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I've got Audiorealism ABL2. It's pretty good and was a good replacement for ReBirth when I couldn't use that anymore (and sounds better), there's still some differences in what I can get with what I hear in songs. Mostly when you push the resonance up into self-oscillation; it just seems more fuzzy than screechy like I want.

Overall, people seem pretty split on Mackie monitors. Those that like them love them, those that don't, don't. I think the biggest complaint I've heard of them is that the "passive radiator" causes smear in the low end due to timing problems. Never heard them myself (in a decent listening environment, that is). One thing I can suggest is ADAM monitors. Again, I haven't heard them myself, but as opposed to literally every other monitor, I have never heard a bad comment about ADAM. If you have a good amp, their passive ANF-10 monitors can be had for about $750/pair. Their other monitors are powered, and therefore more expensive (but worth it, from what I hear.)

Pink Floyd Neurosis

Ah, but the question is, do you really need it to go super low? Think how the sounds will fit in the mix. I don't know about you, but I pretty much always end up shaving a little off the low end on a kick sample anyway, and HP around 30 to 40Hz, depending on the song.

You ordered a synth when you don't know what it sounds like? You like danger, don't you? I'll bet you speed through yellow lights and drink the water in Mexico, don't you? I want to know how it sounds! Let us know!

Not today, but yesterday: MacBook Pro UAD-1 Project Pak (for my desktop comp)

That's because there's lots to be said about engineering. It's a technical process which anyone can learn, so it's easy and practical to talk alot about it. There's not a lot to say about the creative side of music--you either have it or you don't. You can't really learn creativity. I think I know what you're talking about, and I've always wondered how they did that too. Probably some popular plugin.

Crappy music that has bad sound quality sucks. Great music that has bad sound quality makes you ignore the sound quality. Look at the Velvet Underground's first couple albums. Terrible sound, phenomenal music. Although with electronic music, I think maybe poor sound quality is a bigger factor. Not quite sure why.

I don't have many mixes, and no psy ones. But Tranceglobalnation 2 is great. And I wish that when I got the re-release of Reactivate 10 that it was the mixed version, which was phenomenal. They only re-released it in the separate tracks version.

It's simple: the DJ is the person everyone sees. The average electronic music fan goes to a club or show and sees the DJ, and doesn't think beyond that. It takes a more dedicated fan to look beyond the face of the scene.

I don't think "they" re-released it, it was the guys at Suntrip who wanted to re-release it. I think.

Wow, how did I get this far into the year without hearing about Transwave's "Backfire"? Sounds good!

I'm listening to Neurosis - "Stones From the Sky" An absolutely epic song.

Experimentos........experiments with Mentos........what could we do.......?

Your best bet is probably with EQ. Unfortunately, pads tend to have very wide frequency ranges, so that presents a problem. But if you want to try, you can take the part with the pad only, invert the phase, and attempt to line it up with the first part. This will only work if the pad-only part is EXACTLY the same as the pad part in the first one. In this case, it will cancel out. But it's unlikely that will work out. Good luck. If it's a pad with a lot of low frequencies, you can high-pass it, as long as you don't want a full-range voice (assuming it's a voice you want from the sample). In fact, this often sounds better regardless. Especially if the sample is over music. If the sample is during a time when there's very little else going on, a wider range will sound better, but if there's at least a moderate amount of music going on, you can high pass pretty far up and still sound good, thus cleaning out a lot of unnecessary sound.

I think someone just took some goa song and put it on top of this weird kid's video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saCWi9MpVR8

I only have the Best Of collection, so my opinions are narrow. In the order they appear on the album: "The Fifth Dimension" "Our Own Happiness" "The Second Room" "Out Here We Are Stoned"

For the interested and unknowing: Dave Smith has designed a new Prophet, the Prophet '08: http://www.davesmithinstruments.com/products/p8/index.php Looks nice, but if I had $2000 to spend on a synth, I'd just save another $400 and get a Dave Smith Instruments Poly Evolver and have more options.

Yeah, Behringer is definitely crappy. I have only bought one thing from them and used it once, so I haven't had any problems, but overall they're pretty bad. I don't generally buy things that I'm not sure of, so I don't get burned much. Plus, I don't buy many things period, I'm in too much debt. But I suppose my MXL mics. A package with a LDC and SDC. They look pretty and sound like ass, but I didn't expect any more than that when I bought them. No serious problems in functioning though. At least so far. I only bought them to have a LDC.

Neurosis - "Lost"

No, no, no. That's only if you want to make sexy progressive that is like the deep anal penetration of a sexy teen girl.

Well yeah, it's in the early stages right now. I've been listening to Transdimensional a lot since I got it, and I think this song was inspired by that style.

This is my newest psy song I've started, and I wanted to get some opinions on it. I like it a lot. It ends abruptly around 6 minutes, so I faded it out. Let it be known that it's not really mixed at all--there's just a little low cut here and there, and some compression and gain maximizing on the mix. http://www.veracohr.com/audio/DeathtoAnts.ogg http://www.veracohr.com/audio/DeathtoAnts.mp3 You know, I think my working titles are far more fun than my final titles. You see, I started this song on a day when my home was invaded by an army of ants, so I spent hours crushing the life out of countless ants.