Slow_Hand

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by Slow_Hand 8d ago
It's increasingly practiced in the open in the music industry these days. There was a recent row over the revelation that Chaotic Good, a music marketing company, was astroturfing on behalf of the bands Geese and Sombr. I had a meeting
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by Slow_Hand 10d ago
I'm not saying a real, recorded trumpet doesn't make an appreciable sonic difference, but if it were a sampled trumpet "Safe and Sound" would most likely still be a hit. Attributing it's hit status to the perfect in
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by Slow_Hand 10d ago
Because music is pleasurable to play, to experience, and it's gratifying to be creative and to discover your creative potential. If you have an alternative reason to learn music and to start learning through acoustic phenomena then let
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by Slow_Hand 10d ago
While these are helpful topics to understand, they are not beginner topics. Not if you want to make music. They are fundamental questions in that they reside at the base of why things are the way they are, but they are not fundamental in th
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by Slow_Hand 11d ago
I’m not OP, but I can speak to my own experience. I am approaching 40 and in two weeks I will begin clowning lessons with a Cirque du Soleil clown. I am thrilled. So why clown as a discipline? Something deeply misunderstood and that probabl
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by Slow_Hand 14d ago
Speaking for myself: working out, reading, composing music, and journaling.
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by Slow_Hand 23d ago
I'm not familiar with the tech; what is harmonic mixing for audio book readouts? Would you please elaborate?
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by Slow_Hand 1mo ago
And so… what? Make a point or leave it be, rather than making vague innuendo about how we should disapprove of them.
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by Slow_Hand 1mo ago
I remind myself of this often, despite living a lower-middle class existence. There’s always room for hedonic escalation and lifestyle creep, but if all of my needs are covered I’m largely satisfied. As the saying goes: “He who is not satis
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by Slow_Hand 1mo ago
Today’s ways of living - no matter how challenging or disillusioning or alienating they may be - are largely preferable to literally being hunted and having your livelihood threatened by predators, compared to the figurative hunters and pre
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by Slow_Hand 1mo ago
I see so many people try to reinvent sequencing as a circular diagram, as opposed to (say) a piano roll that loops, and I see little to no advantage to it. It's a cool novelty, but not the type of thing you'd like to work on. Hori
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Bingebuster Video – your streaming services, restocked as a video store(bingebuster.net)
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by Slow_Hand 2mo ago
They had to have had _some_ inkling, considering one of the lyrics is “a cop knelt and kissed the feet of a priest, and a queer threw up at the sight of that.”
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by Slow_Hand 2mo ago
No corners. Just a straightforward paving.
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by Slow_Hand 2mo ago
> The Bureau of Street Services (StreetsLA) has not repaved a street since last June, and the city’s latest budget practically zeros out repaving for next fiscal year. StreetsLA crews are still doing some road repairs, fixing potholes an
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by Slow_Hand 2mo ago
Not to mention that Amazon drivers are delivering to dozens of stops along their route to you, making them far more efficient compared to each consumer traveling to the store in their own vehicles.
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by Slow_Hand 2mo ago
I've been using Macrofactor for many years (after a HN recommendation) and now that you mention it, I've been super happy with the experience and don't detect a whiff of dark patterns, unwarranted tracking, or bad business pr
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by Slow_Hand 2mo ago
It's not. You're putting the cart before the horse (or attributing the horse to the cart?). Contemporary music began using a click track because it makes techniques like sequencing, non-linear editing in a DAW, and tempo-synced ef
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by Slow_Hand 2mo ago
As a career musician with a heavy interest in electronic music and DSP, hearing the author work through designing the algorithm is interesting to me. They make several good points along the way of how a band relates to the implicit tempo of
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by Slow_Hand 2mo ago
Not once did this pop on my radar as AI-generated. And if it is that’s fine, because it reads extremely clear and coherent to me. Larger point: I am so sick of HN comment sections filling up with obligatory comments speculating about whethe
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by Slow_Hand 2mo ago
Very cool! Thanks for sharing.
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by Slow_Hand 2mo ago
Yeah. Whenever someone starts explaining to me that "they" - meaning some vague and undefined cartel - want you to (blank) I immediately flag their reasoning as suspect until proven otherwise. More often than not it's indicat
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by Slow_Hand 2mo ago
> Since 2025, the Chinese government has made “anti-involution” a priority in its economic agenda, introducing policies to strengthen labor protections and curb race-to-the-bottom price wars among e-commerce platforms, solar panel compan
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by Slow_Hand 3mo ago
It would be far more interesting if you did. Not sure why you feel need to keep it secret.
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by Slow_Hand 3mo ago
I wouldn’t mind more foreign car companies if it means alternatives to what’s being offered today. I don’t see why they should be restricted if most industries don’t also have similar restrictions.
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by Slow_Hand 3mo ago
This has been my experience as well. Many owners want to know about issues before they fester. I'm fortunate to have an attentive property manager and a landlord who is interested in doing the preventative maintenance to keep the units
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by Slow_Hand 3mo ago
I intuitively put this much effort into asking good questions when I need help, and what I often find is that by spending time to formulate a question that makes it easy for others to help me I end up discovering the answer for myself or id
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by Slow_Hand 3mo ago
There are tools to mitigate clipping artifacts, and tools to generate new transients for overly compressed files, but they're not a silver-bullet and the new material that is generated is more of a best guess than a true replacement fo
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by Slow_Hand 3mo ago
If you want an excellent explanation of why proposals for new notation systems like you’re suggesting have been developed (and failed) Tantacrul has made an excellent video describing the history and tradeoffs that lead us to our current sy
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by Slow_Hand 3mo ago
This. The loudness is an aesthetic choice. The reason it was backed off for the vinyl master is most likely due to physical limitations of the medium. If the audio channels are too loud (wide) there is risk that the needle will jump out of

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