Today’s listen 🎶

EQ on each track, distortion (up to 10db) on the first four tracks, in depth EQ on the last 2, Compressor (with make up gain +20db/-30db) and Bliss effect on the master and headphone outputs. Plus it’s built like a tank. Really opens up things sonically.

Soon ™

Right on. So many of our contacts with technology today are with systems that are built from a place of disrespect & distain for autonomy & human agency.

Constant algorithmic improvements have empirically reverse engineered the human psyche.

I suspect that explicit research neuroscience hasn't caught up to the insights about how to induce behavioral dependence that are embodied in these systems.

The user experience of most platforms now mirrors maladaptive behavior-maintaining effects you could *only* achieve with most addictive drugs up to about a decade ago.

We need to avoid the moral panic, but it's impossible to overstate how novel this is for our brains.

One thing we know from behavioral addiction research (my old field) is that the brain is plastic.

When you induce one category of addiction, it changes the motivational substrate of the brain in sticky ways.

And coss-sensitizes / potentiates other forms of addiction and behavioral dependence.

This will only accelerate & become less scrutable with improvements in AI.

We are in the earliest, earliest days of trying to understand what this means for the next decades of human life.

Painting: The Opium Den, Edward Burra,1933

And?

I’m finishing the video. I might order during or after. Highly probable 😂

Is one of those delay? Only effects pedal I have is Zen Delay

it looks amazing i have to say. there's a whole thread on elektronauts about people looking for the perfect mixer btw. this and model1 get discussed. there aren't many options

I’m watching a 44min video on the Oto. Might fuck around and order one 😂

I’m watching a 44min video on the Oto. Might fuck around and order one 😂

You never heard of 1010music? They’re known for the blackbox. The sampler.

This is more expensive than the analog rytm mkii. And that was steep 😬

It would replace two devices in my setup. The mixer and the zoom recorder. Reverse gas 😂😂

Next thing on my list is a better mixer 😂

No gas 😅

I wanted to make the 303 sounds. A4 doesn’t have a real square wave. This was practically free on reverb 😂😂😂

The new scarcity is taste.

Now that anyone can make anything, only the intentional will truly stand out - those who create with care, not just speed.

We’ve gone from a world of restricted access (tools, capital, gatekeepers) to one where anyone can create with ease. The barrier is no longer execution, but discernment. The true differentiator isn’t how much you make, but how well you filter, frame, and refine.

Tools are everywhere, but good taste remains rare. Taste, rooted in experience, observation, and intuition, isn’t easily copied or scaled. It’s the ability to strip away the excess, highlight what matters, and shape resonance behind every great work.

Intentionality, taking time to care about context, composition, and consequence, is the new craftsmanship. Those who lead with taste rise above the noise, because they don’t just add... They elevate.