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Hello! I recently bought the Slate VSX headphones to try to get better mixes and learn mixing with audio I can actually trust. However, I don't have any speakers and tend to produce with the VSX's with the software turned off, until I'm at the mixing process. The only other headphones I use are some alibaba IEMs and ATH-m30x's. Does anybody else use these headphones to produce? Should these be good enough or should I stick to something else? They sound pretty good to my very untrained ears.

Hello! I recently bought the Slate VSX headphones to try to get better mixes and learn mixing with audio I can actually trust. However, I don't have any speakers and tend to produce with the VSX's with the software turned off, until I'm at the mixing process. The only other headphones I use are some alibaba IEMs and ATH-m30x's. Does anybody else use these headphones to produce? Would/Wouldn't recommend ?

Anybody have any experience with firefly guitars or this one in specific? Looks pretty cool but getting my first guitar online makes me a bit nervous.

Just got an MPC key 37. Already have the mpc instruments bundle. Whats your guys' favorite plugin? Is stems worth getting?

Hi! Just wanted to share some positive info about my recovery with HPPD. I started smoking weed at 15 and the day after one of my first times smoking, I had an extremely frightening experience with depersonalization, something which I was actually familiar with as I had it before ever smoking, however, not to that level. A few years later I took shrooms a few times, and after my last trip, which was quite distressing, I started to experience HPPD symptoms (visual snow, floaters, things moving around peripheral vision, walls and floors kinda moving and warping).

The anxiety I got from noticing these symptoms caused me to experience depersonalization yet again, but to a much worse degree, which I think caused the HPPD symptoms to worsen, or at least it made me overtly aware of them at all times.

Eventually tho, I stopped experiencing depersonalization, I'm not sure exactly when, it was gradual, but I just got busy with other parts of my life and it stopped clouding my headspace.

After the depersonalization went away, HPPD symptoms have continually gotten less and less noticeable.

I think there's several possible reasons for this: One, my anxiety went away. Partially because I was simply okay with my symptoms (they weren't particularly debilitating, just distressing). also I was prescribed fluoxetine (prozac, an antidepressant SSRI), and I think HPPD symptoms and anxiety are directly coorelated.

Secondly, I take magnesium glycinate religiously. A few days ago I saw the HPPD episode by Channel 5 with Andrew Callaghan & Dr. Wesley Ryan. He stated how this supplement could help those suffering with HPPD (possibly). I take 240mg a day, and I make sure im purchasing high quality stuff ( a lot of fakes are out there).

Lastly, I have reduced my weed intake greatly and haven't done psychedelics since my last distressing trip. I also exercise frequently, and eat a super healthy diet (for an American lol), and sleep 7-10 hours every night. I think this is the most important piece.

Sorry if this isn't helpful but I just wanted to share my experience getting better. Experiencing HPPD visuals with extreme bouts of depersonalization was genuinely horrifying, it was like living in a nightmare, and i'm just glad to where I've gotten so far.