibe just by that repetition.

Narcissism inhibiting self-reflection? That goes totally against Greek mythology.

On that tangent...

Max Martin has famously claimed that lyrics have to sound right, not make sense, and there's things like Ariana Grande singing "now that I've become what I really are", and plenty of very memorable English lyrics written by non-native speakers. On the other hand, if you're doing lyrical hip-hop...