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  1. sidis

    3rd and 9

    had the clock been moving, i suspect our behavior would have altered significantly. i think it was an enormous contributing variable to ou's win.
  2. sidis

    3rd and 9

    he didn't...which is weird because they had hit their stride other than one shit play.
  3. sidis

    3rd and 9

    it is not a straw man. i am just pointing out what i believe was going through steve's mind. best of all worlds is we don't stop the clock and get the first down. unfortunately, only one of the outcomes occurred (ou having to use its last timeout). at the end of the day, as i said, i am super frustrated that steve made the call he did. given their cb and bowman being out...and them doing the same stupid ass prevent stuff we lost the game with, there was an easy ten yards for 5, 13, 1...hell, anyone. i think a a johntay cook appearance there would have been perfect. it was there for the taking and we went conservative. there is a persuasive case to be made for it but in the moment, i wanted us to go for the first down through the air.
  4. sidis

    Israel

    i was ready to drag dead ou fans and dillon gabriel through the street naked and spit on him on saturday at 3pm so... look, this is about as impossible as it gets. it really is unfortunately and i hate it. i used to spend a lot of time involved in advocacy related to israel/palestine and doing economic work to try and move the stakeholders forward. everyone who believes that israel is pure or even superior on this should read "fallen pillars." anyone that thinks that the palestinians are purely victims in this thing is delusional and unfamiliar with how the biggest political benefactors were trading on others' suffering. this whole thing would require abating the worst and most natural instincts of humankind. people acting like they can't possibly contemplate being so animal as to parade dead israelis through the streets have also never had their loved ones mercilessly and needlessly murdered in front of their eyes. you might be surprised what you are capable of in that scenario. which, of course, does not excuse acting as extremists in palestine have. the cycle is so fucking wretched and there is empathy for both positions from the outside. but from the inside, it is about hate and survival every single day. and over one of the ugliest and shittiest places ever. that's what makes the irrational religious element of it so crazy to me. that this all-time dispute exists over fucking israel and not over san diego or french polynesia is bizarre.
  5. quinn was what he is...a mixed bag. first two ints were on him. first one was all-time horrible and looked like pure jittery nerves. second one was practically a half-hour late on the throw. the fumble was super bad because he never should have taken that hit like that given the location on the field. other than that, he actually played pretty well though we had to settle for a fg after the completed deep pass to xavier where if he throws a better pass, that's a td.
  6. sidis

    3rd and 9

    on third and 9, steve was playing for the same scenario as alabama. remember, on the key third and long driving at the end, we ran brooks up the middle and it worked and we all called it a genius move...because it worked. ou was ready for it and i think it was a mistake. the reason i thought it was a mistake was because the short passing game was there to be had. their best cb had to go out and two plays earlier on the first down, bowman idiotically targeted xavier and got hurt. don't know if anyone else noticed this but bowman going down had an enormous unintended impact. specifically, the officials never restarted the clock after he went down until we snapped the ball on first down. even though the clock should have obviously stopped for the first down, it would restart after the ball was set. but because of bowman's injury, they stopped the clock and they never restarted it on first down. had they, it would have put the clock at closer to 40 seconds at the time of the fg. the other thing is it should have been targeting and moved the ball downfield. but either way, bowman is their best player and he was out. we should have have tried to get that damned first down in the passing game imo regardless of 20/20 hindsight. biggest mistake on first and goal from the 1 imo (and i was screaming it as it happened) was the stupid decision to totally change the offense and sub everyone out for the heavy set. that was super fucking dumb. just get down there, go fast, line up, and run it in for the td. ou was fucking gassed at the end of the drive. because we subbed, ou was able to sub their entire defense and bow up on the line. also, running out a million huge guys meant we weren't multiple but totally predictable for three straight plays. that was some of the worst coaching i have seen from sark imo. they should have never subbed and given ou the opportunity to reset.
  7. sidis

    Israel

    just checking in to see if a decades (if not millenniums) long dispute that reflects the absolute worst in humanity from all perspectives has been resolved in this thread... plan in place.
  8. Were you alive in 2018?
  9. sidis

    3rd and 9

    I agree. Bowman and their starting cb were both out. Go get the first down. So bad.
  10. By not calling a single holding call despite them holding on every fucking play including the key screen play on the opening drive of the second half? are you fucking blind?
  11. just a thought but paul, perhaps you could provide the email group (or here if comfortable) some names and contact info of some of your favorite and most trusted mix/master engineers that wouldn't be bothered by and could use some cold call random work.
  12. yes, to be clear, as i said in my earlier post, if you want the best results, hire a pro. most people don't even really understand what mastering is and even with the best tools, the outcome will not be optimal. however, as someone who really enjoys learning about the production process and as someone who makes a lot more music than i would ever release to streaming services that need a final, polished version, etc..., i want to at least raise the final output past amateurish and there is a lot of utility to the software i discussed above if you take the time to learn how to use it and its limitations. i have used izotope and fabfilter on probably 100 tracks at this point and so the one-time 299 investment amortized over that is far more efficient than paying engineer for something i'm not all that proud of each time. but you can be damned sure that if it is a track i intend to release into the real world past this thread or sharing with a few friends/family, it's getting the pro treatment...particularly on mixing. mixing is some dark arts shit that can truly drive you up the wall (even though i fucking enjoy it for some perverse reason that is akin to watching the 2003 RRS on loop). if you get it properly mixed, the effects of mastering become severely less critical.
  13. I'm laid up from a back procedure at the moment so since I have the time... Up front caveat and disclosure: if you want to maximize the quality of your mix and master, then you should hire a professional engineer. Even with the best tools getting you 95% of the way there, you will not get to 100%. Working together with them, that will always achieve the best possible results. That said, if you don't want to invest in going down that road or just want to get better at it yourself... For mastering, Goredho pointed out Ozone and that's definitely my favorite program by a long shot. The new one just came out and I personally think it is pretty outstanding. Isotope also makes some good programs for other steps (Neutron for mixing, Nectar for box, Tonal Balance Control, RX for audio cleaning, among many others). From my perspective, the best stuff they make is RX (which is first in class in audio cleaning), Ozone, and a cool little free program called Audiolens which gives you the ability to get endless amounts of EQ inputs from whatever songs you want in order to load them into Ozone for automatic EQ matching. Goredho gave an excellent overview of Ozone. But you have to remember that it is a tool to give you a starting point. You can't just set it and forget it. But it will do an excellent job of providing good guardrails and keeping you from doing anything really stupid. The one thing I would warn you with Ozone (or ANY mastering tool), is that it imposes significant compression as a default which relates to one of the criticisms that G650 laid out above about loudness. The problem with it is that it eliminates a lot of dynamic range and that is something you will find is a serious problem amongst a lot of modern and popular music. Compressors and compression are awesome and can add a lot of quality and color to your track but it can also neuter the sound and dynamic range if you overuse it. So regardless of anything you use, just keep an eye on that. Bottom line, for someone making the type of stuff you are, Ozone can go a long, long way in giving it a more professional veneer and I would recommend it. Particularly with drum forward sound. With your drum recording setup, I can't help but also encourage you to look at RX. A bit more of an investment but it is simply the best. If you don't want to spend as much on the Izotope stuff (patience is worth a lot there because they have some really deep sales often), the company I love the most is FabFilter. Pro-C, Pro-Q, and Pro-L will give you the ability to do a lot of improvement with a bit more in terms of flexibility. The EQ and compression side-chaining in Pro-Q and Pro-C are incredibly easy and are so good. Again, drums - gotta have that side-chaining. no shortage of opinions on mic'ing drums out there. lots of ways to skin that cat.
  14. going to u2 later this year at the sphere so haven't been yet but this video seemed worth posting. venue looks completely fucking insane. i'm trying to imagine a world where pink floyd played shine on your crazy diamond with this type of a/v. or i bet sigur ros could do some incredible shit with this. bono's voice sounds terrible but my fandom for u2 has always been about the edge so i will see this.
  15. pointless for the rest of us to compare production quality to paul...dude literally owns a fucking professional studio. and i think there's probably some good reasons why jimmyjazz's recordings all sound super good. that said, there are a lot of really small and inexpensive things you can do to ratchet up your production if you want to on any tracks. happy to throw a few ideas your way if you are interested. but the soul of it is in what you are doing...just capturing good song ideas and good lyrics. i remain of the opinion that once this experiment is over in January, i would love to see you finish Leaving Home to Rust and make a version that dials up some of the production because i really like what you have captured and i think it could be an excellent, excellent song (not that your new one isn't also quite good). happy to help you with any of the production side stuff i can as well. on me and the devil, in case it isn't obvious, one of the things i am trying to do with this experiment is do a different style on each prompt. first was soundtrack score. i spent the day listening to robert johnson one day just to see if anything was inspired and i kept coming back to little snippets that sounded like they would make for cool samples to repeat in an edm track ala some of moby's more popular work like "natural blues." but the more i listened, r&b and funk seemed to jive with the tempo a bit better and some rap lyrics fit.
  16. it's united and it isn't close.
  17. we were planning to but then northloop and snake diggity came in and totally fucked us.
  18. Some of y’all haven’t watched Field of Dreams for too long.
  19. we lost to luton town. luton town. fucking luton town.
  20. Cocaine and cash. Sign up sheet for school.
  21. i hear this guy is offering rides if you want to reach out...
  22. Definitely the worst road performance. But he was solid at kstate and Kansas last year even though Bijan made it easy for him.
  23. Purely anecdotal and casual observation in my head currently but I’d be curious to see how his stats compare away from home vs at home. It feels like his qbr, etc would be much better in games away than they are at home. When I think of the more mediocre to bad performances he has had, they all feel like they were home games. TCU last year, Baylor last year, Wyoming and Rice this year. OU last year, at Bama, at Baylor…even the bowl game last year all feel like his better play. I feel like home games are a bit more of a struggle for some bizarre reason.
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