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Beginner producer here, Syntho is expensive but that being said it looks like their videos cover basically every topic i've been struggling with, along with start to finish track breakdowns from all of my favorite producers...bit hard to justify the cost but wondering if anyone here has it and can speak to whether the content is worth it or not

Beginner producer here, Syntho is expensive but that being said it looks like their videos cover basically every topic i've been struggling with, along with start to finish track breakdowns from my favorite producers...bit hard to justify the cost but wondering if anyone here has it and can speak to whether the content is worth it or not

I'm trying to buy tickets now but when I click on Floor it only lets me buy VIP. I thought there were GA tickets that gave floor/field access, correct me if I'm wrong its my first time for this event. Would prefer not to buy seated

Looking to buy a mini adamas for a birthday gift. Do you guys only purchase directly from the benchmade website or can I trust other online retailers?

I’m a girl and know nothing about knives. My boyfriend’s birthday is coming up and he loves knives, I’m looking for recommendations on the best tactical knife to gift. Was originally looking at griptilian but I want something that’s more tactical than tool, something badass, he’s in the military. I want something he can keep for life, be proud of and hopefully even pass down one day, I’d like to get it engraved for him too. Research told me about Benchmade and now I’m trying to figure out which knife to get him. Would love recommendations. Budget around $200-300

Also, he doesn’t own any benchmade so it would be his first

i’m over a year in and I still can’t really understand mixing that well. I understand the basics of it, but not well enough to finish and mix a full track and make it sound decent. I just don’t understand when to to use what, and why it would be used in that situation. basically I understand that you cut the lows out of everything that’s not bass and kick, and if you want to carve space for other instruments, you carve those frequencies out of other instruments. I also understand the concept of sidechain, I understand compression, and I understand that you should throw a limiter on the master when your track is done. but when I’m producing in Ableton and trying to mix my own tracks, I can identify and fix some issues, but I’m not sure if I’m doing it right and the tools I know how to use are pretty limited (eq 8, saturation, sidechain plugins, and I don’t even know if I’m using them correctly to improve the mix). I don’t really understand when to use a clipper. I have the seed to stage mixing and mastering course which has helped me learn a lot but he doesn’t really have genre specific examples and when I’m producing tech house in Ableton i’m struggling to apply the same principles. Every tutorial explains what stuff is but doesn’t show it in the context of a full track, which is what I’m struggling with.

But when I see all these bedroom producers around me they all know how to mix…what made it click? Or how did you learn?

i’m over a year in and I still can’t really understand mixing that well. I understand the basics of it, but not well enough to finish and mix a full track and make it sound decent. I just don’t understand when to to use what, and why it would be used in that situation. basically I understand that you cut the lows out of everything that’s not bass and kick, and if you want to carve space for other instruments, you carve those frequencies out of other instruments. I also understand the concept of sidechain, I understand compression, and I understand that you should throw a limiter on the master when your track is done. but when I’m producing in Ableton and trying to mix my own tracks, I can identify and fix some issues, but I’m not sure if I’m doing it right and the tools I know how to use are pretty limited (eq 8, saturation, sidechain plugins, and I don’t even know if I’m using them correctly to improve the mix). I don’t really understand when to use a clipper. I also don’t know what volume I should be mixing each track to (i.e. kick, bass, etc). I have the seed to stage mixing and mastering course which has helped me learn a lot but he doesn’t really have genre specific examples and when I’m producing tech house in Ableton i’m struggling to apply the same principles. Every tutorial explains what stuff is but doesn’t show it in the context of a full track, which is what I’m struggling with.

But when I see all these bedroom producers around me they all know how to mix…what made it click? Or how did you learn?

I’m 24 and have a remote corporate desk job. Can’t stand it and seeing the long term effects of being sedentary (I sit for probably at least 20 hours a day) really scares me. I know I’d be more fulfilled with a job where I can be at least somewhat active or on my feet, just not sitting all day at a desk. Asking here because I’m small and if I ask in a regular career advice sub I’ll get a bunch of trades answered geared towards men.

Also, something that has at least decent earning potential since I live in a HCOL area… but i’m open to pretty much anything. I do have a college degree.

TIA :)

I’m 24 and have a remote corporate desk job. Can’t stand it and seeing the long term effects of being sedentary (I sit for probably at least 20 hours a day) really scares me. I know I’d be more fulfilled with a job where I can be at least somewhat active or on my feet, just not sitting all day at a desk. Asking here because I’m small and if I ask in a regular career advice sub I’ll get a bunch of trades answered geared towards men.

Also, something that has at least decent earning potential since I live in a HCOL area… but i’m open to pretty much anything. I do have a college degree.

TIA :)

First of all, I don’t even know if I got the job yet. Basically I wouldn’t know for about a month, and at that point I’d have around 2 weeks or maybe less to move to the opposite side of the country (6 hour flight). But because they keep scheduling interviews with me I want to make a decision now so I don’t keep wasting my/their time. That being said, I’m pretty confident I could land the job and it is basically my dream role and would more than double my current salary and get me into a really good company. I have a mentor who’s helping me break in, and I was transparent with him about the fact that I’d be fine temporarily relocating for 6 months, but after that I’d want to return, and he said this was totally fine. Yesterday, on my screening call, they told me that they expect candidates to stay on site for at least a year, which sounded like it would be more of an indefinitely permanent move, and didn’t match my initial understanding of what taking the role would mean.

I thought long and hard about it. My partner works a very specialized job that needs him to be where we are right now so he can’t relocate with me. Being totally honest, we do plan on getting married and we’ve already planned out our future, there are no doubts about our relationship and where it’s headed. I know reddit loves to suggest breaking up and taking the job especially to younger people but for me that’s not an option. Any comments about “more fish in the sea” don’t apply here, he’s the one. I find more value in having my soulmate than in having more money. That being said, I do know that if I was single, I’d definitely take the job despite the short notice moving period (which I do find ridiculous, with no relocation assistance), which made me feel somewhat guilty about my decision. I will say that I love where I live, I have a huge network of friends here, and while living in a new city short term sounds exciting, I was never under the impression that I’d have to relocate indefinitely. I know long distance is a thing but let’s be honest, long distance for a year plus sucks. He’s my support system, my rock, and I honestly just don’t want to move to a new city indefinitely without him. I guess I’ve already made my decision, and I’m going to be gutted to turn this down, but I want other perspectives and want to make sure I’m not insane for making this decision.

I have a screening call tomorrow for a job where it’s a 6 month training program where you get hired full time after completing the program. I am very interested and really want to do it, however the 6 month program is in a city on the opposite side of the country. I’m willing to temporarily relocate for the 6 months but on the condition that I could come back to where I currently live once the program’s done, which I’ve heard is possible but I want to figure out how to ask it in the screening call so we don’t waste each other’s time if it’s not possible. I have an SO who can’t relocate with me so permanent relocation isn’t an option.

I posted on here about a month ago talking about how I’m a beginner learning how to produce house, and how the constant discourse around splice and sample packs being “cheating” or not something “real producers” use discouraged me from using those resources. Most people on here agreed that it’s fine to use those, so I went ahead and purchased some sample packs. I do tweak the presets and samples to my liking, but since getting some packs in the style of music I want to emulate, it’s actually gotten significantly easier to get somewhere in my workflow as a beginner and to make more of my ideas come to life.

I watch a lot of Zen World’s tutorials, and he posted this video comparing the beatport Indie Dance top 10 and he’s right, the similarities are astounding. Reading the comments it’s filled with people agreeing that sample packs, Splice, reference tracks, and tutorials are at fault for everyone sounding the same, with someone even shaming Wax Motif for using Splice samples.

I’m here as a new producer thinking oh shit, I do not want to fall into this trap of copy paste. Being new I’m still working on finding my sound, and fuck AI I agree, but am I supposed to be making all of my own sounds to be considered original and valid as a producer? Is that what it takes? That’s fine if it is but I’m just continuously going in circles trying to figure out what’s the right foundation to build upon before I’m too far in the wrong direction. At the end of the day I have many djs/producers I look up to and think their music sounds amazing but I have no idea to what extent if at all they’re using Splice or if they are really making everything even down to the kick from scratch. If I make a decent sounding song from Splice and sample packs, am I allowed to call myself a producer?

My roommate and I live in Pacific Beach, San Diego in a roomy 2 bedroom by the beach. we’re looking to house swap around September for a place in NYC, WOMEN ONLY. If anyone is interested or has any advice on where I can find interested parties, please comment or DM.

I’m 24F and work in data analytics. went to college during covid and honestly just kind of picked whatever I thought would get me a job, due to isolation I didn’t have much time to explore or network or see what these jobs would actually be like. I’ve now been working in data analytics for a few years and there’s always been something about it that I don’t like, and I finally realized what it is. Only using the analytical, problem solving, coding side of my mind exhausts me. Honestly, it’s just so BORING. I don’t interact with anybody throughout the day so I’m not using interpersonal skills at all. The nature of the work is so cut and dry and I feel like I’m wasting my potential when I have lots to offer outside of strictly problem solving, I’m outgoing, love to talk to people, great at interpersonal skills.

The idea of earning money outside of a job that’s not 100% practical or mathematical or left-brained, not sure what I’d call it, is so foreign to me that I forgot other types of jobs are even an option. So I’m coming here to ask, because I’m genuinely so pigeonholed into tech that I’m not sure what else is out there, are there ways to earn money without having to constantly do computation and engage the coding side of my mind? If so, what else is out there? Doesn’t have to be corporate, at this point I’m so open minded to any other job that has decent to high earning potential, but I just never want to touch a dataset or Python again in my life

I'm looking to get into the AI UGC marketing space, already have n8n workflows set up and everything. One thing I'm getting stuck on is the outreach portion, specifically, what should my presence look like when I'm reaching out to brands to sell this service. Do you guys have agency tiktoks or instagrams or anything that you use to reach out to brands, or how do you guys go about finding clients who are interested in paying for this service?

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My (24F) dad (53) has always had an extremely stressful job for as long as I can remember. He has worked at several different companies, but always doing the same type of work, and all I remember from childhood is him being unhappy and stressed 24/7 because of work.

I’m 24 now and support myself, and my parents live on the other side of the country. Apparently due to layoffs and shitty management, my dad’s work stress has gotten to a point where he doesn’t sleep, is on call 24/7 and taking work calls at 2-3am, and he’s even had to go to the doctor several times due to high blood pressure and other health problems caused by stress from work. He recently told me that his stress is the worst it’s ever been in his entire career. He works weekends and hasn’t taken a day off in years. He also lives a sedentary lifestyle and doesn’t exercise much.

I’m very worried about him, and I told him that decreasing his lifespan isn’t worth it, and that he needs to quit and work literally any other job. He acknowledges that he may be at that point, but no matter what I say, he refuses. My mom works full time as well, and I’m completely on my own. unfortunately I’m young and don’t make enough where I can support both my parents and myself, but there’s really no reason for him to continue working this job. I even told him that if he dies because of work it won’t be worth it, and he joked that if he does, my mom and I will get a bunch of money in life insurance. With the way his health is going, it’s really not a joke.

I feel powerless and I know he’s a grown adult, but I don’t know what I can say or do to get the point across that this isn’t worth it. It’s starting to affect me and make me very upset, I really don’t want my dad to die, I’d be devastated. I’m also an only child, so if that were to happen I’d have to deal with everything by myself. I doubt he would take my advice seriously, being an older man with clearly very solid values about work (older generation mindset), but I need to find a way to get to him to change his mind before it’s too late. Thought I’d ask here for advice since I don’t really interact with many men his age and I don’t really know the best way to get to him.