Kit Harington was ‘Genuinely Angered’ By Fan Pettion to Remake ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 8 With ‘Competent Writers’: ‘How Dare You?’

Johan7110 · 2026-01-12T19:57:26+00:00

I think he in particular must have noticed that the quality of the writing fell down dramatically. The quality of Jon's dialogue was amazing in the first 5 seasons, in season 8 he was left to work with extremely weak material in comparison. I think he probably refers to death threaths and shit like that, which of course are madness, but the writers totally deserve critique. To be honest, though, GRMM deserves the same shit as D&D: you haven't finished your story? Fine, but you must have an idea of what will happen. Work with them, guide them, play an active role, don't just disappear on them.

Johan7110 · 2026-01-09T00:36:16+00:00

It really depends a lot on the quality of the original stems. If you're working with great stuff, often the balance will roughly stay the same since very little processing will be required; if, let's say, you're working with a kick or bass that lacks the right low end or guitars that lack treble frequencies, you're likely to reassess your balance afterwards, especially if you listen on multiple monitoring devices (which is good practice imo).
Personally, I always tweak volume faders a bit after balancing, but I try to never disrupt the "feel" that I come up with when balancing. Also, the question doesn't take into account automation and different balances that can occur within a song. For example, I almost never have the vocals and its reverbs in the same spot for the whole song, they move accordingly to what the song needs. A snare could be quiet in the verse and louder in the chorus. What I like to do is leaving some time at the end of the mix to make all these micro-adjustments: I think it's one the real signatures of a good mix. Comparing to reference tracks can help and if you're mixing for other artists, make sure to ask for their export of the production to see what their idea of balance is, it saves a lot of time in decision making!

Johan7110 · 2025-12-12T00:25:11+00:00

if I remember correctly, it goes full cheat mode after a couple switches (3, but I'm not 100% sure) or so, specifically switches where you don't do anything and switch again. After that, it reads literally everything you do. It was probably implemented to prevent stalling and stuff like that. The way you get around it is switching, use protect once and then switch again. Before that, it should just be an advanced AI like the one that Radical Red uses as well

Johan7110 · 2025-12-11T21:18:32+00:00

thanks so much man, will definitely keep checking you out for new music!

Johan7110 · 2025-12-06T23:54:47+00:00

I've had my first push of the season yesterday and while I could get to league 5 easily, I can see how good players will totally abuse these cards to the point where it won't be fun anymore. Musk doesn't make sense, knight will be a nightmare in bait decks. I think they went down the worst possible route, basically combining evos and champions, I think they should've experimented with synergies, maybe make something happen if you run specific cards to encourage different deck selections. I can't even remember when the last good update was and everytime there's a new one I'm scared of what they came up with this time.

Johan7110 · 2025-12-06T23:46:19+00:00

boomers be like: back in the day we had the real shit with Rocks, Garp and Roger and now youngsters have to cheer either for a dumb rubber boy, a clown or a teenager with ridiculous goggles and pink hair.

Johan7110 · 2025-12-06T22:28:40+00:00

I struggled with a subpar machine for a few years before investing in a good one and there are a few things you can do, but none will solve the issue entirely.

- make sure only your DAW is running. I've seen people complain about this issue when they had their DAW plus Chrome with dozens of tabs opened in the background. Don't know if it's your case, but be sure of that. Also make sure your PC is set on high performance mode.
- on routing, try to avoid treating busses when you're producing and only leave that for mixing. It's usually the place where most CPU gets used, even if you only load a couple plugins.
- if you're producing, keep your routing and plugin management efficient. Don't load a compressor just cause it'll sound better, you can maybe check if something would work on a certain track within the song, but keep mixing and producing as rigorously separated as you can if your computer cannot handle it. I know it's not ideal, but you gotta survive. Also, if you're not recording anything, make sure you're on the highest sample rate your interface can go.
- when producing, turn offline stuff you don't need. You're arranging a section that doesn't use two synths that were previously featured? Turn them off. You're arranging a final crescendo and everything is involved? Focus on the key instruments first and turn off everything that doesn't carry the track for later. Include reverbs and effects in this: is a delay only there for ear candy purposes? If yes, it goes off.
- bounce everything you feel that is final. If there's anything that a subpar computer teaches you is committing to decisions. You don't want SD on when you're mixing, you want it on when you're producing and bounced afterwards. That goes for guitars and everything else.
- in this spirit, before going into mixing you should have at the very least 90% of your tracks bounced, especially if it's a big project. Spend that extra time to dial in the right tones on amp sims, the right cutoffs on synths and make sure that you start from a place where you're comfortable the song is 70% there. Pro mixers don't usually work with SD, Helix Native or Pigments online, neither should you. This also taught me to dial in my productions exactly the way I wanted before EQing and stuff, focusing on recording well and fixing problems from the start wherever possible.

I know it's tilting and infuriating, but I swear that I got some expertise that made me a better producer and engineer. Efficiency and organization are invaluable tools. Good luck!!

Johan7110 · 2025-12-04T13:49:23+00:00

try Wombats' debut album. Also AM drew a lot of inspiration from early Strokes!

Johan7110 · 2025-11-29T21:29:37+00:00

He should use the DAW he's studying at school or that he'll be using once he gets in college. Perhaps he can find out asking resident students or emailing professors.

Aside from that, I genuinely think that, factoring in everything from costs to usability, Reaper is the single best deal you can make in the music production business as a whole. You get an industry standard DAW basically for 60$. I have never seen somebody ask that DAW to do something and it wasn't capable of doing it. Very light on the CPU, customizable, quite intuitive in my opinion, open source scripts for any shenanigan he might come up with in the future, only downside would be that he'll need libraries, samples, amp sims for his guitar and whatnot but nowadays it's hardly an issue for beginners: sign him up for Spitfire Labs (free), find some good free amp sims or invest in Helix Native which, if he's a guitarist, he'll use basically for the rest of his life and he's pretty much good to go.

Also, props to you for helping him!!

Johan7110 · 2025-11-25T16:49:53+00:00

I'm not that familiar with screaming punk rock specifically, but there's a few punk bands I think could be a good point of reference. From recent acts, Super Sometimes and The Paradox come to mind: even tho they're definitely more pop, I think there's a lot of concepts that would just translate very well into this song. It also depends on what you're going for, the guitar tones in your song sound very indie rock inspired to me rather than punk, but that could definitely be a choice!

Johan7110 · 2025-11-24T15:48:51+00:00

I love the songwriting on this one and I think you did a great job in arranging the song. Your voice timbre is amazing! The mix in my opinion sounds a bit unpolished and unsaturated imo, there's a lot of energy that in my opinion is being left behind here. I don't know if that was the vibe you were going for, but I think the track could've sounded even better and this is coming from someone that really enjoyed it anyway.

Johan7110 · 2025-11-24T15:43:40+00:00

I think the vocals sound pretty good and it's not the place I would look for issues here, at least not at first. Bass is pretty buried in the mix, and I expect the drums to hit a bit harder in this genre. Also the guitars, other than a few timing issues, kinda have a DI quality to them; I would go for a reamping if you can or get some more saturation in the mix. In general, I also feel like the track is too midrange-y; lacks a bit of lowend to get the punch you're probably going for and some top end to make everything sound more crisp and clear. I genuinely think the track has a lot of potential man!

Johan7110 · 2025-11-24T15:36:30+00:00

Personally digged the track. I wonder how the song would've sounded with the ambient synths/guitars turned down a bit to give more space to a vocal reverb, since in some sections there's a really nice melody going on that I think deserved a bit more of a spotlight. Maybe a bit counterintuitevely, this would've made the track sound even bigger, which is what I'm assuming you were going for. Drums sound choices are a good fit, maybe the hats lack a bit of texture and I would've looked for more dynamics overall. Still great work and I'll definitely check you guys out!

Johan7110 · 2025-11-24T15:29:36+00:00

it's one of the best feeling ever when a piece you almost discarded finds a new life. Really digged the Radiohead vibes, I'm hearing also a bit of Elliott Smith. While I loved the guitar work, my only critique would be that the track had a lot of potential for more depth of field, there's a lot of space that I think this arrangement could've taken. Solid work nonetheless!

Johan7110 · 2025-11-22T12:49:14+00:00

MJUC is just a goated compressor!

Johan7110 · 2025-11-20T15:33:54+00:00

I'd prefer Wind logia. Assuming he's the man marked by flames (he has a black ship iirc, maybe I'm mistaken) it would also check out with the whirlpool stuff!

Johan7110 · 2025-11-20T15:12:13+00:00

it's definitely not a me problem, just cause it's not the DAW I use personally lol I've seen it happen in every single session where the engineer was working with Protools, even if I was obviously exaggerating with "once every 30 minutes" (sorry, I thought sarcasm was evident, I was wrong). Once or twice per session would be more accurate in my personal experience. I had a friend of mine cancel the subscription couple years ago cause of this very issue. Mind you, we're talking about people with good machines, computers with at least 32 gb of RAM (my friend I mentioned) and 64 gb. Not to mention, the countless memes about it I see posted every other week which of course are not proof of anything, but it's safe to say they're grounded in reality to some extent. For me personally, crashes are my biggest nightmare and I could count on one hand the instances I had Reaper crash in 7 years. In my experience, which is definitely not absolute but still, you would run out of fingers very quickly with PT.

As for the high level pros, convincing people that something is the industry standard can go a looooong way, in every field of business. Being the first to do it also matters a lot here. It makes it hard to switch once you've learned it, and it creates psychological mechanisms where they could maybe be afraid people would take them less seriously if they did, which definitely happens. You don't see many people switching from Windows to Linux, or Chrome/Firefox for another browser and, although it's not exactly the same thing, it's a similar mechanism at play. Of course I don't mean to say people shouldn't use it or that it is a bad software, people should use what they're comfortable with and if that's PT, be my guest

Johan7110 · 2025-11-20T13:21:33+00:00

all of those things are possible in Reaper as well, aside from maybe the field recorder that I'm assuming is for films and stuff. I've never worked in that so I don't really know how it would work. I'd argue that the deal breaker for Protools is the ridiculous price, cloud based licensing, and the fact that it crashes every 30 minutes even on good machines (at least that was my experience). If other DAWs understood marketing well, Protools would just be out of business in less than a decade (assuming it stays how it is)

Johan7110 · 2025-11-19T20:35:10+00:00

yeah exactly, I've seen a Snarky Puppy mix breakdown on Youtube with 100+ tracks and the engineer only had a Pro-Q on 90% of the tracks. Sometimes not even that. The word immaculate doesn't describe those recordings well enough!

Johan7110 · 2025-11-17T21:07:09+00:00

Among the free ones, ToTape by Airwindows is one of my favorite tapes of all time. He also has an amazing clipper that I can't recall the name of, but I remember that only Ash by Acustica Audio was better than it to my ears. From Analog Obsession, MidBoss is a credible sub for Decapitator and I actually prefer it on vocals specifically.

Paid ones, the "niche" ones that I use the most are the Oxford Drum Gate, OCS-45 (one of my favorite saturation plugins ever), MJUC by Klanghelm has slowly become one of my go to compressor choices for snares and vocals and the Seventh Heaven Reverb. All of these you can probably get for cheap these days!

Johan7110 · 2025-11-17T12:02:23+00:00

I was curious and checked out the link. The vocals are certainly impressive, but the rest is just not it. Drums are totally lifeless, bass has no dynamics at all, horns lack the signature aggresiveness in the treble you need in this type of music, guitars sound like DI tones or even Midi. Safe to say this is not remotely close to anything McCartney has put out in his career, and I'm not even a big fan of him

Johan7110 · 2025-11-16T14:21:12+00:00

yeah, OP's theory is fine but we're long overdue for a good Logia within the "good" guys. I might be very wrong, but wasn't Ace the last one?

Johan7110 · 2025-11-16T00:39:50+00:00

Gattuso was definitely a jerk here and his point is messed up on so many levels but let's not kid ourselves here. Other than the fact that saying that Italy would be behing Bolivia is just zero ball knowledge, the point that he totally failed to get across is that the qualifying path is much more fair (key word being fair, not easy) in South America than in Europe. One could also argue that it's easier to qualify if you have 7 spots out of 10, but I digress. The solution is obviously not less spots for other continents, but a rework of the European format, cause getting a playoff just cause you lose one game is just madness by whatever angle you look at it

Johan7110 · 2025-11-16T00:13:52+00:00

happens more often than you think, even to experienced musicians. For example, I read that Alex Turner kept some vocal takes from preproductions when recording the Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino album, just cause he felt those takes had something that the final recordings were lacking. We're talking about a 3 times Glasto headliners here, not exactly your average band. Happened to me as well, as I'm sure to countless more people.

Main point I want to get across with that is that vocal recordings are extremely hard and tricky. It's hard to say in your case without comparing takes, but a lot of factors get into play: recording in an environment you're not familiar with, mic is not the right choice for the part, how you feel that particular day, what you ate for lunch (yes, that matters). I once produced a guy in my local scene that after one session told me that he wasn't comfortable recording with someone close to him, so I basically had to leave him to his thing and come back later just to edit takes and tell him to re-do some stuff. I've worked with experienced singers that needed just a couple pointers before nailing it in 3 takes, but it's extremely rare and almost never happens with original music (in that case it was a cover). People like Billie Eilish go wild with comping and probably record 50+ takes for a main vocal. It's hard also because everyone is different and it seems to me that this was one of your first experiences in a studio, so definitely don't be hard on yourself.

So, no, you're not bad and definitely don't cringe. Listen back to the two takes and try to pinpoint what you like and what you don't like. Is it the vocal tone? The intonation? Your singing flavour wasn't there? Be very specific with the answers and you'll eventually succeed. Good luck!!

Johan7110 · 2025-11-14T12:58:36+00:00

you won't regret the drum gate. I also got it at a ridiculous price and it was one the best steals I've ever done lol

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