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I want you to do a blind test with a properly encoded MPEG-1 AL3 ( ≥ 245 kbit/s compressed with a quality encoder like "lame") versus a .flac of the same song (just download your favourite song as a .flac and convert it yourself using the lame codec set with audacity or any other music-editing tool). Then get another person and let them play both files for you while you are blindfolded / not looking. For an easy evaluation do 10 listen samples. You partner writes down if you guessed correctly or not. I bet my left nut and my right one as well that you can't get at least 7 out of 10 right.

Unless you spend an exorbitant amount of money on headphones and a proper ODAC you're not going to hear any difference! It's hard to believe at first given the big jump in file-size, but you can rarely make out a clear winner. It mostly comes down to how the music is produced, where the artists equipment has its limits and what hardware / software he uses to compose.

Joel know his stuff pretty well and I'm sure he goes for as small of a quality loss as possible when it comes to audio-convertion.

TL;DR: .flac is a waste of disc-space when compared to a proper .mp3 file. Like most PC-Audio related stuff, .flac is snake-oil.

also on best buy.

that explains joels break and duda being in toronto right now. sooo looking forward to it. hopefully its gonna be epic!!!!

Did you know Amazon will donate a portion of every purchase if you shop by going to smile.amazon.com instead? Over $50,000,000 has been raised for charity - all you need to do is change the URL!

Here are your smile-ified links:

found it on Amazon

^^i'm ^^a ^^friendly bot

Ill be wearing my Mau5-ville shirt. DM me if you're down to meet up.

Edit: anyone going for that matter, DM me if you wanna meetup.

I want to say you can enroll at any time you like since it's a go at your own pace kind of thing. Let me verify that though if I can

EDIT: Per the Masterclass page at the very bottom:

Never Expires

Take the class at your own pace and in your own time.

It doesn't answer your question directly but I can't imagine we'd have to enroll by a deadline for indefinite access. Pre-enrollment is probably like preordering a digital copy of a game or music. You should be good to join any time :)

Nah, $90 is for the whole course. $90 per session would be extortionate, unless deadmau5 was giving a private one-on-one lesson.

https://www.masterclass.com/classes/deadmau5-teaches-electronic-music-production#/

Starts at 22:30 GMT

Here's a link to a countdown:

http://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/generic?p0=136&iso=20150627T2230&msg=deadmau5%20Glastonbury

Hopefully someone can record it. International users may need to use something like Hola to watch it.

It's very satisfying to learn though! I've been DJing for six years, and three years for weddings/birthdays/clubs and it's a really fun 'skill' to learn.

If you ever want to give it a try, you can use VirtualDJ (which from my experience is one of the most user-friendly) and a cheap DJ controller (e.g. my original controller).

It allows you to really appreciate how important timing is when mixing tracks together, and it's really fun to do in your spare time. I really regret turning my hobby into a job which is why I quit DJing events, but it's very fun regardless :)

for context this was my mix from a while ago of joel's stuff

yeah, the songs just fade together.. I guess they technically are mixed but not in the way I was expecting which takes forever to perfect. I'm pretty shitty at the method I'm talking about, but I learned a few things as well

https://www.mixcloud.com/CoelacanthsKill/some-shitty-deadmau5-mix/

Tried posting this a few weeks ago and it got down-voted to oblivion. Mix I made while going through a tough time last month with a family illness/death. Put together some progressive house tunes that remind me of the vibe I feel when listening to one of Joel's DJ sets and threw in some Deadmau5 tracks as well.... Figured others might enjoy it... Don't really DJ that much anymore due to life so this is just for fun and not some self promotion BS. Just feeling the holiday and got me down a little bit so I took another listen myself https://www.mixcloud.com/dj-frogge/progressive-sessions-2016/

...bro, this is kindergarten stuff... paint over it with white...

You know what, heres some links: 1. Paint.Net download site, free simple image editing software to download 2. Gimp download site, another free image editing software to download

You're welcome. You don't need to pay $$$ to edit images.

I tried to recreate it the way Joel played it at UMF, here's a link. I also played around a bit with the files and rearranged it a little bit, so that there are some vocals in the very beginning as well, here's a link to that, if you are interested.

Definitely not claiming for those to be the best, but they work for me :P

It's not that hard to do this, though, you can find the acapellas very quickly with google and then mash the songs together with Audacity.

Interesting that this is 1 minute longer than the version on iTunes

Which is also the same length of the Beatport release and I have no shame in paying the $2.74 for the lossless version of this :D

Here

http://www.whosampled.com/Deadmau5/Closer/

And even though I sided with deadmau5 I feel like he should of not said anything to wildstylez.

Here is all the tracks that deadmau5 "sampled" http://www.whosampled.com/Deadmau5/samples/

Here's that letter from YouTube I today came in the mail http://imgur.com/6fD3Ife (in Russian, but the main thing is so clear). So bad that Deadmau5 and his lawyer have chosen such a decision (they did not ask to remove specific video or even joint activities).

In my video was 3 Set (one of which Space Ibiza was loaded in free access, other 2 with over 400k views may be violate any copyrights, but uploaded already 2 years ago), the rest of the video-Livestream and cut of tracks from it, that any copyright don't have and were uploaded by me only for fans and support interest in Deadmau5 to exit new album.

I've still left an account on soundcloud, but there is a restriction on free use in 2h, which almost ended (and buying a subscription that probably sooner or later will be blocked too I have no desire to).

Perhaps a new stream and tunes from it will appear in my group at VK.com or somewhere else (the need for this I now reflect) where will not interfere with Deadmau5 interests & create a new tracks.

hey melodic, yes! thanks for the offer! Here it is: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cyclub.cyclubspotify

If you have time to poke around, id love to get your thoughts and feedback. Its android only at this point… ios is coming in the future

I had several problems with my mau5 head. There are two areas that show major 'cloth; scars that cant really be shown by picture. Also the ears are a major problem because of how much extra clth I left and I had to disguise it. Was really difficult.

My recommendation is to follow this guide: http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-build-your-own-Deadmau5-mouse-head-helmet/

It will tell you in detail how to make a mau5 head. Sorry i could not say in much detail.

I don't exactly want to share too many, and most of them are obscure sounds you can hear in the Citadel. Basically anything Citadel ambient related comes from the same pack. I have yet to go over all of the samples, but I know for sure that the odd trumpet song you hear at the beginning of Chapter 10 is comprised of two samples. One is "Distorted Trumpets" and another is "Is that the Door"

https://clyp.it/omm21zpf - Is that the Door https://clyp.it/yihnws32 - Distorted Trumpets

Is that the door has been used in Silent Hill, 28 Days Later and some other games that I can't really care to remember.

I have a new one with the bass as well, maybe that might help explain things? Uploading it now, gimme one sec.

https://www.mediafire.com/?usbsystied8djui here. (same 4|1|0 length as before and I'm pretty sure its the same bassline as the rest of the song too if you drag the bottom notes out)

You probably already knew this, but I wanted to confirm that Circles and No Sudden Moves were also formally credited to Joel, so I did some searching (couldn't find these titles on ASCAP) and voila! All three of these tracks are already on my "deadmau5 Essentials" playlist...it's nice to finally confirm officially that they belong!

Riiiiiight here (320kbps!!!): https://www.mediafire.com/folder/m9k7utj7sk4ge/BSOD

But just letting you know ahead of time:

1. The instrumental versions of the vocal tracks are not included

2. "Hurt (BSOD Remix)" is only 186kbps because I couldn't find it in higher quality.

EDIT: I just now realized that 7 of the tracks are undownloadable due to copyright. PM me for them.

Technically I didn't really "capture" it as much as I saved it while it was streaming.

While watching the stream in Chrome I opened the developer tools (Ctrl+Shift+I) and went to the Network tab. There I looked for a .m3u8 file, which is sort of a "playlist" file often used for internet streams. You can use this file to view the stream in VLC, for example. I used the file with a command-line tool called Streamlink to basically save the stream as a video file.

If you're not familiar with using command-line tools and dev tools in Chrome then this might be a bit tricky to do the first time.

I fiddled with this, and yes, it fits reaaally good. What seems to work the best is the outro, mixed in with the break(?) of Moar Ghosts.

I made a thing of it, here .

It's basically taking the outro of Professional Griefers, repeating it, and adding reeverb over time, while starting the Moar Ghosts part. I guess, you could also use the original Ghosts N Stuff with Rob Swire's vocals, but it might sound sudden, and choppy. But I don't know.

Beatport has it in WAV or AIFF, but they don't have the continuous mixes.

Qobuz has it in a variety of formats (including FLAC) but the Disc 1 continuous mix appears to have been cut short (hopefully they'll fix it). Also Qobuz isn't available in some countries (like the US), but you may be able to email support to get access.

Oh perfect! Yeah as long as youve got an android device, Nanoleaf panels, and a Spotify premium account… youre good to go. Here’s the link to the app that plays back the lighting in sync with the music: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cyclub.cyclubspotify

edit: if you fire it up, let me know what you think. I’d love to get feedback

I'm not sure if it's available in Italy, but I found it on Amazon

EDIT: Unfortunately deadmau5 himself isn't selling it anymore on his merch site, so I think that'd be your best bet.

Reason why this is compressed so heavily is it was originally on the Nintendo DS, really good game which is now on iOS and Android

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/grand-theft-auto-chinatown/id344186162?mt=8

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rockstargames.gtactw&hl=en_GB

Would recommend grabbing their stuff off the live subscription.

Is it your first try at a full song? If so, you're doing well. You've got the concept of composition down. Now all you have to do is begin your style, your sound, and your genre(s).

I started off with this. Now I'm up to this

I wish you luck and patience. You'll need both to get anywhere, man!

That link for the first home live set is actually for the second home live set in 2014. Not sure why I have it linked to that url for the curated list of show audio. Ill have to find a new link for it tomorrow and update it. Anyway here is a download link for the one on max24s hulkshare page.

Hey, (sorry if I'm late to the thread), but I found having the start of the clap begin slightly earlier and sidechaining with gross beat gives you a really great sound - hope this helps Example before/after sidechain - https://clyp.it/l5moxe04

I believe I have a MIDI of Superbia on my computer somewhere. Give me a while..

EDIT: Here you go, apparently there's something fucky going on with tempo marks/mapping but it's what I've got.

Does someone know how to pull the audio from the website?

EDIT: This is the best I could do. Just used Sound Recorder, so it's probs less than 128kbps. I tweeted the beatport link to Billboard asking him if he'll ever put it out for DL. Hopefully he responds.

Thank you! Hopefully Joel will come back to it when they're looking for releases. As for now, it's on my Soundcloud and Audius pages:

https://soundcloud.com/for-seti/the-sundering-of-the-elves-demo

https://audius.co/forseti_music/the-sundering-of-the-elves-demo-67366

here.

https://www.mediafire.com/folder/zas2i02698cw3/deadmau5_live_stream

slight timing issues. chords sound accurate-ish to video, after he pitches it up around 3:45

I'm one of the admin in this community. As far as I remember, all (or almost all of the videos were added and there. But after removing the channel and they stopped to work.

If you notice any other videos out there that aren't on Meow-channel write please. How to be a little more time, I'll check all the videos, there's something still available

You should've gone further mate. This is proof of the opposite.

Registrant Tiffany Yu is the Digital Manager at Three Six Zero, the management(?) office for deadmau5 (amongst others). https://www.linkedin.com/in/tiffanywyu

Also if you do a Whois on mau5trap.com it is registered to Three Six Zero:

Domain Name: MAU5TRAP.COM Registrar URL: http://www.godaddy.com Registrant Name: Sebastian Mysko Registrant Organization: Three Six Zero Group

While it doesn't directly prove that it is Joel, it surely proves its someone with a bit of cash (as I am assuming Three Six Zero isn't the cheapest).

http://www.whosampled.com/sample/108939/Deadmau5-The-Oshawa-Connection-The-Crystal-Method-Busy-Child/ Sadly Who Sampled only has a reference for the main song he sampled =/, I really wish I could find where the conversation is from.

i dont make music and dont plan on it anytime soon, but a buddy of mine does and i believe he started using this free software called virtualDJ. i think you can use it to mix and edit tracks but im not entirely sure how it works. im sure theres probably some sort of guide tho. well hope this helps, good luck.

I would assume vinyl for the deadmau5 remix doesnt exist since discogs doesn't even have artwork for it but there are several vinyls for sale of the original mix in 12". Even less likely the remix exists on 7".

link

Don't feel too bad, I payed for over a year before I knew about this.

You mean like shows? Raves? There's only little snippets. This is a class on music production. I took it when it came out. Really helped me because I was just starting out with electronic music production. I did Rock for many years prior. It's available for purchase on MasterClass Online Classes

Watch the first five seconds of this link.

Now imagine that five-second loop is playing endlessly as you scroll Facebook (and skip it), watch YouTube (and skip it), or literally anything else.

Those words got imprinted in your head after a while, to the point of it being a meme in the House of Mau5 here.

you can order them off of Amazon

Does anyone have a recommendation for a good pair of earplugs? Just did an amazon search and these came up, probably looking for something under $20: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00A3Z44R2/

Found them on Amazon

https://www.amazon.com/MCS-25x16-5-Deluxe-Record-66722/dp/B00I5JQ2F0/ref=pd_sbs_201_1/132-4273516-4938241?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B00I5JQ2F0&pd_rd_r=1776709f-2d8f-44f8-8236-2e6c8f150ba2&pd_rd_w=fhWUM&pd_rd_wg=7vA5S&pf_rd_p=e20a7044-dca9-4b2c-8da8-05b176efe6fb&pf_rd_r=GS8VAF4G1BANYFHC9FC1&psc=1&refRID=GS8VAF4G1BANYFHC9FC1

Do we know if there's going to be an extended mix of this track?

Also, it's live on Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/Pomegranate-Explicit-deadmau5-Neptunes/dp/B0881XHQSX/

Is similar function to this but smaller will provide pics of actual controller used once i have everything in order. Rextin T1000S LED RGB Full Color Programmable Pixel Controller with SD Card DC5V / DC 7.5 – 24V for WS2811 2801 LPD8806 6803 1903 (Controller) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01M30I0WP/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_ggnWCbFPQEPYV

I bought mine from Amazon, and they've got a good variety of colors.