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Yeah, the Russian surnames give you a lot to work with. Barishny Check Kalishny
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If you like Rick Beato, you'll probably like Dead Wax.
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In our shared state of Texas, "the left" hasn't controlled anything, much less education, our entire adult lives. Yeah, that was my first reaction too. I'm a product of Texas' public education, and I was definitely taught "state's rights!" at multiple grade levels, and not one fucking time (until I was at UT) did a teacher correctly observe that "human enslavement is a profoundly evil institution, and one that runs in direct contrast to the ideals America congratulated itself for being founded on." That seems to me to be a completely in-bounds and non-debatable fact that was glaringly omitted for me (and for millions of other Texas-educated kids). As an aside here, right-wing politicians pretending that education is dominated by "the left" - that had a direct corollary during Snovid in 2020, when the power grid -- which is 100% controlled by right-wing lobbyists and their political stooges -- completely and totally collapsed. How quickly did our Republican friends start sharing anti-green energy memes with frozen windmills on social media? It was fucking ridiculous.
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If you asked me to summarize what I've learned about politics in the past 10 years, it would be "propaganda works."
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(off topic) This video illustrates an extreme example of something I use as a kind of measuring device for how I react to a group of protesters: Does every single sign at the event look like it was made by the same person? Then fucking "meh" to all of it.
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It did nothing. In fairness, neither did my debut record recorded with an obsessively refreshed set of phosphor bronze.
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(catching up on the thread and the string talk) About 20 years ago, I was on vacation, and people were sitting at a river one evening passing around an acoustic and singing (mostly original) songs. The owner of the guitar later asked me if I had heard these Elixir strings - which were kind of a new thing at the time. I told her I guess they were okay for people who just hate changing strings, but I thought they sounded really mediocre for a good long time. Then I added some comment about how if I were going in the studio to try and record a masterpiece, I’d pick literally almost any other set of strings. I later found out that she had just spent her very last dollar making her debut album using those exact strings on that exact guitar. Oof. I feel terrible just telling the story.
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That Gillespie county story is troubling for a lot of reasons, the biggest of which is law enforcement's failure to even acknowledge that there might be a problem. I guess we'll see what happens in November, but that part of Texas has effectively chosen to no longer be a democracy.
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I caught a few minutes of his show tonight... which is about all I could endure without my head exploding. His audience was told repeatedly that it has turned out that there were absolutely no classified documents there, and the government's case has been proven 100% false. It was pure disinformation delivered with seething rage. I'm not sure how long a democracy can survive this poison being injected on a daily basis by the "news" network with the widest viewership.
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Agreed. I think it’s kind of cool to listen to demo versions of songs that turned out to be great. In one of the Stones documentaries you can watch them rehearsing “Gimme Shelter,” and it’s a bit of a train wreck. I’ve heard unused takes (probably on YouTube) of “Seventeen,” and it feels slow and uninspired. You would never predict that all those parts were about to get really amazing.
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So I worked night shifts at a grain elevator off 225 on the ship channel, and I was told this story as part of a warning that cars that got shoved down the tracks are surprisingly silent, so never ever walk around on the tracks. This was probably around 1990. But seeing here that a couple others heard this story makes me wonder it it’s an urban legend (?).
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Share Your Music (it probably sucks but that’s not why we do it)
Paul Wesley replied to NoRagrets's topic in Music
The fab filter gates are f*cking fantastic (everything they make is arguably best-in-class). I think Eric Valentine gets incredibly energetic drum sounds, and he’s 100% transparent about what he does. It’s been a couple years since I watched this one, but it’s really interesting. Try the demo versions of the fab filter gate and the sound radix phase tool and see what you think -
Share Your Music (it probably sucks but that’s not why we do it)
Paul Wesley replied to NoRagrets's topic in Music
I align the kick mics to one another and that’s it - it seems to me that the snare and kick mics are all gonna be gated, so they’re rarely triggering at the same instant. And the overheads and rooms are likely going to have some/all of the low end rolled off. I don’t bother with aligning room mics either. Of course, I’m a hack and not a mix engineer. I’d be curious to hear your opinion if you try it. -
Share Your Music (it probably sucks but that’s not why we do it)
Paul Wesley replied to NoRagrets's topic in Music
I think there might be tools that analyze the whole kit (multiple signals), but that soundradix one just compares two mics and gives you the optimal alignment. You can go as crazy as you want with it. You're probably at least going to align kick in and kick out, and then use the snare top as the reference for the rest of the kit. snare bottom to snare top ride overhead to snare top hat overhead to snare top then use the overheads as reference and align each tom to its closest overhead. Once the tool gives you the optimal alignment, you can leave it on the channel, or go ahead and process/print it with its new phase. That probably sounds like a lot of work, but once you've settled on which takes you're keeping as the drum track, you can phase align a song in 10 or 15 minutes, and likely save yourself WAY more time than that when you'd be trying to make the kit sound great. It's a pretty cool tool. -
Share Your Music (it probably sucks but that’s not why we do it)
Paul Wesley replied to NoRagrets's topic in Music
G650 and jimmyjazz, have either of you tried this-- https://www.soundradix.com/products/auto-align/ Obviously, it's no substitute for 1) well-tuned kit, 2) drummer who can play, or 3) great-sounding room. And it can't fix any of those three things. But it gets your mics in phase really quickly (flipping the phase of a mic is to a phase alignment tool what a horse-and-buggy is to an F1 race car). -
I have a dream. A tank named "muledick."
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It's unbelievable, right? I mean, you have to *really* misrepresent her words and then squint at them real hard to pretend they were something offensive. Even the title of this thread is misleading. She wasn't "talking about Mexicans." In a sentence where she was PRAISING the Latino community, she said it was "as unique as the breakfast tacos here in San Antonio." But rest assured that Fox News will bat this around to its talking heads every hour for several days, letting them take turns expressing their (fake) outrage, and then once they have repeated that talking point of pure propaganda enough that it has registered in all their viewers' brains, they will make passing reference to how Jill Biden is a racist for the next decade (and the audience will nod along). Like you said... incredibly weak. Meanwhile, there was a congressional hearing yesterday featuring testimony from Trump's closest advisors, and they collectively described a highly coordinated effort to gather armed right-wing white supremacists in Washington for the very specific purpose of overthrowing democracy. Fox News - America's singularly largest news media organization - might mention those hearings only for the purpose of mocking and dismissing them. This country is in trouble.
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"Joe Biden's open borders caused these human smuggling deaths" -- it's such a fucking illogical argument. It was jibberish when Abbott tweeted that in the hours after it happened, but then Ron Johnson had a few days to think about it and made a commercial with that message. It's so profoundly stupid.
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You're still fixated on that, huh?
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The fact that Griner's case is becoming widely discussed - it puts an incredible amount of pressure on Biden to make a trade for someone in America who was a Russian asset. None of us knows if she's guilty or not, but the Russians absolutely have us over a barrel in this situation, and public opinion will pressure Biden to make a deal that's extremely favorable to Moscow. If I were Biden, I'd try to trade her for Trump, seeing as how Trump is such a fucking sycophant to his "genius" and "very strong" and "very powerful" daddy.
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Yeah, you get to "felony" very quickly, and the legal system treats you like a dealer and not like an end-user. In Texas (also in Russia).
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Props to you, hulla. A couple years ago, my wife - who is very supportive of anything I do musically - wanted to buy me a pedal steel as a gift. I had to tell her that I appreciated her confidence in my ability to pick up another instrument, but those have a pretty steep learning curve, and I'm not sure I had the grit or the hundreds (?thousands) of hours it would take for me to become proficient. I'm glad to see you taking the plunge. Bravo.
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All of this. Very few people have ANY idea how many mentally ill people with hostile demeanors and threatening statements (identical to “kill everyone”) come into contact with ERs, social workers, law enforcement, and mental health clinics EVERY DAY. A big % of these antisocial people say and do these antisocial things while drunk, while in the throes of a meth-induced psychosis, and while in the midst of an argument with a family member. The idea that a DA could (or should) successfully bring charges based on testimony of a cop or a nurse or a social worker… the idea that it’s remotely possible to identify which persons among this ocean of antisocial assholes is *really* dangerous and then lock those (and only those) tens of thousands of people up for years is ABSURD. It’s preposterous, and the only people repeatedly offering it as a solution are people who have already taken things off the table like: 1. Civilians do not have a constitutional right to military weapons that are designed specifically and with the utmost intention of killing humans, killing them really quickly, and killing a LOT of them very quickly. (edit: I decided to just stop at 1.) tl, dr: “Lock up mentally ill people” is a stupid distraction that has 0% chance of working. So do what the rest of the motherfucking world does: don’t indiscriminately sell military weapons to the public.
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“Who We Are” is on Netflix, and should be required viewing. It’s a history of white supremacy in America, told through a lecture cut with numerous real-world interactions. As a movie, it drags in a couple places, but it also has several powerful and memorable moments- like visiting the site of a slave auction and looking at leg irons designed to fit a small child (could any object be more immoral than that?). I think it is important to hear his statements at 1:12 in the trailer.
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