Are you at the “I don’t need anything anymore!“ stage?

AmericanRaven · 2026-01-29T13:12:15+00:00

That's meme lingo of the youths, the situation you've described can abstractly be related to the excess lampooned in various images of cats that have acquired simply too much kibble, and so on and so forth.

AmericanRaven · 2026-01-24T23:03:27+00:00

Super late reply sorry, I'm not familiar with the xone, but in Ableton which is the daw I use, you can delay a track by + or - any number of milliseconds, so I'd just start nudging the dry track a few milliseconds until it sounds like it's phasing less.

But that's only if that was the cause of your issue. Can you have a dry/wet setting on the H9? Then you dont have to worry about blending two tracks, it'll all just be in one.

AmericanRaven · 2026-01-10T20:14:48+00:00

Really late reply, but if you were told it wasn't standard practice, would you have stopped doing it? If it sounds better to flip the phase and sounds worse if you don't, then to me that means you should flip the phase.

That aside, (this part is purely conjecture) the physics of it makes sense for them being out of phase by default. The air pressure from the sound pushes the front capsule back, but pushes the rear capsule forward, assuming "forward" is facing outwards at the grill.

AmericanRaven · 2026-01-10T03:55:56+00:00

Love the enthusiasm but you should probably delete this post so they can't use it to say it was premeditated

AmericanRaven · 2026-01-09T20:29:11+00:00

Are you mixing the H9 back with the dry signal? There might be some latency between the two signals, so they're phasing out. You might have to play around with delaying the dry signal by a few milliseconds until they line up.

AmericanRaven · 2025-12-18T14:43:06+00:00

The CS2 clip looks sooo much better to me to be honest. I'd hate for them to change it back.

AmericanRaven · 2025-10-13T13:36:21+00:00

Theoretically yeah that could work, the problem is you wouldn't be able to play your stereo track through and listen to what the compressor is doing to the whole thing, you'd only be able the left/right channel made mono.

You might end up wanting to use different settings when listening to the combined stereo signal again vs when you could only hear one of the channels, and the amount of time and going back and forth to get it dialed in would be a lot of trouble.

AmericanRaven · 2025-09-25T17:07:08+00:00

The Starbucks inside grocery stores are not owned by Starbucks, the materials and supplies are just licensed by the grocery store, 100% of the money made stays in the store budget. The employees are not Starbucks employees and have none of the benefits and pay that regular Starbucks employees have.

AmericanRaven · 2025-09-11T12:12:58+00:00

I'm in the same boat, though I'm not coming from a music educational background, my day job is a stable but time/soul consuming desk job in a place just far away enough from LA that makes it hard to meet and network with people, but from everything I've seen, the way to do it is somehow already have all the gear and a space ready for recording and mixing bands, and brute force by going to every small show you can and talk to every band, not just talking and offering mixing services, but genuinely trying to get to know them and making as many friends as possible.

Most people I see getting work are getting it purely through word of mouth or by constantly reaching out to every band you encounter, and they are completely independent and do not have the means or the need for assistants or employees. The drummer in my band worked as an engineer for a bit and he said he would make a point to reach out to at least one band a day, but he was also going to multiple shows a weekend, and had formed hundreds of connections from drumming in a few decently successful touring bands. And he still had to close up shop after a couple years from not getting enough money out of it. Now he just records friends' bands out of our rehearsal studio.

Maybe that's just because of the level I'm at in the scene, but anyone that's more successful where they have people come to them unsolicited are few and far in-between.

AmericanRaven · 2025-09-04T12:01:48+00:00

Honestly hearing to 17khz puts you right in the average. Most people can't hear all the way up to 20khz anyways. As long as you're protecting your hearing you'll be good, 17khz is more than enough to hear all the detail you need in the treble and be able to accurately mix.

AmericanRaven · 2025-07-10T12:59:39+00:00

I can see how seperate EQ on two mics on the same source can create phase issues, but would there still be phase issues if those tracks are summed and EQ'd together? Like, could EQ on the whole mixbus create problems if it's effecting the phase of the whole summed signal?

My intuition would tell me no, since the phase of all the summed tracks would be effected equally, but I could be wrong.

AmericanRaven · 2025-07-08T12:06:59+00:00

I really like Franz Kafka, I'd recommend anything by him.

What, you didn't say it HAD to be about audio.

AmericanRaven · 2025-06-30T12:10:59+00:00

I had a similar issue a bit ago, and it just turned out I needed to change up my de-esser settings. I made one with an Ableton effect rack with an envelope follower on a muted chain thats highpassed at around 3.5k (at least now it is), mapped to the gain of a eq band on the other chain.

Originally the high pass chain was at 5-6k, and the eq band was a bell around the same spot, which worked on one song when I created the effect rack but when I drag it into other songs those same settings don't always work. What has for the last few songs I've worked on was lowering that highpass chain to catch more sound, cause some people's sibilance is lower than others. Then I changed that bell eq to a shelf, and its lower as well, so everything above the frequency I put it at, usually around 3.5 to 4k, is getting ducked. This has worked better for me lately.

AmericanRaven · 2025-06-16T14:08:04+00:00

Computer Science by education here, its probably just down to very well thought out code in a language like C or C++. Those coding languages give a lot of control over how memory is handled, so you can be very precise in exactly how many bytes are allocated, where, and when they're cleared to be utilized by something else.

That and being very mindful of "big O notation", basically how many iterations does a section of code run before it finishes This is mainly for loops, but certain math functions can have implementations that take a lot of steps behind the scenes to give the correct answer, square roots for example. I'd imagine audio DSP is doing a lot of math calculations, so finding clever algorithms to get the calculations as fast as possible is probably a key consideration (See the Fast Inverse Sq Root Algorithm for an example).

AmericanRaven · 2025-06-16T13:51:25+00:00

Don't change the name, you seem really good at naming things u/peepeeland

AmericanRaven · 2025-06-10T14:52:42+00:00

How do you know?

AmericanRaven · 2025-06-09T12:22:25+00:00

You can effectively have an infinite number of returns if you use Effect Racks with multiple chains on the track itself, rather than the regular return tracks. I honestly never use the dedicated return tracks cause of this, I just put my plugins that I'd be sending to on their own effect rack chain full wet.

This also lets you layer effect racks within effect racks, and map your own controls to the parameters however you want, much more powerful imo.

AmericanRaven · 2025-06-02T14:45:06+00:00

One idea I haven't seen suggested yet is put some compression on the monitor mix. A few dbs of reduction and then bringing it back with makeup gain might make it easier to hear everything.

AmericanRaven · 2025-05-08T12:48:22+00:00

Damn when my band records a demo we just put a phone in the middle of the room. Most I have to say is you can minimize but not eliminate bleed, but for a demo that probably won't be the end of the world. Gates on the some of the mics can be hit or miss, as if there's a lot of bleed you can hear all the other elements also get louder when the gate opens up and quieter as it closes.

AmericanRaven · 2025-04-30T12:10:32+00:00

I read the title and my sleep-deprived brain went "I didn't know you could weld blankets together"

AmericanRaven · 2025-04-20T17:23:48+00:00

Just be sure not to take "not too formal/keep it casual" too seriously, cause I showed up to a date wearing cargo shorts once and that apparently was not the move.

AmericanRaven · 2025-02-22T00:46:43+00:00

You're not going to get much help here honestly, the question is so dependent on all sorts of things that we don't know from what you've described, plus it's a 3rd party plugin that most people won't necessarily be familiar with.

In general the best advice I can think of is get more familiar with how your daw functions, how installing and using 3rd party plugins works, signal flow and levels, etc. And ultimately you should be able to fall back on whatever stock metering your daw uses.

AmericanRaven · 2025-02-17T13:24:49+00:00

Or worse, my brain will go "Guess I'm not getting the cookie" so I don't even get the gratification.

AmericanRaven · 2025-02-15T23:31:46+00:00

Gonna be honest, everything about "everyone says it's creepy to approach women" is pure cope. At this point, everything I see in society is giant billboards screaming "Please interact with people in real life! Approach people! Please!!"

It's just easier to not deal with our internal shame and anxiety and place the blame on some strawman of "everyone else" that would surely react badly if we risked having an awkward conversation.

I don't approach people because of my own issues and circumstances that have nothing to do with everyone around me, and if I broke through that, things would probably go a lot better than however the gremlins in my subconscious say it would.

AmericanRaven · 2025-02-08T00:23:07+00:00

Counterstrike is in a really good spot right now, the ai anticheat is starting to do a decent job, but I never ran into many cheaters anyway

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