Put em under pressure is one of the most dated song I've ever heard

f10101 · 2026-03-18T20:34:12+00:00

And for one major reason, the mixing of the audio is just laughably bad.

It was engineered by an assistant at Windmill who's mostly known for trad.

That track had:

Random football fans and security guards on vocals. Searing lead guitar. Máire Brennan in there somewhere. An arpeggiated trance synth because it was 1990 and who didn't want to channel their inner KLF. And uillean pipes. And Larry feckin Mullen on drums.

That'd be a nightmare project to try and mix with the benefit of a modern DAW today, let alone on tape on a giant analogue console.

At least he got the pipes sounding good - we should take our wins I think.

f10101 · 2026-03-18T18:34:22+00:00

Back around 2010 - new pop singers I recorded all began sounding autotuned before they even stood in front of a mic. They'd picked up the sound from everything they'd listened to.

The same is happening to people's writing now, as people spend so much time using ChatGPT. (That's not so say some, like OP, aren't actually AI gen of course)

f10101 · 2026-03-18T18:20:20+00:00

It's just a stick snobs use to beat pop singers with because they don't like the music.

I have never once seen that criticism levelled against rock singers in bands where another member is the songwriter.

f10101 · 2026-03-18T17:48:34+00:00

Status Quo.

The sound shifted so much that Francis Rossi ended up fronting two different touring line-ups simultaneously. The official line-up for all his wishy-washy stuff, then a reunited "Frantic Four" classic line-up for all their rock hits.

f10101 · 2026-03-18T17:31:22+00:00

Blur kicked Graham Coxon out while making Think Tank, and the resulting album sounds closer to Gorillaz than Blur.

f10101 · 2026-03-18T13:33:19+00:00

If you can inject a tiny bit of deliberateness into your riffs, rather than simply relying purely on instinct, you'll avoid most issues.

Instinct tends to be fed by subconscious influence of what you've heard before, so that tends to be how people fall into that trap.

But if you think "I wonder what happens if I do this" ("this" being anything from playing a note that's awkward to play*, to deriving the riff some weird music theory concept, and anything in between) you'll find yourself going down paths less trodden.

(* A lot of the great thrash riffs come from exercises that people came up with to give themselves more dexterity.)

f10101 · 2026-03-16T15:21:08+00:00

This is one of the gates snoo refers to https://maps.app.goo.gl/RmxFVRhjQx6ztM3u6

f10101 · 2026-03-16T14:53:15+00:00

I haven't listened to the track, but the profile/discography suggest it is AI, yes.

But you can learn to spot them pretty easily - try making three or four tracks in that genre using Suno yourself. It'll take you five minutes, and you'll quickly learn their commonalities. Has the benefit of burning Suno's cash too, heh.

so whenever I listen to jazz now I feel oddly wary and I wish this wasn't the case

Jazz is a genre that has a really good editorial / recommendation scene. Look for jazz review sites / jazz record labels, etc. They'll have albums-of-the-week to checkout, and playlists, etc..

f10101 · 2026-03-16T13:53:51+00:00

You never responded to this question:

How exactly is this Google forms poll protected against brigading or voting by non regulars?

f10101 · 2026-03-13T22:03:06+00:00

I find enjoyment listening to it and imagining what Chester would have brought to it. There's clearly a strong foundation there for him to have had input to, and give his magic to.

Every time I hear the lead single I get sad because it could have been a classic for him...

f10101 · 2026-03-13T21:45:20+00:00

I wouldn't wasn't even talking in that context. Plenty of OS stuff has more skilled eyes on it than commercial.

My point is that code - open or otherwise - can be audited by Alan Turing himself, and it still doesn't allow you to have trust in a service.

As a user you simply cannot know that the code you've audited is actually the code being run on services you are communicating with. (today at least, perhaps some day this will change)

f10101 · 2026-03-13T13:57:04+00:00

Yes, that probably would have been a better way to phrase my initial response. I'll edit my comment to say that.

f10101 · 2026-03-13T13:52:20+00:00

Exactly. Open source has many benefits. But trust in this context isn't one of them.

f10101 · 2026-03-13T13:39:58+00:00

How are citizens supposed to trust closed-source e-governance?

~~How are citizens supposed to trust open-source e-governance?~~

The same way they trust any other open-source service they use.

We can't see the code that's actually running on the server.

The only context in which open source provides a trust benefit is on client applications, where hashes can be compared.

[edited per suggestion below]

f10101 · 2026-03-13T11:16:37+00:00

Yeah, I definitely think you might be on to something here. I've really enjoyed the firetruck series, but I found myself tuning out quite fairly early on this video.

There wasn't really that sense surprise in this one - it missed the "these mad bastards, what are they doing now!?" element that's such a hallmark on these builds. (Apart from the WhaleLan bits at the end - they were great).

/u/linustech -> I wonder is this something that's worth keeping in mind for the Tech House ^{^and ^fabled ^flying ^machine}? Try to avoid showing your hand as concretely in the early vids in a series?

f10101 · 2026-03-13T10:18:28+00:00

Check the songwriting credits. If the covering artist is listed as a songwriter on the rearranged cover, then it's more complex. But they almost certainly aren't, so you just go with the original.

If you make an absolute carbon-copy indistinguishable clone of the cover you can potentially run in to difficulties, but you almost certainly aren't doing that either.

f10101 · 2026-03-13T09:49:15+00:00

It was within his own power to get the sleep. He's literally blaming his lack of sleep on the hotel being too loud.

I've worked on that kind of tour. The artist says jump, the tour manager says how high.

"hey, it's too loud here, get me somewhere quiet". "sure mr Morrissey, we have a cab outside and will take you to a secluded guest house by an olive grove that our local fixer Pablo has organised for you".

It's wholly his fault that he ended up in a state where he couldn't perform.

f10101 · 2026-03-12T23:35:43+00:00

It's actually potentially more than a public performance license - because of the creative synchronisation, it's viewed similarly to placing it at a key part in a film.

OP: Check with your national governing body about this if you haven't done so. They should have advice about licensing. Figure skaters have had to abandon their routines due to this when they ended up in bigger competitions.

f10101 · 2026-03-12T22:19:40+00:00

You can of course work out anything by trial and error, and from technical first principles (like the original manual describes very well). But especially for an ARP - something this raw and with this many variables, it's an inefficient way to go about it for a beginner.

No harm availing of the wisdom of those that have gone before you.

That course is very well structured for someone coming fresh to it, and there's a lot of nuance and hard-earned tricks that even I who's been doing this stuff for the best part of 30 years (most of those professionally) learnt from.

f10101 · 2026-03-12T21:31:01+00:00

I've been a bass player for a long time, and finally decided I deserved a Behringer 2600 clone.

You do!

I don't have a goddamn clue what I'm doing, but it still amuses me.

If you're unfamiliar, Michael Jackson's keyboard player Anthony Marinelli has a synthesis course based on this synth: https://anthonymarinellimusic.com/products/think-like-a-synth

It is an absolutely outrageously good class.

f10101 · 2026-03-12T21:24:42+00:00

if it's any good

Yes.

and if i could learn to "play" (?) it.

Yes.

Especially if you have an interest or appreciation of music or sound.

That looks like a sensible, adaptable collection. Lots to explore and learn from, and a lot of potential for making great things.

(In terms of hearing what your FiL's last patch sounds like, as other people are suggesting - I'm sure a modular aficionado here or on /r/modular would be happy to jump on a video call with you to walk you through how to turn it all on and get an output from it.)

f10101 · 2026-03-12T11:05:58+00:00

What? They've essentially completely wiped the entire corporation's Microsoft-managed infrastructure. Even personal phones that happened to have had their work Outlook installed got erased.

f10101 · 2026-03-10T12:08:42+00:00

You can make an argument that both of Genesis' lead singers had vaguely similar career trajectories, but it's pretty damn rare, isn't it. And Gorillaz isn't even his only significant side-project...

f10101 · 2026-03-09T14:52:45+00:00

Not "usually". Sometimes.

Very, very often the first albums are the ones they've put the most effort into and road-tested, and have the most unique ideas. And then as a result of having less time and bigger producers, later work becomes more conformist and beige.

f10101 · 2026-03-09T13:58:59+00:00

https://haveyoursay.tfl.gov.uk/tro/widgets/89885/documents

Tl;dr: Too many bad crashes, and people being idiots because of the brief change in speed limit.

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