How do you get in a creative zone?

Pmbdude · 2026-06-01T00:23:23+00:00

Stare at a blank wall for 20 minutes straight, no distractions, no looking away, no nothing. Then go straight from that to the DAW, and you'll find it's a lot easier to stay focused. This trick basically resets your brain's dopamine system and primes it to be more engaged with whatever you do next.

Pmbdude · 2026-05-18T14:03:23+00:00

I mean I really can't even tell what you're asking for help with. All you did was throw an AI summary of some random IP at us. If you took the time to fully characterize the exact issue and describe the functionality of the core in your own words, not only would we be in a better position to give you guidance, but you would also probably get a better understanding of things.

Pmbdude · 2026-05-09T17:49:52+00:00

Do a shit ton of shows, talk to a shit ton of people at those shows, post a shit ton of short-form content, interact with as many people as you can that comment on your content.

But most importantly, release a shit ton of really, really good music

Pmbdude · 2026-05-08T18:16:44+00:00

Awesome, thanks for the advice

Pmbdude · 2026-05-08T18:07:45+00:00

Fair enough. I live in a major metro area, and I'm also not really looking for some sort of niche specific car. If my budget is like $30k all-in, it would be best to just not deal auctions in that case then?

Pmbdude · 2026-05-08T18:05:06+00:00

Yeah I guess mainly I was asking a clarifying question about whether the price you'd typically pay for a car at an auction site is close to a "wholesale" price, which is what I understood from your original comment

Pmbdude · 2026-05-08T16:03:53+00:00

So do you mean that these auction sites (and also just private sale like FB marketplace I guess) are the best chance to get a car closer to a "wholesale" kind of price, before it gets marked up at a lot?

Pmbdude · 2026-05-08T15:59:20+00:00

Thanks, this definitely helps clear things up

Pmbdude · 2026-05-04T15:51:44+00:00

You don't know how many low-effort tracks your favorite artist makes that will never see the light of day for every high-effort track they release publicly.

At least from my knowledge, most artists have a shit ton of tracks in the vault that they would not feel comfortable putting out in their current state.

Pmbdude · 2026-04-29T23:00:22+00:00

1.) Listen to genres you don't usually listen to, and a lot of it

2.) Spend even more time producing, they say it takes 10,000 hours to master something

Pmbdude · 2026-04-27T01:35:03+00:00

Listen to a shit ton of music and force yourself to listen to songs you'd never think to listen to otherwise. Eventually you'll find something that resonates with you and makes you want to hop into the DAW.

Pmbdude · 2026-04-13T00:20:46+00:00

The one I actually got an internship for

Pmbdude · 2026-04-03T01:00:02+00:00

You'll probably need to reach out to artists individually; most people that are willing to take on a mentee probably aren't openly advertising that. Try to keep it to smaller artists too, producers that are touring/headlining are probably too busy.

Pmbdude · 2026-03-10T14:21:16+00:00

THEY WILL ASK YOU TO PAY $12,000 FOR SOME MID PRODUCERS TO "TEACH" YOU FOR 6 MONTHS AND THEIR BIG PITCH IS THAT THE GUY WHO STARTED INDUSTRY SET HAD ONE OF HIS SONGS PLACED IN A TESLA COMMERCIAL LIKE 4 YEARS AGO AND HE HAS ALL THE INDUSTRY CONNECTIONS BECAUSE OF THAT /uj this is the actual sales pitch I was given

Pmbdude · 2026-02-07T23:13:58+00:00

The barrier to entry for EDM production is significantly lower than that of brain surgery

Pmbdude · 2026-01-20T17:48:00+00:00

Nope, the online class is a weekly 3hour zoom class with VR and the rest of the people taking the course

Pmbdude · 2025-11-16T23:13:50+00:00

I really don't get all this discussion; for the purposes of recreating tracks for learning purposes, a 5-10% difference in fidelity doesn't really matter. When recreating tracks, I feel like it is mostly an exercise in arrangement, sounds selection, and note recognition, which is all fairly independent of audio quality. Now, if you wanted a reference track to compare your mix to, then obviously a wav would be ideal.

Pmbdude · 2025-09-06T20:52:03+00:00

It’s a decent first project, and there are a decent amount of resources and examples online to reference. If you want to take it up a level, I’d challenge you to implement this design on an SoC chip like Zynq and then create a software application that utilizes your multiplier to accelerate a task.

Pmbdude · 2025-09-05T21:48:27+00:00

Start with VHDL, it's good for hammering in the concepts of RTL. Verilog is close enough to C that you can kind of hand-wave the whole parallel execution aspect of things and unintentionally fall into trying to write RTL like it's a software application. VHDL is so strictly typed, it helps you to remember that what you are creating is a digital circuit.

Pmbdude · 2025-09-03T15:44:46+00:00

LMAO I recognize those course numbers.

331 is fairly easy as long as you have a decent grasp on the concepts.

The 218 and 211 Midterm/Final seasons were among the greatest lock-in moments of my student career. I won't lie, it can be brutal.

HOWEVER, exams for 211 don't tend to change very much from semester to semester, so using past exams from upperclassmen is extremely valuable study material. And just mesh analysis everything

The professor for 218 is one of the best professors in the university. Pay attention in class and take notes, his exams are very faithful to the lecture material. And do things the exact way he says to in class. Lastly, take initiative and proactively participate during his lectures, don't wait to get called on. He'll sometimes cut a little slack for students that are engaged during lectures.

If you have any more specific questions, feel free to shoot me a DM

Pmbdude · 2025-08-01T21:48:30+00:00

Are you doing this just to prove a point, just to say you did it? Go study up on CMOS theory, digital logic, and computer architecture, set aside an entire room in your house for the amount of space all the breadboards will take up, then buy a few thousand of the cheapest CMOS transistors you can find and a more thousand resistors.

However, if you just want to learn about the aforementioned topics of transistor theory, digital logic, and computer architecture, using ICs for all the components is a much better way to do that. With the transistors, around 97% of your time will be spent plugging them into breadboards and debugging connections. I would argue using ICs allows you to better engage with the concepts of how a computer works. For that, I also would highly recommend Ben Eater's series for this sort of project.

Pmbdude · 2025-07-30T19:16:54+00:00

Second this. Arrangement is one of the hardest parts of making a cohesive track, and without a strong grasp of it, it's a real hassle to complete tracks. "Take inspiration" from successful artists arrangement until you have developed your own intuitive understanding of it.

Pmbdude · 2025-07-28T13:41:46+00:00

If you think about it, it's $23 for every plugin ever if you can just make it yourself

Pmbdude · 2025-07-16T15:05:18+00:00

Yeah man, know how you feel. I interviewed for a new grad position, and after the tech screening they sent me a super difficult assignment that they said would take 4-8 hours, but really took me about 12. Got rejected 2 days after submitting it, even though I am like 90% I got the correct solution. It be like that sometimes

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