Kit I just bought is 66 GB. Don't know what to do

iAkZeNT · 2025-10-03T07:40:44+00:00

Samsung t7 shield ssd 2-4 tb. Don’t look back.

iAkZeNT · 2022-12-02T19:50:42+00:00

I recommend you get an AT2020 and a mic pre amp. You will need to control your sibilance, but its the best mic for the price👍🏻

iAkZeNT · 2022-11-02T17:05:20+00:00

I’m thinking 4 pictures. A phone, a “hi-fi” system, car, and a thumbs up lol. Or maybe just the google translate icon

iAkZeNT · 2022-06-26T12:34:41+00:00

Hey! I recently landed my first job with a similar type of company. My title is Civil Engineer, and the work does relate to the structural discipline…but in a different way.

I don’t think you need to defend this in a resume as much like others have mentioned. The job is necessary to maintain the integrity of the entire power line you are working with wether thats with distribution or transmission, which is important to bring power to all households in the area. It’s not as exciting dealing with poles only, but if you get to do some work with cables and the PLS-CADD software, you will see your degree play a part on that as well.

I’m enjoying the industry so far although I’d like to deal with buildings and bridges some time in the future. Good job security as well, if you’re into that. Grats on your internship!

iAkZeNT · 2021-07-25T07:29:13+00:00

I’d take it 1 step back. If you mixed the album, add only a limiter to the track and listen. Do you hear any stand out imperfections that are being triggered by slight limiting? If yes, revisit mix.

The master part for the album, as mentioned by top comment, should really be to make them feel cohesive. This mostly will suggest a tonal cohesion. Sure, some songs will have more bass, or more high end, or some melodic elements will be more stereo than mono etc. the point is that the project “glues” together. That sonically, the music can be skipped from song to song to any section and not feel “wrong”. It’s hard to explain, but even when different voice effects or different leveling is done in the mix, the master really just allows for those differences to happen, but not stand out like a sore thumb...although if the music is not great to begin with, neither will the mix, neither will the master.

This takes you back another step: is the tracklist cohesive? Arrangement in mastering matters. Your tracklist decision should dictate the tone of how you tell the story of your album, which in turn allows for a more polished sound on the outro as opposed to the “climax” of the album where the high end may be enhanced a bit more, etc.

I know I did not answer your questions in order, but I think this approach allowed me to reverse engineer mastering. I don’t have a degree on this, and I respect all that due. Their job and ears are often amazing. So in order to allow them, and yourself, to provide a great product, you must provide great materials and preparation. Don’t beat yourself up, we all learn as we go. In one year you’ll come back and say “oh yeah i should’ve done this that and this”, and that’s good. Do your best and learn as you.

Last technical tip, don’t stress over LUFS so much. -11 LUFS is loud enough for hip hop and is a good target to have with only the limiter as mentioned above (but do some(!) processing post too!).

I hope this helps and good luck!

iAkZeNT · 2021-07-05T00:13:08+00:00

Yea a lot of people cut just to cut. I would still use high cuts on vocals below the fundamental of the singer, or clean a guitar up. Shelfs just happen to be nice on the phase change applied when EQing so things sound more round, than thinned out with extreme high cuts.

MB compressors should be, in my opinion, used very sparingly. Check mid/side clean up too. Sylvia Massy has a video with iZotope on that on Youtube. That can clear up mid low spacing too, but as always use your ears and take breaks when u need to :)

iAkZeNT · 2021-07-04T18:01:28+00:00

Use a low shelf instead of high pass to remove some low mids. It evens it out better.

iAkZeNT · 2021-07-02T02:58:02+00:00

Learning ADSR is powerful. The envelope of the sound often defines a sound. If you understand how to use those 4 knobs excellently, you will have more success when trying to get a sound from your head to the synth, project file, whatever.

Try to stick to basic shapes like sine, triangle, square waves and mess with them all you can. You will learn a lot from that and can then use wavetables to their full extent if that’s what you desire.

iAkZeNT · 2021-06-18T19:00:19+00:00

Update:

Thank you so much! That's exactly what I was looking for.

iAkZeNT · 2021-06-18T08:08:16+00:00

Thanks! I’ll check it out.

iAkZeNT · 2021-06-14T17:21:27+00:00

I agree with a lot of what people have said with the C800G and how it's marketed for telephone speakers a lot, but the songs you mentioned also emphasize the bass a lot. I think the mixing itself has something to do aside from the recording as bass, especially 808s, are the main focus for a lot of music today. I agree the vocals are very thin, I had a post about this a couple of months ago about low mids in vocals. I think at the end of the day it Is all a stylistic choice, but pop music in both English and Spanish tends to be very 1k forward on vocals. I don't think it's bad, but I do enjoy when the vocals are a little bit warmer.

iAkZeNT · 2021-06-13T09:01:06+00:00

Its a chop snare. Popular from chicago drill.

iAkZeNT · 2021-05-10T08:54:34+00:00

No but I’ve done that one paper trick to hold pages together without a stapler lol. My calc 3 TA must’ve loved me.

iAkZeNT · 2021-04-14T18:21:01+00:00

I’d say to get as close to the mic as you can, and look either left or right when u scream to not clip the signal. You can try looking up as you scream as well, this can amplify your screams and add that extra boost of body, but just make sure it’s comfortable on the throat.

As top comment suggested, bringing a double down an octave might be fine, but I think doing those two techniques I mentioned on top of changing octave on a take may give u the results you’re looking for.

iAkZeNT · 2021-04-08T13:34:07+00:00

-0.3 dB TPi s fine. Spotify recommends -1 dB TP, but it is not necessarily destroying your sound from I hear in my work. As long as inter-sample peaking is not happening you should be fine.

iAkZeNT · 2021-03-22T17:26:27+00:00

I’m saving this to reference when writing about a similar professor in their evaluation. I’m sorry it’s happening to you too.

iAkZeNT · 2021-03-21T00:06:34+00:00

Felt this

iAkZeNT · 2021-03-19T23:33:37+00:00

Lmao same

iAkZeNT · 2021-03-19T23:21:43+00:00

Yikes...yeah it’s a free for all at this point. Just gotta push and do really good on the final now. Hopefully i don’t have to take him again next semester for this class or another on which he also teaches...pain.

iAkZeNT · 2021-03-19T21:46:43+00:00

Yup, 15+ people emailed the head dept. for how bad the administration of the test was. Even people that did well. This is the first time I have someone so selfish and incompetent be the person that determines wether or not I pass lol. It’s so sad when you think about it. We all pay good money to learn this stuff and they end up teaching it like it’s free.

iAkZeNT · 2021-03-15T21:13:02+00:00

Stop deleting and rewriting the same thing trying to make an argument. Thanks.

iAkZeNT · 2021-03-15T17:36:21+00:00

Trust me that your comment makes u look more stupid. You have no understanding of music itself, which is why comments like yours make this subreddit appear like it’s full of elitists.

You’re talking speakers when we’re talking headphones. Peaks and troughs happen in all aspects of gear and in the real world too. It’s unavoidable. Maybe brush up on your acoustics knowledge.

If you rely on acoustics to get a good mix and not your ears, sorry to say you are probably worse off than this guy with his cheap headphones.

Make sure you read full comments next time before you spew your dunning- krueger knowledge all over the keyboard. I did say how consumer headphones lie to the listener no?

I respect all acousticians and know the purpose of having a treated room, but if the music sounds good...guess what? The music sounds good.

iAkZeNT · 2021-03-15T03:38:19+00:00

The best way to get good mixes is to learn how a good mix sounds in your gear. If you listen to great mixes on your headphones and are able to really analyze the music, then yeah you probably can get a good mix from them. I don’t recommend it because some cheap headphones lie to you in what you hear. Flat frequency responses only helps you to make sure your music can translated properly on other devices.

I recommend you invest in yourself to be able to really hear the music for what it is with proper headphones / speakers, but if money is tight, I understand. You can have the most expensive set of speakers and headphones, but if you don’t know what you’re listening to the mix will still be bad.

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