PhonoBrainer

Ai vids seem to be a new divisive point, don't they? In this case, whatever misgivings one might have about the ai vid clips should be completely mitigated by the female tarantula smoking cigarette post-coitus. That brilliant moment is utterly unobtainable for the bedroom studio with anything else other than ai. Same with the cactii petting the coyotes. Very very imaginative! But as a result, to my mind, the song becomes unrememorable, as its the video I remember after viewing. Which is too bad because its a groovy song, too. In short, I liked it for reasons I don't necessarily like, which is awkward for me. But I would definitely show this to kids, its a fun one! Thanks for the interesting and thought-provoking post, and happy Halloween to ya!

Good monitors usually make it sound too good, so mixes don't translate perfectly. But damn things sure sound good in the studio!!! That's why meh monitors like NS-10 get the love. They are so average sounding. Pretty sure the best way for us to go, moving forward, would be just to sell our quality monitors and fancy headphone correction systems, and just mix into earbuds because that's 80% of the listenership.

Did they trot out the old chestnut "This is not your father's Omnisphere" ?

The usual suspects.

Thanks Larry! Let's mention the minimum spend for this to apply is $70. I tried to score a Pultec for four bucks, no dice. This Pultec trick didn't work.

I come not to praise the M1, but to bury it. I remember coming to a decision point on buying one, maybe 1988 or something, as my old performance keyboard had died. I tested it, evaluated, listen closely, read the ads, knew it was popular. But for me it just sounded cheeeesy. I went instead with a dummy Yamaha KX-88 controller, driving a Roland MT-32 module. Which had its own cheese issues, of course. So somewhere out there is the M1 I almost but didn't buy, and I hope it made someone very very happy!

No brainer, if you have the cpu.

My goal is to create more finished original songs than I have plugins. I have 327 plugins.

Any opinions on the telecaster? All the vids I find are from at least 5 years ago. Do the older guitars shine now with better strums now that they get the v4 overhaul?

I hope you are correct. Perhaps the music-human soul connection will remain viable, even fifty years from now, to kids not yet born. They will be able to watch grainy videos of concerts that happened long ago, like Stop Making Sense as an example. So they will know it used to be a thing. Whereas the human-accounting, human-information, human-photography, human-painting, and other human-? connections will be long abandoned.

I've been seeing a lot of these "where music is headed" vids these days, and this might be the most heady. What do you think?

Pepsi tasted better back then ???

Spread is great for making the bass more mono, and making the shimmery top things wider. Very easy to use, its a great gui design.

Zero plugins.

But at least they tried, becoming willing victims of their own career arc. I guess if you have an excellent retrospective documentary just dropping on Netflix, then you are through being cool.

Here's 5 EZ paks and a random midi pak. Whoooo.

You clearly haven't seen the first "Downton Abbey" movie. 🫣

That's a lot to pay for "Curation".

My randomness is beyond classification. I am for a time conscripted into the plans of others, to good effect, necessitating everything on my "to do" list be set aside. All good.

Much preferred over a heavy metal Bob Marley.

Headphones fer sure. I don't hate this, which is praise in 2025. I loved the hard panning hearken backs. It's the Uber clean digital soundscape, hosting what would be a grittier vinylescent progfest near-classic had they added the crackle. I wonder how this would have charted in 1978? Where's the single??? 🤑 The songs have a wonderful variety to them. The vocals really hold up, the changes are more inventive, the mix and arrangements have an Alan Parsons quality and clarity. And it's Queen-adjacent in more than one song. Thanks Bit! It's pretty great. I could see this getting more listens in those moments when I've got too much time on my hands.