Extremely trivial but for some reason it kills me inside. I can’t fucking stand when people make guitar videos without tuning their guitar. It takes 30 seconds MAX and is the difference between sounding good and sounding awful. I’m not just talking about amateurs here, I’m seeing professional guitarists and YouTube guitarists playing guitars at least a country mile out of tune all over the place.
Do people not hear when a string is out of tune relative to the others, or when a guitar itself is out of tune relative to a mix?
I always had trouble with this. I could tell when something was off but tuning I would regularly flatten an already flat string and not pick it up until it was pretty bad
Vocally I struggle with the same thing and tend to be just a bit flat. I think it’s because you never hear your own voice right. If it’s anything that isn’t resonating inside my head I hear a really intense, almost dizzying sound wobble when something is out of tune. That’s why it’s a pet peeve.
I used to practice in a concrete basement and didn’t wear earplugs. My buddy played the 22nd fret of his high E-string (which was out of tune) when I was right in front of his amp. The sound wobble made me so dizzy I actually fell over…
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This is my #2 pet peeve when playing with friends. You’d think it’d be #1, but that’s actually when we’re recording stuff on a loop and nobody can hear that the beat is slightly out of sync at the repeat. I tried explaining a million times exactly where a quarter/16th beat was missing, and eventually just had to start quantizing everything before I had to be a dick.
I’m currently killing myself after getting FL Studio 20 Producer edition and working with an Akai Mini MPK MKII - not used to the slight midi delay (even after dropping my audio settings to minimize latency), it’s quite hard to play perfectly to a metronome using pads.
Yikes. I’m still struggling with Audacity and my super cheap Behringer DAW. I don’t have a bass and can’t play drums (holy shit can I not play drums…), so I’m just using it to work with a buddy of mine in NC and pass song ideas back and forth. Gets the job done for now.
I fixed some latency issues and found that during an audio loop, fl studio can actually do live quantizing! Thing is sweet. You have to play very close to on-time otherwise it’ll snap your notes to the wrong beats and you’ll get a garbled mess, but it cleans up those tiny missed beats nicely, then I can add a bassline and get to work with keys and guitar. The DAW has come a long way since it was free and called frooty loops, lol.
Your oven is probably not at a high enough temperature, despite what the oven tells you. Check it with a laser and adjust accordingly, if necessary.
If it is hot enough, bake the pie directly on the rack, or if not possible (or you don’t feel like cleaning your oven), slide it onto a pre-heated pan in the oven. This can be a complicated process. I use insulated welding gloves.
Greedy people piss me the fuck off. I’m selling two 35lb and two 45lb plates for $150, which is a pretty good deal under normal circumstances and a great deal when people are screwing people over during COVID.
I agree to a price and time and then the guy looks closer at the pictures and tells me he wants me to throw in micro plates and my plate tree. ‘Nah, fuck you man. I’ll sell it to someone else.’