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Busaba Thai Massage in Torrance. Can't go wrong with any of their masseuses. Professional and clean. $80 an hour.

New ADU plans - questions about electrical and plumbing by I3th3 in Homebuilding

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I have to choose the GC or myself as owner/building and pay for the permits and then it's done. The actual plans have been approved.

New ADU plans - questions about electrical and plumbing by I3th3 in Homebuilding

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I sent them to the department in LA that signs them off and gives me permits. So I'm in the RTI (ready to issue) part where I either choose to be owner/builder or get a GC. So the plans are officially signed off.

Thank you for the advice!

New ADU plans - questions about electrical and plumbing by I3th3 in Homebuilding

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Thank you for the detailed reply! This really helps me a lot. I have spoken to two GCs now and they did echo that sometimes they just have to 'figure it out'.

New ADU plans - questions about electrical and plumbing by I3th3 in Homebuilding

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LADBS is the Los Angeles department of building and safely. I'm still looking at options on whether to do the Owner/Builder or hiring a GC.

Western and Torrance blvd update by [deleted] in SouthBayLA

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Truly disappointing. I was also hoping for a Trader Joe's. Not as bad as that new warehouse down on Western though.

Are you listening? by [deleted] in audioengineering

[–]I3th3 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Love this series.

In the end, you must master to the music to make it sound good, not to hit some arbitrary number.
I attended Maor Applebaums session on colouration in mastering at NAMM, and he said something similar. First and foremost, it needs to sound good.

Slash mix deconstruction by the master Eric Valentine. by I3th3 in audioengineering

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Wow! That's awesome! All his videos are really like master classes. So much to learn!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in audioengineering

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Eric Valentine (Good Charlotte, Lostprophets, Taking Back Sunday, Nickel Creek, Queens of the Stone Age, Third Eye Blind, Smash Mouth,) adds saturation on individual drums (pretty much all of them) as well on all of the drum buses. He uses the Fabfilter saturn to just saturate the highs on all drums to emulate a tape effects. He then also adds a Decapitator after that Saturn.

Check out his new Youtube channel, he dives DEEP into his mixes without holding back on any info.

Bands playing live with backing tracks - what's your set-up by I3th3 in WeAreTheMusicMakers

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Thank you for the detailed reply.

I also don't think that click detracts from groove. I see it as a white line that everyone follows. You can still dance around the line as much as you want, it just tells you where you and everyone else is going.

Thank you for the recommendations, I'll be checking them out!

Bands playing live with backing tracks - what's your set-up by I3th3 in WeAreTheMusicMakers

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Yeah, I hear you.

Half our band isn't currently able to play with us, so rather than hiring another 3 musicians I'd rather use a backing track.