instantly reminded me of this thread
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cogsy
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When I was a lowly band geek in middle school, I was practicing trumpet after school. I got a call on the house phone from a solicitor.
“Are your parents home? Can I speak with them?”
“Sure, let me go get them”
I put the phone down, and picked up my trumpet, aimed it at the phone, and started playing the theme from Jurassic Park into the handset. I heard some yelling and profanity, then he hung up.
Plot twist: my parents weren’t actually home.
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DoS
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We used to get a heavy breather ringing our house phone in the '80s, before caller ID and suchlike; so eventually someone took a short and very loud animal horn that has a mouthpiece attached to it and blasted it hard down the microphone. It makes a really sharp and brutal sound that’s impossible to ignore.
He never called again.
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and to this very day I still have tinnitus in one ear as a result.
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DoS
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Nah, can’t have been you as with this horn you’d still be suffering in both ears.
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Ryan
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I never had an issue with my snare sounds before this meme trend, and now even with songs that have just one singular snare- i find myself making the song worse so that the snare can sound better
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This was me last night. I was working on a beat on the Digitakt and felt like the snare was off. Kept tweaking it until it finally sounded right — only to realize that I had effectively tweaked the snare into silence. Between the LFO and trig conditions etc. etc. you couldn’t hear the damn thing anymore, and that made the beat sound better.
What I’m trying to say is, life imitates art.
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cogsy
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The best snare is actually a clap. That’s the hill I will die on
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