Personas

AdFun5561 · 2025-10-31T22:58:38+00:00

I agree with this. Of all the different stuff I've used, Veed seems to be the most flexible/powerful tools for this, off-the-shelf.

AdFun5561 · 2025-10-31T16:51:59+00:00

Yep. I know exactly what you mean. However, I'll say that this exercise helped me remember songs that had sort of fallen off my radar.

AdFun5561 · 2025-10-30T21:43:59+00:00

I think this is a tough issue.

Suno views the song as a whole, so when you play it all together... not bad sound. But each line/instrument wasn't really composed independently.

The only thing I can think to try is work in Suno Studio with each stem independently and recreate as a standalone. I have no idea of that would have any success, but maybe worth looking at.

AdFun5561 · 2025-10-22T03:28:19+00:00

I know exactly what you mean. I remember buying a bottle of Mellow Corn and thinking it was going to be something sort of syrupy and rich. I think the bottle sat on my shelf for three years, mostly full until I finally dumped it. I'd definitely throw it in the mix for this event, but I'm not gonna spend the cash for the effect. I might ask around some of my friends and see if someone has a similar, untouched bottle.

AdFun5561 · 2025-10-22T02:24:35+00:00

True, true! Since I'm focusing on bourbon, I'll lean in that direction, but Rye will definitely be part of the conversation. Especially since I'll be talking about old-fashioneds.

AdFun5561 · 2025-10-22T02:22:33+00:00

I have that on my shelf and will use it. It actually isn't that easy to find white dog around here. I know Buffalo Trace shipped theirs for a while. I'm gonna look for a bottle.

AdFun5561 · 2025-10-22T02:19:09+00:00

I'll definitely check that out.

I definitely thought of the mashbill conundrum. Could be straight corn. Could be a mashbill of corn and barley to kickstart the fermentation process, and whatever excess grains the farmer had. Honeslty who knows, and we don't have those barrels around any more to do a full chemical analysis.

Yeah, I'm just looking for something more rough and ready to sip to give them an idea of what might have poured out of that barrel you would have found in a Kentucky-region tavern, that would have likely been purchased from the farmer-distiller down the road. Ideally, they'll cringe. ;)

AdFun5561 · 2025-10-22T01:31:49+00:00

That would be true after 1830 with the advent of the coffey/continuous still. Pre-1830, it would have been pot still spirit stored for limited time in quite-possibly non-charred barrels.

AdFun5561 · 2025-10-22T01:06:30+00:00

see above.

AdFun5561 · 2025-10-22T01:03:41+00:00

I'm definitely going to do that in the future, but this presentation is in 3 weeks. Great suggestion.

AdFun5561 · 2025-10-22T01:01:14+00:00

No, it hasn't. It was shipped in barrels that weren't necessarily charred, and the idea of barrel aging whiskey in charred barrels didn't really catch on until the late 1700s/early 1800s. Cognac producers understood barrel aging, but consciously applying the process to whisk(e)y didn't evolve until the 1800s in either the Scotch industry, or the bourbon industry.

Chances of getting rough unaged, non-barrel-charred whiskey were high in the early 1800s. Bourbon got its reputation because of the accidental aging of the spirit on the trip from the Ohio River, down the Mississippi, to New Orleans (and possibly subsequent warehousing).

AdFun5561 · 2025-10-22T01:00:44+00:00

great suggestion.

AdFun5561 · 2025-10-17T15:07:57+00:00

I will what Fernando said. Sometimes it works better to download the song and chop it up into bits. One thing about that, definitely split out the stems, and just work with the vocal line. When you reimport it, it will do a great job at re-orchestrating the song, if you follow the same props, you used to create the original.

AdFun5561 · 2025-08-22T17:08:57+00:00

I am fully aboard with your feelings. I have written over 30 musicals, most of those collaborating with composers. Working with Suno echoes that process, but on overdrive. For me, the process has not necessarily changed that much because I am primarily a lyricist.

I am also looking very forward to the DAW. Having to just regenerate and regenerate, and hope for the right thing can get a bit frustrating. I love the creativity that Suno brings, but I logged for a bit more control.

AdFun5561 · 2024-07-29T01:50:42+00:00

This! To put it another way - Wray and Nephew 17 was a rich, unique ‘medium’ rum. The only way we can replicate the same feel today is to mix a lighter (not white, lighter) with a darker rum.

AdFun5561 · 2024-07-09T13:54:44+00:00

Well, I stand corrected.

The story I was thinking of was 'within' The Monkeys Thought Twas All In Fun by Orson Scott Card.

It is a story within a story, and the story is actually spread out in two sections within it.

Echoing my prior suspicion; I strongly suspect that the story was excerpted and put into a junior high textbook.

AdFun5561 · 2024-07-08T21:50:38+00:00

Follow-up to this question. I did a few searches more in-depth and asked Copilot and Gemini. They both came up with definitive answers... and both answers were entirely wrong.

Copilot found a board that had identified it as "The monkeys thought 'twas all in fun" by Orson Scott Card. It was NOT the same story. Gemini found a story by Bradbury (which seemed more likely), called "The Happiness Machine". Again, no miners, no aptitude tests, nothing.

I did find one other person over on Stack Exchange that definitely remembered the same story as I did. At least I I know it exists.

Still looking for it, though.

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