There was a time when the forum was maybe more active, but I have been following it intermittently for 2-3 years, I have looked a little bit towards the past messages, unfortunately it is not very active anymore, but there may be those who still read it or those who will read it years later, so you have done a very useful thing, thank you on my behalf.
I agree with the tips you wrote to a great extent. In fact, I always apply them when we play together, this always makes the jams we do together very relaxing for me, so I can say that the tips work very well.
I just disagree on one important point. I mean, technically it is sometimes necessary to "mute" the people we play with, I can't object to that, but I think if everyone who plays in harmony says "what are you doing?" to the person who needs to be "mute", maybe the problem can be solved without the need for a mute.
The muting option is very wrong in this respect (I mean "if you don't like it, mute it"). The Ninjam system gives you the chance to broadcast your jams as radio at the same time. The ninbot site does this properly, and there are working stream links in other rooms. You can broadcast these links as live jamming streams. Or they can be listened to on ninbot. In both cases, the person we mute continues to be heard by outside listeners and becomes unlistenable after a while.
In other words, it is best to be able to convince that person when a mute is needed, but at the same time, using this option easily can leave us lacking in the search for a common sound. Sometimes even incompatible sounds can come to a certain harmony after a while. I think the mute option should be used for trolls or for those who persistently playing after explaining the situation.
Besides that, I think the biggest problem in ninjam is the sound balance. It is very important for everyone to keep the volume at -12db and check it (most easy way, a limitter in master channel). It would even be nice if this setting was done automatically by the reaninjam or jamtaba.
In other words, it is not useful to mix the sounds for ourselves, again because it is not heard that way from the outside. If it was possible I would like to have a person to adjust the mixes for each jam, or someone who is interested in this job to listen and say your volume is high, your volume is low, please adjust it, that would be great. That way we can also download and listen to automatic recordings without having to adjust them channel by channel again.
I describe ninjam as "music with mind sync". For that to happen, you have to enjoy playing with a metronome, with exceptions, please don't turn it off.
Another issue that is as important as being synchronized in rhythm is listening to other sounds, jamming is not possible without listening, but I think the more carefully we listen, the better it will be. When we try to integrate the sounds in our mind by listening, we reach the ideal stage. Playing only for the sounds in our own minds leads to solos that don't go anywhere and eventually to music that doesn't make any sense. Of course all this is imho and my tips
edit: I'm not sure if I should add this, but I wanted to. When we're playing in Ninjam, we have to say something, especially when there's a detune or something that's constantly out of tune. One day I said to someone "I wonder if your guitar is out of tune" and ... was very offended. Whereas if everyone had said that all this time, might have thought that there might be a problem. Our ears get used to discordant sounds after a while, but there has to be a limit. I have no intention of interfering with anyone's playing, but let's not be silent about distorted sounds
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