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  • Birthday 11/05/1979

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    After several days in a larval stage, I have finally achieved immobility, and am currently digesting my own former body while I wait for new jaws to form.
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    Death metal, black metal, grind, guitar, vocals, painting, Star Trek, books galore

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  1. Searching With My Good Eye Closed and Room A Thousand Years Wide are my two favorite tunes on Badmotorfinger. I probably like the B side better than the A side all things considered. Down On The Upside is the one Soundgarden album I can't make it through. Too many low points. Maybe it's the lingering flavor of disappointment from 25 years ago or whenever it came out. A handful of songs I like, but the rest is a slog. No idea why I like King Animal better, but I do.
  2. Blut Aus Nord - Disharmonium: Nahab ...little bit incongruous on a lovely partly cloudy almost-spring afternoon walk here in the mountains. Hmm. Bough Horns - IV
  3. Krallice - Mass Cathexis 2/The Kinetic Infinite
  4. Better choice for class than "I can smell your quotient!"
  5. Man, Judas Priest. Classic band. I don't think I've ever ranked my list of favorites from these guys. Here are all the Judas Priest albums I like: .
  6. New Ulcerate "Cutting The Throat Of God" coming out on June 14th. They've gotten better and better with time, I'm psyched. https://ulcerate.bandcamp.com/album/cutting-the-throat-of-god
  7. I don't know what new things are available now that might do this. The best thing you can do if you want a unique drum sound is to record your own samples. There also are (or used to be) a lot of free or cheap sample packs from acoustic kits. I feel the same way as you about overused modern drum samples; I still use an old copy of Fruity Loops from over 20 years ago because it lets me drop in my own stereo samples and build a "kit" from my own hits instead of being stuck with some new school sample library. Maybe you can do the same thing with a newer and more convenient piece of software. I know that some modern programs go really deep as far as virtual mic placement and stuff, you could probably mimic almost any sound if you put the time in. I really hate the actual process of programming hit by hit on FL, it's tedious and extremely slow. But, here's how I approach it. The first key to a more realistic sound is to have a lot of different hits on each drum and cymbal, some at different levels of intensity, but also with several hits at around the same intensity so you're not stuck with exactly the same sound for each hit during a given beat. The more the better, although again, the more samples you have, the more tedious the process gets. For example, I've got 12 different snare hits in the FL "kit" I'm using now. Samples 1 - 5 are hard hits that I can use as single hits during any given beat, and then they get progressively softer, with 6 - 9 being less aggressive hits that I can use in a snare roll, fill, or single hit in a softer part, and 10 - 12 being even lighter. The only time I'll use the same hit a few times in a row is for blasts, on one of the softer samples. This kind of variation is really important in the cymbals - you want a few different aggressive hits and then a few that you can use in sequence to mimic "cymbal bashing" without repeating the same sample every time, or even every other time. I have something like 15 different ride hits, for instance, on different parts of the cymbal and so forth. Also give yourself a few different cymbal chokes and hi-hat drops that you might use very sparingly. The more variety the better. If you're in a pinch for variety, you can duplicate a hit and pitch shift it very slightly up or down so it doesn't have exactly the same resonance. The second key is to export your finished drum tracks as audio and mix them like you would the tracks from an acoustic kit. When I'm doing a final mix, I'll have separate tracks for kick, snare, cymbals, toms, ride, and hats, going to a group buss where I can add overall effects like reverb, compression, distortion, etc. For a lo fi sound you'd probably want to roll off the high end a bit and play around with tape emulation and room reverb. You can also record the finished drum tracks with a microphone in the room and blend that sound back in. There's really a lot you can do to distress the sound. They'll always sound a little stiff but it's better than not having drums on your song. This isn't a lo-fi recording but it's the most recent finished thing I did with programmed drums, as an example of what I'm talking about. Listening back, there's some stuff I would do differently, but I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.
  8. This put me in a Soundgarden mood. Louder Than Love is where it's at for me in the past few years. There are only a couple songs I like on Down On The Upside, but I actually like King Animal a lot even though it's overpolished dad rock. Badmotorfinger and Superunknown are the highlights but I played them to death when I was growing up.
  9. There you have it... even their fans admit the music puts them to sleep
  10. My daughter has been home with diarrhea for a full week, so I can attest that this is accurate.
  11. We moved a lot. Easthampton, Hampton Bays, Sag Harbor (not the fancy parts), and Shelter Island. My parents had finally been able to buy a house there and it seemed like we were done moving, but life had other plans. That's been a theme for all of us. NC was a fluke, we went there to stay with some friends of theirs from the upstate days and wound up staying. I wanted to move back to NY from the moment we got there and finally had my chance when I went to college. Oddly my dad's parents (from Bedminster) retired to Vermont, my mom's parents (from Great Neck) retired to Delaware, and even though my parents were both kind of the black sheep, both sets of grandparents moved down to their neighborhood in North Carolina for their final chapters.
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