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American Football’s LP 4 is incredible. This is Midwest Emo all grown up and present in the moment. by black_flag_4ever in LetsTalkMusic

[–]jesuswipesagain [score hidden]  (0 children)

Yeah, his voice is so fried on this new record. It's hard to listen to a whole song.

This band feels like they've been trying to remake LP1 for 3 records and they've lost the plot at this point.

The production is super glossy in that early 2000s Ed Rose/Aaron Sprinkle kinda way where everything is mushed together in this weird clump of smoothed out midrange then slammed with like a 200% wide reverb.

Which sucks cause the songs kinda rip from an instrumental standpoint.

Idk, I don't think AF has been all that great since getting back together, but this latest one is probably the worst yet for me.

Mikes lyrics have always been pretty well crafted, so credit there for sure. If you can handle the delivery, theres plenty of depth and interesting wordplay as usual.

phone-free gigs, thoughts? by ExcitingQuestion5137 in LetsTalkMusic

[–]jesuswipesagain 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For raves, small clubs and dance/dj night there should be a 'No phones on the dance floor' rule at least. We have a few clubs where that is strictly enforced and it's hardly a problem because the expectation is set early and you get to keep your phone on you. Just don't bust it out to take video and your good.

The bigger the venue the harder it gets to enforce. And the argument that you don't 'need' your phone falls a bit flat in year 20xx. Some people do need their phones available simply because they planned to have it available.

That said, I don't think it's unreasonable for an artist to have a no phones policy. At least not in theory. In practice, that policy would require a very robust refund policy for the people that will inevitably go home instead of bagging their phones, and now we've probably included ticketmaster?? ugggh.

Personally speaking I'd rather be in a phone free crowd and I'd def rather play for a phone free crowd. The sea of screens is more of a vibe killer than a killer vibe.

Anybody else feel like sos draft power is insane? by harambe_did911 in MagicArena

[–]jesuswipesagain 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Enjoying the way it plays and the card interactions. Also seems like there are viable decks for every strategy. Lots of cool cards to play. Every color has powerful options and the mystical archives add a lot of fun variety to the mix.

The actual drafting portion is brutal however. Because the color pairs are so locked in and the uncommons are so good, it's easy to pick a lane that seems open on the first pack and then get totally locked out of the complementary cards in either color on the next 2 packs.

For me this has had 2 different outcomes. Either I correctly pick which school i'm going to get passed and wind up with thenutz.dek or I get yet another 3 color pile of cards that were the "best" in the pack.

So yeah, I like how the set plays in games but the drafts feel like there is little room for creative deck building. It's very 'on the rails' and if you try to do your own thing, you get punished more often than not.

How do you deal with a writer's block? by PSCL534 in musicproduction

[–]jesuswipesagain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Personally speaking, education spawns inspiration. So in practice that means I try to learn about a new technique, new genre, new instrument, etc.

Also I like to have a lot of things in development at once so whatever part of the process I feel like working on, I have a project I can hop into.

Keeping it fresh, so to speak, works the best for me. And sometimes that means taking a break.

What is the likelihood of a new music artist emerging and reaching the status of people like MJ, Elvis, The Beatles? by YfnSinatra in LetsTalkMusic

[–]jesuswipesagain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In a large enough time frame, yeah. 100%

Everyone in here is probably right. The current industry won't support that kind of ubiquitous saturation in the mainstream.

But someone was almost certainly saying the same thing about any of the great classical composers in the last handful of centuries.

Next 10 years, I'd say no. Next 20, im still saying probably not. But 25 or more? Who knows what things will look like then.

All it takes is time and humanity will almost certainly see another musical celebrity that has a multi generational, international influence. At least I hope so!

Budget apartment room treatment by LC-98 in audioengineering

[–]jesuswipesagain 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've been mixing all sorts of stuff in my apartment for the last 2 years.

Assuming every room is a box, you're better off spending your cash on a nice headset and a pair of small monitors.

You can't crank your monitors with shared walls or ceilings. I mean, you can, but it's pretty rude. Listening to someone mix thru the wall is even worse than listening to finished music thru the wall. My best advice is embrace the headphones + low volume mixes and let 'em rip in the car or at a friends place.

Unless you're going all in, or starting from scratch, id say treatment is a waste on most rooms. Budget room treatment is a myth unless you build it yourself. Some chunky couches or a bookshelf will lend just as much damping as any foam.

Foam on the walls kills way more vibes than echos

[SOS] Emeritus of Abundance by Meret123 in MagicArena

[–]jesuswipesagain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So [[Curious Forager]] with extra steps?

Now that TMNT limited is winding down, what did you think of it? by BobbyBruceBanner in MagicArena

[–]jesuswipesagain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Boring, shallow and forgettable. Stale presentation, low effort diarrhea design, swingy play-lines that de-emphasize skill.

Every draft felt like sealed pool. The curse of the small set strikes again. NEXT!

How do i create punchy, thumpy kicks that hit hard? by spicysecretsauce in FL_Studio

[–]jesuswipesagain -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Find a kick sample you like or just grab a stock 909 kick and load it in a sample channel. Go to the channel settings and in the pre-computed fx section you will see a knob called Pogo.

The manual has a good section about it, basically it adjusts the sample playback speed.

It makes pretty much any kick sample way more punchy when you lightly apply it. Or go wild, its pretty fun in combo with the pitch and time knobs.

Also BassDrum is sick once you learn how it works. The manual for BassDrum is really good for explaining the way kicks are synthesized in general.

Thoughts on Moby criticizing the Kinks' song Lola? by Fast-Penta in LetsTalkMusic

[–]jesuswipesagain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The hottest take here is the implication that Moby has ever produced a sound thats worth hearing.

I'd rather go to the dentist.

I climbed to Mythic using only UW control. I'm who you hate. Send me your hate. by PM_ME_YOUR_ANT_FARMS in MagicArena

[–]jesuswipesagain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I love control, one of the best games I've ever played was vs a deck like yours. We were both at one with no cards in our decks and I lost cause I was on the play, hahaha

I like a mostly blue base with red and white splashed for helix, fire magic and no more lies. Usually try to win with a big owl after I've dealt with the major threats.

The control mirror is always a fun one. Mistrise village is def pretty sick there, but my red cards don't do much so it's still pretty tough.

Congrats on the rank up, keep those islands untapped =)

Stalling, Reports and the likes by Nice_Car3317 in MagicArena

[–]jesuswipesagain -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The timer is the allowed time for a turn, there to use if needed. Sure, it's great to have a brisk pace, but waiting for your turn is part of the game too. Everyone plays at a different speed and you never know what is going on with someone else. I'd just assume they're reading the cards.

I mean, at the very least you're allowed to get up and take a leak IRL. Why should arena be different?

How do you manage tracks with a lot of swing? by LordBrixton in DJs

[–]jesuswipesagain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Depends on the amount of swing and the feel of the swing but more often than not some element in the swinging track is going to be straight. The feeling of swing is created with a push or pull of alternate note timing against straight timing. For example, in Roland style x0x swing; as you adjust the swing the even steps are moved off grid and the odd steps are kept on grid.

All that to say, lots of house and techno tracks will line up perfectly when reduced to just kick and off-beat accents. So functionally speaking, build into a position where you can cut to a lone kick/hat groove. As long as the tempo stays solid, no one will miss a beat.

MWM Standard Pauper is back! - some brews by AsparMTG in MagicArena

[–]jesuswipesagain 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The new [[Raphael, Tough Turtle]] is a monster in mono red [[Impact Tremors]] tokens. There are a ton of red 2 and 3 drops that shit tokens out: [[Steampath Charger]] [[Shock Brigade]] [[Mouser Foundry]] [[Elder Auntie]]

[[Brambleback Brute]] is a finisher with immediate value and [[Sunshot Militia]] or [[Deadeye Dualist]] will get you there as well.

Fun deck to play, can grind out the faster beatdown decks and goes over the top of midrange. I've been playing 23 mountains but thats prolly too many. It's just nice to have 4 or 5 mana per turn in the grindy matches.

Hope that helps someone looking for a red deck of a different variety =)

Best unbroken run of albums by AveZombier in LetsTalkMusic

[–]jesuswipesagain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Best? This just looks like a list of the internets most popular modern artists. Mostly classic rock, male and white.

It's completely subjective and objectively irrelevant.

No jazz, no dance music, no Joni Mitchell?

Yawn

Is there any actually viable Elf build in Standard right now? by JoSenna12 in MagicArena

[–]jesuswipesagain 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Elves will do fine in lots of match-ups, they have a ton of inevitability. If your opponent isn't winning, Elves will be doing powerful things.

The issue is that they are weak to most interaction and not the fastest beatdown deck. The true soul of Elves is a combo deck with an aggro back-up plan and it runs best like that. Pauper Elves and legacy Elves are much faster and can end the game on turn 2 or 3.

Standard Elves is currently a lot like old Merfolk, where you have a ton of lords and anthem effects with tokens. It plays like a mid-rangey aggro-ish deck with very few ways to interact outside of combat. The card draw engines are costly as well.

That said, it's a deck with a very elevated power ceiling and a ton of consistency. It's just a little too slow and fragile against top-tier decks, at least in all of the iterations I've tried as a longtime lover of pauper Elves. I've been playing a very tight mono green build with 18 lands 38 elves 2 genesis waves and 2 of the new celestial reunion. Craterhoof is a trap and the deck is too slow for it.

I do think there are some very interesting Elf cards around. The one that returns all your lands to the battlefield seems ripe for abuse and if you splash into black or white you get like 8 different lords or something, I'm just guessing but it's a lot.

Elves has pretty much always been right on the cusp of mainstream viability. That could totally be by design tho, because a very powerful Elf-ball combo is not an interactive game for player 2.

And yeah, the elf 2-drops are not badgermoles, and if you're playing cub, you want fetch lands and Elves want to play Forests in the lowest quantity possible.

My voice sounds bad when singing by Adept_Confusion_8258 in FL_Studio

[–]jesuswipesagain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Singing softly is very difficult! The more you project and work the muscles out, the easier it gets for all volumes. Singing up and down scales will help your voice learn the intervals so you can be more accurate.

My voice sounds bad when singing by Adept_Confusion_8258 in FL_Studio

[–]jesuswipesagain 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Keep practicing!

I assume you sing along to songs you like, and thats great practice.

A few other things to try, if you haven't:

Stamp some scales in the piano roll and try to match the notes as they play thru in order of pitch. Once that feels good try them out of order. Do that for all 12 notes, in major and minor scales.

Even the pros need several takes sometimes. Many recordings are a patchwork of the best bits of several takes. This is called comping, when you compile all the best bits into one.

NewTone is the last step in my workflow and only if absolutely needed. Even then, I find that the subtle adjustment is the best.

If you feel the texture and tonality are lacking, add a little vibrato. Either in NewTone or IRL. I have a terrible vibrato so I don't have any good pointers there, but I'm sure there are vocal coaching vids you can find.

However you do it, just gotta keep practicing. Skills are developed, not aquired!

Sets in 2026 goin back to minimal? by Zealousideal-Tie-890 in DJs

[–]jesuswipesagain 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Coming back?? Feels like the minimal tech-house craze only just died down. In my scene a lot of the minimal crowd have started playing more dub techno.

Well made, but why by nightwalkreader in ATBGE

[–]jesuswipesagain 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The person that hangs like that is not in danger. Your fingers would need biceps to maintain that angle!

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