I guess the concept of "pioneer" is totally lost on you...One very influential factor is multitrack recording techniques that opened a way for musicians to tell totally different tales. Pink Floyd or Queen, they would not exist without Beatles. Without them you got no Muse.

So while you continue to underrate Beatles, the music you have in you favorite player wouldn't exist without them. Just picture, worlds #1 band starts to experiment with music and what did we get? A revolution in music, away from the catchy pop tunes to art rock.

Also this one!

http://videosift.com/video/Epicest-HL2-Mod-in-Existence
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>> ^Ryjkyj:
Someone needs to create this mod for an FPS. I would pay money.

Hrm I'm pretty sure I saw a Dead Space 2 mod that did something like this
edit: found it, behold, the unlockable hand gun.
http://videosift.com/video/The-Ultimate-Weapon-Available-In-Dead-Space
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>> ^Ryjkyj:

Someone needs to create this mod for an FPS. I would pay money.


Hrm I'm pretty sure I saw a Dead Space 2 mod that did something like this

edit: found it, behold, the unlockable hand gun.
http://videosift.com/video/The-Ultimate-Weapon-Available-In-Dead-Space-2

Thanks for the quality

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*quality

>> ^lavoll:
i think me and jrbedford must have totally opposite tastes in music
to me this is just soulless wanky stuff.
but upvote for the electrovoice re20 microphoe which is sexy


Hah, yeah, it seems to be that we do have different taste, but so it goes! And this guy definitely has technology going for him, no doubt about that.

Great song indeed, was just about to submit it, so heres the post I was preping:

The Orb

From the tracks Wiki:

"Little Fluffy Clouds" is centered around clips from an interview with Rickie Lee Jones in which she recalls to LeVar Burton picturesque images of her childhood. Critics and fans sometimes attribute the odd nasal tonality of Rickie Lee Jones' voice to drug use, though Jones later claimed that it was the result of a heavy cold. The sample comes from "A Conversation with Rickie Lee Jones", an interview featured on a promotional 2-CD edition of the Flying Cowboys album.

Burton: "What were the skies like when you were young?"

Jones: "They went on forever – They - When I w- We lived in Arizona, and the skies always had little fluffy clouds in 'em, and, uh... they were long... and clear and... there were lots of stars at night. And, uh, when it would rain, it would all turn - it- They were beautiful, the most beautiful skies as a matter of fact. Um, the sunsets were purple and red and yellow and on fire, and the clouds would catch the colors everywhere. That's uh, neat cause I used to look at them all the time, when I was little. You don't see that. You might still see them in the desert."

Jones was upset at the unauthorized use of her voice and pursued the issue in the legal system. Big Life chose to settle out of court for an undisclosed sum of money for use of her voice on The Orb's recording.

The song also uses a harmonica sample from Ennio Morricone's The Man With The Harmonica (from the film Once Upon a Time in the West) and parts of Electric Counterpoint ,a piece for multitracked guitars composed by Steve Reich and recorded by Pat Metheny. Reich, unlike Jones, was "genuinely flattered" by The Orb's use of his work and instructed his record company not to sue.Alex Paterson has also mentioned that fans would "die" if they discovered where the drums on "Little Fluffy Clouds" originated from.

I do recording and editing a lot as part of one of my jobs, and this is an especially notable video for me. When audio is being edited, one of the final things done to the audio is to "normalize" it, so that all the sounds are scaled up to take advantage of the full spectrum of available sound. Simply increasing the volume will result in "clipping" off the loudest parts of the song, and if too much of it clips, you end up with distortion and noise. Conversely, if you average out the loudest sounds so that the entire song is normalized louder, you lose the clarity of the song, as this video demonstrates.

Ideally, you'd employ a soft limiter to keep the loudest parts of the song, like those drum beats, from being too loud, and THEN normalize it. The result is a song with just as much "punch" as the original, but increasing the rest of it just loud enough to take as much advantage of this spectrum as possible. That way you get more data in the track, and the song will retain quality when you adjust the volume via a hardware knob during playback.

Nowadays, most recordings are done as multitrack recordings, with a microphone dedicated to each instrument. The recordings are pulled into a multi-track editor and then each track is tweaked to have the maximum effect on the song as a whole. So in the end, using limiters is often not necessary, as you can tweak the individual drum track (or whatever instrument has a particularly loud noise) to mesh more closely with the rest of the song, while retaining its punch.

I probably went into a bit too much detail there, but in any case, awesome find eric!