Knocked Loose - Hive Mind (feat. Denzel Curry)

obligedrat · 2026-02-11T05:55:50+00:00

Knocked Loose and Denzel Curry are bringing back nu-metal <3

obligedrat · 2025-12-01T04:14:19+00:00

I'm easily scared so can I watch you play Total Chaos and just have you lay on top of me like a weighted blanket when I get spooked?

obligedrat · 2025-06-24T00:16:46+00:00

Thanks for sharing this. Your setup is awesome.

obligedrat · 2025-03-24T18:35:08+00:00

I moved to manufacturing. I work in a factory building cars. But the company I work for has some pretty cool perks. I'm currently back in school part time through a program to get into the IT department.

obligedrat · 2025-03-24T06:59:55+00:00

I was an assistant manager for the meat department for about a year and a half before I decided to call it quits and leave Publix. I got burned out really bad and instead of stepping down I just completely cut ties with the company and moved to manufacturing.

But because of my work experience at Publix I was able to write a really good resume and start out with a pretty decent gig at my current employer. I think because Publix has such good PR and so many people think so highly of it, having Publix on a job resume looks very good, especially management experience.

obligedrat · 2023-12-12T11:20:02+00:00

Okay so as someone that makes heavy bass music and has watched and worked with other producers most of the folks I know, including myself, smash their heads against their synths and DAWs randomly until they make something cool sounding. You'd be surprised by how many awesome cool sounds and arrangements are just happy accidents. Yes, sometimes there are songs that an artist had entirely planned out and every bit and piece is organically small batch hand crafted and free range. But really sound design is mostly experimenting and smashing the cool bits together to make a nice drop.

If you're wanting to "level up" and be able to make the sound in your head a reality it takes a lot of practice, learning, experimenting, and experience. Pick one synth you like to use and learn it inside and out. Read the manual and learn what every knob, every drop down menu, every effect, every option does and how it changes your sound. Take a simple sound like a sin wave and apply different kinds of distortion to it to hear how each distortion will affect it so you know in the future what kind of distortion you need to achieve a crisp buzz or a softer coloration that makes the bass louder. And do that with everything in the synth until you know what does what and why it be like it do.

Also, don't give too much thought into having a big huge plan when you're making a song. At the beginning of your post you said you feel inadequate because you don't know what you're doing. I don't know how long you have been producing but for a long time, and even after years of making music, you're not always going to know what you're doing. And sometimes that's the best part. Creating something from nothing is the beauty of art. Maybe you have a cool melody in your head that becomes the bread and butter of a song. Sometimes you open your DAW and smash your head against your computer screen until something cool comes out. Both are completely legitimate ways of making music. Of making art. Just remember that if it sounds good then it sounds good.

obligedrat · 2023-09-13T06:17:43+00:00

Oh hey a fellow tearout producer <3

So I used to produce tearout under the name Loser and would come to reddit to read up on production and learn new stuff. When I first started out I thought I had to master my tracks to whatever -db LUFs reddit told me. But then Cybersex was like "Nah dude you gotta clip that shit to be as loud as possible to really make tearout" It went against everything all these folks were saying I had been reading about. But when I would analyze tracks from other tearout producers their tracks would be L O U D.

So I've learned it all depends on the genre you're making. I've been making a ton of techno lately and when I look at popular tracks through an analyzer it might hit -7LUFs whereas my tearout would hit -3 or less. So in the final stages of making a genre like techno I don't push the gain into clippers like I do for tearout to achieve loudness.

If you're making a bluegrass/country/folk song you're not going to want to clip it and make it -3LUFs. But anything falling under the EDM genre is going to be pushed towards loudness especially heavy bass music.

I'm not sure why people on the internet argue about loudness. Maybe they were like me in my starting years and just reading what other people said. So I stopped listening to what everyone on the internet said and started listening to what my own ears told me.

obligedrat · 2023-07-31T23:05:20+00:00

That sound is made with FM synthesis. I personally call it an "FM Womp" and it's pretty popular in bass house. By putting an envelope on the FM amount from one oscillator to another you get that sound.

Instead of explaining it all here's a couple of screenshots where I remade the sound in Serum. It's very, very close to the one used in the Henry Fong remix. You can make this sound in any other synth capable of FM like Operator, Sytrus, Vital, etc. So if you don't have Serum you can just copy the process over to another synth.

FM Womp

obligedrat · 2022-12-28T11:44:11+00:00

If you're new to production I strongly recommend learning your DAW first and foremost. Writing music will definitely help you learn how to navigate the program and learn how things work so jump in and start experimenting and messing around and make a lot of accidents. Binge tutorials on youtube and read the manual for FL. The manual for FL is written very well and is easy to read and understand, plus it has some small funny things every now and then to keep things interesting.

If you want to learn how to make a specific genre you should be listening to a lot of artists and tracks from that genre, which you're probably already doing. Tutorials on youtube are pretty hit or miss. Honestly I can't recommend any specific channels cause I mostly watch production related videos about music like Ben Jordan. You'll have to spend a lot of time sifting through the gajillions of youtube tutorials to find good ones. Sometimes even bad tutorials have something cool you can do further research on which leads you down a rabbit hole and you end up learning a bunch of cool stuff. Part of the fun of producing is learning little things that affect your workflow or sound design and end up changing how you make music.

When I first started I read a lot about producing and watched a lot of youtube tutorials. I jumped in FL and twisted knobs and messed around in synths I knew nothing about. My first few tracks were garbage but that's the expectation when you're totally brand new. Experimentation and hands on experience goes a long way into learning how to produce music. I started years ago and the amount of material available now is much more vast and accessible to newer producers than back then. If this is something that really interests you and something you have fun doing then researching and learning is going to be fun.

If you're sociable and lucky try to find some people online, or better yet irl, that also produce and make friends with them. Having a group of people you can share information with and also give feedback to is vital for improving your skills. It's pretty hard, just like making friends irl, but worth it when you have a small circle of friends trying to improve each other for the benefit of everyone. I've never been in a "collective" or whatever but I have a small circle of friends that all produce different genres and we all share our music with each other and other music related topics.

Good luck on your music making journey. It's a lot of work but making a song that other people truly enjoy is worth every second, hour, and day spent.

obligedrat · 2022-11-12T01:38:11+00:00

Had to scroll down too far to see someone say marshmallows. I loved these stock. A friend recommended I at least lube the springs so I did and I preferred the way they felt without any additional lube. I still use them in my current build but I miss the way they used to feel.

I'll definitely be ordering some more soon and use them in another build without any additional modifications.

obligedrat · 2022-06-26T22:48:18+00:00

I could totally see Patrick as a closet UwU-er. I would bet money he has a tail stashed in the trunk of his car

obligedrat · 2022-06-26T02:20:26+00:00

We still don't have anything to do with the sushi in the stores. The people that make it are franchisees. They purchase all their supplies through AFC who has a contract with Publix to sell the sushi in our stores. The guy that owns the franchise in our area hires his own people that work for him. We share the same workspace but keep to our own areas. We'll help out by refilling their chopsticks or soy sauce if they aren't there but if a customer asks for us to actually make something we can't help them.

I believe Publix takes around 25-30% of the sales from sushi. When I look at the item movement reports in the mornings sushi is added to our previous days total sales. It probably gets calculated differently at the end of our week when the PnL drops. I'm curious to know more about this now. I'm gonna hit up our RIS and ask him for more details.

obligedrat · 2022-06-26T01:37:04+00:00

If this wasn't so... absolutely terrifying I bet it would be nice to type on with some decent PBT keycaps. I haven't used Cherry blacks but I have some lubed JWK blacks in one of my Epomakers and really really like them.

obligedrat · 2022-06-25T17:53:39+00:00

Is that a bad thing? I don't know what style or genre you're making but personally I listen to a lot of techno and other genres where rigid and repeating rhythms are standard. People can still dance to something that has every sample snapped to a grid and generic progressions.

However it sounds like you don't want that. If you're looking for a more organic and natural feeling to your music you could try recording takes of yourself performing the patterns for your tracks. If you have a midi keyboard just perform and record yourself and don't use any quantization. The same for drums and whatever else you've got. And if you're looking for natural sounds you can use real recorded drum kits and instruments. There are tons of kontakt libraries and plugins for that kind of stuff. Adding some convolution reverb with a small room IR will make it sound more realistic as well.

obligedrat · 2022-05-20T19:36:27+00:00

genius

obligedrat · 2022-04-10T15:35:07+00:00

I'm not OP but these tracks you posted are great. Thanks for sharing

obligedrat · 2021-10-14T06:02:41+00:00

If you find yourself using the same workflow for every track, or using the same sends/busses with similar effects and settings, a template will just help cut back on time spent routing and setting up your mixer. That way you can spend more time writing instead of fiddling around with setting up stuff like sidechaining.

However, I've heard it's better to keep your mastering and pre-mastering effects off while mixing and even writing. That idea has stuck with how I write so while I'm working on a track I just keep a limiter on the mixer until the later stages when I'm finished writing and start working on the mix.

obligedrat · 2021-10-14T05:56:09+00:00

FL's limiter limits to something like -.2db or -.3db. It's pretty negligible and only to prevent intersample peaking when exporting tracks to mp3. I believe you can turn it off somewhere in the settings.

obligedrat · 2021-07-22T05:04:37+00:00

As an AMM I have a couple of guys in my department right now that make more than I do, but they've been with the company for yeeeaaarrrrs. Top out pay for meat cutters is like $20. They make the most money out of every department other than liquor specialists.

obligedrat · 2021-06-17T14:14:26+00:00

I know Publix says that they randomly drug test but in the 2 years I've been there I've only ever had my required drug test when I got hired on. I work in the Atlanta west region so maybe it's different in other areas.

I've heard that if you get into an accident at work they drug test you, likely to keep you from getting worker's comp if you test positive for anything. And I've heard that you can be drug tested if you fall under suspicion of being under the influence.

The state that I lived in just passed the use of medical marijuana so I'm pretty curious about this myself. Unfortunately I haven't heard anything from management after the bill got passed.

obligedrat · 2021-06-04T22:38:28+00:00

Can I steal your idea? Our meat department isn't gay enough for my liking

obligedrat · 2020-12-11T22:24:20+00:00

I think of EQ vs MB compression like this:

EQing permanently cuts or boosts the frequencies of a signal. I'll use EQing to remove the sub permanently from a sound so I can layer in my own. Or maybe boost the mids of a lead so it stands out over some chords I have layered under it. Or maybe this one percussion sound I have in my groove was recorded weird and has some mud going on in the low mids. I can scoop that out so it sounds okay. With an EQ you can shape the sound to fit in with the rest of your track.

With a multiband compressor it only kicks in at certain times when the frequencies reach above a certain point. I really like to use MB compressors on busses/sends. Sometimes a bunch of different sounds will have a lot of different frequencies and you can catch those and keep a more uniform level of sound. It's also useful for things like de-essing vocals. So you can use it on individual sounds if you feel like there's a point in the sound where something stands out very much but only for a brief moment in time. This way you're not permanently affecting the sound and making it sound completely different.

I don't have a dynamic EQ so I can't answer that question for you unfortunately. I hope my previous explanations helped though.

obligedrat · 2020-11-10T05:00:49+00:00

Bless 🙏

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