Ideal, thanks friend. I figured you could probably download a sample of it, but the idea of 'buying pink noise' amused me because I am childish

Where can I buy some pink noise?

Urgh


The people wanting feedback are always going to vastly outnumber the people who feel capable/qualified to give it. For that reason alone a feedback forum will necessarily rely on a handful of individuals who readily give their time and insight because they like to help. Fancy rules are simply not going to compensate for that imbalance.


I actually like giving feedback, but I can only listen on headphones and there are only a few genres that I would feel comfortable commenting on, because I don't have enough knowledge of context to have a feel for what's good or not. The more specific the feedback you're looking for, the less likely there is actually anyone willing and able to give you that feedback. I would love to help people out with the finer points of their mixdowns, but I can't.


I really don't understand why you can't just encourage people to be helpful but ultimately leave them to their own devices. That or just come up with a different system altogether. Trying to monitor and enforce feedback quotas etc. would suck the life out of this part of the forum at least as quickly as doing nothing.

Any creative output is always a re-combination of input. There is no innate place from which a pure and untainted emotion flows just as long as we don't ruin it with outside knowledge.

I've been trying to put this into words for ages - the idea that nothing is truly original, because what exactly you create depends totally on your experience and exposure to certain things. I'm totally fascinated by how the subconscious process of creativity works, but I guess we might never know because it's subconscious.


I checked 'Phizzy Drink' on your Soundcloud btw, like it a lot. Is it getting released?

Is it totally impossible for the feedback process to just operate with a degree of altruism and generosity? If you come up with a system to make it 'fair' there will always be a minority who try and game it. I dunno, maybe just give generously and think of it as a chance to earn some karma points.

I know this point has kind of been made, but if people leave half-assed feedback because they have to but can't/don't want to, the usefulness of this part of the forum actually gets worse rather than better. The quality of feedback gets diluted, but the quantity attracts more people looking for easy feedback, and everything goes to shit. Possibly. Either way I think it's worse to have an incentive to leave insincere feedback than to have no incentive to leave any other than decency and consideration for others.

If this really is an issue I think AshleysBrother might be right that the feedback mechanism just needs to be in a non-forum format.

Man, definitely not this one. I'm from Czech Republic and our prime minister's surename is "Sobotka". I have nothing against him, but you simply don't want that.

Haha. Frank Sobotka was a character in the HBO show The Wire. He was a good character and I liked the name ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

That clip's a bit short innit.

This is off to a pretty good start tbh. I'm not sure the mixdown is a problem. If you want it to sound bigger, experiment with layering your sounds, using FX or other elements to fill out the frequency range, making more use of stereo width, that kind of thing.

Just 'Kevin' could work tbh. Or how about a version of your name that's not correct but more pronounceable (how do you pronounce it anyway)? Or maybe just whatever the most frequent mis-pronunciation is

I come up with names quite often, although most of them are pretty daft. Anyway feel free to copy, steal or tweak as you wish:

Foolius Caesar
Ladio Gaga
Sticky Puppy
Frank Sobotka
Kanutzen
Nameless Dread
Captain Pantalon
Cancel & Gretel
Bitbreaker
Dyook
Billy Idiot
Pretzelhead
Boy Fisk
Mystery Bastard
Devorkian
Paddy Smashdown
Crook
Corgi Minogue (inspired by that 'Korg Minilogue' thread elsewhere)