So yesterday I went on a roadtrip…
But first, take a look at my first proper Bandcamp album, a collection of five tunes, four of which I'm absolutely positive you've never heard before!
Whew, now that I've got that out of my system…
Three days ago my boss asked if I wanted to attend a seminar on customer service and such; I naturally accepted, because it was the right thing to do.
Nevertheless, that's how I found myself on the road with four people I hardly knew, in a double-cab pickup truck, driving the full 140km from my town to Stellenbosch, with an Afrikaans speaking GPS annoying us along the way.
Needless to say, I found that entire day far more tiring than any of the days I've had at work.
Anyway, where was I? Oh yeah. I had to wake up at 4AM yesterday morning, and was picked up at 6AM. From there on we were treated to the soothing sounds of the GPS telling us the obvious things we already knew, like "Turn Right", or "Turn Left", just in Afrikaans (Draai Lings, Draai Regs), and only really being helpful by telling us that there were speed-traps up ahead.
The owner of the store had configured the GPS prior to us leaving, and… well, the name of the place we had to go (Rosenview Guest House), had been entered incorrectly (Rosenview Guest Farm). So we wound up in the middle of the city instead.
Eventually we arrived at our destination (Late by half an hour), and were pleased to discover that we were the second group to arrive, and everybody else was late too :P
Anyway, the whole seminar was about dealing with the customer, and telling us that 'The customer is
always right'. And about positive thinking, positive attitude, etc, etc. Ad nauseum, ad infinitum. I picked up the basics.
After that, it was a quick stop at the local McDonalds for a refuel, and then another cramped ride in the back of the cab back home.
Well, back to work. Would you believe that I was able to use my programming skills already in this job? I made a report processor that takes our reports, and tells us exactly how many 25L refills we've made, or how many 500ml bottles we've sold, so it makes inventory control a lot easier.
That's pretty cool^
Draai lingsDraai lingsDraai lingsDraai lingsect.Draai regs.
*hits wall*EDIT:*Pulls out of wreckage; camera zooms in on my bruised and broken face*"And that, kids, is why we never drive by GPS!"i like the tracks :3
however i recommend making the price $5 instead of $7 (that way it would be $1 each song which is common for online music downloads)I would buy this but i don't have much money cause they cut my hours so bad at work. only working 2 days a week :\you make some of the best 8bit songs. *mesmerised* you really need to make some hardcore platformer to use them with. some of your tracks before have even reminded me of Pokemon. they're all very nostalgic :)
@death Yeah, I was worrying about that last night. Each track can be bought individually for $1, so why not set the price to $5? I'm doing it now.
@helThanks, that means a lot to me <3You should make your tracks more stereo. Some panned delay on the leads would make them instantaneously more awesome.
I can, with some jiggery pokery. But remember, this is NES music, in it's native format. I don't like the sound of the VST's out there. But I can mess around a bit with the idea.
I am not saying to use VST's, I am saying to add an extra lane for the delay. But since this is in the native NES format, I guess that's not possible. Lot's of 8bit music out there which do not limit themselves to the NES format use this technique. And they use stereo.
I find it a pity you are limiting yourself so much.i like NES music in mono much more. keeping the raw sound is the best.
Of course. Stereo NES music isn't NES music :P I'm saying that 8bit music should be stereo if possible, since it can make the track more complete.