Uncomfortably accurate:
https://twitter.com/LRonMexico/status/1397201587244777478
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I see your Margaritaville and raise you a MacArthur Park.
https://twitter.com/glennkelman/status/1397189637207121929
So what is happening with the housing market? The last super tight housing market was because of speculation and I don’t know about anyone else I could kind of feel like something was off. Friends quitting to be flippers, etc,
But this doesn’t feel like speculation, but also we haven’t gotten some huge influx of immgrants who demand houses. It could be people leaving cities are more people work from home? But is it? I see a lot of stuff talking about how weird the housing market it, but nothing explaining why.
There are tons of reasons but one that isn’t often discussed is investment firms making cash offers then renting. With bond yields at nothing, 5% return seems great, plus you get any appreciation. Buy a $240,000 house, rent it for $1500 a month, back out $500/mo of property taxes and maintenance and it’s a pretty low risk return. Not great for first time buyers trying to compete.
It is weird. But it has to be speculation. Or money laundering Russians. Or idk what. But with half of households having trouble paying rent or mortgage (is that the right estimate?) with many only temporarily saved from eviction by government edict feels like something really bad has to be coming. But I said that a year ago and people said no, it’ll be fine here (SLC) and so far they’ve been right. The boom continues.
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oh it’s real real shitty
Really? Have had 4 family members sell and buy homes and none of them have had any interactions with people renting stuff out.
Money is super cheap right now. Has been for awhile.
Can you all bump the thread so I have something to talk about other than cryptocurrency?
The article touches on something that even a lot of producers don’t understand: when you use compression in the mixdown stage for some parts you’re not actually compressing and you’re actually expanding by using a slow, soft attack but with a high ratio. Like, turning a drum from the first thing to the second:
The second would sound like a “compressed” drum, but the reason it sounds louder and more dynamic is because it’s not actually compressed, in the sense that most people imagine compression to be, which is brickwall limiting. This is part of what the author was contemplating when he said this:
There remains only one solution I can think of: the loudness range of the music prior to mastering or even mixing has been increasing at the same time as compressing/limiting has been getting more drastic. In other words, the source material has more initial variability, and is more resilient to limiting.
The problem arises in that the mastering engineer doesn’t have this option when thy’re remastering old things, and it’s not a coincidence that the main examples used highlighting the loudness wars are the digital remasters. They are clearly all fucked up, but a lot of the debate comes down to semantics. Yes, the loudness mastering is clearly a thing that happens and can be awful, but is it a “problem” throughout all music? At that point you’d have to define what constitutes a problem, quantifying some % of releases that have been negatively affected by mastering that went for loudness above all else, and it just gets silly. The problem I had with that article way back is that when you dig in it doesn’t actually dispute a statement like “the loudness mastering is clearly a thing that happens and can be awful” so it’s just another example of a clickbaity title. Which isn’t that big of a problem in the grand scheme lol.
The article does use “crest value” and “crest factor” a whole lot, which is the sign a person knows what they’re talking about and a big red flag when it’s omitted.
As always, something like this is the short correct answer.
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They’re finally listening to what Warren Buffett said 9 years ago
Warren Buffett says along with equities, single-family homes are a very attractive investment right now.
Appearing live on CNBC’s Squawk Box, Buffett tells Becky Quick he’d buy up “a couple hundred thousand” single family homes if it were practical to do so.
If held for a long period of time and purchased at low rates, Buffett says houses are even better than stocks. He advises buyers to take out a 30-year mortgage and refinance if rates go down.
Like, at one point Living La Vida Loca was the loudest song ever released, in terms of mashing the brickwall and destroying the crest that resulted in a perfectly rectangular waveform, but the actual top shelf analysis was LOL why are you fucking listening to Ricky Martin?
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Maybe I’ve been reading too many mystery thrillers recently but this totally sounds like something somebody would say when Nun was actually here right now posting in this very thread.
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Agree totally. It took me a few years after getting the will and trust done to stop renewing the insurance. @zarapochka I don’t recall whether there was a waiting period, but for me, that’s not a problem 
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This,
is one of the first and most famous videos about the loudness wars and I always got those strong vibes from him but at the same time, the example is so obvious and glaring (aside from the question of why are we listening to Paul McCartney solo) that it’s an effective video to easily explain the concept. Like I mentioned it mainly affected digital remasters but also like I mentioned, why are we fucking listening to Paul McCartney?
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Fuck man this makes me really want to buy a house. Plan was to wait a bit more but idk
https://twitter.com/AroundtheHorn/status/1397281316845105167
I make it through the first line!
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Lol that’s one of the first ones I watched yesterday and what inspired my snare sidebar. Crank that track up so that the average level is somewhere in the neighborhood of loudest safe SPL for a reasonable music listening session (~85 dB). Now try those opening snare hits and tell me how awesome dynamic range is. Not lying: Yesterday I asked myself “How many videos will it take before I see someone compare Steely Dan to a circa 2000 hard rock / metal band?” to “demonstrate” this effect and the answer was two.
We already have a strong candidate for worst album of all time from Metallica, but I’m submitting a candidate for worst two opening snare hits of all time.
Yeah I mean, that’s the thing I always thought everybody should notice and wonder: why in the shit is that first snare a zillion dBs louder than than the intro?
But I think I missed the snare sidebar, is it upthread?
The other annoying part of is when people talking about an “RMS of -20.0” or whatever for older recordings when that’s nonsense unless there’s a sustained peak at 0 (or like -0.01).
p.s. wait where’d that video go you posted?
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