u/chadsfren

I’m currently helping a friend master an album. It’s in the vein of Nirvana, Sonic Youth, etc. The mixes I’ve been given sound great. Recorded at a pro studio, good mics, great room, to 2” tape. I was in the room for the tracking session. The session engineer was running minor outboard gear. A touch of compression on the kick, a little distressor on guitars. Nothing egregious.

For what they are, in my opinion, it sounds great. The thing is when I’m referencing a similar sounding Nirvana track, there’s like barely any sub frequencies. The mixes and specifically masters that I’m working on have way more low end and without even trying. it doesn’t feel right, not necessary? I’m not sure?

I grew up in the 90s on punk, rock and hardcore. Have these genres always consciously cut sub frequencies? And why?

To my ears I prefer the sound of the stuff from the early 2000s and prior that has less low end. It’s pristine, clean and balanced very nicely. I’m trying to get the balance of my master a little closer to that sound. Any suggestions other than HP filter under 30-40hz?

Also.. what caused this increase in low end.. I’m assuming rap and more access to subwoofers but, it just kind of gets in the way sometimes lol.

I feel like I’m doing something wrong because all I ever see is people adding more and more bass and wanting more and more sub. It works for some genres but, not really with rock music imo. It just starts to sound artificial and way too hyped. Definitely not what a drum kit feels or sounds like when you’re in the same room with it.

Wow. No words to describe the shit that I just put myself through..

I’m sure it’s the typical story.. was taking kratom powder, too much at that.. interestingly enough starting using a GLP-1 to lose a few pounds but once I started the GLP, my body could no longer absorb the 8-10 gram doses of kratom powder that I was taking multiple times a day..

I starter losing weight and feeling pretty good on the GLP but sometimes I would randomly wake up like deep in withdrawals because the last 3 doses that I took didn’t absorb.. I would then vomit all of that back up, feel like I’m in pretty decent withdrawals, then would have to take a hydroxyzine and a bong hit to get back to sleep. I would usually wake up feeling ok, even missing the doses. I should have just powered through a couple days of shitty sleep..

Instead, I had the bright idea to see if 7-oh would help when I would have that unexpected withdrawal. I had no intention of quitting kratom at the time. I knew I would one day, but the GLP really accelerated things.

So now I’ve given my self an excuse to use 7-oh.. “ I need to use it because I can’t absorb my regular dose.. I need to work, make it to social obligations, etc.. I can’t risk the unexpected withdrawals which would have me out of commission for like a day.

Of course the 7-oh worked, too well. I started preferring it to the kratom powder.. not even because of the euphoria but just because I didn’t have to drink soo much of that powder everyday to the point of making myself nauseous..

My 7-oh phase lasted just about 3 months. I had it under control for the most part at first. Not taking more than I would allow myself and only to take the edge off if the powder wasn’t digesting.. long story short I was up to about 100mg 2-3 times a day by the end. I felt disgusting. Which brings me to the main point of this long ass rant. My apologies, bear with me..

I was using a certain brand of 7-oh exclusively which was available at my local smoke shop. I don’t know how we are about sharing brand names around here but DM if you’re curious.. but the brand sucked

I would check TMK regularly and see they received F’s on testing because their pills contain high amounts of METHANOL, ACETONE, and ETHYL ACETATE!!

How I came to discover this is.. One night the powder wasn’t working so.. admittedly I went a little overboard and wanted to feel good so I took 60-80mgs of this certain brand.

Not only did the withdrawals not stop but i feel like it also sent me into some sort of precipitated withdrawal somehow or.. I was poisoning myself with the chemicals listed above. I’ve been through withdrawal from harder stuff when I was younger, so I know what that feels like. This stuff. Holy Hell. I was literally sweating puddles, shivering with a heating pad on high, nauseous, etc..

The thing that was different about this was.. I got into the shower to get warm, I was laying down in the bathtub with the shower running like passing out and coming to. At one point I looked down and saw that it looked like my feet were turning blue. My hands were also doing this weird thing where they were like locked straight. I couldn’t bend my fingers, sounded like there was electricity in my head and my skin was burning. I legitimately thought I was going to die from a seizure (which I’ve never had before). That’s the only thing I can describe that it felt like. At this point I had to have my girlfriend call the paramedics to come to our house.

When they got there, I was still in the shower, half passed out and complaining that I couldn’t breathe. Which I couldn’t. I was forcibly having to make myself breathe and they were like quick shallow breathes. Anyway, they pulled me out of the shower, took my vitals and did an EKG. Everything was somehow perfectly fine. I denied to go to the hospital. I got back into bed, roughed it out for a couple hours, finally fell back asleep and then woke up a few hours later like nothing happened. Felt fine.

I’ve don’t a lot of dumb things and a lot of drugs and fortunately I’ve never had any run ins with hospitals or paramedics. 7-oh changed that.

The turning point for me, if that shouldn’t have been enough, was that the SAME THING just happened to me this week on Wednesday. Only difference this time is that I was waking up from withdrawal to the 7-oh instead of kratom.. same thing though. Felt like it put me into instant withdrawals. This time I didn’t feel like i was going to have a seizure but the physical symptoms like pouring sweat and freezing lasted for damn near 24hrs. I was completely exhausted and dehydrated.. but I felt like I went through 3 days of withdrawals in one.

Long story longer. I’m off that shit now. Have been since Thursday. Never going back. I’m still cool with kratom powder, which interestingly enough through all of this, my dose is lower and I’m dosing less than I have in years.. 7-oh is some disgusting shit. Glad I can put that chapter behind me.

The point of this isn’t to scare anybody. I just needed to share this with some people that might understand and also get the word out that these things are literal poison.