EternalSushi

hOI! back at you

Thank you so much! Megalovania's one of my favorite tracks, I'll definitely check out your cover of that too. And yes, I actually live quite close to SFU, for a long time I thought I was going to go there since UBC accepted me quite a bit later. :P

I'm guessing you like sushi from your username - I think you'll like it in Vancouver, lots of great sushi places everywhere, haha.

Have fun with it. For cooking, soup is pretty easy.

Of course! Hehe. c:

Mark of the Ninja, Final Fantasy 7, Megaman X, Castlevania: Syphony of the Night, and Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory are all up there for me.

Oh, I know. It's very good! Love the bells. I'll make a note to check out your other stuff as well.

Yeah, I thought I saw you on the roleplaying board. I consider myself to be a relatively new roleplayer, and I'm always changing my style. Sinnoh Stories looks like it'll be fun with all these quirky Trainers everyone' s coming up with too, so glad you're reading!

You made that?! That's so cool, I just stumbled onto it when looking for something Snowdin-themed to go with my profile, it's awesome. :D
And omg I live in Vancouver - you wouldn't happen to be going to UBC next year, would you? :P

Awwh thank you :D Why don't you try to join as well? The more the merrier!

Not if you can get them for $1-$5 dollars on steam. xd

It's always nice to meet new people. o/

I assume you're referring to the fact that I have over 200 games, hehe. That's really not that many. Some of my friends have more than that on steam alone. x:

H-how do you know I like Undertale?!

Indeed she is~!

Also long time no chat! How are you faring here on PC? :)

Thank you! I'm loving this Megalovania remix on your page as well!

Just expect a lot of frustration, mixing vocals can be extremely difficult but remember this, YOU CAN'T POLISH A TURD (always get good recordings and USE A POP FILTER), and LESS IS MORE. If you EQ and compress the main tracks properly you wont need to add a bunch of plugin FX and VST's to get a good sound. I use a maximum of 6 depending on what I want. That includes saturation/exciter, EQ, compressor, de-esser (for sibilants), and other FX like filter, LFO, distortion, etc.

I'm all self taught but I'd really like to enroll in an Art Institute here in Chicago or go to a Columbia College.

Mixing vocals can be approached in many different ways. It really comes down to what you're looking for, or what the artist is looking for as in sound. But typically the lead vocal would be centered. Now, for something like a hook/chorus, or for more powerful sounds most artists prefer (even myself) to stack their vocals which then you'd still keep the lead vocal centered but you'd pan the other 2, 4, 6 (however many you need to get the sound you're looking for) and pan them all differently. Let's say you triple stacked a vocal... You'd center the main, hard pan (around 70-90%) left the first stack and hard pan the third the same except to the right. If you added 2 more stacks you'd want to pan each L-R around 50-60%. Each would also need to be EQ'd and compressed differently as well to differentiate them from eachother and you'd use the fader and drop or add dB's to make it blend together, but stacking easily causes clipping so you'd most likely be reducing the dB's of the stacks. Another good technique for differentiating the stacks is to pitch shift them but very lightly, like 6 cents to the left and -6 to the right. For vocals you really need to know a lot about FX chaining, aux buses, inserts, etc.

Now for reverb. Reverb is done through a aux bus and not an insert. If you're not familiar with aux buses, an aux bus is where you send tracks and the aux would be the receive meaning when you solo an aux bus any tracks sent to that bus would be played as well. But basically you'd add an ambience vst to the bus insert and mess around with the decay, spacing, delay, EQ filtering, etc until you get the ambience sound you're looking for. You'd then apply a multi band EQ and filter out what you feel doesn't belong, then you'd either apply compression to it til it grabs the reverb or you can apply a multi band compressor and not worry about doing the multi band EQ and compression separately. Multi compressor is more intricate tho since you'd have to make the attack, release, ratio, threshold, knee, etc different for the low, mid, and highs. Then you'd use the fader to blend it in with the rest of the music, this is why you need it sent through a bus rather than an insert.

sorry it's really long but it's really hard to explain without going into detail. That's just the tip of the iceberg too. I didn't even get into automating, de-essing, and FX chaining.

Probably. I predict him coming to one of us for questions haha. Which I don't mind.

I really wanna get a decent keyboard and kick pad since it would make my life a whole lot easier, especially if I were doing loops and live recordings. But yeah I mix and master vocals and instruments. They're completely different and need to be approached differently whilst mixing. Different on EQ and compression for sure.

That's not too long but I'm sure you've picked up quite a few skills and techniques in 2 years. Hell, it took me 2 years to get a firm grasp on compression and parallel compression and another year in learning automation (there's so much stuff to do!) haha.
I'll check some material out when I get the time. If you want you can peep my Soundcloud (no I didn't make the beats). https://soundcloud.com/twordsmith

I'm almost 100% certain you're going to have him lost at "midi" lol.

But I as well use FL Studio for my production, which I've recently gotten into making instrumentals not too long ago, I'm still learning FL Studio haha, got the mixing part down, it's more so adjusting to the workflow. I don't have any midi controllers yet but I'm looking to getting a nice keyboard and kick pad. I also use Studio One for recording I'm as well a rapper (I do it all) and that's where I mix and master my music. How long you been composing music?

Oh of course! When you study game design someone HAS to have it xD

Probably, but that's why I just let them buy it so I can play it off their account without having to pay a single dollar xD I kinda regret not asking my friends to gift me stuff while I had the chance to.

Nah I can't. That's what I mean by my friends can't buy it because they've changed the rules of gifting. They region-lock gifting now because too many people were asking their friends in Russia or somewhere else where it's cheap to buy and gift them games so that they would be a lot cheaper. Sucks really ;_;

It'll go on sale eventually, but that's not bound to happen for a while. Like Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons which came out in 2013 is $18 here, goes on sale for around $2-3 during a steam sale which is amazing. Since it came out September this year, it won't be going on sale till at least mid next year.

Undertale is $12 here right now. Kinda a shame since I used to ask my online friends to buy it for me and I'd pay them back since it's cheaper where they live, but steam doesn't allow that anymore since it's more expensive here.

Gosh for a $10US game it's pretty amazing. I'm a video game designer myself so I'm really looking forward to it!
But yeah, unfortunately not in the US so everything is a tad bit more expensive for me. Just gonna hope it goes on sale/ someone else buys it soon! The temptation to spoil it now is high but I won't until I can get a hold of the game xD