CadillacMatt

@BigRank - Funny you should mention Bass Boy I was listening to that track I Love Big Speakers or something like that... haha good stuff. I burned an "old school bass" mix for when we head up to see Big Jon tomorrow. Can't get enough of the classics!

PSD is a document native to Photoshop, saves all the layers and such so it can be edited later on. If you just want something for your sig and like it the way it is a JPG/GIF/PNG will suffice

250a @ 1800 RPM, 150a @ idle ... MechMan Rhino alt feeding ~2500W RMS... constant 14.5V FTW @Dan208 - Hahaha I have a guy in my car club who pronounces it like that! *rolleyes*

Probably too much bass for it to handle lol!!

Whew... OK... I think I got something here. This is an updated version of the one I'm working on. Thoughts and comments pleez!

OK... was just messin around and came up with this new idea kinda the equivalent of scribbles on a notepad right now. I don't know what it is but I've been making "dark" beats lately, with organs and choirs and stuff like that let me know what you guys think or if you would prefer something a little more upbeat?

yeah the part with Kat Williams, also the first part of the IAK Oldskool, i like this sort of approach..... definetly like hearing IAK in there, perhaps several times within the finished song.... this was not too fast pace for me, however it might of slowed down after :36 quite a bit, rather it stay a little more upbeat through out. i bet i have done demo's of your different styles a dozen times in the past 2 days, showing the family and some friends all of this. i am very excited about it. I can se you are very capable, it is just a mtter of me catching up to speed, in order to know what terminology to use, lol...... i see the reerance to old school popping up, that is some cool stuff, i would imagine the other half of my crew, who has not been able to respond yet, would want a newer approach. lol. most of thier music is ganster, street.....not sure what to call it, lol we, really appreciate this! chop Heh that's one of my problems sometimes I can get carried away and get really eccentric I guess you would call it, lol... that last part with the strings was kind of a spur of the moment thing. But never fear we will get this put together! A quick overview of new school vs. old school styles as I see it... your opinion may vary With the old school bass mixes... I find that the percussion is a lot more complex and plays a much bigger role in the music... the tracks tend to be dynamic; always changing samples, synths and instruments keeping you on your toes. Stuff like bigrank mentioned ( ).A new school street sound might be quite a bit slower, feature less instruments and keep the flow of the song much more guided and predictable... not necessarily any better or worse after all it's a completely different sound. Comparing the two head to head is apples to oranges. A faster example of this would be Timbaland's Elevator (the instrumental I used in Already Faded) but more often than not it's the sound something like this ( ... which I must mention is the loudest song I have besides straight test tones... lol!)

You mean Bass is the Name of the Game?

WOoohooooo sorry I was bored

Welcome to the SSA Forums

Or you can live in Texas and experience all four seasons in one day! lol

Thanks man I really appreciate the kind words. The demo track I linked to above has the fast high-to-low bass kicks like old Beat Dominator or Bassotronics stuff, they're just really hard to hear on regular speakers... The constant bassline you hear throughout the song is mainly just for fill, honestly if it intrudes into the subwoofer range I want to reduce the volume and EQ shape it a bit so the low end is purely dedicated to the kicks. If all that makes any sense. lol!

Thanks man! But I'm really just a beginner at Photoshop... that's what I love about it though there's always something new to learn

When I get Photoshop up and running here in a couple days I could help you guys with the graphics design... t-shirts and such Here is some of my work:

Class Act Productions is the branding I give all of my production services, from beat creation, to recording, mixing, etc. etc. Yes I use FL Studio stuck with it all the way from version 3 up to 9 now Most of the tracks listed on that soundclick account are some of my earlier endeavors... the more "complex" ones I guess you could say are more recent lol OK, well I kinda made this little demo in bout an hour before I read your post chop... it's more of a fast paced track & if someone could give it a listen in the car I would appreciate it (even if you guys want to go in another direction with this, I just want to make sure the bass levels aren't too loud for whatever track I do... using studio monitors but they're nothing compared to actual subwoofers ) Here is the link I have some more music on my MySpace page and the CAP MySpace page as well, finished songs that is Chop: Which part of the song were you referring to? The intro with Katt Williams or when I came in?

Started working on one idea today, just to see where it takes me... it's sounds more along the lines of the old school bass songs circa early 90's (Bass I love you, 1,2,3,4,5,6 Bass anyone?) but would you guys prefer something like that, or something that sounds more modern along the lines of rap/hip-hop?

You said the magic words right there. There are so many mysteries about the universe that we've yet to figure out, the human mind included, but if people would learn to accept what is "different" or "outside the norm" we can continually make steps toward figuring it out. It's the closed-minded idiots that halt the forward progress of civilization but hopefully natural selection will weed them out

First of all, what I'm about to post is in fact entirely true, it seems to happen to me a lot and only half the people I tell seem to believe me To start, I tend to experience strange phenomena quite a bit when I sleep, most often in the form of what they term "hypnagogic hallucinations" or "sleep paralysis"... many of you might have experienced this before, where you are physically awake, but your brain is entirely somewhere else. You might be able to open your eyes but often times you can't move or speak. Been trying to explore these experiences a little bit more, when it first happens it's a little terrifying (most people report seeing or feeling some 'evil presence' around them, for instance the Mayans and in Mexican folklore, these experiences are said to be caused by a demon sitting on your body) but if you can focus on staying in that state of mind, you can learn quite a bit more from those experiences... Enough backstory -- so the other morning, I am in the middle of this very vivid dream... I'm lying in a hospital bed, with a nurse standing over me, the background is lit overwhelmingly with sunlight -- As I'm trying to figure out what I'm doing here, she tells me that I have a blood clot inside of me, and it's going to pass through my heart... but she reassured me that everything was going to be OK. At this point, I am feeling very at peace, not scared at all... as I lay there, I feel the thing begin moving from somewhere down inside me towards my chest. I am a little nervous but the nurse's presence made me feel at ease. Just as I felt it enter and then pass through my heart, I grabbed my chest as tightened up and I could feel it beating very erratically. I immediately awoke from the sort of half-sleep I was in, I was clenching my chest which was very tight and as I caught my breath within a few seconds I was back to normal and fully awake. Frightened, I placed two fingers on my jugular and checked my pulse... wasn't racing, in fact it was a little slow. Whew, OK. "Now what the hell is the point of this story, Matt?" you ask. Well, in my apartments there is an older couple that lives downstairs from me. They have been there for a few months and I had never introduced myself to them. So when I caught Sherry (the wife) downstairs, I did so, and we struck up a conversation that lasted for a little while. She told me her husband Hal had been ill recently... apparently, not too long ago, he had a blood clot migrate from somewhere inside of him into one of the arteries of his heart. He's been bed-bound for the past few weeks until they figure out what they are going to do for him. When I heard this, I was understandably in disbelief... I mean what are the odds here? It's not like I had watched any medical shows or anything else to bring on such a specific dream. I didn't want to weird her out by telling her about my dream so when she asked me to pray for him, I just smiled and promised that I would. I wanted to tell her that I have a strong feeling he will be OK Am I gleaning too much from this? It definitely isn't the first time I've had these sort of premonition-like dreams... I'll often have them randomly about ex-girlfriends and then the next day I'm getting a phone call from them out of the blue. What are the odds here? Anyone else have any similar experiences they'd like to share? I would love to hear it.

Well I mean I genuinely believe that children are much more receptive to psychic/paranormal phenomena outside of simply being taught by society that such things are figments of our imagination, why I cannot say but there seems to be much evidence supporting it. Kinda diverging from the point again, but there was a story featured on one of the major news programs a few months back of a man who had supposedly built a "real life ghost catching machine"... some sort of chamber that harnessed and captured electromagnetic energy and prevented it from escaping. Apparently many major news crews were there and said he had demonstrated the machine to great success, there were some pictures floating around the internet of this supposed "apparition" in the machine but for the life of me I can't find anything through Google.

To be completely honest with you, I can't make any raves or rants 'bout the Storm 2 since I have no experience with it... RIM might've figured out how badly they screwed up with the first one and made the proper changes to it. It was sort of a rush job due to the overwhelming success of the iPhone in '08, it got pushed out the door while practically still in development. The most recent software version (which was released in February mind you) fixed about 75% of the problems plaguing the phone (battery life has increased 4 fold from the initial software release!) , but it is far from bug free, and if I'm not mistaken both the Storm 1 & 2 share the same software, but 2 has double the device memory... if you want to read up on it a bit more I foundthis website with a video comparing the two.

Hey gents, What cell service you guys use? I'm using Verizon and frankly I'm disgusted with the amount of cash I'm expected to fork over every month for my Blackberry service... regularly I'm paying $130 for ONE phone, 900 minutes. Isn't that ridiculous? Gettin' screwed pretty hard. Plus the Storm phone that I have I completely and utterly hate it's got so many problems both physically and with the software that I can barely use it anymore. Been checking into Boost Mobile.. they have a Blackberry plan (Curve 8330 phone), unlimited EVERYTHING, for $60 a month... a bit skeptical, I did some nosing around on the internet -- turns out they use *Sprint's* network (I have an inkling they are somehow attached to Sprint one way or another). The only possible downsides that I see is that you are required to buy the phone for full price ($230 at Radio Shack) and pay ahead the first month. Oh, and if you don't pay on time your service is instantly cut off but that's understandable for non-contracted phone service. Your 2 cents?

Even Micky D's has free Wi-Fi now. It's a conspiracy to fatten America up even more.

"I had your back, punk ass bitch!" Haha! And he was givin' Sting a hard time too...