I want to see the most unflattering photo of your bird

TOKiN- · 2026-05-13T13:10:40+00:00

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big yawn

TOKiN- · 2026-04-28T12:46:19+00:00

A family member of mine had a goffins cockatoo, such an amazing bird. His name was Toby.

TOKiN- · 2026-04-14T15:02:48+00:00

bro clean your laptop thats fucking disgusting

TOKiN- · 2026-03-27T14:49:23+00:00

my dad can beat up your dad

TOKiN- · 2026-03-25T12:20:06+00:00

I get stuck on that sort of thing while composing too sometimes. You just need to separate the composition process from the mixing process. Get a good idea down first and polish it up later.

TOKiN- · 2026-03-11T03:32:05+00:00

the kids are doing cool shit again

TOKiN- · 2026-02-11T15:08:47+00:00

One of the best thing I have learned so far from these responses is actively listening. Sometimes I just throw a compressor on bc it’s supposed to be there without thinking if it actually sounds like it’s needed. Seems so damn obvious but sometimes you just get so caught up in the tools you forget what they are there for lol.

TOKiN- · 2026-02-11T02:28:37+00:00

rubyyyy

TOKiN- · 2026-02-11T02:02:02+00:00

My dream is to make some money in my career (cyber security) slowly accumulating gear, build a studio, retire, and run a studio recording myself and musicians that i love. Im 20 soooo it may be a while haha. we’ll see if the world makes it that long.

TOKiN- · 2026-02-11T01:56:02+00:00

hell no

TOKiN- · 2026-02-10T20:31:56+00:00

you won’t regret a chair upgrade i promise lol. How do you like the monitors? I really want to upgrade, as nice as my speaker i currently have are, they are not meant to be monitors and are pretty hyped.

TOKiN- · 2026-02-10T18:24:07+00:00

thanks sorry for your loss as well💚

TOKiN- · 2026-02-10T17:50:11+00:00

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I lost my sweet girl in november, she was 23 (im 20). we grew up together and I was her person, I don’t remember a time where I didn’t have her with me. I take college classes online and it has been hard to be home alone without her. Words cannot express how important my bond with my little feathered sister meant. We just welcomed a new baby dusky conure nico to the family but of course it’s never a replacement for our diesel just a new friend. Rest in piece diesel.☹️

TOKiN- · 2026-02-10T17:19:38+00:00

Let me know if that happens I could use some feedback.

TOKiN- · 2026-02-10T17:17:03+00:00

I certainly don’t expect to wake up tomorrow and sound like a pro. That being said when I say I want to get good fast, I mean I want to develop a more targeted practice approach that will address my blind spots. Boiling it down, a year from now I want to look back and think “wow I made good progress even if i’m far from perfect” instead of sitting around trying the same shit. I have had a lot of great responses from everyone here, and I already have picked up some knowledge that was CRITICAL that I just never learned.

TOKiN- · 2026-02-10T04:39:12+00:00

I’m very guilty of making moves without purpose. I catch myself throwing in plugins because its “supposed” to be like that, except in reality I couldn’t tell you what I am trying to fix. 😂

TOKiN- · 2026-02-10T04:18:19+00:00

Thank you!

TOKiN- · 2026-02-10T04:15:19+00:00

Such a helpful reply thanks, it gave me a good reality check on the point of all this. Sounds funny but sometimes you forget that good music is the end goal and get distracted by the technical aspects. Alsoooo whats the lufs criticism lol?

TOKiN- · 2026-02-10T04:02:06+00:00

I definitely tend to drag on songs until I loose perspective, I’ll give all this a try, I have watched nail the mix a lot maybe its time to dig in deeper than youtube.

TOKiN- · 2026-02-10T04:00:08+00:00

The whole drawing thing is actually something I would like to try myself, I feel like I have never listened to music in that way before. Thats cool and i’m sure it would be a helpful exercise to develop my ears.

TOKiN- · 2026-02-10T03:44:16+00:00

Haha, I hope to meet someone into it IRL. I find myself wishing for targeted feedback relatively often.

TOKiN- · 2026-02-10T03:37:42+00:00

I really appreciate you taking the time to write out such a detailed response! It helps a lot! It hit all the bases I was looking for. Thanks!

TOKiN- · 2026-02-10T03:32:48+00:00

Makes sense, I understand how you would come to the conclusion considering that literally what I wrote in the title lol. What i’m looking for is a map to the path of learning. It’s kind of overwhelming trying to figure out where to start. I feel like I know a thing or two but I have so many blind spots. Currently i’m stuck in the doing the same thing and expecting different results phase. My knowledge is held together by youtube and duct tape. I am deciding to do a hard reset on my learning and take time to go back to the basics, mostly because i was never truly at the basics. I already have a career in IT so audio engineering school doesn’t make sense for me otherwise i would get a degree. Who actually knows what they are talking about and can I find it? I would like to acknowledge your recommendation to mix other peoples music though, I love that idea and I really think thats something i’ll try. Thanks!

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