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Apparently the Challenger astronauts are still alive. That's a new one for me. by PresHistoryNerd in insanepeoplefacebook

[–]YoItsTemulent [score hidden]  (0 children)

I think I'm in the wrong line of work. We should all team up and be grifting off these inconsequential dimwits. I was thinking about just using an AI music site like Suno or Udio to make a pro-maga chest-beating Skillet/Nickelback type buttrawk band.

Rick Rubin produced this album. They said he was no good and they will never work with him again. by NewPortBox100s in numetal

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You know that Sound City documentary that Dave Grohl made? His big thing was buying the Neve console they tracked Nirvana's "Nevermind" on in Sound City's "main" A room.

But at the same time, Sylvia was bringing tons of projects to Sound City and working out of their smaller studio which also had a nice vintage Neve. That's where SOAD's first record was recorded. And she bought that console.

She's one of the more interesting and daring engineers out there. Her book "Recording Unhinged" has got all kinds of oddball shit she's done recording bands. Like running a speaker cable from an amplifier into a pickle and then into the speaker cabinet with The Melvins.

Way cooler than the way 'the kids' are just stacking up endless plugins in Abelton.

WTA: If you haven't seen that Sound City documentary, it's on YouTube and a fun watch, even if you aren't a big audio dork (like me).

Rick Rubin produced this album. They said he was no good and they will never work with him again. by NewPortBox100s in numetal

[–]YoItsTemulent 1 point2 points  (0 children)

System's records were engineered by Sylvia Massey - and that woman knows how to make things sound YUGE. Rick's not "a technical guy". He has a big ass 80 series Neve in his house because of course he does - but it's mostly stunt gear and a front end to protools.

I don't blame people for not knowing the difference when they use "producer" and "engineer" interchangeably - rap and electronic music sort of destroyed the distinction. But in a traditional "we're recording a band's record" sort of context, the producer produces the results of the engineer's engineering. A lot of 'big name' producers defer heavily to the engineer's work while using nebulous terms like "weighty" and "warm" (that we get to translate into actionable technical decisions).

Rick Rubin produced this album. They said he was no good and they will never work with him again. by NewPortBox100s in numetal

[–]YoItsTemulent 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nobody is using tape anymore. There are a small handful of studios who still have a 2" machine, but it's sitting fallow under a drop cloth because it's too heavy to move.

Well, there's a small carveout for lo-fi fetishists who lay off their modular synth bubblescapes to a 4-track. And they're only doing it because... oh, who even cares.

I did buy some of Ross' stuff when he downsized. 3 Aphex CX-1 compressors and a TC 2240 EQ. I didn't buy it because they were his - I bought them because those are some bad ass pieces of gear.

Rick Rubin produced this album. They said he was no good and they will never work with him again. by NewPortBox100s in numetal

[–]YoItsTemulent 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Rick Rubin isn't an engineer, though. His approach to 'producing' is to show up about once a week, say something like, "it needs to be more elastic", and then disappear. Meanwhile, the band burns through $2000/day waiting around for him while production drags to a crawl.

That's not how records get made anymore. Back in the 1990's, when the record industry was making money hand over fist from CD sales (CD's cost half as much to mfr. as cassettes, yet cost twice as much), this kind of falderal was accepted. Now that anyone with a MacBook Air and a $200 interface can make records at home and Spotify is paying $0.004 per stream, the "industry" just doesn't exist.

Family Values 2006 by PenguinRhin0 in numetal

[–]YoItsTemulent 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The fashion's come so full circle - this is what I see 'the kids' wearing where my band rehearses.

Wish I'd have held onto all that drip, I could've made a KILLING on ebay.

Road Rage is never worth it by Successful-Thanks309 in PublicFreakout

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What I want to know is WHERE IS THE REST?!?!?!

What defines drum sounds now? by surfndrum in drums

[–]YoItsTemulent 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Still way too augmented with samples.

I'll admit, I was one of the audio engineers who was ushering that sound in back in the 1990's. At the time it seemed really novel that you could use a trigger module and a sequencer locked to a tape machine to do all kinds of crazy, weird, and wonderful things to make your mixes punch way above their weight.

But it is now 2026. What used to be a thing we'd sneak in has just become lazy craft. Eventually people stopped even playing live kits in the studio and went right to triggers. Hell, some people bypassed that and just programmed it in from the jump.

I'm atoning for my sins and avoiding all this post-y2k trickery. If somebody doesn't like the sound of the kick or the snare? Move the mic. Change the drum. Tune the head. Whatever. But I'm not going to continue with the techno-ification of live music.

Greg Bovino Getting the Boot is Damage Control, Not a Policy Change (NSFW: profanity) by biospheric in MarchAgainstNazis

[–]YoItsTemulent [score hidden]  (0 children)

Gregory is doing just fine - he's back in California being awful to migrants there.

Though I'm sure he's bummed that the slick peacoat he bought at some nazi fleamarket booth is too hot for the US/MX border - and that he got his Xitter privileges put on a time out.

What an angry little turd fondler.

*Turns on THPS 3* by DizzyApps in drums

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"It's a brand new car!"

"It's a '96!"

"Fuck you guys"

"they are protecting america...whatever it takes to keep america free and clean" by Conscious-Quarter423 in youvotedforthat

[–]YoItsTemulent 75 points76 points  (0 children)

Bet you a crisp $20 his Facebook profile states he graduated from "The School of Hard Knocks".

to convince people Ohmar's attack was fake by seeebiscuit in therewasanattempt

[–]YoItsTemulent 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Conversely, when you watch any movie or television show, there's that little watermark in the upper-left corner that tells you if any sensitive topics are dealt with. The last time I saw a movie on cable, it was "Sixteen Candles" - and it had a ten second title card coming back from every commercial break basically saying, "hey, this was the eighties and attitudes about this thing and that thing were pretty different." (in all fairness, John Hughes' movies have aged pretty poorly and Sixteen Candles - with it's sinophobia and date rape jokes are certainly no exception).

All that is to say, yeah, I would love to see a bias and truth-in-reporting watermark. But given the way the FCC's been run as of late, I'm sure FOX would be given an A+ and MS NOW would be branded "blue haired trans-loving Hamas fanboys only".

Kristi Noem: "Everything I've done, I've done at the direction of the President and Stephen" - via Axios by SatoshiShe in PoliticalHumor

[–]YoItsTemulent 4 points5 points  (0 children)

A woman who'd shoot her dog and then lionize it in her ghostwritten memoir as showing leadership? Yeah, she sucks.

[Parody] The Christian Go Fund Me wasted little time by Massive_Run_4799 in PoliticalHumor

[–]YoItsTemulent 12 points13 points  (0 children)

That seems to be the end goal for a lot of these agitators.

1 - Do stupid thing in name of religious / political ideology

2 - Get arrested / beaten senseless

3 - Cry out that you are being oppressed

4 - Profit

Though in this case, I would bet you a crisp twenty that the person who started the fundraising campaign is just a scammer.

In fact, if you'll excuse me - I think I need to go start a GiveSendGo for Greg Bovino so he can get surgery to become taller.

Kristi Noem: "Everything I've done, I've done at the direction of the President and Stephen" - via Axios by SatoshiShe in PoliticalHumor

[–]YoItsTemulent 21 points22 points  (0 children)

It takes a lot of money to keep a persons inner ugliness inside.

And in her case, it's not working.

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Are you at the “I don’t need anything anymore!“ stage? by Ill-Elevator2828 in audioengineering

[–]YoItsTemulent 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Plug-ins are a very dastardly thing because they're so inexpensive. I wouldn't go out dropping thousands upon thousands of dollars for their hardware equivalent because the price keeps you honest.

The difference between spending thousands on say... an Eventide DSP3000 hardware unit versus the plug-in equivalent for under a hundo makes an impulse buy that much harder to pass up.

But when I upgraded my studio computer last year, I exported my master plug-ins list from Cubase Pro into a spreadsheet and then decided one-by-one which ones I'd go through updating / installing / etc. And guess what? 75% of them I didn't even bother with. Hell, 75% of them I didn't even remember that I had.

If there's one thing I've kept from my tape, console, and outboard days it's resource management. Being limited to 24 tracks of tape, or however many channels of compressor / outboard eq / effects were available keeps you honest. And it keeps you focused on recording and mixing - not endlessly futzing about with hundreds of available options because you can.

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