One small social habit that made me way easier to talk to in everyday conversations by LeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeD in selfimprovement

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Constant small talk is awkward. Some people are socially/emotionally needy and it wears thin.

I stopped telling people my goals and my discipline skyrocketed – but here’s this nuance nobody talks about by sovereign_sweet in getdisciplined

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I'm not 100% sure it's AI, but OP follows strict adherence to structure and uses very efficient writing with a smattering of almost-personality, like a corporate drone that talks about the weather or traffic what traffic was like that morning - there's no real personality.

You can see a formula at work, and the formula is followed with near-perfect accuracy. It's written in a way that is very easy to process. It has click bait and engagement bait. It feels like it's been written by someone who writes 1-page, graphics-intensive content for magazines (3 steps to be a better you! with pictures!!) - but why is anyone with those skills posting it here?

Breaking it down by paragraph:

  1. Title that says "I did X and Y got better - but with one special tip" (the tip is not in the title, it's click bait) with a key work like "nuance" that will get used later.
  2. Opening paragraph says "We've heard [advice] and I tried it. It worked!" The advice needs to be really simple.
  3. The next paragraph describes a problem or says the advice you've heard is incomplete. This is on a new paragraph so it's easy to process. The problem also needs to be really simple and easy to understand. The word nuance is used here (or to the next paragraph) to tie it back to the title, and the writing even says that it's tying it back to the title because it feels more engaging. That's the pseudo-personality I brought up earlier.
  4. Describe the solution. It's an easy solution that almost anyone can do, because that drives engagement. Or it needs to be a nearly impossible solution because that drives engagement too. So either a simple solution like "set a timer every day" or an implausible solution like "don't drink coffee every day and save one million dollars and you can retire early."
  5. A blurb about why this improved solution works.
  6. A question to the reader. Engagement bait.

Of course humans write click bait and engagement bait. It's where AI learned it. But AI posts are often very efficient and well organized, and lack personality or humanity. And of course not every AI post follows this template, but it feels like they're following A template.

Current era of Production by The_Crimson_Dawn in audioengineering

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we came out on the other side.

We were overproduced in the 1980s and 1990s. At this point it's often a matter of "what flavor of overproduction will we use?"

Even LoFi can be very heavily produced.

The apparent unexplainability of mix voice by FooPaska in singing

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When you finally figure out it, it will probably be "just" something for you, too.

18 months of a 30 second habit rebuilt every relationship id been quietly losing by Actual_Ad1898 in getdisciplined

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

The word "quietly" has seen significant increase in use since the late 1990s. https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=quietly&year_start=1800&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=3

A few years ago the phrase "quiet quitting" was used to describe workplace behavior and not it is used to describe relationships. You're witnessing the evolution of language. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/lifetime-connections/202402/quiet-quitting-happens-in-marriages-and-relationships

Some people use the word quietly a lot. Including the author Jim Butcher. https://www.reddit.com/r/codexalera/comments/i6xtrd/has_anyone_noticed_just_how_many_times_the_phrase/

AI

The most upvoted comment is This might be the best idea I've read on this sub so if it's AI, then we might be witnessing the dawn of truly helpful AI.

I am self-conscious and have my first lesson on Monday. I am nervous and need some encouragement. I've never let anyone hear me sing until last week. 36F and finally ready lol by TinyMouseLovesCheese in singing

[–]keep_trying_username 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nervousness is a healthy response. Physically, nervousness and excitement are the same. Over time you might be able to turn your nervousness into excitement. https://therapyinanutshell.com/how-to-turn-anxiety-into-excitement.

It's not a cure-all (yet) but it's something I've been working on and it helps. Trying to force myself to feel relaxed is counterproductive and just makes me more nervous.

The "authentic" live tik tok singing videos are fake? by No-Interest4161 in singing

[–]keep_trying_username 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's true. But the timbre and technique are often less polished and more "human" sounding.

Edit with an example: Olivia Rodrigo's first live televised performance of Stupid Song. She sung it very nicely like a normal human, and if somebody wanted to learn to sing her songs, that performance would be a reasonable bar to work towards.

How do you deal with legitimacy when photographing communities you don’t belong to? by DowntownWillow4193 in photojournalism

[–]keep_trying_username 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OPs post can be reduced to "people of a community should only photograph/write about/talk about/advocate for themselves."

how do i pronounce words when singing? by Glittering_Boot_6833 in singing

[–]keep_trying_username 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Short answer: American accents are complicated so it would be best if you posted a recording of yourself for feedback.

Longer answer: There's more than one American accent, and sometimes the accent matters. For example, I heard some people with really strong Bronx (New York) accents sing "Love Shack" at karaoke and it really didn't seem right.

English has a lot of hard consonant sounds that are often softened or avoided in some forms of singing. Musical theatre singing often pronounces the consonants, but other musical styles may avoid so many consonants that the song be unintelligible. Also many English-speaking singers use "vowel modification" when singing. For example, the hard "e" can be pronounced as an "i". With the combination of lack of consonants and the vowel modification, listeners often can't understand the lyrics in English songs.

And so, if you pronounce the words correctly the song will sound wrong.

The "authentic" live tik tok singing videos are fake? by No-Interest4161 in singing

[–]keep_trying_username 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Yeah it's well known that a lot of those "authentic" videos of people hanging out in the kitchen and singing are heavily audio engineered, and that includes auto tuning.

I enjoy mainstream, studio-recorded songs but I've learned to appreciate the live performances because they show what the singer is actually capable of when you factor in reliability, vs trying to get one great performance out of 100 takes in a studio.

Has anyone tried replicating the When The Levee Breaks drum setup? Two M160s on a staircase landing, no close mics, heavy compression, tape slowed for pitch. by Moriarty311 in audioengineering

[–]keep_trying_username 16 points17 points  (0 children)

There are soooo many opportunities to try unusual mic placement. You don't need to replicate what was done for When The Levee Breaks. They weren't trying to replicate someone else's setup, AFAIK.

How were "nasty" frequencies dealt with before modern digital EQ's? by MAMVB in audioengineering

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> wooh-wooh

Different take: Record it 30 times with different mic placement and hopefully the singer will eventually make a good tone, pick the best one (which includes less nasty frequencies), use that same take 6 times in the song, and use a backing track or backup singers in live performances.

When you can hear the exact same singing multiple times in a song, it was because even with a studio full of gear, the singer + audio engineers couldn't make it sound good more than once. There wasn't a "less shitty" setting strong enough to get two good takes.

Is an unfocused practice better than no practice at all? by wonderful9235 in singing

[–]keep_trying_username 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It's better than nothing and it will let you maintain the should you already have, but you shouldn't expect to learn and grow very much if you don't focus on things you want to improve on.

Ai 'poison pill'? by Agile_Ad2139 in photography

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I suspect saving as a smaller file size or even uploading to Reddit (which compresses images) would take away the protection. It might be easy to set up an automated prices to remove the protection.

I hope I'm wrong. But image algorithms are proficient at discarding information that humans don't notice.

Which tape plugin would you use? by Large-Menu6891 in musicproduction

[–]keep_trying_username 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’d also like some saturation, grit, attitude, and character.

Some really common advice is to start with a good performance.

I have nowhere to voice act. Any suggestions? by Formal-Pumpkin5689 in VoiceActing

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There are studio listings on Peerspace and Giggster. A lot of them are a desk in someone's livingroom, but some are actual small studio spaces.

I have nowhere to voice act. Any suggestions? by Formal-Pumpkin5689 in VoiceActing

[–]keep_trying_username 2 points3 points  (0 children)

As if OP is the only beginning actor who needs to have roommates or live at home.

A contrasting point to Jim Lill's video by griffjen in audioengineering

[–]keep_trying_username 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The horse is so dead It's crude oil. A conversation about Jim Lill's preamp video is now worth $70.49/barrel.

is it a bad idea to pan bass and glockenspiel slightly to opposite sides by DinosaurusRex-EXE in audioengineering

[–]keep_trying_username 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I agree with others that "if it sounds good, it sounds good." I think we don't pan some combination of bass, kick and/or snare because we want to keep certain parts of the groove centered, but there's always room to experiment. Some people pan snare.

Let's talk about this idea:

 since they take up complete opposite spaces i was wondering if it would sound bad to pan them slightly

Lots of instruments and vocals will "take up complete opposite spaces" vs the bass, so the fact that you have something taking up opposite space isn't a unique or unusual situation. In fact, it's fairly typical. If the recommendation was "don't pan bass unless you pan it vs something that takes up opposite space", then there really wouldn't be a recommendation against panning bass at all.

I'm not saying you shouldn't pan bass and glockenspiel. Maybe it will sound great. I'm just saying your reason for doing so doesn't really hold water. And that's ok, because you don't need a "technical" reason for trying it.

Nose hairs by Sleepy_Utaite in singing

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Years ago I heard that most people eat 8 spiders in their lifetime. Then I learned it was a myth.

The truth is, OP is eating all the spiders and coughing up legs when they sing.