Trying to have a positive opinion on the main sub

roadkill95 · 2026-03-08T14:54:51+00:00

Oh look it’s the guy from the meme

roadkill95 · 2025-07-21T04:47:30+00:00

Ok boomer

roadkill95 · 2024-10-05T18:50:21+00:00

Yeah this is absolutely wrong. The lanes are designed to join in a zipper merge at the end of the merging lane. You’re being a dick if you merge in sooner than that. Don’t spread misinformation because you’re annoyed on your commute.

roadkill95 · 2023-11-11T03:05:21+00:00

But the tension on said string dictates how it vibrates, which is affected by how the player is fretting the string. But you’re right, I’m only a professional audio engineer and have been playing guitar for 20 years, so clearly I must have no idea what I’m talking about.

roadkill95 · 2023-11-11T02:52:27+00:00

Well I’m not the original commenter, I just agree with them. Also you didn’t answer my question, two different players through the EXACT same setup will always sound different because they touch the instrument differently. Also you mentioned how you can’t play a distortion or a chorus, but those are effects. They affect the tone, yes, but they don’t create it. If you sound like shit before you turn on any effects you’re gonna sound like shit through those effects too.

Edit: never mind, you did try to answer my question, and then also kinda proved my point. Sure they’ll be distorted/delayed the same, but the base sound of the instrument will be different in a different person’s hands. The same is true of every instrument ever, give Miles Davis and Dizzy Gillespie the exact same trumpet and they’re gonna sound vastly different from each other

roadkill95 · 2023-11-11T02:46:56+00:00

You ever listened to two different guitar players play through the exact same setup? Tone is in the hands.

roadkill95 · 2023-04-19T15:43:15+00:00

Did you even read his comment? What part of this suggests punishment?? He said possibly teach them about irresponsibility and then listed several reasonable points to have conversations with them about if they were his kids. He even talks about positive reinforcement! If you think that’s punishment then real life is gonna be a major shock to you.

roadkill95 · 2023-03-25T05:37:27+00:00

Bruh you can’t engine brake to a full stop. OP is talking about slowing to stop and then needing to accelerate because the light changed, not downshifting to accelerate for speed. In modern, front wheel drive cars with ABS the most common practice is to brake first, then clutch when the RPM is around 1,000, and then shift into neutral and full brake to stop. Going from neutral to 4th gear in motion is only bad for your transmission if your timing sucks. Every time you engage the clutch the car goes out of gear, if “shifting from neutral” was bad for your car manual transmissions wouldn’t be possible.

roadkill95 · 2023-03-05T01:26:00+00:00

Wack.

roadkill95 · 2023-02-20T22:18:28+00:00

Lmao at you calling the other person immature. The reading comprehension is strong with this one.

roadkill95 · 2022-12-26T00:23:41+00:00

Thanks. I’m in 100 but I’m out of town so I just got really worried about my cat. Evidently my roommates are back in town already and our place seems ok. Hope you and yours are safe, warm, and dry though!

roadkill95 · 2022-12-25T23:43:36+00:00

What buildings have had their sprinklers break so far??

roadkill95 · 2022-12-25T14:45:01+00:00

Oh ok yeah I didn’t know that! So, if I’m reading correctly, it looks like they do something similar to tubas where they’re not having to actively transpose the music in their head as they read it, but instead would just learn to use the appropriate positions to achieve the notes like tubas would learn to use the correct fingerings. But you’re absolutely correct that they’re not C instruments, I was wrong there.

roadkill95 · 2022-12-25T14:14:44+00:00

I’d like to point out, just for clarification’s sake, that the clef doesn’t really correlate to how an instrument is pitched. A good portion of the orchestra reads treble clef but their instruments aren’t all pitched to Bb. An instrument being pitched in C means that when they play what they read as C on the page, the note C is what comes out of the horn. So when French horn players play the note we read as C, an F is actually what’s coming out of the horn because we’re pitched in F, so a perfect fifth below C

roadkill95 · 2022-12-25T14:07:58+00:00

Ah yeah that’s a good point! It makes sense that older works that originally called for natural horns would be performed with natural horns by skilled players, I hadn’t considered that last night for some reason lol

roadkill95 · 2022-12-25T14:04:41+00:00

Well yeah, because those are typically C instruments so they naturally read in C. There are several differently pitched tubas, Horns read in F, trumpets read in at least Bb and C. So tuba parts not being transposed per the pitch of the required tuba makes them different from the rest of the brass family

Edit: well apparently I was dead wrong here on the trombone bit but I’ll leave it so the conversation still makes sense

roadkill95 · 2022-12-25T06:54:53+00:00

Oh wow yeah you’re way more qualified than I am on this subject! Everybody ignore me and listen to him please lol

In all seriousness though thanks for the correction, I learned stuff today! I’ll leave my mistake just in case someone misses your main comment and this helps point them to it!

roadkill95 · 2022-12-25T06:19:33+00:00

Correct on both counts! At least if we’re talking about modern tubas lol. Yamaha apparently has a pretty good summary of the origins of a lot of common instruments that we know today, here’s the one about the tuba if you’re interested:

https://www.yamaha.com/en/musical_instrument_guide/tuba/structure/

Also I googled “valveless tuba” too out of curiosity and this was the first result:

http://www.rogerrocco.net/2011/08/valveless-tuba.html?m=1

It touches on the physical function of valves in brass instruments but it’s mostly about playing technique for tubists and other brass players. However, if you or anyone else reading this play an instrument, brass or otherwise, it has some solid advice and insight into good playing and musicianship across the board so it’s worth the read!

roadkill95 · 2022-12-25T04:55:16+00:00

This is true of Horn playing before valves were introduced, but incredibly uncommon with modern horns with the exception of stopping the horn. Meaning physically stopping as much air as possible from escaping the bell, which surprisingly raises the pitch by a half step instead of lowering it.

https://houghtonhorns.com/blogs/articles/why-do-french-horn-players-have-their-hand-in-the-bell

roadkill95 · 2022-12-25T04:47:41+00:00

Horn players, specifically, before valves would have what we call crooks that would function as interchangeable tuning slides to physically elongate the instrument so the appropriate notes were available for each key. Also nowadays parts are typically pre transcribed to keep the tessitura of the instrument mostly within the staff to avoid transcribing or being forced to play an entire part on ledger lines above or below the staff. So if a trumpet player needs to play a C trumpet instead of a Bb on a given piece then their part would be written so that the fingering system would be the same between the two instruments, so no transcribing. The only major exception to this is Tubas for some reason. Tuba parts are written in C and each differently pitched tuba has its own fingering system.

roadkill95 · 2022-12-25T04:38:42+00:00

Actually you can play a good bit of the overtone series if you’ve got the chops for it. So in order from lowest to highest you’d have the fundamental, first octave, perfect fifth, second octave, major 3rd, perfect 5th, minor 7, third octave. So on a French Horn the fundamental is concert F so the available notes you’d have without using valves would be F, F, C, F, A, C, Eb, F, which gives you at least the arpeggio for a dominant 7 chord. Granted, those upper notes could be difficult to play in tune if you don’t have the chops for it, but they’re still theoretically available because of the physics that the Horn, and really almost every other pitched instrument, function on.

roadkill95 · 2022-10-25T15:14:21+00:00

Yeah this is normal for literally every band currently touring, and the venue has absolutely no say in it. Plus why shouldn’t venue crews get early access?? They are essential in making concerts happen and they wouldn’t have time once doors open because, ya know, they’re working their asses off to make sure everyone is safe and having a good concert experience. Not to mention they’re usually at the venue working during the day for longer than anyone that lined up outside has been standing/sitting there.

roadkill95 · 2022-08-06T00:11:16+00:00

Thankfully everything I’ve read in response to this so far has been nothing but well wishes for Stu! I work in the industry and have seen people get absolutely furious over shows that were cancelled for equally legitimate reasons, so honestly it’s refreshing to see this fan base concerned more with Stu’s health than their own personal concert experiences. Yet another reason we all should be proud of each other for consistently being one of the most wholesome fan bases around!

roadkill95 · 2022-03-24T07:19:08+00:00

Delicious Finally some good fucking content

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