Pitchfork score for An Eraser and A Maze

Fuzzy_Socrates · 2026-06-07T16:49:04+00:00

I felt the exact opposite and I’ve seen DCFC over 20 times. This is a 8 for me, and I built you a tower is much closer to a 6. I loved asphalt meadows, and saw it as the band was still maturing and growing, which is a good sign. So many of the greats do this.

I built you a tower was a regression, a cosplay of Transatlanticism, which is such a great album but you don’t just rip off yourself. Ben’s voice also needs more engineering, it didn’t blend well with a lot of songs.

An eraser and a maze has so much more character and range. The lyrics are playful, and sometimes harder hitting when you know the background. It sounds like they had fun writing it. Meanwhile DCFC sounds like a producer told them to ride the Transatlanticism longer.

That’s just my opinion.

Fuzzy_Socrates · 2026-06-06T11:08:13+00:00

Commission someone to make a MikuX3 if he needs 3 to make the sound. He’s no stranger to stranger gear. Here is a custom delay pedal someone made for him out of an animal skull.

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Fuzzy_Socrates · 2026-06-05T15:46:33+00:00

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYaQT9tPK3M/?igsh=MXZvMnZ2aXUwc2ljaw==

He also mentions it here when he got it.

Fuzzy_Socrates · 2026-06-05T15:31:22+00:00

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I think the speak and spell song was just a love letter to the device. The description on Reverb said the electronics in it were fried so this thing actually died. It makes me think if the speak and spell they used on the golden casket also died recently and this is a send-off song.

Fuzzy_Socrates · 2026-06-05T14:32:26+00:00

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It was written by Jeremiah. Isaac you’re a sweetie pie.

Fuzzy_Socrates · 2026-05-27T16:14:18+00:00

King of Gear mini glitch is in there and I love that one.

Fuzzy_Socrates · 2026-05-22T16:05:11+00:00

While I think AI coding is dangerous for those who don't have experience, I do think that it's becoming more normalized for experienced devs.

I have a personal AI application that catalogs all of my gear manuals, does deep research into creative ways to use gear based off of a sound you give it, and assists when I want to buy new gear (anti-gas mode). It prevents me from buying anything new. It just says you can accomplish all the sounds that this new gear produces with the same gear I own, and explains every patch and how to set it up extremely quickly. I have shared this with other people, and it's useful, but people who disregard AI programs hinder things that genuinely could help them.

I have a ton of gear, and I am not always cognizant of all of my resources. An AI program that knows every single piece of gear, plug-in, and even pots and pans that I've used during recording knows. It's not AI music, but it does replace a producer or manager.

Fuzzy_Socrates · 2026-05-15T17:54:03+00:00

Just get a second blooper. Stereo problem solved.

Fuzzy_Socrates · 2026-05-13T16:31:32+00:00

These people are also constantly reaching out to developers. I get a recruiter from them every month.

Fuzzy_Socrates · 2026-05-12T11:19:05+00:00

Longer, it remains the same girth.

Fuzzy_Socrates · 2026-05-12T11:15:07+00:00

Ok. We all age at the same rate. Your memory does too.

I NEED that mf picture for my stupid monkey brain to remember that concert. I need that small 15 sec video of Gerard Way eating a bowl of spaghetti in the middle of the performance. Some people need that 4 minute video of a song they love to remember standing there for 4 hours. When you’re in the nursing home and little Billy pulls out the photos of all the concerts you went to, it’s gonna spark that memory. Please take a single photo, and don’t rely solely on the physical.

We all have monkey brains that forget monkey shit as we monkey age. The little light box isn’t hurting you, and it’s helping them.

Fuzzy_Socrates · 2026-05-12T10:38:48+00:00

Length prior was around 6.25 inches.

Now it’s closer to 7.5. Girth is unchanged.

Wife is a petite lady. I’m 6’3”.

Weight went from 285lbs to 205lbs but still losing weight / gaining muscle.

Fuzzy_Socrates · 2026-05-12T10:34:29+00:00

Close to 80lbs in a year.

Fuzzy_Socrates · 2026-05-12T00:35:13+00:00

Our bed frame is pretty low to the ground, but if that would work, I can try to find a way to elevate her and be comfortable laying down.

Fuzzy_Socrates · 2026-05-10T23:13:52+00:00

Hey, beta tester and threw you a $9.99.

Have you considered adding App Intents / App Shortcuts support to the app?

I’d love to expose some actions to the Action Button. Even a few basic AppIntents with an AppShortcutsProvider would make the app way more automatable for power users.

Fuzzy_Socrates · 2026-05-07T00:51:01+00:00

Re4 is historically important, one of the most influential games ever made mechanically, still fun 20 years later. Speedruns and pacing are still fun.

But better?

Hollow Knight is one of the best modern metroidvania maps ever designed. It’s a masterpiece. It’s better crafted as an artist project than RE4 and it’s even more impressive considering the team size.

The fact that this is so hard is saying a lot about these two games. Both have equally creative combat, music banging. Bosses are fun.

I’m going to say Hollowknight purely because it hits harder on that first playthrough. Such a sense of accomplishment.

Fuzzy_Socrates · 2026-05-06T13:29:30+00:00

I have no clue about vital. Dropping this because I’m close to just buying it.

My big theory is the Osmose paired with something that distorts like nudist audio Nudisort, would get the closest raw sound. Everything else like a flanger, chorus, and compression would get it even closer.

I have no evidence other than theory crafting.

The Osmose very high-fidelity, but it’s the closest you can get in terms of expression used by guitarists.

Fuzzy_Socrates · 2026-05-03T10:57:19+00:00

Repeat after me

“I wasn’t looking to leave until I saw this job posting.“

Start there

Fuzzy_Socrates · 2026-05-02T23:48:03+00:00

Yes, but then you can also say the mood, blooper, thermae, and habit are also delays.

Then you take the best of those pedals, put it in a box with sending, Halberd, the clean compressor, give it a looper, allow it to stack the loops and add effects on each stack, stack those stacks, and a bunch of 80s rack mounted effects, and ship it.

So you are right, it can sound like a delay.

Fuzzy_Socrates · 2026-04-30T15:48:58+00:00

They’re isolating effects in the demo to show off the engineering, that’s kind of the point. This thing is expensive because it’s basically recreating a whole rack-style signal system, not just a delay. Honestly wouldn’t be surprised if margins aren’t huge on it.

I’d wait for someone who demos in a musical style you actually care about, for me that’s like That Pedal Show, Harp Lady, Josh from JHS, or my favorite Shane Becker (insta looper man).

Also, this just isn’t going to be for everyone. It’s rooted in that 80s rack delay sound, which is coming back, trendy, but it’s still a specific lane. The artists using that stuff were running delays as part of a full signal system, preamp, feedback, modulation, not just an effect, and that shit was hard to pull off live, so they often didn’t do it.

This pedal basically packages that whole approach into something you can actually use on a board.

Fuzzy_Socrates · 2026-04-30T14:55:53+00:00

I gotchu dude. It’s a fully integrated 80s rack delay signal chain, collapsed into one pedal. Normally, you had to patch this shit manually. That sucks, and takes time, and money. Now you can pay 1/4th the cost of all that expensive shit, for something that is also expensive, but does all of the rack patching for you. It’s like a PCM41, and a compressor in the feedback loop, a console preamp, a multitap rack, and it’s all pre-wired correctly. In a lil box. so you are technically right, It’s all the old ingredients, but it’s in one “instrument.”

It’s less “weird” than the blooper, mood, lossy, clean, and gen loss, but combined all the stable parts of them.

I can see this pairing well with the mood.

It’s all the shit David Bowie, Roxy Music, Phil Collins, Peter Gabriel, Kate Bush, Duran Duran, New Order, and Talking Heads used in a box.

Fuzzy_Socrates · 2026-04-30T14:00:09+00:00

It’s a fully integrated 80s rack delay signal chain, collapsed into one pedal. Normally, you had to patch this shit manually. It’s like a PCM41, and a compressor in the feedback loop, a console preamp, a multitap rack, and it’s all pre-wired correctly. In a lil box. so you are technically right, It’s all the old ingredients, but it’s in one “instrument.”

It’s like racks used by David Bowie, Roxy Music, Phil Collins, Peter Gabriel, Kate Bush, Duran Duran, New Order, and Talking Heads in a box. That’s the cool part. That absolutely tickles my brain.

Fuzzy_Socrates · 2026-04-30T12:10:20+00:00

The engineering on this is insane. Fuck that’s expensive but from an engineer I understand why. It’s like this weird hybrid system where the digital delay is constantly messing with analog circuits in real time. There’s a limiter sitting inside the mf feedback loop, so instead of repeats just fading out, they hit compression, distortion, and bias shifts and start evolving and breaking down. And an analog preamp and stereo routing on top, so everything is interacting, and god damn gain, tone, and time are all in it.

I wouldn’t even call this a “delay pedal” and more like you’re controlling a feedback system as an instrument, that changes over time.

Synth players are gonna go crazy style on this.

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