The TriumphantBass Productions News and Announcement Thread

[Quazifuji]

What do you guys think? Should I keep the track as it is (nothing talkie but the laughs and YEAH TOAST!) or make everything talkie but "Bob and Tom Show" and "Good on ya'"
I'm leaning towards the first option, but I want to know how the community feels

I'm not a vocalist, so take whatever I say with a grain of salt, but this seems like it could be a case similar to Gay Bar: the vocals do have a distinct pitch to them, but they sound much more like talking than singing, and it might be hard to both match the pitch and sing/talk in the same manner he does in the song if it's pitched. Talkies might fit the style of singing better, even if they do make the whole song pretty trivial. It's not like this is something people will buy for anything other than novelty anyway.

Also, I had always assumed the toaster would be matched to the snare drum. Personally, I'd say treat it like the whole thing's being played on a snare drum (single hits on red, flams on red/yellow), both because the snare's a bit more natural to play that sort of pattern on and because it sounds the most like a toaster. I feel like if someone for some reason were trying to play this song and had a drum kit available but not a toaster, the snare would be the best way to recreate the percussion part.

At the very least, I find the yellow pad a bit more comfortable to play patterns like that on than blue, so I'd swap the blue and yellow if you're not going to move it all the way to red.

[DragoonXD]

I feel like if someone for some reason were trying to play this song and had a drum kit available but not a toaster

I'd be wondering how this person had the cash to afford drums, and not a toaster (unless for some ungodly reason they don't eat toast).

I think the non-stop laughter is what makes it so funny for me. I feel like I'm laughing at the people laughing.

[TubaDude49]

Personally, the Blue pad felt more centered and more comfortable to play the part on.

[TubaDude49]

And I know it's probably a whole lot funnier watching him play it live, but the song is just simply not that funny and every five seconds it's like "OMG LOLOLOLOL SO DAMN FUNNY LOLOLOLOLOL!".

I understand, but sitcoms have been doing the same thing for years. You get used to it.

[SeymourDuncan17]

I understand, but sitcoms have been doing the same thing for years. You get used to it.

Yes, but with sitcoms I expect a laughtrack. With a song... you just wanna hear the song and not somebody laughing at it (or at least laughing at it so audibly) or singing along to it.

I may get used to it, but as of right now I'm not really wanting it. I love Team Fortress 2, the song itself, but god those laughs are so obnoxious.

[LuigiHann]

I like it. Snare does seem like the appropriate sound-match for the toaster sound, but on the other hand, blue does feel like the right color for a toaster.

The vocals I think mostly work as is. Personally I would make some of the last words of phrases into talkies, particularly the early verses that have lines ending in a sort of deep quiet voice that I think will be very awkward to match. Most of the higher parts are very sing-songy and should be fun as is

[TubaDude49]

The vocals I think mostly work as is. Personally I would make some of the last words of phrases into talkies, particularly the early verses that have lines ending in a sort of deep quiet voice that I think will be very awkward to match. Most of the higher parts are very sing-songy and should be fun as is

Yeah, I might make a few more of the questionable words non -pitched. At the very least I'm going to keep the French part as-is.

[TubaDude49]

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[TubaDude49]

Hey PS3 owners, come walk down our purple halls, you can even play "(pin)Ballz"
"(pin)Ballz" is making the jump to PS3 Tuesday for $0.99, with all profits benifiting Child's Play.

[TubaDude49]

I must add however, that while I did take the time to make an awesome new mix from scratch, the song was too far along in the pipeline for the files involved to be changed for the jump.

Regarding concerns about my QA; I try the best I can to make things as good as I can before I upload them to creators, but as the PS3 does not have audtion mode, I do not have a chance to play my tracks in game before they hit testing. In addition, many authors note that a mix can sound completely different in-game than it does in REAPER.
That being said, "(pin)Ballz" did have fifteen revisions(ranging from a complete guitar overhaul to a single note change), and was tested by several established members of the RBN community. I addressed every concern that was brought up.

While I am dissapointed that I cannot bring the new mix to the players, I hope that you will enjoy the track regardless, and if nothing else, that your money went to a good cause. Harmonix and Insomniac both assure me that I'm overreacting about the mix, but I still feel that you deserve better, and for that I sincerly apologize.

I will try my hardest to maintain a higher level of quality with my future tracks, and have asked testers to be critical about things such as the mix.