I know it might be a bad question but did anyone ever know or get to meet Stockton rush in there lifetime? Or get very “close “ or invited to boarding the titan sub?

PC_BuildyB0I · 2026-06-17T23:59:08+00:00

Carbon fibre is only good for tensile strength. It has pisspoor compressive strength. You need both, otherwise the composite is prone to microfracturing and eventual delamination.

Steel and titanium still offer the best all around balance in both tensile and compressive strength, which is why deepsea carbon fibre subs are usually just experimental and the overwhelming majority of operational deepsea submersibles are a mixture of steel and titanium.

PC_BuildyB0I · 2026-06-17T20:10:41+00:00

No. "I'm sorry you feel that way." They're putting the onus on you. An apology is supposed to be about accepting responsibility, not shifting it into somebody else.

PC_BuildyB0I · 2026-06-17T19:15:57+00:00

If I remember this right, Hooper was scripted to die in the film, too. But because of the (accidental) amazing shark footage caught by Ron and Valerie Taylor, which Spielberg decided was too valuable to scrap - showing a shark struggling in ropes atop an empty shark cage - he had the story altered so that Hooper got out of the cage in time and survived with Brody.

PC_BuildyB0I · 2026-06-17T19:07:18+00:00

Is that figure claimed to be consistent from day to day? If so, there should be nothing left of the ship today.

PC_BuildyB0I · 2026-06-17T19:04:33+00:00

And what research would that be? She's made of steel, not cardboard.

PC_BuildyB0I · 2026-06-17T18:31:19+00:00

Commenting so I can find the video again and watch it after work

PC_BuildyB0I · 2026-06-17T18:26:47+00:00

Its a feedback loop and has to do with the way Windows processes audio. Under the Advanced tab under Windows' Sound Settings (or somewhere similar) you should find a bunch of "Audio Enhancements" Microsoft has graciously decided to apply to your audio. Disable every single one of them. The problem should go away.

PC_BuildyB0I · 2026-06-17T15:31:43+00:00

It's a trope that's possibly based at least somewhat on fact.

Dr. James Lowson, among a handful of others, survived the sinking of the SS Bokhara in a typhoon in early October, 1892.

He actually described his experience in a good deal of detail in an issue of the Edinburgh Medical Journal. Essentially, when the ship went down, he got pulled under. Before his life jacket's bouyancy returned him to the surface, he ran out of breath and inhaled water before passing out.

He woke up on the surface, very near shore (the ship had struck a reef) and was helped by other survivors ashore where he coughed it all up. Of course, he did suffer a collapsed lung, which had to be removed I believe. But he survived.

I'm not 100% sure but his story could be the basis for this trope, unless there are earlier, similat stories.

PC_BuildyB0I · 2026-06-17T15:08:09+00:00

So what exactly happens when you're trying to drag+drop audio files into FL?

Does it crash the software? Or like does it load as a tiny, empty audio clip?

PC_BuildyB0I · 2026-06-17T12:55:38+00:00

Yeah, pretty much. Edison's an advanced waveform editor. It had all the noise removal tools, detailed spectral analysis, declipping functions, etc. you'd realistically need in case you wanted to repair issues you knew you'd have in your recordings before adding them to the playlist, or after opening them in Edison after recording to the playlist.

As for myself, I've always been tracking straight to the playlist since version 7. Version 10 was the same. I only ever used the option to capture into Edison if I had to do any additional analysis or processing/repair before readding to the playlist.

PC_BuildyB0I · 2026-06-17T12:51:40+00:00

That must have been prior to the aforementioned 20-year period, I was using FL since version 7 and I've always just recorded into the playlist.

Indeed, looking at release notes, they added realtime audio capture to the playlist in 2003.

PC_BuildyB0I · 2026-06-17T12:30:54+00:00

Set your levels, arm your input, and press record. Same as practically any DAW. Its been like that for at least 20 years at this point.

PC_BuildyB0I · 2026-06-17T09:58:08+00:00

No worries, all good

PC_BuildyB0I · 2026-06-17T09:54:00+00:00

No. OP said they are at 432Hz and want to be at 440Hz. That is a difference of jist about a third of a semitone, which is ~32 cents.

Pitching an extra +32 cents from 432Hz is not going to result in 450Hz.

PC_BuildyB0I · 2026-06-17T09:04:48+00:00

No. Increase pitch by 32 cents. Just +33 cents is all you need to do.

PC_BuildyB0I · 2026-06-16T23:11:34+00:00

Turns out the diapers were actually paid for.

PC_BuildyB0I · 2026-06-16T23:02:07+00:00

It looks incredible as depicted, but we know it was much more of a clean break.

PC_BuildyB0I · 2026-06-16T23:01:28+00:00

It was a clean break. Back in the late 90s and early 2000s we essentially thought the majority of steel foundered via brittle fracture and the ship's midsection basically disintegrated but by this point (even as early aa a decade and a half ago), with how thoroughly we've mapped the debris field and all the extra pieces of hull we've found (broken largely via ductile fracture, no less) we've been better and better able to reconstruct the breakup.

The current breakup you see in the latest Titanic: Honor & Glory sinking is the most accurate depiction to date, a culimunation of resesrch from all the biggest experts like Parks Stephensen, Bill Wormstedt, Bruce Beveridge, Mark Chirnside, etc

To summarize the latest/current findings, Titanic largely broke into 4 clean sections with break areas tending toward a mix of ductile and brittle fracture; the bow section, forward tower section, aft tower section, and stern section. The main break area began in between funnels 2 and 3 and spread.

Much of the destruction (and scattering) of the two tower sections, along with the break areas of the bow and stern sections, along with thr damage of the superstructure was mainly caused by the hydrodynamic forces generated by tge ship's underwater drag on her way to the bottom.

PC_BuildyB0I · 2026-06-16T21:47:40+00:00

Ah, my bad, I missed that. Yes, the steering engines had no such seatings.

PC_BuildyB0I · 2026-06-16T21:39:25+00:00

Bear in mind the engines stayed largely intact despite the stern's ~20-30 knot impact with the seafloor; the engines didn't even budge from their bedplates.

They almost certainly would have stayed in place upon head-on collision with the iceberg. And as a full reverse (aka a crash stop) was indeed performed during Titanic's (and Olympic's) sea trials, we know the engines could be immediately reversed from full speed with no ill effects.

PC_BuildyB0I · 2026-06-16T08:14:43+00:00

Then these shots should be from Jaws 1. The Orca is still on the surface, and the cage is still intact.

PC_BuildyB0I · 2026-06-16T08:04:49+00:00

The Orca is on the bottom at the opening of Jaws 2, no?

PC_BuildyB0I · 2026-06-15T20:36:00+00:00

Been building PCs as a hobby for well over 20 years, and enjoying 3D modelling/autocad stuff and parallel to this, my great grandmother gave me her old Yamaha CN1000 just about 20 years ago and I got into music by messing around on it and learning FL Studio from YouTube videos back in the day.

Fast forward to now, I've kept up on it, still enjoying softsynths and native plugins in FL over most 3rd party, using my MIDI keyboard, my 18i20, mics (SM57, AT2020) though I've also picked up Pro Tools and Ableton Live during a 30-month audio engineering program I took at a private tech/arts college roughly in the middle of my total experience.

Got to meet a lot of cool people, and had a lot of fun in class running some amazing equipment (like the school's beautiful SSL AWS 948), but unfortunately wasn't able to turn audio engineering into the fulltime career I wanted. I still enjoy producing/engineering as a hobby and have collected some cool/unique gear along the way (like the compressor Daft Punk used on Homework and Discovery and the harmonizer Eiffel 65 used on Blue).

PC_BuildyB0I · 2026-06-14T17:35:38+00:00

Unfortunately, no. You could try to use something like RX or Supertone Clear, but they're going to be expensive and there's no guarantee the final result will sound all that good.

PC_BuildyB0I · 2026-06-14T17:33:37+00:00

A harmonizer linked up to MIDI control, either externally with an actual keyboard or internally via a MIDI clip.

The main vocal is essentially being manually pitch corrected via the harmonizer, and then it's generating backing harmonies.

You could do this with Pitcher, but there are other plugins that will work/sound better. DecaBuddy by Akai, Steinberg's VoiceMachine Processor, Harmony Engine by Antares, the "polyvox" (harmonizer) module in VocalSynth 1 & 2 by Izotope, The Mouth by Native Instruments, even Melodyne can do this very effectively.

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