Aggressiveness: What happens when someone eats your slice of cake in the fridge As part of our nature, we humans are, as most mammals, aggressive in our responses, this aggression being the factor that has let us thrive as an species, whether It was via the methods we used to get our sources of sustenance through hunting or by being able to cooperate as large groups in opposition to external threats such as as predators or rival tribes. We would like to think that we're way…
Ethernet Wiring Isn't that from the prehistory? As we're in the age of Wi-Fi and wireless connections to our phones and PCs, we seem to forget the past and the older ways which we used to connect ourselves between different devices, through wires. In this particular article we'll talk about Ethernet, a protocol employed to establish communications between different Data Terminal Equipment (DTE) and/or Data Communication Equipment (DCE), via the use of twisted pair wires with…
How to work towards a Project? Wanting to build a rocket to mars with Youtube Tutorials? We all had worked and might also be working currently in a particular project, no matter of what dimensions and of which subject, and we'll also find the same difficults as we try to get It done, these being the feeling of getting to nowhere, not understanding a thing and simply the fear of starting. Don't worry, this is normal in projects that require us to learn a lot in order to…
Mixing - Leveling And no, we're not leveling up in a game When we are making music, after we have our overall idea crafted and all Its patterns aligned, comes the part that involves making those parts sound coherent and for the overall product to not sound like a complete chaos, mixing. This process usually involves two types (Which probably we'll talk about in a future article), the creative mixing and the technical mixing, the first being more focused to giving unique…
Sampling The pitched up voice of an 80s singer that you hear in your favorite song Way before, the techniques used for music production were way harder to implement and limited than what we have today. You had to record the song in a studio, with musicians that had proficiency in a musical instrument an engineers that knew how to use the equipment in order to mix the track in the right way, making It all the more costly. From these obstacles, a new kind of technology was…
The importance of hobbies Putting little boats inside of a bottle is not nonsense We all had and might still have hobbies (And no, checking your phone is not a hobby), activities that we develop for our own pleasure and that are destined to sharpen a particular skill of ours. This kind of tasks can be pretty relaxing and actually a pathway for new opportunities on our field. In this little article we'll talk about hobbies, their importance and how actually engaging in one…
Short Article - CFL Light Bulbs As everything, Way easier than they make It to be. In this short article we'll talk about CFL bulbs, the technology that preceded LEDs in illumination. First of all, we'll talk about Its definition: What's a CFL? A CFL (Compact fluorescent lamp) is a type of lamp that employs the principles of fluorescent tubes to make more efficient bulbs with regards to the power consumed and the illumination provided, which were used in first instance to…
BPM in Music Production How fast or how long? When we hear different songs, we might note the emotions they try to convey, such as sadness, euphoria, rage or many others, all this being affected by different elements of the overall piece of music, such as melody, harmony, rhythm and many others, though one we tend to overlook in this cases is the contribution of tempo to this. In this article we'll talk about BPM, what It exactly Is, how to count It and how It affects the…
The importance of No Even better than a Yes In the modern age, where all that people talk to us is positive affirmation, getting a yes from others in order to sell, feel accepted or simply not being seem as rude or inconsiderate, we seem to forget that there's a magical word for saying that we disagree with what is being said to us, that we don't want 300+ more channels for the Cable TV we don't use or simply to just put an end to harassment, the word No. In this little…
Short Article - How lowering your expectations can be a good thing Nothing can disappoint you If you expect nothing from It in the first place. When we are young, we are easily impressionable and get really excited for everything, expecting different moments and gifts with impatience and predicting a sensation of joy by just having the simplest of experiences, though there's a little drawback to this: The sense of disappointment we felt when things didn't go our way or we…
Fundamental Sections of A Synth Trying to explain all those faders and knobs As one of the most versatile tools in the world of music making, Synths have been around for a long time, however, with every advance in their technology the parts that conform then become more and more complex, to the point where you think you're driving an aircraft rather than playing an instrument. It's because of this that in the next paragraphs we'll explain the fundamental sections of a…
Quick Article - What happens to your muscles after exercise? The science behind that PUMP Nowadays, the use of physical activity to become healthier, sharper and more fit for a particular discipline is on an historical high, as more and more people get to the gym in order to challenge their bodies so they can to adapt to new stimulus. Surprisingly, when we talk about muscle building, It is not the process of working out Itself that drives growth, though the part after this,…
Electronics - Logic Gates Those squares and rectangles that you never understand: Since the 1960s, Technology has changed in an exponential way, with devices that are less than a quarter of the size of what they used to be 60 years before and that are at least 1000 times more powerful. All these advances came with the invention of the integrated circuit, a little chip made of semiconductor materials that can contain electronic circuits and has metallic conductors in order to…
The unavoidability of Death The thing that makes us all equal Life throws us heavy things from time to time, being an accident, a betrayal, or even worse, the death of a loved one. Once the damage is done, we get into a state of shock and at the same time awareness, which makes us see the world in a different light, the sun being brighter, the wind colder and everything as It really is, feeling overall that a part of us had died with what has happened. We can choose to blame…
Quick Article - Identification of Frequencies Like comparing Pavarotti and MJ's voices One of the main tools when mixing and getting a particular instrument or track to sound how we really want It, is the Equalizer or EQ, which permits us to boost or cut different frequencies normally in the human hearing range (20hz-20kHz) In order to boost certain sonic characteristics we consider positives for the overall sound or cutting the ones we don't like, either to give space or…
My method for Outlining (And actually remember) topics Kinda like making scribbles in Kinder Garten I find myself to be very resilient when It comes to learning things and record them in my mind, Usually forgetting them from one week to another. This might happen to a lot more people that we would like to admit, though, with many attempts of trial and error and trying to adapt my methods for outlining information to my preferences, I came up with a strategy that has really…
The importance of spending time with your loved ones Nothing like a hug from the right person We all pass through dark times, periods where nothing seems to go right for us, where we would like for the earth to swallow us and we don't know If we can overcome all of our troubles, though for the most part we do. Crucial parts of keeping our sanity during our progress are our own character strength and accountability, though we can't leave behind the support of those that…
The Dangers of a Nihilistic attitude- Part l Rationalizing your own way to hell As I look back on my younger years, I can surely say that I didn't have the best hand coming up. Part of this has to do with the fact that in that period of time my whole family went through some harsh situations, though I can't hide the damage that my attitude did to my enjoyment of what otherwise could have been good years in my life. This attitude was one of continual denial of responsibility…
The Dangers of a Nihilistic Attitude - Part ll The denial of everything In the previous article I talked about what a nihilistic attitude was, being the conductual manifestation of the approaching of this philosophy school, denying the value of anything in existence and Its meaning. We also mentioned the two categories in which nihilism can be divided along with the thought of those who practice It. Today, in Its continuation, we'll talk more about the effects that the…
The benefits of writing Trusting in a piece of paper Most of us, even If we occupy different professions, are bound to the same method for keeping track of our thoughts and conclussions, writing. Even If we use writing everyday and for many reasons, we tend to take for granted how It helps us in the way of improving our life in a significative way. Writing not only can help us as a mean to record and remember what we have learned in the day, though as a way to unload our…
Writing on paper vs Writing on electronic devices Going back to the Ancient times With the advancement of society as a whole and the introduction of new devices that make our lives easier, such as smartphones, we've become more and more accustomed to the new methods of gathering information and actually putting It down into a physical record. Where before we had to take our pencil and notebooks out of our backpack to write what the teacher just said, now we just have to take…
The Dangers of being a "Snob" - Part l There's always someone like this in parties We as humans have been blessed with the ability to perceive different stimulus through the use of the nerves distributed across our whole body, or what we know as senses. With the use of these we have been able to detect and distinguish what's good from what's bad for us for millennia, to perceive how far something is from us and to gather things of the best quality. Besides from this, in the…
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