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  • Absolutely nothing wrong with supplementing or replacing drums with samples! I have a friend who’s a very accomplished engineer and musician, and they do it for pretty much every project.

    Weird microphone tricks (e.g. a 57 on a kick drum) are just stopgap solutions when there are no other options, kinda like replacing a bad kick drum sound — the most important part is to trust your ears and have fun!



  • Slightly off center and almost touching the grill is pretty standard placement for micing a cabinet, I think! I usually try to make a tangent line between the 57’s capsule and the cone of the speaker.

    I’m right there with you about the B52 on a kick drum — that’s definitely my preference too unless the kick drum doesn’t have a port, in which case I usually go for a D112.

    One could mic an entire band using just 58s and 57s, if push came to shove. Live sound can be a weird thing lol


  • Two or three inches up from the bottom-center of a non-ported kick drum works in a pinch, but never tried it with a ported head.

    I believe I’ve seen a bass cab mic’ed similarly as well, though I for sure saw a Beta 58 (not a 52) used for this purpose quite a few times by pointing the center of the capsule directly at the bottom-center edge of the speaker ---- looks like partially mic’ing the wood, but I remember it worked really well!



  • I thought the same and then got a recent-ish car that had an “automatic” setting to dim or engage the high beams. It’s terrible. Taking tight corners on a dark rural road, they dim because the sensor detects the car’s own headlight reflection off of the trees, defeating the purpose.

    So, I think a bunch of dipshit city folk leave the high beams on (in the city where they aren’t fucking necessary) and let the “automatic” setting handle it, poorly.

    I learned how to drive in a rural area where using the brights is normal when you get out of town, with the caveat that you have to pay attention and switch back when cresting a hill or coming around a corner.

    Edit: “creating” -> “cresting”






  • goosehorsetocatsWall of sorrow
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    6 months ago

    Not a dad, but an ex that wound up with three after the split many years ago — OP’s meme strongly channeling the current girlfriend, but holding strong that my one remaining old man doesn’t want a cat friend lmao


  • goosehorsetoGrateful DeadGrateful at 60. What do you think?
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    8 months ago

    Well, I use spotify lol

    I mostly listen to albums and podcasts (when I’m not using it to check out bands for work), and hilariously, I think the 80s-90s Dead playlist is the only one I’ve ever made. Got tired of skipping around random albums for specific songs, with the added benefit of being able to download for in-flight use.

    No shade at all for hanging on to what works for you! Your setup is probably more future-proof than mine, since you actually own your own copies of the songs.


  • goosehorsetoSneerClub@awful.systemsAgainst truth
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    9 months ago

    I’m a lurker who stumbled in here and read the comments out of fascination for this window into a strange online world.

    If I didn’t have a vague clue that this was about lampooning Silicon Valley’s fart-sniffing “philosophers”, I would be pretty certain “Re-update backwards” was clearly language invented by a cult to control their followers and separate them from the rest of the world.