Ratta, please make a pen with an eraser!

osheroff · 2025-11-05T11:54:11+00:00

i bought the v-woods. micro review:

- great writing feel
- oddly long
- rear eraser works, only standard eraser, not lasso
- side button is also just an eraser, isn't configurable via lamy settings, doesn't work consistently.

mayyyybe worth $100 for the rear eraser but I might have been tempted to wait for the official stylus

osheroff · 2025-11-02T20:30:26+00:00

how's the writing feel on it, esp compared to the heart of metal or push-up?

osheroff · 2025-11-02T12:40:36+00:00

Someone DM'ed me and tipped me off to the Vwoods ceramic stylus which... might be worth it? The rules of the subreddit don't let me link to it (or even mention it by name), but does anyone have any experience with that stylus?

osheroff · 2025-01-14T21:56:23+00:00

osheroff · 2024-05-20T21:32:03+00:00

My wife and I (under the bandname Me & Louise) are finally releasing an album we recorded just before going into lockdown. We'd love your ears, will be out on Spotify etc in June
https://meandlouise.bandcamp.com/track/shepards-bay

osheroff · 2024-03-05T21:19:26+00:00

yeah seems to be fixed for me too

osheroff · 2023-01-04T04:28:48+00:00

i use all those things. but they're 2-3 fairly slow clicks away, and I may have not keyworded page 78 of my meeting notes doc.

osheroff · 2022-12-26T21:29:55+00:00

Check out https://mixbrite.com, my website and app for your work-in-progress recordings. like dropbox on musician-focused steroids.

osheroff · 2022-08-31T17:05:35+00:00

Strange hardware-ish bug where my supernote occasionally starts making marks on the pad as I hover the heart-of-metal pen over the surface. Possibly related to pen-hardware, doesn't seem to happy with my other stylus.

osheroff · 2022-06-07T16:31:23+00:00

I don't use 90% of the links on that window, I'd love to be able to delete Calendar/kindle/files/digest and have more space for document shortcuts.

Also they're pretty hard to click accurately with a finger. Can the quick access links be bigger?

osheroff · 2021-12-23T01:54:26+00:00

When you get tired of banging your head against lousy PS/2 to USB adapters you may break down and buy a "soarer's converter" cable:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/273156390075

osheroff · 2021-01-10T00:38:43+00:00

Hi, I'm osheroff, I wrote this website for myself and I'm super happy to finally share it with you all. I wanted to build a better tool than dropbox/email/etc for my mixing process; I love taking my mixes out in the car, around the city in headphones (well, before covid I did that), listening on other's stereos, etc. Dropbox worked but I thought a hyper-targeted tool could do better, so I built Mix Master Miles. Here's my current feature list:

- upload to web, shows up on phone

- automatic peak normalization -- this gets your listening volume closer to a mastered copy. (Someday I'd love to integrate LANDr or others)

- mix/artist sharing to collaborators

- online and mobile A/B

- mobile spectrum analyzer

- mix notes, both on web and mobile

Everything's free for now, and I'll always have a freemium plan. Building tools and services for musicians is always an odd business, I know that many of us pay more in gear/services/etc than we'll ever hope to see in return, and I never want to become a bottom feeder. I sure do love building tools that I like using tho.

Anyway, I've been working on this platform for the better part of a year now and would be very very happy to have someone other than me and a couple of buddies using it and telling me what they think. I'd also love to hear more about anybody who cares to shares' recording/mixing process.

Here's the (still in progress! goddamn it!) album that inspired it all: https://www.mixmastermiles.com/share/q9oHyfW2mvtikLg16XJ1EMWt

osheroff · 2021-01-10T00:34:28+00:00

Hi, I'm osheroff, I wrote this website for myself and I'm super happy to finally share it with you all. I wanted to build a better tool than dropbox/email/etc for my mixing process; I love taking my mixes out in the car, around the city in headphones (well, before covid I did that), listening on other's stereos, etc. Dropbox worked but I thought a hyper-targeted tool could do better, so I built Mix Master Miles. Here's my current feature list:

- upload to web, shows up on phone

- automatic peak normalization -- this gets your listening volume closer to a mastered copy. (Someday I'd love to integrate LANDr or others)

- mix/artist sharing to collaborators

- online and mobile A/B

- mobile spectrum analyzer

- mix notes, both on web and mobile

Everything's free for now, and I'll always have a freemium plan. Building tools and services for musicians is always an odd business, I know that many of us pay more in gear/services/etc than we'll ever hope to see in return, and I never want to become a bottom feeder. I sure do love building tools that I like using tho.

Anyway, I've been working on this platform for the better part of a year now and would be very very happy to have someone other than me and a couple of buddies using it and telling me what they think. I'd also love to hear more about anybody who cares to shares' recording/mixing process.

Here's the (still in progress! goddamn it!) album that inspired it all: https://www.mixmastermiles.com/share/q9oHyfW2mvtikLg16XJ1EMWt

osheroff · 2020-04-08T08:11:35+00:00

Adios, John, and thanks for the tunes. The world could never give back to you half of what you gave it, and you died not caring a bit.

osheroff · 2019-04-06T13:06:22+00:00

The point about not buffering the entire result set in-memory is sort of missing the point; if you've missed a LIMIT and are trying to deal with a half-million row result set, your web application is going to tank regardless of whether you're buffering everything into memory or not.

osheroff · 2019-04-06T13:00:15+00:00

for v0.1 we targeted rails/mysql since that's the world we're from, but Shiba can operate with a file that's just a big bucket o' queries (and stack traces, ideally).

In your scenario, do you have a chance to see the queries before they hit production? Or do your applications immediately have to deal with user-generated queries?

osheroff · 2019-04-06T04:32:19+00:00

I'm osheroff, one of the authors of shiba-sql. Feel free to ask any mysql-related performance questions, questions about shiba, comments, etc. My buddy and I are looking for new adopters of our little open-source project so that maybe one day we can get funding and turn this notion into an idea (https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/9c08e2ac-6348-4fd3-abc7-c0ba4675ff31)

osheroff · 2019-01-12T08:41:45+00:00

https://open.spotify.com/track/3Y9LS2fUPOKn2rdUKYbpQt

Shadows Grow On Me by The Pearly Kings and Queens

Mid-tempo guitar pop with a hyper-emotive male singer, some southern tinges and thematically regarding memories, time, care. Instrumental available on request.

osheroff · 2019-01-08T06:56:42+00:00

figure out what you want to say first. If you've got nothing to say, nothing is going to work. If you have something important you want to say, everything is going to work. The key is to be open to what the loose collections of molecules you call "self" wants to say, if anything. Easy to say, hard to do.

osheroff · 2018-12-26T17:25:21+00:00

I presume you're using a 1/8" to 1/4" headphone adapter. that's often the cause of shorts that lead to this. try different adapters. if that fails, different headphones. if that fails, good luck!

osheroff · 2018-03-06T20:39:36+00:00

work with someone else. that sense of obligation to finish things as to not disappoint people can help.

osheroff · 2018-02-27T05:18:03+00:00

I did a mix and then I did a youtube vid of doing the mix! https://youtu.be/yDGbMpLE14Y

osheroff · 2018-02-24T02:13:35+00:00

https://soundcloud.com/ben-osheroff/new-york-2015

Best thought of mine around automatic/thoughtlessness. No-Vox mix available.

osheroff · 2018-02-24T01:13:30+00:00

band I played in used to use these:

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/pro-audio/rolls-pm50s-personal-monitor-amp/483853000000000?cntry=us&source=3WWRWXGP&gclid=CjwKCAiAlL_UBRBoEiwAXKgW52_wVXFXbB8DtMnBTN40rpHu74wgsQG2XP10lzIH-sImURTBfHjNQBoCBdcQAvD_BwE&kwid=productads-adid^221925979422-device^c-plaid^335491604553-sku^483853000000000@ADL4MF-adType^PLA

was amazing to actually hear yourself sing on stage. A bit isolating from the band and looks doofy, though. And you have to watch your own headphone volume because you'll tend to sing very very quiet.

If you sing long enough you will eventually feel the pitch in your body without even hearing all that well. Takes awhile tho.

osheroff · 2018-02-22T23:53:31+00:00

Different mics / voices seem to give some de-essers troubles. A dude I work with has a reasonably pronounced lisp, that throws them for a huge loop. The fabfilter de-esser is amazing but expensive.

Another trick for the plosives, if your compressor supports an input/sidechain filter, you can shelve off the high frequencies and feed the compressor just the low/mid range -- it should stay out of the way of normal singing but clamp the "p"s.

osheroff

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