Anyone know how to contact the DoomMaster?

[save2600]

Anyone here have a story about being satisfied with a purchase from Doomie?

Doomy and I went rounds not *that* long ago. Maybe a year and a half to two years ago. It was a dark and stormy ePay transaction and he had several Amiga goodies I "needed". Knowing full well who he was, I proceeded with caution and conservatism in only buying one thing: an internal SCSI NEC CD-ROM drive for my A2500. I'm satisfied with the drive now, but after immediately paying, I patiently waited for it to arrive. A couple of weeks went by and no drive. Wrote a few times before finally getting an answer. I thought I had been scammed (we're talking a $20-$30 transaction here), but the guy WAS loopy, lied and was just plain "weird" dealing with. Don't remember exactly what he said, but it was neither nice, flattering or apologetic. Took another week or so before I finally got my drive. The guy plainly has issues and is someone to avoid when dealing.

[desiv]

Anyone here have a story about being satisfied with a purchase from Doomie?

I have.  Wanting to get back into the Amiga and I saw a craigslist for an Amiga 500 with 512k expansion and an external floppy for a good price.

I called and we set it up.

I picked it up, and he handed me the battery for the 512K, which he had removed.  We talked quite a bit about the "Golden Age" of computers, and had both owned a lot of the same hardware.  I enjoyed the retro-conversation and got to see his Amiga 2000/Video Toaster setup and his software collection.  He included a WB floppy (original) and a boxed copy of Blockout.

I got it home and it worked.  The floppies were giving me a bit of trouble.  I let him know and he offered to clean them.  But I did that myself.  Looks like it was mostly the buttons that recognize a floppy is inserted.  After playing with those, the internal works great now.  The external still gives me probs, but I haven't taken it apart to clean it better.  I've recently acquired an Amiga 1200, so I haven't poked at the 500 in a bit.

It wasn't until after that I got back onto the forums and realized that there were problems and I made the connection.

I'm not going to try to sway people's opinions.  I've stayed out of the posts for the most part.  Since you asked, I'm responding.  I saw one person who was defending him a bit in some other thread (possibly on another board) and people started attacking that person.

So, yes, I had a good experience.

desiv

[Daedalus]

I guess it could well be a better experience dealing with him face-to-face, but the majority of the stories you hear/read seem to involve PayPal and eBay, and usually involve him waiting for several weeks until a chargeback isn't possible before shipping an item. Man, you should've seen his feedback on eBay - I can't remember now but I think it was in the 50-60% range...

[1337DOG]

Thanks for the DoomMaster stories guys!! Very interesting.

[save2600]

Somebody had to do it. So now I have no choice but to repost my remix

http://www.mashley.net/doomytrance.mp3

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moto

I'm sitting here LMAO at this "remix"... rotflmao  :lol:  

BTW: what did you use to extract his voice sooooo cleanly and clearly?!? lol  

I f!@#ing hate the way he pronounces 'possible' too.  And I never noticed how, at the end of '...makes it happen'... the way he "sings" 'happen', sounds like he's really saying 'heaven'...   :lol:

[tone007]

TotalRecorder is great for that sort of thing on PC.  Look up "streamrippers," they probably have them for Mac too (unless Steve Jobs doesn't allow that sort of behavior.)

[save2600]

K... so I'm vaguely aware of tools that yank audio off sites, but oohhhh, I see... there wasn't any music originally when he was singing next to his VT system!  lmao  Was thinking Motorollin extracted just his voice from a tune...

I actually had Doomy's song confused with the one on the OS3.9 disc  (now I'm scared!)...  :lol:

I'm seriously rolling on the floor right now. Thanks for the laughs!

[Tension]

That remix is funny as hell.  Excellent work!!!

[motorollin]

BTW: what did you use to extract his voice sooooo cleanly and clearly?!? lol  

I just used Audio Hijack Pro to record my system audio and then played the YouTube video he played.

http://www.rogueamoeba.com/audiohijackpro/I f!@#ing hate the way he pronounces 'possible' too.  [/quote]
Yeah, it's pretty weird!

http://www.rogueamoeba.com/audiohijackpro/And I never noticed how, at the end of '...makes it happen'... the way he "sings" 'happen', sounds like he's really saying 'heaven'...   :lol:[/QUOTE]
I can't remember what the original sounded like, but I've got a feeling this effect is something to do with the way I processed the vocal track. I used Recycle to slice the vocals up into individual syllables so I could change the temp without changing the pitch or sample rate. I didn't do a very good job, but I couldn't be bothered to do it more precisely - plus he's already mucked the recording up with his ham-fisted attempt to Autotune it.

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moto

[motorollin]

TotalRecorder is great for that sort of thing on PC.  Look up "streamrippers," they probably have them for Mac too (unless Steve Jobs doesn't allow that sort of behavior.)

What does it have to do with Steve Jobs?

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moto

[motorollin]

Was thinking Motorollin extracted just his voice from a tune...

Well you *can* do it that way by filtering out all the other frequencies, but it's usually quite messy as there's inevitably overlap between the frequencies in the voice and those in other instruments. That means you either have to leave some of the backing in, or carve out frequencies with the ranges used in the voice, which alters the sound of the vocals. Doomy's original version was vocals only, so I just recorded it.

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moto

[Karlos]

Somebody had to do it. So now I have no choice but to repost my remix

http://www.mashley.net/doomytrance.mp3

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moto

Dear God preserve me :roflmao:

Actually, that's pretty well produced. Did you use any pitch correction on his voice?

[motorollin]

Actually, that's pretty well produced.

Thanks

Did you use any pitch correction on his voice?

No, he did that himself. I don't think he did a particularly good job, but over-pitch-corrected vocals seem to be a feature of that style of music, so it actually works rather well.

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moto

[1337DOG]

I knew I heard a hint of auto-tune in the Doom Master Only Amiga music video. Once again, I too enjoyed the remix!!


No contact yet BTW. Haven't added any contact info here yet, may do so next and see if that helps.

Doomie,
Doomie,
Doomie.


EDIT: I could of course contact him myself with the information kind posters have given me and may do so soon, was hoping he would contact me magically somehow.