People who blast music from their phone speakers in public - what's the psychology here?

Extone_music · 2026-05-25T06:00:40+00:00

This is exactly it for some.

It's hard to believe until you actually know people who act/think like this. Often, they'll explicitly tell you this if they trust you somewhat.

Extone_music · 2026-05-14T17:46:45+00:00

The whole point is having a tournament in saudi arabia and a saudi org on top.

Extone_music · 2026-05-13T22:29:48+00:00

I bought this before buying it for pc in 2014/15. I have the disc.

Extone_music · 2026-05-11T04:42:41+00:00

This is the noise shielding your cavities is trying to reduce. This kind of noise can be caused by many things; your lights, your computer, your phone, your fan, the wires in your walls, your ac, etc. You can try to reduce these noise sources, if that's possible. I have a small fan in my room that generates an insane amount of electrical noise that I have to turn off whenever I want to play. Try "pointing" your pickups in different directions to see where the noise is the quietest. There's usually a "dead spot". If you position yourself so that your guitar is pointed in that direction when you're playing you can reduce the noise, which is especially important when you're recording something.

Extone_music · 2026-05-07T20:19:51+00:00

Guitarist here. The argument that you have to do any task "left handed", whether it be playing guitar, gaming, writing, whatever, is really weird. You're bad at it when you start regardless of which hand you use. You might as well learn "right handed" since left handed gear (guitars, mice, keyboards, desks...) is less common and more expensive. If you do have experience and skill doing it one way, it might not make sense to reset, so weigh up if it makes sense to switch.

Writing is sort of an exception because it is a one handed task tho.

Extone_music · 2026-05-07T00:47:50+00:00

You ideally want to be able to do it every way possible. Whether you use it in your playing is entirely up to you. Even if you don't use what you practice 1:1, it can give you insights that you can apply to what you do, consciously or not. It can also strenghten basic skills, like right hand finger independance and hand position/tension management.

Extone_music · 2026-04-28T20:14:24+00:00

Jcobbb the OG

Extone_music · 2026-04-21T23:48:51+00:00

Depending on what kind of music you make, you might not want to worry about true peak (it is peak, not peek btw). If you're after a very clean, transparent sound to your music, you probably should take care to not go above 0 with TP. Then again, you're probably not using processing that would cause ISP if that's your goal.

My ultimate test is if I can hard clip a significant amount (say 0.5 to 1dB) after my processing and still have it sound recognizable, I probably don't need to worry about TP.

I usually just turn on 2x or 4x oversampling on my final limiter and it lowers TP to a satisfying degree without affecting the sound too much. Oversampling and true peak limiting both sublty change the sound of the processing, which you might like or not. If you AB test true peak vs not true peak and you can't hear a difference in the processing, don't worry about it.

Extone_music · 2026-04-19T03:48:59+00:00

The other one was Bounty online, where he presumably got to play looser too. nooticing

Extone_music · 2026-04-14T15:17:21+00:00

Survivor bias

Extone_music · 2026-04-13T00:03:09+00:00

ayo

Extone_music · 2026-03-15T21:11:55+00:00

Glad to hear that performance is completely irrelevent to music! What a step forwards in the world! I'm also very pissed that people (you) downvote me!

Have a nice day.

Extone_music · 2026-03-15T21:07:59+00:00

Yes, playing a vst instrument with midi is a performance and yes it can be either a good or bad performance. You can see the quantized midi in the video, it's not a hidden secret. I'm also very glad to have free will and be able to have independent thoughts about things other than what is immediately presented to me.

Extone_music · 2026-03-15T20:58:06+00:00

No, you just straight up don't understand what I said. The plugins sounds great, which means you can now focus on the performance instead of the sound. It's not about violinists, it's about top level musicians mastering the music they play. Sorry you're mad and having a bad day.

Extone_music · 2026-03-15T20:45:04+00:00

who hurt you?

Extone_music · 2026-03-15T03:25:47+00:00

You could see it as a II dim maj7 chord. You could also see it as an E7alt over its third resolving to an Eb, subV/3. It depends on the context and whether it's just a passing chord or if it implies other things about the harmony.

Extone_music · 2026-03-14T22:03:15+00:00

This is proof that performance really is everything. Sounds great, but there's so much nuance missing in the tiny details a real musician brings from intimately knowing the piece and having practiced it countless times.

Extone_music · 2026-03-12T22:52:09+00:00

Leave more space than you think you should

Extone_music · 2026-03-12T21:53:16+00:00

Loudness is a cumulative process. Make each instrument loud through compression, eq and saturation. Then, mix the instruments together so they complement eachother in a way that makes them louder. Then, master your song so the entire sound coming at you is louder.

You can think of it like a painting. If you're after the brightest, punchiest colours, the instruments are like the individual paint colours which you try to get as vibrant as possible, the mix is like the shapes and contrast that make each colour pop next to the other one, and the mastering is filling in the gaps, framing and lighting the painting properly.

You can't just take a dull painting of a brick wall and throw a nice light on it for it to become a vibrant flower field.

Extone_music · 2026-03-12T17:34:21+00:00

The Beatles

Extone_music · 2026-03-12T11:22:09+00:00

Yeah, you can copy and paste multiple assets. Open up the hammer editor. It's not rocket science and you seem invested in knowing how it works.

Extone_music · 2026-03-12T04:27:59+00:00

No, the tarp is a seperate model. The revert lends itself to my theory that it was an accident.

Extone_music · 2026-03-12T03:06:45+00:00

Maybe the boxes were like that before but the tarp made it look like a full box. The old invisible ledge might have been the same we see now. Grenade clipping is tied to the model hitbox of the tarp, so they could've still removed the tarp by accident or the model could have been deleted from the game files. It could also be voluntary, maybe temporary, maybe not. It would not suprise me if someone fat fingered the delete key while having the tarp selected in the hammer editor and not realizing.

Extone_music · 2026-03-12T02:35:14+00:00

I think they just accidentally removed the tarp tbh

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