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Finally, I can fulfill my destiny of taking over r/television and banning anyone who says anything positive about a show with a laugh track. It should never hav
by civilitty 3y ago
Finally, I can fulfill my destiny of taking over r/television and banning anyone who says anything positive about a show with a laugh track. It should never have been allowed to begin with.
- mountainb 3y agoI support you in your quest.
- zzzeek 3y agosame, but for r/music for praising songs that have fade out endings
- sickcodebruh 3y agoAdd drum mixes panned from the audience perspective instead of drummer perspective and you’ve got my vote.
- alexjplant 3y agoI always mix audience perspective because I usually stand in front of the drum kit when I see bands live. Do most people stand behind them? Am I doing something wrong?
- relaxing 3y agoI'm assuming OP is themselves a drummer.
- slim 3y agoyes, you are doing it wrong. drummer is not drumming from the audience perspective
- alexjplant 3y agoDuly noted. Next time I mic up a speaker cab I'll stick the microphone where the guitarist's head is instead of on the speaker grill. In all seriousness this topic falls squarely into the square of "strong opinion, weakly held" as far as I'm concerned - nobody except people like us actually cares. That being said I've yet to hear a cogent argument for the contrary position... I make music for the audience, not for musicians.
- spopejoy 3y agoI think a rational argument for it is that stereo panning of drumkit elements are not something you can hear from the audience, and maybe even from the stage. Can anybody even remember having the "audience" stereo experience in real life? You'd have to be standing right in front of the drumkit. Whereas drummers actually experience this panning configuration in real life, and when you're placing the mics in the mix, that's the set of ears you're trying to mimic, really because there isn't any _other_ set of ears to opine. And it's an important one because it provides the lion's share of the stereo image.
- sickcodebruh 3y agoSpeaking as a drummer and sometimes producer, the only people likely to have strong opinions about this are drummers. All of my drummer friends agree: audience mixes make some albums unlistenable on headphones. Nobody else will notice either way, so mix drummer perspective on the off chance that the drummers listening will appreciate it. Live albums get a pass, of course. And yes, lefty drummers exist. If a lefty drummer wants their kit panned the way they hear it, that is of course fine.
- InitialLastName 3y agoHow do you know the drummer isn't left-handed?
- bombcar 3y agoAnd CDs where the track actually starts five seconds into the previous track and it’s never been fixed in any digital version ever.
- zzzeek 3y agoblame Bob Ludwig for that
- anigbrowl 3y agoMore seriously, the other day someone spent significant time and effort trying to convince me that the new version of The Wonder Years featuring a black family was anti-white propaganda by The Jews. If he's a reddit user I'm sure he'd love to mod a sub with such a large community.
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- john-radio 3y agoOhhh, it's a new version of The Wonder Years... I had never seen the original show, but I was vaguely aware of it, and it was playing in the gym the other day and I saw the main characters being black and I felt like I was deep in the Mandela Effect or something.
- EA-3167 3y agoI feel like the crazies ranting about "white erasure" are making it harder to criticize these race-reboots on the grounds they should be criticized for: laziness. Mediocre products where the selling point is, "we swapped races, give us points," remain mediocre and are unbelievably lazy compared to what we should see... which is new and interesting things with diversity baked in. Unfortunately the hysterical racists are so loud and pervasive that this is yet another issue we see broken down in a Manichean battle to cover for a total lack of new ideas.
- johnny22 3y agoI just let it be "lazy" as you say as the rest of tons of other stuff is lazy and don't bother to think to much about it. I'd rather focus on stuff I actually like.
- EA-3167 3y agoThat's a good default, I think people who spend all of their time obsessing about what they hate are really missing out.
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- hinkley 3y agoI’m gonna ban everyone who complains about Ted Lasso. Barbecue sauce.
- patrickwalton 3y agoI need someone to make an AI-show filter for removing laugh tracks.
- SV_BubbleTime 3y agoIt doesn’t work. The pauses are built into the script. It’s worse, it’s far worse. It highlights that the scripts are usually pretty bad. Classic example of a completely unfunny basic show https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jKS3MGriZcs https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jKS3MGriZcs
- whynaut 3y agoAs uncomfortable as some of the timings are without the tracks, it still feels a lot more bearable. If the timings could be adjusted I feel shows might actually be better off.
- ethbr0 3y agoAgreed. As weird as that was, I prefer it to the original.
- dylan604 3y agoThey already have tools to cut down based on silence. So, remove the laugh track to enable this silence, then cut based on the silence. If there was a filter for ffmpeg, you could just chain them together in a single command.
- blibble 3y agothat show is hilarious without the laugh track just not in the way the creators intended
- misiti3780 3y agoBut what about Seinfeld??