@JophMax
@JophMax
Hello to everyone in this beautiful community. I'm a new user that wants to help his own train of thought via writing and at the same time hoping to share some of my thoughts with you in different areas. Thanks to you beforehand.
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3 Key components to Mastery My own experience As a person that always encounters resistance while trying to do his own work, and by resistance I mean my own mind making excuses and doing everything for me to not put in the hours, I find pretty excruciating the time between taking a decision and actually putting It in practice, though I always execute. This is not due to an unlimited reserve of willpower or something in that style, It's just the habits that I instilled with…
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How to talk to people being an introverted person. "I just don't know what to say to them" Being an introvert myself, I've had a fair share of awkward silences when trying to communicate with other people or start a conversation. However, that hasn't stopped me to follow through and get some really cool insight into other people's thoughts. In the next paragraphs I will condense what I have learned over the years in three principles, which I hope, as they have helped me,…
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Songwriting: Song Structure Simplicity: A Blessing and a curse. As anyone might have seen or better said, heard, music is at Its peak of popularity. This due to different factors, like the increase in the ways you can access to It, where you can listen to your favorite songs with just a tap on your phone, or the advantages that the Internet brings in regards to independent creators, where they can put their records out without major investment on a team of producers, PR team…
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The importance of feedback The unconscious incompetent When we're beginning to learn a skill, we won't make the new Mona Lisa or 9th simphony with just a stroke and an idea. learning all this will take you a long road, which might be even longer than you expect If you do It all by yourself and only having your intuition to help you. Don't get me wrong, intuition is a critical skill when you are in advanced stage of your learning curve, though this intuition will only be…
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Capacitors, Part 1. The hell Is that little cilinder on any circuit I see? As anything in life tends to be more and more hooked to technologic operations, there will be a lot of practical circuits, boards and what not of electronical components. These are not here just because the assembler wanted to put them there, because they have specifical reasons for Its use, which migth vary depending on the kind of network they're connected in, their polarity (Yes, like magnets) and…
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Capacitors, Part ll Continuing with where we left off... As recited in the previous iteration of this series, capacitors are passive elements that have, as one of Its features, the capacity to storage energy or "make" the impression that they are storaging It, while they're only disipating the potential difference through them in a slower way. Is in this point that concepts like charge and discharge times come to our vocabulary, where the first Is simply the time that It…
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Capacitors, Part lll Finally, something that everyone can understand again In the previous parts, we showcased the concept of capacitors in general, highlighting their overall functioning and how they make the effect of "storaging" energy through them. To close the matter, we'll present you different types of this same component and why they're used. Well let's go: Electrolytic Capacitors: The most common type of capacitors, or the ones we see more frequently in all devices.…
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Songwriting: Types of Song Structure Why does this country song sounds like a Hip Hop song? We all know that to have a good song, you have not only to produce a good beat and put a few lyrics onto It. One aspect that often gets overlooked in the process of creation of an individual track Is how the message should be packed and the intentions It tries to convey. Also, we use to think that every genre is tied to conventions while trying to put an specific structure, though…
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Astables, Latches and One shot What's with all these squares with funny numbers? As we already are in an age where most analogic components are easily replaceable with their digital counterparts, we begin to have new devices that can accomplish the same effects as old timers and pulse generators, being less than half the size of them and having twice their efficiency. In this post we'll analyze some of the most common configurations for combinational circuits, being these…
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Equalizers, Part l: The thing that makes you think you're a DJ when you're messing with your Dad's stereo. As one of the most powerful tools in our arsenal If we are producers, musicians, or sound engineers in general, Equalizers had been part of music for a long time, whether In their analog forms or in digital platforms, helping to position every sound In a right frequency spot and taking off whistles, plosives and all muddy sounds that a certain instrument might have. To…
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Equalizers, Part ll: Picking up right where we left off: As we have mentioned in the last instance of this series, EQs are perhaps one of the most important tools that we have at our disposal when mixing tracks, As we can basically alter the whole composition of It by controlling Its frequencies. We had mentioned the most common type of filters that are usually used to cut some frequencies in the mix while allowing others in. Now we'll focus more in the categorization of…
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Equalizers, Part lll With which I can make the bass explode the room? As we have seen in the previous instances of this series, EQs are a pretty flexible tool when It comes to shaping a sound and highlighting Its better points while cutting Its worst in a determined frequency range. What we'll present now, as a finisher to the trilogy, is the most common types of equalizers that you can find in a mixing or working space that deals with this tedious though beautiful…
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Differences between Similes and Metaphors. Like vs that weird thing that no one understands though they know when It happens: As two literary devices that might seem pretty similar when It comes to making comparisons, It might surprise you how flexible It is to get a grip to both the simile and the metaphor. Recognizing their differences and how they work might help you improve your songwriting skills by being able to associate ideas with more freedom. To get our point…
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Confirmation Bias: As we are in the most fruitful period of humanity when It comes to information, with millions of articles, research and online encyclopedias at our disposal with just the pressing of a button, we quickly become dizzied by this incredible amount of things, where we don't know what to hold as true or fake, so, even If we like to think of ourselves as always rational, we fall victim to certain preconceptions proper to our beliefs when It comes to gathering…