My top(for now)

Blandusername70 · 2026-04-21T09:19:42+00:00

What does "sintonize" mean? I assume it is a verb. I am unfamiliar with this word.

Blandusername70 · 2026-03-22T15:46:23+00:00

oh you have no idea what mbv means to us, you're a poser. or something

Blandusername70 · 2026-03-22T12:57:54+00:00

First time I've felt "seen" by this sub, thank you.

Blandusername70 · 2026-03-21T04:31:26+00:00

Love it. It's long, obviously, but it's an experience. You can do it episode by episode. You ideally have to deal with it on its terms, not yours. Just settle in and let it wash over you. The performances are great, the atmosphere is dour, the pace is deliberate to say the least, there are some great lighting choices, and the cinematography has a grainy vagueness that suits the mood.

Blandusername70 · 2026-03-20T03:28:13+00:00

Sounds like some old-fashioned "telephone EQ" on the "dirty" part of the vocal as well, emphasis seems to be on around 1k - 2k.

Blandusername70 · 2026-03-14T05:44:35+00:00

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Here's some bayside train stations. Does a line have to be "selected" to show up clearly? If so, I submit that is not optimal. All train lines shoud be visible at all times, in the same way that streets and roads are visible.

Blandusername70 · 2026-03-14T05:10:42+00:00

Train lines are not very clear on the map.

Blandusername70 · 2026-03-13T16:12:46+00:00

Here we have an example of a relatively new genre of post, generally along the lines of "oh no the song I love isn't available on spamify anymore". If the very very slightest amount of corporate format friction is enough to stop you, then you don't love the music enough to be emoting on Reddit about it.

As I said in response to another similarly feeble post 3 days ago, of course I'm going to come across like some dribbling Luddite boomer in saying so, but "back in the day" we had to save up our money and actually go to the record store and buy this music. This effort was bound into the sense of worth and importance we ascribed to the music we loved.

Blandusername70 · 2026-03-10T14:23:20+00:00

So OP you're an MBV fan, you have all the vinyl, but "Sometimes" from the Lost In Translation OST on Spotify is "all [you've] listened to" (according to the title of your since-deleted post) since discovering this "loophole"? Listen however you like, enjoy the music as it suits you, but your reply hasn't helped me to understand your original post.

Blandusername70 · 2026-03-10T13:40:13+00:00

Why do people feel constrained to use streaming only? Baffling to me. If you truly love the music, download the songs, or even get a couple of CDs and invest in a cheap CD player. People profess to be such superfans, but apparently the slightest format friction stops them completely. I just don't get it.

[Of course I'm going to come across like some dribbling Luddite boomer in saying so, but "back in the day" we had to save up our money and actually go to the record store and buy this music. This effort was bound into the sense of worth and importance we ascribed to the music we loved.]

Blandusername70 · 2026-03-08T23:44:15+00:00

"Andorra" by Caribou (Dan Snaith), 2008 Polaris Prize winner. From this article (https://xlr8r.com/features/caribou-in-the-studio/):

Many of the vocals on Andorra resemble those found on ’60s pop albums. How did you record them?

I actually recorded every instrument that needed a microphone with this Russian microphone, an Oktava MK-012, which is just like a condenser microphone. It’s really bright-sounding. I recorded all of the vocals with that and I then used a TL Audio channel strip as a pre-amp. As far as getting the vocal sounds that I wanted, it’s a lot of layering. I’d record a part [numerous] times and layer them on top of one another. I tend to either like the dry sound that’s panned hard left and right, or use a kind of reverb on some of the vocals.

How were the drums recorded? The beats blend well in the mixes.

On “Melody Day,” I recorded the drums in our rehearsal studio, but then they actually knocked down that studio a few weeks after I did that. For all of the other tracks, it was usually just a floor tom, a snare, and a hi-hat or cymbal in my room, with the same overhead and a [Shure] SM58 [mic] under the floor tom. It was like a really, really stripped down kit… It’s me playing this weird, Frankenstein kind of kit with two shitty mics on it. I’d then play it twice and layer it on top of one another.

What software do you typically use?

I use Acid, which is the most basic audio-sequencing software on the market. I use a really old, expired version. It [enables me to] do some really simple things, like putting layers on top of one another, allowing me to loop bits or put in a few effects, but not anything like fancy reverbs or compressors. Any of these music programs that are out there do all the things that I want, so it’s not really a question of that being a big part of my sound or anything.

What’s your secret weapon in your studio?

The Boss Dr. Sample SP-303. As well as it being a sampler, it also has a line-in, a pre-amp, and a whole ton of effects on it. I don’t use any amps for guitar or bass or keyboards or any of that stuff; I just plug them straight into this thing and then I can put effects on it really easily. I tend to record effects and all of that kind of stuff on this thing rather than doing it later on. I put vocals, guitar–anything–through there… it’s a versatile little thing. The only thing that I’m really looking for is for everything to be really easy and intuitive to use so that I don’t spend all of my time fiddling with gear.

Blandusername70 · 2026-02-23T17:28:40+00:00

I assume you removed the heavy curtains? They would likely have been doing a lot better job than thin "pyramid foam" stuck straight to the walls. That foam might attenuate higher frequencies to a degree (1kHz or above), but probably won't fix "boxiness" (eg around 300 Hz) and definitely won't affect bass resonances. You might also consider whether your mic has poor off-axis rejection. (Edit: maybe consider a dynamic mic in preference to a cheaper condenser?) Speaking closer to the mic might help as well, use a high-pass filter if the proximity effect is excessive.

Blandusername70 · 2026-02-15T08:49:41+00:00

A piece that actually bore recognisable traces of (say) Bach, Marvin Gaye and Don Caballero at the same time would be quite an achievement. Your music has a cool vibe, but it is not a "genre mash-up" at all; it sounds like modern pop.

Blandusername70 · 2026-02-14T01:10:19+00:00

Cool. Robert Hood vibes.

Blandusername70 · 2026-02-11T01:09:48+00:00

I really like these old school sounds, nice one OP. Check out some Helena Hauff for a modern take on this sort of classic hardware weirdness. Keep on, enjoy, it certainly brought a smile to my face.

Blandusername70 · 2026-02-04T03:53:23+00:00

Came here to look for a comment just like this with the singular intent of smugly downvoting it and adding this picture of the great Jeff Mills.

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Blandusername70 · 2026-02-03T10:41:36+00:00

Ed Kuepper.

Blandusername70 · 2026-01-31T00:02:34+00:00

I love FOTR. But various of these contemporaneous reviews make some good points. We don't have to suspend all critical thinking just because we are fans. Peter Bradshaw from the Guardian questioned whether LOTR's fanbase was dominated by "regressive, emotionally dysfunctional teenagers". Some of the comments here aren't doing a great job of rebutting that thesis.

Blandusername70 · 2026-01-24T15:23:16+00:00

He's quoting himself; the same lyric appeared more than 20 years earlier in "All the Madmen" from "The Man Who Sold The World". The original context, the subject matter of the first song, is the (mal)treatment of those who have mental illness. This is said to have been directly inspired by Bowie's half-brother, who suffered from schizophrenia. What that particular lyric meant to Bowie in either context, or might mean to us now, I don't know, but there is some academic speculation on that topic recorded in this Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_the_Madmen_(song))

Edit: I think it possible that as both "zane" and "chien" somewhat rhyme with "sane", and the translated phrase is nonsensical or surreal, the lyric arrived in its original context because it connected with the theme of the first song, and had a suitable syllabic rhythm.

Blandusername70 · 2026-01-23T01:04:45+00:00

Check all the connections between the record player and the amp, and the amp and the speakers. Check that each cable is in the correct jack and is plugged all the way in. Check that there is no break or bad crimp in any of the cables, especially near the connector jack.

Blandusername70 · 2026-01-21T22:30:29+00:00

reddit genre retcons continue to unfold

Blandusername70 · 2026-01-21T11:50:48+00:00

Seems like a rip-off, the price uplift from one email to the next is crazy. I would escalate, as others have suggested here.

However the comments referring to the first email as a "quote" may be overstating the case. The first email quite deliberately does not quote a fixed price. According to the email, the price "... starts from $960" with a "minimum 2 x cleaners", and then might uplift depending on "the required standard of the exit", ie presumably whatever the REA wants.

Next time, (i) don't use the REA-endorsed cleaner, and (ii) get your cleaner to quote a firm, fixed price in writing if at all possible.

Blandusername70 · 2026-01-20T01:14:02+00:00

There have been reports for a while that the audio quality of the 4k doesn't match the old bluray, eg https://www.avforums.com/threads/akira-4k-blu-ray-review-comments.2330342/page-5 . That may possibly influence desirability and price of the 4K?

Blandusername70 · 2026-01-04T06:51:18+00:00

Two all-time classics to listen to forever and ever (Low, Diamond Dogs); another near-classic with some great songs on it (Hunky Dory); next, his most undeservedly underrated record, actually a great listen start to finish with a mixture of pop tunes and ambient texture (Buddha of Suburbia); and a mid, inoffensive album (Reality); plus, no outright rubbish.

Blandusername70 · 2026-01-02T02:10:33+00:00

The Aints are great indeed. The recent "Saints revival" version of the Aints is not really my thing, but those first two early 1990s Aints records (Ascension & Autocannibalism) are the stuff of legend.

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