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Weeks ago I was in a bleak mood and ended up listening to the Silent Hill series soundtracks. (And weirdly, just days later Konami announced a bunch of new Silent Hill stuff.) I haven't really listened to them in a few years, but I used to listen to them quite a lot. It inspired me to start...

In-person when you are listening to sound, the sound waves are reverberating around the space and being reflected off of surfaces at various angles. And because our ears are on the sides of our heads, the sounds reach them at different angles, different times, and have slightly different...

The writer covers types of song lyrics that will never get recorded or published in the music industry. Excerpts from americansongwriter.com (emphasis added): Between the Rhymes: Writing Lyrics An Artist Would Sing Many times when I’m mentoring SongTown songwriters, I come across a truly...

Oh my god, I spent dozens of hours during November working on this same sort of thing! For human vocals you can record two nearly identical takes and play one in the left channel and the other in the right. I tried doing this with my synth vocal track by adjusting the tuning on a second...

There's a stage play of Evillious Chronicle: Senbonzakura: "This is the Happiness and Peace of Mind Committee": Bad End Night: Himitsu Keisatsu (Secret Police): Each of these has a manga and/or light novel. Any of them would make a good anime adaptation. Black Rock Shooter already...

Miku x Mtv collab in the works. I know they did some Miku x Mtv merchandise in the past. Not sure what this will be.

In this article: "How to make your band stand out from the crowd" they bring up an interesting topic: A fully-realized visual identity is one of the strongest assets an independent band can posses. However, it’s often hugely underestimated. Visual identity refers to the cultural and personable...

This is meant to be a really raw rendition, like Miku just grabbed the microphone on stage and started into the song. I think people will either love it or hate it. It's either going to be a success for three months of effort or it will be a failed experiment. At least I learned a lot from...

Sometimes it isn't the software or the tech at fault. The problem is that people are not utilizing the software's full capabilities. No one is making that sort of content (or they are, but aren't getting noticed). I feel like it is only in recent years that more people are using Miku's...

I read your story and I like it. A nice little personal encounter. You do have a copious amount lot of Purple Prose going on. Don't worry, every writer is guilty of it at one point or another. I started writing out notes and examples and got really carried away. I ended up spending all...

(I read this March 2021 article online and thought it was very interesting. I want to share a few excerpts. I'm bolding parts for emphasis.) “It’s funny, when the first Maroon 5 album came out [in 2002] there were still other bands,” the band’s frontman Adam Levine told Apple Music’s Zane...

(via twitter) I love artwork and promo material that maintains the illusion that Miku and friends are actual performers. Keeping to kayfabe if you will. We know they aren't real. The people making the material know they're not real. But we make an unspoken agreement that we will buy into...

Naoto Fuga (Kaito's voice provider) finally gets to meet his son in person.

Reworking all of my mixes and plugins and stuff. Things make a lot more sense now.

(As an aside) I never tried using my laptop's (weak-sauce) Realtek onboard sound for making music. It's a long story, but I use this thing: It's a Shure X2U XLR-to-USB microphone adapter. I bought it to use my SM58 mic on my computer. The thing is, it's not just an adapter. It's a DAC...

After learning this and then dwelling on it for an hour, and thinking about all I had learned... I had to go outside and scream at the sky: "This is it? This was the problem!? This is why I wasted entire evenings wondering why it didn't sound right and the plugins weren't working how I...

Reading this article on Gain Staging was a revelation for me. I've been cranking everything up to almost full volume right at the start of the mix chain. No wonder the plugins were so touchy, and tiny, little adjustments were having huge effects. So, me having the volume at full blast going...

(Just trying to guess what could be wrong) I'm thinking that maybe some other plugin is hogging resources; or maybe it is still analyzing things in realtime when it should be dormant. Also, do you have and VST plugins assigned to the Piapro track itself? Or are you directing the Piapro track...

It took all weekend, but I finally came up with what I would call a "harsh shout" using only parameters. (At least it sounds good to me, I'm not sure how it will sound to others.) I'm sure part of my struggle is getting Miku to sound forceful at higher pitches. The big problem is that very...

[regarding: Methods to make a metal scream/death growl with VOCALOID] Seems that the Charsiesis and Vocascreamer plugins aren't compatible with my version of 64-bit Studio One. And I don't really want to run them in a separate program. It's so hard finding plugins relevant to voice...