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I'm very interested too... Would like to throw some ideas around. Might make an interesting brainstorming workshop for one of the video parties some day. I think one if the biggest obstacles is going to be building or repurposing motorized devices that will have enough torque, even at very low speed...

You, know, this has gotten me thinking that maybe my conclusion that higher education/self-education might actually be what it takes for HN to expand its palette (assuming that matters to you). I often joke about my conclusion that I had to look seriously at a professional career in sound design, au...

Oh, my apologies. I take it as a given that everyone already knows about that term and its current context because I spent my entire adolescence online.

Ultimately, whatever form it takes, authentically enjoying noise is something we do for "fun" or "pleasure", even if occasionally at masochistically-high volumes, or because it simply gets gears turning in our brains in some way. It still boils down to the same authenticity. &quo...

I don't know how well others will be able to relate to this analogy, but I think of "good" noise as something akin to touch therapy, or at least a good back-cracking. It gives a psycho-physical aporoximation to something like a weighted blanket or a cat washing you (that's very calming for...

This is a really complicated question, which kind of makes it difficult to correlate my thoughts to give a response during my lunch break... I can only say that it took years of doing noise myself and realizing I didn't actually enjoy my own material very much after the rush of "anything is pos...

So what is a closet weeb? You know, the more I consider the question, I think that I might be one... And partly as a consequence of my upbringing. I mean someone who is at least partially aware of/self-conscious about their superficial Sino/Japanophilia... or Guamophilia, as the case may be, and un...

I have to ask: what is a closet weeb? Morbidly obese and squatting? So you’re offsetting the back pain to your knees which are already under strain from supporting your weight? The older get the more I can empathize with joint pain. I still find the performance aspect to be a bit of a drag. Akin to...

Can we define "pornography"? Mostly joking, and not a fan of the porn industry, despite acknowledging that I use and rarely resist allowing myself to be used by it... I have no romantic or lofty ideas about sex, even for procreation, either. We're just stupid chimps. And a sex drive with a...

You just have to learn to squat. I tell you, before work conditioning at my current job, I had no idea what was the proper posture to assume in order to squat as a morbidly obese American. It's really liberating to know that I can safely poop outdoors without falling back into it now. I know some pe...

DIODE SNORTER wrote: ↑Sat Jul 15, 2023 6:25 pm I've been meaning to try CV but I don't quite understand it yet.

Haha. I don't either. >_> Not in terms of adapting the voltages to pedals anyway.

Would be nice to see pedal modders and mainstream (i.e., BOSS) manufacturers start integrating more/any 3.5mm CV inputs on pedals.

I have to say (rant), as much as I don't like social media itself, I like it even less for how it makes a lot of people unreachable unless you opt into sites like Instagram or are already "established" with an individual, typically via those platforms... Not interested. It seems intentiona...

For all the verbose and intricate wordsalad, I'd just expect some speciffic names to be called out somewhere in all of it...

COME ON, NAME AND SHAME!

Designing electro-acoustic noise generators is also of interest to me. I've often thought how cool it'd be to simulate the sound of gravel or stones being crunched together under feet or tires with some kind of silent/low-noise, motorized grinding dish or plate system that could be mic'd either with...

Also, exactly how is this forum not a form of social media? I think about this sometimes too. I guess it's ultimately a generational thing and down to typical use cases and how the platforms are organized. Modern "social media" platforms, differentiating themselves as forms of centralized...

I even stopped posting on MW! Every once in a blue moon I might show up to drunkenly insult the eurorack consoomer mob, but that's about it.

Mostly because it's a common connector used in patchbay snakes, particularly for large studio/live sound rigs, though it could be any kind of multi-pin connector that will accomodate x number of connections. I was thinking, actually, that it might make cabling easier to have a smaller set of pins co...

It'd be great if someone designed a patchbay system specifically for pedals... some kind of customizable snake with DB25 connectors to the rear and a standard 1/4" (or even better for # of patch points and lighter weight all around: 3.5mm) patching interface on the front. I've had ideas for som...

Ha... I actually once suggested the name "Prolapsed Catholics" to an online friend as a bit of a joke for if we started a band.

It's a good name.

"Neofolk" practically begins and ends for me with Death in June and Current 93. That said, I really like Nature and Organisation too. I am a massive David E. Williams fan as well, but IDK if he counts for genre purists. Nearly everything else feels contrived. Even stuff I like feels like i...

Lightweight but durable case for noise_gear. Something that doesn't weight as much as I do, and something I can attach my gear to, already connectd to each other. Guitar/keyboard cases all have downsides that I can't get past. Perhaps this won't be useful to you, but I found a Hitachi power tool ca...

I've definitely done that before! It's so noisy there, though, it's hard to get good recordings. I spent at least a couple of hours just trying to clean this up in iZotope RX and it's a fairly simple, uniform sound to work with: https://audiojungle.net/item/industrial-drum-agitator/34426371 Nothing ...

Loooooooong day at work, so sorry to keep it so brief, but there are many options for automation and MIDI control in FLStudio. TBH, I've barely scratched the surface of what is possible, and I'm not sure if it'll do anything quite like jliat's software, but you can definitely make kooky shit happen ...

I want some huge pieces of scrap metal. Maybe a big sledgehammer too. They would never think of letting me take scrapped car parts home from work, though I would like to. Even considered shelling out to buy my own aftermarket parts. Fenders are the best in terms of sonic potential and portability, ...