▲ 18 r/screaming
Can’t extend the range for the fc
So I can either do the Slaughter to Prevail like low, and some fry sounding high, but can’t extend them to other registers. Advice?
u/pr0p1k — 1 day ago
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▲ 57 r/linguisticshumor
Are mergers applicable to non-native accents?
I noticed most Europeans have than-then and bot-but mergers, should we add? (Joking)
u/pr0p1k — 7 days ago
▲ 1 r/Accents
16:46 "playing" sounds a bit Australian with the diphthong being closer /aɪ/.
16:29 "experiment" is /ɪkˈspɪɹ.ə.mənt/ with /ɪ/ vowel. I thought it should the cheer-chair merger, but wiki says the merger merges towards the "chair" vowel, not the opposite.
18:01 "best" vowel is lowered similar to the "playing" diphthong.
18:09 "amp", 2:03 "band" have æ-raising (actually not sure about this one)
18:22 "get" sounds like "git"
16:27 "then" doesn't feature the pin-pen merger, and sounds rather like "than". The vowel is lowered again.
2:00 - 2:05 I really can't tell if "all" and "call" have /ɑ/ or /ɔ/, and next to the word "moderate" with a clear /ɑ/, it sounds like his "call" vowel is backed, but not really an /ɔ/, thus I can't tell if he has the cot-caught merger 😭
Just based on the absence of the pin-pen merger and presence of æ-raising, I would put him somewhere around northern Michigan. What do you think?
u/pr0p1k — 19 days ago
▲ 1 r/GuitarTone
Why do I sound so terrible?
Hey, I am really struggling to play guitar because of my sound being extremely dirty.
It demotivates from practicing, plus I can't even record what I can play relatively okay.
The question is: is it a skill issue - should I palm mute properly,
or gear settings,
or string imbalance/pickup height issue?
Gear:
Schecter Omen Extreme 7 (standard setting, additionally tried isolating it with copper tape)
NUX MG-300 MK2, LT More standard preset (the others don't sound nearly close to what I want
Here's a sample of me (badly) playing some riffs: https://voca.ro/14yCr6vD98yF
4 settings:
0:00 - Noise Gate at 61
1:06 - Noise gate at 76
1:54 - No Noise Gate (thus whistle from the tube screamer)
2:28 - No Noise Gate, No tube screamer
3:06 - No Noise Gate, No tube screamer, no djent - actually okayish sound
The sound is super dirty whenever I play anything like djent (7th string, palm muting) - the notes are barely discernible, power chords sound even worse.
Some lower strings riffs sound pretty discernible and the noise is not very noticeable.
u/pr0p1k — 20 days ago