Chi

was he drunk when he tweeted this or

i cant believe yall worried about VK

It would say live sound engineering is a different and even a more complex job! Say you have been working with the band for years: you know what instruments they use, what amps they use, how their setup works, what levels should the vocals have, etc. You also know the songs very well, so you know how to work around the faders. And you also have the backing tracks, which the band uses a lot (synths, additional instruments, samples, etc.). Ok, let's say you have a setup ready for all of that and during rehearses it works marvelously...
 
But then you got to the venue, and you have never ever been in that place. Your setup does not work!!! So you need to improvise, you need to soundcheck with just a couple of songs, you need to do some technical and mathematical stuff that scares me, you need to adjust your settings, you need to accomodate to the venue dimensions and you need to have in mind how the natural reverb and echo of the place affect the sound... AND THAT HAPPENS EVERY SINGLE NIGHT WHEN TOURING! 
 
A studio engineer has a more relaxed job: if he/she records in an studio he/she owns and also uses his/her own equipment for mixing/mastering/etc., then he/she's going to have an easier ride than a live sound engineer. Even when changing studios or gear, there's still less stress than a live engineer, who has to do things hastily and with no room for big mistakes. Also, if the studio engineer has experience and if the band has a big budget (which means they have a lot of time to expend), then surely it's going to be a pleasurable experience.
 
I'm sure the band's current sound engineer for live shows has been working with them for years. He/She knows the band, knows the songs and also knows the venues: if the band played a lot of shows on the same places and he/she was in charge of their sound during those shows, then surely he/she knows what to do beforehand!!!
 
I remembered when Dir en grey came to my country (Argentina) a few years ago (2011): most foreign bands that come here to play and are not big stadium bands have most of the times really bad sounding shows. That's either a) because the promoters for the tours don't have the money to pay for the 'full experiencie', so the bands came to play without their own engineer (leaving the one in the venue in charge, which really is bad idea), or b) the band doesn't have a live engineer or does not bother to tour with the engineer outside of their country or continent. 
 
So far, I can only thing of six small-venue shows that sounded AMAZING during the whole show: Opeth, Katatonia, Gojira, Alcest, Dead Can Dance and of course, Dir en grey. Opeth, Katatonia, Gojira and Alcest toured with their sound engineers: this was confirmed to me by one of the organizers of the show (an acquaintance of mine). Dead Can Dance is a really important and big band for music overall; they played a small venue because people here are very ignorant, but they are really professional, so I'm sure they brought their own egineer. Regarding Dir en grey, I just can only theorize they brought their own engineer too, because it was one of the best shows I've even seen (and heard): perfect sound since the first minute (sadly, the audience was one of the worst I've ever seen in a concert EVER, and while I tried not to pay attention to them, it was a really sad experience...). 

The mix on the drums is making me want to thrust my fist into my speakers. It's the same obnoxiously wooden thacking from the previous two singles and I'm concerned that mixing will be the downfall of this album. 

Song wise, I'm actually really digging this. I think it hits a nice balance of commercially catchy and compositionally complex. That piano break with the string synths in the middle also gives me major Rentrer en Soi vibes.

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i hadn't voted in this thread before so i just threw my votes in
and considering kisaki hadn't done shit as twisted as the recent incident, i don't know how he got that many votes compared to some of the other stuff mentioned here lol

I voted for Akinori. Weed really messes up a perosn and leads them to do worse drugs like nikwil and caffine 

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weren't they the ones threatening to drop one of their bands from their label if they didn't manage to get a certain number of attendees?
 
edit: 
yes indeed they were, the band in question didn't end up getting dropped because they were only 4 people short of the required amount, but it's still a massive fucking dick move and i hope they won't pull that shit on the gallo

this is so sad alexa play metis gretel

this is so sad alexa play metis gretel

this is so sad alexa play metis gretel

even if you could understand japanese your only way of knowing these trashy bandmen stories would be through the same way it's being delivered here - through gya and bandomen straight up exposing them on tanuki or twitter accs and having to 'choose' what to believe and what to not believe (or a 3rd option would be experiencing vk gya lifestyle first hand i guess) so really , it wouldnt make that much of a difference🤭 but here on the forums these things are discussed constantly and even actual news of members getting arrested come out and ppl dont realize that vk already looks bad.
 
v @cvltic since OP said she got (some) authorities involved already i hope we will get updated on this soon since the twitter acct is no more. unless she ends up dropping it;;;;

this is so sad alexa play metis gretel

These band namings are getting out of hand, lol...

"dark fantasy storyteller" Asagi is shaking

All the photos prove (granted by my own interpretation) is 1. the woman definitely knew and had some sort of relationship with Kisaki thatw ent wrong, 2. that the woman was definitely injured, 3. that Kisaki at the very least doesn't know how to handle a child/respect a child's physical boundaries, 4. that Riku doesn't trust Kisaki, and 5. that Kisaki ran some kind of Y!JA price-boosting scam. Many of these reflect really poorly on him anyway: 4 and 5 completely match his known behaviors, and the 3rd one is a big ass red flag that would seriously worry me even if the other allegations were somehow proven 100% false tomorrow. But there is still room for being critical of the claims as they've been presented without assuming that anyone doing so is caping for Kisaki/bandmen everywhere so try to keep your heads screwed on when it comes to throwing around words like 'innocence'.

I know there's a difference in the quality and detail of evidence provided. I also know that Kisaki is a proven dickhead with a literal rap sheet and that people will understandably weigh that into their judgments. But there are translated assault/rape allegations ostensibly from multiple people against Kyo & Daisuke in this same subforum that have been treated with kid gloves comparatively. I have my own assumptions about Kisaki's guilt like anyone else but it's been annoying me to see not strictly MH members, but off-site people who have jumped on this story as undeniable fact but also decrying tanuki/anonymous sources when it comes to bandmen they actually like because ???.

Unless this manifests as an arrest or court case, I'm leaning towards thinking the woman deleted the account because of tanuki scrutiny or regret for posting the pictures of the child. A lot of the posts I read were quite harsh on the mother for taking pictures of her kid looking distressed, and for posting them on social media. I'd also seen some throwaway accounts reply to to her last tweet about deleting the pictures of the kid and criticizing her for originally only deleting a portion.

^^ @Chi I was just searching and a user posted a DM convo they had with the account OP who said that multiple people supposedly helped report him and also said she believes it will lead to an arrest. I hope she's right and that it does go to a court...

they've known each other for at least two years. but it's a possibility
 
which is what makes ppl worried about "how bad this is gonna make VK look" all the more weird. like, where have you been all these years? 😶
 
btw, those (previously unseen) pics with the kid are disturbing

Never liked the dude, but you guys are rushing a bit too much. Innocent until proven guilty.....

nowhere in the post it says any of that. the OP says shes trying to get police to do something about it.

i rarely take pics i cant even remember if i shared this one
 

nowhere in the post it says any of that. the OP says shes trying to get police to do something about it.

i cant believe yall worried about VK

Hello! 
 
I've been a fan of Visual Kei for more than 10 years now. My love for Visual Kei really started with Alice Nine. They were my favorite band for the majority of my teen years, I even had a Twitter account simply dedicated to them (@AliceNineWorld for anyone that might remember!). I would  also try to discover new bands daily, listen to VK 24/7 and just emerge myself in anything Visual Kei. However back in 2014, my interest for it just slowly started to fade and left the scene all together.  I just felt Iike major bands were experimenting with sounds I did not enjoy and newer bands all sounded the same to me. You could say VK died for me that year. But occasionally, I would go back and check up on bands that I still had some interest in, such as Dir en Grey, Diaura, BUCK-TICK, and sometimes A9. 
 
Fortunately, this summer my love for Visual Kei resurged once again. Coming back into it and trying to catch up with everything I missed in the past four years has been overwhelming haha. The amount of older bands that have disbanded has come as a complete shock, but the newer bands that are starting out have seriously brought in new life to Visual Kei that I personally think really needed. In my opinion, I think we might be reaching a renaissance of Visual Kei, and that absolutely excites me!
 
All in all, I joined this forum because I wanted to be part of a community in which I could keep up with news and talk with other fellow fans. Visual Kei has always been a huge part of my life growing up, so coming back into it almost feels like coming back home.

i cant believe yall worried about VK