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The quality of streaming video!

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I’m so happy that the quality of video being streamed is of much higher quality than it once used to be when I first started watching videos online. Back whenever that started to be a cool new idea, I remember that even stuff that was DVD quality before it was thrown on the web somehow manage to turn into three or four color squares that covered 90% of the play window.

Now on youtube, you can see stuff in HD!? I know this happened a while ago, but I’m just starting to recognize its worth to me.

Now, whenever I’m flipping through the millions upon millions of useless videos, I can easily spot the crap and avoid it. That has always been my problem…

Sometimes you wont know it is crap until it stops and starts suggesting more videos of the same kind to watch – NO!! I don’t want to watch any more like this because they apparently decided it was a good idea to not make “shitty video” one of the tags. So I waste hours of (arguably) valuable time to get maybe 10 minutes of entertainment.

I’m also glad that when I get on youtube and want to listen to a song, it is usually really easy to find and there are some good options for the official and live videos of the artists’ performances.

I still run into the usual garbage like some guy putting a chopped video of his cat playing with a ball of yarn put to the soothing sounds of cannibal corpse.  But it is becoming rarer to see that sort of thing. I don’t think I ever see those crappy cell phone videos of some band that an idiot apparently felt was worth sharing with millions of people that don’t care.

To celebrate, I shall link to a video of Paramore performing a song called “Careful” from their album brand new eyes through the youtube channel of their label, Fueled By Ramen.

Just want to make a comment on the video itself, it reminds me of that old random saying that fads repeat themselves, simply by the presence of skin tight animal print pants. But I have a feeling musicians have been and always will be huge fans of animal print tights.

One final word: Custom picks are in!

Can’t get enough Metal…

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To come from these fingers. I need to practice practice practice. But that isn’t just me, you all need to practice too. You can’t expect to improve without some effort. My problem right now is that I have again fallen into my old trap. I have started to focus more on technique then on writing. Sure a really heavy part sounds great but if it appears to come from nowhere, it really doesn’t matter how cool that one part is. I need to just jam out, no more of this, “where can I insert finger tapping and sweeps without it sounding TOO cheesy?”

That issue aside…

I have fallen in love with my seven string guitar again. It is just so mean and it has a great eighties hair metal lead tone if I want it.

My goal for this summer is to get my own PA system. A new amp for the guitar, and maybe even a new 7 string. Longer scale, more chunk, maybe some sort of alder body super strat with some corksniffer pickups in there like some BareKnuckles. But BareKnuckles aren’t worth it if I get some cheapy 7 or even in my current Japanese made 7. I’m not going to cheap out on my next 7, simply because what sort of variations on a seven would anyone really want? If I just got one really nice 7 make specifically for tight clear and big sounding metal, I wouldn’t need any other 7 again. That isn’t true for 6 strings. You can get 9 entirely different guitars and you still could be unsatisfied with the overall diversity of guitars. Also, One nice metal 7 can replace a glam rock 6. It would accomplish the same thing if you used the appropriate amp settings.

Domain Name? That sounds fun

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So I’m investigating Domain names, which is a pretty crucial part of having your web presence be of value in some form or another. I’m trying to imagine what I would use my unique domain name for in the coming months. I’m sure it would be a higher priority to actually get one if I had money coming into my bank account in some way. But I think I still know what I could use my own website for.

I’m an aspiring Audio Engineer and the benefits of having my own dot com are a plenty! I can have detailed information about myself and my work all localized in one easy to reach place, along with rates and fancy pictures. I could also use it to spout out my opinions about music in my area and maybe even what I think about the music I hear on a regular basis from around the world. I could also use the site to link to bands and artists that I am working with and ones that I am soon to work with.

For example my band, Grandeur4clARC.

Or a band that I am the recording, mixing, and mastering engineer for, Akhenaten

Or that band that I’m working on the pre production steps with at present, Ateeth.

I don’t know for now, It is a bit much to think about when I hardly have any plans on how to market myself. More soon…`