Jeff Emtman

19 Mar

I'm quite in love with this script that lets you absolutely break FX and synths in #reaperDAW by randomizing every knob at once. Script is called mpl_Randomize Track FX parameters Synth is Pendulate by Newfangled Audio

Might be the prettiest reverb I've seen. A little flock of butterflies moves through the scene as audio plays. Saike's new plugin called Neverb for #reaperdaw. github.com/JoepVanlier/...

When you've got a pair of tongs, everything looks like a salad.

@xyplorer.bsky.social Sorry for calling the design ugly on the other site some years ago. And also, the redesign is looking great! Thanks for all the improvements.

@presentcorrect.bsky.social

14 Sept

There + Then = Thern I'll see you there and then --> I'll see you *thern*.

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Present & Correct

19 Aug

81 ways with your Dymo Label Maker (1977) www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/d...

20 Aug

I'm not the biggest EQ dork, but there's a feature of @getsoundly.bsky.social plugin that I really like. The "mix" knob isn't a wet/dry knob, rather it fades the band's PARAMETERS. Makes complex EQ fades possible with a single automation lane. Pretty neat, free: getsoundly.com/tools/

freesound.orgS38-01 Man eaten by alligator; screams [Wilhelm screams].wav by craigsmithMan eaten by alligator; screams [Wilhelm screams]

14 Aug

"Man gets bit by an alligator and he screams" - Tape slate from the original Wilhelm Scream. freesound.org/people/craig... #sounddesign

13 Aug

No one doesn't like vintage catapult SFX.

30 July

One billion is about the number of seconds that a 32 year old has lived.

29 July

Quite enjoying this built in non-destructive spectral repair in the newer versions of #reaperdaw. One less thing I have to use RX for. Works for time selections and razor edits too. > Sample edits: Spectral repair sample values in time selection for all channels at mouse

@martinaustwick.bsky.social

21 July

Had a dream that there was a creature living under the sidewalk that would show you its den in exchange for one pebble, a bit of mortar, and a wild rose.

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Martin Austwick

1 July

Ever wondered what's up with Neutrinowatch, the procedural podcast @jeffemtman.com and I make together? We told @narrascope.org earlier this month, and now you can find out too! youtu.be/SHzglKMNWdI

youtu.beNeutrinowatch Narrascope Talk [June 2026]YouTube video by Neutrino Watch

@martinaustwick.bsky.social

16 June

Can't believe I never noticed the action called "File: Spawn new instance of REAPER". It just opens another window so that you can work on multiple projects (and copy-paste between them) in split-screen. Will make integrating pickups a lot faster. #reaperdaw

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Martin Austwick

23 May

Oooh and @jeffemtman.com and I are speaking at this too! But you can skip that if you’re a person of excellent discrimination and taste!

Andrew Plotkin@eblong.com

Today is the last day to register for in-person attendance at NarraScope. (Online membership will stay open for another few weeks.) June 12th-14th,  University at Albany, NY narrascope.org/register/ Got a great schedule up, starting with keynote speakers Meredith Gran and Sharang Biswas.

narrascope.orgNarraScope 2026 | RegistrationNarraScope is a conference that brings together the writers, developers, scholars, and players of interactive narrative.

7 May

Genuinely flattered that the kind folk at Klankverbond put a picture of me babbling about sound design on their website. Klankverbond is a really unique org that supports independent audio folk in Belgium. If you're doing audio in Belgium, join them! www.klankverbond.be

17 Apr

I think Linear Phase EQ is kind of overhyped. But the one place i often use it is for checking my adjustments. Flip into linear mode for a moment to see if the high pass is negatively affecting the voice. Easy to hear it with the delta solo option in Reaper. You'll hear only what's changed.

@artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social

17 Apr

This trick doesn't work in minimum phase eq (what pro-q calls "zero-latency") because of the phase shifting inherent to the at approach. Other than this "auditioning the eq shifts" trick though, I'll leave the linear phase eqs to the folk mixing drum sets or whatever.

Peaceful and Dormant

...has a built-in crayon sharpener.

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ArtButMakeItSports

22 Feb

Suprematism, by Nikolai Suetin, 1920-21, 📸 by @tiltoncreative

21 Jan

@profanity.accountant do I have swears?

15 Jan

the last good website. #wikipediaday

web.law.duke.eduPublic Domain Day 2026 | Duke University School of LawJanuary 1, 2026 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1930 are open to all, as are sound recordings from 1925! By Jennifer Jenkins and James Boyle[1] CC BY 4.0 Please note that this site is only about US l...

18 Dec 2025

A roundup of all the works that become public domain in 2026 web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicd...

7 Dec 2025

Looking forward to leading a session at the MIRP Meeting in Belgium on Weds. Hope to see you there.

fuckface "squeaky" from:me

17 Nov 2025

Quite happy about the new high-res spectrogram option in #reaperdaw Low-res on the left, high-res on the right.

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@skeet.best

11 Nov 2025

chevalier d'ely@ely.fyi

"babies are born worshipping unknown gods" is one of the most incredible dwarf fortress bugs i have heard of. its poetry.

forum.cockos.com Normalize + "Adjust mono media -3dB" should apply to "take channel mode: mono" - Cockos Incorporated ForumsNormalize + "Adjust mono media -3dB" should apply to "take channel mode: mono" REAPER Bug Reports

31 Oct 2025

@brendanpbaker.bsky.social Thank you for requesting this. I was getting quite confused about unexpected normalization results. Saw they integrated the fix. forum.cockos.com/showthread.p...

31 Oct 2025

I've used quite a lot of cassette tape emulation plugins for #sounddesign and I'm coming to the conclusion that Spectral Audio's (now) free OSC-45 sounds the nicest of them all. Beautiful saturation and wow/flutter emulation. archive.org/details/ocs-...

26 Oct 2025

I certainly hope that if you need the group rate on duct cleaning you'd come to me first and not those other hacks.

@martinaustwick.bsky.social

18 Oct 2025

New Neutrinowatch episode is out. Also come watch us (@martinaustwick.bsky.social) perform at Podfest tonight! www.podfestberlin.com/2025-festival

Martin Austwick@martinaustwick.bsky.social

Ello! Top lad @jeffemtman.com just published a new episode of Neutrinowatch! "Best of the Manosphere" is a daily distillation of all the best bits of your favourite manpods into a wonderful piece of art. It's the idea-summarizing, trailblazing, time-saving game-changer! pod.link/1567632084/e...

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Martin Austwick

Look at this nice picture of me pushing @martinaustwick.bsky.social out of the way. Thank you XMTR for having us there to perform our weird Neutrinowatch stuff. and thank you Rachel Manns for the photo. More of the festival photos here: www.xmtr.fm/festival

2 Oct 2025

If anyone's coming to Berlin for #prixeuropa, I'd love to meet up for coffee.

27 Aug 2025

and that's just the ones I remember

Reading the changelog for #reaperdaw 7.43 and five things caught my eye as someone who uses the Reaper mostly for sound design and podcast editing. (1/8)

"add option to move or not move take envelope points when moving media item contents" This is huge for sound design, where sometimes you want item envs to move with the content and sometimes you want them to stay put. Seen here with volume env, first with old behavior, then with new. (7/8)

All in all, I think these are really good updates for things that I use a lot: Item envelopes, lossy rendering, and razor edits. (8/8)

Reading the changelog for #reaperdaw 7.43 and five things caught my eye as someone who uses the Reaper mostly for sound design and podcast editing. (1/8)

"when rendering to a lossy format like mp3 or ogg, calculate normalization and statistics based on the format-encoded signal...." Reaper's render norming worked well for lossless, but lossy formats result in slight changes to loudness due to compression. This fixes that. (5/8)

"support importing .adl (AES-31) project files" Every once in a while, I'll work with a client who does a first pass of the audio in a DAW that uses or supports ADL session files. Now instead of converting this with AATranslator, I can open these files directly. Neat. (6/8)

Reading the changelog for #reaperdaw 7.43 and five things caught my eye as someone who uses the Reaper mostly for sound design and podcast editing. (1/8)

Previously razor editing only worked for item envelopes (shown first with volume envs). Now, it also works for item envs (shown second with item pan envs). (3/8)

"add actions to remove unnecessary points" Some editing workflows can lead to a lot of envelope points that are effectively doing nothing. A new custom action removes these points: "Envelope: Remove unnecessary points" Here I've made a button for it, but it's accessible in the actions list. (4/8)

Reading the changelog for #reaperdaw 7.43 and five things caught my eye as someone who uses the Reaper mostly for sound design and podcast editing. (1/8)

"allow editing track envelopes in media lane, media item take envelopes similarly to track envelopes" Razor edits give the ability to select manipulate time/items/envelope points and in non-contiguous areas simultaneously. But the doing it in item envs wasn't previously possible. (2/8)

29 July 2025

I swear I'm not a robot—I just like my dashes long like a dachshund.

25 July 2025

Another day, another new and interesting way to ruin my life with #reaperdaw <3 --> Script: acendan_Insert random FX plugin on selected track.lua

kvraudio.comvoiceofsnow by sundevstudio - Exciter / Enhancer Plugin VST Audio Unitvoiceofsnow is experimental GUI-less plugin. It uses spectral analysis to split the input signal into noise and tone components. You can app...

24 July 2025

Anyone have little-known mixing plugins they swear by? The one I'm reliant on is Voice Of Snow, which is a GUI-less free plugin that separates sound into its noisy and tonal parts. Can instantly add or remove texture. www.kvraudio.com/product/voic... #mixing #audioproduction #sounddesign