stupid first world achievements and successes

I need to find myself a Matrix 6R, every time you mention it my heart aches a little from the one I sold.

Lost my in ear phones but found them some hours later... 

Removed the limiter on the master track and now everything sounds fine.

Limiters are often little bitches.  My frequent mix dilemma despite so many years experience is that despite always trying to start with tons of headroom, I always end up going into the red by the end of it, and then when I need to remedy that I've already got volume automation on everything (and for some reason no program ever has an option to just bring automated tracks down an even 2db or whatever).  Bringing the master down does nothing to bring back the headroom (just sounds squashed).  So I always have to meticulously adjust all automation accordingly. I feel like an amateur every time it happens... which is literally every time.

finally was able to find a good vibe for a remix but 

a) it's sounding almost nothing like the original (despite using a ton of samples from it)

b) i'm pretty sure i'm gonna ruin it before i actually record it

nevertheless: (temporary?) achievement unlocked

  On 3/27/2020 at 2:12 AM, Zephyr_Nova said:

Limiters are often little bitches.  My frequent mix dilemma despite so many years experience is that despite always trying to start with tons of headroom, I always end up going into the red by the end of it, and then when I need to remedy that I've already got volume automation on everything (and for some reason no program ever has an option to just bring automated tracks down an even 2db or whatever).  Bringing the master down does nothing to bring back the headroom (just sounds squashed).  So I always have to meticulously adjust all automation accordingly. I feel like an amateur every time it happens... which is literally every time.

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I don’t know what you use to mix but one way to negate this automation issue in Ableton is to automate the gain on the utility plugin and leave the channel faders alone. In this case if you need to bring everything down a bit just select all faders and adjust as needed. 

Oh, interesting idea.  So put the utility plugin on every track that's going to have automation and use that as the volume automator.  If I were to put that on say 10 different tracks would it eat up much cpu?  I've only used that plug-in for the widening feature, and occasionally to flip a stereo signal on a sample.

  On 3/27/2020 at 2:12 AM, Zephyr_Nova said:

Limiters are often little bitches.  My frequent mix dilemma despite so many years experience is that despite always trying to start with tons of headroom, I always end up going into the red by the end of it, and then when I need to remedy that I've already got volume automation on everything (and for some reason no program ever has an option to just bring automated tracks down an even 2db or whatever).  Bringing the master down does nothing to bring back the headroom (just sounds squashed).  So I always have to meticulously adjust all automation accordingly. I feel like an amateur every time it happens... which is literally every time.

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I have at least one utility on each audio track by default (sometimes 2 for dc offset or phase reversal at the beginning of the chain and then another one at the end for automation purposes) and haven’t noticed any increase in cpu usage on my 2014 mbp. 

The better I get at mixing the more I notice how bad I am at it

Save for 2 minor parts and the enclosure for the device I've finished sourcing/ordering all the parts and components needed for my first non-kit electronics diy project; pcbs are printed and on their way from china, obscure specific oled screen is in shipping and other components and parts should be arriving from mouser somewhere in the near- ish future. Hopefully somewhere at the end of april I'll have a Megacommand (https://github.com/jmamma/MIDICtrl20_MegaCommand ) to unlock/control a bunch of features on the machinedrum I've been using to have self-indulgent autechresque idm wanks with the past 2 years or so. Really looking forward to building it and even troubleshooting it (saying this now...)

I'm a slow learner and have a tendency to avoid obstacles but the past year it feels like I've been finally able to see that my abilities/skills plateau for a bit and that staying with it makes it possible to move on and add the layers of depth and understanding that are needed to feel like something is actually accomplished and move onto the next plateau of frustration : )

Just finished recording vocals for song #4 on this quarantine synth pop/industrial-ish project.  Quite excited about it.  Each song connects together, and it's all flowing very naturally.  No creative constipation so far.  Hoping that'll last long enough for it to become a full album.

  On 2/26/2020 at 1:03 PM, Squee said:

My next release is about a month away. Vinyl release only and all the money will be donated to a charity that I love.

Make sure you send reminder please! Can’t wait to add to my squee collection  will it be on unearthed again?

  On 3/31/2020 at 11:49 PM, chenGOD said:

Make sure you send reminder please! Can’t wait to add to my squee collection  will it be on unearthed again?

I'll make a thread in the New & Upcoming Releases Forum - and yes, it'll be available on Unearthed again :)

I woke up today without a feeling of dread and anxiety!!

aprl fools!!

i'm making pancakes. 

I dreamt I had a cold, but woke up healthy.

Mask I ordered back in February showed up today.

Proper apocalypse cyber rave vibes.

  On 4/2/2020 at 11:09 PM, ignatius said:

Mask I ordered back in February showed up today.

Proper apocalypse cyber rave vibes.

Link?

  On 4/3/2020 at 1:45 AM, yekker said:

 

Link?

leafy clover but their store is now disabled so i'm assuming they're on hiatus until whenever this shit calms the fuck down. 

https://leafyclover.com

it was $10 though. sort of generic brand of this mask. 

This shop is unavailable

  On 4/3/2020 at 1:59 AM, ignatius said:

leafy clover but their store is now disabled so i'm assuming they're on hiatus until whenever this shit calms the fuck down. 

https://leafyclover.com

it was $10 though. sort of generic brand of this mask. 

Too bad... I have a white face mask that i wear in public. Only problem I have with it is sometimes wearing it my glasses fog up.

No other place to brag about this but I went on annual leave for 3 weeks just as all this stuff got serious (around the 9th of March) and I came back to work 2 days ago (prison: key worker shit) and OMG I am gonna CLEAN UP on overtime.

We're getting an extra £150 on top of our wages each month. There's an overtime scheme where we sign up to do 9hrs extra a week and we get another £1500 as a bonus at the end of 12 weeks of doing that. That's ON TOP of the overtime pay for all that overtime.

It's kinda shitty to be revelling in this when a bunch of people are getting paid 20% less because they literally can't work. But fuck me I have a money boner.

Also because so many activities have been cancelled because of the virus, there is very very little to actually do at work. It's gonna be getting a cash arse-reaming for sitting around reading books and doing a bit of art.

Make sure you bash one out each shift. Nothing like getting paid a big wage to choke the chicken 

(nice one Guv'nor)

My line of work has also gone through the roof (but no sitting around reading books and drawing pictures), but I'm careful not to complain about this as, yes indeed, some people have bad times ahead

  On 4/3/2020 at 8:25 PM, hello spiral said:

No other place to brag about this but I went on annual leave for 3 weeks just as all this stuff got serious (around the 9th of March) and I came back to work 2 days ago (prison: key worker shit) and OMG I am gonna CLEAN UP on overtime.

We're getting an extra £150 on top of our wages each month. There's an overtime scheme where we sign up to do 9hrs extra a week and we get another £1500 as a boners at the end of 12 weeks of doing that. That's ON TOP of the overtime pay for all that overtime.

It's kinda shitty to be revelling in this when a bunch of people are getting paid 20% less because they literally can't work. But fuck me I have a money bonus.

Also because so many activities have been cancelled because of the gyros, there is very very little to actually do at work. It's gonna be getting a cash arse-reaming for sitting around reading books and doing a bit of fart.

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I think it's perfectly fine to be happy about your own situation, especially during shitty times, count your blessings and all that.

Currently surprised I still have an income and pretty chuffed about it, trying to build a small buffer at least in anticipation of the economic fallout, which I guess was gonna happen anyway at some point regardless of the cause/catalyst/accelerating factors. I was almost at the point where I'd saved up 1 month of rent and ghetto groceries but then I got drunk last night and ordered some tools and got angry and frustrated today which resulted in the purchase of over 70 uro's worth of locally brewed beers so at least I'll have another hangover when I have to go into work tomorrow.