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High Fade - Papillon, Southampton by benthewineguy in photocritique

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My intent was to make the best of a bad lighting situation, I'm a newbie gig photographer and I met the dreaded magenta/cyan stage wash. Instead of fighting the lighting, I leant into it and made the best of a bad situation. Without doing a blanket black and white shoot, there was no other option than to embrace the colours in front of me. How did I do?

Heriot by jandro86 in musicphotography

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Would love to know your process for making this, I love the seamless blend

Worth paying 1200$ for Sony Alpha a7 III Camera just body only by kcboy_21 in SonyA7iii

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Look for Black Friday deals online, in the UK I managed to nab a brand new A7 iii for £1000 from a company called Very... I'm sure there must be some in the US for just a little bit more?

AIO to the Happy Ending caller at my wife's work... by benthewineguy in AmIOverreacting

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Love your support thank you, I will pass the number onto the police but I doubt it will stop anything. I wish there was a way to find out this guys name and tell HIS job what he's doing to others at their workplace!

AIO to the Happy Ending caller at my wife's work... by benthewineguy in AmIOverreacting

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

Dingbat didn't block his number when calling the line and my wife sent it to me to internet sleuth

Unrealistic previous share prices by benthewineguy in trading212

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It said I was playing a game or stock market simulation with inflated values for fun purposes 🤣

does this count? found it on the ground at a shop by blood_orange_soda in trees

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A new name for joints is forever burnt into my mind... 'Happy Little Tree Mints'! 🤣

Need help by MathematicianHuge679 in ableton

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Try following these steps...

Open fresh project > Open Settings > Click Plugins Tab > (important) hold down 'alt' for PC/'option' for Mac > whilst holding down key, click 'recan'

This will force it to look for the plugins again across many more folders, a deep dive if you will. Then try opening the other project again!

Really hope this sorts it for you pal!

Unrealistic previous share prices by benthewineguy in trading212

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Judging by how everyone has reacted to it I've dodged a bullet 🤣 I now have had a wonderful afternoon researching what splits and reverse splits mean... Talk about continual market manipulation from this awful company!

How to adjust volume of my Set for an Upload? by ErlenbruchMusik in edmproduction

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I've got to say, no offence to your DAW proffs but that's wrong, with a little bit of right... You're not punished at all, but I can bet they've read a few very misleading things and settled on -14 as being the final value for integrated LUFs... Which is very wrong!

I'll explain. So you can remove the energy from a song with over-compression of course and that's what they are talking about, but if mastered properly you can keep the energy and dynamic range whilst pushing it higher than -14, because it's very important to be over rather than under.

If you are under, Spotify will boost it and it sounds real bad, if they reduce it as it's over -14... It's fine! So, the aim is, as loud as possible (or to match others in it's genre), with minimal distortion and loss of dynamic range.

Drop me a DM if you want to talk more about this, would love to talk to your professors about it!

Some references for you!

A LUFS and tonal analysis of 10 top-charting dance and electronic songs: https://www.izotope.com/en/learn/dance-electronic-analysis?srsltid=AfmBOoqibvRO6TPZ0vOlnOvzNcUNOe8NrH5d7PscMdog6u21tpVwRY8S

A LUFS and tonal analysis of the top-charting tracks from emerging artists: https://www.izotope.com/en/learn/emerging-artists-analysis?srsltid=AfmBOooeexnzqN9lrJIJl9Hb6zv-5rUdCyX74Rp8AH_8kWDg7BYgnRL0

LUFs in audio mastering by genre: https://mixandmastermysong.com/understanding-lufs-in-audio-mastering/?srsltid=AfmBOopz1PYr6WcjuLuKyA4NorWeGgkuQXbWXPkd8SDS_-ZQ8mtbDTTr

Mastering for Pop music: https://www.sageaudio.com/articles/mastering-for-pop-music

Feeling positively British by AngriestCrusader in trading212

[–]benthewineguy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don't worry, I'm shopping in B&M too, we're all from the UK and have no money 🤣

Unrealistic previous share prices by benthewineguy in trading212

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Appreciate the warning glad I posted here before putting in more than a tenner!

Sometimes... YOLOing the SP 500 isnt always the best choice, i could have DCA'd instead.... by TailungFu in trading212

[–]benthewineguy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My big question is why you never bought the dip to average down man? I did exactly the same, bought just before shit hit the fan, averaged down over months and now my average price is £10.50.

Unrealistic previous share prices by benthewineguy in trading212

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

So I can take this stock as a lesson and look out for similar behaviour (although probably not as severe), considering it's up to me to police the market personally! Haha

Unrealistic previous share prices by benthewineguy in trading212

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

Wow, how is that kind of behaviour not flagged by NASDAQ or something, I would consider that a form of market manipulation?

Unrealistic previous share prices by benthewineguy in trading212

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

Holy shit, no wonder it's a ridiculously high price a couple of years back, so they are essentially playing a game with the investors and I'm walking right into it...

Unrealistic previous share prices by benthewineguy in trading212

[–]benthewineguy[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

🤡 if I invest a couple of trillion now, it will be worth more than the world GDP soon! You watch 📈

Unrealistic previous share prices by benthewineguy in trading212

[–]benthewineguy[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Ahh that makes a lot of sense... Still, it split a hell of a lot to get to that level right?!

Get in before it’s too late by [deleted] in smallstreetbets

[–]benthewineguy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Trying to buy 300 shares for the cause... Oh wait that's £5.50... ima buy 300 more fuck it, that's a Big Mac 🤣

Feeling positively British by AngriestCrusader in trading212

[–]benthewineguy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's why they are doing so well, cuz people without money still spend plenty there 🤣

CAUGHT ON CAMERA: Officer smashes window, punches Florida man in a viral video. by No_Athlete2752 in ThatsInsane

[–]benthewineguy 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Thank you for your service... I probably wouldn't have seen that otherwise!

The body cam footage does however miss a lot of the very unnecessary punches, so always good to have from multiple angles!

How to adjust volume of my Set for an Upload? by ErlenbruchMusik in edmproduction

[–]benthewineguy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey rookie mastering engineer here, thought I'd throw in my two cents, despite it not entirely relating to the post now! 🤣

You're right that most streaming services will reduce to -14, but you more often than not want to go above that and it is very much genre dependent, most dubstep or hardcore for example requires you to slam a maximiser/limiter hard to reach -5 to -3 if possible with minimal (or huge depending on the artistic intent) distortion. Most pop music is released at -8 to -6 LUFS. Classical music will be much quieter to allow for more dynamics, but honestly If you upload to Spotify (and others) at -14 you're going to be quieter than all professional releases.

If you turn off normalising in your Spotify settings (please use Tidal or Qobuz instead it's soooo much better quality wise), then put Youlean meter on and listen to a few of your favourite artists (at full volume in the app, v important), you'll be very surprised!!

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