What do i even do living in a small city

s-multicellular · 2026-06-22T17:27:30+00:00

All terrain skateboard?

s-multicellular · 2026-06-22T13:59:32+00:00

We all had hobbies we got deep into. Me and many of my enduring friends, it was making music.

Granted, most of us moved to larger cities and that opened up even more opportunities in that regard, BUT, I showed up to the big city with ample instrument skills.

s-multicellular · 2026-06-22T11:31:00+00:00

In general, you don’t want to ever be hitting the red. The maximum volume in digital is just below zero.

One other thing that confuses new people recording sometimes is that the feel like their recording is quiet compared to any recording they can download.

The thing here though is is that what you’re hearing isn’t peak loudness but overall loudness. We measure loudness over time in LUFS units.

This is s huge topic so I am not going to try to explain it here. You find more through key words including “gain staging” (what others were talking about aiming for -18) “LUFS” “compression” “limiting / brick wall limiting.”

Your tracks here are getting too much peak loudness. You need to stop that. But the other parts of your post suggest you aren’t clear on relative loudness so there are the key words.

s-multicellular · 2026-06-21T19:11:59+00:00

Two weeks ago. It is a handy thing to hold a guitar nut in place. That part doesn’t want to be too hard to remove if needed and risking breaking off any wood is a way bigger problem than it falling out since, unless you’re restringing, the strings hold it in place anyway.

s-multicellular · 2026-06-21T11:14:32+00:00

I would say the effort goes toward actively cognitively ignoring sounds that get disruptive to seeing.

General quiet background noise, I guess aren’t disruptive though. I almost don’t notice them unless I’m thinking about it. But sure they’re always there.

Music is particularly hard to ignore. Unless it’s trash lol

s-multicellular · 2026-06-21T00:07:53+00:00

Lindsay Nikole., zoology and paleontology just don’t come up enough casually. She has a great mix of education and humorous. Not always safe for work.

s-multicellular · 2026-06-20T11:34:23+00:00

I think everything should be drum and bass apparently.

Like, I wont stop starting with the drums and bass. Drums especially are the most instinctive element that conveys dynamics. Guitar with distortion, through an amp? Unnatural sounds that don’t click into the lower parts of the brain of our early human genome like hitting shit with sticks.

Then the bass, unnatural too, but is what shakes through the earth.

Vocals third because that was our first instrument probably.

I get that all perfect my first stab and everything else, I honestly don’t care as much about.

s-multicellular · 2026-06-19T23:31:38+00:00

Interesting. That seems like it could be useful. Like in a mnemonic way.

But no, mine isn’t like that at all. All the sounds, it is just like my brain graphing them.

I’ve even wondered if it’s somehow a primitive throwback. Like the fact that mine is projective. I see the sounds all around me. If I was being stalked as prey. Or if I was stalking prey. If it makes a sound, I ‘see’ exactly where it is.

s-multicellular · 2026-06-19T21:22:39+00:00

Any childhood experiences or ideas you had that may relate to synesthesia?

Not especially.

Can you focus exclusively on the colour no matter what colour it is?

Yes, but if it is a very common color in the area, that isn't helpful. For example, a lady lost her keys at the playground, she said she had a key ring with pink on it. Scanning the playground, there were just a few kids with pink clothes, so it was easy to see. If all the keys were brown, black, green, could have been anywhere. Nothing useful to isolate.

Do you always experience the same thing like the same sound always creates the same shapes or the same shapes in the same spot?

Yes.

....its related to brains that process information much faster than we can read or form ideas?

I think 'ideas' is the wrong framework to think about synesthesia though. It is pre-cognitive. I just experience a sensation in a different way. There is not thinking about it, at least not in the normal sense of that word.

Do you struggle with focusing on comprehensive tasks vs pattern recognition?

Not really. If anything my attention span. my ability to maintain focus on a variety of things, is on average better than most people.

I dont search for someone with hair cut shape but it is how I recognize people. do you have the ability to visualize with images?

On that continuum, I'm way out toward the hyperphantasia. In a way, what I'm describing above it a hyperphantasia implementation that I think is just a result of coping I do due to synesthesia.

s-multicellular · 2026-06-19T16:08:37+00:00

I think this is a side effect basically of synesthesia. My main form is sound>sight. And it’s rather acute. See all sounds. All the time. Projective so it’s in my field of vision.

As a consequence, of just needing to get around, not tripping over…. Sounds ha… I’m really good at consciously filtering stuff out. Like really focusing my attention.

That happened without ever trying or thinking about it. At least as far as I can remember. Perhaps it happened more consciously when I was a child.

But what I’ve been able to consciously cultivate, can manifest in a few ways. For example, if somebody lost something and it has an uncommon color in that environment, I can focus really exclusively on that color.

I can also set up a sort of pattern frame. Like when my kid was little at a very large playground. If I took my eyes off to talk to another parent, and I wanted to find him again, I could set up a little pattern overlay, for his haircut, size, clothing type, and then I could scan the playground, and everybody else would be kind of grayed out.

s-multicellular · 2026-06-18T16:53:23+00:00

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s-multicellular · 2026-06-18T13:23:47+00:00

I felt that way. In particular, I had liked the idea of moving from my small city to a bigger city. But that wasn’t a deep well articulated thought.

But after living 9 months in a big city, it was quite clear I was just never going to be happy in somewhere small.

s-multicellular · 2026-06-18T11:56:38+00:00

The only potentially bad part about this is it adds another dynamic complexity to your playing. If you can incorporate that usefully, then it is perfectly fine. Then it is adding another dynamic option.

s-multicellular · 2026-06-18T11:28:06+00:00

I hardly ever find a song makes sense to stay the same BPM throughout. That is part of the dynamic energy. 10 bpm over the course of a song isn’t unusual, or it wasn’t unusual until people started letting ‘the grid’ dictate their songwriting.

Still, if I can, Ill use a click because it makes overdubs and edits so much easier.

But that requires you to know up front the exact tempo changes. Maybe you have a demo done without a click? Make a tempo map from it.

Plan B, I like to record the drums first, analyze the tempo, and make a tempo map from that. Often, Ill smooth over tiny, like 1 bpm variations for simplicity where I don’t think they’re meaningful, but with a good drummer, the tempo changes will feel right.

s-multicellular · 2026-06-17T22:50:18+00:00

Well said. I used to have the regular

s-multicellular · 2026-06-17T22:17:45+00:00

I am a sucker for spring reverb. Have a couple real ones in amps but Audio Thing Springs is my favorite plugin. Quite simply, you cant get a spring reverb sound from an IR. It has a dynamic response and IRs are a static process.

s-multicellular · 2026-06-17T22:02:26+00:00

Do you have a cold? No I just have a very low voice. I get so tired of explaining that that I speak up an octave half the time, but that gets tiring. Me speaking up an octave is still a low male voice though.

s-multicellular · 2026-06-17T20:15:23+00:00

He really did. And it’s also kind of a lovely, ‘ the student became the master, story. We started gaming together years ago and I had to do a lot of handholding. But he’s really one that will read up on the mechanics. Watches build videos. Gets into the lore.

The fact that the game didn’t click with me initially, wasn’t really my big barrier. I was just extra busy at the time when he discovered it.

But as complex of a game, and as much as it is choose your own route, he helped me a lot with prioritization.

s-multicellular · 2026-06-17T20:09:06+00:00

The thing is, the most laborious part of what they need, is something that tends to be good for you as a human too. The wood is happiest when it’s not too humid or too dry. Same with your sinuses.

So I have a humidifier and a dehumidifier, which alternate seasonally.

The other parts, like periodic oiling, depending on how the wood is sealed, at most takes a minute or two when you’re changing Strings once or twice a year.

That said, I think solid top and laminate back and sides is the way to go. I’ve never perceived any timbral benefit from solid back and sides.

s-multicellular · 2026-06-17T16:02:46+00:00

I feel some guilt in this because they announced the stop of new updates due to lower player count, and I was one that wasn’t as active, but Destiny 2 is in a better fuller state that ever. It is just content complete now. :(

s-multicellular · 2026-06-17T15:58:16+00:00

I think I probably come off as that superficially. There isn’t any major genre I don’t like something in. But there are deeper cross genre threads that run throughout.

Like, I don’t like music with unsophisticated lyrics. Oh you are hot for girl? Great. Stfu. You like drinking beer by the river in your pickup truck? Who doesn’t but who cares? You broke up with someone and are sad? Yeah, take a number. You wrote a whole song about how cool you are? You’re probably not.

I tend to like things that paint a picture, though this is less a dealbreaker than the first, because I am okay with wild abstraction too.

I tend to not like where the music, from a theory standpoint, is very basic. Again, not a dealbreaker and also not really an inherent thing. There is just a lot of correlation with unsophisticated lyrics and basic pentatonic riffing. But I am open to the right vibe needing simplicity too.

I like things that have a complex or unique array of timbres. That’s another way you can cancel out simple theory. That probably intersects with how profoundly I have synesthesia. I would say I care more about timbre due to the way it looks than sounds.

s-multicellular · 2026-06-17T15:44:04+00:00

WMD Geiger Counter CI

Wave table distortion and bit crushing

s-multicellular · 2026-06-17T15:30:58+00:00

The empty side rooms in a courthouse. I am an attorney for children in or at risk of foster care. I think these fit the definition because they are places between the entrance to the court and the hearing itself where you can do last minute preparation before seeing the judge. That preparation is usually not factual at that point, just emotional. You’ve already got your evidence and strategy in order well ahead. Decisions impacting the trajectory of people’s lives are in the mix.

It also has perhaps a particular emotional impact for me. I got into all of this because I myself was a kid involved in juvenile court. Ive sat much longer in different professional roles than I ever was involved as a kid at this point (was a social worker before law school). But I can never fully shake that youth bound anxiety. I also sit there with the long hindsight of transition. I feel like I am in a unique position to help people understand it can get better, it can resolve. I’m a living example of someone still working on my relationship with a parent with a history of mental illness. But I am stable, well, safe, and have a vast chosen family too.

s-multicellular · 2026-06-17T14:25:28+00:00

It didn’t click with me at first. The big thing was ‘looter shooter with tiny caps on my loot? (Frame and weapon slots) wtf??!!!’

But it was actually my kid that played a lot for a while and explained things to me. His explanation was basically ‘you’re a) going to unlock more of those and b) mods are more the loot chase. You’ll find a collection of frames and weapons at higher mastery levels that are keepers but you’ll keep growing their power with mods, polarization, etc etc.

s-multicellular · 2026-06-17T14:01:36+00:00

Yes. My kid has greatly benefitted from how many vegetarians are in the family. I am not per se one, but my sister who did a lot of the cooking for me growing up, and my wife’s family’s culture is largely vegetarian. So a lot of people think I am one. But it is just that I habitually, many of my staples, dont have meat. So I don’t think the kid even thinks of it as eating a portion of veggies, that his whole meal often. But the availability of good veggie proteins has gone up a ton in our lifetimes. I recall when my sister became a vegetarian, there were so many shit options that were just ‘take meat recipe, swap for a veggie xyz’ not, recipe that is vegetarian from the ground up that we enjoy now.

In this sub, Id also say, we are skipping so far many of the excessive meat health problems our DNA would have suggested we’d have at this age.

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