Comments on: The Contest – ?!?!?!? http://arthurthefourth.com/2008/06/the-contest/ selling my soul, but keeping a copy Fri, 22 May 2009 13:57:46 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: evan http://arthurthefourth.com/2008/06/the-contest/comment-page-1/#comment-435 evan Sat, 21 Jun 2008 16:00:37 +0000 http://arthurthefourth.com/?p=176#comment-435 <p>FWIW, I think the phrase is "lipstick on a pig," and the second clause is just implied :)</p> <p>The contest sounds like it could bear wondrous fruit, and what's more, if it doesn't, you're no worse off than you are now. You yourself can compete by tweaking your own mixes until you hear something better come along. I myself don't think the current mixes are so bad, but I'm no expert, and I feel the intuitive truth in the priority of mixing over mastering; mastering seems like it's for playback on the perfect sound system, whereas an inferior mix is noticeable even when I'm cranking my awful ipod buds to drown out the Q train.</p> FWIW, I think the phrase is “lipstick on a pig,” and the second clause is just implied :)

The contest sounds like it could bear wondrous fruit, and what’s more, if it doesn’t, you’re no worse off than you are now. You yourself can compete by tweaking your own mixes until you hear something better come along. I myself don’t think the current mixes are so bad, but I’m no expert, and I feel the intuitive truth in the priority of mixing over mastering; mastering seems like it’s for playback on the perfect sound system, whereas an inferior mix is noticeable even when I’m cranking my awful ipod buds to drown out the Q train.

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