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I just saw the word consequences in the title and thought the track would be some terrible thrash metal song called “The Dildo of Consequences is Rarely Lubed.” recording sounds fine but feels like the 1-3kHz range here is dominating a lot. Feel like it needs a good bit of 250 and 500 boost. From what I understand, the area between those for acoustic doesn’t present the same level of muddiness as electric so maybe even Q’d across the whole range? playing sounds wonderful.

jeez, arsenal really fucked this. oh well.

you're fucked.

i wonder if they will do home and home where the ac fans get most of the tickets for one game and inter get most for the other or if they will go full red river shootout for both.

i really thought that arsenal had a real chance...but dropping points against west ham to me sealed it for city.

@Goredho, not new music but since this thread semi serves as the recording techniques thread as well, just thought i would share daniel lanois' interview on gearspace and someone asked him about mic'ing acoustics and it made me think of you. https://gearspace.com/board/interviews/1363141-interview-daniel-lanois.html also, since you are also a great lover of the greatest ambient song ever made in eno's "an ending (ascent)," i had no idea that the whole damned thing resulted from a reversal.

murphy was fantastic, as was mitchell. excited about both of these guys. moore needs to work on the hands. cook is fast. was encouraged by run defense from dline and not horrible on pass rush either. i think lbs are going be better than they have been in a while.

jwst observations made by team called ceers led by some astronomers/researchers from ut are challenging some previously held theories feeding the standard model on early universe galactic and stellar formation. this image in particular... in layman's terms, the zoomed red dot is a galaxy that's been named maisie's galaxy (along with five other identified galaxies since) which is named after the lead researcher's (a research at the university of texas) daughter. based on its preliminary measurement of redshift, masie's galaxy is approximately 500-700 million years after the theoretical timing of the big bang. critically, follow up analysis and measurement is necessary to confirm the preliminary estimates so all this is still in the preliminary phase. it is possible that some supermassive black holes are effectively brightening and distorting measurements of mass or that certain types of dust are affecting the apparent redshift (and perception of distance) so that's why more precise spectroscopy using jwst is necessary. however, if the timing and mass are correct based on spectroscopy, these infant time period galaxies are absolutely fucking massive...one even larger than the milky way is today. that isn't expected/predicted under the standard model of cosmology and raises some significant questions about how these early stage galaxies formed so massively, so quickly...and how they consumed and converted nearly 100% of their gas into stellar formation when we typically see only about 10% conversion in more mature galaxies. it would require quite a bit of revision to the standard model and a need to better understand why/how there was more matter to available in forming early stars and galaxies than previously believed. lots of implications with regards to dark matter halos and the rate of expansion in the universe. and taking a step back and having a just smoked a bowl moment, you are looking at an image of something that's light left on its journey to us approximately 13 billion years ago. here are some other cool images from the same ceers survey images...clicking on the below should blow it up. 1 is a spiral galaxy with a large number of blue star-forming clumps and star clusters. 2 is an alignment of a bright galaxy with several smaller galaxies forming an arc. 3 is an interacting system of galaxies colliding. 4 is two interacting spiral galaxies...and the arrow is pointing to an active supernova. 5 is another spiral galaxy and 6 is a grouping of red galaxies and a good sized galaxy showing a tidal tail.

I had never heard of this Morgan Wallen dipshit before today. My kids like to play pandora on our fridge in the kitchen while we make breakfast, etc and they had it on the Taylor swift radio channel this morning. Something came on that made me consider taking the knife I was cutting some stuff for food prep and going to homicidally sing it to take out as much of humanity as humanly possible before I stopped myself, looked at the culprit on the screen, and it was some trash by Morgan Wallen. Mind you, I’m already in 8-10 year old girl music mode so my tolerance level is ultra high at the moment. I down-thumbed it without committing any atrocities.

Fantastic. Thanks for sharing.

I listened to the end of the game on the radio after leaving a concert last night and it was in the midst of the pitching change with one out in the 9th. Craig was talking about Grubbs taking it on the chin in the Tuesday game against TSU and how he gave up his only extra base hits on two double ms in the last outing. He then proceeds to give up two doubles and a two run hr. holy shit guys. What the ever loving fuck…

same boat like most. was actually surprised at how reactive their appraised value was to market conditions on mine...but of course, easy to do so when you have created so much taxable head room for yourself. sigh.

JWST has been busy (as have I unfortunately...causing a delay in some worthwhile updates). a beautiful picture of NGC 1365. nice detail on the "bar" part of a double-barred spiral galaxy formation about 56 million light years away from us in mid-infrared. incredible to get resolution to individual stars in the core and newly-formed clusters in the inner star formation ring. ngc 1433. also mid-infrared. crazy double ringed structure that appears to be a bar from a distance nestled in the rest of the galaxy. this one is 46 million light years and has a supermassive black hole at its center that is hungry AF and consumes material at an astounding rate. wr 124 star in both near infrared and mid-infrared composite. the stellar emissions are not smooth for this star but instead somewhat randomized as betrayed by the stellar dust cloud surrounding it. the one you've all been waiting for...uranus. in near infrared both zoomed in and a wider field. something cool about this is that you can see the polar cap on the planet because, just as a reminder, uranus is the only planet that is tilted entirely on its side and rotates on that basis and causing rather extremes seasons. you're effectively looking at its "north pole." the two other bright spots on the planet are not lens flares but actually clouds. supernova (or exploding star) remnant we all know as cassiopeia a in mid infrared...this is about ten light years across. never has extreme violence been so beautiful. another comparison of jwst with hubble and their relative sensitivity. the same deep field that took over 11 days of exposure time on hst vs. .83 days on jwst. significant disparity in sensitivity to say the least. finally, super cool spectroscopy result on an exoplanet about 40 light years away called vhs 1256b. this planet orbits two stars at once which is unique. this is showing what the composition of the planet's clouds in its atmosphere. i'll put the full explanation of its findings below in spoiler.

what in the holy fuck?

being in san siro for an inter-ac champions league semifinal would be quite something...

That was the back end of the first week of Covid lockdown.

Aren’t the LIV events 54 holes?

cross posting this with the share my music thread since this thread gets a lot more views. as much as we all love to give @Goredho shit for buying a guitar every day, at least the dude can put them to work. here's a track i wrote that i was happy with but it lacked some soulful soloing to take it up a notch so i asked goredho to write and perform some solos on top of what i had already done. the solo in the intro and the dueling guitars solo in the second half of the chorus are him burning shit up.

i posted the version of my track golden crashes in the last page. since then, because my talent for soloing guitars is lacking, i asked goredho to compose and perform some solos to enhance the track which he generously did. so here is the track with goredho's solos. the rhythm guitars and bass are composed/performed by me, the drums and pads are programmed by me, and the intro solo and the dueling guitar solos in the second half of the chorus were written and performed by goredho. dude can play...

you have been driving earth movers and pile driving foundations for too many decades. it has killed your hearing. thanks guys. i was being a little hyperbolic but god damn, when i plugged it in the first time, let the tubes warm up, and fired away at 5 and 5, it was a bit uhhh, jarring. i think a 4 normal, 3 bright, and 5 on the guitar is about the right balance for a clean even tone that fills the house but doesn't get me arrested...but i've only gotten about an hour to mess around thanks to dumbass work. i'll figure it out this weekend. the klon klone through it should be interesting.

so uhhh, yeah. this thing… @dcbc or @G650, any tips on playing with master vol past 1 without splitting the foundation of my house into a million pieces and shattering everyone in austin’s windows?

Brooks finally missed a putt and had to settle for a birdie. 🙄 good lord dude is firing.

Bard was pretty emphatic on this one guys. I’d suggest you not get off on the wrong foot with our near-term overlord.

i am going to do a Bard response to some of the top unpopular opinions here to confirm their lack of popularity and just for fun... @ztejas gets some support: followed by some disagreement. @G650 less out there than i thought... holy shit...way to go @BrickHorn, getting lots of love from Bard... @tbone_ gets one of the fairly definitive and committed responses from Bard.

so lampard to chelsea or what?