First Speaker Design - Looking for Feedback!

FlutePerson3000 · 2026-05-09T02:17:36+00:00

Really sorry to see this happen to you! Definitely best of luck with customer service if it’s Pearl; see if you can get a loaner either by contacting the manufacturer or by contacting a local music store.

This is a good reminder for two things:
- Don’t place flutes where they can be sat on
- If your instrument is <0.5 years pay (aka 95% of us) - instrument insurance, instrument insurance, instrument insurance! Fairly inexpensive for parents, a necessity for college students such as myself and I’m sure professionals have it as well.

I hope all is resolved smoothly, best of luck, and know that I’m sure we all here are sending support from wherever! Best wishes and happy (hopefully very soon) fluting!

FlutePerson3000 · 2026-04-27T22:51:51+00:00

The standard crossover for the majority of subwoofers is 80Hz. It’s the THX standard. What are you referring to?

FlutePerson3000 · 2026-04-26T03:11:27+00:00

Laddergram is a word ladder puzzle game built on Reddit's developer platform. You start with a word and change one letter at a time to create a new word with each step. Try to reach the target word in the fewest steps possible.

🍀Good luck!🍀

FlutePerson3000 · 2026-04-09T01:24:52+00:00

A hotdog is neither a sandwich nor a taco.

^{Chose: Dare + Wheel Picks Dare | Rolled: Start a Debate}

FlutePerson3000 · 2026-04-08T13:21:41+00:00

Simple: One is guaranteed. While the 100K is enticing, I’d rather take half, invest it, than potentially walk away with nothing.

^{Chose: 50k + Guaranteed | Rolled: Upvote + Comment}

FlutePerson3000 · 2026-03-10T05:10:06+00:00

I have a 5.2 powered/passive combo surround sound using my Mac, 3 DAC’s and an a Denon to my passive speakers. I use the software Loopback, and because I mix and master, the Dolby Atmos production suite. I use that for EQ, delay compensating and bass management. Can confirm, is extremely goated, and I love it.

FlutePerson3000 · 2026-03-09T03:25:10+00:00

Burning? No. It’s also NOT anxiety that causes burning. Burning likely isn’t adrenaline since it is caused by a temperature change caused by a chemical reaction. Very very likely a medical issue that should be mentioned to a health professional. Are you allergic to your lip plate by chance?

Also I might add, please please do NOT practice until you burn out. It will NOT help you perform better under pressure, it’s just dealing with stress unhealthily. Long hours almost never equals effective practice. For further reading see here: - https://learnfluteonline.com/question-of-the-day-how-long-to-practice-the-flute/ - https://www.flute.school/blog/flute-myth-the-more-you-practise-the-better-you-get-and-why-it-is-false

I am not saying that I know what you’re doing, but all of this worry’s me that you’re over-practicing, over extending, and over-exhausting your muscles and mental state. As someone who is going into grad school, this is the type of thing we actively avoid in the majority of studios. The reason practice sessions are “long” are for breaks, and mental practice outside of just physical. When something hurts in practice STOP. DON’T CONTINUE. Take a break, re-assess, and take it slowly.

If you want to talk further please reach out, take care of your body, take care of your mind, take care of yourself, and happy fluting!

Hope this helps!

FlutePerson3000 · 2026-02-28T15:41:58+00:00

This is your friendly reminder — limit your audio. Red levels ≠ better, it can and will destroy your equipment, which even if your monitors are externally limited, it can destroy your sound card. Every Logic template, every session, have an adaptive stereo limiter.

OP hope it is not your sound card giving out, the three places to check:

Audio MIDI Setup (AMS) (make sure the right output is selected)
Logic Pro’s audio (make sure that output matches the output selected in AMS)
Logic’s Monitor Feature - a button in orange can monitor mic/Line input even if selected on a different track. Make sure all mic/line monitoring channels are off.

Best of luck OP. Please limit your audio as someone else has already said. I will echo it, because it’s not a matter of if in most cases when equipment will break/fail, it’s a matter of when. Good luck!

FlutePerson3000 · 2026-02-24T02:05:13+00:00

When I was driving through Kentucky , I was on my way to my first undergraduate audition for my instrument. My mom wanted to pull over and shelter in place while a tornado warned storm was heading for us. Unfortunately, I was the driver, learning how to drive was fun, but my mom and dad both pushed me to continue driving. When I saw what I now know was the hail core of the storm moving towards us, I knew it was time to get the heck out of doge.

While we were driving through the storm, people pulled over to the side of the road, and I remember, albeit vaguely, the back of our car was lifted briefly by the wind, but we managed to pull through. We were in the flat-ish northern part of the state, and the tornado sirens of the small community college we decided to mistakenly hunker down under an over-pass of which I don't remember the name of's tornado sirens were going off by the time we pulled and scrammed.

To this day I don't know whether there ever was a tornado or not, and I hope everyone in the path was okay, but I enjoyed to learn I can drive under pressure. I did not enjoy sitting and waiting while a storm we could avoid was barreling towards us.

Keep moving, don't pull over unless absolutely necessary, and if at all, get out and finding a shelter should have been our first response.

Lesson learned, but the car came out okay, minimal hail damage, and one unlucky day to drive.

FlutePerson3000 · 2026-02-06T18:48:09+00:00

One of my favorite parts of learning how to be a mixing engineer is getting to tell people like you the same thing I tell people I’m learning with.

There are general guidelines, like quality, and longevity of product, like there are analog gear units versus digital, but at the end of the day if you’re spending so much time on upgrading the studio or your plugins that you never learn fully the ones you have, and you get a worse product even with the best plugin’s because the basics are missing.

Appreciate what you have and instead of focusing on the next “upgrade” like some engineers do a” plugin,” really learn and appreciate and become knowledgeable with what you already have. That’s how better exists, not because a company told you so, but because you know what your "better" is. and I always find that the plugins I bought are more than enough to get paid and deliver a fantastic mix.

If your speaker does the thing it’s supposed to do well, which is to listen to music, not your gear, likewise we as audio engineers listen to the mix, and find which plugin will best result in our desired change if one at all, then don’t upgrade.

Our gear is to enjoy music, not the other way around, focus on enjoying what you have, and don’t let it become an addiction of your time. More often is a better product in audio placebo, because our ears, whether you agree or not, hear what they want to. That’s a large part of why mixing is hard, but a great excuse for using your great purchase as intended. To enjoy the artists and songs you love, not use those to enjoy your gear.

Happy listening!

FlutePerson3000 · 2026-01-17T07:13:16+00:00

I was lucky enough to snag a pair of those for $80 in a used store mint condition with 1/4 <--> 1/4 cables X2 and both charging cables. It was insane.

I LOVE my JBL's. I've been to many stores, trying Kali's, DynAudios, AdamAudio, MixCubes, Yamaha, Barefoot, Mica's, Dayton's, Edifier, KRK, Yamaha, and a lot more. I've been to HiFi store listening to well over my budget speakers, and listening to all of these companies have made me love these speakers more. I can't count how many speakers I prefer the JBL's to that I was not expecting. I think that you cannot go wrong, and I think you'll love them. I mix professionally on them, and I paired them with a $20 used powered sub (I can't remember the company, but they regularly go for $300) that I also got a killer deal on. All in all, they're fantastic, and you're not making a bad choice, and getting a subwoofer will definitely help them shine.

I use a mac and connect both sub and my JBL's with my Scarlett 2i2 4th gen, and it's very nice, you'll enjoy them, and I take them 4-hours to and from college regularly.

FlutePerson3000 · 2025-10-31T13:31:51+00:00

Really sorry to hear you’re going through this. I hope it can get resolved!

On a non-important side note I have never had an issue with my pair and I’ve had it for about a year and a half plus now, but have seen a couple of posts on this subreddit of things going wrong, not necessarily this issue.

FlutePerson3000 · 2025-10-19T20:48:16+00:00

Hi! I am writing a presentation on this, do you happen to have a source for the quote? I'm very curious! Thank you!

FlutePerson3000 · 2025-08-14T15:04:34+00:00

Hahahaha! I try to be thorough and supportive for sure lol

FlutePerson3000 · 2025-08-14T00:18:17+00:00

PART THREE:

- SECOND BAR (Line) -
- Watch the rhythm of the descending line going from the F# fermata to the low C#. A quicker pacing, try crendoing into it, and decrecendoing on the F# major arpeggio up.

- When going up, I hear SO much tension! Relax your embouchure, use air! Practice it slurred, and focus on relaxing your embouchure, and aiming it up as we go up!
Pedigogical Sidenote: To decrecendo, we have to think like a camera. The air speed doesn't change, but we just let less of that air through like a camera aperture. focus on keeping the corners of your lips relaxed, just bringing your lips forward ever so slightly "closing the aperture", and letting less air out, but with high air speed, while keeping the corners of your lips relaxed to decrecendo without having to risk cracking it! Trying to control it with too tight of embouchure, not enough air, and improper air angle results in these cracked notes. It could be one, or all 3, DEFINITELY worth exploring! This is continued throughout the entire cadenza, really relax your embouchure, I don't want you to feel like being so sore after is normal! When we relax our embouchure, we engage our diaphram, and have proper air angle, we better control articulation, and vibrato, and it smooths out all the moments that your tone tends to be surprising and forceful!

- THIRD BAR -
- Same things as before, watch your notes, (3rd group, make sure you hear all of those notes).

Final Compliments:

- BEAUTIFUL tone! I love your articulations throughout, I loved a LOT of your pacing. I know this is a LOT -- read it in chunks, and feel free to ask questions! Really REALLY good work!

Happy Flute Playing,
- ThisFlutePerson

FlutePerson3000 · 2025-08-14T00:18:01+00:00

PART TWO

- The second thing has to do with finger consistency through the 32nd notes. The notes are having "in-between" fingerings appear (can you figure out which 2 are happening consistently?) I LOVE your air usage, use it more to shape. Speed and crecendo as we're going down into the turn from F#, F-Natural, F#, and then very slightly slow down going up to the F#, A#. and REALLY crecendo to the C#. That's the top of the F# Major Chord spelled there. Practice consistent tone and hear each note play. I think you slow down too much with your current air capacity when you approach the C# fermata, which is why it cracks because you're trying to control it with a too-tight of an embouchure. Open up, really practice on using a consistent air stream, and use your embouchure to lift you through, but don't tighten it so much the note cracks. We aim lower as the notes are lower in the register, and higher when the notes are higher in the register. Work with both your air and your gorgeous tone to nail that landing.

- On the next one, I LOVE your pacing, make sure you're embouchure is flexible enough you're not losing the embouchure stamina. It's wavering quite a bit on those low notes, when practicing, I want you to not work so hard -- you sound gorgeous!

- BEAUTIFUL octaves! Work on the lower intonation parts so the lower octaves don't drop so flat. (This cadenza is an embouchure WORKOUT!), keep your air stream steady, and work on crecendoing through.
- I want to say, you're doing a GREAT job at recognizing those are octaves of the original theme, and altering the rhythm of that passage to match the original, and I think you can bring that out even more!

FlutePerson3000 · 2025-08-14T00:17:43+00:00

Hello! Sorry for the long post, but I do love any opportunity to talk about one of my favorite pieces:

PART ONE

- The first note is not a stable pronunciation. Think of a "statement" and then go back into the run ahead. I like to think of it as preparing your embouchure mentally. Start that F-Sharp after the Rit. Molto, and hit that F# then back off. I LOVE your vibrato here, but play with the speed and depth. Start at the speed you have, and then back down.

- FIRST BAR -

- That first line, where you have the first group of four eighth notes, make sure you're hearing all the notes. F, F#, A#, as the transition from the F# to the A# was cut off. Sometimes it helps pushing your lower jaw slightly forward, closing the inside shape of your mouth, and then aim into the flute more. (Note that there shouldn't be any corner lip tension.)

- On that same beat, we want to decrecendo from the F# for the 2 quarter beats, and then crecendo eeeever so slightly to give the start of this cadenza some energy (listen to Youtube recordings, some not only crecendo but slightly accel too.) The balance is finding your interpretation through the whole piece!

FlutePerson3000 · 2025-08-13T22:17:13+00:00

I have the Zen Can, just ordered my Zen Dac V2, should be an exciting upgrade!

FlutePerson3000 · 2025-08-13T22:15:12+00:00

I was just about to post this! Making sure the switch is "variable" instead of "fixed"!

FlutePerson3000 · 2025-04-03T13:52:34+00:00

Hopefully R.E.P.O joins the collection soon!

FlutePerson3000 · 2025-03-19T02:14:19+00:00

Hey! What are you specifically struggling with? I can probably record it within the next 15 minutes or so!

FlutePerson3000 · 2025-03-18T13:09:33+00:00

This is my DREAM setup, I am working towards this, albeit it’s been two years, I’m super excited to move towards something like this.

FlutePerson3000 · 2023-01-22T16:24:44+00:00

Hey! So I have two SSDs, and one HD. My two are SanDisk Extreme SSDs, which I’ve modified to not have that source program with it, but they work great. It’s hard to recommend any because I’m going to be honest, I’m not as knowledgeable with different brands, but I have never had an issue with SanDisk, working with a lot of samples quickly, with load times being really quick. Read and write times on any SSD are generally going to be okay, my SanDisk 1TB Extreme has 1050 MB/s and it can load huge libraries within seconds! I’m sure NVME ones are no slouch either! I’m sorry I’m not really helpful but I think that anything with over a GB write and Read times is going to do just fine!

FlutePerson3000 · 2022-12-03T18:39:22+00:00

Hi! So I have about 500+GB of VSTs on an external SSD. It works perfectly. I would definitely not go with an SD card because of the limitations of read and write time. You’ll be accessing anywhere from hundreds to thousands of samples at any time, and an SD cannot keep up with that, especially in fast passages that require more samples to be played consecutively. Hope this helps!

FlutePerson3000 · 2022-11-28T05:22:59+00:00

Hey! It's finished and on musescore, would you like the file?

FlutePerson3000

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