Safe And Sound Mastering offer a shoddy service for a terrible price. We’re so crass we think spamming message boards [in blue] is a legitimate way to promote our business.

Do yourselves a big favour and don’t bring your masters to us. We’ll only ruin them.

Ikebana is Japanese flower arranging. Putting flowers into various displays that are pleasing to the eye. The finished product is considered to be very competent by the florist industry. Florists are people who sell flowers, often to individuals but also to corporate clients. They will sell single flower stems, but usually they create a professional product, in this case the product is known as a bouquet.

Here is a very usefull link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florist

Jahful - 30 November 2010 10:28 PM

Ikebana is Japanese flower arranging. Putting flowers into various displays that are pleasing to the eye. The finished product is considered to be very competent by the florist industry. Florists are people who sell flowers, often to individuals but also to corporate clients. They will sell single flower stems, but usually they create a professional product, in this case the product is known as a bouquet.

:D i loled

I must say one of the most factual threads ever to appear on the forum and I’ve learn’t alot this morning..thankyou!

On the subject of mastering without sounding too dry, it is something which I take alot of interest in and to how well the overall final sound is.  The Twisted Cds which are mostly done at Soundmasters are always stunning and hence I always go for hardcopy.

On the subject of cd cases they are very interesting, and they come in a variety of formats these days. Developed in the early 80’s the jewel cd case is popular still and artwork can be stored just inside it.  When listening to the music you can pull the inlay card out, open it and read it and drink a cup of tea too to heighten the experience.  Card storage makes for an alternative and I can recommend the Dakini Records cds as they are usually a double fold which opens to the right then left, the artwork on the early releases was done by Ito Seisen which is stunning.  The benefit of cd release is that it is a hard copy so it will last along time, you can also store them in alphabetical order so selection of the desired music is quick and easy.

Cd storage also complements flower arrangeing as you can arrange the flowers and put them next to the cd storage unit which makes it pleasing to the eye…

Twisterpedia… wikifloweria?

MIB agents wear black suits and neckties with white shirts, and appear at UFO landing sites, similar to paranormal reports of real-world Men in Black. Since the MIB are a secret organization, no evidence of their existence can be left. Instead of intimidating or threatening witnesses, the MIB use devices known as “Neuralyzers” to wipe witnesses’ memories of what they have seen, and replace the memories with more mundane explanations, such as florists or CD Cases. All agents carry a pair of black sunglasses, which they put on before activating a Neuralyzer to shield themselves from the effects. Neuralyzers are also used on agents who leave the organization for any reason or for agents that do not have the mental or emotional capacity to continue with the organization.

PS: Is there some new drug you didnt tell us about? 

Best thread this forum has seen in months…

Some facts about the symptoms of a “kick to the balls”:
-It may cause the victim to throw up.
-It may cause the victim to pass out.
-Scar tissue.
-Hernia, intestines will get in the scrotum.
-It may cause “testicular torsion”, by initiating a muscle spasm; this is rare but is a medical emergency, testicular torsion may not happen immediately after the trauma.
-Testicles move freely and are slippery to avoid trauma, but if the trauma sustained by the testicle is hard enough (50Kg), the testicle will POP(rupture), and then probably must be removed. This is rare, and usually is associated with sport injuries when not wearing a cup. Even when can be repaired, the resulting inflammation will turn most of the contents into permanent damaged material.
-Even a medium force trauma will cause the destruction of spermatozoa-production cells. It will not cause sterility because those cells are in massive quantities, however those cells do not regenerate, it is permanent damage. And if hit many times or too hard, it may cause infertility, because the sperm count/mobility must be acceptable in order to get a woman pregnant by natural means.
-Will also reduce spermatozoa production as a result of hormonal changes, one of those changes is testosterone reduction.
-Erection problems.
-May damage the epididymis, and that is critical, because sperm must be stored there to gain mobility to be able to swim. Inflammation of the epididymis for life.
-May rupture major blood vessels, and draining the scrotum will be needed. Or microscopic veins inside the testicles, this will permanently destroy cells indirectly.
-In case of very hard trauma, the testicle/s can swell for more than a weak, with resulting excruciating pain and severe damage from prolonged heavy inflammation. The swelling it is similar to mumps, but in the case of mumps it will cause sterility for sure, and the testicles(usually just one) will shrink too, very sad and scary.
-In some cases may cause the antibodies to start attacking the person own sperm.
-It may even cause death as result of PAIN, heart will fail right away or will begin to fail(heart beat will became fast and irregular, usually face and lips very white) until finally stops, this is called “neurogenic shock”, and it is not that rare like people think, most of the times the victim is saved because gets medical attention on time, it will need shocks to the heart using the defibrillator.
-Among other symptoms, the victim will feel shock/panic/confusion/anger, violated/abused, embarrassment/humiliation; those feelings will be stronger if young; especially if they do not know or never heard about “kicking in the groin”, and most especially and without comparison if done by the opposite sex. If it was an accident will only hurt physically and maybe embarrassment; but if done by a girl you will feel violated, sexually abused, extremely offended, humiliated, etc.

ehmm, Cloudwalker, I would like to take your…err.. picture. Just please look at my pen here… I promise you’ll feel better afterwards

edit: Now my signature is starting to make sense to me!

Ok I’ve lost it now with the suits and the ties and the kick to the balls. So what is you take on mixing and mastering?

Yes before we go into things like ‘cheap nose enlargers!’... 

  Making the music and mixing it already can keep you busy and strange. When I try to ‘master’ I end up remixing and rerendering. It’s better to let someone else do that.

Three questions: With electronic music, is programming really that important (choosing the order of the tracks- can’t the artist do that)? Aren’t there tools to help you analyze the tracks and make sure the levels are consistent? If the music is all coming out of the same studio with the same electronics, how much sweetening goes on in the mastering? Ok, question four- what is the mastering process without compressors?

Look at the back of all your CDs. You’ll see the name Tim Schuldt at 4CN studios a lot.

I will take a kick in the nuts from a very attractive Betty Page-like lady in a corset.

I would have thought that most artists would have choosen the order of the tracks, personally if I do a mix compilation I put them is a listenable order to do with feel/texture/tempo etc so I would from an electronic viewpoint this would be the case, I know Posford chooses the track order.  Yes plenty of tools to help with levels I use Soundfordge myself but I’m far from an expert on software tools, but from a professional service they are probably boffins on the subject on how a final master will sound when coming out of a pair of home speakers.

Question 4 I haven’t a clue about.

When Shpongle 4 was done Posford had said he wanted a more ‘low fi’ sound and I think in an interview he said Kevin at Soundmasters had alot to do with that.

PS..Men in black doing flower arranging is deffinatley ‘IN’

I don’t think that the order of songs is of such priority in mastering either.

When looking at Wave Files of good mastered music (i.e. non-Rick-Rubin-Productions), e.g. Younger Brother or Muse,  I noticed that only the Refrains/Full-On parts are compressesed with peaks going to 0 dB. Intros/codas seem to be left without compression ( < = -12 db) and verses/bridges are only compressed to certian limit (-6 dB) and a certian degree.

I assume that even different (hardware) compressors with several specificly finetuned filter bands are used for different parts of a track. Stuff that can’t even be found in twisted studios.

PS: Is their some strange synchronicity/dejavue going on between this thread and the CD-Cover art of ‘Vaccine’? Something like ‘Don’t argue with florists wearing sunglasses, or else they’ll kick Sakura in your ...’ poor Ruu, how could he have known that?