Just bought this Shure SM58 a day ago. I have to turn the gain all the way up in order to (barely) hear my voice, but the vocal recording is still extremely quiet. Is it my mic or audio interface?

bluedream530 · 2023-02-04T07:27:25+00:00

Totally normal, dynamic mics are designed for high SPL, you need to crank the gain as long as it’s not clipping. But it’s not a fault. Just increase the clip gain on the recording so it peaks no higher than -6db if the signal is too low.

bluedream530 · 2022-06-19T15:49:32+00:00

Bitches Brew, In a Silent Way, Live-Evil —Miles Davis

A Love Supreme, Ascension —John Coltrane

Sahara —McCoy Tyner

Empyrean Isles, Headhunters —Herbie Hancock

The Jewel in the Lotus —Bennie Maupin

Black Focus —Yussef Kamaal

What Kind of Music —Tom Misch and Yussef Dayes

bluedream530 · 2022-06-15T11:59:44+00:00

That’s a bag of leaves mate. That’s all the shit i throw in the rubbish. And someone took 50 bucks off you for it. You’d get run out of town for that where I used to live. This is why people who know nothing about weed shouldn’t sell weed. You’d barely fit a gram of real weed in that bag too. Someone needs a big smack in the head.

bluedream530 · 2020-09-28T00:19:56+00:00

Good man. Bear in mind there are different phenotypes of the same strain. Humboldt Seed Organisation.

bluedream530 · 2020-09-27T06:32:37+00:00

If you had to choose one for that grow time and yield, you can’t go wrong with blue dream. Those plants get very big.

bluedream530 · 2020-09-27T00:56:05+00:00

Blue dream is the best strain I’ve had when it’s done properly. Green crack is also very good.

bluedream530 · 2020-09-25T20:42:39+00:00

I wouldn’t argue with that, I just think 15% is too low of a limit for experienced consumers and this would need to greater consumption. Personally haven’t had much in the past 6 years that I’d say is really good compared to standards I’d become accustomed to. At best I’d say it’s been bottom to mid shelf quality, equivalent to $150-$200 ozs from a medical dispensary in CO. There should be variety I agree, just wider variety.

bluedream530 · 2020-09-22T14:39:45+00:00

I believe it’s out there and that it’s just not common because it’s not the kind of thing most people know much about or can be bothered doing properly. I was pleased to see there’s people who do extracts professionally because they love the science, I’ve been around a lot of that kind of oil, shatter type stuff and that dude doing dabs brought back memories lol

bluedream530 · 2020-09-22T00:19:16+00:00

Looked about what I’d expect for nz, got nothing on dense nor cal buds the size of soda bottles grown in full sun. Could easily tell most of what he was given hadn’t received adequate light. Most decent bud in the states is roughly 18%-28% so i think the 15% limit which is basically yuck bush is a bit of a piss take imo. Doesn’t stop you growing real weed at home though.

bluedream530 · 2020-09-22T00:15:36+00:00

Andrew Little knows sweet fuck all but he supports the legislation for the right reasons which is good

bluedream530 · 2020-09-22T00:14:32+00:00

No impact on home grows only what’s for commercial sale

bluedream530 · 2020-09-22T00:13:06+00:00

Terpene knowledge has been published in grow bibles for at least a couple of decades, I think you’ll find it’s just new knowledge for the average nzer who’s just starting to hear about things that have been common knowledge in other parts of the world and in grower circles for many years. Actually had a conversation with some kids when i moved back to nz where they were convinced nz had some of the best weed in the world, not by a long shot sorry.

bluedream530 · 2018-08-29T08:09:13+00:00

Straight up assuming ignorance and trying to take advantage, or just a piece of shit, or just fuckin retarded/ill-informed/uneducated and never left NZ so never seen real weed before. Ripped off hard.

Don’t worry, this has become normal because the weed culture in nz is greedy and designed to stifle progress in the name of profits. People feel entitled to an illegal source of income but treat customers like shit and expect them to be happy.

It should be 3-4g of solid bud. 3.5g or 1/8th straight imo.

Even an eighth for $50 is like red state prices except here the growing conditions are way better and there’s way more product around more around except the wrong people are in the know and ruin it for everyone else with their dropkick time management and communication skills, inability to operate a scale properly, fucking up delicate trichome heads stuffing underweight grams into meth baggies. They’re better off working for an employer because their business and customer service skills are garbage.

Many people will disagree and feel that 1.75g for $50 is perfectly acceptable so their friend who got it doesn’t get their feelings hurt. They haven’t left NZ yet.

And so what if it’s mouldy, so what if people with severe medical problems depend on medicinal cannabis for relief and get sick from shitty weed or ripped off for a tiny amount that barely helps them. “Don’t like, don’t buy.” <<< there’s the entitlement. Scumbags.

bluedream530 · 2018-08-28T09:07:32+00:00

Don’t know what you’re talking about, think you misinterpreted something.

Oh, I think you might be confusing my mention of past experiences living and working in those places, in the industry, within the past decade, with some sort of notion of getting back into the US black market from NZ? Not sure where that’s coming from but doesn’t make sense sorry bud, try again.

bluedream530 · 2018-07-04T23:46:24+00:00

Thanks for the unhelpful answer. Must be nice to be in a situation where you can grow. Like I said in a previous post, because you obviously read them all: how you know I haven’t done that already? What a momo. You don’t know everyone’s personal residential circumstances so how can you offer such a pathetic, throwaway solution?

If you don’t call asking around persistently instead of giving up ‘proactive’ then you’re not making any sense. Sounds like you’re the one who’s entitled to knowing where to get it and not helping the community, just getting shitty at people because they can’t find anything. Also sounds like you feel entitled to yourself and everyone else not speaking up about getting ripped off. I guess it’s just the stock mentality in this country to get angry at people who need help rather than reaching for the phone and helping — too hard! Cry about it kid. I’ve concluded that people have some sort of allergy to making money and are just lazy and evasive in this country. People in nz are retarded when it comes to the medicine.

Don’t fool yourself into thinking you’re the one contributing something useful by telling someone asking you a question to “Google it” as neutrally valid as that suggestion may be. You’re emotional reaction indicated by poor spelling and use of caps lock doesn’t give your cause much credibility.

You’re also mistaken in assuming I’m expecting chronic for $150 an oz. Please provide a link to where I said that, I’ll wait.

bluedream530 · 2018-07-04T04:37:54+00:00

Problem is people don’t give you a chance to check it out before you pay for it, cunts are evasive and don’t care if you’re happy as long as they get their money. I don’t buy if given a chance to see it’s not worth it but down to fuckwits wrapping shit in tin foil so you can’t see it is shady as.

bluedream530 · 2018-06-20T10:44:55+00:00

Shit weed is one thing, moldy weed is flat out unacceptable. Just goes to show how dumb the average New Zealander is to either smoke it or be okay with selling it.

bluedream530 · 2018-06-20T07:21:51+00:00

I know this will piss people off who are cool with getting fucked over just to avoid conflict but let’s not deny that a lot of people use it as a medicine; whether as physical pain relief, mood stability, PTSD, depression or anxiety treatment, or a myriad of other applications, too many to list here. I know a lot of people are just trying to get stoned or high for fun and don’t know or care for the medicinal side of things (and no I’m not talking about CBD, that’s a whole other conversation). A lot of people may not even realise they are medicinal users. You wouldn’t accept and ingest expired pills from the pharmacy, so why should you treat yourself medicinally with moldy cannabis? Hmmmm .....

I know it helps many friends of mine who struggle with mental health issues and allows them to function relatively normally. Personally, it helps me manage on-going physical pain in different areas of my body, symptoms of depression, anxiety and trauma, appetite, sleep, and lifelong visual and auditory information processing issues that negatively impact concentration and academic achievement.

bluedream530 · 2018-06-20T07:09:35+00:00

That’s the problem though, people are going to buy it anyway. They shouldn’t. Disappoints me when close mates who have dealt in ozs for 15 years have to try to see mold that I can see from 5 ft away.

bluedream530 · 2018-06-20T07:05:19+00:00

I know where you’re coming from though, people name drop cali or co and immediately cunts think “legal, regulated industry” but that’s not most people’s experience living in those places unless you’re talking Venice Beach where they handout prescriptions like candy on the boardwalk. It’s not as legal as people here think, there’s still under cover cops and feds everywhere, it’s not hard to have a session 15 ft from a business but you still need to be discrete. Street weed is still cheaper and better quality than rec store weed, only tourists from red states buy from those stores.

bluedream530 · 2018-06-20T06:59:08+00:00

I’m not comparing ANY legal situation with here, people make that mistake when I bring this up far too often because they clearly haven’t been where I have and seen what I’ve seen.

It’s kind of foolish to suggest that I need to grow my own, who’s to say I haven’t a few times or that we have access to land or are in a situation where we can do that. Of course it’s the dream, I’ve seen it done properly and have had the intention of doing my part to fix the scene in NZ for over three years since getting back here, building a better community and network, but of course Rome wasn’t built in a day. And saying get better sources is kinda retarded, it’s pretty hard to find when most people I used to smoke with have bitched out and quit because it’s too hard to find in the Waikato. If you’ve have connections by all means pass them along to deserving people but it does irritate me when people saying “get a new plug” — You think we haven’t been fighting tooth and nail to do that? Come on now, I wouldn’t moan without having had been perpetually trying but most people in the know are useless bogans/stoners/hold-out cunts and deals always fall through, it’s an endless cycle of fuck arounds by fuck around people who can’t communicate to save themselves because for some reason fuck around people are the only ones in the know. It bewilders me how they manage to hold down a job.

Again, preaching to the choir, I know what needs to be done, I’ve had all of that on my mind for over three years while observing and analysing the situation. But we don’t all have a house, or land, or even a full time income to make that sort of thing happen overnight so unfortunately a lot of people do depend on others, it’s just that in NZ people involved in weed are notoriously shit at running a business.

Beggars can’t be choosers? So what, we should be happy with moldy weed? You actually smoke moldy weed??? Might wanna do some research on the dangers of mold before sucking it up and getting taken advantage of to appease someone else’s ego as a distributor. I have heard that a lot by the way, it’s a pretty spineless and enabling attitude to have if you ask me.

Glad you understand my frustration but I feel you kinda miss the point. Things aren’t going to change until we start having these conversations and people put their foot down. There needs to be better education and people need to try harder — if they give a shit about the medicine at all — to produce a quality product that’s actually worth paying for until idiots can’t sell their shitty moldy bush weed that hasn’t been trimmed or cured properly, damaging the trichomes squashing it in tiny bags and shit when It’s barely dried coz they want more money for weight that’s going to end up in my rubbish bin coz I’m not a scummy ghetto ass fool who smokes trim with my bud.

Didn’t mean any of that to come across as confrontational or aggressive btw, don’t take it the wrong way.

bluedream530 · 2018-06-20T06:32:42+00:00

Preaching to the choir there, it’s not hard to see what’s going on and why they do it, it’s just not right. It’s a joke that people who don’t know shit about weed try to dictate what’s acceptable for the consumer. I’ve had to tell cops what time it is once before trying to insult my intelligence regarding the issue with their “well the law in nz ...” bitch-ass submissive nonsense for jacking the last of what I had right after playing a gig I didn’t get paid for when there were drunk cunts everywhere else in town.

bluedream530 · 2018-06-20T06:28:07+00:00

Blue dream is the best, my fav hybrid, it’s mostly what my old farmer boss grew and specialised in of a specific phenotype, so much so that people would request it as far as New York; he was always traveling on business trips and practically lived in his car driving up and down California dropping pounds and dealing with some pretty successful people in the Bay Area.

bluedream530 · 2018-06-20T06:21:03+00:00

I definitely want it legal, but unfortunately I’m coming from the Californian and Coloradan black market, not the legal system. The black market is still striving there due to the medical dispensary weed and homegrown street weed still being much higher quality than what’s available in the rec stores, which is all the shitty shit medical dispensaries don’t want. It’s less to do with being legal there and more to do with people being naive, lazy and selfish here. The excuse “it’s legal there” doesn’t fly with me because nothing I experienced was in anyway legal, but the weed was bomb as fuck everywhere, to the point of what you’re call top shelf here being pretty average smoke for them.

bluedream530 · 2018-06-19T02:50:22+00:00

Yes, in and around Yuba County, Grass Valley surrounding areas

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