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joekool · Post by **joekool** » Sat Aug 13, 2011 6:50 am

people always told me this (read the fucking manual) and i never took the time to do it until recently. as a result, i've learned amazing things about plug-ins that ive had for like years and never known about. like melohman mode in ohmicide, where you can morph the distortion using your keyboard?? so fucking tight and i never had any idea it was even there. also i realized that most of the reasons i switched from fl studio to cubase were stupid, because while i thought fl was lacking features that i needed which cubase had, i realized that i really just had no idea how to do a ton of shit in fl.

anyways, i just wanted to let you guys know that if you want to advance your production skills by a huge amount in a very short time, just read the fucking manual, it's totally worth it and its not even as hard as normal reading is (for me at least) because it's something you're interested in.

just sayin

samurai · Post by **samurai** » Sat Aug 13, 2011 7:29 am

normal reading?

wub · Post by **wub** » Sat Aug 13, 2011 8:24 am

samurai wrote:normal reading?

I was wondering that myself

komanderkin · Post by **komanderkin** » Sat Aug 13, 2011 4:27 pm

easiest reading for me is when reading the ingredients of different deodorant cans while taking a dump.

Dystinkt · Post by **Dystinkt** » Sat Aug 13, 2011 5:34 pm

komanderkin wrote:easiest reading for me is when reading the ingredients of different deodorant cans while taking a dump.

you need to improve on your bathroom literature stock mate

wub · Post by **wub** » Sat Aug 13, 2011 5:36 pm

Cheeky wrote:
komanderkin wrote:easiest reading for me is when reading the ingredients of different deodorant cans while taking a dump.
you need to improve on your bathroom literature stock mate

Truth.

Current toilet tank reading material for me is;

David Simon - Homicide (book that inspired The Wire)
James May - How To Land An Airbus A330 And Other Vital Skills For The Modern Man
Elmore Leonard - Freaky Deaky

legend4ry · Post by **legend4ry** » Sat Aug 13, 2011 5:42 pm

wub wrote:
Cheeky wrote:
komanderkin wrote:easiest reading for me is when reading the ingredients of different deodorant cans while taking a dump.
you need to improve on your bathroom literature stock mate

Truth.

Current toilet tank reading material for me is;

David Simon - Homicide (book that inspired The Wire)

Actually was looking to order that, like 15 minutes ago! (Issit good?)

Its TapeOp's and SoundOnSound's for me, sometimes the paper but if it wasn't for the toilet i'd of never got through the Factory Records book.

wub · Post by **wub** » Sat Aug 13, 2011 5:46 pm

legend4ry wrote:
wub wrote:
Cheeky wrote:
komanderkin wrote:easiest reading for me is when reading the ingredients of different deodorant cans while taking a dump.
you need to improve on your bathroom literature stock mate

Truth.

Current toilet tank reading material for me is;

David Simon - Homicide (book that inspired The Wire)
Actually was looking to order that, like 15 minutes ago! (Issit good?)

Quality, recommend it.

Dystinkt · Post by **Dystinkt** » Sat Aug 13, 2011 6:30 pm

legend4ry wrote:
wub wrote:
Cheeky wrote:
komanderkin wrote:easiest reading for me is when reading the ingredients of different deodorant cans while taking a dump.
you need to improve on your bathroom literature stock mate

Truth.

Current toilet tank reading material for me is;

David Simon - Homicide (book that inspired The Wire)
Actually was looking to order that, like 15 minutes ago! (Issit good?)

Its TapeOp's and SoundOnSound's for me, sometimes the paper but if it wasn't for the toilet i'd of never got through the Factory Records book.

For me atm, its How To Do Everything, and FEAR by Geoff Thompson. A strange combo but they keep me occupied while i'm erm, occupied.

FSTZ · Post by **FSTZ** » Sat Aug 13, 2011 10:28 pm

kindle on my smartphone makes for loooooong bathroom breaks at work!

joekool · Post by **joekool** » Sun Aug 14, 2011 12:04 am

hahaha im just really not that much of a reader, its usually not interesting or engaging to me and id rather be listening to music and/or out doing things with people. my partner is a total bookworm though so i get where it comes from, it's just pretty far outside my scope of interest a lot (re: most) of the time. good for yall that do it though!!

3za · Post by **3za** » Sun Aug 14, 2011 12:24 am

joekool wrote:im just really not that much of a reader

I feel you man...

The last book I read was the Massive manual, I tried to follow it up with the Absynth manual, but always fall asleep on the chapter on envelopes

komanderkin wrote:easiest reading for me is when reading the ingredients of different deodorant cans while taking a dump.

So I am no the only one

joekool · Post by **joekool** » Sun Aug 14, 2011 2:04 am

3za wrote:The last book I read was the Massive manual, I tried to follow it up with the Absynth manual, but always fall asleep on the chapter on envelopes

yea there was enough twists and turns in massive to keep me interested, but absynth just kind of drags along.. a little too cerebral and even kind of pretentious at times.

joekool · Post by **joekool** » Sun Aug 14, 2011 2:04 am

3za wrote:The last book I read was the Massive manual, I tried to follow it up with the Absynth manual, but always fall asleep on the chapter on envelopes

yea there was enough twists and turns in massive to keep me interested, but absynth just kind of drags along.. a little too cerebral and even kind of pretentious at times.

komanderkin · Post by **komanderkin** » Sun Aug 14, 2011 8:46 pm

3za wrote:
komanderkin wrote:easiest reading for me is when reading the ingredients of different deodorant cans while taking a dump.
So I am no the only one

Ldizzy · Post by **Ldizzy** » Mon Aug 15, 2011 6:57 pm

ive read my mpc 3000 user manual more then ten times thru...

i even had it before i bought the machine...

its my fav piece of equipment soft/hard ever owned.. is it a coincidence? hmmm ... not sure.

learning stuff inside out gets you way more creative/efficient/good/sexy/r dick bigger

blinx · Post by **blinx** » Tue Aug 16, 2011 4:02 pm

I guess i just get used to reading manuals in my job (pc tech) so reading mauals for music production stuff isnt a very far stretch from any other tech manual. I usually download the pdf manual for things i am thinking about purchasing and oing research before i even ahve a product/plugin ordered lol but im a nerd so this it jsut how i operate, i must know something about everything so i can keep my wife annoyed right:?

1point5 · Post by **1point5** » Tue Aug 16, 2011 4:18 pm

old issues of future music make up my toilet reading

i actually learn quite a lot about production when taking a dump

lyons238 · Post by **lyons238** » Tue Aug 16, 2011 4:56 pm

i dont have any toilet literature atm besides motocross magazines. so i either look at them or bring my laptop on the can with me

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