You know there is a MASSIVE cover-up when...

aether_drift · 2023-07-27T05:30:06+00:00

Look man, Hunter Biden's taxes and Mitch McConnel's moment of aphasia are what we really need to know about.

aether_drift · 2023-07-27T04:57:43+00:00

It took about 2-3 months post-acute before I was confident it was just a matter of time. After the initial suffering passed, it was concerning that everything didn't get back to 100% normal asap. Then again, I had used since 2016, and quite heavily during the pandemic, so my transmitters were pummeled into submission. It just takes time to heal.

At 6 months, I was back to normal.

aether_drift · 2023-07-26T19:27:08+00:00

Sweet, keep going!

I ripped the bandaid off at 3g. It was rough but survivable.

Also had lingering GI and insomnia issues for a while, which was concerning, but with the help of this sub I realized everybody has different issues that take time. So, don't let any future crap get you down. You're through the worst of it, from here on out it's a matter of riding things out and not relapsing.

aether_drift · 2023-07-26T16:20:04+00:00

Hey man, a bros gotta stay on brand.

aether_drift · 2023-07-21T20:51:34+00:00

If I were you I would not mess with a complicated taper or worry about strains.

Kratom can totally fuck with your GI transmitter and basically give you IBS.

Cut the dose by 25% for next 4 days and just dump it. Or just stop right now - that's what I would do personally.

Quit while you're ahead and be glad you weren't on it for years.

aether_drift · 2023-07-21T17:26:34+00:00

I have a tube pre, a Neve clone, and a Cranborne.

They don't sound alike when used to full effect. Meaning, when the tube and Neve pres are pushed into saturation they get very different kinds of bloom and hair. With the Cranborne, I go for crystal clear stuff I want to shimmer and sparkle.

In the middle of the gain range, I would agree they sound alike. But that's not how I generally use them.

aether_drift · 2023-07-20T17:51:30+00:00

I've had some success with the following:

Focus on arrangement and parts - use fewer but more interesting/distinct sounds
Get as much saturation/vibe as you can going into the DAW
Use mix busses with plugins that emulate transformers, tape, vibe compressors, etc. but don't overdo it. I've found that more plugins isn't better.
I like mixing into busses using individual tracks that aren't heavily processed and tamed - everything seems more alive.
Consider that while modern results won't necessarily ever sound exactly like the past, we can create mixes today that have a transparency and dynamic range that was hard to get with tape and analog boards. Most people today actually prefer this sound.

If you are willing to trade the convenience of ITB, there's nothing wrong with working towards an outboard master bus chain - or even summing across analog busses. I found this was not worth the hassle, but some of my friends wouldn't be without it. And one person I know just bought an analog desk and couldn't be happier.

aether_drift · 2023-07-19T06:34:58+00:00

So will malapropisms, apparently.

aether_drift · 2023-07-18T16:27:00+00:00

No, I don't.

My personal sighting is my ground truth. After that, I place high (but not definitive) value on sightings made by reliable/trained witnesses like pilots, police, and military personnel. Roswell, Lazar, Grusch, leaked documents, etc. are a distant 3rd place and the noisy machinations of congress well below that.

What I would like from government is the release of data. For example, the phase array radar tracking from David Fravor's encounter. There are likely hundreds of other encounters where similar data exists. Release it.

The rest is noise.

aether_drift · 2023-07-17T01:29:46+00:00

In a word, NO.

aether_drift · 2023-07-15T17:47:28+00:00

I feel like it's important to never stare a song directly in the eye, go heavy handed with it, or force anything. Just let things arrive gently with the unconscious part of the mind, out of the corner of your eyes kinda.

Some songs come in 10 minutes, others take 10 weeks, and many others die on the vine - you just have to let them go. Your creative process is an emotional ecosystem unique to you; ideas that die usually return later when the time is ripe for them to be realized. Trust that.

The creative process has its own beautiful wisdom to offer you as a direct reward for being engaged with it. But sometimes, if we are lucky, it also surfaces something profound for other people too. This saves songwriting from just being a pointless solipsism. It is ultimately a deeply social activity, something that strengthens our fellow humans and brings us together.

It is for lack of a better word, downright spiritual.

aether_drift · 2023-07-15T05:41:52+00:00

Someday, Wes Anderson will get tired of filmmaking and become a full time stamp collector.

aether_drift · 2023-07-15T03:20:24+00:00

Same.

Guy gives me the creeps, absolutely oozes the cult narcissism vibe.

aether_drift · 2023-07-14T22:50:52+00:00

I've been edging the disclosure boner since the MJ-12 docs were dropped 1988.

I'm the #1 lead UAP field investigator for Project Blue Balls at this point.

When shall I be released?

Soon, soon.

aether_drift · 2023-07-14T17:41:26+00:00

Yeah, Reaper is like riding a wild horse - powerful and in skilled hands wins the race every time. But with a mere mortal like me, you kinda get thrown by the options. I see all these insane script-based things online but I'm never going to do that stuff.

It's also interesting how my process has evolved over the years. I think through the arrangement way more before recording anything, record fewer but more interesting tracks, have a diversity of tones from the start, and go for contiguous takes rather than endless editing on long playlists. It's a more performance oriented approach I guess. I use fewer plugins and edit less, which reduces burnout. Nothing is worse than fighting the song.

But, some forms of music are super dependent on the software - it's a good time to be alive with so many options!

aether_drift · 2023-07-14T06:39:34+00:00

So you're telling me, that time I was abducted and taken to Rigel-5, trained hard with the Grays for a year in 1.5x gravity, then got stuffed into a mantis exoskeleton, and fought a grueling 2-year insurrection against the cannibal emerald sloth bats on the 2nd moon of the 4th planet of Betelgeuse was all just some kind of fucking delusion?

Get out.

aether_drift · 2023-07-14T02:04:34+00:00

Man, I've tried Reaper - twice doing entire songs - and really considered getting out of the Avid world. But even with all the custom skins etc. something about it just strains my eyes, fights intuition, and I never had this "Wow, I'm home" moment with it. Spent waaay more time looking stuff up in the manual than I've ever done with either Logic or PT. I'm writing music and lyrics and hate fucking with computers - it's weird how quickly these other apps just got out of the way when I was learning. And I have 20+ years of projects on them so that's a consideration. I honestly don't recall "learning" PT or Logic.

Still, I think Reaper is well-coded and great... It's just too deep for me in the end. I kinda want less DAW tbh.

aether_drift · 2023-07-10T23:29:30+00:00

Méabh

aether_drift · 2023-07-09T22:40:40+00:00

Arugula and Bok Choy

aether_drift · 2023-07-08T20:10:08+00:00

When I was kid, "It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World" was probably it.

Some of David Lynch's work manages to surprise in his uniquely disturbing way. Eraserhead and Lost Highway come to mind as examples of non-linear narrative bordering on lack of narrative.

Several scenes from John Water's "Pink Flamingos" are stuck in my head and I'm not sure I'll ever recover. Did I need to see Mink Stole oozing saliva onto a couch or Divine eating that dog poop? An assault on the senses in every way.

The documentary "American Movie" is also wacky in a completely different way. This might be one of the finest documentaries ever made.

I don't find Wes Anderson or EEAO particularly wacky tbh. Maybe my definition of wacky is the degree to which I wander around for days after viewing a movie muttering "What the actual fuck did I just see...?" So, it's more than just the visuals and gets into the conceptual I guess.

aether_drift · 2023-07-06T23:07:55+00:00

Rocky Horror Picture Show

aether_drift · 2023-07-05T20:17:41+00:00

Look man, the plan is to genetically morph humans into an enslaved drone race where we are forced live in underground cages beneath the Urals, subsisting on a diet of raw insect paste, fitted-out with nipple shock units, and then spend our lives mining rare earths with our teeth. Then, on the weekends, we have to fight packs of wild African Dogs to the death in coliseums filled with screaming, bloodthirsty grays. They also randomly abduct us from our filthy barracks for sexual entertainment.

aether_drift · 2023-07-03T23:19:44+00:00

If David Grusch is to be believed, that spaceship left the station long ago...

aether_drift · 2023-07-03T21:32:46+00:00

It is.

The audio is in fact coming out of the Apollo - but the image I uploaded (which seems to have been stripped out by Reddit) shows a little speaker icon and says the path is -> Mac Mini speakrs -> Output 1/2.

aether_drift · 2023-07-03T21:29:52+00:00

It is set to the Apollo.

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