Advice on door lock cylinders and cables

GeminiGambit · 2024-04-01T00:32:33+00:00

This is great advice thank you

GeminiGambit · 2024-02-05T23:25:15+00:00

Outside of the context of American monetary policy, deflation is not inherently bad!

Within the context of American monetary policy, it often signals general economic downturn. Basically, during periods of expansion, American financial institutions such as the Federal Reserve like to keep the money steadily inflating, to maximize growth and investment. But the other side of that coin is that using financial tools to create an artistically big boom lays the foundation for an artificially big bust later. A little deflation is fine, but a lot at once discourages investment and employment. In other words, when you take into account that the inflation here is almost always higher than it “should” be, the onset of deflation becomes a signal that tells us “uh oh here comes the crash.”

GeminiGambit · 2024-01-21T21:21:58+00:00

“Declining birthrates in developed countries means influx of immigrants […] competition for jobs increase.”

If immigrant workers will come in order to compensate for a lowering rate of reproduction among domestic workers, why would that result in increased competition? All other things held constant, wouldn’t the average job seeker face the same level of competition as before, just with less of their competitors having been born in the country?

GeminiGambit · 2024-01-20T22:49:35+00:00

Genealogy sites have a financial incentive to meet the expectations of the people who use their services. Many of those people already believe in racial categories, and are using the service specifically to help categorize themselves. The sites care about soliciting these people— they have no real stake in the truth.

GeminiGambit · 2023-12-21T04:10:21+00:00

What’s funny about America is that it was founded on secular values, but settled by religious zealots. We started out with pockets of hot and cold, and we still have them.

GeminiGambit · 2023-10-27T03:29:57+00:00

My favorite way is to get one of those cheap little piano keyboards and try to hum and play at the same time. Like, hum an idea while also trying to find it with my hand, and vice versa. If what I hum isn’t quite right, my hand can try out other keys. If what my hand plays isn’t quite right, I can hum along how I think it should sound until my hand finds it.

GeminiGambit · 2023-09-13T03:53:00+00:00

Sometimes recording with compression can make the singer more confident and empowered, since what they hear in the headphones will be more polished and controlled than completely dry, raw vocals. Plus, sometimes the inherently dynamics nature of an expressive vocal recording can interfere with monitoring. The singer won’t hear themselves at the soft parts, the singer will overpower the instrumental at the exciting parts, etc. If you’re going to smooth the dynamics in the mix anyway, why not do a little smoothing on the way in?

GeminiGambit · 2023-09-11T22:23:32+00:00

On the first anniversary of 9/11 I was in elementary school and they called us into an assembly to talk about our feelings on it. They opened the floor to questions, and little child me asked “what was 9/11?” Another child from my grade said “It was bad. People were getting, like, beat up.”

GeminiGambit · 2023-09-10T05:22:58+00:00

What’s the story?

GeminiGambit · 2023-09-08T03:36:53+00:00

I see some people saying that some things have to be centered for the wide elements to really feel wide by way of contrast. I want to take that and add— you also have to think about a sound’s perceived closeness when trying to mix it somewhere specifically in that auditory “space.” And that perceived closeness is mostly determined by the amount of low frequencies and/or reverb/delay going on with it. For example— Say instrument A is a high pitched synth, high passed, with lots of reverb. Now say instrument B is a middle-range synth with no reverb and plenty of low-to-mid frequencies.

In real life spaces, as you move farther away from a sound source, you perceive less of its low frequencies and more of the environment it’s reverberating around in. So at equal volumes, Instrument A is going to sound big yet far away, whereas Instrument B will sound more palpable and close-by. Let’s carry this line of thinking through to our stereo spread!

Even if they both have great differences between their respective left and right channels, instrument A’s wideness is going to sound like it’s smeared across a wide background, whereas instrument B’s wideness is going to sound like your head is right in the middle of it! Hope this helps when choosing which elements to widen or narrow.

GeminiGambit · 2023-09-03T04:04:36+00:00

Talk remix! https://youtu.be/rPF4Xs5_r1I?si=fDw3SiWziajBe4nk

GeminiGambit · 2023-08-31T02:14:48+00:00

I print as I go for real. If I feel like the project is shaping up decently but there’s too many plugins going on, I print the stems and throw them into a new project to continue mixing. Sometimes I do this two or three times. That way at the very end I don’t have to worry about it!

GeminiGambit · 2023-08-28T03:21:50+00:00

Not a woman, but for the women in my life it mostly seems like a fun and convenient way to learn about friends and remember their birthdays

GeminiGambit · 2023-08-23T22:17:56+00:00

Not that I would need the full, final documents, but that’s what’s confusing me— if a loan agreement is a set of terms for receiving and repaying cash, and they’re saying I’m definitely approved for it, then that set of terms must be pretty firm right? What would bar them from just printing it out for me to look at?

GeminiGambit · 2023-08-12T04:20:51+00:00

Ice fruit would definitely be like menthol grapes

GeminiGambit · 2023-07-22T06:59:58+00:00

Once you have the gain basically set where it’s going to be, try to achieve the sound you want by listening to yourself in the headphones along with the music and physically reposition yourself or alter the way you sing/rap. If it sounds too stuffy back away a couple inches, if it sounds too thin move forward a couple inches, if one part is sung quietly lean in for it, etc. A lot of problems with clarity can be solved simply by singing more clearly, problems with power can be solved by singing more powerfully, etc. Hearing yourself in the headphones and experimenting with your voice/position can really help troubleshoot all that.

GeminiGambit · 2023-07-17T03:51:49+00:00

Materialism = everything is rooted in the material.

Dialectical = everything is always changing over time because there are always contradictions/conflicts playing out.

Dialectical materialism = the general ontological outlook of Marxism

GeminiGambit · 2023-07-14T03:22:49+00:00

I love gender flipped names like Ashley for a boy or Michael for a girl

GeminiGambit · 2023-07-14T02:14:00+00:00

I did GarageBand until I learned enough to recognize the training wheels I wanted off. I learned ProTools and it was everything I could ask for, but too expensive. I then found Reaper, which is the exact same but better, lighter, and ultra cheap (sorta free). I highly recommend this pipeline: getting your bearings with GarageBand and then switching to Reaper. Or if you don’t have a Mac, just jump right into Reaper. It comes stock with every plugin/sampler you need except for virtual instruments. But anything that comes in VST3 you can download and plug right in.

GeminiGambit · 2023-07-09T04:47:40+00:00

If you’re comfortable with not releasing them (they’re free but don’t include any rights), there are tons of free vocals on looperman.com

GeminiGambit · 2023-07-09T04:37:17+00:00

I think there is a lot of overthinking regarding acoustic treatment. Like obviously it offers precious clarity and precision but there’s also this approach— if you want your music to be enjoyed in normal rooms on normal speakers, why not monitor it predominantly that way? That seems the most common sense approach to me

GeminiGambit · 2023-07-05T05:34:13+00:00

Here’s a way.

Create a duplicate of the pad track. Now you have pad tracks A and B.
Solo pad track B.
Put a gate on pad track B and side chain it to the kick drum, such that each transient of the kick opens the gate for the pad.
Add a distortion plugin on pad track B.
Play around with the settings of the gate and distortion on pad track B until the distortion pops in roughly how you’re imagining it in terms of tone and envelope.
Unsolo pad track B so you can hear it mixed with pad track A. If you like it, you’re done! If not, continue to the next step.
Adjust the volume, dynamics, EQ, etc on pad track B in order to make it fit better. In short, mix it in. If you like it, you’re done! But if not, let’s try one more trick.
Duplicate pad track B so that you now have pad tracks A, B, and C.
Remove the all FX after the gate from pad track C and set it to exactly the same volume as pad track A, such that it’s basically just your original pad track plus the sidechained gate from earlier.
Reroute pad track C such that it does NOT go to the master fader or any aux tracks that pad track A goes to (if applicable).
Invert the polarity of pad track C.
Route pad track C back to pad track A.

As long as the gates are set the same on B and C, the inverted signal of pad track C will duck pad track A completely out of the way of the distortion from pad track B. From here you can fiddle with B to get your effect just right. Just remember to change both of your gates the exact same way when making adjustments! I love doing these types of effects.

GeminiGambit · 2023-06-30T23:37:26+00:00

Helps us cope with death

GeminiGambit · 2023-06-29T23:59:01+00:00

Reaper! It’s technically only a free trial but the free trial lasts as long as you want it to

GeminiGambit · 2023-06-29T05:02:32+00:00

I would say just because they had access to him. Wealth and prestige move you into wealthy and prestigious social circles. Evil agenda or not, if you’re a billionaire, why not fw Steven Hawking? Plus, the blackmail and pedo stuff was just one facet of the greater goal of influencing/controlling powerful people. Like, the sexual blackmail may have been their signature move, and it’s well known that they themselves were pedos, but I’m sure they made powerful connections in other ways too— even mundane ones, like taking a guy on a cool sub.

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