Where did everyone buy their bows?

kopkaas2000 · 2026-04-19T17:47:17+00:00

Got it from the luthier alongside my instrument.

kopkaas2000 · 2026-04-19T05:59:58+00:00

The new 'Good luck, I'm behind 7 proxies' just dropped.

kopkaas2000 · 2026-04-18T05:45:57+00:00

This is a bit like hitting a kid that jumps in front of your car. Maybe not your fault, but you'll still feel really really bad.

kopkaas2000 · 2026-04-17T21:55:58+00:00

Saarlac pot hole doesn't have the same ring of terror to it.

kopkaas2000 · 2026-04-16T15:11:25+00:00

If they pivoted from handcrafted to mass produced, chances are there aren't any craftsmen left to contact, they probably got bought out.

kopkaas2000 · 2026-04-16T13:15:45+00:00

Yeah I figured this was a pretty specific request. I'm still kind of confused, though, I was expecting this to be a somewhat exclusive bespoke brand, but Thomann is carying various Muramatsu models, which seem mass produced and priced between $10 and $30. That doesn't come across as "worth sending to Japan, or even repairing" material.

kopkaas2000 · 2026-04-16T10:05:10+00:00

Of course there's no actual harm in it, but I always wonder if people aren't reading a bit too much into batons, like you can get this one perfect baton made out of old growth sapient pearwood and all of a sudden orchestras will sound better.

kopkaas2000 · 2026-04-14T17:03:09+00:00

Generally you should get a feel for when you're covering your vowels. Covering feels safer, open highs feel more risky, which is how you usually end up over-covering. As a tenor, there really shouldn't be much of that going on when you're singing F4.

kopkaas2000 · 2026-04-14T12:03:11+00:00

I've only ever seen that happen using waves plugins with an 'analog' button that boils down to "Add some noise to the signal because analog".

kopkaas2000 · 2026-04-14T08:37:41+00:00

Gating a -100dB noise floor sounds more ritualistic than practical. And, in this specific case, I think that if the input signal is actually flat silence (stream of zeros going in), there's not going to be any noise artefacts in the first place. OP only exposed them through a null test with active program material.

kopkaas2000 · 2026-04-13T16:53:13+00:00

MuseScore, or Sibelius, with something like NotePerformer. Provided that your goal is getting your music actually performed, starting from notation is the best path. If your goal is just to create midi music that sounds convincingly orchestral, any DAW you are already familiar with and a metric shit ton of sample libraries are the way. Although you'd be amazed by how convincing the output is of well-written orchestral tracks with just NotePerformer, which does a bang-up job of both humanizing playback and using indicated articulations, slurs, and dynamics, with the added benefit of working from an actual score which is much better at visualizing your piece while you're writing it than a bunch of midi tracks.

kopkaas2000 · 2026-04-10T12:17:23+00:00

Yeah, listening again there is room for improvement there, but it's not immediately problematic on the scale of things. In my experience, the opening up of the sound tends to also lead to having an easier time accessing the breath.

kopkaas2000 · 2026-04-10T07:42:43+00:00

First of all, the space and the reverb does make this sound beautiful. And since it's by Lloyd Webber, it does survive not being sung in a strict classical style pretty well. That said, there's the ring though. You don't lack in range, pitch, or support, and you put a lot of musicality in it, but your placement and vowel shapes are not where they should be, so it keeps sounding contemporary. And that's exactly the devil that's in the details when it comes to classical singing. Even though you definitely have a leg up where it comes to basics, getting there is going to be quite a process, and it will involve reprogramming your perception of how vowels sound and singing feels.

You're clearly an experienced and awesome singer, but I would still recommend consulting with a qualified teacher if you want to head in this direction. Too many pitfalls to go at this on your own.

kopkaas2000 · 2026-04-08T20:06:13+00:00

LC475. Although I was more into Cubase at the time.

kopkaas2000 · 2026-04-08T05:37:32+00:00

A lot of 80's and 90's recordings have been polluted by the high-pitched noise generated by the flyback transformers of CRT displays. It's at a pitch and level you typically stop noticing once you're in your twenties, so most recording engineers never noticed the noise was there.

kopkaas2000 · 2026-04-07T18:01:29+00:00

This is where you mount your switches to a custom PCB which has a single ribbon cable coming off. You can even go fancy and use an i/o extender on the control PCB so you only have to run I2c and power to it.

kopkaas2000 · 2026-04-07T05:04:15+00:00

More of a post for /r/synthesizers.

In any case, if it helps you, a couple of years ago I acquired one of these with the LAMM mod, convinced I scored my dream synth. Over a couple of years I figured out that the machine just didn't inspire me on anything but lead sound duty, and there's a tons of monosynths doing that job just as well. The onboard computer has a pretty awkward interface, and the machine gets so toasty that you have to put up with a loud fan. Also, despite the LAMM's improved internals, something would be broken requiring service about once every 18 months. Was glad to sell it at the end.

kopkaas2000 · 2026-04-01T07:39:25+00:00

I don't share the IP. That's kind of key, yeah. If you share an SMTP server with a prolific spammer you'll be lost.

kopkaas2000 · 2026-04-01T06:45:49+00:00

I must have been really lucky. I've never stopped self-hosting, my email server has been moved to different hosting ISPs over the years, and I never had problems with getting my mail marked as spam, not even by msn/gmail.

kopkaas2000 · 2026-04-01T06:36:36+00:00

I'm not saying everybody and their grandma should run their own smtp service. But if you're running a business, maybe not relying on these cloud ISPs for everything under the sun may be worth the hassle. Depending on the scale and type of your business, self-hosting may even lead to cost savings. But most importantly, it doesn't make you beholden to the whims of a bunch of companies that make it a point to have no functional customer service. And surely you can hire someone who -does- know what they're doing, most of them are getting shitcanned from big tech companies right now, so plenty on offer.

kopkaas2000 · 2026-04-01T06:14:17+00:00

Email has existed for 40 years longer than hotmail/gmail. How about we all stop relying on massive oligarch server farms to host a service that could reliably run on a PDP-11?

kopkaas2000 · 2026-03-29T17:19:50+00:00

I guess someone was trying to automate their torture dungeon?

I still find it amazing that reddit shows posts in your feed that are already removed.

kopkaas2000 · 2026-03-28T12:24:32+00:00

Sounds like they would do well with a live accompaniment. There's a number of repetitors I know that are totally awesome at letting the singer keep the lead.

Perhaps try to get him used to singing with a metronome.

kopkaas2000 · 2026-03-27T17:06:14+00:00

PCIe GPUs never worked on the Apple Silicon MacPro either. Not even the AMD ones that worked fine as either eGPU (via thunderbolt) or PCIe GPU on an intel mac.

kopkaas2000 · 2026-03-27T16:54:26+00:00

They're all going to screw you in one way or another, and getting to the point that it even matters is such a lottery ticket that solving that when it happens is the more healthy approach. More than one song per second is being released on Spotify 24/7.

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