MossyFeathers
@MossyFeathers@pawb.social
- Comment on (UPDATED) Nightdive Announces Remastered Version of 90s Cult Classic Shooter PO'ed 4 days ago:
This game is already out. Why did we need an update on an announcement for a game that’s already released?
- Comment on Galaxy S10 til the wheels come off 4 days ago:
One of the core skills would be the ability to pick out different sounds from a soundscape. I suspect you already have a knack for that given how much you seem to think about audio quality. Tied in with that would be an understanding of how digital audio works in terms of bitrate, dynamic range, what clipping sounds (and looks) like, etc. I’m sure there’s tons of info on all that online. Analog audio has a whole other set of skills associated with it, but I doubt it’s super accessible these days for a beginner. That’s outside of cassettes, at least. I’m sure old 4-track cassette recorders are super cheap. As much as I loved analog recording, you’re probably better off just going digitally and using processing to get an approximation of the “traditional” analog sound, though, if that’s your jsn. Or if you’re going for a black metal sound or something else intentionally grungy, go to town on a cassette deck.
I can already do a lot of this, and while I’m a bit lacking on the analog aspect, I have an okay understanding of how electricity works, which would probably help with the analog side.
From there I’d say the biggest skills would be understanding basic mic technique, the general physics of sound, and how to properly set your levels (basically the ratio of preamp vs amp). Next up would be figuring out basic processing - namely the different types of EQ and compression. Effects play into that too - especially reverb and delay - but EQ and compression (plus proper micing and levels) are generally going to be the foundation of a good mix.
Don’t have as much of an understanding here, especially when it comes to calling out specific frequencies to be EQ’d. I don’t do enough of that to be able to “play it by ear” and know what frequencies I want to adjust without some experimentation. I’m also somewhat familiar with how compressors work, but I need a UI because I tend to forget what bit does what, so I need visual feedback to show me what I’m changing. Shouldn’t be too difficult to memorize the terminology and how certain frequencies sound, but it would take some effort. I do understand how decibels work though!
That being said - this all entirely depends on what you’re going for. If you don’t do anything musical yourself and aren’t inclined to record other musicians, you can have tons of fun remixing other people’s work. I’m pretty sure there are sites out there where you can download raw audio tracks to mix yourself. Another viable option if you’re into electronic forms of music is to get a sequencer and experiment that way.
It’s something I’d probably do as a career. The career I wanted to go into has turned out to be extremely toxic and heavily exploitive, so I’m kinda looking for alternatives. That said, most creative careers tend to be very exploitive so I might be looking in the wrong place.
- Comment on Galaxy S10 til the wheels come off 4 days ago:
Ye, though tbh, I’ve thought about just getting a secondary pair of headphones, like a cheaper wireless pair for being out and about, and a more expensive pair for at home. If I went that route then I’d probably do something like the ath-m50x
- Comment on Galaxy S10 til the wheels come off 4 days ago:
Holy shit those actually kinda sound exactly like what I want. They are pretty expensive, and I wonder what the sound quality is like, but those are basically the kinda thing I’ve been looking for.
- Comment on Galaxy S10 til the wheels come off 4 days ago:
I’ll have to check them out, thanks!
- Comment on Galaxy S10 til the wheels come off 4 days ago:
I actually don’t, but maybe I should because I love audio stuff, I just don’t usually have the money to blow on it. Any idea what skills audio engineers usually have?
- Comment on Galaxy S10 til the wheels come off 5 days ago:
I don’t have a problem with wireless headphones when it comes to mobile devices. It sucks, and I wish I still had a headphone jack, but I’ve kinda come to peace with the fact that wireless accessories for phones are apparently the future.
However, I wish there were “mid/high-end” Bluetooth/wifi cans. All the wireless headphones are either earbuds or overpriced Skullcandy/beats/Bose/apple/etc. I want an AKG or Audio-Technica pair of wireless headphones that go over my ears, and I want an option between closed-back and open-back headphones. I prefer closed-back due to the sound isolation and I’m annoyed that there’s a price gap where it’s hard to find closed-back headphones in the $300~$600 range.
…or at least it was when I checked a year or two ago; everything with a closed back was either entry (<$100), low-level (<$300) or too expensive (>$600 + $100 or more for an amp, because at that price range most headphones need one).
- Comment on Ironing 5 days ago:
Ironing seems like it’d be a really chill and relaxing activity, if we had time to engage in it.
- Comment on It's basic science 6 days ago:
My understanding is that it depends on context. Have you been sweating a lot? Are you super dehydrated? Sports drinks (actual “sports drinks” like Gatorade) are probably better for you than water.
The reason for that is because you lose a lot of salt and other electrolytes through sweat, and drinks like Gatorade are meant to replace those. That’s why professional athletes, especially stamina-based athletes like marathon runners, football players, etc, tend to drink some form of sports drink (the sponsorships help though). Additionally, if you’re extremely dehydrated then you may also be low on electrolytes (because you’ve been out in the sun, or you’ve been sweating a lot). I’ve also heard that sports drinks hydrate faster because they’re supposedly similar to saline, but I can’t find any sources for that, so take that with a grain of salt.
However, if you’re just kinda thirsty or want something to drink, then water is probably better. I doubt you’ll hurt yourself drinking Gatorade instead of water, but you don’t need it either.
- Comment on Internet Archive forced to remove 500,000 books after publishers’ court win 1 week ago:
This. If I’m not mistaken, the system was meant to operate like a hybrid between patents and trademarks. Iirc, things weren’t originally under copyright by default and you had to regularly renew your copyright in order to keep it. Most of the media in the public domain is a result of companies failing to properly claim or renew copyright before the laws were changed. My understanding is that the reason for this was because the intent was to protect you from having your IP stolen while it was profitable to you, but then release said IP into the public domain once it was no longer profitable (aka wasn’t worth renewing copyright on).
Then corpos spent a lot of money rewriting the system and now practically everything even remotely creative is under copyright that’s effectively indefinite.
- Comment on Salad people go burr 1 week ago:
Dude, what the fuck? You’re being an asshole. Be better, I know you’re capable of it.
- Comment on non vegan pizza time 1 week ago:
This comment section gonna be spicy~
Tbh I kinda agree with you, calling someone a murderer or rapist for eating meat is overboard; however the biggest issue I have is the pretentious and self-righteous attitude that vegans have. Like, cool, you don’t eat meat, good for you! I agree that commercially raised farm animals are often abused, and that even animals raised by small, private farms don’t always get to lead their best lives.^1 At the same time though, you’re not making your cause look good.
Yes, I might honestly be a better person if I stop eating meat, dairy and buying any form of animal product; but I’m also gonna be associated with assholes with overinflated egos. I’m distanced enough from the slaughter that the overinflated ego is more of a turnoff than the slaughtering of animals.
Is that how it should be? No, but that’s how humans usually work. The object perceived to be closer is a higher priority than the object perceived to be further away. Animal slaughter is perceived as being further away than being associated with assholes, so the fear of being associated with assholes is a greater “threat” than the inhumane treatment of animals.
Be a vegan if you want, or don’t. You’re honestly probably a better, healthier person if you’re vegan (though you probably have your head up your ass about it), because your diet and spending habits are less likely to contribute to climate change, animal cruelty, and because you have to be conscious about what you eat, your food is likely healthier.
Just… Don’t be an ass about it, dude.
Instead of accusing people of being “carnists”, talk about a good (totally-not-vegan) dish you had recently. Instead of accusing people of murder, talk about the pros and cons of real leather vs faux leather.^2 Instead of telling people they’re animal rapists, talk about new sources of cow’s milk.
I swear I recently read about a technically vegan blue cheese that won and then got disqualified from a cheese competition because the milk it was made from was technically synthetic cow’s milk that had been derived from fungi or something. Talk about that shit. That is pretty fucking cool. Fungus milk that’s virtually identical to cow’s milk? That’s awesome!
Meat eating and the damage it causes is far off in most people’s rear-view mirrors, and many people don’t know or don’t have time to find ways of getting off the meat highway. They don’t know about alternatives or up-and-coming technologies related to meat substitutes. Being an ass is only going to turn people away; if you really care, then you’ll understand that you have to take people’s hands and take baby steps with them. And no, you can’t get angry when they mess up. You’re helping a baby to walk, if you get angry then they’ll just get angry, demoralized, frustrated with you or themselves, or something else, and you risk them giving up. If you actually care though, then you don’t want them to give up, and that means you have to grit your teeth and bear it when they complain about how something sucks or admit they have a “guilty pleasure” like dairy ice cream.
Some additional notes:
^1 imo meat should only be harvested from animals that have died from age-related causes. “But the meat will be too tough!” Yeah? Hispanic people figured out how to deal with that a long time ago. Make fajitas! I still eat meat anyway though, despite knowing they’re slaughtered and don’t die of old age.
^2 when it comes to leather, my experience is that natural leather lasts a lot longer than faux leather, and faux leather tends to use plastics. Additionally, I’ve heard that while “leather is a byproduct of the meat industry” is mostly a myth, it’s my understanding that there are “ethical” ways of getting leather, e.g. by taking cast-offs that’d normally be trashed, leather harvested from animals that have died from old age; you just have to be very conscious about where you’re buying leather from. I’d be curious if anyone knows about any non-petroleum-based faux or lab-grown leathers. I mean, it’s literally just skin, how hard can it really be to grow that in a lab?
- Comment on the truth 1 week ago:
Republicans cutting funding to NASA because rockets are “satanic devil worship” and “are arousing to females (biological) and homosexual men because they’re phallic in nature” in T-minus 10…
(Spoiler: they were gonna defund NASA anyway)
- Comment on Choose your Fighter 2 weeks ago:
“raptor”
There’s more than one kind of raptor, buddy. Also why doesn’t the raptor have feathers? If you’re gonna mush all the raptors together into a single species, at least draw the feathers. This is offensive to theropods around the world as it turns us into a homogeneous, featherless caricature.
- Comment on Ridiculed Stable Diffusion 3 release excels at AI-generated body horror 2 weeks ago:
I’m normally (mostly) against generative AI (I’m mostly okay with it if it’s not being used commercially, but you should still pay artists if you have the means), but I’m actually kinda into this. I love how it’s shitty but photorealistic at the same time.
That said…
“It wasn’t too long ago that StableDiffusion was competing with Midjourney, now it just looks like a joke in comparison. At least our datasets are safe and ethical!” wrote one Reddit user.
Sure buddy. Listen, using other people’s work doesn’t become ethical just because you’re not selling the training or dataset. That doesn’t mean it’s unethical either, but imo it falls into a ethical grey area where the way you use it determines whether or not it’s ethical.
- Comment on Trauma 5 weeks ago:
We can stop future generations from breeding today! Traumatize your children until the idea of having children becomes unbearable for them.
- Comment on Don't let people sell you flashlights :) 1 month ago:
Is it possible to diy a headlamp? I’ve always thought it’d be kinda cool and silly to have an obscenely bright flashlight, but I prefer headlamps because it leaves my hands free (and it’s automatically pointing at whatever I’m looking at, for better or for worse).
- Comment on Hey kid 1 month ago:
Remember kid, at some point in the far future, every star will burn out. There will be no more light, no more warmth. The universe will become an infinite void, without life. That is our future, dear child. That is the reality of our existence. All life, all light, extinguished by time.
- Comment on Futures 1 month ago:
Ironically, between Venus’ earth-like gravity and high atmospheric density, it might actually be easier to build cloud colonies on Venus than ground colonies on Mars.
- Comment on Why won't 'Fluffy' the red-bellied black snake leave Lisa's car? 1 month ago:
I was like, “just grab it and toss it out, why is this news?”
Then I realized the article is about Australia, and said article confirms that it’s highly venomous.
This is why it is that, even though Australia’s climate would probably agree with me, their wildlife would not. I’d just be like, “well, it’s not rattling (rattlesnake), isn’t giving me a open-mouthed threat display or around water (cottonmouth) and doesn’t have colored bands (potentially coral snake), I’ll just grab it and toss it out.” Same thing with spiders and insects.
Note: apparently the mnemonic device, “red on black, friendly jack, red on yellow, kill a fellow” isn’t universal, even in areas where coral snakes live. That’s why I specified banded instead of “red on yellow bands”. At the same time though, you could probably put on some work gloves and be fine. Iirc they have small mouths, small fangs, and a weak bite strength so supposedly it’s very hard to get envenomed by one, even with bare hands.
- Comment on Hi-Fi Rush Gets Final Patch To Fix Minor Issues, Reconfirms Limited Physical Edition 1 month ago:
I’m surprised and disappointed companies are still teaming up with lrg after their cd/dvd-r fiasco. Tl;Dr they were caught using CD and dvd-r instead of CD/dvd-rom. Not all releases are effected, it seems to just be releases with low batch numbers. However, the fact they did it at all is scummy as fuck.
- Comment on i hate this meme 1 month ago:
Friendpilled visitmaxxer.
- Comment on The Patriarchy 1 month ago:
I want it to be real, damnit! It’s really funny.
- Comment on The Patriarchy 1 month ago:
If you’re referring to furry conventions, then I’ll chime in and say there are plenty of hot people in the furry community. They just usually aren’t the ones who get mocked on social media for being awkward.
- Comment on The Patriarchy 1 month ago:
I’m pretty sure you might get shot if you tried this in Texas. Some crazy would get mad about how dinosaurs were invented by Satan to mislead people into believing in evolution and therefore wearing a dinosaur costume makes you agents of the devil or something.
- Comment on The Patriarchy 1 month ago:
If I had a fursuit/scalesuit then I’d absolutely do shit like that. So, I guess?
- Comment on Good job! 1 month ago:
Dinosaurs had hands. Are you trying to tell me that millions of years of evolution removed their hands?
No.
They’re just really good at hiding them.
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*cough*. Read about their juveniles.
- Comment on Did Stanford just prototype the future of AR glasses? 1 month ago:
After reading the article, this might be the exception.
- Comment on After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year 1 month ago:
I thought that was Qobuz. At least I can actually buy music through Qobuz I guess.
- Comment on Rip Striker 2000-2024 😭 1 month ago:
Look at the bottom right corner, it looks like it may have been AI generated.