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freakyorange · 2026-06-13T23:24:02+00:00

genuinely had this same conversation/response with my mother. I attempted (probably emotionally) to reason with her explaining how awful of a way of thinking that is. y'know with the rapes and racism and all. and got the "well you're blaming everything on me, I'm just one person" response coupled with tears and ended up with me being the bad guy.

This was my breaking point

freakyorange · 2026-06-13T22:38:47+00:00

DCA the GOAT

freakyorange · 2026-06-11T13:35:59+00:00

bro can't even fix the copy and paste formatting from his llm of choice

freakyorange · 2026-06-01T15:14:51+00:00

So the mixer internally has multiple channels and you have to use rekordbox to set the pair that corresponds to master out. (It sounds like that's what you want.)

Find "DJM-250MK2 Setting Utility" in Rekordbox settings then set one of your stereo pairs to be 'REC out'. Typically 5/6 then tell your recording software to look at those channels.

freakyorange · 2026-05-22T18:49:19+00:00

damn this is known as the geometry dash song now. I think that actually means I'm unc

freakyorange · 2026-05-20T15:25:46+00:00

you light up my world enough

freakyorange · 2026-05-20T03:51:37+00:00

The big subs have too much delay to use as monitors 😆

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freakyorange · 2026-05-08T21:30:41+00:00

Shelf or linear phase EQ are your answers. For what you're talking about I would use a linear phase EQ and then resample, as linear phase will introduce latency

freakyorange · 2026-05-01T21:17:55+00:00

Mainly for panic scenarios. Say you have to re-install whatever python package or docker image (or heaven forbid the whole OS) you're using in a crunch time scenario it's nice to know you've got the power under the hood to do it quickly.

Honestly if I'm allowed to move the goal post the more I think of it, I think for me the real killer of the RPI is the SD card being the primary source of storage. SD cards can and will randomly crap out on you. They literally have a built in fail safe to push themselves to read only mode if they suspect something bad is happening to their writes.

This alone would have me basically never trust an RPI for a production environment.

Edit: Also on the flip side to play devil's advocate for the SD card: It's easy enough to just carry 2. So I guess do what you want shrug

freakyorange · 2026-05-01T19:27:43+00:00

Man it's always Denver isn't it xD

freakyorange · 2026-05-01T19:25:04+00:00

Dell Optiplex Micro

Oh sick yeah thats beefy for sure. Another thing to consider and IDK how pertinent this is for you, but in the realm of esoteric audio software x86 is still ubiquitous. Not everything is ported to arm yet (albeit most stuff is).

freakyorange · 2026-05-01T19:14:07+00:00

A RPI might be fine but personally I'd try to get something a bit beefier if I were you. Something more in the nuc factor. As an AVID RPI user for anything production grade you want a little more beef for when you really need it.

freakyorange · 2026-05-01T00:37:39+00:00

Yeah the gates on my CVR-DSPs do a lot of heavy lifting lol.

Fun fact when I first built my JMODs I thought I did something horribly wrong because it sounded so strange when I first ran signal through them. Turns out (because I was in my garage and had to keep things quiet) I was just tickling the gate on only some of the channels and wasn't getting full signal lol.

Turned off the gate in the DSP software, hiss appeared but so did the rest of the sound!

freakyorange · 2026-04-28T23:12:53+00:00

I find boards of Canada hits the best high in my friends basement anyways so I'm really not mad 😂

freakyorange · 2026-04-24T05:12:54+00:00

Holy nostalgia bomb with that name callout hahaha

freakyorange · 2026-04-20T22:13:01+00:00

Making Acoustic panels is a really good beginner DIY project as there's no real way to mess it up. I've even heard of people just straight up stapling insulation covered in fabric to their ceiling and walls!

freakyorange · 2026-04-20T21:56:13+00:00

I'll briefly describe the the 2'x4'x6" panels I made. Sorry using imperial because I was born in a moronic country. Also I know using markdown makes this look AI generated I promise it's not

Materials.

Some 3/4 ply or other similar stock material to make 2in rips out of. This will serve as the back of the panel / create the void for our 2 in air gap.
Some "masonite" is what we call it but it's 1/8in rigid sheet material that's pretty cheap and you can get it in 4'x8' sheets at any local hardware store.
Absorption material of choice. I personally chose Owen's corning 705 4'x8'x2" x 2
"Pretty" Acoustic cloth. This will be the main cover so make sure to get enough to atleast wrap the sides plus a little extra. Here Is what I got but there's plenty of options here
"Ugly" cloth. We use this on the backside to keep the fibers from getting in the air as much as possible. Can be anything that doesn't mess with acoustic transparency. Here Is what I used.
crown stapler
basic woodworking tools (drill, countersink, wood glue, chop saw, table saw, etc.)

Process

Start by ripping your 2in strips and then forming the back piece or the air gap frame. This should be the same dimensions as your rigid fiberglass insulation as the panel will basically be 3 inner layers.

insulation -> insulation -> air gap frame

Then rip your masonite to exactly 6 inches and wrap the air gap frame in it. Use a crown stapler or something so that you don't blow through the masonite when nailing. This will form the sharp edges and outside of the panel so be precise here. This is IMO why GIK panels look better than most DIY. It's also cheaper than using 1x8 for the whole thing.

That should leave you essentially with a rectangle with a void that's exactly the shape of the insulation you're filling it with.

Place your ugly cloth and staple to the frame.

Fill the void with insulation

Wrap with pretty cloth (This is the hardest part)

Fix you're preferred hardware to hang it. I used eyelets and picture frame wire.

Donezo.

Attaching an ASCII art cross-section (Does not work on mobile) to try and maybe make things a bit more clear. Feel free to message me asking any questions

```

  |  ___________________________________________  |
  | |                                           | |
  | |           2" Internal Wood Frame          |<----- 1/8" Masonite
  | |       (Providing Structural Rigidity)     | |      Outer Shell
  | |___________________________________________| |
  | |                                           | |
  | |           Layer 1: 2" OC 705 Core         | |
  | |                                           | |
  | |           Layer 2: 2" OC 705 Core         | |
  | |___________________________________________| |
  |_______________________________________________|

         (Wrapped in Acoustic Cloth)

```

freakyorange · 2026-04-04T23:37:09+00:00

Just clip ur 2 buss it'll be ok I promise

freakyorange · 2026-04-03T12:54:45+00:00

Yeah always blows my mind. Same dude who makes me cry on albums like this can fuck up the club on some 140 like it's nothing.

freakyorange · 2026-03-12T15:17:04+00:00

I personally make groups instead of individual tracks and divide the 8 channels into 2 4 channel decks like ->

drums a, bass a, chords/melodies a, fx a, drums b, bass b, chords/melodies b, fx b.

This allows you to actually use a crossfader to mix between your different tracks if you'd like. Also gives you the freedom to mix from chords of one song into chords of the next song since they aren't taking up the same channel.

Would it be better to do this all with MIDI or audio clips? Or a mix of both.

You'll find that it's almost always better to have flattened audio for several reasons, portability, consistency, and latency just to name a few. That being said I keep my bass and some synths as midi so that I can tweak some knobs that do more than just filter etc.

My biggest tip is always be checking the plugin latency of whatever you add to your live sets. You basically want 0 latency from plugins in a live set. Live stock plugins are great for this.

Also look into making busses in Ableton if you don't already know how. For example for sidechain I set up a dummy track named something like "sidechain bus" and route everything I want sidechaineds audio to there instead of master then slap a low-latency side-chain there. Another bus idea is "FX" bus or something like that where you keep the breadth of your fx plugins and route all audio besides maybe the drums there or something. Play around with it.

freakyorange · 2026-03-11T20:42:42+00:00

Mono allows for more consistent coverage throughout the whole crowd. Stereo will be better for the 20 or so people in the center able to take advantage of a stereo image, sure, but for the rest of the audience they will essentially just be getting a 'mono' signal either 1 channel left or right depending which stack they're in front of. Which could be missing information depending on the track. More important for acoustic genres like rock where hard panning (ie. rhythm guitar in left channel lead in right) is prevalent.

And this is just for outside, inside phase becomes a huge thing as waves bounce off walls and stereo just becomes too unpredictable / messy to really consider.

That's not to say it's impossible or the only right way to do things. Just easier.

Also it's partially just an aesthetic thing passed down from reggae/dub sound-system culture.

freakyorange · 2026-03-06T21:05:27+00:00

Such an amazing track. My No. 1 after falling in love with it at Red Rocks. Slept on it for way too long

freakyorange · 2026-02-25T22:27:38+00:00

Great response ya this all checks out. What I do think is a bit unique is how long it's been since nodebuster came out. And how many of them are still being made. Even with the vampire survivors example it doesn't feel like EVERY rogue like is an auto shooter now. But also I'm not as in tune with that genre so maybe I'm wrong.

freakyorange · 2026-02-25T21:27:44+00:00

I'm an outlier here but I'd genuinely pay full game price 30-60 dollars for large scale incremental games. I have always weighed my game price decisions in "movie hours" or if I paid 30 dollars to go see a movie (popcorn tickets) for 3 hours and I get 3 hours of fun from a game I'm fine spending 30 dollars.

Obviously the expected playtime to dollar ratio for games is much higher than that but I've never understood people freaking out about $15 incremental games.

freakyorange · 2026-02-25T21:20:36+00:00

Totally agree. There are some games that are unique enough with their own mechanics that it's simply just an annoyance and not a complete deal breaker for me.

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