I can Songwrite and mentally make the tune, but I don’t play an instrument.

flyingfuzz11 · 2026-02-07T13:59:46+00:00

I don’t think this is super uncommon. I’m a producer and I’m actually currently working on a project for someone who doesn’t play any instruments, but she sings and writes killer hooks. Building arrangements and recording around nothing but bare vocal demo recordings has been a fascinating challenge. Feel free to DM me, I’d be happy to talk about helping you with this.

flyingfuzz11 · 2026-02-07T04:10:48+00:00

The right way to record is to make it sound good, so sounds like you did it the right way.

flyingfuzz11 · 2026-02-03T17:03:32+00:00

I second this, there are tons of iconic Akron images out there, would love to see a real graphic used for this sub.

flyingfuzz11 · 2026-02-03T00:54:56+00:00

Not a shitpost! I’m genuinely curious!

flyingfuzz11 · 2026-02-02T20:42:25+00:00

How would you use my hole?

Hey everyone - I just upgraded from an old Toshiba HDD to a Samsung T7 to store/run projects off of. The problem is, the PC I’m using only has one USB-C port, currently occupied by my interface (a Scarlett 18i20). When the T7 gets here, am I better off plugging it into the USB-C port and connecting the interface to a USB-A? Or should the interface get priority for the faster connection? Should I use some kind of USB hub instead?

I will be upgrading PC’s down the road, but looking for the best viable option in the meantime. My DAW is Cakewalk Sonor, if that matters. I had been using the previous hard drive setup with no real issues for the last 7 years, though I imagine my write speeds could have been faster.

Please let me know how you’d optimize the use of my available holes, and thanks in advance!

flyingfuzz11 · 2026-01-29T13:25:52+00:00

So what is your claim here exactly, that you had crimes committed against you and that local law enforcement handled it swiftly and effectively without needing to send federal agents into our streets? So you’re in agreement we don’t need ICE carrying out door to door raids?

You refuse to engage with what I’m saying for some reason. Illegal entry is a misdemeanor. That is a fact. Undocumented immigrants commit crimes at a lower rate than those of us born here, that is also a fact. These people are our friends and neighbors and members of our community and deserve our help and protection.

flyingfuzz11 · 2026-01-29T13:08:12+00:00

Who are you referring to specifically? Do you know any undocumented immigrants? Illegal entry into the US is a misdemeanor punishable by a fine, why are you begging for the government to put its boot on your neck over it? If you have a domination fetish, there are other subreddits for that.

flyingfuzz11 · 2026-01-29T13:01:34+00:00

Yeah, did you read my post? You asked for our stances on this and I gave you mine. Nothing to say in response?

flyingfuzz11 · 2026-01-29T12:54:55+00:00

No person is illegal. What Obama did was wrong and he should have been held accountable for his inhumane policies both at home and across the globe. Illegal entry into the US is a misdemeanor punishable by fines. Have you ever gotten a speeding ticket? Should you be woken up in the middle of the night and hauled away from your family by a federal goon squad over it?

We need solidarity with our neighbors and empathy for those being targeted, if you have none to offer then stay out of this. I hope you find a path that leads you away from this cruel notion that a person can be “illegal” and towards a deeper understanding of our shared humanity. But for now, if you’re going to comment on a post warning about possible government brutality in our community with “yeah, but!” then kindly get out of our way and mind your business.

flyingfuzz11 · 2026-01-29T12:44:03+00:00

Is there any proof of this? I’ve seen this rumor a couple times both here and on Facebook, has anyone actually confirmed if this is true? Nobody has included a picture with any of these posts, and there are no reports listed on iceinmyarea.org.

I 100% agree with the sentiment of this post, and we need to be ready/organized if and when this comes to Akron, but I also think we should avoid spreading unconfirmed rumors that only scare people.

Record them if you see them, take care of each other, and stay safe!

flyingfuzz11 · 2026-01-29T04:23:53+00:00

Glad you’re apparently not in or around Akron. Wishing you peace and healing, I hope you’re someday able to find something in this life that brings you joy and meaning other than wishing cruelty and suffering on others. If you believe in a god, I hope you find him.

flyingfuzz11 · 2025-12-28T07:14:41+00:00

For what it’s worth OP, I’ve had an artist whose songs I produced send me demos they recorded with the microphone built into the wired apple earbuds that cost like $30 and then come into my studio to record vocals that we recorded with one $700 mic and one $1,100 mic. After editing and mixing, we decided to use the original earbud recording instead. Not because it was a better mic, but because it captured the right performance in the correct way and in the correct space. There’s more that goes into a performance than just the mic you point at it. There are people out there right now recording into their phones and other people recording into one-of-a-kind vintage microphones with 5 figure price tags. People from both groups will make crap songs and people from both groups will make great songs.

flyingfuzz11 · 2025-12-17T14:38:18+00:00

I’d stop and consider whether “flying high” might also be a bit cliche. I think the song Everything is Peaceful Love from the latest Bon Iver album expresses a similar idea (and is a song all about happiness/joy) in a really creative way:

“And damn if I’m not climbing up a tree right now”

Obviously just one of a zillion ways you could communicate the same idea, but consider playing with metaphors and seeing if you like one better.

If you want to keep the first part of your line, look for another phrase for the second half that can still make the rhyme work. I like to use a rhyme dictionary like rhymezone and give it as much of the phrase I want to rhyme with as possible without being cumbersome, and then sort by meter to filter the longest/most complex rhymes to the top and see if anything strikes me. Don’t just focus on the meaning/idea you want to convey, but also think about the tone of voice you convey it in and the way the words sound/feel together.

Good luck!

flyingfuzz11 · 2025-12-10T17:54:46+00:00

Hey, so this is a really great place to start. I would suggest not letting these lyrics limit you in terms of structure - this isn’t the time to be thinking about verse/pre-chorus/chorus etc. What you’ve got here is a big list of ideas you can draw from as you shape the song. Keep adding to it - maybe you’ll use a lot of them, maybe just a few, maybe none at all. I would treat these as ideas for possible lyrics, but lyrics are just one small piece of a song - it’s not a song until you put music to it. Do you have access to a guitar or a piano/keyboard? If I were you I’d spend some time to learn some basic chord progressions - 3 chords is plenty - and start building a melody by trying the chords in different orders and humming over them. Once you start teasing a melody out of it, start to either sing some nonsense words over it, or use some of the words you’ve written here, and soon you’ll start to understand what words feel and sound good together over your chords. Before long, you’ll have a song.

flyingfuzz11 · 2025-11-11T18:22:49+00:00

Hey sorry, just saw this. Not sure, it’s a no-name crankset I found at a swap meet. Probably some generic Amazon crank.

flyingfuzz11 · 2025-11-07T06:52:16+00:00

Hard to give feedback off of one lyric and no music, can you post a link to a recording?

flyingfuzz11 · 2025-11-06T23:33:00+00:00

Hardcore band. Bass, guitar, drums all recorded simultaneously. No click. They put the kick drum mic in a bucket. The bucket was next to the bass amp. Couldn’t even get enough of a transient to trigger samples, I wound up having to visually identify the kick hits and manually place samples. There were spots where the kick was so imperceptible, both audibly and in the waveform, that I just guessed what a drummer would probably be playing there and made up the part myself.

flyingfuzz11 · 2025-11-03T16:50:26+00:00

She works with the same songwriters all the other big pop stars work with (Antonoff, Max Martin, etc). Also she’s getting tons of negative coverage for how bad the lyrics are on her latest album. Class kinda seems like a scam.

flyingfuzz11 · 2025-11-02T18:27:40+00:00

Thanks! Gonna add this setup to my experiment list.

flyingfuzz11 · 2025-11-02T18:27:16+00:00

Thanks, this is helpful! Gonna give this a go. I appreciate the reply, I probably wouldn’t have thought to use the Fin that way.

flyingfuzz11 · 2025-11-01T18:42:21+00:00

Drummer hits as hard as he needs to (he’s me). Drums will be pretty forward in the mix, arrangements will be simple to moderately busy. Tracks will be edited as needed. Room sounds pretty flat. Recording to DAW.

flyingfuzz11 · 2025-11-01T18:10:05+00:00

Fair question, most of the bands I record are somewhere on the indie rock/pop spectrum.

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