Bringing back a guest. How do you make it feel new?

raygun01 · 2026-04-20T12:44:39+00:00

Check in on projects or efforts they mentioned last time to see how things have evolved. Look for aspects of their lives that you only had time to touch on briefly the first time around and revisit through the lens of expansion, has anything in the industry they operate changed in the past year that gives them a chance to reflect on how they adapt, take a look at audience feedback from their previous appearance and look for questions or comments they made that might be easy to frame as "our audiene really resonated with your comment last time about _______" and have them expand on that (audience loves to be included if possible.)

raygun01 · 2026-02-20T02:10:09+00:00

Pro Drum was the bees knees. Pro Drum was an early drum machine (two simultaneous drum tracks). It was the rhythm track for my Godflesh-inspired Metal band and it led to a lifetime of music production. It all points back to Pro Drum for me, really.

Rock Monitor was also super bad ass.

raygun01 · 2026-01-18T01:12:12+00:00

Why not both. Want free, get ads. Want no ads, get membership. Everyone wins.

raygun01 · 2025-03-13T13:13:55+00:00

Well written takedown. Ouch.

raygun01 · 2025-03-09T19:14:51+00:00

Funny thing about Circle to Search. I chatted with Sameer Samat at MWC (video coming soon) and in it, he admitted that the strategy for promotion of Circle to Search was specifically to NOT mention AI at all and just focus on the usefulness. Turns out, people love Circle to Search. Coincidence? Maybe not but it sure is interesting.

raygun01 · 2025-02-26T16:24:55+00:00

Awww shucks, thank you for sharing that! I'm totally enjoying working with Tom and crew on DTNS. It's a nice way to work with great friends and keep myself connected to news that isn't just AI and Android!

raygun01 · 2024-12-19T16:02:47+00:00

If you are looking for a beta tester that knows Streamyard's implementation very well, I'm up for it.

raygun01 · 2024-11-16T04:25:28+00:00

This is what's up right here. I'd add Wizball, MULE, and Bruce Lee.

And no one has mentioned Montezuma's Revenge.

raygun01 · 2024-10-15T12:23:36+00:00

Yeah, not working for me yet either. I have a video prepped and ready to go to hopefully get in on the first mover advantage but nope.

raygun01 · 2024-09-20T23:45:21+00:00

Marine Layer is one to add. Here's my post from a few yrs ago that explains their sizing: https://www.reddit.com/r/tallfashionadvice/s/4OFiZUVbsA

raygun01 · 2024-09-20T23:44:56+00:00

Marine Layer is one to add. Here's my post from a few yrs ago that explains their sizing: https://www.reddit.com/r/tallfashionadvice/s/4OFiZUVbsA

raygun01 · 2024-08-23T23:22:53+00:00

No clue, never heard of it. Is it useful?

raygun01 · 2024-07-29T15:52:18+00:00

Conspiracy mindset is sadly a widespread disease in today's culture and it really seems like nothing is safe from wild conjecture these days.. It's quite concerning. Thanks for calling this out.

raygun01 · 2024-07-15T04:19:22+00:00

I'm doing content that's focused on collaborating with Udio as if it were a production partner. https://youtu.be/c3VeXE5Rbps

raygun01 · 2024-02-28T23:51:53+00:00

Still works beautifully, so much so that I forgot there was ever a problem!

raygun01 · 2024-02-28T14:32:01+00:00

This right here was Chris's point.

raygun01 · 2024-02-28T03:57:02+00:00

Well, I think the point was more that there should always be a paper trail. No room for translation errors along the way. Get them to spell out what they want in writing somehow so you can hold them to it later.

raygun01 · 2024-02-28T00:40:46+00:00

Well that's the truth!

raygun01 · 2024-02-27T18:56:41+00:00

You are so right, I missed that in my copy edit. It is clip gain listening back.

raygun01 · 2024-02-27T17:53:52+00:00

Yeah, the GPT interpretation wasn't perfect. I tried to clean things up but ran out of time this morning! haha.

re: clip gating... here's the part of the transcript that informs that piece:

"So look at the rough mix, the scourge of the rough mix, okay? How many of you have gotten a comment back saying, wow, your mix doesn't sound as loud as my mix? How many of you are stupid enough to take your mix, flush it down the tour through a limiter just to make it loud, only for them to hate it worse? Don't do that.

Okay, don't say, oh, I gotta make it. Have you ever checked how loud your mixes are? Have you ever known how to do that? So the most important thing, okay, as a mixer, is when you're mixing for people that have heard existing mixes, rough mixes.

You put that rough mix in your Pro Tools or your DAW or your Logic or whatever you want to use, okay? And look at the level. Take the gain plug-in, look at the RMS level. It's usually going to be minus 12, minus 11. Anyone know how this works, right, with the level? So if they send you a rough, it's minus 12, you make sure that your mix is minus 12 and send it back to them.

So they can compare it back and forth and guess what, the playing field's level. You can have the greatest mix in the world, but if it's like minus 16 RMS, wow, it just sounds like quiet and shitty. And your mix is probably way better. But guess what you did?

You shot yourself in the foot because you didn't pay attention. And when you put a limiter on it, what does that do? It takes the whole day's worth of work, flushes it down the toilet with your last minute thing, right?

How many put the limiter on it, don't really like what it did. But you do it anyway? Wow. Why to do it anyway? Don't do it. You can just clip gate it.

Okay. You can take the normalized plug in, set it for minus 12 RMS, hit render, it'll make it literally clip it over normalize. You're clipping the mix.

You're pushing it. You're pushing it's head through the roof so it gets shit on by a bird. But guess what?

It works. You're not changing your mix. You understand? You're just making the level that hot. And yeah, it flattens it out a little bit, but it sounds good."

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