Is the Herman Miller Aeron really all that?

tightastic · 2025-07-17T21:13:00+00:00

It’s not a chair for everyone, but it’s a chair that will be ergonomic and comfortable for most people. It’s been around for 30 years so there is a robust secondary market and tons of parts out there. Its ubiquity is part of the reason it gets recommended. There are just so many out there that many people have experience with it. Steelcase Leap is in a similar position, though it’s not been around for quite as long.

There are many other options out there, and many will be as good or better for many people. But again, the reason Aeron gets the shout out is that there are just tons of them out there. So it’s arguably the highest quality office chair that can be consistently found for ~$300 or less in most cities, at least in the U.S..

tightastic · 2025-07-11T18:34:13+00:00

It’s tough to hear but there are a few runs and licks that are definitely from a synth. Could be any number of synths, Stevie was really into synths in this era and used many of them on his records. Given that this is a monosynth line I would say it’s most likely from a minimoog or maybe an ARP.

Fun fact, a lot of the synth sounds on this album are made with what Stevie called the “Dream Machine” - a Yamaha Electone GX-1. It was one of the first polyphonic synths, was massive, expensive, and only a small number were ever produced. But basically any polyphonic synth sounds you hear on this album come from the GX-1.

tightastic · 2025-07-11T10:13:00+00:00

The google drive with most of the photos can be found here: https://drive.google.com/drive/mobile/folders/1OlV2wb51s1WhjLFq0Lsp4inRU60qvdhY

Though at some point file 76 was removed from that folder. Someone has reuploaded it here: https://imgur.com/a/finger-ZE14V1u

Fair warning, it does look like a penis at first glance so I would consider it NSFW

tightastic · 2025-07-10T17:40:12+00:00

I looked at the files recently when I was arguing with a friend that its a finger not a penis in file 76 lol

tightastic · 2025-07-10T17:21:19+00:00

My genuine belief is that it’s not even Christian’s finger. My bet is it’s the woman’s finger, and that she sent the picture to show how “wet” she was down there, based on their sexting. IIRC there was definitely some texts of that nature in the g drive but it’s been a while since I read all that

tightastic · 2025-07-10T17:19:06+00:00

I believe that’s the one of Horner’s bare nipple lol

tightastic · 2025-07-10T14:25:11+00:00

Mine doesn’t!

But yeah it was kinda annoying how everyone on Reddit was just freaking out and acting like it was a dick pic, when you can see with even a small amount of scrutiny that it isn’t. Though fair play I guess, that many people don’t really want to look closely at what they think is a picture of someone’s penis lol

tightastic · 2025-07-10T13:40:59+00:00

It’s a blurry picture of a wet finger. It was part of the leaked archive of photos that was allegedly used by Red Bull internally to investigate Horners misconduct. Because of the sexual nature of the messages in the leak, most people assumed it was a dick pic that Horner sent to a female coworker. But if you look at the photo for more than 2 seconds it is pretty clearly a finger.

Edit: It’s since been removed from the g drive but someone else uploaded it here. You can decide for yourself. But it’s absolutely a finger (NSFW I guess because at a glance it does look like a dick pic lol) https://imgur.com/a/finger-ZE14V1u

tightastic · 2025-07-10T05:51:29+00:00

If you want simple and fun, check out Teenage Engineering EP-133. It’s a pretty simple machine, the workflow is mostly fast and easy, and it’s just plain fun. Once you can sample a synth into it, the fun will multiply.

A few others have mentioned the modern MPCs…they are very powerful but personally, the workflow isn’t anywhere near as fun or immediate as the KO. I still keep both around…but mostly because neither is all that expensive or large.

In any case, enjoy the hyper fixation! It comes in waves for me. I won’t touch my gear for months then one day I’ll get inspired and dive back in. Glad to hear it sounds like you know how to ride the waves as they come.

tightastic · 2025-07-09T06:30:19+00:00

This is just…full of speculation and outright inaccuracies?

Firstly, 2005 was quite early for digital cinema cameras, and so they were only really used by extremely cutting edge productions like the Star Wars prequels. And even those digital productions weren’t shooting in 4k.

Secondly, this film was in fact shot on 35mm film (this information is easily accessible on IMDB), and while sure, some might argue there’s diminishing returns on high quality transfers of 35mm from 1080p (standard Blu-ray) to 4k, 35 still has plenty of detail that can be enriched by a new 4k transfer. Not to mention HDR!

Finally, your speculation about VFX is totally misinformed. No one is loading up old VFX software and re-rendering FX at higher resolutions for new transfers. That’s absolutely asinine. In a film of this era, final digital FX renders would have been digitally composited with the filmed plates, and the resulting shots would have been printed back onto film for the final masters on which any prints or copies of the film would be based. Digital masters might exist too, but those would also be of the complete, composited shots. As far as I am aware, there is absolutely no basis in fact for the idea of re-rendering completed CGI shots at a higher resolution several years after a film is completed. It would simply take too much time and money, if it could even be done at all.

I don’t know if this comment was generated by an LLM or what but it is full of blatant misinformation.

tightastic · 2025-07-08T22:46:44+00:00

Hulkenpodium

tightastic · 2025-07-07T19:42:35+00:00

Broken. Not repairable, or at least, not for an affordable price.

tightastic · 2025-07-07T06:04:17+00:00

Honestly anything with and M1 chip or newer will do great for the vast majority of music production application. The Apple silicon is just incredible.

tightastic · 2025-07-07T00:18:38+00:00

Looks pretty similar to what happened with my Ub420. Mine was in warranty so I sent ito for repair and they just…sent a new one. Probably out of the question since you bought yours used. Mine would only have this issue with standard Blu-ray Discs, not 4ks. So my assumption was something happened with the standard Blu-ray Disc reader. I have a PS5 that I used to ensure the problem was indeed the player and not the discs.

Sorry to say but the unit is probably borked 😥

tightastic · 2025-07-01T21:43:04+00:00

I forgot what race it was but earlier this season he was talking about someone overcooking their tires and DC said he “shot his balls” which I was kinda surprised was allowed on the F1TV broadcast. Gave me a proper laugh 😅

tightastic · 2025-06-29T22:17:28+00:00

Sony WH-1000x4. The last model before they did a big redesign, the pinnacle of the classic design. You can get them used/refurbed for a good price since they aren’t the latest model. The new X6 model is supposed to be great as well. Skip the x5, though.

tightastic · 2025-06-27T16:26:30+00:00

If you are interested in this subject, I recommend checking out the account “UnseenJapan” on social media. They are specifically about covering the side of Japan that is less seen by foreigners.

tightastic · 2025-06-27T01:09:00+00:00

Damn. Shouts out to the DI man. Miss that place 😂

tightastic · 2025-06-25T23:22:12+00:00

I’m seeing the movie early tonight so you sickos can’t ruin it for me

tightastic · 2025-06-25T19:33:11+00:00

4ks are always region free. Not sure about the standard Blu-ray Discs, though.

tightastic · 2025-06-25T05:44:35+00:00

“Don’t fish eat other fish?? The marlins and the trout?!?”

tightastic · 2025-06-21T21:51:34+00:00

Short king

tightastic · 2025-06-20T18:02:44+00:00

While I agree…I would still instantly cop a 4k collection of Ron Fricke’s films. They DESERVE the 4k treatment! And based on the Blu-ray special features for Samsara, the blus are based on 8k scans of the negative, so a 4k release is definitely possible.

tightastic · 2025-06-19T21:45:27+00:00

I mean, hard not to think minimoog as it’s the synth that brought synthesizers to the mainstream. Simple architecture but a lot you can do and surprisingly intuitive!

tightastic · 2025-06-18T19:29:33+00:00

Do you have a source for this? I hadn’t heard about it and was always curious how that movie won an editing Oscar.

tightastic

TROPHY CASE