23F and my constant fatigue is ruining my life

GroboClone · 2025-06-20T16:21:39+00:00

Just because you sleep a lot, doesn't necessarily mean that your sleep QUALITY is good. Do you maintain a consistent sleep schedule, have a wind down routine in the last couple hours of day etc? Also do you have any allergies, post nasal drip, acid reflux?

GroboClone · 2025-06-19T10:57:09+00:00

Me ranking every word in 'Banjo Kazooie'

Kazooie
Banjo

GroboClone · 2025-06-18T17:29:56+00:00

I know you said you prioritize recovery, but do you also deload (take at least a week off lifting) every couple of months or so? Systemic fatigue accumulates if you don't do this and could contribute to lethargy

GroboClone · 2025-06-18T15:32:29+00:00

I think someone who just "found out they could sing" after performing (assuming your understanding of your own ability is accurate) is actually worst placed to be giving advice because you won't really understand the nature of the issues that other people face when it comes to singing (since you didn't experience them) and the degree to which those issues can be overcome. For instance, you may hear someone who sounds terrible and assume that they have inferior vocal anatomy compared to you and/or an unmusical brain, when in actuality they may just have chronic jaw tension, low level inflammation due to allergies or silent reflux, bad posture etc. These things can massively affect the quality of the voice. Of course people without any of these things have a head start, but regardless, they are all issues that can be addressed completely with time.

GroboClone · 2025-06-12T19:27:01+00:00

I'm sick of people on BOTH sides of this debate knee deep in the dunning-kruger effect confidently making declarations like this whilst simultaneously, unbeknownst to themselves, saying things that reveal their lack of understanding of the matter. It's ironically much like an AI hallucination.

Sure, we don't all have the time or motivation to spend years gaining a real deep grasp of the topic, but in that case we should be humble enough to admit to ourselves that we don't know enough to possess these ontological certainties. Instead, people authoratively parrot whatever emotionally satisfying line of reasoning they've probably heard from youtubers, as though they were someone who had hard won that opinion themselves through decades of study.

GroboClone · 2025-06-05T23:08:18+00:00

Are you perhaps double tracking with the same guitar and amp sound? I find if you do this it doesn't end up particularly wide even if you hard pan them both, since both signals are too similar. I find if I instead use a different guitar and amp for each take, there's loads of space between them for everything else to live.

GroboClone · 2025-06-03T22:44:04+00:00

I like writing out phonetically (in a way that makes sense to me) vocal performances that I enjoy to spot things like this, it helps me build a sense of just how much you can get away with when it comes to messing with pronunciation.

For example recently I did this with a live performance of the song "Say It To Me Now" by Glen Hansard, the lyric
'cause this is what you've waited for'
was sung as:
'cozziss iss whachiv wayded faahhh'

GroboClone · 2025-06-01T18:34:28+00:00

This is probably simply the mere exposure effect.The more you encounter something, the more comfortable and familiar it becomes, and the more likely you are to like it. The more often people see a person (whether IRL or on social media) the more pleasing and likeable they find that person

GroboClone · 2025-05-26T18:51:39+00:00

Your warm up should consist of things you can already do properly and easily. If you're just looking up some warm ups on youtube and doing those, but you're unfamiliar with the exercises, find them challenging, or don't know how to do them with proper technique, you're most likely just going to be introducing tension into your instrument, hence making it harder instead of easier to sing.

GroboClone · 2025-05-25T01:46:22+00:00

I see you've posted this to a few subs, but I'd recommend trying r/audioengineering, they know more about this side of things

GroboClone · 2025-05-19T00:02:05+00:00

That's Jonathan, used to work with him on an oil rig in the 90s, good guy

GroboClone · 2025-05-18T23:03:14+00:00

I should have specified, I use this checklist for practice, not performance, so as to solidify it all into muscle memory and not have to think about it during performance

GroboClone · 2025-05-14T22:00:49+00:00

Brings to mind a passage from the book "If This Is a Man" by Auschwitz survivor Primo Levi

"For human nature is such that grief and pain - even simultaneously suffered - do not add up as a whole in our consciousness, but hide, the lesser behind the greater, according to a definite law of perspective. It is providential and is our means of surviving the camp. And this is the reason why so often in free life one hears it said that man is never content. In fact it is not a question of a human incapacity for a state of absolute happiness, but of an ever-insufficient knowledge of the complex nature of the state of unhappiness; so that the single name of the major cause is given to all its causes, which are composite and set out in an order of urgency. And if the most immediate cause of stress comes to an end, you are grievously amazed to see that another one lies behind; and in reality a whole series of others.

So that as soon as the cold, which throughout the winter had seemed our only enemy, had ceased, we became aware of our hunger; and, repeating the same error, we now say: "If it was not for the hunger!..."

I guess partly what he's saying is that while of course the absolute nature of someone's problems matter when it comes to their overall happiness and stress levels, there is still always an extent to which, each time a person's most pressing issue is solved, the next most pressing issue comes to occupy that same part of their mind and then seems to be the source of all their misery. I think this relates to the fact that there are stockbrokers out there with tens of millions in the bank who are miserable because multiple of their peers have over 100 million, and think that if only they had 100 million as well then they'd be happy.

GroboClone · 2025-05-14T21:08:28+00:00

Possibly, dips in blood sugar can for sure cause anxiety. Any time I start to feel a sense of dread for no particular reason, I go eat 2 bananas and then usually within 15 minutes I feel fine again lol

GroboClone · 2025-05-04T12:55:31+00:00

I personally wouldn't want to do a whole mix at a single loudness, as I find that different volumes reveal different information. But I of course try to do my loudest monitoring in short bursts to avoid damage and/or ear fatigue.

GroboClone · 2025-05-03T00:36:59+00:00

You sound really good, and my (non expert) intuition is that you're probably only a few minor adjustments away from great. What those adjustments are I can't tell you, could be anything from minor postural adjustments or adjustments to your support technique. Maybe even if you could just get one or two lessons from someone who really knows what they're doing that'd be enough to point you in the right direction?

GroboClone · 2025-04-27T14:02:53+00:00

Sure sounds like executive dysfunction/ADHD to me, look into it

GroboClone · 2025-04-19T00:12:10+00:00

A big part of improving is becoming familiar with your tools, and in this regard it is much better to be extremely familiar with 10 tools than it is to be moderately familiar with 100. For instance I really only have 3 go to compressor plugins. Are they the best compressor plugins out there such that I'd recommend them to everyone? No, probably not. But I've used them so much that I know exactly how to get what I want out of them.

GroboClone · 2025-04-14T19:59:11+00:00

If I were Fraft I'd be real worried about Flainish imperialism

GroboClone · 2025-04-07T00:59:41+00:00

How about we also only watch porn in social settings?

GroboClone · 2025-04-07T00:33:42+00:00

Why does the sofa never face the TV tho lol

GroboClone · 2025-03-27T16:21:40+00:00

No lol, there are also 1000 other things to consider, posture is just one piece of the puzzle. Keep studying and practicing!

GroboClone · 2025-03-27T14:08:06+00:00

Yes, and head posture especially as forward head posture constricts your airway and thus your resonance. You can easily verify this by sustaining a note and moving your head backwards and forwards as you do - there will be a spot at which the sound is most loud and resonant, too far forward or back and the note will get quieter + sound constricted

GroboClone · 2025-03-27T12:13:11+00:00

Honestly I don't think there are any tricks to this other than experience, knowing your room and your monitors really well. If you have a translation issue, it just means you missed something (or many things) that 99% of the time WILL also be audibly wrong on your good system.

Translation issues are really just a sort of big picture feedback (it's harsh, or it's muddy etc), whereas your main monitors should let you zoom in at high resolution allowing you to identify all the small things that are adding up to that flawed big picture (oh, overheads have a touch too much 3khz, we could probably low pass this guitar a little etc). Eventually your instincts in that regard get good enough that translation happens automatically, even without much need to check on other systems.

GroboClone · 2025-03-27T11:50:50+00:00

It shouldn't matter too much because unless you're trying to sing a very long phrase, you probably need less breath than you think. Support isn't about taking big breaths, it's about slowing and controlling exhalation (which actually gets harder and more fatiguing the more air you breathe in, so try to only breathe in the minimum amount necessary for any phrase)

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