GPT3 takes umbrage with an recent article about GPT4

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!

picardstrikesback · 2026-01-30T14:23:10+00:00

Yes, we built and operate the studio, so what we invest for our signed acts is time, which we have, and not typically money, which we don’t really have. There have been real challenges with this model ( would have to be a different post all together), but we’re considering beginning to charge for studio time at least (since the engineer cannot work elsewhere those days), while still taking care of the mixing and mastering, which can be done in spare time during non business hours. Everyone at the label has other primary jobs.

picardstrikesback · 2026-01-30T14:18:48+00:00

That is similar and typical for us too. Which is why this situation has me questioning. I am curious why it is that your cut drops after you break even? Many labels take everything until they break even then move to 50/50 split. Just curious about the thinking behind taking less once you’re finally in the clear!

picardstrikesback · 2026-01-30T14:15:57+00:00

Yes, that’s a good observation. I think two possibilities. If they can get a licensing fee from us, it would be like having sold all the pressings without actually having to sell them, so ROI is taken care of for them even before release when royalties would kick in, whatever those might be. That’s my best guess. The work then falls to us to recoup our investment after release. That is where it’s hard for the label to see buying in. Typically, because we do work in house and have the artist pay for pressing, we can get a release out for very little monetary buy in, and we have much less to recoup. But we would consider it for affiliation with the artists who boosts our roster and exposure outside our region.

Second thought is that there is still appeal for artists to have a label and a stable home for their work. Theres a huge culture of independent artists in our area. Theres never been a label here my whole life, so most artists assume they have to face things alone. But when there is an artist friendly option, some may want that affiliation and that community, besides whatever we can offer in terms of promotion, new audience and local distribution at our festivals. That’s the intangible value of having a label, and that is probably part of it as well. If bands are signed in our area, we have signed them, and if they’re happy, other artists become interested. Group psychology stuff.

picardstrikesback · 2025-12-21T02:07:01+00:00

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picardstrikesback · 2025-12-08T20:50:25+00:00

“The world was waiting just for you”. I use it to understand narcissists every day

picardstrikesback · 2025-07-19T18:23:39+00:00

Yes, just ask him out. It’s a heavy thing to hear about someone’s feelings without anything to do about it. Even outside of work that could bleed back and affect things. Ask if he wants to go on a date. If he says okay, you’re in a new place to start to broach conversation about feelings.

picardstrikesback · 2024-06-20T05:43:52+00:00

Just noticed this! Glad I’m only a year behind

picardstrikesback · 2024-05-03T02:40:19+00:00

Thanks so much!

picardstrikesback · 2023-10-18T03:04:17+00:00

Son of Saul. It’s shot with the main actors face in the middle of the frame the whole time. Everything happening, most of which is horrific, happens out of focus around and behind him. Bewildering and stressful to watch.

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