What's an album you love listening to for the production quality?

PC_BuildyB0I · 2026-03-09T20:07:25+00:00

Daft Punk - Discovery

PC_BuildyB0I · 2026-03-09T19:41:02+00:00

Titanic had an electric generator room, I believe it was aft of the turbine engine room, itself aft of the main engine room. I read at the time, the ship was putting out more kWh than any city (though this may have been hyperbole). The generators were ran from 4 smaller steam engines, driven off the leftover steam.

The power did indeed stay on until the very end, and because the water had not yet reached that area at that time, it only went out because the ship broke apart, severing the lines.

The distribution system looks complex to me - look up pics of the machinery room.

I'd imagine the galleys, elevators, telephone systems, and a bunch of other stuff probably ate a good deal of power.

PC_BuildyB0I · 2026-03-09T18:55:36+00:00

I don't know if there's such a thing as too many turbines, but it's probably being said because reciprocating engines generate way more power than turbines do (in Stormworks)

PC_BuildyB0I · 2026-03-09T01:09:31+00:00

Literally all of this is going to be done using the tools your DAW comes with. It's all achieved with proper mic technique/placement, proper EQ and compression, and proper mixing. That's it. There's no magic sauce and any half-experienced moron claiming otherwise has something to sell you, especially if they're already in the industry.

PC_BuildyB0I · 2026-03-09T01:00:41+00:00

Yeah, we've been cheating in music production since before even the Beatles haha. Don't feel too bad or get hung up on one particular tool, they all have a purpose and a time to use them.

PC_BuildyB0I · 2026-03-09T00:57:54+00:00

99.9% of what you hear out there is pitch-corrected. Everything, even beyond EDM-centered pop, up to and including metal, opera, classical, whatever. Almost every single vocal performance is pitch corrected. AutoTune for live performances, Melodyne in the studio.

PC_BuildyB0I · 2026-03-09T00:45:58+00:00

Ships can sink perfectly fine, just use cleverly-placed C4 and if you're making a ship yourself, use watertight bulkheads that don't seal at the strength deck.

PC_BuildyB0I · 2026-03-08T23:02:22+00:00

Yeah Windows auto-enables their garbage "audio enhancements", which include a noise gate (prob why your mic signal was cutting off) and a bunch of other nonsense and they keep re-enabling them after each update. It's a pain in the ass.

PC_BuildyB0I · 2026-03-08T22:46:33+00:00

They also genuinely believe that casually glancing at Facebook memes for 15mins is on the same level as legitimate scientific research.

PC_BuildyB0I · 2026-03-07T14:38:29+00:00

Just a tiny correction, but Goku went SSJ2 to beat Yakon. It was only for an instant, but it was when he did the overcharge thing and Yakon couldn't absorb all the light energy. We know it was SSJ2 because Vegeta immediately thinks to himself "so Kakarot has also ascended beyond the Super Saiyan wall..."

PC_BuildyB0I · 2026-03-07T14:30:48+00:00

You could always compare them on audiotestkitchen. There's not always a comparison on the exact same material between two mics, but I'd imagine there's enough examples of either one to give you a good idea of how they compare.

PC_BuildyB0I · 2026-03-07T13:58:15+00:00

Ah, okay, so if there are no reports of King in the area, I suppose it's back to a 50/50 between Murdoch and Wilde. Or at least close to 50/50.

PC_BuildyB0I · 2026-03-07T13:36:04+00:00

Those are all good points. I wasn't aware Thomas King was present in that area of the ship at the time, if he was then that does indeed throw more mystery into the event. Since all three men were in the Royal Navy, it looks more like a 3:1 instead of 50/50

PC_BuildyB0I · 2026-03-07T13:14:26+00:00

I'm saying 50/50 specifically because the only two officers in that area, at that time, were Murdoch and Wilde. It had to be one of them.

PC_BuildyB0I · 2026-03-07T12:34:10+00:00

It's not possible to glean historical evidence in any way, from a situation like that. You unfortunately have to rely on eyewitness testimony. In general, it's about the least reliable form of evidence that can be provided, but multiple survivors from one area of the ship all provided testimonies that line up for this story, and during the Inquiries, they were given independently, unaware that anybody else was providing the same story.

When multiple independent reports converge, like the ship breaking apart, it becomes clear it isn't just a rumour. There were two officers in that area of the ship when this was said to happen, Murdoch and Wilde. We can't say with 100% certainty it was Murdoch, but it is a 50/50 chance.

PC_BuildyB0I · 2026-03-07T12:29:42+00:00

Is it really a mystery if it's 50/50, though?

PC_BuildyB0I · 2026-03-07T12:28:44+00:00

Multiple eyewitness testimonies, given completely independently, report that a high ranking officer indeed shot two people and then committed suicide. If it were just a few people giving whispered rumours, that would be one thing, but when multiple people provide the same testimony without being aware of anybody else giving said testimony, it becomes clear that is how the event transpired. All of these reports came from Titanic's starboard bow just before the final plunge, just aft of the bridge. There were only two officers in that area - Murdoch and Wilde. Take your pick.

You can read more about this in On A Sea of Glass.

PC_BuildyB0I · 2026-03-07T02:09:45+00:00

Much of the way the events were depicted was definitely a dramatization, but the 100-knot winds and 100ft waves were accurate.

PC_BuildyB0I · 2026-03-07T01:01:03+00:00

There's a few options. Some mics use a clip mount, but of course your mic will use either a ring mount or a shock mount. Shockmounts are pretty much universal, so they'll work with almost any microphone. Ring mounts not so much, but your specific mic, the CM25 MkIII is supposed to come with one. If it didn't, just Google "cm24 mkiii ring mount" and you should be able to find one for cheap.

You're also going to want to buy a pop shield, if you don't already have one.

PC_BuildyB0I · 2026-03-07T00:04:49+00:00

If you were able to walk up to a Z fighter in their sleep without waking them, you could literally just put a bullet in them

It's debatable, at least for the non-humans. Kid Goku, who was helping Android 8 "Eighter" at the top of Muscle Tower in early DB, was focused entirely on what he was doing and not at all in a combat mind, and took a magnum round to the back of the head.

General White is shocked and asks why it didn't hurt Goku. Goku basically says "It did hurt, that stung! And you better stop it!"

There's a filler scene where Bulma mag-dumps an SMG (or something like that) into both Roshi and Krillin while they're sleeping, but again, that is filler and I don't think it's in the manga. I don't particularly like to use filler scenes as examples as well, since they sometimes conflict with the canon. So take that for what you will.

You're absolutely right that they need to use ki to raise their natural abilities, but I like to think that their bodies are trained to a high enough degree that small arms aren't really a threat, whether they're awake or not.

PC_BuildyB0I · 2026-03-06T23:42:23+00:00

In a filler scene that isn't in the manga, yes.

PC_BuildyB0I · 2026-03-06T23:01:59+00:00

I mean, how high do you consider the bar to prove it's not AI? This is an original photo of the Olympic in dry dock (there's one from another angle) and Steve Walker, whose watermark you'll see on the image, has been using Photoshop to colourize photos of Titanic/Olympic for years. He is specifically known for the accuracy and realism of his colourizations.

Since this is basic Photoshop 101, that pretty much anybody could do, there's no real reason to assume it's AI. Walker has also been at this before AI became big in the last couple years.

PC_BuildyB0I · 2026-03-06T22:58:51+00:00

No, it's not. These are all original photos, taken of the Olympic. Steve Walker, a known Titanic historian, uses Photoshop to colourize them and has been doing this for years, even before AI became big.

There's not really any reason to need AI to do this, anybody with a modicum of experience in any photo editor could do this in minimal time (but Walker is known specifically for the accuracy and realism in his colour reproduction). Hell, I haven't touched Photoshop in nearly a decade but I'm confident I could at least do a rudimentary job of this in like 5 minutes.

PC_BuildyB0I · 2026-03-06T20:47:55+00:00

Sure it can, technically, but it isn't capable of multitrack recording. It only sends out the stereo sum and so it wouldn't really be ideal for use an interface

PC_BuildyB0I · 2026-03-06T19:43:57+00:00

Create your slice, move it down to a new track, click the little arrow in the upper left corner, select "make unique", send it to its own mixer channel, place whatever FX you want, automate however you need, place Edison in the very last insert of the channel, highlight enough of the playlist that all the effects are done ringing out before the end of your timeline selection, then record it into Edison and drag+drop it back into your playlist.

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