Fully All Good - Biography

Former music producer and sound programmer 'Fully All Good' Tomas Vik was born in Partizanske, Slovakia, where he grew up and still lives. He demonstrated his relationship to music in his childhood when he was 5 years old. This relationship grew stronger and became a child's dream which ended up in production work in 2002.

The author designed and programmed his own music synthesizer HyperGood and, later, its stablemate WaveGood in a modular reactor. We are dealing with super software synthesizers. The author himself examined a number of synthesizers made by official producers on the market, but he didn't find one with as many functional qualitative parameters compared to the author's strong 'arsenal' whose exceptional and great functionality and sound-making process -designed by the author himself and used in his music - can be seen in the video samples. The author of the music is, at the same time, the author of sounds.

As time went by, the author failed to fulfill his lifetime dream therefore, in spring 2009, he gave up music production activity.

Rejected and ignored by radio stations and publishers, the producer left the music industry due to the ignorance of those who should connect musicians with people, and thus decided to publish his work on the internet. The internet is much more powerful compared with radio stations and publishers. In the future, each music group will have their own web page to present and sell their songs. People will be able to buy the songs they want and not the whole CD album where most of the time there are 2 - 3 good songs and the rest is just additional stuff. This way publishers, printers, pressrooms, warehouses, distributors, retail businesses and many others will be bypassed. All that will be left will be the musician and that means a much lower price for songs. For example: if a CD costs € 26 (SKK 800), then based on an approximate calculation 3 songs out of 12 will cost you only € 2 (SKK 60) directly from the source (producer/group). In cases of Slovak CDs with a price of € 7 (SKK 200) it will cost you 50 cents (SKK 15). CDs are made of a sensitive and obsolete material which picks up a number of technical flaws from the very start of the production process. An internet giant will be created where all groups will promote their music. The listener will search according to the genre, year or country and there will not be problems like not being able to find a particular CD because it's sold out and the publisher doesn't want to reissue it. The time will come when you put mp3s on USB sticks which you then put into a socket, not with a CD player but with a USB connection, and you will listen to your own choice of music. There will be no more jumping, scratched CDs. You will only have clean data. An original CD is just a copy of a CD brought to the publisher by the author as a demo. Don't believe people who say that an mp3 has audibly worse quality. The author Tomas Vik is a music producer and sound technician who, after a number of detailed examinations of this format, has concluded that an mp3 comprised of 192 kbps CBR at the best mode has no qualitatively audible difference. The tests were carried out on various CD songs. Mp3 is a compression format that cuts out high frequencies which aren't audible by the human ear anyway (during a good compression). 192 kbps is the lowest limit where the frequency of the song is cut out, starting from 19 kHz upwards. This is a frequency which is very silent in a song and is inaudible. If you comprise a song several times, or at a lower level, it happens that when you listen it is attenuated without peaks, or that the higher frequencies sound glittering or shimmering. Moreover, it's not a problem for authors to sell their songs in good audio quality (in the wav format which is the same as cda, the only difference is that the data format is more readable and of a better quality). Given the fact that publishers don't create a single note, they've disproportionate rights when signing contracts with authors. In the future, there will be no more barriers between music groups and people. Publishers and radios are afraid of the extensive power of the internet. Are you fed up listening to the same 20 - 50 songs again and again? No matter what radio station you listen to, they all play the same songs. Only a few radio stations used to be really good. The best radio station was DCA radio with a variety of dance songs which weren't that popular.

It's not the people who decide what makes the charts, it's the publishers who dictate which specific songs make a new entry in the radio charts. Otherwise, people only choose the order of the previously-chosen songs. We're dealing with major censorship picking out someone who'll make it and the other one who won't. It's time to move on and let people themselves finally decide based on what they like.

Tomáš:

Moje mínusy - predovšetkým je to moja ekonomická situácia, ktorá mi neumožňovala sa vybaviť profesionálnou hudobnou aparatúrou akou disponujú nemecké formácie. Napr. keď som si chcel kúpiť hardwareový syntetizátor ''Access Virus TI'', ktorý je pravdepodobne najlepším na svete, a ktorý používajú všetky nemecké tanečné skupiny, čo je aj dosť počuť na zvukoch, ktoré používajú, že je to hneď identifikovateľné, že je to Access Virus, tak som zistil, že v tej dobe stal 100 000 SK (3 300 €) a hneď som mal jasno, že nebude, čo ma prinútilo si vytvoriť aspoň dosť podobne softwareové syntetizátore. Softwareové len imitujú analógové funkcie hardwerových (ako súčiastky integrovaných obvodov, rezistorov a iných súčiastok v kombinácii), preto hardwerové znejú lepšie, lebo sú originál a sú také svižnejšie, basy teplejšie a celkovo znejú hutnejšie. No však to je len jedna položka z celkovej potrebnej aparatúry. Ďalej sú potrebne repro monitory na kvalitný zvuk s precíznym počutím frekvencii pre mixáž a master úpravu. Len softwareové programy by stály cez 200 000 SK (6 600 €). Človek by potreboval byť snáď milionárom a to ešte nehovorím o priestoroch na také profi štúdio. Ďalším mínusom je, že speváčky nemali žiadne skúsenosti z nahrávaným v štúdiu čo sa prejavilo aj na hlase. Ďalší mínus je, že slovenské súkromné profi nahrávacie štúdia nemajú skúsenosti s mixážou a masterom modernej tanečnej hudby akú som robil, nakoľko upravovali poväčšine rock/popovu hudbu. Dal som si neraz urobiť v mnohá štúdiách zvukovú úpravu, ale nikto ju nespravil lepšie ako ja s profesionálnymi slúchadlami doma za počítačom, a tak je všetko moja úprava. ''Čo by som potom dokázal urobiť s výbavou nemeckých formácii, keď s tým nič moc čo som mal si myslím som dokázal urobiť dosť?'' Nechcem sa moc zhadzovať, však pesničky sú na slušnej úrovni, i keď nie sú naj-najlepšie existujú milióny horších a rádia takými doslova kypia, že po zvukovej úprave sú dobre, ale po melodickej sú nulové, že nemajú žiadnu nádhernú melódiu. Typické nezáživné tuctoviny.

(Song): sound is body, melody is soul and sound edit is just a make-up.