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Nav
Hello, friends. I am Nav. I sometimes produce or DJ, but I always listen. On a musical journey that never quite seems to end.

Age 30, Male

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Carnegie Mellon University

NYC

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Posted by Nav - February 28th, 2008


I seem to enjoy deleting my songs.

I will keep deleting them until I have a skeletal chassis of what used to be 60+ songs.

The quality baseline is MUCH higher now, though.

Question to all: Should I delete my first two trance songs I uploaded here?


Posted by Nav - February 22nd, 2008


SBB aka CrazyBerryRock needs to learn to audio modulate.

NaviJ11 (7:17:58 PM): Heeey Norway Guy!
CrazyBerryRock (7:18:21 PM): Hello wherever the hell you were from again guy
NaviJ11 (7:18:30 PM): IM FROM AMMERICAANIA
NaviJ11 (7:18:45 PM): How's audio modulating, Mr. Beetle?
CrazyBerryRock (7:19:22 PM): ...how do I modulate audio : (
NaviJ11 (7:19:55 PM): I don't know! Didn't you learn how in the modulation forum?! I think it has to do with Native Instrument's FM series of VSTs.
CrazyBerryRock (7:20:31 PM): ...where's the modulation forum : (
NaviJ11 (7:20:46 PM): how should I know?! Only modulators are allowed in!
NaviJ11 (7:20:53 PM): Ah, I found a tutorial
NaviJ11 (7:21:04 PM): http://www.dogsonacid.com/showthread.p hp?threadid=276029
NaviJ11 (7:21:17 PM): It teaches you to modulate anything
NaviJ11 (7:21:21 PM): in FM7
CrazyBerryRock (7:21:35 PM): ...YOU DO IT
NaviJ11 (7:21:49 PM): ....I AM NOT AN AUDIO MODULATOR.
CrazyBerryRock (7:22:04 PM): ME NEITHER SO GO TURN INTO ONE
NaviJ11 (7:22:09 PM): NO YOU ARE ONE
NaviJ11 (7:22:12 PM): YOU'RE AN AUDIO MOD
NaviJ11 (7:22:17 PM): THAT MEANS AUDIO MODULATOR, RIGHT?
CrazyBerryRock signed off at 7:23:06 PM.
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Part 2:

CrazyBerryRock (7:23:49 PM): Sorry, we're having technical problems here- please repeat the last message.
NaviJ11 (7:24:00 PM): AUDIO MOD, YOU ARE
NaviJ11 (7:24:05 PM): THAT MEANS AUDIO MODULATOR, RIGHT?
CrazyBerryRock (7:24:19 PM): Shit I've been doing it wrong all the time
CrazyBerryRock (7:24:38 PM): I thought my job was to press the "Ban user" button for every single new artist
NaviJ11 (7:24:57 PM): Oh god no...
NaviJ11 (7:25:06 PM): We are all fucked
CrazyBerryRock (7:25:24 PM): ^____^ then I'll keep doing it
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Posted by Nav - February 16th, 2008


So I'll get to work on some. With Fireworks. CS3. Mmmmmmmm....

EDIT: WOO NEW BANNERS!

Also, news:

Working on some VSTs with Chim.

They are gonna rule. We're gonna work on Linear Arithmetic synthesis, and we're also gonna work our asses off trying to make a Dimension chorus/modulation effect. It will be free when it's done, look for it on KVR.

I've also got a synth that I'm almost done with that uses weird modulation routing to get odd, industrial-like sounds. Once Chim makes some presets for that, its going up on KVR.

Anyways, I'll put links up when I get something up! Now go listen to my music1


Posted by Nav - January 30th, 2008


I found it! I really did!

I found the file that got me into electronic music. I'll start from the beginning.

In my early stages, this being when I was about 10, I listened to a lot of popular music. This popular music was generally the music on the radio, especially a station called "Fly 92.3", its station being "WFLY". Now, this was a generic pop radio station, that you see all of the girls from the school listening to. It played all kinds of pop crap, from Rap, to Vocal Pop, to Dance. It was the dance music that caught my eye. I have a vivid memory of sitting on my couch, chilling to the music. I had a little handheld radio that my parents gave me, and I would move around the antenna, trying to get the best connection. I remember tuning to 92.3, and listening. I then heard the first two electronic songs of my life. First on was "Castles in the Sky" by Ian Van Dahl. After that, I remember them playing a Cascada song, I'm not totally sure which song.

Anyways, this was my first experience, but that is now what got me into it. Those songs only sparked my interest in this massive topic. I would continue to listen to the pop radio, and eventually take a liking to the popular rock music, such as Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Then, when I was 12, something changed. I found a gameboy cartridge on the ground, right on the carpet outside our house. The game was Megaman Battle Network 4, Red Sun. It was my first gameboy advance game I ever owned. This was a big thing for me, as my parents had previously limited my computer/video game time immensely. That is no longer the case, thankfully. Anyways, I had this game. I played it. When I played it, I realized something: the music in this game ruled. I then did what would change my life forever: a google search.

I looked up Megaman music on google. Being unaware that there were previous megaman games, I simply downloaded the first .mp3 link I found. It was a pack, of a few files. I forget the site, and its probably gone now. I had these files, and I saved them to my hard drive. I really liked them, and I have vivid memories of playing megaman (duh) to these files. There was one song that was my absolute favorite: I got over 100 listens out of it. It was called "Megaman X3 - Gravitational II Dash."

Fast forward a few years. I just got my mom's old office computer. I've opened it up, but its hard drive was only 8 gigs. I need more memory. I remember that I saw some hard drives in the drawer. I take one out. I don't put it in, I didn't know how to at the time. I just booted the computer up, and tried to install FL Studio. It didn't work. I was advised to upgrade the processor from a Pentium II to a Pentium III, as FL wasn't compatible with the Pentium II.

So, I needed a Pentium III. Turns out that my friend David had an old Pentium III in his garage. It didn't work anymore, but it had a lot of useful parts. I took it, and brought it home. After extensive messing with both motherboards, PCI Slots, SATA cables, power supplies, Keyboard Controller Malfunctions, removed heatsyncs, and many other things, I finally learned my way around the computer. That was about a week ago.

I revisited the old hard drive. That computer wouldn't boot. I eventually ended up using the Pentium II's motherboard with the Pentium III chip. The other motherboard had a broken keyboard controller on the motherboard, and refused to boot. So now I had this computer. The installation of Windows 2000 on the original hard drive didn't work, so I needed to re-install it. I downloaded a disk, and attempted to boot it up. Sadly, it wasn't detecting both the hard drive and the CD-ROM drive, so it didn't work. I decided to give up.

I then spied the old hard drive on the floor. I tried it in the old computer... it didn't work. I then remembered from the old Ubuntu boot that this motherboard had 80 gigs of space. That was when I made the decision to put it in as a slave for this computer. I reconfigured the jumpers, and opened up my computer. The case was badly designed, as the SATA port for the slave was not in reach of the Hard Drive storage area, so I just rested in on the backside of the fan. I hope it doesn't overhead.

I booted up the computer, it worked. The hard drive appeared as a slave. However, only 5 gigs remained. I determined that the folder "./Ubuntu-Trash" (I think) was taking up the space. I opened it up, and it contained the contents of the old hard drive. I looked in a folder there called data, and discovered the data from the hard drive BEFORE that, the old one that broke. Inside "my documents" was a folder called "Megaman Songs" with a few .mp3s in it.

I copied the folder to my desktop, and imported the whole thing into iTunes. And guess what it was? The original folder where I kept my Megaman songs! I was overjoyed, and decided to write this! Now I will share the file of "Megaman X3 - Gravitational II Dash" with you all!

http://navij11.com/megaman_x3_gravitat ional_ii_dash.mp3

I hope this didn't bore you too much. Feel free to comment on the song that got me into electronic music!
-Navij11

EDIT:

In other news, I just had an AIM convo:

pedophieXXX (4:35:21 PM): Hi little boy
NaviJ11 (4:35:38 PM): Hey pedo
pedophieXXX (4:35:51 PM): you wanna see my monster package?
NaviJ11 (4:36:27 PM): Sure
pedophieXXX (4:36:32 PM): ok!
pedophieXXX (4:36:48 PM): you wanna come to my house and get sodomized later?
NaviJ11 (4:37:00 PM): Nah
pedophieXXX (4:37:48 PM): You want some candy?
NaviJ11 (4:38:02 PM): No
pedophieXXX (4:38:20 PM): want to play simon says?
NaviJ11 (4:38:41 PM): sure
pedophieXXX (4:39:01 PM): Simon says: take off your clothes and let me fuck you for 50 minutes
NaviJ11 (4:43:38 PM): no
pedophieXXX (4:44:03 PM): SIMON SAID SO YOU HAVE TOO
NaviJ11 (4:44:08 PM): no

EDIT:

More convo.

NaviJ11 (9:11:42 PM): Go write your paper.
pedophieXXX (9:11:50 PM): what paper?
pedophieXXX (9:11:57 PM): what are you talking about?
NaviJ11 (9:12:03 PM): Your paper
NaviJ11 (9:12:13 PM): Go write it
NaviJ11 (9:12:15 PM): or you'll fail
pedophieXXX (9:12:27 PM): I don't need to write a paper
NaviJ11 (9:12:33 PM): Yes you do
NaviJ11 (9:12:36 PM): Its a paper
NaviJ11 (9:12:45 PM): to present to your attourney
NaviJ11 (9:12:53 PM): when you get convicted
pedophieXXX (9:12:59 PM): ah ok.
pedophieXXX (9:13:05 PM): I should do that then
NaviJ11 (9:13:09 PM): Yeah, probably.
NaviJ11 (9:15:16 PM): How's the paper coming?
pedophieXXX (9:15:48 PM): uhh I wrote "I love children but never touched one"
NaviJ11 (9:15:53 PM): Ah, I see
NaviJ11 (9:16:00 PM): do you have any kids? You must be like 40.
pedophieXXX (9:16:07 PM): I am 40
pedophieXXX (9:16:11 PM): but I have no kids
NaviJ11 (9:16:19 PM): Do you have a wife or a girlfriend?
pedophieXXX (9:16:28 PM): no
NaviJ11 (9:16:28 PM): Or a loli that comes over every week to "play"?
pedophieXXX (9:16:38 PM): I never leave my house or have people come over
NaviJ11 (9:16:47 PM): Then why did you want me over?
pedophieXXX (9:17:09 PM): because I wanted to show you my package chidrens play house
pedophieXXX (9:17:22 PM): I am lonely adults don't really understand me
NaviJ11 (9:17:34 PM): Aww... you poor thing.
NaviJ11 (9:17:40 PM): Just go to the elementary school
NaviJ11 (9:17:45 PM): say you have a teaching degree
NaviJ11 (9:17:46 PM): and sub
NaviJ11 (9:17:51 PM): and then show the kids your package
NaviJ11 (9:18:10 PM): ?
pedophieXXX (9:18:19 PM): ok
NaviJ11 (9:18:41 PM): There, all happy :-D
pedophieXXX (9:19:04 PM): yes now I will stop messagin you
pedophieXXX (9:19:26 PM): I will never forget you NaviJ11
NaviJ11 (9:19:38 PM): Oh you will
pedophieXXX (9:19:48 PM): ok


Posted by Nav - January 26th, 2008


I've remastered a lot of my older tracks. I just found some mp3s, and I went and made them better sorta.

I've done:

The Answer
Summer's Not Over!!
Euphoric Breaks
Half-Life
Theory

I've also submitted an old song from last August. Listen here.


Posted by Nav - December 27th, 2007


New song released today! I worked hard on this one!

The Jungle, '94!

It's based off of old school jungle tracks, so check it out for a dirty bass and some old school action!


Posted by Nav - November 23rd, 2007


Ok, over the past few months, I've been collecting links to helpful threads and sites for audio. Many relate to drum and bass, and I've categorized them for ease of use.

-General-
Rucklo's Compression Thread
Doa Thread About FL Studio... Lots of advanced help beyond our current thread.
Doa thread about pads.
Another Doa thread, this time about ambiance and pads.
Interface mod for the Parametric EQ.

-Mastering-
Doa - Bandpass filters/Mastering
Doa - Compression
Doa - EQing and frequency ranges.

-Drum and Bass-
Doa - Q/A session with Noisia.
Doa - DnB Pad Synthesis
Doa - Filthy Reese Tutorial.
Drum and Bass Patterns
Doa - Tips for getting Kicks/Subs the right level.
Doa - Making a gritty snare snap.
Doa - Subby kicks with sub bass?
Doa - Well rounded kick drums?
Multilayered drums in FL.
Doa - DnB production on the NDS
VIDEO - Roland Neuro Reese Tutorial.
Doa - Reason Reese Tutorial
Doa - Decent Reese Tutorial
Doa - Making your own filters in Reason.
Doa - how to do a C4C/Optical bass in Kontakt.
Doa - Rolling Reeses
Doa - DnB Filter Vsts?

-Samples-
Doa - Few Basshits/Break
Doa - Reese Sample Pack
Sample Blog
Doa - Heavy Breaks sample pack
Entire Doa sampleswap!
Doa - Declassified Breaks
Yun's 70s Breaks Samplepack
Doa - Reason 4 ReGroove Samples
Doa - More Reese samples!
Doa - BBass sample pack!
Doa - SNB DnB samples! Great packs!
Doa - Amen Pack
Doa - 70s Funk Samplepack

Doa - The Famous LUTHARON SAMPLEPACK!! You will need to look around for a working download, though.

That's it guys. I'll regularly update this on my newspost. Enjoy :)

-Updates-
Doa - Nu:Tone Q&A (Check page 2 for an amen sample pack!)!
Doa - Lutharon Single Hit Drum Sample Pack (Yeah, the same guy who made that huge sample pack listen above!)

Parallel Compression for Fatter Drum Tones
Doa - Dirty Cymbal Pack

Doa - General D&B mixing.
Doa - Using effects part 1, compression techniques.
Doa - Multiband Compression
Doa - Shaping and Tweaking Sounds.
Doa - Frequency Ranges and EQ Settings

Fletcher-Munson Curves
Nyquist-Shannon Sampling Theorem
Equal Loudness Contour