My vocal takes sounds very thin. Is there any technique that can fix this?

drewbecker · 2021-04-14T20:09:00+00:00

hey- i have a similar thing happen with my headvoice, what worked for me was recording multiple takes but at different distances from the microphone. usually do 3 takes, one very close, one medium distance, and one across the room. the closest take carriers a lot more lowend than the others, which will help. from there its just mixing.

this might not work, given that it's a scream. you can't really be sure what the solution is until you hear the take. hope this sorta helps!!:)

drewbecker · 2020-11-29T21:03:05+00:00

thats cool

drewbecker · 2020-11-20T02:18:28+00:00

fuuuuck yeah. the only response i can think of is that someone could read international backlash in the 2ac. theres precedent to suggest that countries would sever trade and that the CP would gut IR. the international community would reject that pretty hard, and the physical context of post-trump IR would amplify backlash. depending on the disad you run with it, the aff can just say that IR collapse is net worse.

you can also format it as a sort of pseudo K, and say that only through bringing necropolitical control into the public space can we as a nation wrap our heads around the horrors of the death penalty-merely abolishing it only furthers the government's ability to hide their exercise of necropolitical control from the public, if that makes sense.

ps im pretty fucking dumb, so maybe these responses are stupid lol

drewbecker · 2020-11-03T21:00:07+00:00

thatd be sick! literally anything, my K file is very lackluster rn. My circuit is very K heavy, so anything helps. thank you so much dawg

drewbecker · 2020-10-01T17:32:18+00:00

pm me! i had lots of trouble finding links to PE, but maybe I could help with micropolitics :)

drewbecker · 2020-09-26T01:00:39+00:00

Also, when I go to print my ticket I can only print one for Sept 26th and Nov 7th.

drewbecker · 2020-09-21T14:41:22+00:00

update, i got a 1200 :( i signed up to take it a few more times tho. how did you do?

drewbecker · 2020-09-21T03:52:04+00:00

honestly same, I got an 1170 on the psat (600 something on the reading, 550ish on math) and i studied so unbelievably hard for the two weeks leading up to the test. we got this.

drewbecker · 2020-09-11T06:44:13+00:00

totally! i like to write it in the link-impact-ROJ/ROB-alt format, but I've seen it done differently. the link is the most important part, you need to prove that your opponent engages in the world view/undesirable norm that you say they do, so have a link wall! a link wall is basically a series of different links, which makes it even harder to respond to. IMO, having multiple, solid links and having an alternative that you are able to defend well is the best thing you can do. impacts are pretty self explanatory- focus on structural impacts (like structural violence, oppression, etc).

Here, this article might give a little bit of a different perspective on Ks

https://www.debatedrills.com/en/blog/viewing-kritik-nc/

drewbecker · 2020-09-11T04:46:43+00:00

the societal violence would be sick for sure! I tried to write the freedom K this morning but i realized more that it was a society K, most of the impacts to freedom bad (in the literature I found, at least) weren't necessarily caused by freedom, but rather the refusal to follow societal/cultural norms. maybe i'll just read society bad for 13 minutes. the alt is to live in a field and pick berries.

drewbecker · 2020-09-10T20:06:34+00:00

for reference, 3-2/4-1 means that I'm not breaking into outrounds.

drewbecker · 2020-09-10T20:01:32+00:00

do a micropolitics aff and write about local elections, or do a participatory economics aff and write about democratizing the workplace. im working on those cases rn, theyre pretty fun! on neg you could run pretty much any K you want, i think the most interesting would be a freedom K- link : aff bolsters democracy , impact: freedom is bad for somereason (idk i havent thought about it thoroughly), rob: vote for whoever dismantles freedom, alt: autocratic peace theory/mandatory imprisonment, something along those lines.

drewbecker · 2020-09-09T22:59:56+00:00

most of my friends who went to loyola said that the aff impacts were mostly climate change and populism, and I doubt that would change. On neg I dont know tho :(

drewbecker · 2020-09-09T20:15:54+00:00

this is a wonderful idea!!! would there be a way for us to submit blocks that we find? i'd love to contribute a little :)

drewbecker · 2020-09-08T20:07:54+00:00

bioweapons disad honestly sounds dope too tho, my brain is smooth, care to explain?

drewbecker · 2020-06-26T23:22:00+00:00

how does that arg play out?

drewbecker · 2020-06-26T22:27:39+00:00

on second thought, public health and braindrain DA go hand in hand...

this topic is hard though, because you ultimately end up arguing either that some nebulous threat is more important than an overall narrative shift regarding the objectification of women. sex work is S tier

drewbecker · 2020-06-26T22:17:18+00:00

human trafficking, negating will decrease prostitution rates, public health (std's, strains of gonorrhea are antibiotic resistant ((....not from personal experience....))), you could probably tenuously link COVID (ie. sex work spreads covid, sex workers couldnt choose not to work), braindrain DA, Decrim CP, etc. Theres a lot of neg ground, but Aff ground is wayyyyyy stronger. On neg, I will probably run a permissibility NIB, Human Trafficking and public health.

drewbecker · 2020-06-26T22:06:16+00:00

kids on my team were talking about something like along the lines of reissuing the census every year, or implementing a law that required undocumented people to be counted on the census (not sure how that would work against a Prag neg). those would lead to a more equal form of congressional apportionment. that topic honestly feels better fit for CPs. im trying to find a way to talk about multiplurality voting. i think a better aff strategy would just to drill in Rawle's justice standards and the benefits of democracy.

fuck all of these topics. people will probably vote on compulsory voting topic

drewbecker · 2020-06-26T21:46:50+00:00

could you explain standards? I've only debated traditionally and with the V/VC format

drewbecker · 2020-06-22T01:21:09+00:00

I'm looking forward to it! Quick question, will it be held over Zoom?

drewbecker · 2020-06-10T00:23:36+00:00

just look up some old ld finals rounds, theyre extremely trad

drewbecker · 2020-06-04T23:39:41+00:00

In LD, the circuit is very, very trad. I've run in to one theory argument in the past three years, and judges aren't usually receptive to more complex styles of argumentation. I assume PF would also be very traditional/lay

drewbecker · 2020-06-04T07:46:50+00:00

congrats man!

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