PlumBum

People who stop dead on the spot when walking. Especially when Im walking behind them. Actually, lets add slow walkers to the list too

Welcome! I only joined yesterday but already feel right at home! Have a great time!

Cheeeeeeeeese! Although I quite like BBQ too....

I like comedians that can get pretty close to the mark. Not really a big fan of 'family friendly' comedians such as Michael McIntyre or Lee Evans. Prefer those such as Jimmy Carr, Ricky Gervais, Sean Lock, Mitchell & Webb and most recently, Joe Wilkinson on '8 out of 10 Cats does Countdown' has me in fits of laughter.

Okay, Im currently doing a degree in music production and last year we had the 'business' module of our degree. Sampling was one of the primary focus of a lecture, so here's my two cents on the legal side of sampling. Basically when sampling first came about, everybody groped around for what kind of deals had to be made. Alot of sampled records around that time were released before anypony tried to clear the rights, which in turn led to artists and companies having the attitude of 'well, if they catch me then I'll make a deal'. Which they did. But do you know who's rights need to be bought out? Obviously the record company owning the record must be paid but the publisher of the composition also needs to be paid. Publishers will always insist on owning a percentage of the sample copyright, royalties and income. But this percentage depends on how significantly you have sampled. If you lift an entire melody for example they can take 50% or more of your income from the song. The thing is, the catch me if you can idea stopped abruptly in 1991 when a rapper I cant remember the name of sampled a Gilbert O'Sullivan song and got caught. Not only did the rapper get slapped on the wrist but the case was forwarded to the US attorney office for criminal prosecution. Any intentional copyright infringement is a criminal offence if not dealt with the proper way. Now, I don't have a problem with sampling at all. Hay, I use it myself now and again. But I feel it needs to be used in the correct way, aka not completely ripping off the original artist.

Hey everypony! I was wondering if you could all do me a huuuuuuge favour and fill out this questionnaire for me? Its linked within my signature Its primary research for my degree dissertation on the 'compositional approaches to dynamic audio in video games'... Shouldn't take more than a minute or so! Oh! If you have anymore to add to the questionnaire or have a question regarding what I'm doing then feel free to let me know! *brohoof*

Hmmm, its gonna have to be Ultros from Final Fantasy VI. Not that he is that hard to beat or anything but purely for the comic relief this'one-liner octopus' delivers especially after Kefka has destroyed half the world.

Well, I quit my job two years ago to go back to University and study for a degree in Music Production. It was a lot to give up but at the same time felt like the right thing to do. In just under a year I'll be starting my dissertation on the dynamic audio of video games and their compositional approaches. So I suppose I'd like to get into the music biz, preferably game composition of some sort.