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  • My brain is not wired to be proud of things (chase the process!).

    But i think achievements that I would put on my resume of life:

    • Smoked for 15 years, quit, now 10+ years, nifty to think of. (i like number go up)
    • Still alive even though i never thought that would happen a lot of times in my life, keep on keeping on
    • I have released a bunch of cool music with other people and it has been a ‘getting out of hand’ hobby also for the past 15+ years
    • Up until now haven’t screwed up the next generation bonus-mini-me, today was their first day in high school, so pretty proud of them (not my achievement though, i just supported along the way).


  • R...toMemesI hate the rich
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    2 months ago

    So how many days do you take a year? As the other comments also touch upon, it becomes an outperform thing with co- workers, to take the least amount to “perform better”. Also how easy and often do managers then deny requests?

    With a fixed set it has an actual value, at the company they can’t deny PTO’s as they are yours. Of course planning comes into play a little bit, but if you let the company know that 2 months from now you take 4 weeks off for a good long summer holiday, that is what you will be doing then in those 2 months.

    ps. I have 25 personal paid days, a bunch of public holidays. Doctor’s appointments are on the ‘please try to schedule them outside working hours if possible, otherwise, well, that’s life, you need to visit that doctor’. Full travel reimbursement (fixed amount per month, can spend however i want), A lot of secondary items in my contract as well dealing with having to take care of partner / children if they become sick (is paid time off), etc etc.







  • R...OPMtoMusiciansLive in-ear monitoring system
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    3 months ago

    Thanks a lot! This really points me in a direction to start looking into more specifics. I do bring my own kit as much as possible (left handed drummer using a rack), and one of our sound engineers brings his mics as well, so sometimes we have that luxury.

    But to purchase a decent set of mics that are at least the minimum quality of what a regular venue has would also set us back quite some money right? I do love the autonomy of it!

    How hard (or annoying) would it be for the house mixer to patch it through? Is that something that can easily be done when it’s known in advance?

    And in terms of how standard it is, i have talked to other musicians as well, and this seems the general direction to go with, some add a bunch of other things as well (backing tracks, drum triggers, full song clicktracks etc).



  • R...OPMtoMusiciansDAW or Digital Audio Workstation
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    3 months ago

    Do you play live with mostly acoustic instruments, or is it analogue synths / sequencers? Because then you don’t need a DAW. Easiest way to describe it is with the artist LOOK MOM NO COMPUTER. Not sure if you can use that as a verb though. 😁



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    4 months ago

    We all use it for different things! For live playing I used Ableton with a midi controller to trigger a simple sample once. Normally we don’t do those, so it was thrown together with what i had lying around.

    Garageband is awesome to just do that stuff! This topic is not about bashing DAW’s, but sharing the cool stuff, and why, and how you use it.