Hi, I'm Ed Winchester.

2013-05-10 12:14:30 am

Baldioengineer

I'm longhaired in spirit, in case you're wondering what the family-friendly answer is to that question.

I'm also a hitman, a giantbomber, comedian, photographer, philosopher and a huge goddamn nerd.

I used to speedrun right from the moment I had my first experience of "I know this game by heart, let's see if I can beat it before I have to run to school" with Probotector (1990), kept it up until it frankly got to be too much for my thumbs five six years ago - Thanks ~~Obama~~ Fibromyalgia! Recently returned to arcade-game collecting for the third time with the goal of speedrunning raw PCBs instead, since joysticks beat all other forms of input when it's like this.

With mobility and repetitive actions becoming a thing of the past more and more I began to focus on other forms of entertainment and potential work, and ended up here with some of the old shmups gang to pre-emptively serve as the senior audio-engineer on ESA2013. If you've got audio or music production related questions or plain ponderings about it, chances are I've got the answers. As for my creations, lately it has been annotating old commercial jingles and intro songs made on-order to awesome nerds in Japan that regularly show me amazing Famicom games that not even obscure websites know about.

Misc:
I like kittens, puppies and good vocaloid music (all music is fine, love good hip hop and soulful singing like Shirley Bassey atm.). Happily doing karaoke that fits (or can be converted to) my baritone as long as I know the song and I'm in the right shape to sing. Personal goal is to fit into a new shorter belt before ESA2013 begins. If anyone of you recognise me from TV just from these shots I'm seriously giving you a cookie when we meet at ESA and shooting the shit with you, people still greet me on the streets here.

Thread title:

I'm longhaired in spirit, in case you're wondering what the family-friendly answer is to that question.

[IMG]http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e99/MrLonghair/rodskjort.jpg[/IMG]

I'm also a hitman, a giantbomber, comedian, photographer, philosopher and a huge goddamn nerd.

I used to speedrun right from the moment I had my first experience of "[i]I know this game by heart, let's see if I can beat it before I have to run to school[/i]" with Probotector (1990), kept it up until it frankly got to be too much for my thumbs five six years ago - Thanks [s]Obama [/s]Fibromyalgia! Recently returned to arcade-game collecting for the third time with the goal of speedrunning raw PCBs instead, since joysticks beat all other forms of input when it's like this.

With mobility and repetitive actions becoming a thing of the past more and more I began to focus on other forms of entertainment and potential work, and ended up here with some of the old shmups gang to pre-emptively serve as the senior audio-engineer on ESA2013. If you've got audio or music production related questions or plain ponderings about it, chances are I've got the answers. As for my creations, lately it has been annotating old commercial jingles and intro songs made on-order to awesome nerds in Japan that regularly show me amazing Famicom games that not even obscure websites know about.

Misc:
I like kittens, puppies and good vocaloid music (all music is fine, love good hip hop and soulful singing like Shirley Bassey atm.). Happily doing karaoke that fits (or can be converted to) my baritone as long as I know the song and I'm in the right shape to sing. Personal goal is to fit into a new shorter belt before ESA2013 begins. If anyone of you recognise me from TV just from these shots I'm seriously giving you a cookie when we meet at ESA and shooting the shit with you, people still greet me on the streets here.

Charleon

2013-05-13 11:01:07 am

Quote from MrLonghair:

Recently returned to arcade-game collecting for the third time with the goal of speedrunning raw PCBs instead, since joysticks beat all other forms of input when it's like this.

W0rd. I myself come from the fighting-game community where 99% use arcade-sticks. After you get used to them you prefer them over everything else, even I use my own arcade-stick when I run games, at least on Emulator; it saves you from the blisters on the thumbs when doing long sessions ;).

I would say Welcome, although I think I might be even newer than you around these parts of the internet, though your presentation kind of spoke to me, mainly because of your love for joysticks and Musical tendencies. me myself has been a composer for videogames in the past (don't ask for which games I've made music for, you won't know them as they didn't sell :( ). But I think my knowledge about Audio only stretches as far as composing and mixing, I can't tell a microphonecable from and HDMI cable, so it's nice to have a veteran in that field on ESA to deal with problems that may arise. I guess I'll see you there! :)

[quote="MrLonghair"]Recently returned to arcade-game collecting for the third time with the goal of speedrunning raw PCBs instead, since joysticks beat all other forms of input when it's like this.
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W0rd. I myself come from the fighting-game community where 99% use arcade-sticks. After you get used to them you prefer them over everything else, even I use my own arcade-stick when I run games, at least on Emulator; it saves you from the blisters on the thumbs when doing long sessions ;).

I would say Welcome, although I think I might be even newer than you around these parts of the internet, though your presentation kind of spoke to me, mainly because of your love for joysticks and Musical tendencies. me myself has been a composer for videogames in the past (don't ask for which games I've made music for, you won't know them as they didn't sell :( ). But I think my knowledge about Audio only stretches as far as composing and mixing, I can't tell a microphonecable from and HDMI cable, so it's nice to have a veteran in that field on ESA to deal with problems that may arise. I guess I'll see you there! :)

Svenne

2013-05-15 06:02:00 am

Welcome! See you at ESA! <3

curseddolls

2013-05-15 08:25:12 pm

100% gamer

I'm sorry for being totally off topic.. but your title of the topic just makes me think of supernatural.. :X

MrLonghair

2013-05-17 06:11:03 pm

Baldioengineer

Charleon: Yeah! Got two NeoGeo AES sticks (mk1 & mk2) and I love using them. I'm still learning about audio, one always is, and I will learn more on the spot as I experiment with hanging microphones from the ceiling etc. You're a good candidate for the third mixer-handler in case I ditch for the nearby hotel for a night. Right now I'm using a Casio SK1 for far too many things, need a cute little midi keyboard and I can get back to work on the music for real with the warm weather here. No real set genre for me but it's whatever feels right to make at the moment, right now it's something like this:

curseddolls: I should watch that show! This one's from the classic:

curseddolls

2013-05-18 10:47:29 am

100% gamer

Ah u haven't watched supernatural?
Its one of my top favourite ones :)