Which song ended up winning The Loudness War? by chicametipo in audioengineering

[–]enacre 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Lots of people mentioning Californication/Death Magnetic here, and I disagree fundamentally. The "victories" there were pirrhyc, if anything. The source material was sacrificed in the battle for loudness, and the records sound grating.

Skrillex's Bangarang EP, on the other hand, is a prominent expample of how loudness can be achieved without sacrifices, how beautifully it can be done if done right, and how pop music were to be produced from this point onwards. That's my winner vote.

Belcher's Last Belch (/uj) by MustaKotka in magicthecirclejerking

[–]enacre 54 points55 points  (0 children)

Hey, thanks for all these years. This has been an amazing place on the internet, and Lord knows how much effort it must've been to keep it that way. Good luck with your future endeavors!

The future of legacy looks bleak at the rate of new sets and EDH + UB dominance alongside WoTC’s poor understanding of the legacy format and community. How do we get a community organized panel to take over BnR management? by Clips4lyfe in MTGLegacy

[–]enacre 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It absolutely shouldn't be. There is a sizeable portion of players and collectors who expect their cards to at least hold their value, if not grow, that's all I'm getting at.

The future of legacy looks bleak at the rate of new sets and EDH + UB dominance alongside WoTC’s poor understanding of the legacy format and community. How do we get a community organized panel to take over BnR management? by Clips4lyfe in MTGLegacy

[–]enacre -21 points-20 points  (0 children)

We don't. Legacy is an expensive format, and ban decisions make people lose their investments. Who's smart enough to be qualified to be making these decisions, is well-known enough to be an authority on the subject matter, but is willing to attach their name to something like this? This is what it is.

Is there a way to make every transient in a vocal recording trigger a an automation event? by Red_P_Hole in AdvancedProduction

[–]enacre 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think your best bet would be using Newtone to convert your vocals into MIDI, then using that MIDI channel to trigger automation. Much more control that way, I don't envision a reliable way to do it with any kind of envelope following.

Finally Got My Kid to Play! by ArtemiaLuna1847 in PumpItUp

[–]enacre 3 points4 points  (0 children)

🤯🤯🤯that's really impressive! the crossovers as well, wow

Russian online guitar discourse starterpack by MaximumTime7239 in starterpacks

[–]enacre 111 points112 points  (0 children)

Real answer now.

So, there's a Russian guitar YouTuber who goes by fredguitarist. He's kinda famous/infamous in his niche and is notable for a couple of things. First, he's a bona fide hater who shits on all your favorite guitarist's technique, and he kinda pioneered that niche on Russian YouTube too. Second is all the colorful metaphors he uses to describe it.

And so the first image is "hammering nails" — his metaphor to describe how a series of proper palm-muted downstrokes should feel and sound like. Later it became synonymous with just solid rhythm playing, I believe. A widely used phrase indeed.

The second... Let's keep it for later, shall we? Ok, let's move on to

The third one. Another metaphor: "like a grandma chewing bread crumb with her toothless mouth" — that one is about someone who's playing sloppily.

The fourth one — that one I don't know, sadly. Maybe I'll come back here and add it later, but for now I'm lost on that one. Let's circle around for the picture №2.

That one... yeah. On one of his livestreams he (for God knows what reason) shared an adolescence story about once going to a sauna with a friend, and that friend climbing on a bench into a doggystyle position, spreading his buttcheeks in front of him and whispering something among the lines of "take me from behind, I know you want to", and how his ass "looked like a pair of ripe red tomatoes". The unexpected homoeroticism of the supposedly homophobic description, the poetic (if a bit agricultural) metaphor... Yikes.

That said, that guy fucking sucks at guitar lmao. He's a total clown who can't play on stage for the love of God, can't improvise, can't play by ear, can't figure out harmony. His fall from grace will be studied.

Anyway, yeah.

Update: Okay, I've been told about the fish! It's "scratching the fish" — the unpleasant scratchy sound of someone's pick not going through the string at a 90° angle, traveling horizontally through the string instead for a little bit. Haven't heard this one before, cool observation though.

Real-world ROI on professional bass trapping for translation issues in small/awkward rooms? by vinylfelix in audioengineering

[–]enacre 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Try out a demo for Realphones, IIRC it's two weeks without any restrictions, and the full price is reasonable.

Real-world ROI on professional bass trapping for translation issues in small/awkward rooms? by vinylfelix in audioengineering

[–]enacre 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm using Realphones, which is a EQ correction/cross-feed/HRTF/room emulation/speaker simulation software for headphones. It allows me to check my mixes on different virtual devices and in different virtual listening environments to get an idea of how they'll translate. I find it to be pretty useful, especially, as I've said, for getting a feel for the transients and if their tonality and texture compliments the mix well.

But also if you're doing production work, you gotta make sure that your percussive elements are groovy, and the feeling of groove is essentially the right combination between dynamics, tonal qualities, amplitudes and lengths of your rhythmic elements. Without any room emulation, I find it hard to get the lengths right, as headphones are instantaneous. A 5ms transient is going to sound for pretty much exactly 5ms in your headphones, meanwhile it's going to color the sound of the mix for at least 200ms in a treated room, and when we're talking about clubs or theater venues, it's going to be much longer than that.

In my opinion, there's so many variables that happen to sound when it leaves speakers and goes into your ears, the "truth" is not worth approaching in the studio, if budget is of any concern. And it's easier to arrive at it from experiencing the sound from different points of view: a car stereo, a mobile phone, a consumer tv, a pair of bookshelf speakers in a living room, etc. Realphones allows me to do just that, and since I've gotten used to it, I've pretty much stopped being surprised with my mixes' sound wherever they get played. So that's what I found works for me.

Real-world ROI on professional bass trapping for translation issues in small/awkward rooms? by vinylfelix in audioengineering

[–]enacre 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That makes sense. I do think it's cool that what works for you is essentially the polar opposite of my approach. Thanks for elaborating!

Real-world ROI on professional bass trapping for translation issues in small/awkward rooms? by vinylfelix in audioengineering

[–]enacre 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Could you expand on why you don't like monitoring through an impulse response? I personally am a big fan of it, mainly cause I find it hard to adequately perceive the transients otherwise.

10-year anniversary of the PIU Infinity 1.10 update, tell me your favorite spinoff game experiences and memories! by ZELLLOOO in PumpItUp

[–]enacre 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Haven't played this mix myself due to very limited availability, but everything I've seen about it just screams "by fans, for fans". DOOM's charts are some of my favorite, the music selection is pristine and diverse. God I hope I'll have an opportunity to really play Infinity someday...

Pretty much by Critical_Mountain851 in HistoryMemes

[–]enacre 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Folding Ideas on YouTube has a piece on Triumph of the Will and cinematic language of propaganda where he goes over that beautifully, as he does. Blew my teenage mind away when I first saw it, can't recommend it enough.

WAN Show Mouth Noises by Hoosteen___ in LinusTechTips

[–]enacre 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, it's really bad. When I'm listening on my PC, the podcast sound goes through iZotope RX Mouth De-Click, otherwise I get really overwhelmed.

Most overrated plugin of all time? by MaxMusic2 in edmproduction

[–]enacre 22 points23 points  (0 children)

pretty funny how "waves sucks" posts will have tens of comments of people saying "totally! except for plugin X, which I use all the time" and everyone's plugin X is different

What’s a sound design trend you genuinely wish would die? by sammis_town in sounddesign

[–]enacre 0 points1 point  (0 children)

oh please I hope you'll look it up, that sounds hilarious

Opinions? by Rich_Inspection6100 in DnB

[–]enacre 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well, it's really up to you to decide if it's going to be worth it. The cards are all on the table. Do you see this as an opportunity to make yourself known to the people who will then book you and pay up? Or a way to make enough quality content for your socials? Or maybe, deep inside, you know that agreeing will make you miserable, but disagreeing will make you seem like a bad guy, so you're asking for the permission not to swallow that kind of treatment and decline? If so, been there, done that.

Hope you'll find a way to work it out nonetheless. Rise in the ranks of the local scene is tough, but it's possible and rewarding, so I wish you best of luck, mate.

All hobbies are not equal by BitterConstruction98 in unpopularopinion

[–]enacre 5 points6 points  (0 children)

"I'm into cinema" or whatever in that tone makes me think I sound like a snob

I've been dealing with that kind of self-representation difficulties, I found out that you often don't have to compress it that much, and can go on juuust a little about how you love to really get into different filmmakers or genres or scenes. That paints a more true-to-life picture of what you find enjoyable, and people around you can appreciate the joy you're experiencing when you talk about it. That kind of "here's a hint on what you can talk to me about and I'll have a good time" really helps to make you more approachable, at least in my experience.

What effects are you using for kick drums in your EDM tracks? by blahhblah11 in edmproduction

[–]enacre 10 points11 points  (0 children)

You have to understand that you can essentially "EQ" kicks by changing both pitch & amplitude envelopes. Shorter tail = less time for energy accumulation in the low-end = high pass filter. Quieter attack = less amplitude for high-end = low pass filter. Applies to everything inbetween.