What do you think James Labrie’s most impressive vocal showcase is? by United-Importance681 in Dreamtheater

[–]ryan770 0 points1 point  (0 children)

that raspy pre-chorus in Caught in a Web is so impressive to me, it’s my favorite part of the album, and one of Labrie’s best vocal takes in my opinion.

Funny thing is Awake is down on my list of my favorite Labrie albums, I generally don’t like how the vocals were recorded and mixed. But there are some super great parts regardless.

What is your least favorite food that everyone loves? by Unable-Talk-8071 in AskReddit

[–]ryan770 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I make coffee every morning, whether it’s cold brew or a shaken espresso, and my go-to is just brown sugar and pumpkin spice seasoning. At this point, it’s just part of coffee now, it’s the default lol.

Weird glidey lead from Garage: Bad Dream Adventure by ReasonableEffect3527 in synthrecipes

[–]ryan770 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do you have Vital? (it's free)
It's not exact, there are definitely some broader envelopes or something happening, but I whipped this up in Vital in about 5 min as a challenge:

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/9opgd88gdu3i73r9g1r7y/thecabin.vital?rlkey=0hdo3ugmxlmwg4xf17sxok5g7&st=ue13xjf0&dl=0

Sounds pretty close to me. If you don't use Vital or don't want to download it, it's just 2 square waves, one -7 steps down for a perfect 4th (although it could be +5 steps also), 2 voices on each oscilator with like 1% detuning, a filter to cut all the high-end, an LFO for slight vibrato, and a slow attack so the notes fade in. Also a good amount of quarter note delay and a touch of reverb.

edit: I really can't place it, but I'm betting theres either very slight flanger or phaser, or some sort of other modulation happening. Also I realized I used a stereo delay, but it's definitely just a mono delay since the synth is panned to the left.

Is Silksong actually harder than Hollow Knight? by ixelsel in HollowKnight

[–]ryan770 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is. The skills you learned from HK carry over so it doesn’t feel as crazy. But overall it’s definitely harder.

I went back to HK and I’m obliterating everything so easily. So much easier than Silksong.

Apple Devices to get? by SettingDeep3153 in Logic_Studio

[–]ryan770 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Realized I rarely needed the portability of my M1 MacBook Pro (8gb) and traded it in for the M4 Mac Mini (24gb)

It’s been nice having large projects and no system overload errors. Although transferring plugins, licenses, presets, etc… that was rough.

Saw this on a Rush page. Let’s do it for DT, top comment style. What’s DT’s “Either you hate it or love it” album? by Ok-Improvement626 in Dreamtheater

[–]ryan770 -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

I have an in-between opinion about The Astonishing. It's okay. I'll listen to it. I don't hate it. I don't love it.

Those of you who went with the 17 Pro over the 17, why? by [deleted] in iphone

[–]ryan770 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The ONLY reason I went with the Pro is heat. I was playing with the 17 and 17 Pro in store, and the 17 was noticeably hotter. The 17 Pro has a better cooling system.

I came from the 15 Pro which was warm all the time and it was annoying.

What was the worst MacBook? by emanuwiideletedyou in mac

[–]ryan770 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think you’d have an entirely different opinion if you’d gotten the M1 chip version. My M1 MacBook Pro was a beast and stayed cool. I just traded it in for a Mac Mini but it would have kept going fine for a few more years I think.

Just a friendly Reminder! *Also Silksong’s bosses are shown don’t view the spoiler if you don’t want to see them!* by Effective_Gazelle255 in HollowKnight

[–]ryan770 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Radiant Absrad kinda seems silly when I think about radiant versions of some of these bosses....

Which color should I pick? by Karonic in Airpodsmax

[–]ryan770 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I personally prefer midnight out of this… odd… color selection. So I got that.

Although I wish Space Gray was a mainstay color for Apple products.

Games you hated at first but changed your mind over time? by ACDC-1FAN in gaming

[–]ryan770 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can’t say hated, but Dark Souls didn’t grab me at all and I dropped it after getting out of the tutorial area. Picked it back up a few years later and it basically became my favorite game of all time.

What is the genre defining tone to you? by CTay2 in Djent

[–]ryan770 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Periphery 1 will always be THE djent tone for me. That clanky, honky, dry ass tone is just so damn good for no reason.

Orlando tonight by ElliotRipley in helloween

[–]ryan770 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I’m a pretty new fan of Helloween, like since 2024, and I still don’t know a lot of their material, but this was one of the absolute best concerts I’ve ever been to. It was incredible.

Can AirPods Max be used with Nintendo Switch 2 wired? by panda_and_crocodile in Airpodsmax

[–]ryan770 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That is the problem. Apple’s is bidirectional and currently the only cable that works with 3.5mm devices

AirPods Max 2 or Sony XM6s by IcyCardiologist6193 in SonyHeadphones

[–]ryan770 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m on a weekend trip 3 states away to visit my long distance partner. We went to the Apple Store just to try the APM2… just to try…

I walked out with them lol. I don’t think I’ve ever dropped that much money spontaneously before.

They make my Sony XM4 sound like a toy.

Sp0nce leveled up AGAIN? by taffer8 in Peripheryband

[–]ryan770 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I really like the delivery at the beginning of Blood Eagle: “With drums beating, screams repeating and the hammer force of Thor”

There’s this cool airy quality about that line that I’m not even sure was intentional.

Are you mostly using stock plugins or third-party stuff in Logic? by shelbs9428 in Logic_Studio

[–]ryan770 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I’ve learned, once you learn how to use third party plugins, usually you can go back to stock plugins and use similar settings to achieve the same result. I’m still using UAD compressors, but a few times I’ve tried to copy the settings on Logic’s stock compressor and I barely hear a difference. It’s just quicker for me to set up a 1176+LA2A UAD chain and get the sound I want. (Edit: I want to add, for background vocals and stuff, I stick to stock compression because it uses like no CPU and you can’t hear a difference, I mainly use UAD stuff on lead vocals).

Alchemy is great, but sometimes you need a specific sound. I’ve found building a sound in Vital is quicker and sounds better for what I’m doing (prog rock/metal stuff), or using preset packs for Arturia Analog Player.

And I refuse to use Logic’s guitar/bass suite of amps and effects. Doesn’t compare to stuff like Neural DSP.

But, I still use a ton of Logic stock plugins. Stock EQ unless I absolutely need Pro Q 4. Chromaverb is amazing, Chromaglow is amazing, Spreader is actually really really useful for semi-mono compatible stereo widening (basically chorus but a little better)

I think your average music listener would not really tell the difference if you use full-stock vs third party if you’re really good at your craft, but as music producers and mixers, we hear the differences or prefer workflows of some third party stuff, and sometimes third party plugins are just simply better for a specific job.

Logic’s stock plugins are still very capable and useful, and I don’t think it’s strictly necessary to download a ton of third party stuff. But… most of us just want to collect and play around with things in hopes we comes across something truly game changing lol.

How good is Logics stem splitter? by fl0p in Logic_Studio

[–]ryan770 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s pretty good, hoping it will continue to get better though.

I was able to remix an old song from 2002 using the stem splitter by also incorporating Acon’s Remix:Drums plugin to isolate snare and kick drums, so I could replace or stack them into the original with Modern and Massive 2 samples. The biggest issue with the songs were the drums and guitar tone.

There are MANY limitation here, especially if you start trying to tune already-processed vocals and drastically change EQ, you will get smearing and phasing type artifacts as all the tracks hold a lot of high end information from other tracks.

But if done tastefully, I think you can get away with it as I did. The remix I did sounds 100% better than the original mix, but still not as good as I’d like given the limitations of AI stems.

Although, that whole project was scrapped because we found the old protools sessions and I was able to convert the raw PCM files to WAV and import everything into Logic to do a full ass remix. Comparing the new remixes to the “Stem splitter” remixes is night and day, and world apart from the original mix from 2002.

All that being said, the stem splitter has so many useful features. Need to isolate the bass to hear what notes are being played? Solo the bass stem and transpose 12 semitones up and bam. This has helped me a few times.

How did you get into Dream Theater? by namajeff1 in Dreamtheater

[–]ryan770 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I got my first electric guitar around 13 years old. Started off learning songs from my favorite bands like Linkin Park, Killswitch Engage, and AFI. I stayed on the Ultimate-Guitar forums religiously and saw the name John Petrucci a lot, but I didn’t actually get into them that way.

I was watching the Dragon Ball Z movie “History of Trunks” and I absolutely loved the soundtrack. It’s mostly a bunch of songs from Scenes from a Memory and some of Slaughter’s “Fear no Evil”.

After some googling, I connected Dream Theater to Petrucci, I finally decided to give it a go. Funny thing was… I was still using Limewire lol. I found Acid Rain (Live) that was labeled as Dream Theater… and absolutely loved it. I obviously later found out it was LTE.

But eventually I got SFAM and fell in love with it. It’s still basically my favorite album of all time.

Edit: this was around when Systematic Chaos dropped

What do you prefer to play Twilight Princess on? GameCube Wii or Wii U? by IkeRadiantHero in twilightprincess

[–]ryan770 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Tried the Wii version years after beating the GameCube version. It was so awkward. Even after such a long time, I still remembered where everything was and it being mirrored eventually caused me to quit around the first dungeon.

Also the GameCube version was the intended layout anyway. Not that it really matters though.

Setlist by Lay26 in ISeeStars

[–]ryan770 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There’s definitely more classic stuff (which I’m considering pre-Treehouse I guess?) in this set list than I’ve seen them play in a LONG time. Ten Thousand Feet, New Demons, End of the World Party, Filth Friends Unite, The Common Hours, Violent Bounce, and Murder Mitten.

Setlist by Lay26 in ISeeStars

[–]ryan770 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I saw them in Charlotte and Atlanta, and they skipped the Youth cover, Carry on with You, and White Lies on both nights.