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Donariok:
Some thoughts just passed tru my mind as I was reading this.
a whole Ibrahim badamasi can talk like this after being humbled by old age.

One day!!! just One day, Fayose will become an old man and I wonder how, just how he will feel after reflecting on the insults he'd thrown at Buhari. who knows, maybe by den, just maybe, lalasticlala and seun will b the new lair Mohammed ,


oh, old age! by then, there will be no balon d'or contest for both messi and ronaldo. by then, Linda must have grown much more older than the way wizkid described her. by then, Nnamdi KANU must have advised his grandchildren to tell their grandchildren not to involve themselves in any Biafra saga. by then, we won't have the time for booking space for comments.

oh old age. oh how I wish I can be young forever .

Quite poetic!

jideflash:

Perhaps remuneration package should be put, no?

You guys have at least 2 great guys the Gyang guy and TY whom I know personally.

Oyiboman69:
he lacks lacks etiquette

But his bus pass is intact, LoL....

'A ticket'... get it?

I will not even read the post - the tile is enough - for me to comment. I'm less concerned about NIPOST for now.

We have become a lazy people with the advent of Social Media and SMS. Don't get me wrong, it is a good development to have these social tools as it has greatly advanced reach and it is a true factor of the Jet Age.

However, nobody reads or writes well anymore. People just can't be bothered! Imagine 'text speak' when writing a letter or an application. You think the recent screen grabs of Corpers' blunders on their youth service completion are funny? They are but a sad reality of where we are headed.

Sometime 2011, I was at my then office's canteen and overheard a conversation between two girls. They were both in agreement that the internet is just for Facebook! The more educated one who was an undergrad at one of those glorified state universities couldn't fathom what else the net was useful for.

Imagine if I had the access to the internet I have now, then, that would have been a blast! Project work would have been well aided and a lot of things one had to go all out to get information about would have been easier. Now, these so called FB girls can't even use the FB optimally either as a (responsible) networking or communication tool.

I mean, what is 'monin', 'tomao'... it is (grudgingly) understandable if you are trying to cut SMS count/cost or in an emergency but not to be used perpetually. What am I saying? It is not even acceptable... what happened to abbreviations like using only consonants i.e. 'tmrrw' or '2mrrw'; 'ltr' (not to be confused with liter) or 'l8r'...

Then, we used to write. Even to woo and impress a girl, you'd need to take a lesson in writing or contract it to someone.

Some will say English is not our mother tongue, I agree. But even the so-called mother tongue, can anyone really communicate well with it? How many can write a letter in Yoruba for instance with all the attendant markings well placed?

Mike is truly a humble guy... just meteor him minutes ago at a location.

truskool:
Are u a creative sound producer? Can you engineer a track for an A-list artist? Can you come up with interesting concepts for corporate bodies to advertise their services ?

If so, We are looking for:
A Music producer/Sound Engineer For Corporate work.

-Must be conversant with music production softwares especially ProTools, Cubase, FL Studio and Waves.
-Ability to play the Keyboard is a must.
-Good communication skills.
-Good Human Relationship skills.
-Time & Process Conscious.

Inquire at Digi Lounge/Cloud 9 Studios @ No. 9 Nafada Rd. Kubwa. Call 09020030032 to schedule an interview.

*Please Come with a Demo Cd or USB of prior work (pref. Corporate jobs i.e jingles,adverts,etc) or send samples to info@oncloud9.tv

You need more than a producer/engineer @ the bolded; more like a creative director sorta thing IMO...

On another thread you asked for good producers and you are yet to do the needful. Please forget the guy that is talking spread legs - he was prolly joking.

Music business in Nigeria is near kalo kalo. Not that it doesn't return the investment, but it seldom does in the general. A lot (not all) of what you are seeing being successful is either of 2 things:

Talent + 'good' branding + wherewithal to spend stupendous amounts to propagate the music = attention, appreciation and returns via digital sales (ringtones and CBRTs), appearances and shows and in select cases endorsement

And the second,

Near talent + average - if any - branding + some wherewithal + God's grace (same also in the first) = attention, appreciation and returns via digital sales (ringtones and CBRTs), appearances and shows and in select cases endorsement

A third scenario is where there is nothing to write home about but the money behind the act is a massive war chest and these are the ones that are everywhere but nowhere and two outcomes await them, to fizzle out or with concerted effort and spending, gain acceptance and success.

Let me not bore you...

Madam, at least post a sample of your music for now... or for those that are interested, let them provide an email in case you don't want it in public domain at all

branhampaul:
Any One Got An Idea, Do Share!

For like 10, 000 copies, it should be between N80, 000 and 130, 000 depending on the kind of print, if it comes embossed...

MrPresident1:
I am now selling phones, one of the companies in my group of companies is partnering with Nokia and BB and Samsung.

Send money into my company account& my boys will deliver at your doorsteps

A trial will convince you

Barawo bansa!!!

Ay04z:
her signature say it all....so don't be surprise.

You're funny... I didn't even notice she was female until you mentioned "open legs"... the signature is suspect but she may be serious. I asked for contact cuz I 'm not open to all and sundry.

Ay04z:
ready to open legs....guys ain't smiling

Na wah for you o.

Vongsama:
That's because I've experienced such. Bought HTC charger (from aboki though). It took the whole night to accumulated 3%. It was jst out of desperation I changed d cord n till now, I'm using d said htc charger wit a samsung cord n its very ok.

Ha, ha... there's nothing HTC in those chargers from Abokis o. Bought one with HTC emblazoned on it and he was like this is original because he wanted to do the right thing... I rest my case...

I suspect SLOT in the first Blackberry I bought from their Unilag branch. The engineer kept saying it was necessary to install this and that and promptly set the new phone on his table away from my view... The battery was basically dead from day 1.

The BB Z3 I bought last year is fine but their engineer at a different branch, also insisting the need for some updates et al didn't get to do anything as I refused. It's working fine. I did all the updates, antivirus blah, blah, blah myself.

This is the portion where the recent tanker fire incident affected at Ojuelegba. Dunno what they're saying that it's Apapa I.

Drop your contact

Kai that movie moved me beyond word. Comical, saddening, informative, educative, entertaining... it was something else!

[quote author=malvisguy212 post=44356471]If I am saved, why do I still sin? Why do I have
such a problem with sin while I am here on
earth? Why am I still troubled with impure
thoughts? Why do I sometimes do what I know
is wrong? Why do I sometimes fail to do what I
know is right? Why do I continue to battle with
temptations? Why do I sometimes live and act
like an unsaved person (see 1 Cor. 3:3), even
though it grieves me and saddens me when I
live this way? In 2 cor 5:17 it say the believers has a NEW NATURE. Now that I have a new nature, what has happened to my old sinful nature? Did it disappear? Was it transformed from something evil to something good? Was it totally removed? Was it partially removed? If the believer says that he has no sin (no sin
nature), is he telling the truth or is he deceiving
himself ? Bible say in 1 john 1:8-10

8 If we claim to be without sin, we deceive
ourselves and the truth is not in us. 9 If we
confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will
forgive us our sins and purify us from all
unrighteousness. 10 If we claim we have not
sinned, we make him out to be a liar and his
word is not in us.

The old sinful nature has not been eradicated
or removed. It is still present with the believer.
James 3:2 refers to believers and it says, "For in many things we offend all" or literally "For in
many things we all offend." The word "offend"
means that we all stumble, fall short, and go
astray. We all fail and fall. Even as believers we all have sinned. We all offend, and therefore we all are in desperate need of the mercy and grace of God and in desperate need of His forgiveness and cleansing. In 1 peter 5:8 the bible say BEWERE. If you are save and the sinful nature is removed completely, WHY BEWERE ?

Paul, as a saved man, made the following
amazing statements:

Romans 7:14-25
14 We know that the law is spiritual; but I am
unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. 15 I do not
understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. 16 And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. 17 As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. 18 For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature.[ c] For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. 19 For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. 20 Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it. 21 So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me. 22 For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; 23 but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me. 24 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? 25 Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God’s law, but in my sinful nature[ d] a slave to the law of sin.

A save man has TWO nature, Good and bad, the one you feed the most will dominate your life.[/quote

I'll quote you on that last line. It is so apt, true and guiding. God bless you.

kemifunke:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6m02qDzr8bg

Great song I no go lie... I was skeptical at first. Good work ma'am!

And the orchestrated chaos persists...

professorkorezi:
yh@ ovaboard
nd fenks 4 d advice Mr fkj..

I find parkour pesin tire like nearly 2 years ago as an agency requested.

Please send your contacts to richgamutonline@yahoo.com with title PARKOUR/FREE RUNNING just in case something comes up

professorkorezi:
na d guy vex me pass...no b d network concern me..c aw e tarnished d lyf of stunt (parkour nd freerunning artists lyk professor korezi) well I will teach him aw real parkour his done..I just nid 2 advertise a product usin my highly extreme skills 2 ova cum any obstacle dat cums my way..check awt my smallest impart of my skills on crazy obstacles..

Really, do you do parkour?

fkj950ax:
But why turn the sales executives to sexual objects in the TVC.

Airtel Customer Service people don't dress like this now.

You sef notice? I thought it was only I!

[quote author=Michael13 post=43720317][/quote]It's like a warmth, saturation, distortion module. Its a good tool to revove that digital clean edge...

But if he is talking about the Mic Modeler, it is a supposed mic character emulation VST. IMO, it just a bunch of EQ settings that don't do much. It's discontinued.

lastpage:
Dead Wrong!


The Body succumbs to injuries when it can no longer take the level of pain it is being subjected to.


*With prompt attention, they would first be sedated and put on morphine injection (strong pain killer).
*When they are put in that state of coma, it is easy to just "manage the burns" over a couple of weeks.
*Food will be given by intravenous methods.
*Sore will gradually heal-up under specially designed gauzed bandage that produce body protein to allow skin-burns close-up
*Skin will eventually regrow but they will certainly survive.

Its the PAIN that killed them, not the BURNS.



Lastpage!

Wowzer:
Health service system needs reform. Fluid replacement and Sepsis control could have saved them if they had gotten prompt medical attention. No emergency service functioning for RTA victims. Not even an ambulance. Shame.

Probably Kidney shut down from fluid loss and super imposed infection on large burnt surface area. No excuse even if it is 3rd degree burns as people put it. Which is not.

So sad to know.

I'm no medical doctor but I was like "ah, these ones don survive na", so imagine my pain to learn that they both died! We need to do something about our health system.

Where were they taken to, what was the treatment given to them? It is pertinent that we know.

Any one with insight and info please educate us.

I'm no medical doctor but I was like "ah, these ones don survive na", so imagine my pain to learn that they both died! We need to do something about our health system.

Where were they taken to, what was the treatment given to them? It is pertinent that we know.

Any one with insight and info please educate us.

lastpage:
Dead Wrong!


The Body succumbs to injuries when it can no longer take the level of pain it is being subjected to.


*With prompt attention, they would first be sedated and put on morphine injection (strong pain killer).
*When they are put in that state of coma, it is easy to just "manage the burns" over a couple of weeks.
*Food will be given by intravenous methods.
*Sore will gradually heal-up under specially designed gauzed bandage that produce body protein to allow skin-burns close-up
*Skin will eventually regrow but they will certainly survive.

Its the PAIN that killed them, not the BURNS.



Lastpage!

Wowzer:
Health service system needs reform. Fluid replacement and Sepsis control could have saved them if they had gotten prompt medical attention. No emergency service functioning for RTA victims. Not even an ambulance. Shame.

Probably Kidney shut down from fluid loss and super imposed infection on large burnt surface area. No excuse even if it is 3rd degree burns as people put it. Which is not.

So sad to know.

I'm no medical doctor but I was like "ah, these ones don survive na", so imagine my pain to learn that they both died! We need to do something about our health system.

Where were they taken to, what was the treatment given to them? It is pertinent that we know.

Any one with insight and info please educate us.

Michael13:
Alright, I'd start by testing a dry signal by removing the Dbx Compressor, maybe compare it later...and I'l also keep in mind that I cut out too much sensitive frequencies from the vocals and focus more on clashing frequencies.

Thanks for your time.

Pleasure, anytime. If there anything else, let us know

Michael13:
Firstly, The main problem I have with the track is perceived loudness, especially when I play the track back to back with other commercial songs. When I played the track on a friend's sound system and then played Yung6's Example track, i noticed that my track wasn't loud enough.

Also, my friend said the vocal is quite low and thinned out, just like you pointed out.

I use a RODE NT2-A Microphone and yeah it doesn't go through a pre-amp but I pass my signal from the mic to a dbx Compressor to maintain a fairly constant volume and pass the signal to my Focusrite Soundcard which then feeds into the computer.

Also I have a hard time controlling or monitoring my sub bass, so I rely heavily on a spectrum analyzer to see whats happening down there, though I use a Yamaha H-7 Monitors, but to be honest I feel deceived with the low signal on these monitors, so most times I tend to over compensate the bass and sub-bass.

I would like to ask, If you feel the track is loud enough or if it needs more volume boost (limiting).
Thanks for your time

OK. Yungsix' "For Example" for example, is a little more compressed so the quieter regions are a bit more to the fore; I perceive more stereo widening of the mids, perhaps a little in the low section but it still retains the mono punch and more limiting. This is as far as I can tell. Your mix can be IMO worked to such end.

Ha, ha, my guy is doing DIY pre-amp-ing . Not bad but watch it as pre-amps are expensive for a good reason. Those tubes and D-A converters are no joke and chances are you are ruining a clean voice signal with the Dbx Compressor. I really don't know but if the signal after your chain is good and clean, then you might have to work on your vocal mixes more. If the cut outs are as a result of in the chain settings or just the chain itself, please revert to straight-to-the-soundcard method. Rode NT 2A is a fine mic bro and Focusrite anything are good enough.

One thing I notice a lot with Naija mix engineers (especially the up comers) is that they tend to cut absolutely all sense of mids in vocals in a bid to dumb down the lows in vocals. Nice try but many a times it needs to be re-checked so that the proper presence of the vocals are not cleared out in the pursuit of a free high and low mids for other things. Your vocals sounding low (hmmm, maybe) could simply be as a result of the missing ooomph in the vocals.

True-to-tape? I used the term to depict tape recordings i.e. analog, where the threshold for over 0dB signals is waaaay higher - and it retains its sonic integrity - than digital in-the-box systems. Studio One is that, IMO.

Michael13:
Here is a link to a mix i recently made
http://tindeck.com/listen/uzvvg

And here is the same mix after mastering
http://tindeck.com/listen/obtap

Thanks

At this juncture, I need to ask what you perceive as the problem with this mix/master for instance.

I'm using a less than ideal set of speakers to monitor right now so I can't be 100% accurate but taking into cognizance the kind of tones used i.e. it is sub-heavy, I think it sounds OK. Perhaps a little more upfront vocals - very little - or even some instrumental or every-bar-hit sub/kick side chain (I noticed a little frequency clash with vocals) and maybe a little overall sheen (perhaps mid-side level) may do well.

Often times, mixes are a result of the vision of the producer so I can't use the everyday kick-snare-bass-synths... logic to really judge this but it's not bad in itself.

It could be better, especially the vocals which sound too thinnned out with a little 8kHz-ish over-sizzle but that could easily be a result of mic or interface quality and it is more likely not going through a pre-amp (which is the Naija standard). Let me know your hardware.

I'm hearing a low end thud at every bar hit as I mentioned but this is at high volumes and it could be because of the crappy speakers where I'm at tho'. If it a true distortion (at lower monitoring on better systems), it may be as a result of sub overload in which case you may need to cut a few dB at about 60Hz or so for one or two instruments (and compensate with a high boost) to allow the thud to sit well.

Shed more light if you can.

abnsugbe:
can never be possible cos Gozie is a pure Gay

Oh, you sef know na. Well, it is a marriage of convenience or he has been ungayed IJN.

I went with to see him with a gospel act around '05 or '06 - I have never been so embarrassed for myself. He was flirting with me without remorse, me a super straight niccur with revolutionary phobia for all-things gay. Tufiakwa!!!

As we left his place, we witnessed live robbery in Onitsha a few meters away from us and this was broad day light 6.00 pm with everyone watching. The night was rife with all sorts of gunshot sounds and 'explosions'. I was wondering if I was still in Nigerian territory because it was all surreal mehn - gay 'toasting' + robbery + all night war-like gun fight.

I swore never to step into Onitsha in my life again. I hope things are better there now...

Update:
@Gkemz, the gay tin no be gossip o!

This is bullocks!!!

This is not a soft landing proposal but outright brazen insult to our collective intelligence. So, MTN will only not pay a fine up to half of what they were initially slammed with but spread such payments 'til the expiration of this administration and much of it will be in 'services' to the FG. Who send dem to invest in our sovereign debt instrument.

This government best sit up and show these guys that we are an accommodating lot but not stupid!

Michael13:
I always love to mix nd master my tracks within a single project.... It allows me to be flexible and I cld easily correct my mix during the mastering stage. However, most times I tend to bounce to 32bits wave when I experience latency issues.....this happens most times when I use the maximizer in Ozone with the IRCIII settings



Sure I do leave a minimum of at least a -0.1db
But most times when I make an instrumental (especially free instrumentals in which I have no control over who tends to use it), I tend to leave a minimum of 1db to 3db. This is to give space for vocals to sit on it.

And I'm still trying to upload a reference mix. Glo and their crappy network.
Thanks

Ah, that IRCIII setting especially for keeping the transients... heavy on the CPU.

Tho' head room isn't the all in all for a good mix/master, the -0.1dB is kinda low. To be critical, a -6dB allowance is recommended and that is for your whole mix with vocals on o. And not by sliding down the master fader. And that's before you master.

As DJ quik said: "Low is louder...". I agree to a good extent to that but these days, working with a true-to-tape DAW (Presonus Studio One), I don't even watch my master buss anymore! It is so damn solid with bleeds you don't get that digital harshness when your master buss tips over. Nonetheless, I always watch that my individual track are reasonably mild in dB. Just Blaze no even send his meters looking like a mass murder scene with all the reds but then again, these guys work a lot with solid state dynamics, hardware based.

Chances are you are already mastering before you achieve a final mix? I don't know but its seems so. This may cloud your mix judgement. Just saying. Highest I do in my mix process is slip a limiter into the master buss and that's rarely.

Post the track when you can.