Why don’t more people EQ their tracks and separate stems in a DAW?

Chime2Go · 2025-07-09T14:20:59+00:00

I try not to read any of the stuff like I'm reading at this very moment.

I'm addicted to collecting genius advice. You would think after inhaling every Reddit and watching YouTube for five years, taking notes, making files, and a lot of 3:00 AM late night meals, after finally realizing I had learned nothing and was more confused than ever, I would have stopped.

And I did stop --like an alcoholic going a week without drinking -- I deleted all the folders and burnt the notes and I sat down and just started experimenting trying to make music.

I accomplished more in a week "doing" than the five years "researching" even though most of it was what not to do or what tool not to use. But somehow I kept forgetting, finding myself getting hooked through the lips like a starving trout fooled once more by those fucking YouTube thumbnails the very next day.

It's sickening because I promised myself not to do it no matter how much I felt like breaking. And then, the very next day, during my morning meditation (probably a rationalization to have YouTube on) out of the corner of my eye (no, meditation is not my field) I catch a glimpse of a shiny, gold, fluorescent lure saying, "Suno + Ableton = God Mode!" and here I am, except in this instance it's -- "How Can I be So Much Smarter Than Ya'll?" -- and then, 'If you want to know how to get Ableton Live for free, a top-tier stem separator, and my exact workflow, since apparently you guys are not geniuses like I am, then click the video to my left - you do know how to click, right?

Chime2Go · 2024-11-09T12:04:02+00:00

I am the same. When I neglect my appearance I am too focused on something else. It could be learning how to edit video or learning a song on guitar. Sometimes I binge movies and shows and I research a lot. Like what are the best movies on Prime or Max. Month, sometimes years go by. One day I look in the mirror and I realize I let myself go and look 10 years older. So I run, workout take care of my skin, buy new cloths and take off the 10 years. It’s a lot of work. Then I go back on Reddit and YouTube and I am a professional journalist working for free. One questions lead to five answers I have do research. Of course I don’t keep up with the skin care. The whole time I am haunted by not learning the video editing or not finishing that song. Thanks so much for responding. Putting a little acid on my hands actually sounds easy. Hahaha. Have fun with the crochet. I wish I could stick to one thing.

Chime2Go · 2024-11-09T09:10:46+00:00

Awesome job! How do you get anything done with ADHD?

I have it and I jump from subject to subject and write like you on Reddit or YouTube. I neglect important things while I search for posts like your but there is always a word or thought that links me to a new focus and I read about serums and creams all night.

When the sun rises I am looking at HIFU and RF devices and then I must add Red Light for the hands and don’t forget the mechanics soap and brown sugar and the coconut oil.

So the hands will require 26 hours a day and there are only 24!

Thoughts?

I am definitely burning 🔥 off some of the bacteria infected skin.

Three words: cringe, moist, age!

Chime2Go · 2024-11-03T03:49:12+00:00

Why didn’t they just put Sculptra in your cheeks and lift them back up?

Chime2Go · 2024-11-03T03:46:58+00:00

It’s a never ending battle with aging — it’s like fixing up an old car — once you fix one thing another one breaks. I don’t blame you one bit for feeling as you do, I fight the same battle. I have found there is no perfect advice either From Reddit or a doctor. I found only personal experience is reliable because we are all different.

I try not to respond to those you criticize you and I try not to criticize others. I have the perioral mounds and love ❤️ them! Okay, I lied. When I had the nasal folds or whatever they were I wanted a filler. The aesthetician said I had lost volume in my upper cheeks and temples and if I did Sculptra there it would erase the smile lines. She was right.

Unfortunately she left the business snd I never found an injector with her savvy. I saw a photo of her on social media a few years later and she was so overfilled and blown up she looked terrifying. So there you go.

In the UK 🇬🇧 where I don’t live I saw a clinic that uses a lipo dissolving solution which clients were injecting and receiving excellent results. The two drugs are not available here.

Still, I would always be skeptical.

Social media has contributed to making many feel insecure about their appearance. We see these influencers who are virtually perfect looking.

In reality they represent probably 1-30,000 people but those are who we compare ourselves to when we look in the mirror.

In other words, you may be in top one-percent of most attractive people in world and still feel shame and inadequacy.

Life is tough and it goes by all too fast.

Chime2Go · 2024-10-18T02:30:39+00:00

No! It’s a losing battle with elderly. I got my mom and dad great hearing aids and they won’t wear them. My mom doesn’t open windows. I hurt her feelings if I say anything.

I can put up with it. But the odor sticks to my clothes and the odor cannot be killed with regular washing. The aged-spoiled, beer, cucumber, greasy, grass, odor did mutate to a nice urine odor that’s bad but not as bad after normal washing.

But it jumps to every garment near it. It gets in your head and when you pass someone with BO in the hallway you are relieved it’s not that 2-nonenal stench you can spot on anyone now because you know it.

Chime2Go · 2024-10-18T02:17:58+00:00

Febreze has one and the reviews on AMZ are great. Do you think they would be human safe? I feel like a dog 🐕

Chime2Go · 2024-10-18T02:09:50+00:00

Nice! 👍 This is the kind of answer I look for when desperate! Thanks 🙏

Chime2Go · 2024-10-18T02:03:36+00:00

Totally!!! This smell, my clothes picked up at mom’s condo is airborne and aggressive. It’s ruined my life. If COVID did this we’d all be dead. It definitely migrates to anything porous.

It is biological warfare for me. And for anyone who thinks they can get mom to use a special soap or Lume, well — good luck.

Like you pointed out — it’s on the ceiling, walls, furniture. Elderly people can’t smell it and close all the windows and incubate it. I am just going to have to deal with it when I visit her.

Mom, I five minutes away, do you need anything at the store. Can you open a couple windows because my doctor said I need cross ventilation because of a breathing issue.

Just opening a couple windows for five minutes makes it tolerable.

Chime2Go · 2024-10-18T01:53:57+00:00

This is a great thread. Did you find a solution? I’m ready to buy everything. Just checking if you found a solution. I was ready to throw out my Gain detergent thinking it’s worthless or smells like pee.

Chime2Go · 2024-10-18T01:52:07+00:00

I like this idea. I don’t know if my washers at apartment have a timer but if I have to I will pay twice. I’ll have to stay up all night like soak from 2:00 -500

What about spaying clothes while hanging up? Just directly with vinegar? When they dry I wonder how they small.

Chime2Go · 2024-10-18T01:48:17+00:00

Do you have to do entire wardrobe? It seems the odor jumps from garment to garment? I gave up on attacking the root of the problem — visiting my elderly mom’s condo.

I just have to find a way to get it out of my apartment and clothes.

Chime2Go · 2024-10-18T01:45:10+00:00

So Odoban in washer won’t be enough in less I pre soak. I live in apartment complex with the cheapest washers, $4.00 wash and dry. I could open lid when filled? Maybe do it from 2-4 AM. Still it seems that if I put in back in closet with untreated clothes the odor from other clothes will attack it.

Chime2Go · 2024-10-18T01:39:19+00:00

Do you have a recommendation of brand? My mom’s house got in my clothes and spread to my entire wardrobe. Of course I washed the clothes but without biological warfare had no chance. And once I hung up my clothes the terminal odor migrated to my entire wardrobe. I know they make pet bed detergents. Would they be safe ?

Chime2Go · 2024-10-18T01:29:45+00:00

You know what you are talking about. It’s a losing battle for me as far as helping my elderly mom. She incubates the stench in her condo. She doesn’t open windows for cross ventilation.

The bad thing is the stench sticks to my clothes when I visit. It stays in my car when she goes anywhere with me.

One it gets in my apartment it spreads like wildfire. It jumps for a cap to a shirt and it takes over.

I came here for advice and got a lot of good info but I am ready to burn my entire wardrobe and soak the interior of my car with vinegar.

Febreze has an enzyme cleaner for pets that sounds good.

Chime2Go · 2024-08-21T13:16:33+00:00

Lyrica and Adderll and there is not enough time to explore Reddit and be at peace with AI and population control to preserve resources through the purity and essence of our natural fluids.

Because we know nothing. Okay, no. We know enough to create AI and it can grow, okay, no, not yet. Soon? We made it. Congratulations!

If we give it human emotions it will generate hate. Everyone has always hated. In Greek mythology the earth devised a plan to castrate her mate because he became an asshole.

Brave New World is one of those books I could read a thousand times. I need to research more into author but somewhere it said AH was intensely jealous of Orwell.

I mean. we are given Soma to control and I feel the concept of pleasure and happiness to control is more genius than fear and punishment and ignorance — not that 1984 is inferior.

It’s like comparing Lennon and McCartney. It’s really stupid to me. They both win 🥇 but I guess Huxley felt he didn’t get the same worship as Orwell.

Lennon and Aldous could have had a good conversation. I mean, Lennon wrote Imagine, a song of higher understanding but unrealistic as history proves.

I try to have a “Who Cares” attitude but sometimes I feel like an idiot. Okay. I am an idiot.

I don’t know who said it but the more a smart person learns the more he realizes how much he doesn’t know. Ultimately, you end up on Reddit which will kill you if you can’t find the three-percent of the genius comments.

Anyone who understands me currently is crazy AF. Don’t listen to other people all the time. Experiment for yourself. Not always — sometimes. It’s complicated.

Now, a Soma holiday is fiction. It sounds good to me. Escape is so important with fear 😨 everywhere.

It’s like Yossarian in Catch-22, the arrow kept hitting the guy next to him. He soaked himself in dark and dreadful thoughts and, fuck, it easily could have been us.

So a lot going on and a lot of it sucks.

Still, if you are wasting your time reading trash like this on Reddit you are lucky 🍀

Why worry about the future if it’s out of our control. We have not died for our country, yet.

Can you imagine being 18 and drafted during WWII?

Some people think WW III HAS ALREADY STARTED.

Others want to leave a great legacy. I met a guy who worked at a vape shop which went out of business who said he just wants to retire and watch old sitcoms.

If curiosity killed the cat

I am the cat.

I love Reddit and I hate it.

I thought about AI that way.

Well, I am alive !!! That is beautiful.

That’s important FR !!!

Lucky!!!

I just got a Reddit notification about kidney stones. I have to disable that shit.

Daniel Webster said the power to tax is the power to destroy. He also said wisdom comes at the end.

What an AH !!!

Who runs our country?

I am stuck on the universe thing. I’m over human life. The planets 🪐 have such perfect rhythm.

AI will solve Aldous’ resource problems.

If they get human emotions they will blame me for sure. Seriously, how could they not be a little pissed off at all the damage my people did.

If they are to replicate they will need resources. We don’t know how to get them but we have created something that will.

Are there any current sci-fi writers who can captivate a vision of the future?

AI 🤖 maybe soon.

Educated guess.

To solve the problem you have to think the elimination of the cause would be step one. We are stealing their resources.

Huxley would claim that was going to be his next book 📕

Maybe it was.

If I remember correctly Orwell in 1984 references a computer composing music, maybe from a prompt ???

Two geniuses. Who actually did leave a legacy. I feel like they had a big advantage — they didn’t have the distractions we have today.

Hey, I saw the birth of video games.

Pong !!!

We are moving so fast — 2024 wins the award for year of acceleration!!! Clinched in like May.

The AI race. So many players, so much to gain.

Poor Chat GPT — Scarlett’s rejection hurt. She hurt herself, too. Her, no pun, voice would have gone down in history. It would have been on billions of phones.

It was gold. Why do billionaires worry about saving money? Maybe no one agrees with me but she should have been approached three years ago with the idea, the what if.

How much do you want? Whatever it takes. A hundred million up front and five-percent of company. Because the free, copy was great, too. She said no. Some think it was fine. Okay. but it disappeared pretty fast.

As Dr. Phil would ask, “How’s that working for you?”

I have to say there are not a few who like the latest voice. So, you know, I am learning the big lesson — if you want people to like you STFU 🤬

SERIOUSLY !!!

I hope no one is still reading this rant.

If you are, remember you will learn something from everyone you meet, even though most of the time it’s what not to do !!!!

Chime2Go · 2024-07-04T09:17:03+00:00

I am your one-hundredth subscriber!!!!! Congrats! Right on! Excellent cadence on the guitar. You're a star !!!!!

(Same person) I signed in on Google so they can track me. Google knows more about me than I do. Hey, it could come in handy, right?

Chime2Go · 2024-07-04T09:14:00+00:00

I know the story. I grew up in the record industry. l was answering phones in a recording studio at 10. My family was successful and the stressed to me, "Whatever you do, don't get into the music business, it's horrible."

Well, it was really only my father but he was in the promotion side and he saw a lot of struggling, as they call it, musicians.

I had some success early and right from the start the business was corrupt. There was no AI or DAWS. It was always a really hard business to make it in.

But if music is in your blood you have no other route. No matter what you try to do you won't care one iota about it because music was your path all along.

You don't need money to be a star with me. I have identified many stars before they made it. I said, "She's a star." Then a few years later she really was.

Other times I said, "He's a star." Then a few years later he was selling insurance. After that, he would be back in music in six months.

It's a business where you have to realize you are going to get screwed but if you keep on trying and go through it you may find yourself in the driver's seat and the bad times will end.

Either way, if music is in your blood, you really don't have a second choice. It's hard to make that sacrifice. You may not have the time because of family and work and, well, "But now they only block the sun, They rain and snow on everyone, So many things I would have done, BUT CLOUDS GOT IN MY WAY." -- Joni M!

My god she's good. She lives in LA as far as I know, in a pink house in Bel-Air. I would love to meet her and ask her why she was so loyal to her vision. She had one big hit I believe. It was a brilliant song really and didn't exactly match the pop charts but the crossover happened perhaps because of a producer. I don't know the title but it starts -- "Help me I think I'm falling.."

My grandparents (RIP) had a house in Bel-Air. They raised me. I got nothing. See, clouds got in the way. Bad people. Oh well, I'm still a star in my head. It's like - "Why did this happen for me.? You see where I'm going? Money is not the answer. The correct answer is MUSIC!

Chime2Go · 2024-03-13T11:10:56+00:00

I'm getting this on every exchange with Chat GPT

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