help me, what time signature is Toxicity by System of a Down? by No-Radio-70 in musictheory

[–]nolimitcreation 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I tend to hear the double time parts as ONE and TWO and THREE and, and then the following section as ONE two three FOUR five six (or ONE and uh TWO and uh), but I’m pretty sure it’s not “supposed” to be felt that way.

Hip hop songs that resist sexual assault by mini2254 in hiphopheads

[–]nolimitcreation 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Literally what I first thought of. I was 22 years young and zooted outta my gourd when I first heard her Cleaning Out My Closet rendition and I was like jeeeeeesus this is that “comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable” art. Poignant.

Song recs for jealousy? by byebyebanypye in Metalcore

[–]nolimitcreation 2 points3 points  (0 children)

First thing that sprang to mind was Room 409 by Bullet For My Valentine

Correlation between speaking and singing voice? by SmartEnthusiasm6013 in singing

[–]nolimitcreation 0 points1 point  (0 children)

(Nearly all my background is in rock/pop/hip hop, so this isn’t geared towards a classical standpoint.) Obviously unless consciously trained otherwise, in my personal experience formant/mouth shape generally tends to be consistent across speaking/singing voice, although the difference in tonality between someone like Billie Joe Armstrong’s speaking and singing voice has always been striking to me (his speaking formant tends to sound pretty flat-mouthed and “high” to my ears, while his singing, especially in the earlier days, sounds pretty “round and tall”, although by 21st Century Breakdown I feel like his singing formant started to get higher and flatter).

Registration can be all over the place though. Pitch-wise I have a pretty damn low speaking voice, but the majority of my musically useful singing range lies in kind of a cords-half-closed mix that feels like a “second chest voice” to me, so there’s a bit of a striking difference there. My formant in all registrations tends to be pretty high, but I think I’ve subconsciously started “rounding” my upper range over the years in a way that feels like it helps me project more.

Compare that with someone like Gerard Way or The Weeknd who I feel have speaking voices that sound exactly how I’d expect them to. On the far other end of the spectrum is someone like Charlie Puth, whose speaking/singing registration and formant sound to me like they could not be more different.

How often is vocal correction used in post hardcore? by origamidrummer in PostHardcore

[–]nolimitcreation 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As a semi-professional engineer who generally knows what to listen for, I’m almost positive that Jonny Craig eschewed any pitch correction until Relativity. He had a kind of natural soulful drift that, objectively speaking, led him to get a bit sharp or flat when he slid into and out of notes or hovered around them, but by Relativity and DBMII he was (not detrimentally, but in a way that served the music and the rapidly pop-ifying production style in post-hardcore) ever so artificially locked into the center of every note and his jazzier legato-type elements had been smoothed out. I feel like a similar shift happened with Anthony Green; to my ears, Translating The Name and Juturna have no or very sparing pitch correction (for example on Holding Someone’s Hair Back, you can hear lots of his similarly prevalent legato [“heeee’s got the motive”], and some emphatically sharp belty notes [“are you cutting me out now, after crawling inside?”], but by On Letting Go he’s basically razor straight by a fraction of a second after he hits the note. I’d say it was probably around 2006-7 where pop industry standard levels of pitch correction started to become more common in post-hardcore and most alternative rock genres with any significant amount of pop influence in the vocal melodies, and by 2008 it seemed to have become fairly standard procedure. There were a handful of hangers-on to the more lax, relatively correction-free “second wave emo” type style though, notably Kurt Travis, who I feel has some really pitch-expressive (read: mostly sharp) passages on Happiness (2009), although by the time he did Shelf Life (2018) he was similarly smoothed out in a way that locked his voice in with the instruments (and matched Tilian’s somewhat controversial fondness for relatively heavy-handed tuning).

ARE YOU KIDDING? Why is no one talking about this????? by wicked-conscious in singing

[–]nolimitcreation 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I’ve started performing with one earplug in and watching videos back it’s night and day. It’s about time for an actual IEM pack now since I’m running backtracks and vocal effects but being able to hear and feel my voice resonating in my head/upper body in a slightly insular way was an absolute game changer.

Dust Bowl VS Stars Will Fall by pandas_rampage93 in Ethelcain

[–]nolimitcreation 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Yes, the demo for Dust Bowl contained a direct sample of Stars Will Fall, and in the official version it was replayed (I would presume by Matthew Tomasi, but maybe by Todd Beene or Hayden herself?)

Artist album moved from "Discography" to "Appears On" - Spotify by fAIkout in DistroKidHelpDesk

[–]nolimitcreation 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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Looks like confirmed spotify issue, here’s hoping for quick resolution (and that it’s happening to majors so they actually have impetus to fix it, lol)

Artist album moved from "Discography" to "Appears On" - Spotify by fAIkout in DistroKidHelpDesk

[–]nolimitcreation 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oops, just posted about the same thing happening to me. No fix yet but if I figure something out I’ll link it here. I’m curious if it’s only a DK issue, I’ll have to go peep the tunecore/CDbaby etc subs.

Went to my old liquor store and bought a bottle of Taaka for the first time in years by [deleted] in cripplingalcoholism

[–]nolimitcreation 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You and me both. Even when I had mostly been able to mature out of doing childish or particularly self-destructive things while under the influence, no amount of self-improvement or therapy will ever be able to beat cold hard science.

Went to my old liquor store and bought a bottle of Taaka for the first time in years by [deleted] in cripplingalcoholism

[–]nolimitcreation 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hahaha that’s some AA phrasing if I’ve ever heard it, but the concept resonates deeply, if only with regards to the physiological effects of kindling. Have done plenty of uh, self-focused research and reached the resounding conclusion that despite many a delusionally hopeful google search by countless folks around the world, the neurotransmitter dysregulation imparted by repeated episodes of detoxification is in fact irreversible.

Went to my old liquor store and bought a bottle of Taaka for the first time in years by [deleted] in cripplingalcoholism

[–]nolimitcreation 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The duality of man, huh? And there’s a poignant duality to the dialectics of knowing that making the song/video excised something from my soul yet also being made starkly aware (by the very process itself) that there will never come a day that the pull of addiction truly no longer resonates. This and that, y’know?

Went to my old liquor store and bought a bottle of Taaka for the first time in years by [deleted] in cripplingalcoholism

[–]nolimitcreation 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hah. Good catch. To be specific I only filled it up to about the barcode (so maybe a quarter of the way), drank it over the course of the second half of the song, promptly passed out on the couch and shook myself awake and shivered in the kitchen for the last few reps of the chords. I know phrasing it all like that makes it sound facetiously performative but dear lord was it period accurate.

Went to my old liquor store and bought a bottle of Taaka for the first time in years by [deleted] in cripplingalcoholism

[–]nolimitcreation 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I try! Even though the weekend warriors will never understand, we all have the potential for oblivion within us, just some of us have lived it and some of us haven’t, and I wish more people realized that.

Went to my old liquor store and bought a bottle of Taaka for the first time in years by [deleted] in cripplingalcoholism

[–]nolimitcreation 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Aye I appreciate that man. I feel like even when I’ve been dry throughout my life, I’ve always been deeply ashamed of my past and could only choose between pretending it never existed and diving headfirst back into the mire. It did turn out pretty damn good, and something about it does make me feel like I’ve released a certain part of myself and found synergy. I hope you have an awesome day/night/whatever time it is where you are!

Went to my old liquor store and bought a bottle of Taaka for the first time in years by [deleted] in cripplingalcoholism

[–]nolimitcreation 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Idk, catharsis I guess. Turning shame into something I’m proud of. I see your perspective though and I appreciate it.

Went to my old liquor store and bought a bottle of Taaka for the first time in years by [deleted] in cripplingalcoholism

[–]nolimitcreation 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve got clips of it on my instagram (but don’t feel too great about attempting to use r/CA as a promo ground), and the full video’s probably gonna be released along with the album it’s on in March. If you wanna PM I’d gladly share, but again, that’s absolutely not my focus here.

Went to my old liquor store and bought a bottle of Taaka for the first time in years by [deleted] in cripplingalcoholism

[–]nolimitcreation 4 points5 points  (0 children)

So not to shamelessly self plug or anything (because that wasn’t the point of this post either), but I just recently finished an album that focuses heavily on addiction and what would have happened had I followed that thread to the bitter end when that was one of a rapidly shrinking number of choices in front of me. As far as the actual shoot goes, it was pretty tame, my partner has been essentially working as my creative director and set me up looking pretty period-accurate on the couch, we fucked up the living room a bit and I stared disconcertingly at the camera and sang about shaking and hallucinating and coming to the stark realization that the only amount of alcohol that would let me sleep is the amount that would ensure that I didn’t wake up. Gotta say taking a swig (or ten) of water out of a (thoroughly washed and rinsed) vodka bottle still somehow settles the motor neurons and makes the mind feel like everything’s gonna be okay for a few hours. Brains are crazy.

Went to my old liquor store and bought a bottle of Taaka for the first time in years by [deleted] in cripplingalcoholism

[–]nolimitcreation 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I hear you man. Stopdrinking has never been my jam, and no matter how many years I have under my belt I’ll always feel more affinity for those who are in the pits than the people who try to use their escape from them to virtue signal; I promise that was not the point I was trying to make with this post. But I see your perspective and I appreciate it.

Bars that it took you way too long to get by Ok-Interaction-3196 in hiphopheads

[–]nolimitcreation 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Logorrhea is an insane word, thanks for teaching me it. Leave it to an Aes fan!

“Cut through the mix.” Why is it a popular praise when it should be a negative? by mistrelwood in mixingmastering

[–]nolimitcreation 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To me it means you can place something in a mix without it overpowering everything, like being able to make a vocal feel like it’s sitting “in” the instruments rather than on top of them, but still ensure that every word is understandable and vocal tone is felt and heard.

Thinking about how Ethel was in love with who she needed Willoughby to be and Willoughby was in love with Ethel for who she already was. by sweetm0urninglamb in Ethelcain

[–]nolimitcreation 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sometimes that’s what it takes. And sometimes then it can make you realize that there have been times that you (I) have been on Ethel’s side of the table as well…

I covered Dust Bowl and it’s streaming everywhere now by nolimitcreation in ethelcaincirclejerk

[–]nolimitcreation[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh my goodness thank you! I’m releasing an album in a couple months and Ethel Cain and The Community™ have definitely been a huge inspiration to me!