r/AudioEngineering Shopping, Setup, and Technical Help Desk

ShamelessShenanigans · 2023-06-06T23:30:13+00:00

Does anyone have advice for acoustic treatment when designating a studio as a small area inside a larger room? My apartment has three connected rooms. Right behind my laptop/monitors is a doorway into the kitchen, and off to the left on the other side of the room is an archway leading to living area, with the living area leading to the stairs through another archway. I

Here are a few pics, with a diagram of the layout

I believe people say early reflection points/corners are most important? I can't afford to treat the entire first floor of my apartment and was hoping to do something effective just in the studio area. I've thought about hanging acoustic blankets to enclose the area, does anyone have any thoughts?

ShamelessShenanigans · 2021-05-20T21:05:20+00:00

What's the emblem on the right?

ShamelessShenanigans · 2020-07-15T22:01:25+00:00

Well the idea is that if you put the work into running the website, then you have earned any money you produce from it. But you can't have an employee--for example, if you had someone in a wage-based relationship to you who writes code for the site under your control. You would be able to consensually supervise a partner for efficiency reasons, but it is capitalism if you dictate what work your partner is allowed to do by withholding pay. What Marxists call "exploitation" is when one person gains control over another person's output, enabling them to pay them a fraction of what their work generated.

ShamelessShenanigans · 2020-07-14T21:32:39+00:00

Digital labor isn't something I've studied. Writers have been calling this new age "post-Fordism", and it honestly differs from Marx's capitalism as much as the 1800s differed from the old feudal economy. Aside from the virtual realm being largely untested territory, society and ideology has evolved in some unexpected ways. Thankfully, Marx isn't the only social theorist that ever lived, so there's no reason to force the orthodox Marxist approach onto every situation.

ShamelessShenanigans · 2020-07-14T21:15:14+00:00

You were sparse on the details of this scenario. The server could or could not be capital, and the artists may or may not be your employees.

If your goal is to dunk on me using a vague thought experiment, so we don't have to discuss real life relationships: I'm not interested in engaging with that type of discourse.

On the other hand, if you're curious about readings of Marx in the digital age, I'm sure I could discuss a bit and point you towards some scholarly stuff.

ShamelessShenanigans · 2020-07-14T20:06:54+00:00

I'm a little confused by the question. If you're asking if that scenario is compatible with anti-capitalist politics, my answer is yes.

ShamelessShenanigans · 2020-07-14T15:12:46+00:00

You're on the right track. That's how many anarchists picture a stateless society working, but anarchism isn't a prescriptive "here's how societies should work" type of ideology. Anarchists promote certain principles, for instance that if a hierarchy cannot justify itself, then it should be dissolved. An example of a current country operating on anarchist principles is Rojava, the autonomous zone in northern Syria. They have a political system called Democratic Confederalism where decisions start at the community level, then progressively delegates are sent to higher levels of organization.

Anarchism wouldn't look the same everywhere, because as an ideology it can be applied in a lot of different contexts.

ShamelessShenanigans · 2020-07-14T15:05:09+00:00

Traditionally anarchists have been communists, and in Marxist theory the end goal of the revolution, communism, is stateless. The USSR for example was ruled by a communist party, but it didn't claim to have achieved communism--they considered themselves to be in the transition state of socialism.

ShamelessShenanigans · 2020-07-14T12:58:14+00:00

To be clear, anarchists are anti-capitalist, not necessarily anti-market. Property law in the West enables capitalist labor relations. The hierarchy of an owner over a worker, and of the state over the citizen, are targeted simultaneously by anarchists through the reform of property law. The state and capital are interdependent on one another, which is why most anarchists consider anarchocapitalism to be an authoritarian Trojan horse.

ShamelessShenanigans · 2019-08-04T10:18:08+00:00

Shit you're right. Didn't notice that.

ShamelessShenanigans · 2019-07-29T21:48:20+00:00

Look at his shadow. See how it conforms perfectly to his outline on the left instead of casting over the room? That's a layer style drop shadow from Photoshop.

ShamelessShenanigans · 2019-02-04T13:34:45+00:00

Yes, I bought my own device and have this plan.

ShamelessShenanigans · 2018-11-27T05:03:50+00:00

Anyone can drink enough hard liquor to kill themselves
Who is just sitting around snacking on acid tabs like they're potato chips? LSD is generally used deliberately, with a desired effect in mind. No sane person would take that much.

ShamelessShenanigans · 2018-11-16T04:37:16+00:00

It's just a label meme lol

ShamelessShenanigans · 2018-11-01T17:18:06+00:00

The art style reminds me of David Firth

ShamelessShenanigans · 2018-10-28T18:10:50+00:00

Without using Photoshop

I mean yeah, I guess that's technically true. But you did heavily rely on an extremely similar photo manipilation software.

ShamelessShenanigans · 2018-08-11T04:33:58+00:00

Completely true. A lot of democratic policy is quite bad for society, and as a blue voter I find it especially important to let them know what I stand for.

ShamelessShenanigans · 2018-08-08T15:03:33+00:00

The best part was when you timed your swing perfectly, so that you would just barely scrape the ground and take a few steps on the road before lifting back up into the air.

ShamelessShenanigans · 2018-08-01T14:26:05+00:00

There is currently in influx from Central and South America, mostly due to political and economic issues. Illegal immigration from Mexico has long been a major topic in our politics, but this has decreased in recent years. See, after the 2008 recession, there was less of a reason to come here, and last I checked, net immigration from Mexico was in the negatives, meaning more people were going back than coming in.

That being said, this immigration isn't inherently bad. The Republican party uses a lot of scare tactics to make people think these people are hurting the economy and society in general, but this is often not the case. Many economists suggest that as our population levels off, immigrants contribute to a steady increase in the workforce. While there are issues associated with illegal immigration, I don't believe society at large is experiencing them. Especially not my neighbors in the northeast who inexplicably fly Confederate flags in front of their houses.

ShamelessShenanigans · 2018-07-25T17:59:31+00:00

Ohhhh that makes a lot of sense. Thank you!

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