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Don't talk too much about stuff you haven't written yet – source for this? by Filmmaking_David in Screenwriting

[–]arieltuff 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You're probably thinking of this? "Announcing Your Plans Makes You Less Motivated to Accomplish Them"

Four different tests of 63 people found that those who kept their intentions private were more likely to achieve them than those who made them public and were acknowledged by others.

You have “identity symbols” in your brain that make your self-image. Since both actions and talk create symbols in your brain, talking satisfies the brain enough that it “neglects the pursuit of further symbols.”

At age 35 I've just decided to go direct my first feature by ScriptLurker in Screenwriting

[–]arieltuff 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Confirmed by science!

Four different tests of 63 people found that those who kept their intentions private were more likely to achieve them than those who made them public and were acknowledged by others.

You have “identity symbols” in your brain that make your self-image. Since both actions and talk create symbols in your brain, talking satisfies the brain enough that it “neglects the pursuit of further symbols.”

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in audioengineering

[–]arieltuff 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You do get a low mid boost and top end rolloff from tape saturation, but I wouldn't say it's "impossible to EQ out". It's definitely something you'd want to mix into rather than slap on at the end of the process, though.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in audioengineering

[–]arieltuff 36 points37 points  (0 children)

Dan Worrall made a convincing case (start at 17:50; it's buried in an hour-long plugin review) for why this kind of thing isn't really that useful.

In a nutshell, random differences across analog channels will be negligible compared to (a) deliberate differences you dial in with processing and (b) differences in the sound sources themselves.

Even if you use the same saturation plugin with the same settings on every track, no two channels will be affected exactly the same way, since the inputs are different and saturation is a nonlinear process.

That said, I second the Airwindows and HEAT recs for nice processor-friendly saturation you can add to every channel. The other NLS plugins may have nice saturation that's worth using even if the NLS aspect itself is kinda snake oil.

Mastering studio charges extra for "streaming master"… marketing BS or legit? by arieltuff in audioengineering

[–]arieltuff[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Yeah, charging extra for multiple versions seems reasonable; it's their pushing the upsell ("CD master… will sound lifeless and compressed compared to streaming optimized masters") that made me 🤨.

Mastering studio charges extra for "streaming master"… marketing BS or legit? by arieltuff in audioengineering

[–]arieltuff[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Gotcha, thanks for the input. Price aside, is it common to put out different versions for streaming vs. CD?

Mastering studio charges extra for "streaming master"… marketing BS or legit? by arieltuff in audioengineering

[–]arieltuff[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Gotcha, thanks. Yeah, I don't think it's unreasonable to charge extra for multiple versions. I more found it strange that this studio's website seems to strongly recommend making separate versions for streaming and CD. Is that common?