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What's the smallest amount of money you'd need to get to flee the country?
I gotta warn you, as an autistic person who graduated last year with an engineering degree...shit sucks. Half the applications are fake, half the interviews are fake just to scare the overworked employees. The hiring managers are perfectly willing to waste your fucking time justifying the existence of their jobs. I've applied for over 350 jobs and internships and gotten zero offers. Same with my classmates. Expect multiple rounds (3-6, maybe more) before getting an offer.
And engineering was supposed to be a "safe" degree. I can't imagine how much harder it is for humanities.
It's honestly about who you know, then how wealthy and privileged you already are, if you currently have a job, then how personable you are, then a whole bunch of factors I haven't been able to identify, and then at the very end, how competent you'll be in the role.
Make sure to go to your school's career fair. Dress up as much as possible and bring ~69 copies of your resumé (yes, around seventy, but I'm a manchild so I actually printed exactly 69 last career fair) and hand them all out to employers you can tolerate working for. Typically, you will be expected to know about their company's work and what positions they have available. I noticed that a lot of companies are there just for brand recognition, i.e. they're wasting your time. If they're not wasting your time, there's a good chance that the person standing there is either a braindead hiring manager or your direct supervisor, or anything in between. At my college, the companies actually list the positions they're hiring for. If there are none, I don't go to that company, because they're wasting my time or aren't serious enough to fill out the paperwork.
If your school publishes the employers who will be at the fair, make sure to scan through the list and target employers you want to talk to. Many employers have long lines, so plan accordingly. As an anarchist, I also do a bit of research on each company to make sure they're not defense contractors, police collaborators, prison contractors, etc. This eliminates a third to a half of the possible employers at my school.
Career fairs are, from my experience, emotionally and physically draining events that need several days of preparation to get any benefit, and several days of recovery. They are surprisingly loud (bring inconspicuous headphones or earplugs).
Make sure you have experience in the field you're applying to work in, even if (especially if) a job posting says you don't need it. They're lying. They're always lying. They basically don't want to train you at all. Experience in my field is internships and other free work, or a previous job. Research does not seem to count as experience. I hope your field is different.
Don't give out your personal info over email to a job posting. Don't do email interviews; make sure you see an actual moving human, be it over a video call or in person. Got my identity stolen that way. And don't work for a company that will make you cash a big check (about $5000, right up to the deposit limit for online banking) for "office supplies". It's a scam. However, legitimate companies will also ask you for basically the same information and store it in an equally insecure plain-text database, and you're expected to provide it.
For DEI stuff, you can fill it out, or not fill it out, or whatever floats your boat. For example, I fill out that I am Hispanic, but not that I'm autistic. I dunno; I just don't trust engineers to be cool with an openly autistic person based on literally every engineer or engineering-adjacent person I've ever met in person ever.
Besides letters of recognition, make sure you have people you can use as references who are actually willing to be contacted by phone.
Technically, you should tweak your resumé for every position. However, because I'm so done with this shit forever, I basically keep a few classes of resumé for different job types. For example, I have a "generic" electrical engineering template, a "control systems" template, and a "data science/software" template. If there's an opportunity I really want, only then will I tweak it by mirroring the content of the job post. It's super important for your resumé to be searchable, because the employer is probably going to just do a Ctrl+F to find relevant terms.
Make sure to also have a plain-text version of your resumé lying around. A common pattern is for the employer to have you upload a copy of your resumé and not even fucking attempt to parse it, meaning that you have to re-enter all its information by hand into their shitty form. Generally speaking, you should be expecting to spend about 15 minutes per application.
Don't put absolutely everything on the resumé. You need to leave some stories for interviews.
Do your phone and Zoom interviews in front of a computer with a text editor open. I actually take notes during and after the interview, and then commit it to a remote repo so I can pull it onto any computer and get all my notes from all phone calls. You should also have a copy of the resumé you actually submitted to the company on hand.
Technically also you should write cover letters for every position, but again because I'm so fucking done with this bullshit, I rarely do. If I'm feeling like doing a half-measure, this is actually an excellent opportunity to use ChatGPT or an open-source LLM to write for you, of course with proofreading, because this is an application where a bullshit machine IS FUCKING DESERVED actually works since they socially expect bullshit. Not like they're reading it anyways.
I'm "pro-work," if anything. I want a career.
Can I be honest? I desperately want to work too, but I'm slowly coming to the conclusion that it's literally easier not to fucking bother and just live off the government, parents, rich friends, and/or stealing. I'm actually a lot worse off than I used to be before studying engineering. I'm overqualified for my old job, but underqualified for engineering and tech work, and all at the price of thousands of fucking dollars of debt. Turns out capitalist "efficiency" is making it harder for us to be put to work.
Looking for work is a job in it of itself, except you don't get paid.
I love how into this stuff you are.
Thanks, I wish people around me felt the same way 😂.
T O A N W O O D Z
So I actually found an Acoustical Society of America article on wood species for acoustic guitar by a luthier. My favorite quote was:
Provided the wood does not respond like the proverbial “piece of wet cardboard”, most luthiers can create a respectable instrument from available timber.
And tbh with enough EQ and compression before the amp I probably can get metal out of a piece of wet cardboard.
From the conclusion of the paper:
Specific woods types have specific attributes that make them best suited for making particular guitar components.
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However, the street lore attributing specific types of sound to specific species of a genus is seldom justified.
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Guitars designed to acoustical criteria (rather than dimensional criteria) where the effects of different stiffnesses and densities of species are minimised, sound very similar.
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The residual differences that can be heard may be attributable to the sound spectral absorption and radiation of the particular piece of wood used, a property that is not easily measured and is poorly substituted by the occasional measurement of the damping characteristics of the wood. Once the density and Young’s modulus of particular species is accounted for by careful acoustical design the residual differences are very subtle, yet can be important enough to ensure that some luthiers continue the romantic search for that “holy grail” of woods.
I believe that some of this discussion should apply to electric guitar. However, unless you are playing basically perfectly clean electric guitar, the wood your guitar is made of is a lot less important than... everything else in the signal chain. However, since wood does affect the guitar's sensitivity, I could see it affecting how it responds to classic amps with low (relative to modern amps) distortion generated by few gain stages and less filtering, i.e. the playstyle employed by those guitar forum people. However, a much larger factor in your guitar's sound is...big surprise...all the other choices the luthier made when designing and fabricating your guitar, as well as your pickups and the signal chain you use after the signal leaves the guitar.
Also since we're metal players and we're absolutely destroying the original signal, the type of wood only makes a difference for structural reasons (i.e., not going out of tune, exploding under the pressure, etc.), which can similarly be accounted for by a competent luthier. For example, all of my guitars are uber-cheap, and their necks can be very easily pulled out of tune, because they were not built by competent luthiers. Consequently, the few times I did play live shows, I had to be very careful on stage to not "do stuff my guitar doesn't like" so it didn't go out of tune by the end of the song. Good times...
Creambacks
So I found a video where Creambacks get compared to a V30. IMO based on that video and forum posts, I would consider a Creamback H-75 over the H-65 or the Neo. H-65 sounded too dark to stand out in a mix, and the Neo sounded like bees and basically nothing like the other two. (If my guitar sounds like bees, I want it to be an effect I can turn off.) However, take it with a grain of salt since mic positions were not the same for each speaker. But also, it depends on your primary use case (recording, bedroom play, playing shows).
Although honestly, I think 99% of guitar players would get a lot farther investing in a PC with a decent CPU + a decent USB audio interface than buying actual physical amplifiers unless they need to amplify an actual venue [1]. You'd get better sound, more controllable sounds [2], easier recording, and more possibilities by going digital. Also, if you can send guitar into your computer (or run the Effects Send to your interface to test it with your real amp), it would be cheaper to pick up an impulse response of the speaker before committing to buying one. (An impulse response captures the "character" of a speaker + cabinet + power amp assuming it is a linear system. It is a very good approximation, nearly indistinguishable from the real thing. For example, I recorded several IRs of my Vintage 30 and a couple other speakers in my cabinet.)
[1] Technically you need plugins and DAW software too, but you can 100% use a combination of stock plugins and freeware and get excellent results with practice. The Ardour DAW is free and open-source (but they do charge for pre-compiled Linux binaries, but Linux package managers typically have a version ready-to-go for free), although REAPER is better IMO (not simple, but extremely customizable and stable) and has an infinite, unlimited free trial (and runs on Linux).
[2] For example, the "clean" channel on the 6505 absolutely sucks, except (ironically) as a rhythm metal channel. If I needed to use both clean and distorted sounds, I would have to use a second amp and an A-B switch. In software, it is absolutely trivial to automate the switch between two (or more) amps (or effects, or whole signal chains). ReaGate, a freeware noise gate plugin that comes with REAPER but anyone can get, includes an adjustable pre-filter so that it only responds to the frequency ranges you expect your guitar to "live in". It also has a side chain input, meaning you can gate the output signal based on the signal that goes in before the amplifier, like the "four-wire" noise gate setup in an amplifier's FX loop. This setup means that the amplifiers won't distort the signal as the gate transitions from on to off, and it also can take care of noise due solely to the distortion stages.
I don't have a recruiter. I have met with people at my school's career center, but it seemed like their job was to direct me to online resources that I already read.
I actually quite like Fusilli (although I know it as Rotini). And really I meant to say penne rigate, i.e. penne with ridges. Penne Lisce and Ziti are C tier at best. Fusilli and Penne Rigate both have sauce-friendly shapes.
Personally, I like my pastas cylindrical because the sauce can take advantage of the topology of the noodle (it has a hole where the sauce can go inside). It seems like Fusilli attempts to solve the problem with a simpler topology, i.e. by basically twisting a flat noodle. And it does a great job at it!
That was more signal chain theory that I've ever read in one sitting.
Sorry 😂. Digital signal processing is one of my special interests so I typically go overboard with it.
- Source of distortion doesn't really matter, it's filters
- TS808 cleans shit up, no tubes. Tubes not necessary and probably dont do much in a pedal anyway
Yep that's it.
- What are you running now for amps and such got get away from the 5150/TS808 combo?
In the "before times", I used a TBX150 solid state amp alone, and a Peavey 6505, mostly for recording. The TBX150 is a great amp for modern death metal, but it has a parametric EQ. For me, that's great, but a lot of guitarists don't like the metal zone because it has a parametric EQ. For both, I plugged them into a cheap birch Seismic cabinet with a Vintage 30 speaker harvested from a Recto cab. Honestly, the biggest factor in the quality of my guitar recordings was switching to that speaker.
At this very moment, since my grandmother moved in, I've had to forgo amps altogether for simulators. I actually use either a 6505 simulator (Nick Crowe 8505) or a Fender Frontman (yes, that amp, specifically the AXP Softamp plugin) with the mids cranked up and the cabinet impulse thrown out and replaced with a set of impulses I recorded myself from the previously mentioned cabinet.
The best results I've gotten have been with using an EQ before a Boss HM-2 (Buzz Helvetes) set to... however much "HM-2-ness" you want in the EQ depending on what you're playing, and the smallest possible offset from zero distortion. The pre-EQ is typically a bandpass so I can get more "grinding" and as a cheat for not changing my strings. But, it doesn't really change the "overall" frequency response of the output of the HM-2, just how the HM-2 "sees" your guitar, so you still get its nastyness. Then the majority of the gain comes from the amp.
If an HM-2 or Metal Zone is too much, I've gotten really "smooth" results with using the ProCo Rat as an overdrive. Note that on a ProCo Rat, the Filter (tone) knob "is backwards"; all the way to the left = minimal filtering.
My inspiration for this is really the fact that old school death metal was recorded on shitty gear compared to what is available today, and that some of the magic lies in the fact that it sucks in just the right way. Besides At the Gates who used two shitty pedals, Chuck Schuldinger from Death used a shitty Valvestate and got great results. Most of the old school death metal bands were using Valvestates.
In the past few months, I've been experimenting with using the RS-MET tool chain plugin to generate nasty sounding distortion with odd-order Chebyshev polynomials. It initially sounds like a more unhinged Boss HM-2 with no pre or post eq, but since the plugin lets you input the math you want to do, it's much more controllable. If you use this plugin, you gotta make sure to set the built-in filters to cut off high frequencies that will be aliased, or turn on oversampling, or both. This is included within the plugin, but you have to actually set it. Otherwise, everything just sounds like aliasing, although that's pretty gnarly too.
So the short answer is: switch out a tube screamer for some garbage piece of gear, preferably something with a frequency response (loosely "tone") you like and a "bold" distortion. Then, set the pedal so it is giving the least amount of gain while still exhibiting its nonlinearity (minimum possible distortion), then set the amplifier to give you the rest of your gain and cut through the mix. I cannot stress enough that for metal guitars, particularly recording guitars, you gotta set your knobs so that it sounds good in the mix. If it sounds perfect in the room without the rest of the band, I guarantee you it will sound muddy in the mix.
As of this recording, yeah she does have a penis. The toys are Fleshlight shells according to the video.
Do I understand the physical and philosophical ramifications of quantum physics? No.
Do I understand the mathematical machinery of quantum physics and how to do calculations for quantum systems? Also no, but I'm working on it.
atmospheric black metal rabbit hole
Fuck I love me some atmoblack. It's honestly my biggest inspiration as a musician. But I've been jamming tech death lately because it helps me study. I gotta recommend Mare Cognitum for a heavier atmoblack sound, and Trna for an instrumental post-black metal expanse.
That's wild about the tube screamer, give the chubbies pedal heads get over them.
I keep a Tube Screamer clone in my arsenal precisely because it's not a very "tube-like" sound. It is midsy and crisp. Like 95% of all metal recordings are done with a Tube Screamer, 5150, and Vintage 30s, or digital clones thereof. It's a dream to play, but that's kinda why I'm trying to move away from it as a guitarist. But as a producer, it's a really nice tool for the toolkit. Also if I was playing tech death or something where I'm at the limit of my skill level, I'd probably rock a Tube Screamer so stuff is easier to play.
Also though, I believe that historically it was marketed as "tube sound without the tubes" early in its life. Which, compared to some of the alternatives available at the time, did come a little closer to tube amps' softer clipping.
But IMO as a metal player and electrical engineer, I think that whether or not your distortion is generated by tube, transistor, or simulation isn't that important [1] compared to properly tailored filters at every stage, especially the "tone stack", at least not for metal players or people who play with "fully saturated" distortion. For this reason, I'm absolutely not afraid to use solid state amps if they sound good, and for metal they absolutely can sound better in the mix.
And even though tube distortion pedals do literally have a tube in the signal chain, they are probably not being run at a high enough voltage to actually be the source of distortion. You'd have to check the schematic to be sure. So there's no benefit to getting a tube distortion pedal in general, and tubes have microphonics and just electrically kinda suck. Tube amps are great, but again, it's more because of the various filters and the fact that the saturating nonlinearity exists at all rather than that the nonlinearity is generated by a specific device, so long as you use fresh tubes because old tubes do deteriorate an amplifier's performance. But also, tube amps are "warm" without any further filtering, and I typically find that "warm" amps have trouble standing out in a metal mix. Hence why when I (and other metal players) pick tube amps, I pretty much exclusively use amplifiers (and their simulations) that filter out that warmness, which shows up in metal as muddy garbage.
[1] Assuming you're using monotonic distortion characteristics like soft and hard clipping, power laws, exponential. Non-monotonic distortion characteristics (like a sine or Chebyshev polynomial) sound whack and I really wish that more metal guitarists would check them out.
From Wikipedia:
A fatwa is a legal ruling on a point of Islamic law (sharia) given by a qualified Islamic jurist (faqih) in response to a question posed by a private individual, judge or government.
So unless you live in a country that runs on Sharia law and have your real information connected to your account, you can safely ignore it.
You could report the poster for being mean if it goes against that community's or instance's rules. Up to you. But I think someone's just being a troll.
What do you do for work, or what are you studying towards
Studying towards masters in electrical engineering.
Musical recommendations (bonus points for metal)
If you like the song by Beyond Creation, you'll love this.
Useless tidbit you know (bonus points for citing sources)
The Ibanez Tube Screamer pedal contains no tubes.
Best meal you've had
I have a sous vide machine. I've obviously done the whole "food porn steak" thing, but one time I took an entire chicken breast, sous vided it like a steak, breaded it, pan fried it, and ate it like a massive chicken nugget with a juicy interior.
Best place you've visited
Home lmao. Close second would be Cedar Point, although I don't think I can fit on roller coasters at my current weight.
I'm not a tea guy but I'll devour the biscuits. And fuck billionaires ofc.
Yeah I have. They haven't been reliable.
Yeah I am studying engineering. I have a bachelor's so far but I'm doing a master's now and I'd do a PhD if money/employment wasn't an issue. I'll look into German companies (again).
This is a real video (NSFW obviously) for anyone interested, although she literally mentioned 196 in the video so I'm guessing it's not news around here.
To those on the other side, they think we mean "Get rid of all police, zero funding, go away"
It was literally "abolish the police", but the shitlibs watered it down to nothing as usual.
Removed
Feminist nowadays
Jump
I'm funny
No
I'd leave over nothing, if I could I'd get on a plane right fucking now without even saying goodbye to anyone, but I'd also be willing to flee over my $35000 and rising student loans.