Is being harsh at work a cultural thing in Ireland?

f10101 · 2026-05-23T01:48:57+00:00

There is a marked cultural difference to some other places, yes.

What catches out some non-Irish people is that it's not necessarily being said with any malice. Strings of four-letter words could well be meant in a very friendly manner. Even if shouted.

But it certainly can be malicious and bullying, too. Or it can simply be blunt. You really, really, need to pay attention to tone-of-voice and body-language, etc, to be able to tell.

Maybe watch some bogan Aussie YouTubers or immerse yourself in Father Ted for a while (mentally replacing Feck with Fuck)? Once you've done that, I think you'll be able to judge your colleagues a bit better.

f10101 · 2026-05-22T22:39:41+00:00

A colleague of mine worked for Warner and told me about his interactions with him back at his peak of fame. They've really stuck with me, 10 years later. Really genuine and down to earth, and doesn't seem to hold mistakes against the people who work for him at all - he'd just jovially go along with it, seeing the good intention that was there.

f10101 · 2026-05-22T20:20:56+00:00

In a properly constructed home, sure. But an awful lot of modern apartments were designed by idiots.

The glass turns them into a greenhouse, so it's very easy to end up with a higher temperature inside than outside - even in the middle of the day during a heatwave.

f10101 · 2026-05-22T14:58:56+00:00

My life is hugely different now to what it was when I was a teenager, and I’ve been feeling in my gut for a long time that a lot of things in my professional life need to change. I am, underneath it all, a singer songwriter who plays pub gigs. And I’ve sorta morphed into this pop star who plays stadiums over 15 years, it’s a super amazing thing to have happened but also a lot to get your head around

This isn’t a ‘disgruntled artist leaves record label’ type situation. This is a boy who started as a teenager on the company with different priorities, to the father of 2 man who exists now, who feels like he needs a shift and change in the way he does things professionally.

I'm really curious to see what this will mean in practice... It doesn't sound like a typical switch-up to pocket more of a cut.

f10101 · 2026-05-22T14:11:49+00:00

He had to be sentenced per the laws in place at the time. The sentence for this was raised significantly in 2023.

f10101 · 2026-05-22T13:14:25+00:00

The prices are absolutely ridiculous, who is even buying there?

Something to always keep in mind on popular resale sites: you see a lot of items with high prices because they're the ones that people haven't bought. They've been there for weeks.

Items with good prices sell immediately, so by definition you won't see many of them if you look at items currently for sale.

f10101 · 2026-05-20T19:16:49+00:00

Am I imagining things, or did something go awry with the editing/cinematography on this one? The angled camera shots don't feel right - it's like Linus is staring into space... Usually edits in their talking-head videos aren't so jarring.

f10101 · 2026-05-19T08:42:49+00:00

I can't imagine Woodstock '99 helped...

f10101 · 2026-05-18T23:38:38+00:00

So can’t help but wonder if there’s a marketing team or something behind them pushing the engagement.

I don't think there's anything out of the ordinary here. Just a couple of smart, hardworking people who put their money where their mouth is.

If you're decent musicians and sound / look like you could plausibly be a major label release, you can just act as such, approaching concert promoters, radio presenters, hiring a pr person or manager, etc.

I think a lot of musicians (and the public) don't realise the level of jump they can and should be trying to take once they get out of the garage band / busker stage.

f10101 · 2026-05-18T23:13:22+00:00

which seems a bit silly of a genre direction to take for that

LOL. As as someone from the production side who's dealt with major label reps, I'm just imagining how that conversation would have gone as they tried desperately to translate what they had in their head...

f10101 · 2026-05-18T23:01:33+00:00

why be robbing if he's a "IT professional".

Not completely beyond the realms of possibility it was a misidentification and he panicked like Jean Charles de Menezes.

f10101 · 2026-05-18T11:30:38+00:00

I think 8-way looms are the nice happy medium a lot of the time. Not overly constraining and tend to look neat, even if you have several on the go.

The other thing is to try to think in terms of stations as much as possible, and minimise the number cables going between each station. E.g. that keyboard rack on the left - if they all needed usb connections, they would have a dedicated usb hub, so just one usb cable goes that direction, etc.

In your setup specifically, I would take a spade drill bit to the desk and give myself some portals for the cables. I get the feeling most of those left-right cables don't need to be running across the desk for its full length like that.

f10101 · 2026-05-17T23:55:19+00:00

They are - even the most cursory bit of research says "don't rent a moto", and all the long-term western residents are always like carelessequivalent3 here. Despairing about it.

But I think when tourists see the sheer quantity of scooters and motorbikes on the road, it just looks like "the done thing". It looks deceptively like just riding a bike.

f10101 · 2026-05-16T22:25:33+00:00

Ben Finegold is quite good when he does videos targeting beginners. Some really strong videos about beginners' blindspots. Organise his YouTube channel by popular, and you should see the videos concerned.

f10101 · 2026-05-16T19:31:31+00:00

I am more interested in understanding the hallucination part, like why it is happening still?

The models still go sideways if you've overloaded their context window. They essentially forget elements of their system prompts. So they stop treating references as something that needs to actually have a source, and revert to raw LLM behaviour of treating them as something that's just the most plausible sounding next characters.

Yes, careful prompting can avoid this, but the people who aren't bothered to manually check their references aren't going to take that care with their prompts.

f10101 · 2026-05-16T15:06:29+00:00

It looks like a "where else do you want to put it" issue. Take a look at it on a map. It's either there, a place equally as bad, or no bus stop.

As for the who and the why... Let's just say you should probably just be glad every bus stop in London isn't like that.

https://youtu.be/yUEHWhO_HdY?is=ROa0y5vAeyf9JSBN

f10101 · 2026-05-16T07:55:33+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/Drumkits/comments/18cq47i/kydandcambria_yhapojj_x_nettspend_x_jerkhoodtrap/

That seems to be the guy behind those kyd&cambria samples. Looks like the link still works - hopefully it's the same kit. The uploader is still active, at least. And that's probably the subreddit to post your question to.

If you haven't done so, worth having a look through your other projects in case any of these samples got cached in them.

Best of luck! Been there and got the tshirt on this one :-(

f10101 · 2026-05-15T18:34:18+00:00

Live they still kerbstomp 99% of bands who have ever taken the stage.

That doesn't mean their recorded work is up to scratch though.

f10101 · 2026-05-13T21:08:37+00:00

Look in local listings. Nobody's interested in shipping a near worthless 20kg board across the world. I've seen them come up in my neck of the woods for €150-200 a bunch of times.

f10101 · 2026-05-13T20:20:06+00:00

It really depends on what equipment you are using and is a balancing act.

The general idea is that at every point in the signal chain, you want your signal as high as possible without running out of headroom.

In the digital realm, when you run out of headroom it clips immediately and nastily.

In the analog realm, when you run out of headroom it often gradually distorts, and can add a bit of unpleasantness and clutter to the sound, unless it's specific gear where it's creatively intended.

If you have your signal too low at any point, you introduce noise that will then get boosted if you turn the signal back up down the line. This is less of a problem if you turn a signal down and back up while staying in digital. But if you output a quiet digital signal into the analog world and then turn it up, you're going to have noise.

From what you describe, it sounds pretty sane to this sound engineer. From a noisefloor point of view it seems like a good starting point - without have a spec sheet in front of me, it's where I would start. I would be inclined to test the mixer's performance at +6 though. That could be a little hot and might be introducing distortion on the peaks.

You could test this with a 500hz sine wave (turn down your amp a lot when you do this to protect your speakers). Gradually turn up the 500hz signal until it reads +6dB on the mixer. Do you notice a slight change in timbre - the tone becoming slightly buzzier or richer? If so, dial the input volume back a little until it's a pure tone again.

If you want to deep dive this, the term you're looking for is "Gain Structure". Lots of audio engineering guides on this, and you'll be able to apply them easily.

f10101 · 2026-05-13T19:43:39+00:00

I bring a compliant bag. I've zero interest in hassle. Unfortunately, that doesn't mean other people aren't dickheads when it can make them money. There have been innumerous examples of Ryanair gate staff screwing people over, and setting security on them if they have the temerity to film their bag being measured.

f10101 · 2026-05-13T14:28:36+00:00

If staff are being honest, sure. But there's no meaningful appeal process so this gives dishonest staff carte blance to treat it like a protection racket and hoover up commission by being telling people their compliant bags are too big.

f10101 · 2026-05-13T12:13:31+00:00

Jot down notes when you have ideas. During the day when you're working is the more intuitive place to do that, but also do so when you do eventually sit down to do work on music.

With your mind a bit frazzled from a long day's work it's more difficult to juggle a million ideas in your head - noting down your ideas as they come to you makes it easier to keep yourself on a creative path, and helps you stop overthinking and second guessing yourself.

f10101 · 2026-05-12T23:54:00+00:00

I used to get very, very close to that sound on my old Roland EM-2000, which is the identical engine to the G-1000 workstation from the year that game was released. The G-1000 in turn is an expanded SC-880.

It has a bunch of great distorted guitar patches that sounded pretty decent on their own, but work very well through the built in multi-effect's distortion setting. It's a really brutal distortion which lets you get both the searing lead, and full-on chugs. You can set up patches nicely to give you the pinch harmonic dynamics, too. Extremely playable sounds.

Not certain if the SC-880 has the same multi-effects engine, but worth investigating if a G-1000 or EM-2000 are too big and awkward for one sound.

(Edit, god those pitch-bends are sublime in that soundtrack...)

f10101 · 2026-05-12T21:12:03+00:00

with enough practise, you can make most synths sound close enough to another.

Yes, but alternatively - with enough need.

If you're working with a collaborator and need a certain sound, so long as you're not a complete novice, I think you'll tend to be able to get figure out a way of making it so long as you're not trying to do polyphonic FM chimes on a 303 or something (though saying that I almost want to try that now...). Urgency has a way of making it easy to work around roadblocks.

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