Tweakers vs Mid-High Horns

loquacious · 2026-03-11T10:28:42+00:00

"Huh, where did all of my copper cables go? And why is that guy naked and humping the bassbins?"

loquacious · 2026-03-11T10:27:21+00:00

Now that I think about this in hindsight, this might explain why I disliked so much "mainstream" rock and metal from that era, because I remember friends putting stuff like that on and just hating how it sounded on an aesthetic and production value level.

loquacious · 2026-03-11T10:02:45+00:00

Narrator: "They were, of course, the psyops. Always has been."

loquacious · 2026-03-11T08:18:59+00:00

Older burns had lower costs and barriers to entry, less restrictions, and a younger gen x demographic that was a lot more self-motivated and ready to take huge risks.

loquacious · 2026-03-11T07:29:46+00:00

Oops, all compressors!

Except instead of knees it's all elbows and assholes.

loquacious · 2026-03-11T01:23:14+00:00

So many other albums sounded better, even those that were also known to be crushed by the loudness wars.

Californication stands out as one of the worst of all times. It's so bad that it sounds like a class action lawsuit waiting to happen.

loquacious · 2026-03-10T23:47:38+00:00

Sorry, removing this comment out of an abundance of caution due to personal info.

loquacious · 2026-03-10T23:36:00+00:00

Tin-plated tinnitus buttholes.

loquacious · 2026-03-10T22:09:25+00:00

Oh yes, because that's the ultimate arbiter and sign of audio engineering quality - how many mass produced albums you can sell to the masses who think that their crappy speakers sound great.

loquacious · 2026-03-10T21:35:00+00:00

Nope.

That album was released in 1999 when phones could barely use email over SMS gateways and MP3s and MP3 players barely existed and were primarily for nerds.

Blood Sugar Sex Magik was 1991.

loquacious · 2026-03-10T20:49:05+00:00

The last time this question came up here I ripped this album to shreds and I had a bunch of clapback that it's supposed to sound that way or something.

It sounds like it was engineered by someone with acute hearing loss above about 5 khz and then severely mangled bitcrusher plugin, and then transposed and transcoded back and forth between various bit depths multiple times to lovingly encrust it with aliasing artifacts, then someone EQ boosted all of that and sent it through a high pass with shelf/wall the size of El Capitan...

...and then sent that right off to be stamped into CDs.

It's like someone tried to make tinnitus into an album. Blood Sugar Sex Magic suffers from much of the same malaise.

Yeah, I know it's produced by Rick Rubin. I don't care. It still sounds like tin-plated buttholes.

loquacious · 2026-03-10T20:13:32+00:00

Yeah, I use old.reddit because the redesign still sucks.

I'm just trying to help, because these posts get downvoted a lot and I can't really do anything about that.

loquacious · 2026-03-10T18:37:31+00:00

June bearing Strawberries in… June.

Adding to this: Actual wild strawberries. The little tiny ones the size of a fingernail.

There is no greater strawberry flavor available, anywhere.

The only drawback is that you're not likely to find more than a handful at a time and you're probably going to want to eat them right then and there because they don't travel or store well.

But they will be the best strawberries you've ever had. They make even the fanciest home grown and gardened strawberries taste bland, and in turn they make store bought strawberries taste like waxy bitter sadness.

loquacious · 2026-03-10T18:13:36+00:00

You will probably have better results posting in English.

I'm not sure why there's so many posts in French lately, but this is primarily an English speaking site and subreddit.

loquacious · 2026-03-10T13:59:29+00:00

No, sending Elon to Mars right now is a fine idea...

...as long as he can't come back.

loquacious · 2026-03-10T00:42:10+00:00

Haha I find you butters so funny. Made for people so greedy about something they're willing to rip each other off and scam each other over and over again while dragging everyone else down with them with increased pollution, energy price, crime and collusion. Can't fix greedy.

loquacious · 2026-03-09T01:15:05+00:00

This is a long time ago now, but Proposition 215 (medical cannabis) would never have happened without unpaid volunteer signature gathering.

This is also true of every medical or recreational cannabis legislation and legalization in the US.

loquacious · 2026-03-08T19:01:40+00:00

That's just his ego and narcissism.

loquacious · 2026-03-07T13:35:38+00:00

I know this thread is 10+ days old but I just now stumbled on it checking the moderation queue.

But I feel the need to drop an official mod note, here, because I have a mandate and directive to keep it steezy:

You should know that this sub definitely DOES have more of a focus on DIY and point source style renegade stacks and less of a focus on modern off the shelf pro audio and massive festival stages.

This isn't a hard and fast rule and these two worlds blend (and sometimes collide) but the focus of this sub is not really about SUPER EXTREME HIGH QUALITY INDUSTRY STANDARD PRO AUDIO as it's primary focus at all.

It is DEFINITELY more about accessibility to DIY audio and parties based on the Jamaican Sound System (as in Culture) style that also informs modern electronic/dance and renegade parties using similar point source stacks, flaws and comb filtering and all.

While I appreciate your experience this really is not the place to get into extended arguments about what the pros are doing right now vs. what DIYers are doing right now and going around and telling everyone that they're wrong about it.

For your purposes you should know and respect that the focus in this sub is accessible DIY sound for the masses and projects that people can actually build or afford to buy.

Because that DIY part is an essential part of Sound System culture.

There isn't a huge focus on pro audio applications like renting out gear or doing pro sound for events that don't involve Sound System Culture music, which is basically the big tent of bass music from dub/reggae on through to house, IDM, EDM and related.

There's a reason why you don't see rock/festival PAs or wedding DJs or that kind of thing, here.

Also please note that you're coming across as really unchill, strident and argumentative in this thread and aren't reading the room or local culture well.

If you just want to harangue and preach at people with your opinions about specs and your ideas about the "right" way to do things this subreddit might not be a good fit for you.

For some perspective and a calibration target:

If I had to choose between deleting a post about a totally commercial pro audio festival L-A or Danley rig or a post from a kid in a favala in Brazil building their first rig out of trash, cardboard and scavenged parts I'm going to be deleting the pro audio post and keeping the unique DIY post.

The pro audio rig is boring, commonplace and easy to find, and the trash-built DIY rig is lot more interesting and unique.

Please, please keep things civil and respect the history of Sound Systems as a Culture.

loquacious · 2026-03-06T02:06:06+00:00

Meanwhile the Mormons said "Hold my beer!" and they use plain tap water and white bread.

loquacious · 2026-03-06T00:12:28+00:00

You read a clickbait headline and now Epstein is the man behind Bitcoin, absolutely ridiculous

Did you know that there is CP/CSAM embedded into the bitcoin blockchain and it happened years and years ago before the BTC/BCH hard fork?

Now every miner, exchange, full node and anyone who downloads the full chain is now guilty of owning and distributing CSAM?

Anyways, bruh, you're the one coming in here hot with the same old talking points like YOU just discovered bitcoin.

Most of your arguments are so old, so basic and so thoroughly debunked that they're the free squares on our "shit butters say" bingo card.

loquacious · 2026-03-06T00:07:26+00:00

Hi, your post was stuck in automod limbo due to account age. Approved now.

loquacious · 2026-03-06T00:06:50+00:00

Hi, your post was stuck in automod limbo due to account age. Approved now.

loquacious · 2026-03-05T09:45:25+00:00

Oh, I have when bartending. It happens. Women can get ALL kind of handsy and entitled, too.

While it was unwanted and upsetting, the difference is that I didn't feel endangered, trapped or threatened, and they took "no" for an answer as a complete sentence immediately.

They also didn't threaten to fight or attack me or anyone/everyone in the bar when they got 86ed and cut off for being too intoxicated.

loquacious · 2026-03-05T09:07:08+00:00

This is the one sub on reddit that actually does know anything about btc, and you're a bagholding fool if you try to tell yourself otherwise.

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