Is the Boards Music Production Forum Dying ?

PaulBrewer

I've not seen ( or written!) much of note for a while ?

If you subtract the few newbie posts ( that are always welcome) it's like an anecoic chamber in here.

Has no one any ideas to express ?

It weren't like that when I was a Mod here and that's a fact !


Or perhaps everyone's too busy making da hitz ?

mkegvn

Let's hope not. Lots to be learned from you guys that post here!

pinksoir

Seems so to me. I don't post much, hough I have a bit recently, but I do read it a lot. Or at least I used to before it went so quiet!

TroutMask

seems a bit quiet alright. Low noise :pac:

woodsdenis

OK I'll get a massive thread going

Macs are better than PC
You must use an external clock for everything
Summing sucks
DJs just press play ( a bit current that one, check out deadmau5 ):eek:
Mixerman is always right.
Gearslutz is brilliant.
Reaper is better than Protools.
Logic is better than Reaper.
Cubase is the best 'cause Hans Zimmer uses it.

Discuss !!!!!

That should keep us going till Christmas LOL

flyswatter

Short answer: No.

More activity is always welcome though.. I really enjoyed reading that thread I started about the Irish music scene here in this forum. Some great contributions, probably the best place to have a discussion about that here.

krd

woodsdenis wrote: »

DJs just press play ( a bit current that one, check out deadmau5 ):eek:

Press play?.....................They don't even press play these days. That's the sound man's job. They just stand and wave at the crowd - and occasionally pretend they're mixing.

Even Deadmau5 just turns up with a lap top these days. He did used to use a lot of hardware live - but now it's just Abelton on a laptop. Where you can't play anything live - everything has to be pencilled in - because the latency makes impossible to play note live. The controllers are just for show.

fitz

Forum isn't dying.
Most fora on boards go through lulls, it's just a quiet stretch.
It'll get busy again, and I'm sure it'll get quiet again too.

i57dwun4yb1pt8

ive been up to me eyes , but will begin some threads .

we have missed you though Paul :cool:

krd

PaulBrewer wrote: »

I've not seen ( or written!) much of note for a while ?

Has no one any ideas to express ?

Music these days is awful. Robbie Williams tracks from the 90s sound like god like genius in comparison. The Roses are back. Just heard the two new Blur tracks on The Guardian website - and they are truly awful. I think it's the band - Damon Albarn's John Dee stuff was really good.

If you subtract the few newbie posts ( that are always welcome) it's like an anecoic chamber in here.

Hello darkness my old friend.

Or perhaps everyone's too busy making da hitz ?

You've been doing very interesting stuff lately.

I haven't made a serious attempt at any production in months - I need some life changes, money changes, where the F did that ground loop come from changes.

I did some singer song writer thing where I turned up with half written songs, and proceeded to convince people there is something not quite right in my head.

I came home the other night - and my neighbour downstairs was drunk and she was singing. She had one of the most amazing voices I've ever heard - she did an acapella of Sinead O'Connor's Mandinka, that sounded better than the original. No. I wasn't drunk.

Another idea...............The DAW is dying. It's a great production tool, but also the most boring. I can't imagine Jimi smashing up a laptop on stage. The pencil tool is killing music.

old gregg

I've posted hardly anything over the last 2 years due to being much of the time gigging and traveling. Thankfully am about to take a few months off to complete the project of the last 2 years so should be around more to post ocasional questions, sometimes offer thoughts of relevance but mostly be inane for the sake of it.

krd

Does anyone fancy meeting up for a drink some time?

I'll go if people promise not to take revenge for anything I've said on the forum.

ICN

I'm not about anymore as I spent a lot of time trying to find what was absent here (for me). Last year I set up my own Techno focused site / blog / forums / monthly radio (online) show, etc..

The Dance Music section never lived up to any of its potiental / promises - so, I had to move on.

This is a great site for Ireland.. but its great to have got out there & met people from all over the world. Its good to stretch the legs sometimes.

I hope it doesnt die totally - though I do check in every week or 2 and very little seems to have changed topic wise.

jtsuited

I think forums are a bit dead nowadays because we've all (well most of us) fallen into the facebook hole. In the old days, boards was a place to discuss stuff, and see stuff, etc.

Between facebook and reddit, forums seem sort of obsolete now.

i57dwun4yb1pt8

not me sugar beet ,
i detest facebook .

and twitter is for egomaniacal c*ntbags


id be on for a drink
whether you love me or hate me , i will drink with you .

krd

jtsuited wrote: »

I think forums are a bit dead nowadays because we've all (well most of us) fallen into the facebook hole.

I pretty much use Facebook only for friends - real friends. There are people spamming it. Spamming will not make you "famous". 90% of the internet is spam already, we don't need more.

Forums are a different kettle of fish. I don't think they're dying - but I think Boards is a general forum operator with lots of sub forums. What's happened recently is some people have had some very successful specialised blogs/forums and people have migrated to them.

Then maybe people are just sick and tired of talking about the latest plugins that are not really any different from the last ones - or the latest controller, that isn't any great shakes on the last ones. To be honest I think desktop/laptop music production is a real pain in the arse and not that much fun. I'm so broke I can't fix the problems I'd like to. I need repairs on the equipment I have, and can't afford them.

I'd like something fun to work on. But anything I've dabble my toes in recently has turned out to be as fun as shoving sherbet under my foreskin.

You really can't learn anything about music production on Twitter.

Then I also thinking the internet has turned people into flakes. Or maybe everyone is depressed.

flyswatter

How can you compare forums to Facebook? , completely different purposes served by both.

kunst nugget

flyswatter wrote: »

How can you compare forums to Facebook? , completely different purposes served by both.

Not really, if you have like minded people invited into a closed group you have a good flow of information with nerdy chat and because anonymity isn't an option people tend not to be dicks to each other but importantly because it's a closed group the info stays closed to everyone else outside the group. The only problem really is that they changed around the chat box option so now you can't see how else is online in your group - that was particularly handy if you wanted to ask someone a quick question or to just shoot the breeze without really bothering anyone else.

flyswatter

kunst nugget wrote: »

Not really, if you have like minded people invited into a closed group you have a good flow of information with nerdy chat and because anonymity isn't an option people tend not to be dicks to each other but importantly because it's a closed group the info stays closed to everyone else outside the group. The only problem really is that they changed around the chat box option so now you can't see how else is online in your group - that was particularly handy if you wanted to ask someone a quick question or to just shoot the breeze without really bothering anyone else.

Ah, I've noticed you can't see who's online in the group anymore, that sucks.

But that's only an element of facebook. Facebook is mostly for contacting friends, old schoolmates, talking shite about getting drunk last night, life photos etc.

Boards is for discussing varied topics with anonymous people, areas of interest.

I see them as mostly seperate things.

kunst nugget

flyswatter wrote: »

Ah, I've noticed you can't see who's online in the group anymore, that sucks.

But that's only an element of facebook. Facebook is mostly for contacting friends, old schoolmates, talking shite about getting drunk last night, life photos etc.

Boards is for discussing varied topics with anonymous people, areas of interest.

I see them as mostly seperate things.

It might only be an element of facebook but it's probably the element that draws me away from boards. Tbf I've made some good friends on boards and we keep in contact with each other through facebook, the problem with boards or any forum really is that a lot of discussion can get very reductive very quickly and the same types of arguments crop up time and time again, usually something to do with begrudgery if it's an Irish forum, and that does get tiresome. Plus if you have a couple of people on a facebook group whose opinion you can trust, you can ask them their opinions on hardware, software, etc and get an answer worth listening too rather than some off the wall reply that makes no sense. I do still come on to boards and snoop around but definitely I've seen a massive slow down in the forums I frequent.

old gregg

krd wrote: »

But anything I've dabble my toes in recently has turned out to be as fun as shoving sherbet under my foreskin.

am I the only one who found this weirdly erotic?

jtsuited

come to think of it, my internet usage almost went to 0 during the year (1st year of medical school will do that), apart from facebook which is almost essential to stay in contact with friends nowadays (I hate texting, and don't have the time for phone conversations).

krd

old gregg wrote: »

am I the only one who found this weirdly erotic?

OMG........there's always one.

krd

jtsuited wrote: »

come to think of it, my internet usage almost went to 0 during the year (1st year of medical school will do that), apart from facebook which is almost essential to stay in contact with friends nowadays (I hate texting, and don't have the time for phone conversations).

The internet is a great source of information. If you're studying anything these days it's an incredible source. I remember a time when you had to go to libraries, and find the books - and often you didn't even know what they were.


Where are you studying medicine?......How'd yah get into that lark?

jtsuited

royal college of surgeons. doing graduate entry medicine. 4 year course. ended up in this lark because, well, that's a good question. i friggin love it though.

krd

jtsuited wrote: »

royal college of surgeons. doing graduate entry medicine. 4 year course. ended up in this lark because, well, that's a good question. i friggin love it though.

Isn't your primary degree in music production?

I've got this image in my head of you listening to a heartbeat on stetsecope - going "man that kick is awful.......Neither 909 nor 808...And it's going all JackStep...I think you're going to die"

jtsuited

primary degree is in anthropology and sociology (hahaha-the bullsh1t degree to beat all bullsh1t degrees).
Have a masters in computer music/music tech (even more useless than my primary degree haha).

studiorat

jtsuited wrote: »

come to think of it, my internet usage almost went to 0 during the year (1st year of medical school will do that)

And so we solve the curious case of why the Music Prod Forum is gone quiet.

Conspicuous by yer absence JT. Hope the medicine is going well!

krd wrote: »

I'd like something fun to work on. But anything I've dabble my toes in recently has turned out to be as fun as shoving sherbet under my foreskin.

I hope that's not a euphemism for something else :eek:

jtsuited

sherbert under your foreskin does actually sound like fun. tingly fun.

krd

jtsuited wrote: »

sherbert under your foreskin does actually sound like fun. tingly fun.

When I was a teenager......*cough*......story unfit to print...just say I passed out.

jtsuited

buying stocks in dip-dab and starting a fetish blog.