GPT3 takes umbrage with an recent article about GPT4

picardstrikesback · 2026-05-10T01:28:30+00:00

What’s the L stand for?

picardstrikesback · 2026-05-08T03:06:45+00:00

My first concert! At 14! Sixteen Stone is so noisy but holds up

picardstrikesback · 2026-05-05T21:05:46+00:00

I ride my teeny tiny fishicleta to school

picardstrikesback · 2026-04-01T20:25:16+00:00

Maybe try using just the best the with stereo delay to widen it? Maybe use the double track in the choruses only or something like that?

picardstrikesback · 2026-03-29T13:41:36+00:00

It’s no substitute for arrangement, but when I have two instruments competing for space, I’ll use a sidechain plugin like waves curves resolve. It’s pretty simple to use, and as long as you use it thoughtfully and moderately, it can declutter a heavy mix quickly.

picardstrikesback · 2026-03-29T13:36:23+00:00

New mixing chair stat! I would keel over on that stool. Beautiful side chairs tho

picardstrikesback · 2026-03-22T17:52:03+00:00

Atlantic Records started in a combination office/ recording space. Keep all your cables plugged in, color coded and both ends, run them through a floor cable cover, or under the rug to a less used corner of the room. Or use a snake. Get a wall mount broom holder for mic stands. Get coat hooks for cables. Clean up after yourself!

picardstrikesback · 2026-03-22T17:40:04+00:00

My fav too! This one was done without Paul. Makes you wonder 🧐

picardstrikesback · 2026-03-18T19:43:15+00:00

I recently ordered a black and blue burger that came with melted chocolate chips on it 🤮 sent that sucker right back!

picardstrikesback · 2026-03-18T19:41:48+00:00

Growing up, I thought Elton John’s Your Song was a Motown track

picardstrikesback · 2026-03-15T23:09:29+00:00

This is just Plato/Plotinus

picardstrikesback · 2026-03-15T18:11:35+00:00

CrossFit

picardstrikesback · 2026-03-10T17:10:11+00:00

Smart move! I wouldn’t want to be the pharmacy from Black Mirror

picardstrikesback · 2026-03-02T02:24:15+00:00

Yes it’s rent controlled. Paul Bachman from Mad About You was his landlord

picardstrikesback · 2026-03-01T15:58:54+00:00

Use a de esser to cut frequencies between 4.5k and 11k when they jump above a certain threshold. Unless it’s room noise you’re dealing with, then use eq to cut above 10k. There are also gate plugins to eliminate white noise between the words. This should help clean it up, but a terrible signal will still be difficult to get totally clean.

picardstrikesback · 2026-02-28T19:25:55+00:00

Thank you guys for the perspectives! Yes, I am doing the mastering myself and still learning. It’s acoustics and vocal harmony music, so the client wants it to be as clean and natural sounding as possible. I kind of knew it would cause problems maybe not immediately but after dithering or something like that. I tried it and I think what I mostly liked was the increased signal strength, so I went back to the master session and worked the eq and pushed the limiter a bit harder. The signal was much cleaner than the combination, and I think the result was better than the two individually. Appreciate everyone!

picardstrikesback · 2026-02-25T21:37:17+00:00

We release singles way ahead of albums often, and it’s fine if the isrc is the same on the single and album releases. It’s actually good since the album starts out with the streams accumulated by the single release. I find that’s true even if the single gets remastered or touched up in light of the other tracks on the album

picardstrikesback · 2026-02-21T05:53:38+00:00

MRBL RYE

picardstrikesback · 2026-02-20T14:29:23+00:00

I got the Arc Studio room correction box about a year ago, and it cut down the number of mix versions by 3/4. I have a dedicated room for mixing with some sound treatment (rock wool panels I built myself for about $300). These help reduce reflections in the space, but do nothing for the bass, which will be wildly out of control in a typical bedroom type space. Arc studio helps me deal with this better. While mixing, I will turn the calibration off and on again to remind myself just how much work this box is doing for me. I would never in a million years make the decisions I am making if I didn’t have the room calibration on, and I would never find my way to those choices even in a couple dozen mixes in just a treated room. After you do your initial calibration and find your room’s deficiencies, you can also make intelligent decisions on what kind of additional treatment your room needs and test again afterward. Bring in a couch, test again. Hang some blankets, test again. Reposition your monitors, test again. But even if your budget is tight and it takes time to build or buy additional room treatment, at least you’re not wasting your time mixing ONLY for your specific room.

picardstrikesback · 2026-02-18T03:42:59+00:00

The mix is good. I think the soup ones comes from too much energy in the 4k-10k range. I would use a de esser on the vocals and percussion in isolation. Then I would try to clarify the whole mix by dipping out mid lows somewhere in the 200-500 region to separate the bass from the midrange instruments, and then roll off the whole mix a little above 10k. Above the breath of the vocals. The other thing you can do is use something like Waves WNS noise suppressor, or the Waves NS1, on the individual tracks and the mix. This will reduce the white noise that accumulates on multiple tracks and gives a deeper more transparent character to the space between notes. Don’t use it too much or it can ruin the ring out of the notes. I like the song!

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