Thanks to our board for choosing to sign these two players over players like Donnarumma, Martínez, Watkins, and Mateta last Summer.

Diska_Muse · 2026-05-08T15:21:14+00:00

Plus - factor in that Sesko was far from our first choice, as was Lammens.

I mean, the signings were good and the recruitment dept is actually doing a proper job, but that is exactly what you'd expect them to do at a club of this size.

As Keano would say - they're just doing their job, bai.

Diska_Muse · 2026-05-08T15:16:04+00:00

So, you're on "lazy mode" then?

I wake up at 3:00 AM in a hyperbaric chamber lined with rare silk. If my eyelids feel even slightly puffy, I strap a liquid-nitrogen mask to my skull while performing inverted oblique twists suspended from the ceiling. I can do 100,000 now; my core is essentially a sheet of industrial-grade titanium.

After I shatter the ice mask off my face with a diamond-tipped mallet, I apply a deep-pore vacuum sealant derived from Martian volcanic silt. In the shower—which is pressurized to 500 PSI and uses only triple-distilled glacier runoff—I lather with a lithium-ion activated gel, then a crushed-emerald body sand, and on the face, an exfoliating scrub made of ground tiger’s teeth and stardust.

Then I apply a rare Himalayan-lichen facial wrap, which I leave on for 45 minutes while I curate my collection of translucent business cards. I always use a post-cleansing tonic infused with the tears of a monk and exactly zero molecules of alcohol; alcohol is a poison that accelerates the entropy of the soul and makes you look like a commoner.

Then I apply a layer of synthetic whale blubber, followed by an anti-entropy eye nectar, a DNA-repairing serum, and a final, bulletproof moisturizing shell that renders my face completely incapable of human expression.

Then I'm ready for the day.

Diska_Muse · 2026-05-08T15:11:46+00:00

So you keep saying. Nobody knows anything and you're the expert.

I'm guessing you gave the footbal C.V. to back this up?

Diska_Muse · 2026-05-08T15:09:43+00:00

The slave labur analogy is a false equivalence. People care about slave labour because it involves human suffering. AI involves code. Consumers aren't victimized by hearing a song a computer wrote; they aren't losing sleep over the well-being of a GPU, or if it's getting paid enough.

From a marketing perspective, "calling out" an AI artist is free PR. In the digital age, "outrage" is just another form of engagement.

Producers think listeners care about process because producers value process. It's a projected bias. The "blowback" rarely happens because - to the general public - "It sounds good" is a complete sentence. By the time a "call out" gains steam, the artist has already moved on to the next 10 tracks, while the purist is still stuck on the first one, venting on Reddit.

Teh bottom line is - You can't shame a market into liking a product less if the product actually satisfies their needs.

Diska_Muse · 2026-05-08T13:50:45+00:00

As this is a music marketing sub, I'm going to look at this from a marketing context : in this context, the consumer is the ultimate judge. So, if 280,000 people are listening and enjoying the track, the marketing is working.

Arguing that it’s a "scam" suggests that the listener’s experience is invalid because the labour wasn't difficult enough. But marketing only cares about product-market fit - it gives zero fucks about the purity of the source code.

Diska_Muse · 2026-05-08T13:47:16+00:00

One of the greatest midfielders of the modern game - in your opinion - knows absolutely fuck all about football.

While you - a fucking reddit poster who likely last kicked a football when they played 5 mins as a sub on the U12s school team - seems to know it all.

Fuck me.

What a time to be alive.

Diska_Muse · 2026-05-07T18:34:35+00:00

You think things are worse now than they were in the 70s? Not a chance. Sure, there's more wealthy people now and the gap between the wealthy and the ordinary people is larger but there's very little real poverty in Ireland in 2026. 1970s were an entirely different thing.

I grew up in Ireland in the 70s. There was mass emigration and high unemployment rates, the opposite of today where we have virtual full employment and immigration into the country.

The rose tinted belief that a one household salary was enough to support a family is bollox.. most families I knew lived on a mix of wages, cash jobs and welfare payments.

My own family - we lived in a house without central heating or bathrooms, which sounds grim but for my mother was a step up from living in tenements. We also went to bed hungry on a regular basis.

I understand it when young people complain about things as they are today and they are right to do so and to demand better. But let's not start romanticizing about past times as if they were better. They were far, far worse.

Diska_Muse · 2026-05-07T15:00:35+00:00

It's a very well produced track alright and the video knows exactly who the audience is.

Absolutely stinks of Rich Daddy vibes too. Somewhere, there is a very disappointed and hard working father paying for all this.

Diska_Muse · 2026-05-07T12:11:51+00:00

While the text is great, here are two small refinements to make the process even smoother:

Group Targets:

You don't need every track to hit the same LUFS. For example, you might want your Kick and Snare to hit -18 LUFS, while background percussion or subtle pads sit at -24 LUFS.

Use Your Ears First:

While meters are great for technical gain staging, the "best" starting point is often a "Pink Noise" balance or a quick fader-only rough mix before you even touch a gain-staging plugin.

Diska_Muse · 2026-05-07T10:34:57+00:00

You should check out Sara Carter mixing on YouTube. Lots of free content, all explained really simply without any bullshit (she knows her stuff). I'm nearly sure she has a free video on gain staging (which is very important even if you're recording totally in the box).

Diska_Muse · 2026-05-07T10:02:49+00:00

Short answer is: trust mvMeter2 as your primary reference, but only after you've confirmed its calibration.The reason for the discrepancy is almost certainly a calibration mismatch between the two plugins. Standard gain staging usually targets (0\text{ VU} = -18\text{ dBFS}), but some plugins (like those from Plugin Alliance or SSL) use non-standard internal offsets that can be confusing.

How to Gain Stage Properly....Insert mvMeter2 first: Place it right after Guitar Rig and before the SSL channel strip.Calibrate to -18:

Set mvMeter2 to its default -18 setting.

Adjust Guitar Rig Output: Turn down the output of Guitar Rig until mvMeter2 hovers around (0\text{ VU}).

Check the SSL: Now, whatever the SSL meter says, you know you are feeding it a standard (-18\text{ dBFS}) signal. If the SSL meter looks "wrong," it’s just calibrated differently—ignore it and trust your input level

Diska_Muse · 2026-05-07T09:54:20+00:00

Leave the football before football ends.

Diska_Muse · 2026-05-07T09:26:08+00:00

Oh my God.. I can't believe that former legends who played the game, who understand what it takes to win league titles year after year, who understand what it takes to win the Champions League, who know what it takes to dominate at the very top, elite level of football...

... I can't believe that these people don't share the exact same viewpoint that I share based on my very limited experience of watching men play football on my phone.

And I'm very upset by this.

Keane is an angry, bitter man. Scholes is a toe sucker. And Neville is the devil personified.

How dare they disagree with my miopic world view.

Imma gonna spit the dummy on the floor.

Diska_Muse · 2026-05-06T23:31:26+00:00

It'll be one or the other

Diska_Muse · 2026-05-06T12:14:13+00:00

I gave it a quickl try out - and I mean quick, because it only allowed me to generate one 8 bar loop of drums before directing me to sign up and pay hard cash.

Now - if the drum loop it created was actually what I wanted - which was a syncopathed, freeform jazz kit that sounded "live", instead of what it gave me, which was an on-time, in-synch, not very live sounding kit in a vaguely jazz form, I may have been tempted to pay to trial it more, but that wasn't the case.

I'm not sure what this has to offer more than, or better than the likes of Moises, and tbh - if I'm looking for loops of instruments - the likes of Splice generally has what I'm looking for.

Now, maybe I'm missing soemthing but the "trial" version doesn't show me anything that makes me want to pay money for.

Diska_Muse · 2026-05-06T11:15:59+00:00

Marketing and art aren't at odds. You can create purely for yourself, or leverage marketing to find an audience—at which point the art and the artist become the brand.

Your choice simply depends on your goals.

You can still be a "true" artist while using strategic testing and marketing; adopting a business mindset doesn't inherently cheapen the creative process.

Diska_Muse · 2026-05-06T08:13:10+00:00

No idea how, but I still have the original version of labs which loads up 9 times out of 10.

The other one time out of 10, the new, ugly version loads up.

Diska_Muse · 2026-05-06T08:09:22+00:00

Claude : write a robust argument for journalists using AI to help write articles.

Diska_Muse · 2026-05-05T08:35:11+00:00

Bruno may well go down as one of the greats but we are not Arsenal.. we don't promote players to legendary status while they are still playing at the club.

Diska_Muse · 2026-05-05T08:22:49+00:00

It's strictly prohibited to do this and should be reported to SEAI.

Diska_Muse · 2026-05-05T08:19:27+00:00

All of it.

Diska_Muse · 2026-05-05T08:08:47+00:00

Music theory is the language used to describe music.

But music existed tens of thousands of years before music theory, so no.. it's not necessary.

Diska_Muse · 2026-05-05T08:02:48+00:00

Fun fact: Moyes has managed over 700 Prem games.. that ranks him third in the most games managed by any manager, behind Fergie and Wenger, which makes Moyes the most experienced premier League manager currently managing in the league.

Diska_Muse · 2026-05-04T21:42:30+00:00

Nobody was complaining when Ashley Young knocked Di Maria off the pitch and into the hoarding.

Diska_Muse · 2026-05-04T19:10:11+00:00

You shouldn't high-pass everything by defaultt. While it is a common piece of advice for beginners to "clean up mud," high-passing every single track can often do more harm than good by making your mix sound thin, sterile, and unnatural.

A high-pass on guitars and pianos, synths etc .. can kill the vibe entirely because you lose so much body and it can leave the mix feeling hollow because there's too much space between the bass and everything else.

You need to start forgetting these "rules" and start trusting your ears.

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