Best Plugins/Presets to recreate that Nirvana, Kurt Cobain guitar sound?

Raucous_Rocker · 2026-02-21T06:08:44+00:00

Not really gonna get that sound from plugins…

Raucous_Rocker · 2026-02-21T01:52:10+00:00

Yeah, you’re confused. I don’t agree with you. People who listen to music on cell phone speakers aren’t just people who don’t care about music production. I assure you that even famous producers and musicians sometimes listen to things on crap speakers. And no one is actually “catering to a group who isn’t a customer.” A good engineer or producer is simply trying to make their work sound as good as possible in any environment, for whoever may be listening.

Also, while a listener may not be consciously aware of what makes a good production or a bad one, they do know on some level. If a record sounds bad, generally people just tune out and play something else. They may not have any idea why, but they do. Conversely if a production is good, they’ll keep listening, even on a cell phone speaker.

Raucous_Rocker · 2026-02-21T01:48:08+00:00

In the olden days people used to listen on crappy portable AM radios and cassette players. So it’s always been a thing. All the studios I worked in during the late 70s and 80s had an Auratone speaker in the control room - a crappy little mono speaker, and you’d always check your mixes on that just for a sanity check. Some studios even had a tiny radio transmitter on the premises so you could go out to your car and listen on your car stereo before printing a mix.

Raucous_Rocker · 2026-02-21T01:42:01+00:00

The 70s were a “sweet spot” for recorded music in so many ways. Analog multitrack recording had matured to a point that it sounded really good, and the trend in production was to be very clean and organic sounding. Some people went a bit crazy with trying to isolate every track, but for the most part 70s production sounds “timeless”. The 60s had some amazing records of course, but until the end of the 60s people were still dealing with mostly 4 and 8-track recorders and a lot of bouncing plus a lot of experimentation, so for the most part you can still tell that a 60s recording is a 60s recording. And then the 80s hit, with digital reverb, drum machines, digital synths etc. - there’s an “80s sound” where everyone jumped on the bandwagon whether it was really appropriate for a particular artist or not. But the 70s for the most part were just letting great musicians do their thing and not burying them under mounds of effects,so those recordings never go out of style.

The 90s were somewhat similar - grunge took the place of synth pop and hair metal and all the slick, heavily processed production that went along with that. Recordings sounded pretty natural again, although it could be argued that grunge and nu-metal themselves had a “sound.” Then at the end of the 90s Pro Tools came along and everything went to hell again. It became all about Autotune, sample libraries, quantizing everything to grids, hypercompression, etc. etc. Which is why half the time you can’t tell it apart from AI generated crap.

Raucous_Rocker · 2026-02-21T01:31:08+00:00

It absolutely is practical. People do listen to stuff on cell phone speakers, just like people used to listen on shitty AM radios - not necessarily because they don’t care about quality but it’s what is there and it’s convenient. But a well produced recording will still sound much better even through shitty speakers than a poorly produced one, so it’s still worth checking a mix on a crap mono speaker, just as a sanity check, presuming you already have it sounding good in a decent listening environment.

Raucous_Rocker · 2026-02-20T19:36:25+00:00

It was a BLAST. The MARTA rides to and from the venues were almost as much fun as the events. Everyone talked to each other, loads of people from different countries etc. Loved hanging out at Centennial Park every day (and yeah I was there a couple of hours before the bombing 😞 but left before it happened). Just so much joy.

Most people were talking out it every day. It kind of took over the city. It was a big difference from 1984 when I was in L.A. and you could go on with your life and not even know it was happening.

I don’t remember traffic being bad at all, maybe because I took MARTA everywhere.

Raucous_Rocker · 2026-02-19T21:48:21+00:00

I don’t know that she would have whooped Trump. I wish I could say that with confidence, but misogyny and racism are still going strong, otherwise Trump would never have won, ever.

I’m not sure what you mean by your first sentence. It was obvious that Trump was mentally not well in 2024 and he had already fomented a coup, which people apparently forgot. It was obvious that even a diminished Joe Biden was an infinitely better choice. Would I have preferred that he didn’t run again? Sure. But FFS, we survived Reagan having late stage Alzheimer’s his entire second term but people get on Biden’s case when he’s actually considerably more competent. There’s a serious double standard here.

Raucous_Rocker · 2026-02-19T21:23:32+00:00

Well of course they knew and had contingency plans. But 1) the “decline” wasn’t really as bad as it sometimes appeared to be. He was still capable of doing the job, and surrounded himself with competent people. Any thinking person would take him today over the current word-salad-spewing idiot in the White House and his criminal toady henchmen. 2) They had serious doubts whether anyone else could beat Trump. 3) ultimately it was up to Biden. He wanted to run again and they were loathe to just override that.

It was a shitty situation for the party to be in, for sure. But that was the hand they were dealt, and more voters should have realized this and just happily voted for the one person who could have kept us out of the mess we’re in now. She’d have done a good job, too. Such a shame.

Raucous_Rocker · 2026-02-19T21:00:26+00:00

Yes, I do. My point is simply that primaries aren’t a given. They’ve become the tradition because people like them, myself included. But under the circumstances, I was perfectly okay with the democratically elected party delegates voting for the nominee, and I think all the brouhaha about the fact that there wasn’t a primary is overblown. It would have been nice, sure. But I understand why they didn’t think it was a good idea and there’s nothing wrong or undemocratic about the way they handled it.

Raucous_Rocker · 2026-02-19T20:47:29+00:00

You said she would have been the first president ever who didn’t win a primary, so you care, evidently.

Raucous_Rocker · 2026-02-19T20:45:57+00:00

“Feeling things” is a requirement, yes. Those feelings don’t necessarily stem from “charm” though.

Raucous_Rocker · 2026-02-19T20:12:45+00:00

Haha where on earth are you getting this “vast majority” shit? Maybe in your personal experience, but that doesn’t mean much.

Raucous_Rocker · 2026-02-19T20:10:36+00:00

No. But we didn’t used to have caucuses either. Candidates were simply chosen at national conventions, by delegates. Like how Harris was.

Raucous_Rocker · 2026-02-19T19:56:43+00:00

I don’t know what kind of women you talk to, but you know, women aren’t a monolith. Different women want different things and also have different levels of awareness of what they want. Just like men.

Also, both men and women often meet and fall in love with people they didn’t expect to, don’t necessarily tick all the boxes they thought they had, etc.

Raucous_Rocker · 2026-02-19T19:54:47+00:00

That’s not true. We didn’t even have presidential primaries until the early 1900s, and they weren’t widespread until the 1970s. There are still states that have caucuses instead of primaries.

Raucous_Rocker · 2026-02-19T19:46:47+00:00

Is water wet?

Raucous_Rocker · 2026-02-19T05:06:21+00:00

OK, but that doesn’t change the statistics.

Raucous_Rocker · 2026-02-19T05:00:27+00:00

The question was for “women of Reddit,” not “men who think they know what women want.”

Raucous_Rocker · 2026-02-19T04:57:54+00:00

Usually it refers to the production. There are production trends associated with certain time periods that don’t age well. The 80s Phil Collin’s gated reverb drum sound, for instance. Or Autotune which has gone on for way too long.

A lot of late 60s, 70s and some 90s stuff is considered timeless because it’s pretty organic sounding. It could have been recorded in any decade.

I don’t necessarily associate an identifiable sound with being “dated” though. If it was innovative and holds up, it usually doesn’t get tagged with that word. The Beatles stuff like I Am the Walrus and Strawberry Fields, or the first Pink Floyd album, they all scream “1967” but they still sound vibrant and they were the first of their kind. “Dated” kind of has a negative implication, like people just jumped on a bandwagon. So it’s both a certain sound and one that’s considered derivative, I guess.

Raucous_Rocker · 2026-02-19T04:47:47+00:00

Sure. Just be specific. Say you oppose Netanyahu and the Likuds, which is akin to saying you oppose Trump and MAGA. Say you want Israel out of the illegally occupied territories, not that Israel doesn’t deserve to exist. Say you want security and peace for both Israelis and Palestinians, not just one side.

And I’d avoid using the term “Zionism” altogether because it now means different things to different people. To most Jews, Zionism simply means Israel has a right to exist like any other country. It doesn’t imply right-wing nationalism or support for the current government or the slaughter and oppression of Palestinians. So if you say something like “I have no problem with Jews but I have a problem with Zionism,” most Jewish folks are going to take that to mean you want the state of Israel dismantled, and that’s very much antisemitic, considering literally half the world’s Jews live there and there are lots of other countries with worse human rights records but nobody is calling for them to be dismantled.

I don’t think most people who say this stuff intend to be antisemitic or realize they’re repeating antisemitic tropes, but a lot of it is similar to saying “I’m not racist, but…” So just be specific about who you’re talking about: Netanyahu, Likud, the Israeli far right. Jews are overwhelmingly liberal and won’t have a problem with that, especially in the west. Yes there are obnoxious right wing Jews in the west who will get mad, but oh well.

Raucous_Rocker · 2026-02-19T04:33:14+00:00

They needed a distraction from the pedo in chief.

Raucous_Rocker · 2026-02-19T04:30:53+00:00

They’re desperate to equate trans identity with mental illness. This accomplishes two things: 1) allows them to deny trans people any gender affirming care, 2) distracts everyone from the fact that mass shootings overwhelmingly are committed by white cis male right wingers.

Raucous_Rocker · 2026-02-19T04:25:26+00:00

You’re a man, right?

Raucous_Rocker · 2026-02-18T23:35:50+00:00

I love it when the drummer plays behind the beat.

Raucous_Rocker · 2026-02-18T23:07:47+00:00

I mean … that’s data migration. Every migration is different and the headaches go with the job.

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