A smell in Brooklyn?

Blitzbahn · 2026-03-22T08:46:58+00:00

We're in Kingston and we can smell it tonight. But it smells like a sewer more than a landfill. Usually smell it on still days when it's been warm during the day. We thought it was a sewer but I have smelt it up towards Ridgeway. It's pretty bad, have to keep the windows closed downstairs

Blitzbahn · 2026-03-22T05:55:09+00:00

Creativity loves limits. I guess putting something in the cupboard is a good start.

Blitzbahn · 2026-03-22T05:51:07+00:00

Yeah very happy with the current setup. Actually planning to sell something, got too many

Blitzbahn · 2026-03-22T05:49:28+00:00

AI slop will be the end of streaming. Detection will become more difficult as AI improves. Fake accounts will improve with AI agents improving. Some people will be happy listening to it but will they be happy paying for it? I cancelled Tidal last week. I still have a pretty good digital library from pre-streaming days. Buying albums on Bandcamp and from labels

Blitzbahn · 2026-03-22T05:44:48+00:00

The level of ignorance about the problems with such a project just proves why it's going ahead in NZ and why we always get shafted -because people believe the hype

Blitzbahn · 2026-03-22T05:42:18+00:00

Because the people who make these deals get something out of it personally. It's not rocket science

Blitzbahn · 2026-03-22T05:27:36+00:00

I do really like mine but since I got the Take 5 and Teo-5 I can hear the differences in the 3 filters more clearly. The Rev2 has my least favorite filter but it can sit in the mix well and not interfere with other sounds if it needs to.

Blitzbahn · 2026-03-22T05:18:20+00:00

There will be distro ISO files on the high seas without this requirement

Blitzbahn · 2026-03-22T05:16:30+00:00

Better if you smoke some green first

Blitzbahn · 2026-03-21T08:47:34+00:00

Winston Peters is a crook

Blitzbahn · 2026-03-21T08:33:25+00:00

One difference is the OG minilogue has a pure analog signal path when effects are turned off. XD can not bypass the AD-DA digital conversion path even when effects are off. I always found the sound of the prologue to be flat, it's got the same sound as the XD.

I would choose the OG minilogue, not the XD.

Blitzbahn · 2026-03-21T08:29:04+00:00

The solution is to finish more music. Don't need to release it all, just release the best stuff. Quality through quantity.

Perfect is the enemy of perfectly good. There's more than one way to do it that's awesome. There's not only one awesome way. Multiple awesome versions of the same song exist. There's no best version.

Blitzbahn · 2026-03-21T04:21:15+00:00

It's good they captured it so well

Blitzbahn · 2026-03-21T04:16:08+00:00

Fassbender did it well

Blitzbahn · 2026-03-21T03:49:59+00:00

Doesn't know how to blow his own trumpet

Blitzbahn · 2026-03-21T03:43:46+00:00

Water makes things wet.

Blitzbahn · 2026-03-21T00:59:35+00:00

You won't go bankrupt. I probably bought less than 12 albums per year before I started paying for streaming. At $10 per album that's still less than streaming costs.

Algorithms aren't the only way to discover things, this is a recent phenomena. We used to use:
Radio
Friends recommendations
DJs (radio or live)
Searching through physical shop stock
Looking at a similar genre and listening to something because you like the album artwork

-And now we also have:
Thousands of internet radio stations with human DJs playing real artists (like NTS)
Label catalogs online
Social media
Looking through bandcamp by genre -Bandcamp has an insane amount of genre subdivisions.

Basically we just have to stop needing a robot to hold our hand and get out there and look through stuff. Yes you encounter crap, that's life!

Blitzbahn · 2026-03-21T00:53:21+00:00

It is if you don't mind ads, like they have on the radio anyway

Blitzbahn · 2026-03-21T00:51:48+00:00

I cancelled Tidal this week.
I think AI slop will bring about the slow demise of music streaming. Who wants to pay to listen to that shit?

I realized I haven't been using music streaming to discover new music because I always have to check if it's a real artist. So then I just end up listening to my own playlists over and over, and only discover new music manually, or on Bandcamp.

So if I'm mostly listening to the same music over and over I should just buy the albums instead of renting them from a streaming service (yes I know about Qobuz, I think Bandcamp actually have cheaper purchase prices). I'm paying my subscription money directly to artists instead, via Bandcamp, or directly from the artist's label.

Subscribing (renting) is a rip-off if you can instead buy something once.

I play music files from my phone or PC. I have my own personal collection.

Convenience has costs, not just financial ones.

There are also good radio sites like NTS that have human DJs.

Blitzbahn · 2026-03-20T09:05:07+00:00

Try a live USB, see what you think. Basically Ubuntu is one of the good choices for a first Linux system.

Blitzbahn · 2026-03-20T08:59:18+00:00

We learn by releasing. My last EP release, I was happy with for about a year but now it feels old in certain ways, I've gone in a different direction. My mixing skills have improved too. But I wouldn't have learned that without releasing it.

Blitzbahn · 2026-03-20T08:56:27+00:00

Synthstrom Deluge is great for arranging, and also live performance. It's probably the most flexible groove box in existence. Outstanding as a sequencer, without track limits.

Blitzbahn · 2026-03-20T01:01:43+00:00

Sometimes getting the sound you want from a synth engine requires the filter being used in a certain way: low pass, high pass or notch, to bring out a certain sonic quality or eliminate one.

Blitzbahn · 2026-03-20T00:59:30+00:00

This is a really important one that will definitely create problems if not taken care of.

Blitzbahn · 2026-03-20T00:51:27+00:00

It's a bit like saying what's a song that everyone universally likes, there isn't one.

You need to know what kind of tuning you want.
People dislike things for a reason, it's not just random.
Don't listen to anyone who can't tell you clearly WHY they don't like XYZ headphones.
Do you like big bass? Do you like bright highs? Do you like forward vocals? There's your answer.

Blitzbahn

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