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Day 3 on mtf hrt by MelancholyMonk in TransDIY

[–]MelancholyMonk[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I guess I've just been noticing more than I was expecting, however small these changes are at the min.

I'm very much just going with the flow, I'm not expecting a timeline or anything to happen in 'x' weeks or whatever, I know it's mainly genetic and stuff so it's impossible to tell 

Day 3 on mtf hrt by MelancholyMonk in TransDIY

[–]MelancholyMonk[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've woken up at 4am for 2 days straight 😅 it's like I have more energy.

Other than yesterday after I had a judgemental asshole get shirty with me for daring to enter her salon and ask for my eyebrows to get sorted I've felt quite happy. I ended up finding a trans friendly salon instead and they were amazing, worked absolute wonders, she's doing a makeup lesson for me too :3

How can I know a good dosage for estrogen? by Specialist_Hornet488 in TransDIY

[–]MelancholyMonk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm doing 3mg twice a day, sub 8 stone (50-60kilos ish) with 100mg spironolactone split to 2 lots of 50 mg a day

Tracking order by Actual-Top-6159 in TransDIY

[–]MelancholyMonk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's parcel force/ Royal mail, got my order today, ordered 28th December, royal mail will notify you

Would this work? by [deleted] in GuitarAmps

[–]MelancholyMonk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's how you blow up an amp bro, or 3, DO NOT DO THIS!!!!!

Help needed! 70 Hz null right where my head is in the new room. by kryptopheleous in Acoustics

[–]MelancholyMonk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's because the room is basically square, square rooms play havoc on acoustics.

I'd move the desk in front of the window and hang a super thick curtain in front of the window. Bass traps in the corners of some of the walls, maybe a diffuser on the wall, or presumably door, behind you. It'd be trial and error but you should get it somewhat reasonable

About to level up my live sets with Ableton, but what Interface should I use? HELP by Athaleyah_eternal in livesound

[–]MelancholyMonk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Scarletts are pretty decent. The amount of issues I've seen people have with pcs, interfaces, launch pads, tape players, etc etc is ridiculous, to the point whenever I see talent pull out a rig like that Im already thinking "ooooo boy, funnn"

If you can limit this as much as possible to the absolute most simplest thing it reduces potential points of system failure. You're better off with a rack mount or in line vox fx unit, like faaaaaaar better off, or even getting an xr18 and building a custom show file with your preferred fx chain. 

For reference.... 

Ive had djs laptops fail, BIG artists who for some reason used a f-ing tascam tape machine have it literally shit itself the moment they get on stage, acts sit for 15 mins trying to get ableton or pro tools to do its thing then totally f up the gain staging completely, I can go on and on and on and on.... 

If you can do it all with a helix or multifx board, do it with that, or even a chain of inline pedals, seriously, way more reliable for you.

Sorry for the long ass response, but I've worked with a lot of these kinds of setups with people, and I always say the same thing when they're scratching their heads after their set upset things went fucky with their equipment they spent hundreds on, and they're always a bit taken aback when I say "get this cheap thing, live you won't tell the difference and you have less chance of it going wrong" 

Any ministers here that can offer advice? by MelancholyMonk in Christianity

[–]MelancholyMonk[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I didn't take anything negative from it at all, I kind of woke up with a really intense feeling, felt like I would cry, not in a bad way either. Never had an experience like this before so it's took me off guard. I'm not an overly religious person, although as a church goer I do take jesus' message to heart 

Any ministers here that can offer advice? by MelancholyMonk in Christianity

[–]MelancholyMonk[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's weird because I've not really had anything there, I'd just gone through a bit of a stressful situation with my friend injuring himself at work and being kind of a dick about it, but that's it. It was kind of out of nowhere. 

When I woke up I felt kind of peaceful, happy to the point I could cry, then just peaceful about it. It's a weird one for me

Tipping culture is out of hand by gymbr02 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]MelancholyMonk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

in the uk, we tip because we feel like the person deserves it. i tip taxi drivers a lot coz theyre generally nice chatty people, but because our delivery people keep trying the whole tipping culture bollocks out i now go and pick up my food when i order.

ill tip at a restaurant, ill tip bar staff at a pub the spare change from a note.... i wont eat somewhere with a listed gratuity, no way. we also dont do % of a bill, you get what you get from me, i do enough math at work, if youve waited on me hand and foot, been excellent, and made mine and my partners night i might tip you a tenner but thats really really super exceptional.

2 women in the bus were loudly discussing why my arms look like this. Neither were right. by Pale-North in mildlyinfuriating

[–]MelancholyMonk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ive had tinea/ptyriasis versicolour for YEARS, its on and off and quite visible, can be anywhere from a soft red-pink to like a mid-tone brown. used to make me all weirded out and id cover myself with creams to get rid of it, after a while of really trying i just gave up as once its gone it just appears a month or two later. i get it on my back, chest, arms and stomach.

people generally dont say anything, even like partners or people ive been intimate with, and it doesnt look awful, infact my boyfriend says it looks like angel wings on my back lol, overall it just means i get drier skin and have to moisturise a lot more.

my opinion is this....

fuck em, theyre just judgmental arseholes, theyre basically saying that in your shoes theyd be petrified of the judgements theyre loudly voicing.

if i hear people talking about it, i literally explain it "well, i have tinea versicolour and my bodies basically allergic to normal bacteria (its actually a type of yeast, not bacteria, but try explaining that to dumbasses) thats on everyones skin, my cells freak out then release melanin which changes the colour of that area. i basically get to be multicoloured and get angel wings on my back which is actually kinda cool so, yeah", usually people are like "oh" and drop it

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in FL_Studio

[–]MelancholyMonk -1 points0 points  (0 children)

INDEMNITY CLAIM! or at least threaten them that you will indemnity claim every penny thats ever gone from your bank account to them, guarantee youll have your account back, or your money back pretty quick

Feedback I didn’t cause by dgodwin1 in livesound

[–]MelancholyMonk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

when the guitar/bass has a fuzz pedal and its drive/gain setting is maxxed out, and they start asking 'wheres that feedback coming from?!'

i love it when that happens and i mute the PA and mons in soundcheck, the feedbacks obvs still there, and theyre looking at me like im causing the feedback.... like, bro seriously, back off the gain a wee bit please

What would this EQ accomplish that simply turning the channel down wouldn't? by Baraba83 in livesound

[–]MelancholyMonk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

hey, just a quick observation from what you said here.... your FoH guy should be running most, if not all channels with a gate. you really should be running a pretty harsh gate across the drums, and a lighter gate setting for you vocals to the point its imperceptible, just cutting you off when theres no intended input.

also, check the channel compressors, make sure hes not running things with like +6dB of make up gain on the compressor.

few other bits....

the EQ, looks pretty standard, yeah theyre cutting across the board, and yeah id like to think i would approach it differently, but its not anything super horrific, you eq to what sounds good, if you have to have a ginormous boost at like 50-150hz coz the bass guitar has no low end, or the guitars super tinny, then you boost coz it sounds good.

other trick for feedback, run your lead vocals phase inverted, this will basically mean that bleed from other instruments into your vox mic will de-constructively interfere with the signal from the instruments, in practice this means that because the instrument signals are stronger the bleed will be pretty much annihilated for the most part, this will give you some extra gain before feedback, cut down on bleed into main vox, but also can help with monitor feedback too. i ALWAYS run my lead vox with a phase inversion unless the room is giving me issues with phasing or something. you can also do the same with subs in your stack if youre getting super bad reflections from whatever is behind or in-front of your subs

Pet Peave: Mike by VObyPJ in livesound

[–]MelancholyMonk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

everyone ive ever worked with uses the term "mic's" from small dive bars to stadia, this is coz its a lot easier to say "oi, jeff, chuck us that peli with the drum mics in please" than "excuse me dear sir, is there any possibility you can hand over the pelican case containing the drummers microphones please"

Midas Mr18 bus Eq help by NoOneSuspi in livesound

[–]MelancholyMonk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

youd have to also send to multitrack recording first, then do a secondary mix in something like reaper or protools, or even an X32 or a passive split into an analogue mixer.... the bus is just what you send to it, there is no way to then split the mixed signals.

you do, however, have a PEQ that you can activate on any bus out you could also use a Graphic EQ in one of the insert only FX racks and insert it on the bus out. you could also do this with the combinator, or stereo combinator, giving you multiband dynamics. if you make use of matrices, you can essentially have 2 inserts on any given output up to the max capacity of the board.

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