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| They're exaggerating the shrillness. by Fullofkittens 12/20/2008, 5:00am PST | ||||
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Entropy Stew wrote: What actually happened was that the old CM/FM and some other guitar forum were merged together, along with a drum forum. Because the admins didn't want to lose all the post history, they decided to keep ALL the rooms from all the different forums and just slap all three together, with a General Discussion and Listening Lounge in an umbrella general area. Result: chaos. No one knows where to post anything. As you know, the nice thing about CM/FM was the great S/N ratio, especially in the Listening Lounge area. A lot of people working on tracks, and a lot of people critiquing them - some at a very high standard. Also, the advice on home music production was great, there were a lot of knowledgeable people there. I learned everything I know about computer music from those guys. Other than the terrible forum design, the two key differences between MR and CM/FM both tie back to the key constituency being guitarists and not electronic musicians: -One difference is that they all think Pro Tools is the only sequencer on the market. Beginners should buy ACID and then upgrade to Pro Tools when they get enough money. This attitude drives me fucking crazy. -The other main difference is that their preferred usage for the Listening Lounge is to post up tracks of themselves practicing a lead guitar part from a Dream Theater song. Somewhere in there someone mentions that the electronic guys had concrete ideas of the way the LL must be used... I think he's referring to my suggestion that the guitar practicing threads should be in the Guitar-Technique room so that finished tracks that took people two months of work won't get pushed off the LL's front page so quickly. They didn't like that idea very much... I only pushed it for a couple of days but they apparently found it offensive that someone would suggest that nonmusical beeps and bloops were more important than "My first attempt at Smoke On The Water.mp3." (Available only via streaming through Soundclick) After a few months of the tech area stagnating and the guitar area thriving, the electronic people split for BFoG/SoundOnSound/etc. To my knowledge there weren't a lot of BDR-esque exits, people just stopped posting because no one was responding. I check back every so often, it's a pleasant surprise when a tech room has a post in it more than once a week. |
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Blinding Flesh of Genius admin ragequits, ICJ looks more awesome every single da by 12/20/2008, 3:05am PST  I didn't know BFoG was full of CM/FM OG by 12/20/2008, 4:23am PST They're exaggerating the shrillness. by 12/20/2008, 5:00am PST we are not fascists... we're moderators. NT by 12/20/2008, 12:13pm PST |
