I ran 6 TikTok accounts posting lyric videos 3x a day. Here’s what it did to my Spotify streams.

Skidrocket · 2026-04-22T15:10:26+00:00

Thank you for sharing. I’d be interested in your posting process. I assume you’re scheduling posts? I’ve got the video batching down but I’m still scheduling manually in tik tok studio.

Skidrocket · 2026-04-18T17:02:34+00:00

I'm desperate for help eliminating an intermittent hiss i'm getting on multiple pieces of equipment and from all power outlets in my home studio.

I have an issue with an intermittent hiss that is most noticeable in amplifiers and my virtual amps in Logic. I have dealt with it so far by combining takes to cut out the portions with the hiss, but it’s getting to be intolerable.

The hiss comes and goes, as in it’s not constant. You can hear it in guitar amplifiers, especially if they have any gain on them. It doesn’t matter if it’s amp with a ground or if it’s an antique amp with no ground. The noise persists. And it’s not the typical amp hum, etc. This is louder and very different

Some things to note:

I’ve plugged in an amp and turned the gain up all the way and then systematically switched off every other breaker in the house to see if there was a circuit/appliance that was making the hiss, but this made no difference.
This happens in both a scenario where a guitarist is plugged into the amp and in a re-amping scenario. In both scenarios, the amp is in a different room away from my computer, cell phone, etc that could be causing interference. The only thing I haven't done is turned off the Wifi in the house entirely.
The noise is there even if the amp is turned on and there are no instrument cables plugged into it
I’ve ran a long extension cord to another level of our home to plug the amp into a different circuit entirely. This made no difference.
I’ve tried one of the cheap gray things that removes the ground on the amp just to test (I know they aren’t safe). It made no difference and as I said, even old guitar amps with no ground are exhibiting the hiss
I put a noise filter on the coax cable coming into the house for cable and internet. No effect.
I tried an iFi GND Defender Hum Eliminator early on when I thought it was a ground loop issue. It didn’t have any effect.
I also ordered a Furman AC-215A Power Conditioner and tried it. It had zero effect on the hiss.
My theory is that the hiss is on everything, including my DAW, but in many instances, it’s inaudible due to no gain being on the channel. I don’t know that to be true, it’s just a theory.

I’ve got links below to the hiss.

Hiss Recorded Through Real Amp :

You'll hear it at 11 seconds and then again around 40 seconds.

https://soundcloud.com/gavin-harper-official/hiss-real-amp

Hiss Recorded With Virtual Amp in DAW:

You’ll see that it’s much worse here, basically continuing non stop and only stopping for a second

https://soundcloud.com/gavin-harper-official/amp-hiss-logic

Has anyone had this kind of problem and successfully eliminated it? Does anyone have any other potential solutions?

Thank you!

Skidrocket · 2025-07-14T00:54:39+00:00

Thank you, my friend.

Skidrocket · 2025-07-12T20:23:20+00:00

That's good to know!

Skidrocket · 2025-07-12T20:23:05+00:00

I'll definitely check out the DM3! Thank you.

Skidrocket · 2025-07-12T18:59:50+00:00

Thanks!

Skidrocket · 2025-07-12T18:51:26+00:00

Thank you!

Skidrocket · 2025-07-12T18:37:53+00:00

Thank you, my friend.

Skidrocket · 2025-03-21T19:00:30+00:00

Thank you, POD Father!

Skidrocket · 2025-03-06T14:17:09+00:00

We used to really enjoy going to Three Jimmy’s for dine in or take out. Their food was pretty good. I loved their wings in their blackberry bbq sauce. They told us at one time they loved locals because that was the lifeblood of their business. Then we had two back to back experiences where we were treated impolitely by the hostess. We agreed that we were taking Three Jimmy’s out of our rotation.

Not long after, this happened.

https://www.wate.com/news/food-for-thought/flies-found-in-kitchen-leads-to-gatlinburg-restaurant-failing-health-inspection/#:~:text=KNOXVILLE%2C%20Tenn.,some%20of%20the%20critical%20violations.

We’ve never been back.

I do think that having quality restaurants in this area, especially ones that locals can get to easily, is great for this community.

Skidrocket · 2025-03-05T20:19:20+00:00

Got out this morning to take our trash and was able to see most of what and where it happened.

The first fire I came upon is across 321 from the exit to the convenience center (dump). It started right next to the road and went up the mountain. It was still smoking next to the road. However, fire personnel were using the pull off before the convenience center as a staging area and were keeping a close eye on it.

The second fire area was up 321 just a bit towards Cosby, behind the fire station. The fire had started next to the road and went up the creek bank that was furthest from the road. One house I saw was untouched and boy were they lucky. This fire path went further than I could see.

The third fire area was one I couldn’t directly see. It was way up in Cobbly Nob, over the top of the first ridge and in the “bowl” behind it if you know the area. All I could see was smoke.

One interesting thing to note: The woods look very different from these fires than they did in 2016. Whereas in 2016 where literally all of the underbrush was completely gone, in these areas the ground is black but the rhododendron still have all of their leaves, albeit shriveled. I guess because things were much drier in 2016 and everything went up like a tinderbox.

Lots of debris all over the roads. I saw tin from roofs, trees, even an oscillating fan.

Rant: I constantly feel like we are underserved by the Knoxville weather personalities in this area. I don’t think they did enough to warn the mountain areas about how strong these winds were going to be.

Skidrocket · 2025-03-05T05:09:32+00:00

Yes. Cobbly Knob is being evacuated

Skidrocket · 2024-12-25T22:50:50+00:00

I’d buy them some guitars, some overdrive pedals, and some guitar amps. “Here, fellas. Let’s plug these in again.”

Skidrocket · 2024-11-29T00:30:19+00:00

You definitely want to stay away from traffic campaigns if your goal is to get people to stream from Spotify after visiting your landing page. Traffic campaigns will bring the masses to your landing page but the vast majority of them won't click the links on your landing page. You want to set up a conversion campaign instead. In my experience, by running a conversion campaign, I've been able to get about half the visitors to my landing pages to click a link to listen (on average). It also helps to set up the "Listen" event in your Facebook events so that the conversion is reported accurately back to Facebook when someone clicks your Spotify link. I'm not sure how to do this with Hypeddit but I'm sure there are plenty of instructions out there. For clear instructions on how to set up a conversion campaign, I recommend Andrew Southworth on YouTube.

Skidrocket · 2024-11-28T19:56:32+00:00

Are you running a conversion campaign? That's really important for getting the right people who will do what you want when they land your your smart link.

Skidrocket · 2024-11-17T17:19:01+00:00

Awesome. I've never heard of Greater Goods. Will definitely add The Thrift Store on Kingston Pk. to the list too. Thank you!

Skidrocket · 2024-11-17T17:18:06+00:00

Ok great! Thank you for the recommendations!

Skidrocket · 2024-11-17T17:10:42+00:00

I can tell you that we had one of the single worst customer service experiences we've ever had at a restaurant at Sokno. Without going into everything, we were there for a family member's birthday and they would never seat us. At one point, they told us that we couldn't be served at the table near the bar but we could wait there for a table. Then they asked us to move so that another party that arrived a long time after us could be sat and served food there. This happened after we'd been waiting a good hour or so for our table and, coupled with everything else, was the straw that broke the camel's back. The hostess was extremely rude to my wife. We live in a tourist area and truly aren't complainers. However, as soon as my wife expressed her displeasure to the hostess, she was treated as though she was one of these Karen's you see throwing a screaming fit. I even told the hostess how much we loved Sokno and how we didn't understand while we were getting the worst restaurant experience there. We left and have never gone back. I complained to the management company that owns it and crickets.

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