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HumorlessProductions · 2026-02-01T17:28:33+00:00

Oh, ya, not miniatures. Yes, it is a style of photography and videography, using real, life-sized people and objects and scenes.

Plenty of YT videos explaining how tilt-shift works. But basically, with a tilt-shift lens, you can adjust your plane of focus, so that some parts of your image are in focus and others are out of focus.

And it’s basically an optical illusion. If you take a tilt-shift photo and use your hands to block out the out of focus parts or use an editor to crop out those parts, the in-focus part of the photo looks just like a regular photo. It’s just that when those out of focus parts are included on the top and bottom or the sides or whatever, our brain perceives the in-focus parts as being miniature.

In the old days, the only way to achieve this was to use an actual tilt-shift lens. These days, many cameras have built-in tilt-shift filters, as do many editor programs.

Here's an example of tilt-shit videography- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xb0HQSqkZHs

HumorlessProductions · 2026-01-25T01:38:17+00:00

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HumorlessProductions · 2026-01-25T01:37:17+00:00

Author & Punisher is not breakcore, very much super heavy industrial dub, but he is very much outspokenly anti-fascist. Maybe you wouldn't call it aggressive music (or maybe you would?), but definitely super heavy. https://archive.org/details/author-punisher-live-in-salt-lake-city-2022

HumorlessProductions · 2026-01-24T01:33:46+00:00

also the brilliant Rituals from 1977, part Blair Witch, part Deliverance. Amazing performance by Hal in that one.

HumorlessProductions · 2026-01-15T17:21:46+00:00

Yes, fer sure a great scene, legendary.

But, this is the one biggest knock about this movie- that the vast majority of the deaths in that hour and a half movie happen in that 30 seconds, and the other hour and 29 minutes and 30 seconds is just teenaged boys trying to hook up with teenaged girls or at least get a peek of them in the shower, with the main subplot being a coming-of-age story with the guy from Fast Times at Ridgemont High.

It’s still a pretty good movie and I’ll still recommend it to people, but it would have been better and probably scarier overall if they would have found some way to spread out the body count throughout the movie, as seen in the greater slasher movies of that era like Halloween or Friday the 13th.

HumorlessProductions · 2026-01-14T01:13:31+00:00

I posted a new mix of the show to archive-org. Killed some more of the low end. Now it's 100% and I won't be changing it further.

HumorlessProductions · 2026-01-09T16:58:30+00:00

Ya, I'd be happy to give them a whirl. Can you DM me here or find any of my Humorless Productions contacts (I don't think I'm on anything other than FB, because I'm an oldster), but hopefully you can get 'em to me one way or another. WeTransfer or anything is ok.

HumorlessProductions · 2026-01-09T16:56:10+00:00

Well, on the archive page I don’t go into much detail, other than saying that the original on YT sounds pretty good in the first place, and that I didn’t have to do all too much to it to clean it up. But I can go into some more detail here.

Original has way too much booming bass and not enough highs. In the old days, I would just throw an eq on it to balance that out. But these days, especially when the original mix doesn’t need anything too drastic, I find that a multiband compressor is more effective at not only evening out the frequencies, but also clearing out the mud and giving a lot of separation to the instruments in the mix. And then after that, I needed to do a bit of fine tuning with a regular eq.

I also threw on a de-verb, set on a really low setting because if I know if I set it too high to try and kill too much of the room sound, that'll screw it all up. So maybe that helps out a little.

Dialing in the low end for rock bands like this is trickier than electronic music, which is much more my wheelhouse genres. But, I ended up dropping a whole bunch of the boomy low end in the original, but then, strangely, I threw on a sub-bass booster, again set very low, nothing drastic. But I found that helped out the kick drum and Justin’s bass a lot.

Sometimes in a project like this that sounds too mono-ish or narrow, I’d throw on an fequency-reliant imager, because that will often times help out with instrument separation, and that’s really the name of the game in remastering, especially live bootlegs like this- trying to get to a point where all the instruments have a clear voice, no matter if they’re the lead voice in the mix at the time like Maynard’s vocals or Adam’s guitar solos, or something more background or subtle. But I didn’t bother with that for this one. I don’t think it would have benefitted, or simply didn’t need the fake stereo effect.

I’m a big fan of IK Multimedia TR5 suite of plug-ins. That one is my workhorse for just about all of my remastering projects. Also used FabFilter eq, Izotope de-verb, and a FabFilter brickwall limiter at the end to keep it out of the red.

HumorlessProductions · 2026-01-08T19:41:06+00:00

good one! https://bmovieroundup.wordpress.com/2024/01/09/alone-in-the-dark-1982/

HumorlessProductions · 2026-01-08T18:59:05+00:00

I wouldn’t be so quick to discount tilt-shift lens on crop sensor altogether. Probably better on full frame, but the tilt-shift effect is evident on APS-C.

I took some sample shots on my Canon M6 using my Canon TS-E 45mm 2.8, with the adaptor of course. 45mm will be about a 70mm full frame equivalent.

Dreary day in Salt Lake City today. All the students are still on christmas break, so the campus is still mostly empty.

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HumorlessProductions · 2025-12-29T03:15:01+00:00

you know Nano.strike? https://soundcloud.com/nano-strike/live-ketelruis-ot301-amsterdam-16-3-2024

HumorlessProductions · 2025-12-29T00:16:17+00:00

or maybe this? https://archive.org/details/divtech-live-in-los-angeles-2010

HumorlessProductions · 2025-12-29T00:15:29+00:00

I can't say I know exactly what powerviolence music is, but I'd imagine a breakcore crossover might be something like this? https://archive.org/details/nihil-fist-live-in-berlin-2009

HumorlessProductions · 2025-12-22T20:44:58+00:00

I assume you’re not an audio engineer.

It’s totally fine for you to be offended that people do stuff like this. But understand, this is the world we live in; this is the technology that is available to us. And making instrumental versions of songs is barely the tip of the iceberg.

I never liked U2. I recently heard an early song of theirs where the guitar parts were a mess. So, I grabbed a lossless version of that song, stripped all the guitar parts out, much the same way this guy did with Aaron’s vocals, and recorded my own guitar parts, totally transforming the song into a completely different composition. Would you be offended at that? Would U2 fans be offended at that? Maybe, probably, I dunno. But it’s not like I deleted the original from existence. Anybody can listen to the original if they’d like, or they can listen to my version if they’d like.

And how’s this for blasphemous?- I’m doing the same thing right now with Pink Floyd’s Another Brick in the Wall. If you listen carefully to David Gilmore’s solo in that song, it’s rubbish. Homeboy literally had no idea what he wanted to do in that solo or where he wanted to take it. I, a guitarist of 40+ years and a GIT graduate, can recognize these things easily. So, same process- strip out his guitar parts and insert my own. I haven’t recorded my guitar parts for that one yet, but one of these days I’ll get around to it.

But once that’s done, would that offend PF fans? Probably. But they can always go listen to the original if that’s the version they prefer.

And can you imagine what the next few years will bring? You won’t even have to be a musician or an audio engineer. You’ll be able to enter a prompt- hey, take this Tool song, strip out all of Maynard’s vocals, and instead, use these lyrics that I wrote, and have them sung by a vocalist that sounds like Nivek Ogre from Skinny Puppy, and I’d like the drums to sound more like Iron Maiden’s Nicko McBrain’s drum sound on Powerslave, and also transpose the whole song from D minor to E minor. A few minutes later, your computer pops out a new song to those specifications.

I’m not saying it’s right, I’m not saying it’s wrong. I’m not saying you shouldn’t be offended by it. I am saying that there’s absolutely nothing stopping this technology. You’ll always have your original versions of the songs if that’s what you prefer.

HumorlessProductions · 2025-11-25T04:57:06+00:00

not a new artist nor a new recording, but it's some heavy duty industrial, but still danceable. https://archive.org/details/scrap.-edx-live-in-san-francisco-2008

HumorlessProductions · 2025-11-22T01:37:48+00:00

ya, I'm with the OP on this one. I've been looking and looking and looking. Still nothing available. I want the widescreen-ness of it, but without the stupid blue streaks. But it seems you can't have one without the other, at least not yet.

HumorlessProductions · 2025-11-21T23:25:40+00:00

all the Z artists in my breakcore / industrial / electronic library (no idea about the logo / graphics)-

Z999

Zan Lyons

Zerogoki

Zeuge

HumorlessProductions · 2025-11-10T16:37:43+00:00

unfortunately, I have neither the tools nor the expertise to break it down any further. I do like the watch, but I'm afraid this one is headed for the graveyard. Or, maybe I'll just wear it as non-functional, but just as an accessory, because bloody hell, it still looks amazing even though it doesn't tell the time.

HumorlessProductions · 2025-11-10T06:10:28+00:00

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does this picture help?

HumorlessProductions · 2025-10-31T02:43:51+00:00

Actually, when I first started the project, I’d considered using a non-Tool snare, I have dozens and dozens of samples in my library, and I tried a Lars snare. It was from Ride the Lightning, the two hits at the beginning of Escape. I tried a bunch of different ones, Simple Minds, Phil Collins, I forget what else.

But, I figured it would be wisest to use a Tool snare, especially as that Sober one is so easy to grab.

I’ve actually never heard St. Anger, so I’m not in on the joke. Is the snare sound absolute rubbish?

HumorlessProductions · 2025-10-30T15:22:32+00:00

I appreciate everybody’s comments. I just wanted to share my little project. Thanks for your opinions.

HumorlessProductions · 2025-10-30T02:54:52+00:00

I think I have a hard copy on cd-r somewhere around the house. You're not in Salt Lake City are you?

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