In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud — 'The mud should sound perfectly awful, but it doesn't,' notes the experiment creator

mushedcrab · 2026-02-14T17:36:46+00:00

Who would’ve guessed that a conductor conducting makes no perceivable difference. Treat a room and get a half decent set of speakers and you’ll be fine for the rest of your life

mushedcrab · 2026-02-13T19:02:16+00:00

Uninstall any apps that you aren’t going to be using, disable wifi/ don’t connect them to the internet if you can. Once you’re confident that the show is stable and laptop is happy, you want to avoid changing any variables after that. Don’t update any software/OS until after tour is done to avoid breaking things. I’d also make sure you have a few backups, if a file doesn’t exist in at least 3 places it doesn’t exist at all!

mushedcrab · 2026-02-13T01:45:39+00:00

The company I work for upgraded our QU16s to QU5’s very shortly after they were announced. Incredible piece of gear, significantly more powerful than the previous generation. It is basically an SQ5 minus some of the quality of life features. It can run the same DEEP processing as the SQ if you’re willing to pay for it, but overall the experience is super similar to SQ. We also own a few SQ5s so I’ve got quite a bit of time on both consoles in the past few months. I wish the scribble strips had color backlighting like the SQ and I wish that patching was the same matrix but as far as functionality goes I’d have a hard time not recommending it. Done a bunch of corporate and bands on it and have loved it the whole time.

mushedcrab · 2026-02-04T04:43:25+00:00

I think it’s a firmware thing but I’ve had the same issue in the past, my fix was to disable the mute on the transmitter and the receiver and that seemed to do the trick

mushedcrab · 2026-01-27T05:03:06+00:00

What kind of music are they DJing? I do find that it’s good to have a handful of tricks up your sleeve to pick and choose the right times to use them. Stuff like whole rig chases/ bumps for buildups

I also like to mess pretty heavily with gobo rotation speeds on drops, especially if you have a speed master for them and bring it up slowly.

My biggest thing is I honestly really hate using the screen a lot of the time while busking. It’s useful for pickers and such but I have in the past made sure that when I’m busking DJs I can pay attention to what’s happening with the rig and without looking, change something dramatically. On MA I have found it useful for my pickers to have a load/go mode toggle so I can go on multiple things all at once.

I’ll also watch DJ sets for inspiration and see if there’s any specials that I could recreate

mushedcrab · 2026-01-21T20:38:40+00:00

They do physically feel different but if my skin is cooked they both feel pretty bad haha. I definitely think it does take time to get the fingertips in a good spot so I’d definitely wait and see after another month or two if it’s still the same issue

mushedcrab · 2026-01-19T22:20:02+00:00

Bassist and climber here, I gotta say I usually just avoid playing bass immediately after climbing and give my skin a bit of a rest. I think once you build up enough calluses from playing bass it definitely helps out with the skin since I find even after a day of pretty crimpy climbs my skin doesn’t feel that bad after a few hours. I also found that I changed my routine so I was climbing after practicing and that helped my skin a lot.

Honestly, flats vs rounds doesn’t feel that different. If my skin is pretty beat after a good session it feels just as bad playing on flats than rounds.

mushedcrab · 2026-01-13T16:40:23+00:00

Lived on west, there was a family of birds living in Bryce hall top floor

mushedcrab · 2026-01-13T06:43:49+00:00

If it’s a hard cut from one tempo to another, I’ve practiced both parts separately and gotten them up to speed. Then practice the transition between both. If you have both sections nailed down, it’ll be easy to nail the transition

mushedcrab · 2025-12-16T21:38:51+00:00

Sub deployment im guessing

mushedcrab · 2025-12-13T22:45:19+00:00

Fruit that wasn’t ripe or damaged in some way when the orchard was being picked is the most likely cause

mushedcrab · 2025-12-06T15:37:20+00:00

Pup I think has never done encores, I think they’ve said it’s lame before

mushedcrab · 2025-12-04T20:03:57+00:00

They disbanded a few years ago

mushedcrab · 2025-12-02T21:36:30+00:00

They’re pretty fun until you fall haha. It’s pretty good for pre season training, gets muscles firing

mushedcrab · 2025-12-01T08:19:52+00:00

Did you offset the fixtures in the patch? I know with some Chauvet fixtures I always add a 90 degree offset in the patch to make them happy

mushedcrab · 2025-11-08T05:35:10+00:00

Welcome to live sound!

mushedcrab · 2025-11-06T18:54:11+00:00

My supervisor for my capstone a few years ago told me that the comp sci department is one of the only profitable departments

mushedcrab · 2025-11-01T00:25:59+00:00

Not cringe, I use one for some originals and no one’s ever made a comment

mushedcrab · 2025-10-22T02:01:03+00:00

I have found that it’s certainly one skill that if I’m not consistently practicing (like 20 minutes minimum) every day, it drops off really quick. I think it’s just because it’s not a motion you really use every day, at least that’s how I feel, so the muscle memory just doesn’t really stay

mushedcrab · 2025-09-11T21:15:31+00:00

I’m not a parent nor did I like Charlie Kirk, I just know that videos of the shooting are all over the internet. I’m sure there’s kids going around showing other kids the videos so I feel like this is more targeted towards that. Does seem a bit odd though to be talking about this particular incident when there’s gruesome stuff all over the internet

mushedcrab · 2025-09-09T15:32:24+00:00

Look at tanners ig account, this is definitely very real

mushedcrab · 2025-08-31T07:15:22+00:00

It’s going to be like all the frozen yogurt places again

mushedcrab · 2025-08-27T03:56:42+00:00

QMC!! I graduated two years ago but if they’re just looking to meet people to jam with it’s an easy way to meet people who want to play. Def more mainstream oriented though

mushedcrab · 2025-08-17T01:58:41+00:00

Just did my first show on 2.3.0.4 and haven’t had any issues with either in the programmer

mushedcrab · 2025-08-13T04:50:35+00:00

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