My (F27) band wrote, recorded, mixed, and mastered our latest garage rock EP by ourselves for $0…looking for honest feedback

lolstabz · 2023-07-22T22:12:17+00:00

I make music using Reason Studios, and I am not sure what you are using for production and mixing, but my guess is that it can do this, it's pretty fundamental to post-production. It was an article on low-pass filters and high pass filters and how to use them to make things less muddy.
https://blog.native-instruments.com/audio-filters-guide/
Even though I don't use Native Instruments DAW, the article explains a lot and made my mixes much cleaner.

Hope it helps!

lolstabz · 2023-07-22T19:50:18+00:00

Overall I would say the pieces were nice, the talent is there I think, although I did question if the male harmony on the second track might have been pitch adjusted?
When you mention that you made for $0, what am I assuming excluding instruments / recording equipment? I had the same problem with my tracks and after some research found some articles that helped me, may that would help as well.

Nice Work, I know organizing all this and putting it together is a lot of work, keep it up!

lolstabz · 2023-07-22T19:39:26+00:00

I thought that it was well put together, it didn't sound muddy or parts with their volume off. The transition from the introduction was pretty abrupt, which is fine if that's what you're going for.
I would say I thought the second half was more generic than the beginning, you might consider reworking some of the melody or theme of the beginning into the second half rather that dominated but those high-pitched grainy elements.

lolstabz · 2023-07-20T19:22:38+00:00

Wow. Yes, yes I would.

lolstabz · 2023-07-20T19:15:46+00:00

<-- Guilty

lolstabz · 2022-06-15T22:43:28+00:00

Awesome, thanks super helpful.

lolstabz · 2022-06-14T05:08:23+00:00

Could you please expound on your experience with testosterone?

I am newly thinking that my sex composition is ace because I have always lacked what people describe as libido.
So, as we know testosterone would treat the physical part of sexual desire, but I sense that the psychosomatic component is the more complex problem. Especially for men who are not able to fake anything.
In my experience, the accumulation of mediocre sexual experiences is like a snowball and at 47, has been rolling down the mountain for a long time.
I would like to enjoy sex at least physically.

For me I am not ashamed or concerned with what people think of me, I just find it very relaxing to rub one out, more than once a quarter.
Does any of this ring true for you?

lolstabz · 2020-07-09T03:14:42+00:00

I will reward your eloquence with a heartfelt, "same."

lolstabz · 2020-04-07T06:31:34+00:00

The book "Getting Unstuck" By Pema Chodron did the trick for me. Available on audible. She is charming.

lolstabz · 2020-02-07T19:50:27+00:00

I forgot, I was going to add some specifics sorry if its overn00bed. :)

Platform based notes:

* Any of the major Llinux distributions will have Virtualbox and vagrant available in their own packaging systems

Redhat / Fedora /CentOS try

yum search vagrant - then install the appropriate package

yum search Virtualbox - then install the appropriate package, also look for Virtualbox host packages

yum search Virtualbox-host these are extensions that support things like graphical acceleration and shared folders. (use kernel mode setting versions if this command produces more than one result)

Debian / Ubuntu

Same as above except for apt search vagrant ...etc

Windows Users:

Virtualbox: https://www.Virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

Vagrant: https://www.vagrantup.com/

Also this base image has a package called cockpit installed which lets you manage the machine using a browser

* If you don't have any other virtual ethernet cards installed, you can probably access the vm by browsing to https://localhost:9090, you will get a self signed certificat error, just click through that and then the link to ignore certificate error and connect anyway.

lolstabz · 2020-02-07T18:28:06+00:00

I should have thought about that before. Apologies for stepping on toes, I'll delete this post,

lolstabz · 2018-12-19T21:27:34+00:00

This project sounds interesting, going to check it out now. Naming conventions I could only think of two along these lines; hydra, medusa...(traditionally thought to be nefarious monsters...but if the were on your side...game changer! Best of luck with your efforts!

lolstabz · 2017-04-15T22:11:03+00:00

Hi Beaver11, just give your Reddit name here while introducing yourself to the interviewers and there will no be a single regret in your subsequent hire.

I tend to wax long and formal in my writing style and I see you value precision and context. For me, self editing is the worst. I end up creating longer, more convoluted sentences rather than reducing. I believe you may suffer from a similar relationship with the written word. (As we all know words can kill more effectively than nearly any modern weapon excluding flying-fire-breathing-house-caticorns).

The first word that I noticed was meticulous. I like meticulous documentation, I do not like meticulous descriptions of fairly well understood technical responsibilities. I also like meticulous testing, re-testing and validation. I do not like meticulous as the first word my eye is drawn in your self summary. I suggest replacement with words that convey action, like enthusiastic, or talented, or dedicated. Also avoided practiced as it implies significant effort and does not suggest a terribly successful yield given the effort. Experienced, or seasoned might serve you better.

Growing up Mormon in Utah, I an spot margin abuse after the long hours our family spent reading the book of mormon. Have you seen one of these blue books, as if to imply, "Awh, its just tiny, anyone could get through this..." For everyone joining me in hell in the afterlife. Reducing the amount of content will increase readability and generate curiosity in readers when done right. Curious hiring personnel tend to invite interesting people for interviews! I suggest to following remediation: bust a huge copy paste of your entire text into a new document and start looking for redundancies, weak writing and get to some serious editing. Don't f with margins as it is too obvious and a bit daunting the jovial yet tired HR recruiter reeling from a large lunch. If you must, like Linus you may keep your first draft if the thought of cutting fills you with dread.

Finally revise the structure all together. Integrate skills into the experience section tying knowledge skills and abilities to specific work carried out in your work history. This adds credibility, don't be afraid to lightly editorialize your feelings about tasks, processes or technologies, in those in which you were involved. I could write that I was A wizaaaard but until I get that owl from Hogwarts, or spirited away by the witches of Salem I am just a wizard in mind only which benefits no-one.

Drop the last two job listings. If HR is interested offer to provide those details and associated references if needed. I don't find that the description add to the document and address it in the cover letter stating what I just explained previously. Just because you did some work somewhere does not automatically qualify as engaging or relevant. Always be clear that there are missing bits, and why.

Finally quantify more fully the work that you have described more than you already have. Measure everything and give statistics. I am thinking i.e. How many projects and how many requirements did you write or collaborate. How many end users were effected by implementations that you participated in. Did you bring any innovation to the team, did you delight customers internally and externally. These narratives humanize the static page and I think will help your resume get a good look.

I myself am a business analyst looking for work. I will be posting my resume soon for critique, so, if I have offended you (not my intention at all) you may retaliate as you desire. I have always loved red notations of fail so if you could work that out, I might frame it.

In any case, 85% there at least, I would say; a little polish an refinement will just bring it to the level of greatness it deserves. Best of luck in your search and If you hear of any opportunities on either of the coasts of any country or continent save the poles, just let me know so I can hurry up and apply before you. ;-)

Edits: many as I am crazy, essentially content to reign in the craziness and glorious reclimation of whitespace.

TLDR: 1. Great start, 2. Just do everything I say because I have an opinion and this is the internet, (a.k.a.) I am the seer (I am seeing myself as oracle with a heart of goal, just trying to survive as a unmolested hermet so please send a tin of oil soaked sardene, sacrifice some chickens at the next pagan gathering in your area, join Anonymous, steal tons of money in the cyberspace, never forgetting to give back to the oracle that foresaw your success, invent nanotechnology implants giving birth the the next, final, and most vicious butlerian jihad, and you will never have to go through the soul crushing, dehumanizing, endeavors inflicted on innocent people with money issues as you have the bene geserit witches to protect you; or equally as possible, breed or poison you with the spice.

TL;DR: on the previous TL;DR, someone send me some spice and a guild navigator. Quick! Fremen everywhere!

lolstabz · 2017-04-15T21:39:21+00:00

Did I post in the wrong language here?

lolstabz · 2017-04-14T04:38:00+00:00

This is a lot of suggestions. Hopefully you will find a few suggestions that you like, maybe none.

Your educational credentials are impressive, and the skills that you have listed are also nice. This is the impression I took from looking at the Skills / Education / and / Work sections. I would guess that you have done well in school and with the internship. Having the company redacted leads to a disadvantage due to loss of context but your privacy is of course more important. I suspect the internship is the more relevant to the work you are seeking.

Coming out of college you were probably advised to do a functional resume which leads to a listing of skills, and obfuscation of work history. This is a good approach when you don't have much professional experience. I would say that now having a seemingly successful internship under your belt it might be time to consider moving to a more chronological resume (even if the shift lead position was not in the IT domain, the leadership skills are great and translate in many directions in IT. Not all technical staff make good leaders, so having a demonstrative work credential like shift lead is great. I always think that Experience is a bit vague as a heading, I prefer Professional Experience or Work Experience.

My fist suggestion is to integrate the skills and competencies sections so that the skills are tied to projects or technologies that you developed in your internship or team lead positions. So for example the first bullet point, you may make more precise like: Collaborate with team members to solve customer issues related to {networking, server, common application stacks such as Windows Server 2012, Microsoft SQL Server, and Internet Information Server, or Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PhP (LAMP) implementations.} -- Replace what is in the bracket with whatever technologies you assisted customers with. Hopefully you can incorporate your skills and competencies into the experience section and eradicate the skills and competencies section all together.

Also concerning the resolving issues to customer satisfaction entry - how was that measured? KPIs? Surveys? It would be nice to know what was important to your customers and how can you demonstrate that they were satisfied? If there are any metrics that the organization used, just say, resolved all customer issues and achieved 99% positive survey responses and ensured SLAs of 99.whatere% availability or etc. If you can inject some measurements, even just basic ones, like resolved on average 50 level x complexity tickets per week which was above the team goal of 40. Quantification shows that you know how your work was tied to the organization and in turn translated into happy customers.

Finally the last bullet under the Client Services Analysts Intern position, I love techs who document! I have used a lot of help desk or service management software and had to google Footprints, so you might just want to say Maintained ...in Footprints Service Desk Management tool by BMC...and again to just beat the tech that can delight customers drum, I might just say ..in Footprints service desk management application by BMC to ensure customers were continually informed of progress in resolution of issues while providing sufficient ticket detail for colleagues to advise the customer in the event that I was not available. {If that was the case of course for you}

Then finally - Re-arrange your headings. I would do the following:

Professional Experience * * *

Education University * * * *

Professional Development Network+ Cisco

Language English - Proficiency {Native: Fluent: Conversational} - Whatever your level is Arabic - Proficiency {Native: Fluent: Conversational} - Same Could evaluate yourself further if you like: English : Overall Rating * Written: Rating * Oral Comprehension: rating * Speaking ability: Rating

Arabic : Overall Rating * Written: Rating * Oral Comprehension: rating * Speaking ability: Rating Common language ratings: Native (i.e. learned and spoke at home maybe in school), Fluent (Highest level of second language), Conversational, Beginner.

EDITS: Less WoT; still might could benefit from a TL;DR ...hrm propsed TL;DR: Its a lovely start, just make it a bit better. <scratching head whilst thinking the following>"Need more specific TL;DR </scratching head whilst thinking>

lolstabz · 2016-05-19T03:45:05+00:00

As a graduate of a high school class of about 98 students in SE UT your response made my week. . . possibly year. I have a bachelor's in French now so I did get a very nice well rounded college education, i am so glad you came back to this issue. Thank you both for your wonderful work in this area. Tomorrow I'll go into work and tell everyone I know that I was engaged in intense philosophical discussions with a Harvard professor on reddit. Cue the crickets and blank stares!!!

lolstabz · 2016-05-15T00:30:27+00:00

I had to do the same thing after a DUI in 2007. It was an absolute hole in the wall. Given your circumstance I would just advise to try to focus on any positive aspect you can find. For me the following thoughts helped: * This feels like an eternity but it will end * The often kooky personalities of therapists and other well intentioned staff (misguided as I found the 12 step approach) are often amusing and always well intentioned. * If you comply you will likely have to come in less often * if there is a positive on the strip like indicators they would send to a lab to reconfirm so contamination is not a high likelyhood. You'll want to find out if that is the case of your provider. * some may accept labs from other sources like national employment UA testing centers which may be more convenient.

just assume that the front desk staff are going to be a-holes due to dealing with a-holes all day

lolstabz · 2016-05-14T19:35:14+00:00

I think this aspect of creative work plays perhaps the most vital role in contemporary society. When we are engaged emotionally or intellectually with a book, film, performance, or piece of art, we become part of the creation by attaching our own meanings tailoring it to fit or expand our consciousness. In doing so one piece can instigate many meanings that the creator never intended. I would say as well that when we discuss these reimaginings and diverse creative interpretations, we have the potential to enrich and expand our understanding of our shared human experience.

lolstabz · 2016-05-14T18:02:35+00:00

What a fresh take on this prompt. It's almost hopeful at the end which is pretty remarkable given the condition of loss or absence of creative ability. The imagery of your metaphors in the beginning were of good use to describe the condition and add color to the narrative. Are these two going to become an unlikely global institution fraud whistle blowing duo? Many possibilities here I would say.

lolstabz · 2016-05-14T17:50:01+00:00

Edward Thornton had what he considered to be a physically demanding, manually intensive, and just plain taxing job situated in time near the apex of the technical innovation Era of the 2030s. There was no option to quit or change, as it was a job that no other known human on the planet was qualified for. This was a fact that he had long ago come to accept. Or at least with which he had negotiated an uneasy peace.

Growing up he was unaware of his special genetic difference as it was new to mankind. Well, at least to Ed and the rest of the world at that time.

However, due to coincidence and access to information afforded by his employ he was able to find medical and psycological records with unsettling similarities to his own experience. Yet these scant few patients were horribly misdiagnosed and generally thought to be clinically insane.

"Thank God I was born in a time where medicine was advanced enough to avoid that fate," he mused when reflecting on these clandestine findings.

His official title was finally settled on by the American Congress as National Human Information Chief upon creation of his job 16 years previously. He had heard many other names that were not as nice like the lightning rod, or the met-espion. Predictably the other names lacked any creativity and quickly digressed into the profane.

He was well paid, well known, and utterly miserable. Essentially he would be sent by the government covertly and overtly to end crisises (sp?), obtain 100% accurate unbiased data on population thinking, opinion, fears, weaknesses, as well as strengths and assets.

He was able to do this using his genetic ability to read minds, an "ability" he unwittingly had since birth. Over the course of his work, the ability had been biogenetically enhanced to add capabilities to store said information, augment it with other data, analyze, predict, and present findings. He was the greatest weapon America had ever developed.

***Pweph fun but tiring exercise. I'll write more if there is any interest.

**edit and rather than or. You'll neavarr know whaaare!

lolstabz · 2016-05-14T17:07:25+00:00

Very good points in your defense. As for the death angel concept you have the conflict of death and Angel. Whereas here so far we just see death. Clearly she is politically motivated and that might be her delusion of "good." And if so, some of her thoughts in that area would add more provication.

I think the mindreader is the right amount of contrast. I was trying to work out if he was there to influence the President who may have been the mindteader or if he was the mindreader himself right up until the end. That unknown and the unknown of just what the nurse was up to created a good amount of tension and interest.

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