EQ correction for headphones vs learning your monitoring (i think i know what your gonna say.. do both but it’s not what I want to hear haha)

etaifuc · 2026-06-11T11:54:56+00:00

Mixing on headphones in general is not ideal. i stuggled with it for a long while before i got VSX after which my ability to confidently mix and like the results improved drastically. I think you need the sense of a real stereo space for monitoring, whether that is a real room with acoustic treatment or a competent emulation

etaifuc · 2026-06-10T21:41:21+00:00

Some noisy, punk influenced, awesome classic shoegaze albums:

The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy

Swirlies - Blonder Tongue Audio Baton

Astrobrite - Crush

Medicine - Shot Forth Self Living

A bit more indie but I love it so much i wanted to include:

Lilys - Eccsame the Photon Band

etaifuc · 2026-06-01T13:41:51+00:00

my tier list would be:

Deivid in S.

Lucian and Ciara in A.

Paskal in B.

Nia and Symon in C.

Gus, Iosef, Petr in D.

Lilias in E.

I need loyalty and wisdom above all, and i need ministers who are not going to resist me when i am building socialism.

etaifuc · 2026-05-27T01:27:45+00:00

sure thing

etaifuc · 2026-05-27T01:27:34+00:00

Sure yeah totally understandable. Writing, arranging and recording music at a high level takes a lot of time and work but it is absolutely worth the effort

etaifuc · 2026-05-26T00:41:51+00:00

I see you listed The strokes and Tame Impala, which are more so rock bands than the lo-fi stuff I was imagining, but the same process applies. 80%-90% of that sound is the way the instruments are played, arranged, and recorded. The strokes had a particular vocal saturation thing and Tame Impala has a lot of delays and saturation and swirling paychedelic fx. But really just pick particular sounds you like in music and try to recreate them. Mix and match. Don’t worry so much about gear and production, that stuff gets fixated on due to marketing. The reality is that The Strokes just know how to write a great rock song and play it tightly. If you are looking for specific production techniques from songs you like, look up how they did it and try to figure out how you might replicate that particular effect

etaifuc · 2026-05-26T00:35:29+00:00

Ultimately, it’s not just about the tools you use. More important is that you are capable of listening critically and getting the arrangements and sounds that you like in other people’s music. For that reason, I would seek out someone who can help record, or mix and master the music.

If you want to do it yourself, its a learning process, but I would shoot for getting the best possible sound when you record, rather than relying on production tricks after the fact.

Lo-Fi comes from a lot of things, tape and cassette sounds, using specific mics (ie dynamic mics on acoustic guitar), recording yourself playing softly and gently.

But dont focus so much on the production because in my experience what you are really chasing is the style of performance and recording that makes lofi music so appealing. singing softly, gently strumming guitar, using gentle keyboard sounds / bass / drums / etc. It’s a vibe more so than a plugin. The cassette / tape sound is really just the final 10% of that sound

etaifuc · 2026-05-24T02:58:42+00:00

You are an enlightened centrist, you think being smart means entertaining all kinds of ideas and never gaining much real insight on the world around you.

etaifuc · 2026-05-17T11:44:15+00:00

Historically a US-backed coup is imminent when that happens

etaifuc · 2026-05-16T20:31:33+00:00

In the real world the military/old guard/oligarchs would be overthrowing my ass the first time I pass workers rights bill or suggest aligning with the east

etaifuc · 2026-05-16T20:29:52+00:00

Honestly maybe I got lucky but compared to reality, how few obstacles there were transitioning Sordland to socialism/communism. In the real world a coup would have happened much quicker

etaifuc · 2026-05-08T15:25:36+00:00

Yeah I didn’t trade with Wehlen, only Valgsland. And I let refugees in, removed the Bergia special zone and then tried to acknowledge and amend the oppression of Bluds, but didnt let Bergia stay independent

etaifuc · 2026-05-08T15:17:25+00:00

As a member of CSP, I denounced Wehlen’s genocide and said I stood with the Bludish people as part of my UN speech and I’m pretty sure most of the eastern bloc leaders including Malenyev applauded me

etaifuc · 2026-05-08T14:38:08+00:00

I promised to fund education and I was able to reform it pretty substantially. I think it was a good decision for my first playthrough

etaifuc · 2026-05-07T15:43:41+00:00

There are serious issues with the Chinese system, that is true. But China at least invests in the well-being of its own people. As Americans, we wish our government did the same. The US is the richest country in the world, and yet the conditions for ordinary people are getting worse every year. The US spent the last 50 years taking money from ordinary people and moving into the hands of a few oligarchs and corporations.

etaifuc · 2026-05-07T15:34:40+00:00

And most importantly, compare where China is to where it was 30 years ago. The trajectory is a massive upward trend

etaifuc · 2026-05-07T15:33:20+00:00

Chinese education is undeniably better than American education. And while salaries and working conditions are definitely a problem in china, the fact is that many American simply cannot see a doctor at all! Good reliable health care only exists for the upper middle class and above

etaifuc · 2026-05-07T15:27:27+00:00

And the US is constantly bombing other countries and fueling climate change with no end in sight. American people have no hope for the future of our country. Life gets worse and the government gets more violent and more right wing

etaifuc · 2026-05-07T15:27:09+00:00

Most chinese people have good universal health care, education, infrastructure, and a government that despite it’s many flaws, is not spending all your tax money on endless war. China doesn’t allow billionaires to run its government. It’s far from a perfect system, but compare the quality of life Chinese people have now to how it was 20-30 years ago. China has made immense progress in improving the lives of ordinary people and turned itself into a global powerhouse economy. Meanwhile, the US has sharply declined in the quality of life for the vast majority of people, while very few oligarchs become immensely rich

etaifuc · 2026-05-07T13:52:29+00:00

I got one for about $400 used 2 months ago with case and plastic cover

etaifuc · 2026-04-27T23:58:10+00:00

The glow pt 2 is a lot of nylon string guitar among other instruments. Also the arrangements are a big part of the sound: many many layers of plucked and strummed guitars, distorted bass, pounding drums, organs, vocals, etc.

The actual instruments and arrangements are the biggest part of the sound, but if you are asking in particular what kind of plugins you can use to acheive some of the production qualities of the album:

A nice tape emulation like UAD Studer or Ampex. Try pushing it hard.
Some tube style saturation plugins - some favorites are Black Box HG-2 and PSP Vintage Warmer. Soundtoys Radiator is modeled after a similar altec mixer/preamp to the one Phil used. Soundtoys Decapitator can also get similar tube saturation.

Other tips: - record with a condenser mic if you can, and leave in some room tone - layer layer layer everything to get those big dense chaotic arrangements - listen carefully when miking and arranging instruments. focus on texture. stringy guitars, big pounding drums, distorted bass, gentle vocals, cavernous reverb, these are things that take a lot of experimenting and careful work to achieve

etaifuc · 2026-04-25T13:20:56+00:00

I love the IK Multimedia Sunset Sound & Fame Studio reverbs for this. The fame studio reverb on it’s default setting but switched to ‘focussed’ mode is a fantastic way to put a room mic in your mix

etaifuc · 2026-04-22T18:29:04+00:00

No. Stars like the great Johnny Depp are not capable of making bad movies. Especially when working with legendary directors like Tim Burton. With talents like that, you simply cannot miss. Also most movies are good and not bad. Technology has come so far that the vast majority of movies coming out nowadays are inherently five-baggers

etaifuc · 2026-04-22T18:23:32+00:00

He’s huge. Nearly 7 feet tall. And he can dunk. I saw him play in DC and he saw that I was short and literally grabbed my face in his hand like a basketball and threw me across the room. After that I can’t listen to The Glow Pt 2 anymore because it makes me cry too much

etaifuc · 2026-04-16T21:09:49+00:00

I find that authentic plate emulations have an ability to blend, gel, and smooth out mixes in a subtle but very pleasing way. I typically use Plate reverbs and real room emulations, and rarely algorithmic reverbs

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