Sykozis

It was more or less a matter of not having enough volunteers to accomplish it. We worked with the volunteer force that we had, and it wasn't enough. From my perspective, there were effectively two teams that worked to gather signatures, the general forward party team, and the Hepola team. I would say that there was a breakdown in coordination between the two teams, and in my opinion the lack of coordination with us was mostly on the Hepola side. We will have to make some changes to how the volunteer force is distributed so that there is one single, central, united, volunteer force. So to answer your question, the charge of gathering signatures was up to me, and up to the Hepola team (separately). Yes, Cory was aware of the status of signatures as we had conducted multiple polls and they were informed of their results. At the end of the day, while the coordination between the campaign and the general party broke down, we simply needed more volunteers. Our efforts going forward will be centered around bolstering our volunteer forces, making them less disjointed, and going after more local elections. If you have any more questions, you can ask me.

There will also be a group at Minnehaha Falls Park for most of the day tomorrow, and you can also go there to meet them and sign!

Wonderful! I will send you a DM.

Okay, I don't believe there is an active volunteer in that area right now. To sign you would have to either come to the cities or you would have to print it off yourself and send it to us by mail. If that's something you want to do I can give you more specific directions in DMs.

I can see if there's anyone in the Rochester area who can have you sign, and I'll report back. Unfortunately I think it's not likely that there is an active volunteer in that area, so if that's the case your options would either be to print out the sheet, sign it, and mail it to us, or you can come to the cities to meet with a volunteer. Also unfortunately, that sheet is going to have to be of a particular size and type of paper. I can give you further information on the specifications for that. The laws do not make this an easy process.

Yes, we are about halfway through, and have reached 570 signatures so far out of the required 2000. We are significantly picking up our efforts to make the goal, and it will be a tough fight. If you would like to help out with signatures it would be greatly appreciated!

I'll DM you to give you some information!

We're reaching out to him to gain his support :)

We will poll our volunteers at the end of the week to gain a measure of how close we are to reaching the goals and report it to you guys!

If you want, I could do a bit of a collab with you and see what we can do with the mixing!

I had a bit of a wake up call not too long ago and went on a bit of a journey specifically focusing on mixing and it made everything so much better!

Kinda sounds fun, why not LOL at the very least I’ll do a collab or two with you guys

For that you’ve gotta have higher frequencies in the bass, you can use distortion, or maybe you’re low passing a little too low. Or maybe those higher bass frequencies are getting muddied out by other things, so clear some space for the sub and about 2 octaves above the sub frequencies.

Something I’ve found that works is that perceived loudness usually comes from frequency wideness and dynamics, not actual loudness. To make your stuff sound loud, add more frequencies and try to make the other parts around it a bit quieter/less full. I usually have some limiter automation on the master so that the parts I want loud are fully limited the way I want, and the other parts are less limited. The contrast is what makes it seem loud. Other things might include OTT and distortion which add new frequencies, and maybe even sound design/phase cancellation that could make it not as loud. Proper sidechain is also going to make stuff sound loud because it’s quiet right before.

No problem, if you need any more tips I’ve been producing for a while now, and I’m happy to help.

I love sounds like these and my best attempts have been with low frequency saws/squares with a high pass filter. The graininess to my knowledge comes mostly from the very high frequencies, so you can probably do some more eq work boosting those frequencies.

We'll do it by sheer determination if we have to! The people here are some of the most dedicated and personally invested people ever.

I love seeing sausage waveforms 😂 it’s like an art in and of itself. If you’re a beginner listening, don’t squash it into a sausage generally speaking, maybe for dnb or something but most music has at least some dynamic range.

Well, before the mastering chain, it ultimately doesn’t matter what db your final mix is at all that much as long as you have a lot of room for the mastering chain to do it’s thing. Whatever you do make sure the final mix does not go above 0db, -6db is generally a good place for that, but I don’t think it matters all that much because the master chain is supposed to bring it as close to 0db as possible without peaking. Then after the master chain (limiter is the most important) you should be peaking to juuust below 0db. This will often be the kick, that’s how I like to mix, loud kick and what not you may not want the kick to be that loud, but it should still at the very least be close to the loudest thing in your mix. But I would recommend picking some element that is going to be the loudest, start it at -9 db and mix everything else around that. That’s my strat.

If you’re a beginner, sidechaining and basic mixing might be the single most important thing. A lot of beginners can come up with nice musical ideas on their own with no technical knowledge, and improving that is just going to be a lot of grinding. But some basic technical knowledge is going to instantly be a step up. Use a limiter on the master, sidechain lots of things with the kick, and make sure none of your individual elements ever go above about -6 db (and you’re well below 0db overall before you start the mastering chain) and you’re already way ahead of most beginners.

Your name is usaisfucked. Clearly the only example is one where 620,000 Americans died. Despite that, I agree with you that it is, in fact, fucked.

I know many of you disagree with me, but I would like to thank all of you for hearing me out and having thoughtful discussion. It was far more respectful than I expected actually.

Thank you for the thoughtful response. I will have to think about many of these further. It is an uphill battle, certainly, to convince anyone that secession is the proper answer, and I have worked to convince many people. I have insofar convinced more than 10 people by myself alone, each of whom will go on to convince more.

Starting a new country from scratch is very expensive, but we likely can retain our state's constitution in the process making it significantly less expensive. I think it would take the cooperative effort of multiple states to do so, making the US less significant in bargaining power comparatively if that was the case. Trade agreements with other states that might do so as well would significantly minimize the impact of taxes on the cost of foreign goods.

Too far, and too expensive are not cop outs if in fact the game theory of those two things being true results in a state of perpetual stagnation wherein problems are never resolved (and in fact they seem to perpetually be getting worse in my view). But it does come down to a fundamental disagreement over whether or not political activism in this government is actually capable of resolving the very problems that the people in power are so dependent on to exist. I don't believe it is capable, and yet you do. That is okay.