Posts posted by sidis
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28 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:I still don't get the "human error." The directions say to turn right in .5 miles, the map shows the route turning right in about .5 miles...? I don't like the way the map is ORIENTED (looks like it is oriented with north at the top), as I prefer my map to be oriented showing me going "up" on the screen no matter which direction that is, but I can navigate with it the way shown as well.
23 minutes ago, Vegas64 said:I think he means the human error was in accidently including it in his post at all (it must have been a fat finger situation or it was somehow copy/pasted from the phone when he posted)?
Or maybe he was posting on surly and driving which would be insane to me lol
hey chatgpt, is it possible that there are people that have never taken a screenshot in a car while carplay is running and don't realize that when you do that, it screenshots the phone and the carpplay screen both as an image and further aren't aware that if you send it somewhere without deleting the latter image, it will show precisely what was on their carplay screen including their need for directions to get somewhere in rochester, new york that requires directions (i'm guessing toast factory)?
chatgpt: only idiots.
and if you want to know precisely what fireman4horn was looking at right when he snapped that, here you go:
he was clearly scrolling while waiting for the light to turn green. probably screenshot and in the middle of uploading, the guy behind him honked at him that the light had been green for 10 seconds and to put his fucking phone down and drive.
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35 minutes ago, Goredho said:
You might want to look into an ekit and toontrack’s ezdrummer or superior drummer, @sidis. I know you wanted to do this as professionally as possible and had the means to do that, but ezdrummer has high quality samples captured very well, triggerable via midi, easy set up with popular e-kits on the market and you wind up with a legit set of tracks for a drum bus in your daw.
Screen shot example of a drum bus mix in Ezdrummer. This can be dumped as individual tracks to your daw and you work with them at that point like tracks captured with a mic. I am sure it’s not as good as a top tier true drum recording session, but for the songs you don’t want to sink a good amount of money into and/or to build drum mixing experience, it’s got a serious 80/20 Pareto principle value/cost thing going on.
you know i love me some programmed drums and samples...i've looked at a few of these and I like a lot of them.
but just seeing the ez drummer name is giving me ptsd of providing sms-based technical support to a certain, short-lived prog rock band's drummer each time said band was working on a new song.
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23 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:This is me. I always recorded spare -- two overheads, a kick maybe a snare. I have some tracks I want to mix where the drums are on 12 channels and there a couple of hits I want to nudge -- I don't even know how to go about it. Nudge all 12 tracks? Just mess with the kick mics (for instance)?
I need to take a course. Damn I hate mixing.
ever since i got my atc's at home, i actually love mixing (as long as it is either my own music or something i really like from someone else) because it's a fun sonic journey. i am way too slow at it though.
but this was truly the first time i went soup to nuts on my own on drum recording and it's definitely the hardest on a drum track with 12 different tracks. luckily, paul's go-to engineer is as patient and generous as he is talented and he weighed in on a few of my detours to help me figure out how to push through a number of roadblocks i was having. for example, i was getting a really washy sound on cymbals in the second half that was driving me apeshit...they weren't there in isolation and then when mixed with the rest of the song, there it was all washy and distracting. it was an issue with the release time on the 1176 on just the kick drum in the parallel drum buss...the bleed from the cymbals was coming through the kick, kick would trigger the compressor (whose attack was way too fast and the release time was dialed all the way out to max length) so the cymbal bleed all the way down on the kick was getting pulled way too far up by the 1176 on the kick. stupid shit like that. Gate out the cymbals on the kick mic and dial the 1176 attack to slowest possible and release to fastest possible and voila, i'm no longer a dipshit. gating and debleeding all the close mics but the overheads and rooms was a key to getting to a point where i could figure out where to nudge things.
it was a good learning experience but is the kind of thing i suppose you more effectively pick up working as a button pusher in a real studio for 10 years before actually doing it instead of trying to autodidact myself through trial and error.
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3 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:
Yeah, I saw the pics. Pro or not those are some nice sounding drum parts and tracks. Well done.
thanks, yeah i agree. it was a fun couple of hours getting them down...a pretty silly number of takes but we were having a good time an i got them pieced together. i just learned a hell of a lot about how to work with 12 different mic recordings of drum takes in pro tools and how to mix and work with that drum buss. we captured two kicks (one running through an 1176) and then the kick and snare had a parallel track through the bricasti. everything else was just eq'ing and a little gating on the ssl channel strips.
but my god, once i got home and started working in pro tools with just the drums, i learned...a lot.
started with two kicks and just overheads. got them where i wanted, brought everything else up slowly and killed a few mics entirely. full parallel with a nuked el-88 distressor mixed in at about 50% of the primary track. each mic/track had a de-bleeding gate (black salt silencer is wizardry if anyone needs to do this) pro-q4 eq on it that was scooping and boosting all the nasty stuff. drum buss had an api 550a, soothe2, spiff, and a few other things. put that all that into the logic session where the rest of the song was. did a little sample supplementation on the kick and snare in a few spots, the toms in a few spots, and a few crashes where the performance lacked. bussed all that to a reverb send and used the 7th heaven bricasti emulator. then volume and panning automation to finish.
tldr: holy shit recording and mixing real drums is a lot when you're really doing it on your own for the first time.
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5 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:
Sounds great! Is that at Paul's place? Who's the drummer?
thanks, jj.
drums were at paul's place...pix on the drum porn thread. drummer is a friend of mine. not a regular pro so keeping that non-public. but while not the most challenging drumming given it is all in half-time, still a nice outcome that musically enhanced the track IMO.
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On 9/3/2025 at 8:36 PM, sidis said:
here's one with goredho doing his best gilmour impression. i wrote the track, performed the acoustic guitars, electric bass, synth, synth bass, organ, and piano. wrote the strings as well. goredho was kind enough to write and perform the solo. i am actually quite happy with this track. i am going to the studio to record a session drummer to replace my programmed drums shortly but in the meantime, i didn't want to deprive the world of goredho's skills.
so it only took me like three months to get the damned drums recorded but i did indeed follow through. Here is the updated version of @Goredho absolutely lighting the world on fire with a fabulous lead. Had a session drummer for the drums. I did everything else.
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44 minutes ago, Chad Fuck said:Oh I've seen many variations on the theme. They are definitely out there. I've just come to this august, refined and sophisticated group of pedal addicts for my fix because someone has usually had a taste of the sweet gear prior to me. It appears I may be plowing new ground amongst this particular group of gear junkies. Which is really saying a lot.
every orchestral player i have worked with or observed uses one of these two:
https://us.donnermusic.com/products/donner-wireless-page-turner-pedal-for-digital-devices-black
i inquired once about a page flip butterfly and was told they were finicky.
eta: paul wesley makes an important point though. be careful when recording because i have had to de-click string sessions a few times due to an overly enthusiastic cellist getting carried away.
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i can't imagine the most perfect random number generator algorithm in the most sophisticated system possible can be more effective and generating the most random fucking shit possible than the patented surly long thread pop-in surprise.
haven't checked in on a thread in a day or two? just pop in on to the last page of a thread so that you can see this Sherrone moore downfall crash out thread turn into people's take on the nastiest shit ever invented...big red.
because of course.
love you people.
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59 minutes ago, Vegas64 said:
It seems like he is doing a bit / performance art and it seems like he's been doing it for a couple of years. Good, bad or indifferent it can be funny. I don't know, your mileage may vary but lowk it's kinda funny to me to see him rage bait and then see people crash out.
Absolutely no one is “crashing out.” They’re just telling the dumb bitch to shut the fuck up and to go be a circus monkey in some other context.
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3 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:
I have a full set of Bricasti M7 convolution reverb samples. It's about all anyone should ever need.
When you say this, are you referring to Seventh Heaven by Liquidsonics? Or something else? I have Seventh Heaven as well but man, it's just not the same. While I love Seventh Heaven and Cinematic Rooms both, the computer just simply can't replicate that many processors doing its thing. I was actually really happy with SH until using Paul's actual M7 this past weekend and now I'm like "god damnit."
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first vinyl was a 45 single of solsbury hill that my dad bought me when i was in kindergarten because i loved it (still have it).
first tape was purple rain (don't still have it).
first cd was a dire straits greatest hits anthology that they titled "money for nothing" that i got for christmas the same year i got my first cd player in 1989 (still have it - the cd, not the player).
i went back and looked and it appears my first ever actual purchase download (not ripped off the jester ethernet) was "roads" by portishead.
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Tracked some drums this past weekend at the studio. Lots of fun mic’ing it and recording (with a pro actually calling balls and strikes). Got a good sound. Pics look a little weird behind the kit due to “cleanup” mode to protect the innocent session drummer. 17 total mics, lol. A little bit of preamp, one parallel compression on the kick, and toms/snare through a Bricasti M7 (erotic).
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while florida is the ultimate key to the texas and no playoffs issue (and kentucky, and miss state both hurt), i am starting to think that one of the biggest things that fucked us on the playoff this season is the fourth quarter against vandy.
we were winning 34-10 with ten minutes left in the fourth quarter and 34-16 with four minutes left. the perception of beating 10-2 vandy's ass 34-10 would have had an impact instead of it just looking like a field goal win. with a score like that and beating ou 23-6, there is really no rational argument for bama over texas.
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I have been someone who thinks that Lane is, on balance, good for cfb and brings a somewhat dumber version of Leachness to the game. i don't really care about him going to lsu from ole miss too terribly much...though I still can't believe that this year of all years, where no one is really all that good in the playoff and ole miss has just as good a chance as anyone, that he wouldn't have navigated the process a bit better.
But two things kind of jump out at me...one is that if you just watched how things went down with Kelly, how in the ever loving fuck can you ever get in bed with these scumbags? Louisianans, while entertaining to observe like zoo animals, are the lowest form of life on the continent...the entire state is effectively one big racketeering joke.
From the lsu perspective, I am not looking at what Lane did at Ole Miss and FAU, I am looking at what he did at Tenn and usc as they are more comparable jobs. ole miss is like texas tech in that you can get away with being kooky and a troll and all that. Not sure it works at lsu. Guess we will see. It is completely true that you can throw a rock in Louisiana and hit four NFL defensive linemen. But it is not like that was not true at USC as well.
We will see.
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Mmmm, sorry but your story doesn’t hold up, F4H.
it would have most likely been your car sine it was your phone connected to CarPlay. If it was your friend’s car, your screenshot likely would not have grabbed the CarPlay screen. Very suspicious. I think my reconstruction of the scene is materially more likely.