A Misemono Kyoto FM remix for the OBON Summer Holidays in Japan here.
The SHORT I released last Saturday as all of Japan went on Holidays only got 9 views, so not a great time to release something you put a lot of blood, sweat and tears into.
The cicadas stopped singing suddenly a few days ago, when the rain started and temperature dropped about 10 degrees.
Other Things
It is now official that there are more BOTs on the Internet than people, but that is not new news to me and seen that in our website access data for quite some time.
Is it the end of the Internet as a useful tool? Google search is now garbage, that is for sure.
Star Trek Discovery stumbled into our included with prime viewing and struck us that this probably shouldn't have been a STAR TREK show but some other original SF thing, as they don't particularly care about the Star Trek universe it should be part of. Like when the Klingons look like the ALIEN PROMETHEUS ENGINEERS rather than anything in any previous series, and the tech they have breaks just everything that came before.
It seems YouTube is mostly advertising to me. Like these speaker shoot out videos.
And the guy presenting it, using his own original songs in the comparisons, is effectively advertising himself. Seems the majority of videos offered to me follow that same formular. I have the JBL104s shown in this. At the time the iLOUD micros were the better sounding monitor, and smaller, but even then had heard of reliability issues. The small powered PROSONUS monitors sound good, but have reliability issues too. The same guy had an older video with the PROSONUS 3.5 in the mix and was highly regarded. Note in the comments of this 5+ year old video, many originally happy customers say they failed after 2 years.
The failure points of older products become known. iLOUDs micros can have AC ADAPTERs, woofer and cables fail around ~3 years.. BUT that bright yellow RIBBON tweeters can get damaged easily by cats is "unusual".
What is most important about using any monitors for mixing is knowing what they add or reduce, and taking that into account in your mix decisions. The room they are in and acoustic treatment is REALLY important too.
My tiny acoustically untreated room (as NO SPACE!) means it doesn't really matter what speakers I use, the results wouldn't be good. Room modes, the deep dips and peaks in response when playing loudspeakers make all this vs that debates unimportant.
But being 68 this year means I don't trust my ears anyway, with no highs, and big dips in my hearing, and rely on visual tools a lot.
SPAN in MASTERING MODE being vital to me. AKG K702 Headphones too. Also check with a studio simulation tool, that has now been discontinued, dear VR MIX.
Still being the cook with my wife still suffering from ongoing SHINGLES pain. Not as bad as it was, but still bad enough for her to not be able to leave the house or walk very far yet.
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