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I used to have my living room set up with full range monitors, acoustic treatment and plenty of room to dance while producing. Then marriage and new house happened, and now I'm stashed away sitting in a corner with only headphones, and I'm just about ready to give up on techno. I just can't channel ...

Could someone please explain (in lay terms) what MP3 does to audio and point me toward a solution? MP3 encoding both compresses the data like normal data compressors (zip, rar etc), but it also removes data according to psychoacoustic principles, aka strips away parts of the sound our hearing (main...

Been in with a shrink cos was drinking to deal with anxiety with my job, self-medicating. Read up on how alcohol is ridiculously good at killing that feeling of panic, only to fuck you up a bit more longterm. I'm just struggling with how I have no control. It's a really hard thing to accept, that I...

if I really had a time machine I'd probably be too afraid to fuck with the causality of everything and leave it on the shelf. Yeah, everything is linked to everything so changing one little thing could result in a completely different life. In my case, I've often thought about how I was pressured b...

I hate the fact that my city was designed for cars instead of the humans living here.

Well, I downloaded the demo and gave it a go- and I have to say it does not sound totally shit. A big reason is sensible parameter ranging, the individual components don't seem to go to 11+ like most VST plugins do. Which makes sense in terms of usability. It also gave me the idea to chain different...

ICT? As In Circuit Test? :lol: "Information Communication Technology (ICT) is an umbrella term used to encompass all rapidly emerging, evolving and converging computer, software, networking, telecommunications, Internet, programming and information systems technologies." In other words, I have deep...

Distortion generates harmonics. Massive amounts of them. In the digital realm, the fuckers bend right back on your precious source at Nyquist and land up in all the wrong places, making stuff sound like shit. The methods plugin devs have at their disposal to reduce this sounding-like-shit aren't tra...

idk, things aren't that hard now in Finland tbh.

I'm an ICT specialist. It's ok, wish I was a marine biologist researching whale songs somewhere around the equator tho.

Can't help with USB, nor have I experience with your headphones. But I hear lots of good things about Schiit Magni. Other than that: If you're handy with soldering going DIY offers you a lot for little money. Most headphone amp circuits are very simple... even the high end ones. I've almost complet...

Sort of off-topic, but I'm considering a Mopho SE mainly for master keyboard duties Well I went ahead since I got a great deal on a mint pre-owned one, and as far as keyboards go, this one is top class. Lovely action, incredibly good aftertouch (there's no "lump" or mushiness, it just engages when ...

Sort of off-topic, but I'm considering a Mopho SE mainly for master keyboard duties (fits exactly on my tiny studio desk, quality keys with aftertouch), and the synth is kind of a bonus... but still a nice one. I like the sound, it's not Evolver-versatile but still has enough modulation to get reall...

No idea when techno folks started giving a fuck about what someone else is wearing. Not exactly useful information, but xanax wasn't used (in neither the film nor book) in American Psycho, however Haloperidol and diazepam were. If anyone hasn't read the actual novel I highly recommend it, although i...

Watching the rerun of yesterday's Vuelta mountain stage and enjoying Deep Space Helsinki on Basso, decent weekly radio show.

http://player.basso.fi/shows/4f4b53b2ce8beba804000014

Cycling and techno go neatly together.

Neither amps or the headphone/loudspeaker elements are capable of reproducing pure sinewaves perfectly (this difference from ideal is what they measure with THD), and doing that long and loud enough may actually damage your gear. The rattling is more likely to be you overpushing your setup than a re...

Funny, I've suffered from the exact same problem a while ago- a lot of the tracks I started sounded just like premillenial Digweed :D However, I'm literally new to producing techno, but not new to music in general- I have enough experience in other genres that I know it's just a hill I have to climb...

If you were me in a small room, would you bother getting somewhat decent monitors like the krk 8s? I was thinking of getting headphones, maybe the Beyerdynamic DT-990 PROs while using old consumer hi fi speakers to just to know how speakers sound like since mixing on headphones is kind of tricky. P...

This is crushing, rest in peace genius.

I was so very much looking forward to his gig at Sideways this summer.

I use one of these https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/musical_instruments/detail-page/B001J8LJWK-1.jpg , cost barely more than a pizza 2nd hand. As ugly as they come and just a slab of cheap plastic, but compact and works just fine. Don't forget you can map stuff like device on/offs...

gedda wrote:Korg minilogue is amazing. Also the Arturia minibrute/microbrute is good too and can be a great launchpoint to modular.

Both Brutes are monophonic though, which might not work that well for chords.