Hi. I'm Andrew. Audio portal junkie since 2010, supporter since 2017. I always want to improve what I do! I make music, run the NGUAC, post poetry on BBS, and am the all-time #2 audio reviewer. I love this site, and I want to make it the best I can! ^_^
Age 27, Male
Policy Research
Bates College
Wellesley, Massachusetts
Joined on 8/16/12
Keep it up yo! If you want some unsolicited advice, I'd say to write songs faster! About a year ago I started writing on average a song a week, and I've noticed my quality really improve after I made that decision.
Here's some guy who backs me up on this: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/08/quantity-always-trumps-quality.html
Also like BlueOceans said you write good reviews. You are way more observant than I was when I was your age. That can only be a good thing!
Wow! Thanks Johnfn! :D I wish I could produce faster. I'm just a busy guy, I guess...and I also usually don't upload content until I know it's finalized. Sometimes I even wait weeks before I upload something just to listen to it over again and make sure I like it. I suppose that's a bad habit. Thanks again, though! ;)
HALLO NEWS UPDATE! Took you long enough ;)
I haven't had problems opening FL 10 projects in FL 11... what presets are clashing? :o
Aww, you flatterer you, mentioning little ol' me in your post. xD You've come a long way, and I'm always looking forward to what you put out. Cheers mate!
Nice to see you dropping by, Lockyn! :D Thank you! ^^ Whenever I open an old FL 10 project in FL 11, it says "Some data files required by this project could not be located," and then it lists the files. The files were probably just browser presets only in FL 10. I've noticed I can't find old browser presets I used in some FL 10 songs, even when I use "Smart Find." I guess that's one more incentive not to use browser presets! :)
Long overdue response but here goes anyway. I understand the reluctance to submit songs until you think that they are perfect, but I think that the feedback you get from other people will be much more valuable in understanding what you need to improve than the things that you can understand by listening to your song just by yourself. There are a lot of aspects of music that you just won't be able to hear or won't even be thinking about until someone points them out to you.
This is also why I generally release songs pretty fast (NGADM notwithstanding...). It's because there's not much of a point to working on a song endlessly if there's a huge gaping flaw in it that I wasn't able to see. (And there usually is!)
Eventually I imagine you'll arrive at the point where I'm not writing songs that have flaws, and that my judgement on how my song sounds will be good enough. I think that's when you should start writing albums :) But until then, keep getting dat feedback and improving from it!
Thanks Johnfn! :D I totally agree with you about the value of feedback from others. You yourself have definitely indicated some problems with my music that I myself couldn't spot! :D I used to consider certain tracks of mine "NG-worthy" or "not NG-worthy," but now I've decided I'll upload a few more of my tracks that I know aren't perfect yet. Thank you so much, Johnfn - for everything! ^^ If I ever get famous and some journalist asks me who my influences were, I'll definitely mention you! <3 (but maybe that's getting a little bit ahead of myself, huh?) XD
Everratic
Good Luck with your future songs! You deserve all those core supporters since you spent so much time reviewing other peoeple's songs with a lot of detail.
I don't think it would work very well since our taste in music is so different, but I would like to try a collab. One of us can make the main melody/ies, and the other one can make the actual song using that melody.
TaintedLogic
Thanks BlueOceans! :D About the collab, I actually wasn't referring to you, but I'd love to make a collab with you if I have the time! :) During a vacation is probably the best time for me...Thanksgiving or late December or whenever. ;)