Cheyne

Your saying it heats up a lot when playing Diablo 3 ?

Difference between Diablo and music production is that your DAW doesnt chew power on your GPU only your CPU. Not a whole lot you can do about that id say, just try and keep the laptop cool, elevate it off a flat surface so there is air flow under it and give it plenty of room to intake air.

Also try turning the graphics down. The GPU will be heating up
Blizzard may tune the game a bit aswell and release a patch ..

Nice review .. Im sure Synaecide would love to see it , not sure if he's around much

nice catch jester ...

just delete their posts or ban them completely, i hate spammers

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Hi Ingrid!

Welcome to SoundPunk, great to hear high school students getting into audio engineering.

Im sure you'll get the answers you need from our members here soon.

I would say hip hop music is going to be very sequencer based, lots of drum machines, MPC's, 808's, 909's and less of a live element to it. Music created in a studio.
Heavy metal will be more expressive, most likely created in someones basement until its ready to be refined and then its brought into the studio to be mixed and compressed into something more complete.

They'll both end up in the studio but the techniques will vary. Obviously heavy metal will have the distorted guitars and acoustic drum kits so there will be a big focus on mixing these so they sit in their own space, and from my own experience with heavy distorted guitar, this seems to be one of the bigger challenges as it always seems to override everything else.

You can imagine that a heavy metal band wants that more fuzzy, warmer, heavier sound, and so those crisp, clean and tight mixes you hear on hip hop and R&B tracks are not desired, where as that seems to be the holy grail with lots of hip hop and R&B.

Think about a track from the Black Keys, and now think about a track produced by Timbaland. They both have very very different sounds. Timbaland is all about the super clean and crispy mixes, where as the Black Keys prefer the lofi grainy warmth sounds. You could imagine songs by these two artists being mixed and recorded in very different ways, using very different equipment. Digital vs Analoge. Live Accoustic vs Sequenced etc etc

Someone with some more experience in this field feel free to chime in here