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Challenger X: Laptop Speakers Only

By angellis on June 5, 2022 10:23 pm

This track is entirely mixed, programmed and mastered using only laptop speakers (deliberate choice for a challenge). To be fair though, I did monitor the overall mix using Izotope's Tonal Balance Control to make sure the master mix still fell in the right spectrum.
When I first started making music using modplug tracker and cool edit to record audio, I didn't have any fancy equipment, just cheap pc speakers. It was like going back to that era of DIY lofi production but with modern tools.

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June 6, 2022 7:42 pm

djippy

This sounds super big on my full range open back headphones.

Cool track.

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June 6, 2022 9:26 pm

jemmons

Oh yeah! This takes me back to when I would zone out on whatever mods I could find on the local BBS played over a pair of Realistic speakers hung from my basement ceiling with cable from a broken pair of headphones.

Writing that down, it sounds kind of pathetic, actually, but THAT WAS THE LIFE!

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June 12, 2022 9:33 am

angellis

djippy wrote:

This sounds super big on my full range open back headphones.

Cool track.


Thanks!


jemmons wrote:

Oh yeah! This takes me back to when I would zone out on whatever mods I could find on the local BBS played over a pair of Realistic speakers hung from my basement ceiling with cable from a broken pair of headphones.

Writing that down, it sounds kind of pathetic, actually, but THAT WAS THE LIFE!


You know it! I think I spent ages sitting in front of modplug trying to program every little aspect with no idea what I was doing on possibly the cheapest, dirtiest setup. It was a real rush, making a whole album's worth of lofi tracks in a day or a week. I would love to have that much time to just play around again.

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