kakapo
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You're a cantaloupe
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The English weren't around for the Romans, and the Normans and Danes were in such tiny numbers that they had zero impact on the gene pool. Compare that to today where 98% of Americans and nearly 2/3rds of Indians have some English blood in them. Even 10% of Chinese have anglo saxon heritage, and we didn't even colonise them.
I don't have much skin in this game, I'm actually descended from Sarmatian noblemen who served the Roman's along Hadrian's Wall. They were the origin of the King Arthur myths. I don't recognise the current royal family of german paedos, as I have a stronger claim to the throne than any of them. I spoke to my MP about this, but she didn't seem that interested.
Anyway, Im just trying to bring people together, no need for this racist grasping from you two. It reads a lot like someone's grandma got a lot of free spam after the liberation of Italy, if you know what I mean.
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I dont know what you're going to say, but you're wrong.
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What you've got to remember is that no country has pillaged their way across the earth like England has. The most common public holiday across the globe is independence from the english day. And what do conquering armies, occupiers, colonialists do when they get somewhere. They fuck the natives. Wherever you're from, your grandma, or great grandma, or great great grandma, got fucked by my ancestors. Probably for a mango. They probably fucked your grandad too. What I'm saying is there's a little bit of
in all of us, and this should unite us this Sunday in support of our team. There'll always be an England...
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Lol at Chiellini winding up Alba at the penalty coin toss.
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Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, Joseph Goebbels, Joseph Mengele, Albert Speer, Hermann Göring, Ableton Live, Rudolf Hess, your boys took one hell of a beating.
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Rents have been affected in London, but they may be back to normal later in the year who knows. A budget of £1,000 pcm will get you a studio flat (i.e. 1 living space/room with separate bath and kitchen) within zone 2-3*. It's conceivable that it might get you a 1 bed now as well.
*TfL travel zones are used to give a rough idea of costs as they spread out in concentric circles from the centre of London (zone 1).
Very generally speaking west London is wealth and east London is trendy. You're going to find Dalston more exciting than Fulham. London goes through fairly rapid gentrification whenever a part of it gets interesting, so the young and hip in Shoreditch/Hoxton rippled out to Hackney, Bethnal Green, Dalston over the last 15-20 years or so, but it's still a nightlife centre. But there are plenty of other areas, S London from Brixton through Peckham into New Cross and even Deptford tends to have a bit going on in part due to art schools and Goldsmiths being located nearby.
If you're within zone 2 a bike is probably the best way to get around. Get a cheap one or it will get knicked.
Agents aren't regulated heavily in the UK and the standard varies hugely and there are lots of them. Most seasoned London renters I know will try and avoid them which usually means either spareroom or one of the big facebook London renters groups. Be careful, there are plenty of scams out there.
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utility room producers > bedroom producers
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37 minutes ago, thawkins said:
Are you going to sell the tumble dryer on Reverb?
He's going to use it for reverb. Turn it on and he's also got a leslie speaker emulation. Put a pair of shoes in and it's a polyrhythmic techno rumble kick.
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If you're a compassionate and loving CEO then why do you let children go bald?
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2 hours ago, kakapo said:
The family next door are having a shit garden party with shit music way too loud. I live in Brixton and it's not even the usual reggae and dancehall which would be fine on a sunny day. It's shit commercial house music and lcd gangsta rap. Quite tempted to set up my 300w monitors in the garden and blast them some Alice Coltrane. Any other suggestions for teaching a black family about their correct musical heritage?
I've popped a note through their door with some suggested listening and a link to one of my black music spotify playlists. Hopefully they'll take it in the way it's intended.
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The family next door are having a shit garden party with shit music way too loud. I live in Brixton and it's not even the usual reggae and dancehall which would be fine on a sunny day. It's shit commercial house music and lcd gangsta rap. Quite tempted to set up my 300w monitors in the garden and blast them some Alice Coltrane. Any other suggestions for teaching a black family about their correct musical heritage?
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What I think should be priorities.
1) Buy the best monitors you can afford and use them all the time for both critical and casual listening, as well as producing. The accuracy vs listenability pay off can be much less of a compromise these days. I use Hedd type 20s, they're revealing, accurate, don't fatigue and I love listening to music on them. They're relatively expensive so they should be able to do that, but I felt the same way about my old focal cms monitors which you should be able to pick up for way less than £500 second hand. Lots of other options.
2) Position them correctly. The basics of listening triangle, tweeter at ear height, isolation pads apply, but still experiment within those parameters. When I first installed my Hedds a slight height adjustment of 4" made a big difference, and got rid of their honkiness.
3) Treat the room as practically possible, but don't sweat it.
4) Use reference tracks.
5) Listen back to your tracks on alternative sources a few days after mixing, and in context with other music.
6) Give your ears a total rest now and again. Ambient sound only for a day. Take a walk in the countryside etc.
Everything else (corrective software, d/a conversion, signal chain etc) is law of diminishing returns. Up to you if you pursue them but won't make a difference to the extent they're the deciding factor whether your mixing is good or bad.
(Once I have my second vaccine I'm getting my ears checked and cleaned out professionally if needed. This may fit somewhere on the list).
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Had the first dose of the AZ a couple of weeks. Rough 24 hrs with fever. A lot of teeth chattering. Possibly worse because I'd previously had covid. But in the week after I had blood in my nose and one ear. Not dripping all over me, but more than I've had since childhood nose bleeds. And then all the smaller white hairs from my nose fell out. Back to normal more or less, but still losing white hairs from nose. I have to shake them off my chest every hour or so where they collect. So if you have problem nose hair go for the AZ.
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9 hours ago, thawkins said:
Well since you can patch stuff around it's quite modular, no? Even if the modules themselves are built in and not removable, you can still change the way it is patched, so it kind of counts.
No more modular than a synth and a couple of effects pedals. In fact less so since they are built in and can't be moved about. This is an unmodular synth.
Look, I could pass it off with a subjective it just doesn't fit my idea of what a modular synth is, but that's a slippery slope. Before you know it, somebody has rounded up all the jews and sent them to Butlins and I'm cheering from the sidelines shouting enjoy your holiday, all because it doesn't fit my own personal threshold of anti-semitism.
The internet is full of design wankers putting shit in boxes and making nice little videos of it. It's nectar to someone like joyrex who doesn't really understand anything about music. Indulging his yearly posting of something he's seen on a design news aggregator is always going to end in tears. Trust me we need to keep joyrex out of EKT as far as possible. Joyrex + design wank = chaos.
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1 hour ago, TubularCorporation said:
It's apparently a rehoused Monologue plus a few Eurorack modules and pedals in a clever case.
Really pushing the definition. There doesn't appear to be any cv, there's one eurorack module and a couple of guitar pedals. Im guessing you can reorder the effects. Nice design aesthetic but he should probably call his company Simulacrum Synthesizers.
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In what way is this a modular synth?
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Boomkat's social media presence is dreadful, its not the trolling, which is intentional, but the self regarding smugness, that grates. It's a manc trait, it's why the rest of the uk hate people from Manchester.
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My massive hairy balls need decolonising that's for sure.
*scratches*
*sound of howler monkey echoes across testicular valley*
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This thread is like watching a group of men wrestling naked, while desperately trying to bukkake one another. Nowhere near as entertaining, but at least I don't have to pay for my soft furnishings to be professionally cleaned like usual.
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10 hours ago, Danny O Flannagin said:
Possibly, I got it knowing it can do a bunch of different things without taking up too much space. Interested in mainly using its audio effects.
Speaking of audio effects, any recommendations for a good delay and/or reverb?
I have a xaoc sarajewo, which is arguably best delay in eurorack, but expensive and not stereo (mono in and multi tap outs), so less useful with the morphagene. I'm not sure there is a 'good' reverb in eurorack, the ones I have (fxaid and Zdsp) are both spin based and I tend to use them more for an effect with some cv control, rather than as an ambience or mixing verb. I'm more inclined to use racks (dp2 and midiverb 2) and pedals (mercury7) for that. Having said all that, you should get an fxaid or fxaid XL, it's stereo and takes up minimal space, the delays and reverbs are usable. There are some delay into reverb algos also, but if I recall correctly they're mono in stereo out. There's also a pretty extensive list of alt. fx as well. I do really like my zdsp, but mainly for some of it's weirder algos, for it's size you could have 6 fxaids and it's the same chip, so not recommended for a compact system.
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Just now, dcom said:
Tell that my UK and Australian friends.
He's right. There are contexts where it can be less offensive, but it's not the same as when a bogan uses it. It's likely that your UK friends just think you're a cunt.
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Hold My Hand, I'm Dying
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I want immunity first and I want the mod powers promised to me by joyrex 10 years ago when I deleted those photos.
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Come on you clunts lets sayings
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I like sayings that have animals in, but are actually about people.