Recent content by Hodie Ballswap

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    near-confirmation on who is producing the next gorguts album

    Nice to hear. Just as an aside, Pierre Rémillard also worked on Cryptopsy's mid-period albums (None So Vile through And Then You'll Beg) as well as some newer groups like Ion Dissonance and Beneath the Massacre.
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    WHAT's WITH THE DAMN BASS GUITAR?

    Yeah ahjteam posted a quick guide like that at some point and I've saved it for reference. Hope he doesn't mind me reposting it:
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    Brief EQ mindfuck- Mixing to the Key of the Tune at Hand?

    I think a lot of us apply this philosophy in simpler ways, say by cutting the fundamental of the kick drum out of the bass a little to let the kick punch through. Something I've been experimenting with recently is carving out room for the vocal by cutting the vocal line's average fundamental...
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    An anti-pirate curious about the warez enemy!

    Sometimes I wonder if we're reaching a point where it's not really worth the risk to pirate software anymore, since we have such a hefty base of developers making great free and donationware plugins. (Case in point, Nick Crow's amazing amp sims. Or LePou's. Or Aradaz's. Or the VST series that...
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    ARCH ENEMY

    This is referencing a really old post up there, but does anyone know why it looks like they used two triggers on each bass drum for Doomsday Machine? (I've never physically triggered anything but snare, do the bass drum trigger units require two units per drum or something?)
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    Piratebay got fucked

    Agreed. The problem with fighting piracy is that it isn't contained to a single website, it's decentralized. While punishing people who enable others to infringe copyrights may be the "right" thing to do, it doesn't accomplish much in the grand scheme of things. People can still visit thousands...