u/Dog_Entire

For context, I'm in a post hardcore band with a couple friends, with our main influences being At The Drive-In, Thursday, Fall of Troy, and a couple second wave emo bands like Cap'n Jazz and Sunny Day Real Estate. Right now we're wrapping up writing for our first EP, and starting to record some of it. We're currently messing around with mic setups for the guitar and bass, and we're running into one consistent problem. The guitar setup I have is an HSS Strat with the tone and volume at 10 running through a JOYO California overdrive pedal going into the clean input on my VHT Special 6 amp. When listening in the room it gives a powerful distorted mid section, with a really clean high end, which works great since a lot of my guitar parts are mostly power chord riffs with a couple chord extensions added on top. The problem is that when listening to the close mic recording (slightly off center Sennheiser e609) the distortion seems to even out across every frequency, so the mids don't feel as powerful and the twinkly high end is pretty much gone. How would we go about recreating that room tone via mic setup. With the gear I have right now we can record 4 mics at once (and due to some of the riffs we'd prefer to get as close as possible before doubling and eqing), and have access to 4 other mics than the Sennheiser, those being an RB100, a CM25 MK II, a PDMIC78, and a PDMIC58.

For context, recently me and a few friends started playing music together at my house and writing some songs. In general me and the bassist have been the main songwriters, though our drummer and lead guitarist have both each written a song or two. We obviously want the songwriting to be collaborative, and for the most part that's been easy; again me and the bassist have both written a bit, with both of us being mostly into 90s post hardcore (think like guage, unwound, and early atdi) and some second wave emo (indian summer, sdre, and capn jazz). Writing with our lead guitarist has been fairly easy too, since despite being more a fan of pop punk, he has a really good ear for melody that blends well with what we have so far. Writing with our drummer has been a bit more difficult though, she's written a few cool riffs that work well, but she says she wants to write more grunge sounding songs, and doesn't really get as much enjoyment out of the weirder melodic punk sound. I was hoping I could get some bands that mix elements of both genres, mainly looking for emo bands that hold back on melody until big moments and are more driven by dynamics and cool rhythms, or just suggestions on what ways you think the genres could be mixed.

The amount of people who insist anyone who doesn’t match what they think mental illness looks must be faking is astounding. The people who say “youre not actually autistic” when they themselves don’t know shit about autism. People who haven’t so much as googled a mental disorder before telling someone else they’re faking it for attention with the certainty of someone who went to med school and did multiple full assessments on whoever they’re talking to. Not every autistic person is non verbal, not everyone with adhd is hyperactive, and not every person with any disorder is a carbon copy of your friends cousin who you met once. And anytime they get called out on it, they always defend themselves by saying “these people are making life harder for those with actual disorders”, completely ignoring that saying someone’s problems are fake does significantly more to hurt people than a kid on the internet misusing the work hyperfixation. Hell, most of the rhetoric is just recycling the myth of welfare queens, and they do it because they don’t know anything about how welfare works. If you are the type of person to say with complete certainty that someone is faking a disorder for attention based off two comments you saw on the internet, you are worse than the most clueless self diagnoser, because not only do you now know the disorder you’re talking about, you don’t know the person you’re talking about either, you’re just making whatever assumptions let you be an asshole without feeling bad about it.

Tl;dr unless you’ve actually researched something and know who you’re talking to on a very personal level, you don’t know enough to say someone’s faking, and pretending you do does significantly more to harm people with disorders than whatever post you saw online.