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comment by ButterflyEffect
ButterflyEffect  ·  1209 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 10th Anniversary Hubski Virtual meetup Thursday Dec 10

But it’s about how I feel, duh (see also - service animal post)





c_hawkthorne  ·  1209 days ago  ·  link  ·  

ButterflyEffect, I'm reaching out to you specifically to let you know about the Hubski 10th anniversary video call next week. I want to make sure you don't feel left out so I'm making sure you're included specially with your very own notice. I hope this suffices but if you need more let me know and I'll cater to you however I can.

kleinbl00  ·  1209 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The passive-aggressive codependency on display is glorious to behold

BLOB_CASTLE  ·  1201 days ago  ·  link  ·  

kleinbl00 I heard you were on the call, I'm sad to have missed you. I hope you've been well

kleinbl00  ·  1201 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Doin' pretty well. Hope you are too!

BLOB_CASTLE  ·  1201 days ago  ·  link  ·  

vertical and breathing, I suppose that's somewhere on the positive spectrum of things.

if my memory serves me correctly you have a rad music creation station in your basement, is that correct? If so, are you still making tunes?

kleinbl00  ·  1201 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Spare bedroom. It's a ridiculous post-production rig but it's got a bunch of software synths.

Nobody can pay for post-production anymore so that's not doing much. And generally, mixing other people's music is a game of "make it sound exactly the way it sounds in my head without me telling you what that is" so I'm no longer spending days tweaking on other peoples' music so that they can be annoyed I didn't guess their fantasy.

I've probably spent 20 hours getting someone else's shit hooked up to Pro Tools, which is on an iLok I own. Then another 15 hours trying to get his shitty-ass BehringerMidas to actually, you know, output on its output card. Knowing how to mix is fundamentally an adventure in pissing people off by providing them knowledge and tech support for dozens of hours at a time.

Pretty fuckin' over it.

BLOB_CASTLE  ·  1200 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Damn dude I hear that.

The best mixing experience I've had was when I was there with the producer for every moment of the mixing process.

I crashed at his house/studio for a week straight during the recording and mixing process.

Fortunately he's a really good friend and gave me a homie rate of twenty-five an hour, and took a painting of mine as payment.

As you can imagine we spent a lot of time together mixing a two hour contemporary jazz album.

10/10 would do again, I was much happier with the result than any of my former recording experiences.

kleinbl00  ·  1200 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah that's the reality of the situation. If you charge someone a lot of money and it's not absolute shit? They will presume it's good because they're invested in it.

If you do a favor for someone, they'll assume that since they put zero effort into it, you put zero effort into it.

ButterflyEffect  ·  1209 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Have you practiced this? That is too good. I’m breaking character.

c_hawkthorne  ·  1208 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I have a lot of experience being an asshole, yes.

c_hawkthorne  ·  1203 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I know I gave you a shoutout above but I want to be super sure you don't feel left out because I care

Come on down to the https://meet.jit.si/TheHubskiHappyHour

I'll be on 3 PM PST to 7 PM PST with potential for getting on earlier and staying later.