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I'm currently listening to "Apollo 18" by They Might Be Giants (1992)
#music #listening #TheyMightBeGiants
I couldn't find a community so I made a one on lemmy.ml, c/LinuxMusic, for music producers on Linux
#linux #music #musicproduction #electronicmusic #daw #lmms #ardour #lemmy
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Have a great weekend!
#Music #MastoMusic #FediMusic #FediRadio #MastoRadio #JukeBox
Pretty stoked to be going to Duister Collective's festival at DB's in Utrecht:
https://www.dbstudio.nl/event/duister-collectief-outdoor-festival-1/
Looking forward to a day of loud metal / hardcore music.
Some of my favorites:
Farer - Elpis
https://farer.bandcamp.com/track/elpis
Gavran - Ocean of Silence
https://gavran.bandcamp.com/album/ocean-of-silence
Throwing Bricks - Abandon Me
https://throwingbricksband.bandcamp.com/track/abandon-me-feat-vulva-2
@terzijdehorde - In One of These I Am Your Enemy
https://terzijdehorde.bandcamp.com/album/in-one-of-these-i-am-your-enemy
A nicely narrated story of the Ampeg SVT Bass Amps. Very well done
The Ampeg Amp was the loudest bass amp on the market and could do 120dB(!) easily
You need earmuffs with -24dB NRR if you use a grinder with 94dB of noise generated, just to give you an idea of the sound pressure levels created
Super Vacuum Tube is what SVT stands for
6146B Tubes were used
Our next Self-Titled Summer spotlight is on number 609 on The List, submitted by @markwyner. I was meaning to get back to keeping these STS posts brief, but a Fedizen specifically noted they’d like to read more about this rather iconic band so *takes deepest breath possible*:
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The EP made enough for the label to continue, and so next they put out the sole release from S.O.A., No Policy EP (1981), followed by Minor Threat’s debut s/t EP (also referred to as 1st 7″) and soon after their second EP, In My Eyes (both 1981). The album we look at here is a compilation of those 7″s (hence also referred to as First Two 7″s), released after the band broke up.
Happy listening!
#1980s #music #MinorThreat #IanMacKaye #hardcore #hardcorePunk #musicDiscovery #selftitled #DischordRecords #straightEdge #WashingtonDC #TeenIdles #JeffNelson
Pushed my dired media overlays to github
https://xenodium.com/dired-buffers-with-media-overlays #emacs #media #music #ffmpeg
Good Afternoon, #BSDCafe
Good Afernoon, #illumosCafe
There's a specific reason I'm publishing this piece today. But no one will get it.
Enjoy the melody anyway!
É dupla de dois, professor?
#MusiQuinta #RockRural #música #music #Brasil #MPB #BrazilianMusic #ListenBrainz
you’re sweating cancelling #Spotify now that it’s swimming in #AiSlop. am listening to free internet #music #radio of the 1920s, pretending am an NPC in an episode of Poirot.
https://www.radio-browser.info/search?page=1&order=clickcount&reverse=true&hidebroken=true&name=1920
we’re not the same 🧐
Another day closer to the end of the month means yet another batch of free DL codes! The album's here:
https://etherdiver.bandcamp.com/album/the-mechanics-of-mysticism
It's great (even if I do say so) and for 5 of ya today, it's free:
ya6n-y9fk
t6yx-79v9
tyuj-vzzt
ttm8-gtk7
ukat-k7my
Redeem @ https://etherdiver.bandcamp.com/yum
Studying some of the work of Ron Carter
✨ 💖💕🌹💐💖 💙💜💖🦋🌺💜🎼 🎶 🎸 San Janvier Live - Ron Carter Four Sight Quartet - 🛍️ 🌑 🔔 CD 44kHz Digital version 🎹 📚 📖 🎻🎻 🎼 🎶 ✨ 💖💕🌹💐💖 💙💜💖🦋
#NowPlaying #Music 🎶 #Retro #Jazz 💫#RonCarter #LegacyMusic #CD #Hz44100
Yesterday I was in Modena, the homeland of Pierangelo Bertoli, a respected Italian songwriter. And this piece from 1975 came to mind - fifty years old, yet it feels as if it were written today, for how relevant its message still is.
Some poems are timeless.
I’m sharing the link and a translation of the lyrics.
And Yet It Blows
And the water fills with foam, the sky with smoke,
the chemical leprosy destroys the life of rivers,
birds that barely fly, already sick with death,
cold interest has barred the doors against life.
An entire island has found its grave in the sea,
false progress wanted to test a bomb,
then rain that should quench the thirst of living earth
instead brings death, for it is radioactive.
And yet the wind still blows,
splashing water on the ships’ bows,
whispering songs among the leaves,
kissing the flowers, kissing them but never picking them.
One day money discovered world war,
it branded its rotten mark on beastly instinct,
it killed, it burned, it destroyed in a sorrowful litany,
and all the earth was wrapped in a black shroud.
And soon the hidden key to new secrets,
so they will cover even the planets with mud,
they will want to pollute the stars, bring war among suns,
the crimes against life they call mere mistakes.
And yet the wind still blows,
splashing water on the ships’ bows,
whispering songs among the leaves,
kissing the flowers, kissing them but never picking them,
and yet it brushes the fields,
caresses the flanks of the mountains,
tangles the hair of women,
races in flight with the birds.
And yet the wind still blows!!!
2004 is probably the greatest year in video games ever (look it up, it's wild everything that came out that year, and RE4 just barely missed at Jan 11 2005), but it seems to have been a pretty good year in other media too (movies include Shaun of the Dead, Kill Bill 2, Spiderman 2, Saw, The Incredibles, etc, anime include Samurai Champloo, Samurai 7, Futari wa Pretty Cure, Maria Watches Over Us, etc)
So #QuestionOfTheDay what's your favourite piece of media in whatever medium you want to choose from 2004?
#music #musicals #ttrpg #ccgs #boardgames #videogames #comics #comicbooks #manga #anime #movies #film #TV #television #books
🎧 Twenty years ago, k.d. lang sang Neil Young's "Helpless" at the Juno Awards.
Two of my favorite artists. ❤️
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5KRVtjgMkM&ab_channel=oneandonlyck
Time for the weekly tease of the current Other People's Music! This is a preview of the full thing you can find on my site (link below) -- each post has the first line of each review, plus socials, the music and a link to the full review. Enjoy the thread, or skip ahead!
https://www.etherdiver.com/2025/08/22/opm-minimal-metal-mashups/
wordsSHIFTminds – Memento Mori
Intense multigenre mixture of synthwave, DnB, breakbeats and more, delivered with a uniquely present production aesthetic.
https://wordsshiftminds.bandcamp.com/album/memento-mori
@wordsshiftminds.bsky.social
https://www.etherdiver.com/2025/08/22/opm-minimal-metal-mashups/#wordsSHIFTminds
And that's all for this week! As always, if you need more music, take a look at our archives. More than 300 reviews! All genres, all styles! All free!
Good morning, #BSDCafe
Good morning, #illumosCafe
Good morning, #Fediverse
hey so uh
can i ask some advice from fedi musicians or any ppl really
i wanna start a band or a musical project sometime in my future when i get good enough at guitar and electronics and singing
and like, i have a desire to create both heavy rock/metal/punk/grunge music but also something softer and dreamy like indie rock/indie folk or shoegaze or something completely non-rock like ambient electronica
(1/2, question in the replies)
Fellow musicians of Mastodon are well represented in this week's Other People's Music! Some nice metal/grunge/hard rock from @thanius, a bit of videogame-spiked metal from @unknownpseudoartist & a dungeon synth/kosmische hybrid from @brhfl are among its ample charms!
https://www.etherdiver.com/2025/08/22/opm-minimal-metal-mashups/
Have a listen and give them a boost!
Equalization is the first and foremost tool in shaping sound in music production.
Equalization allows you to shape the Sound by cutting specific frequencies boosting should only be done if everything else fails. You are sculpting the audio like a artist of an intricate Bronze Master Piece.
You can improve the attack of instruments by dropping frequencies which fight that particular audio effect.
You can make vocals sound clear by using proper High Pass filters {80 to 100Hz} and equalizing the voices so that they sound as close as possible as the voice in your ears in relationship to your PA.
You can make drums have an overall much better sound than what comes out of your microphones, which may not be the most ideal for the task, or where the Acoustics are fighting a clear Attack Decay Sustain and Release {ADSR} of your drums.
Always realize that the result of your sound is a combination of the Acoustics the Microphones, the Mixing Console, the sub mixing panels, the XLR & instrument cables, the direct boxes, the electrical interference EMI and everything else
It's not just you; there are many factors which are beyond your control!
Low frequencies (20–250Hz): this frequency interval adds warmth
Mids (250Hz–4kHz): this frequency interval is the most important for vocals, instruments, basically anything that shapes the music
Highs (4kHz–20kHz): this frequency interval l, which is quite large, adds brightness clarity and presence to the music
🎛️
Make sure to use your ears as sensors don't hunt for meters and dials
#Audio #Music #MusicProduction #PA #PublicAddress #EQ #Equalization #SoundDesign #Studio
Today's music:
Lacuna Coil - I Wish You Were Dead
#metal #GothMetal #AlternativeMetal #italy #music #np #NowPlaying #MastoMusic
I discovered a interesting function on an effect of mine. The function auto ducks the frequencies where our voices reside so you can easily sing over regular songs.
I shall explore this Sub function further, but I know this already from other effects. This sub function is only briefly mentioned within the manual
/12
#Music #Audio #Bass #Guitar #SoundEngineering #Joyo #Pedal #Console
Now I have about two hundred(!) yes TWO HUNDRED more effects in my arsenal! So for my Bass Guitars & other instruments I now have ALL effects that I need extra, which I dont need as seperate discrete components. How? Go look up FX2000 and Behringer than come back here and tell me ;)
Here I can only do 500 bytes (why not 512?) so I post about that at bsd.cafe
/14
#Music #Audio #Bass #Guitar #SoundEngineering #Joyo #Pedal #Console
Musicians should always check out which effect equipment is available in rack mount format.
This is especially important for Bass and Guitar 🎸 players
They should just ask engineers who will gladly provide the information. It is astounding to see how many pedal FX are sold for more than 300 USD, which are just two daisy chained FX easily achieved with rack mount FX units which have more than 100 different effects in total!
/16
Now certain FX are handy to have in a separate unit, because I want to build my effect chain physically and they just sound different, in a nicer way, when you have them physical, as an analog effect unit
For those I gladly pay the 60 to 120 dollars for effect pedals, which are built like a tank, as portrait by the Joyo FX
/17
Be very wary of Boutique FX when you are not a professional player, nor want to become a professional instrument player, because Boutique effects are Boutique
That means they are often just built in a series of 48 or less
That also means that you will pay between $400 and $1000 per unit, which Joyo can produce for you and sell for 60 to 100 USD, often surpassing the boutique unit simply because Joyo put in extra electronics!
/18
Extra electronics to make sure that the effect sounds not just like the original, but even better.
Boutique effects do not have to be built like a tank
Joyo effect are always built like a tank.
Many Boutique Effects also lack certain critical features because the Professional player targeted has those on other FX units, which you don't possess
/19
Fix your bass tone using nice techniques
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7b0ShkSBtcU
/20
#Music #Audio #Bass #Guitar #SoundEngineering #Joyo #Pedal #Console
Direct Inject Box explained by the engineer at Audio University
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/OaeIxOyp_vM
#Music #Audio #Bass #Guitar #SoundEngineering #Joyo #Pedal #Console
Bass trombones are gorgeous instruments. Look at which gem I found on the tubes
Yamaha in Hamumatsu creating YBL YBL-822G and many other (bass) trombones out of ONE PIECE of metal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jcstdl55lj8
#Music #Audio #Bass #Guitar #SoundEngineering #Joyo #Pedal #Console
The master with a Double Bass short
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/986d7me9JeY
#Music #Audio #Bass #Guitar #SoundEngineering #Joyo #Pedal #Console
The Double Valve Bass Trombone a history documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWDcuahzC5Y
#Music #Audio #Bass #Guitar #SoundEngineering #Joyo #Pedal #Console #DoubleValve #BassTrombone #Trombone
Of course The History of the Trombone also needs to be watched to get a whole picture. Remember to use Open Source clients!!!
Do you want to guess which instrument I was playing with?
The photograph is a hint. The musical style is metal. I have thoroughly enjoyed playing with my Short Scale Bass
#Music #Audio #Bass #ShortScale #Guitar #SoundEngineering #Joyo #Pedal
In this photograph you can clearly see the limitations of a very small image sensor in relationship to a highly Dynamic scene.
My Nikon bodies and my Sony body which also takes my Minolta Lenses, here 50mm f1.2, have much larger sensors and would have never failed in such a horrible manner.
In this scene I portray how good the lighting arrangement is on the Behringer rack mount effect
#Music #Audio #Bass #ShortScale #Guitar #SoundEngineering #Joyo #Pedal #Nikon #Minolta
Preparing another Bass session. This Time with two overdrives a tube distorter and an octaver
#Music #Audio #Bass #ShortScale #Guitar #SoundEngineering #Joyo #Pedal
The session was extremely short and basically, I did some fine-tuning of certain critical parts of the Short Scale base.
After verifying that the fine tuning was done properly, I'll run the Bass session later this night
#Music #Audio #Bass #ShortScale #Guitar #SoundEngineering #Joyo #Pedal
Has it been this long? I should have written down what I've done in between with my Bass Journey. I made contact with few people playing the styles that I like, in a musical jamming environment. These musicians are seasoned have been playing for 50 plus years and know their instruments. I've interacted with a Tenor Saxophone 🎷 player a trumpet player, and a bass player
#Music #Audio #Bass #ShortScale #Guitar #SoundEngineering #Joyo #Pedal