Hi everyone, Joe for jaspyscasebreaks.com coming at you at 2022 tops series one baseball six box jumbo Random team break number nine. This is the one where one spot gets you three random teams So it's only a 10-spot break all cards ship big. Thanks to this group for making it happen Triple your names up All 30 teams are in let's roll it. Let's randomize names and teams four and a four eight the hard way one Two Three seven and eighth and final time got Jose down to Michael after eight four and a four Hard eight eight the hard way for the teams one Two seven and good luck eighth and final time after eight We've got the Baltimore Orioles all the way down to the Blue Jays and the Tampa Bay Rays are in there somewhere All right Jose with the Orioles Corey with the Tigers and Pirates Barry with the Cardinals Corey with the Rockies Alex with the twins Corey with the Red Sox Michael Michael G with the Cleveland Gardens Michael F with the Royals Marlins and Angels Barry with the Nats Jose with the Braves Michael F with the Mets Corey with the Reds Michael F with the Yankees and Mariners Jose Tampa Bay Rays Corey with the Dodgers Michael G with the Dimebacks Michael F with the A's Corey with the Giants Barry with the Astros Alex with the Padres Michael F with the Rangers Corey with the White Sox Alex with the Cubs Michael G with the Phillies Corey with the Brew Crew and Michael F With the Toronto Bluebirds the Blue Jays Let's alphabetize by team And we're gonna pause the video just for a moment when we come back. We're gonna see if there's any trades And then we will have the break stick around be right back. Hi everyone. Welcome back No deals were done. So the list remains the same Thanks, everybody for getting into the action appreciate it. I don't know how many of these cases How many cases my colleague Jason did over the Over the last couple days But I Don't think we've seen a Superfracture yet. Have we seen anything like that a train whistle caliber hit out of five and under? I don't think so Maybe this is the case where that happens. All right, so the box topper is Jonathan India Nice keep the silver packs up there. You can see on the top camera And obviously we'll do a recap at the end of this long break anybody actually except for glowbug anyone actually in this break who's watching live Or am I flying flying solo on this Cory's here. All right, Cory. Good luck. Nice watching with the nephew who's eight You let him pick his team. Well, yeah, okay Dodgers Dodger stuff. It's not bad It's a good way to start the collection for the eight-year-old nephew. All right. Good luck nephew. Good luck, Cory Listen Luke. Good luck Luke. You're watching on the big street. You won't be typing, but you'll be with me. All right Good Hopefully we'll be able to be able to We will call your number frequently during this break Ryan's here. Ryan's excited to be here But you're not in this break. All right. Well, you can help spectate make sure I don't miss anything Now I know that these are the same team But I know there's a lot of cards where they're different players and these three slots are sometimes just a two-player card Unless they're numbered They'll be evenly distributed to each of the three teams there Just FYI that's a better example right these those three right there Think by the time this entire case is in there's enough of those where we can Where we can distribute them our first hit is a Dallas Garcia Arlington Pride City flagpatch for For Michael and the Rangers apparently the new ballparks really nice out there and Corbin Burns Is usually followed by Wander Franco and then followed Wander Franco where yellow just followed by Wander It's usually burns Franco yellow Generally those fall one per box Jose. Oh, this nice one for the nephew That's a Julio Urius short print The card numbered that I know it's kind of hard to read there But it says six zero and the short prints are usually flipped around That's Julio Urius the top of the rotation guy for the for the Dodgers There he is hitting which we're not gonna I'm not gonna see anymore. There are Urius for the Dodgers We got Jose Altuve major league material piece of his lumber For Barry and the Astros he was here earlier Joe P Logan Joe P's looking for you. All right There's Marco Gonzalez 1490 out of 2022 for the M's That will be for Michael and the Mariners paging Logan Callister paging Logan Callister Joe P on the other line Does that mean oh Tony won't be able to hit and pitch at the same time or is it different for him? Well, the the American League that Already has the DH so he's just in the DH spot. So I guess technically Pitchers could hit in the NL if they're placed if the pitchers the starting pitchers place in the in the In the DH spot But I think it's pretty unlikely we're gonna see a lot of starting pitchers in that DH spot So maybe never say never but perhaps they'll there'll be some starting pitchers who are like, hey, I Want to hit and there's some decent thing pitchers out there. I'll never say never but I'll be a few and far between I would imagine CP3 offer. Yeah, I saw that Joe P. It's wild news Well, your sons Have supreme depth remember next man up. They'll do fine No excuses right Joe P. And there's your autograph Kyle seager Baseball stars autograph for the M's Michael 76 out of 99. Oh silver packs Okay, there's no excuses. They should be playing at the same level. Don't don't make excuses. Oh But there's tough teams coming in. That's what you would say to me Fice I was like, oh, well Anthony Davis and LeBron James. I'm Joe P.  No excuses Joe P. There's Jazz Chisholm. Sounds like excuses Joe P. CP3 has won you some games in the fourth quarter Sounds like excuses Joe P. You said you guys have the best depth in the NBA These should be easy for the Suns to make up at least ten assists per game easy.   All right next box I get it though. Joe P when it's your team the rules change. I've got double oh five out of 300 Yasmani grand all Double oh five out of 300. Those are this is the advanced stat card For the white socks. I'll be for Corey Corbin burns. There's Wanda Franco Also, how did I guess I totally missed that bit of news. How did he How did Chris Paul like I saw him in that thumb splint or was it some fracture at some splint something like that? How did that happen? I Heard during the all-star game like I think it was Ali LaForce who was reporting and she said during the Houston game But there was no Like I didn't see like a replay of it I didn't even realize that there was like I didn't realize there was like even an issue Last game passing the ball hit the defenders. Oh, and we got Ricell Iglesias By the most Let the rhythm take you over by the most 27 out of 222 2022 angels Michael with the halos and these silvers and Gold are not numbered, but of course everything ships around the I saw the That's because he's a dirty player Joe. That's what Joe. That's what you'd say to me if any Laker of mine got a Got ejected. It's just cuz Chris Paul is just a dirty player Joe. That's why Sun should really start playing some clean basketball Just dirty dirty ref So the ref like throw a hip check into Chris Paul another wonder Franco. Oh Dale Murphy that kind of popped out surprised me there Dale Murphy 1987 tops baseball card autograph for Jose and the ATL CP3 lacks the lacks the court vision to get out of the way of the ref. Is that what you're saying Joe P? That's what I'm that's what I'm reading. He just didn't watch where he was walking and ran right into CP3 CP3 is the athlete He should have been able to to bounce out of the way Like a like a graceful gazelle No Is CP3 it's getting old is his eyesight failing? CP3 is the athlete not the ref Actually, the rest still have to run up and down the court. They're kind of athletes to Los Angeles pride Clayton Kershaw That's what CP3 CP3 should have had his blinker on Joe P Why didn't why didn't just irresponsible for CP3 should have had his blinker on next oh silver packs now sometimes You can see numbered cards out of the silver pack cards sometimes an autograph But not in these two packs. Oh a wander Franco box topper. I don't know what these go for but Still cool though. I'll go to Jose. You've got randomized the Tampa Bay Rays Next box sometimes the Christian Yalich is right there. Then we don't know where the wander is It's not like it's not like it's right there Sometimes that screws with the wander Franco pattern pattern. All right, let's go next box We got a max cranic 1894 out of 2022 Taking it to the max pirates Corey and the buckles got a mark McGuire die cut a's edition Oh Didn't all you come from chicker Trey Mancini blackboarder for the Orioles Jose that's out of 71 21 out of 71 and the man of steel Ricky Henderson. He's his lumber for Michael and the Oakland A's And the autograph is for the twins Griffin jacks Minnesota that'll be for for Alex glowbug With a little ink and a jazz Chisholm Short print nice That's Michael and the Marlins Michael F Think the numbers are kind of tiny. I think it's six zero on the back Thank you. There's another set of numbers where it's a super short print I don't think I've seen a super short print yet But but a short print nonetheless pretty nice in a big set like this nice. These are pretty cool And they'll be silhouetted batter logo medallion Bryce Harper. They're manufactured medallions, but I Don't still looks cool Philadelphia Michael G with the Phillies Corbin burns on a franco, but Michael can for though not yellage. And of course we'll do a Autograph and relic recap at the end or any banks. Let's play two. No, John James Nothing too crazy in those silver packs. All right folks, we are halfway through this full case break So I got about another 30 or so minutes to go Nate Pearson box hopper For the blue jays will be for Michael F Jase pulled you a Ryan Howard out of this for you Well, what else did you get Rex seems like you had a pretty decent break What teams you was the other guy you got early.  Yeah, Ryan Howard It's pretty good. I feel like There's some knee injuries Or something like that that got in the way because he dropped off pretty quickly it started off Sort of the first chunk of his career really hot I mean like we're talking like possible possible like hall of fame trajectory hot, but No, I think his body betrayed him and I think he was I don't know what he's doing these days, but I thought Ryan Howard was trying to get into broadcasting at some point Maybe he's still doing that somewhere or was doing that somewhere Raise fillings Janice. That's not a bad draw Well all car chips. I'm sure you might get a stack of like commons Rex for San Francisco Buster Posey home field advantage That's for the Giants. That's for Corey My rivals the Giants, you know full buster Posey Rex have you looked up what that you said you got a silver wander Franco ride the silver border one Have you looked up what? What that's what those are going for on a secondary market another wonder and a Michael Brantley 142 out of 199 for the Stroze It's gonna be for Barry That's why I saw you say so for that's not bad got Rod crew die cut Major League material DJ Mayhew for the Yankees. That's for Michael F the Bronx bombers And There's your autograph that is Stuart Fairchild Rookie autograph in that 1987 design Yeah, that sounds about right Rex Now the race will be to see who's gonna get like PSA 10s for those wanders Yeah, if he's if he starts the season hot you could see a little little bump in the base, but But I think now the name of the game is Let's try to get PSA 10s out of those Bryce Harper and Then hope that not a lot of the wanders end up being PSA 10s and then that'll that'll that'll kind of Build out that market. That's a six out of ten Bryce Harbour. I can not really maybe the red background Can't really tell when these are numbered or not But that's out of ten. That's pretty cool Michael G with the Phillies. All right another box in the books Double silver packs. That's a different parallel right there. Nice a green Raphael Devers 98 kind of hard to see the number right there 98 out of 99 That is for Corey and the Boston Red Sox Difference in color right there second to last box almost there. There's Nick Madrigal Cubs edition That'll be for Alex and the Cubbies and then here's the silver packs And there's Alex Bregman 1120 out of 2022 Is that when the uh the Magna Carta was signed? Was that 12 something I think for now Craig just random teams But I'm pretty sure there are personal boxes available on Instagram Craig. You just want to grab a box for yourself At Jasper's breaks on Instagram live Which is pretty much a random box break. How do I think Javi will do in to try I think he'll do fine He's a pretty solid player, you know, I feel like this that's a pretty good lineup. So I think He'll be pretty well protected in that lineup, especially as the bigger Expensor Torvalson gets called up in the next couple years. So he could be a little up and down with the bat, but But obviously that glove is always is what's gonna keep him Signed and playing often. I think he'll be fine. How old is he again? Tony Gwynne blue border Corey no check that that's gonna be Alex with the Padres They have a big farm system I think they have the same number of players as everyone else's farm system I'm pretty sure and a chip off the old block Chipper Jones for Jose and the Braves Do they really have a like literally a big farm system more acreage? 29 30th in the year when he'd sign a five-year deal or something like that. That's pretty solid I think that's a that's a smart deal for the Tigers to oh Right. Yeah, the break credit is tied to yeah if you win break credit here. It only works here. I See I see I see okay. Um, I don't know Craig I'll I'll see if I'll see if the the powers that be want Want to do more of those random box breaks, but I think we've been kind of pushing people to the Instagram channel for those So I wouldn't hold my breath. There's Jew Ellis Diamondbacks Michael G.  That's not bad And We've got a Byron bucks in the Minneapolis pride City patch here and that will be for Alex in Minnesota blue bug Oh Number Anthony Rizzo Yankees to 150 that is 100 out of 150 Michael F. And the Bronx bombers All right final box That long last box six in this six-box jumbo God Tristan McKenzie Sporting the new Guardians logo right here on this card Like he had a pretty nice year last year. Maybe the 495 era doesn't really Show what he did but 136 strikeouts and 120 innings. I feel like he started Pitching a lot better as the as the year went on Rexy saying if Rizzo never goes back to the Cubs, he hopes the Yankees re-sign them Yeah, it seemed like a good fit there. I left me at Yankee Stadium It'll work out well stretch a little bit and last box. Good luck. Oh Is that a randomizer 16 27 out of 20 22 it is Between the Brewers and the Dodgers Corey has the Brewer Corey also has the Dodgers The ruling on the field is overturned Corey has the Brewers and Dodgers That's easy. No randomizer one person happy zero people sad another wander Franco for Jose Nothing too crazy raise wise except for those wander Franco rookie cards Let's see if we can find something special in here somewhere in this last box Yeah, I Get I definitely get out of a randomizer Rex Which is good. I don't have to make anyone sad or extend the length of this this video But mostly I don't want to make people sad I Always tell people hey check the checklist You know if the team that you're buying has a dual auto attached to it You know then then buy that second team there. That's really the those are the sort of sharp plays That could sort of incrementally maximize Your your breaking experience Andre Jackson 120 out of 149 It's a green parallel for Corey and the Dodgers nice Made a few spot-start. Let's see it last year that looked pretty good Has some good stuff. I guess if you turn that into Consistency maybe less walks There was that there was that good stuff for strikes more consistently that could be Could be an entry entry way into the rotation for him We got a hose a braille Nice that must be yeah, there it is six out of 25 Nice and a thicker card stock here this goes to the White Sox Corey with the White Sox Corbin burns wander Franco, but no yellow itch this time Like this is just slightly Out of the regular order, but Corbin burns still reveals the wander Franco And there's the autograph doc Gooden a little smear there Unfortunately But still doc Gooden For Michael F and the Metropolitan's 110 out of 199 my trout die-cut Ryan Samberg Detroit pride Miguel Cabrera that'll be for Detroit Corey with the City flag patch card And That my friends is that Let's see what's in the the silver pack Do you do all you'll do breaks are in the day tomorrow since it's a holiday not a holiday for us We're not bankers We're in the retail industry. So we are definitely open. There's Connor Wong. That's an autograph nice Boston that'll be for Corey last spot mojo 95 out of 199. So yeah, I'll be back tomorrow three o'clock Pacific Six o'clock Eastern All right, there you go gang Do I have to randomized? No, no randomized nothing. Here's a quick recap The last hit to the first hit Pretty solid break nice medallion nice home field advantage card That's a short print by the way the Jazz Chisholm for Miami that goes to Michael F deal Murphy And a Julio Uri a short print so two short prints in this and there you go gang I'm Joe for jazby's case breaks calm. That was six box jumbo random team break number nine I'll see you next time for the next one. Bye. Bye


noise repellent is an open source noise removal plugin that can be used to reduce noise of your audio signals in real time in the hosts like Ardor or Carla. It can also be abused for creative effects. I'm gonna show you all of that in this video. Hey I'm Anfa, I'm an electronic music producer and sound designer but I only use free and open source software and Linux. Noise repellent is a free and open source audio processing plugin available for Linux in the LV2 format that's performing spectral denoising in real time. Though it introduces about 30 milliseconds of latency depending on the sample rate you use. In this video I'm going to show you everything about it. At first I'm gonna show you the very basic way of using the plugin which is just to turn it on and let it do its thing completely automatically. And after that I'm gonna show you how you can tweak the different parameters. What do they mean? How do they affect the sound? And in the end we're gonna abuse the plugin to create some interesting sounds for music production. Let me show you the website of it. You can find the plugins source code as well as binary downloads on GitHub. The link will be in the video description. And apart from a very nice description and instructions how you can install it there is also a fantastic wiki page where you can read how to use this plugin and how to get the best results. So I highly recommend that as further reading after you watch this video if you feel like you need to up your noise removal game. Okay let's first listen to some samples. The first and the simplest way you can use this plugin is by just enabling the automatic mode. I'm gonna play you a bit of sound that I recorded using this microphone in the original form and after that with the automatic noise removal on and then we're gonna tweak it a bit. This is what you normally record if you make the microphone face the other way, the other direction. That's a little bit of speech there right there and now I'm going to enable this plugin open its interface I'm gonna show you what's there. It's set to adaptive noise learn. I've also tweaked the settings a little bit and I'm gonna play you how it sounds after I've tweaked it but it's still using the adaptive noise learn to automatically detect the noise background and remove it as much as possible. This is what you normally record if you make the microphone face the other way, the other direction. I'll bypass it now. It's pointed into a ball.  So you can see that the noise removal isn't perfect by any means but it's definitely doing quite a lot to the sound. We can try some other sections. You talk a little louder and let's see if the noise adapts like the noise reduction can adapt to that or yeah like or what if I get up and get into a corner of the room and start talking to the microphone from far away and there's some... bypass? More noise reduction. Maybe it's a bit different noise. Yeah, could be. Bypass? Nice reduction. Really quietly. So you can see there's quite a lot of noise in there and even the adaptive noise learn mode which is by the way tweaked for speech so it it's not gonna work this good probably on different sounds like you know I guitar or piano it's doing a pretty good job at like separating our noise background from the speech foreground. Let's reset this plugin to absolute zero. Let's also trigger this reset noise profile thing so that it has no idea what the noise is. If you enable the adaptive noise learn the plugin will try to separate the louder parts of the sound that it's hearing from the quieter parts and it's going to use the quieter parts to build a spectral profile basically a frequency plot of what the noise is like in the recording and then it's going to subtract that from the spectrum of the sound to try and remove the noise. This is what you normally record if you make the microphone face the other way the other direction and it's pointed into a ball you're not talking very close. Now it's bypassed you can see that even this automatic adaptive noise learn with no prior knowledge to what the noise is going to be like pretty fast it's managed to correctly separate the noise background from the speech on the foreground and reduce our noise of course it's not artifact free we can hear that it's been denoised but it's still better. Now let's go into the fully manual mode which is how i use this plugin most of the time. I have recorded this piece of speech here i'm gonna play it to you without denoising this is only after a compressor so that the volume levels are more consistent it also makes it harder to denoise actually. Here's some noisy speech recorded from far away needs cleanup to sound okay yay. As you can hear there is a lot of noise in here. Now let me play to you how does it sound with noise repellent enabled a trained on the noise sample from this recording and tweaked by repetitive listening and deciding what sounds best. Here's some noisy speech recorded from far away needs cleanup to sound okay yay. There's practically zero noise in here and yes we do have quite a lot of artifacts and you can tell that it sounds like a very low quality audio file but you can't hear the noise at all it's it's really a drastic change. Here's some noisy speech recorded from far away needs cleanup to sound okay. As you can hear we're losing quite a lot of high frequencies in here i'm gonna show you how to make the plugin learn a specific noise in this manual mode what you need to do that's i'm gonna clearly click reset reset noise profile now the manual of the plugin says that you should loop a section of just the background noise no briefs no clicks nothing like that there's quite a lot of clicks and and his and then other stuff here how about this thing all right this is a section that is pretty much just the noise it's very short though i'm going to loop it and let the noise repellent plugin listen to it continuously to build its spectral profile so you've noticed that as soon as i disabled the learn noise profile toggle the sound went completely silent and that's because we have already set the the noise reduction to a very very strong 48 decibels of attenuation however let's now play the sample here's a noisy speech recorded from far away i think the results are a little bit better because before i used this section with the clicks and stuff and that confused it a little bit so now it has a better profile of the noise and it can remove it with more accuracy which is cool all right uh let's figure out what all these parameters do shall we i'm going to reset the plugin to its basic state so now we're using the previously learned noise sample which was somewhere here here's some and these are the default settings so you can hear there's quite a lot of artifacts we have a few controls here reduction amount is how much the noise profile is being subtracted from the sound if it's at zero there is no noise reduction taking place if we go all the way here's some noisy speech recorded from far away we're trying to attenuate the noise to the maximum however the volume of the sound also plays a big role and this is controlled by the threshold offsets basically this determines the sensitivity of our noise reduction so even with reduction amount at 48 decibels which is the maximum there's still some stuff coming through and if i want to cut this off completely i can change the thresholds offset to raise the threshold so that all the noise falls under the threshold and none of it stays above the threshold let me show you here's some noisy speech recorded from far away needs cleanup to sound okay as you can hear the little twinkies twinkles and chimey noisy artifacts are going away when i rise the threshold here's some noisy speech recorded from far away needs clean but i can also lower it here's some noisy speech recorded from far away now the best results are often achieved when you do just a little bit of noise reduction because well it's usually it's not a good idea to try and remove the noise all together because it's going to give you maximum artifacts and often you just need to find a good balance between less noise more artifacts and like decide where is the point that gives you the most benefit sometimes you can get away with more artifacts if you're gonna process the sound like add some reverb or some other stuff or if the sound is going to be quieter in the mix but if the sound is going to be front and center you might want to have a little bit more of noise even and less artifacts because noise is a very natural thing and we're very used to hearing noise but we're not used to hearing these spectral subtraction artifacts however noise repellent has quite a few interesting tools and dials that you can tweak to minimize these artifacts and let's talk about these now there is release and if it's at zero here's some noisy speech recorded from far away okay let me rise the reduction amount here's some noisy speech recorded from far away as you can hear we have a lot of like these twink twinkling artifacts here's some noisy speech recorded from far away you know we have like these little like every frequency bend in the signal has a little noise gate on it and if the release time is too short they're going to constantly like the same disengage and engage letting through tiny tones tiny little chiming noises and if we increase the release time they're going to become down so they are they are not going to react as fast so basically when when our signal is below the threshold of our noise profile the gates are engaged and when there is voice coming through which is louder and it like crosses the threshold the gates disengage and they disengage with the release time the longer the release time the slower they're going to disengage so let me play this to you now at the maximum release time of one second here's some noisy speech recorded from far away it's making the noise reduction much stronger because the noise reduction is still like suppressing the noise even though there is loud signal that should be let through and it is but there's more noise reduction if we turn the release down here's some noisy speech recorded from far away it also kind of smooshes our transients a little bit like there's not much of it here so we can't hear it that well but I have another sample where we can test that specific thing a very cool feature of this plugin is that you can listen to what the noise repellent plugin is removing if we go to residual listen and enable that now we are hearing only what is being rejected by the spectral subtraction algorithm and it's also a nice tool for creative reasons because you can use that to make some really crazy sounds like it this is not intended as a creative tool but you can use it as a creative tool so we can listen to the residue and that can help us figure out if we're removing too much from our signal I've been told that the masking parameter is also something that helps get rid of the artifacts however honestly even when you're listening to the residual signal I can't really hear what the masking parameter is doing I've been reading up on it I have no idea what it's doing I don't hear any difference from it whatsoever I don't know if that's a bug or I just can't hear it okay so let's move on to the next sample I've prepared for you this is about transient so I've recorded a little bit of beatboxing but what I also did is left a little bit of silence in front however I should have removed all of these extra little noises so that we have just the I'm gonna disable snapping so you have just the noise and nothing else because you know every little click is going to make our noise profile less accurate let's listen to this all right you see we have this little weird bass tone in here I think it's something to do with my mic stand I might have just hit it accidentally and it just been resonating for this time all right let's me concatenate that and I'm going to teach this noise repellent plugin the noise profile let's remove this plugin so we have a clean slate this is our noise profile all right okay let's add noise repellent and here it is so the first thing I'm going to do is learn the noise profile I'm going to enable this and just play the signal so that it can build its spectral profile okay now I've disengaged that and it's now removing noise let's disable the plugin bypass it and I'm going to play you what I've got recorded here it's all beatbox sample the thing is I recorded it like that far from the microphone now let's try and denoise this let's bump the reduction amount up to maximum and rise the thresholds thresholds offset the thing is with long with long release times what often happens is that the the transients of the of the sound are getting softened up because the spectral gating is releasing so slowly that it's just attenuating the transients and adding a little bit of attack to the sound where it should be quick slowing them down but there's this transient protection parameter which kind of short I think it shortens the release when the plugin detects there is a there's a quick change in loudness or quick increase in loudness however I can't like really get this plugin to express this problem because I think our noise sample is just too good let's record a bad bad noise sample and train it to plug in on it so I'm gonna record now okay so that's my bad noise sample I'm gonna also normalize it so it's loud and like throws this noise repellent plugin even more I should stress that the loudness of the noise sample we are analyzing in noise repellent is very important and kind of limits our options later down the road okay let's play this yeah so now our noise sample is completely screwed the noise profile noise repellent is holding inside is really messed up but that helps us highlight the problems that appear sometimes when you don't have ways to isolate the noise listen to what happens when I change the release time pretty much all the transits are smooshed out now if we increase the protect transients parameter you can hear that it's trying to recover that it's trying to like cut the release times when it detects there's a transient so the noise their noise reduction is so insane right here and so like badly profiled that it's some managing to do it very well we might actually have a better shot at this if we enable adaptive noise learn and just like let it run for a while now let's disable it so that our noise profile stays the same let's listen pretty okay let's now get rid of this false nasty noise profile I'm going to reset our noise profile and learn it again from this thing try again okay I think it's doing his job there is this thing called residual whitening and what it does is it like makes the residual signal sound like white noise and I think it's like what it's doing is kind of like dithering I'm doing this in air quotes because it's not dithering in the in the sense that we're converting from like you know 24 bit audio samples to 16 bit audio samples and we want to get rid of the quantization noise by inserting very precise randomness this is something else but it also is introducing randomness to break up the artifacts and you can hear it's making this residual sound like white noise actually if we not disable the residual listen and the thing what we could do is make this much louder and train our noise profile on that all right now it should be much stronger yay all right I think that's all the parameters so now let's move on to the creative side of things which I think might be interesting so I'm gonna play to you what I've made so what you just heard is a synth patch that is being processed with noise repellent but not for noise removal so without all the processing it sounds like this so that's an acd bass thingy but then I have recorded a little noise sample I've pushed it through noise repellent to teach it that sample so it creates a profile and then I use it to process that exact synth patch and I got something like that which I think it's pretty interesting and you can like really sculpt the sound if you just give it a different noise sample to mask the artifacts and like remove the feeling of a badly compressed audiophile added some reverb and some multi-band compression and also some compression compress saturator bar air windows and this is the final result now without noise repellent it sounds like that which is also a valid sound and it's an interesting patch now let's see what we can do if we record something different for this noise source let's enable noise repellent let's reset the noise profile and learn noise profile now let's play our little synth patch through that it sounds different now this is one way you can use this plugin creatively the other way is to use the residual listen which is it should give you only the things that are detected to be similar to the noise profile so that's the wet signal the process denoised signal and now without denoising so yeah one thing that's worth noting is that the plugin as I said in the beginning it introduces latency and that's dependent on the sampler rate you're running the plugin on I'm using 48 kilohertz sampling rate and it introduces 32 milliseconds of latency so it's not suitable for recording through because you would have way too much latency but it's okay if you're like using this for live streaming for example you can just you just need to delay your video accordingly by 32 milliseconds and you can have your video and audio in sync with denoising being done live and actually I've been using it a couple times for live streaming with the adaptive noise learn on which is doing a pretty decent job at some time I had to be running this thing on in extreme settings because I had an ac unit in my room because it was so hot that I would not be able to conduct a live stream without that so the whole live stream the ac unit was running on full blast in my room doing this and noise repellent I just trained it on that sound and just cut it off nearly perfectly sure it made my voice sound like a bad void call but it was still much better than so yeah that's the basic things for you a very useful thing that was introduced to this plugin a while back if you've been using it years ago you might remember when it wasn't there and it's that the plugin used to not remember the noise profile between saving and loading your session so if I saved my project in ardor and I loaded it up back up I would have to relearn the noise profile which was pretty annoying and they also write that it was made for ardor specifically but in my experience like it works okay in Karla and other hosts I tried it so it's not like it's a it's a badly written plugin that only works in ardor this is all I wanted to show you today don't forget to check out the noise repellent github page you can find lots of useful information about how to use it how it's working how to get best results and hopefully you can also understand masking in here uh it's a fact um I can't um yeah there's lots of great info there uh so that's it thanks for watching I hope you learned something also huge thanks to all the people who are supporting my work financially um after the last video's release the ardor midi master class the patreon support has exploded and I'm extremely excited about that because that means me doing this full time is getting closer and closer thank you so if you the reviewer would like to join these wonderful people who are making this possible please go to patreon.com slash anfa or liberapay.com slash anfa where you can drop me a buck or two every month now go and denoise some noises or something I don't know by the way this is the first video I'm recording using my new camera it's a lumix gh5 I got it used let's see how it stands so how it works I'm not sure if the green screen lighting is correct but the image should be okay I love you bye bye


Aaron not often you see a triple play just what's going through your mind as that's unfolding knowing the trouble that Chapman is in in that inning yeah you know Vaughn hit the ball pretty hard and it you know I'm right in line with Gio there so how he hit it you know right away it popped in my head actually and Gio being as instinctive as he is you know obviously did the right thing quickly stepped on the bag threw a strike to Rugi who really turned it over well to to really finish off a special play and and and get us out of trouble there especially you know when Hamilton comes in the game obviously the threat that he is you know so I thought Chappy did a good job of of really you know controlling him a little bit and and you know shortening up and and controlling the running game to keep him from just being able to take off on him and you know and the boys did the rest. When that happens late in the game like that does that create a feeling heading into the bottom of the ninth that this is our game we can't lose that game after after that type of play. I mean there there's definitely and that's an energy giver right there I mean you know crowds into that game it's a real tight you know back and forth very well pitched game obviously where there weren't a lot of opportunities the couple obviously we had a good chance the time before and they made a great play you know Anderson you know going up the middle and and having the instinct to go home in that situation was a tremendous play.  They were definitely fired up coming off you know you don't see Chappy very often you know pumping his fist and smiling and that was a special turn by the fellas. You mentioned the pitched in Jordan Montgomery career high 11 strikeout 7 shut out innings just what made him so effective this evening. You know what I thought him and Gary did a great job of really evolving as they went. You know I thought he got a little more reliant on the curveball which was a really good pitch for him. It seemed like they were you know hunting the change up a little bit on him. He read really good fastball command and good life on that pitch. He started to incorporate the cutter more later as as the game went on. But I thought the curveball was a really good secondary pitch set up by having a really good fastball that he was striking all night. So he was on the attack. He was in control really exciting outing for for money and obviously we needed every bit of it. Tom Merriam please unmute Aaron is it extra satisfying to win a game when the opposing picture was so dominant. Yeah I mean look you know we haven't been scoring a ton of runs of late and we've you know obviously we've been pitching really well.  So yeah I mean these are games you know you got to be able to win these games. It's not always going to be easy. You know I know our offense. I still believe over time is going to you know wear you down and have nights where you know we're going to we're going to put up a lot of crooked numbers. You know right now it's challenging and the guys are playing really good when it matters. And tonight there were a lot of even though runs were hard to come by and Rodan was dominant. There were some winning at bats there at the end. Even in the last inning where we didn't where we where we left the runners out there you know Anderson makes a great play and then Luke smokes a ball Luke Luke you know really really kills a ball there that you know is almost down the line. So and then obviously in that last inning just some winning at bats there to to to set the table. Justin Shackle please unmute. Hey Aaron how do you sum up all the elements that happen in a game like this from Montgomery's pitching to this triple play being turned in a tight spot to eventually walking off. It's a you know winning baseball right there. That's you know you know especially when you get in in games against other outstanding pitchers or a pitcher that's on in a particular night or you know you know hopefully we're we're we're playing meaningful games down the stretch when you know you're not always going to be able to just beat up the other opponent. You got to you got to find ways to win tough low scoring hard fought games and and the guys did an excellent job in some really big spots tonight coming through with some winning plays. What's the feeling like in the clubhouse after playing a game like this. Yeah there's a little extra buzz after that one that's that's an exciting one you know you know I mean the huge play obviously the triple play and then just again where where it was difficult for us to get much mounted offensively. I thought a lot of quality at bats there in the final two innings to give us a chance to ultimately pull that game out back to Meredith Aaron to walk off for Glaber this season. I know the first one was a little bit non-traditional but what makes him so good in those situations with his ability to kind of slow things down late in the game in those situations. I think you said it I think he does that well you know coupled with the fact that he's a great talented player and you know ever since you know he came to the big leagues he's thrived in those situations. You know I think there's no question the more that's on the line I think he likes playing in those situations. He's shown that throughout his playoff career so far and obviously a lot of big at bats in those kind of situations that he was in tonight. A no-hitter a triple play. I know what's


to never look at yourself as less than anybody else so inferior and never look at yourself as superior to anyone else. We are all equals. We just have different skillsets, different abilities and we're at different stages in our lives and our development. Everybody however is equal and I look at everybody as equal and I find that a very beneficial mindset to carry around. Taking that assertive stance into negotiation situations is about focus. It's about learning to act now rather than delaying things and putting them off till tomorrow or getting stuck in a decision making process in your mind where you're just stuck in that loop and it's going around and around again. Make a decision take an action. If you need to roll a dice, you know one in three I'm going to do it, four to six I'm not going to do it at least that will create forward movement for you. Stay focused and controlled. I'm just going to run through these quickly because a lot of them relate to the previous slide as well. Be direct and specific when you're talking with people.  Be certain of your facts. If you're going to state something as a fact be sure that you're right because you don't really want to end up with egg on your face later on. And that would degrade you in terms of the other persons or the other people's opinion of you. Be polite, courteous, be persistent if there are people getting in the way of your goals of what you want to achieve.  Avoid harboring grudges.  That can be a challenge to do to start off with but really by allowing your mind to focus on and have those people in your life they're taking up a space that could be filled with people who could be a lot more beneficial to your life and just holding onto relationships friendships that aren't serving you is actually not going to just keep you in the same place it's going to hold you back and pull you down. Don't get sidetracked from where you want to go and never grovel or apologise.  If you make mistakes you can admit to those mistakes but you don't have to apologise for your behaviour in those circumstances. Here's another tip and it goes back to that superiority thing or inferiority thing is avoid judging both yourself and others and that can be a really challenging thing to do to start off with what you may notice about yourself is when you're observing people or you're meeting people for the first time you might hear a negative statement in your mind about that person unfortunately all judgement and criticism is self-judgment.  That's the way the mind works and if you can avoid that happening, if you can retrain your mind the way I did it to start off with about ten years ago now was that any time I had a negative impression about somebody I had to come up with two positive statements in my mind immediately after that negative statement to correct it your mind gets pretty bloody tired of doing that if you have to keep doing it it's a great way to retrain your perspective and we'll move on there are some words in language that we either use verbally or in our minds but are really toxic to our progress and they're words that I would encourage you to look to avoid using so don't, ought, should, must but, try, wish and hope are words that are of no benefit to you whatsoever I can have hope for somebody else because I can't control that, it's outside of my control but I never hope for something for myself if I want it to happen, I want it to happen and I would do my best to make it happen but I'm not going to hope for it it's like saying, I'm going to try high intensity training if you prompt your mind with that suggestion but you're going to try something that's all it's going to do, it's going to try and try is a very weak word whereas if you say, I am going to do it you're giving your mind a direct instruction the issue of words like don't is the mind doesn't work particularly well with negatives so if you say, I don't want that to happen all the mind is really hearing is, I want that to happen you're setting yourself up for something that you don't want to have happen to happen we could go into loads more detail about this but for today, I just want you to be aware that there are words that you may, some of you may or may not be using and cleaning up your language can be a great benefit okay, so we're going to move on to the nutritional aspect of the talk now and nutrition relates to stress because when you're feeding your body well and correctly you're providing your body with more energy more usable energy and perhaps even more importantly you're providing it or avoiding providing it with anti-nutrients which are going to slow you down make yourself slipping into that stressful state far more easy to happen the book that I co-authored, The One Diet comes at nutrition from an evolutionary approach and I assume that some people in here are aware of paleo evolutionary approach to nutrition can I see a show of hands for people who are aware of that approach and people who are currently engaging with that approach as well, okay so from about 3 million years ago to today as a species to about 10,000 years ago which is about 99.6% of our development and our DNAs development our diet consisted of meats, seafoods, fresh fruits and fresh vegetables those really are the foods our bodies are designed to thrive and perform at their optimum on conversely nowadays, cheap ingredients are undermining our health the more we've become removed from the food chain and awareness of how food is produced what food can do for us the more ingredients are slipped into our diets that are of no benefit and no help to us whatsoever and primarily those are rapidly digested carbohydrates grains, sugars and sweeteners which are pretty much prevalent in anything that comes pre-boxed in a package that stuff is loaded with cheap ingredients which makes a lot of sense for the manufacturers because they can sell something with a high profit margin unfortunately it's doing us as a society and as individuals even more importantly a disservice and you have an issue which is of greater importance in the states but is creeping into our food here chemically altered sweeteners like high fructose corn syrup which from an evolutionary standpoint we have no experience of our bodies do not know how to handle and they've been in the food chain for just 20 years tiny, tiny amount of time


Welcome to the World Summit on the Information Society 2017. I am delighted to be joined by Mr. Thomas Schneider, Ambassador and Director of International Affairs at the Swiss Federal Office of Communication, OFCOM. Thank you very much for joining us. Thank you and first of all, of course, I'd like to welcome everybody in Geneva, in Switzerland, which is like every year the host through the ITU and its partners of the WISIS Forum. So happy that so many people have turned up. So since you are hosting the summit, do you have a particular message this year for the participants? Well, the message is basically the same procedure as every year, but this year it's special. So it's first of all, inviting people to leave their desks, break their silos, get out of their offices, get together with people that they normally do not meet, exchange their experience, learn from each other, detect commonalities in fields that may be quite different, whether it's somebody that is actually working in a banking sector but has to deal with data and internet issues and governance issues that meet somebody that is in the humanitarian fieldwork, but also has issues with data, with the internet, with connectivity, with privacy, with trust. So this is, I think, is a good platform for people to meet and learn from people that they normally don't so that they make new experiences or new insights to problems that they may think that they are the only ones that have it, but actually somebody else has more or less the same problem and has already found the solution. So this is, we think, a very good platform for people from all over the world, from all stakeholders to meet, get together, learn from each other and then go home with a broader horizon, like, by the way, the IGF that we are hosting this year, as well the UN Internet Governance Forum, which is another very important UN-led event that will be on 18 to 21 December, and we're also very happy to host the UN IGF, which will be at the Palais des Nations here in Geneva. So what role do you think ICTs can play in promoting sustainable development goals? We have looked at them together with our experts on development in the administration and a number of NGOs in Switzerland and others, and actually you find hooks on every of the 17 SDGs and on many of these SAP targets, where it's not necessary to use ICTs, but you probably get to achieve the goal quicker or more efficient if you use ICTs. So I won't go into details, because then I wouldn't stop anymore, but of course things like smart cities or where you have to manage traffic, you have to manage food chains and so on and so forth, the whole climate, agriculture, everything basically that you find under these 17 SDGs would benefit from using ICTs in a coordinated way as part of those strategies that are built around the 2030 agenda goals. So what efforts can be made actually to link together SDGs and the WISIs at the UN level? We have actually realized that although it's the same governments and sometimes even the same IGOs that work together as part of the WISIs process that has started here in Geneva in 2003, as well as in the Millennium Development Goals process, which has then been developed into the SDGs, that people, it's slowly starting, but people have not been aware of the benefits and opportunities that ICTs, internet applications, the use of data and up to artificial intelligence in the end offer to working on development issues. And we have had a hard time on our country, on national level, but also internationally to actually try and link these processes so that in particular those who work in the field who use tools like microfinancing tools, communication via mobile on market prices for agricultural goods or what have you, that they actually in a structured way realize the opportunities, the efficiency gains, the benefits that this work can get through ICTs, but this is something that they are not normally experts, while as those who deal with ICTs with internet applications are experts on the applications, but they normally don't necessarily know what actually they can be used for in a concrete development project. And bringing these two logics or fields together has proven and it's happening more and more in the past months and years, has proven to be something that is very efficient and also thanks to the ITU and those that are working around the WISIs structure and the WISIs forum, a lot of capacity building and awareness raising has been undertaken and it's now becoming more or less obvious to almost everybody that actually this makes sense to use ICTs for achieving the SDGs. Now, since Switzerland is a leading player in ICT already, can you give us some specific examples of how you link ICT and SDGs in the country? First of all, I think it's necessary to link this on a strategy level. So we have a strategy that is called Digital Switzerland for the national development of Switzerland as a modern digital society, digital economy. And then we have plans for developing the Swiss agricultural system or the Swiss industry or let's say different health system, different aspects in life and those need to be in line. That means those who normally, this is all distributed among governmental offices that also do not necessarily talk to each other every day, but you need to bring them together, they need to realize that every strategy that is being done and there are dozens and hundreds, sometimes even strategies per country and then globally on different issues, they need to realize where are the synergies, what should they do and so that these strategies actually work hand in hand. And the same goes for the UN or for the global level, that a strategy on how to achieve sustainable development goals needs to be linked with the national infrastructure strategy with the national strategy for fighting cybercrime. All these things need to be connected because otherwise you may get confusing results, the actors don't know with whom they should cooperate and what we do for instance in Switzerland, we are part of those who undertake a 2030 agenda baseline assessment currently, which will present to the UN at the latest stage about where we are with achieving the 17 development goals and the 169 or how many there are sub targets on national level but also in global cooperation and we have been called by a development agency who is leading this process, called into this process to tell them where on all these goals that we as experts on internet and digitization from a rather technical or market point of view, where we think the impact of digitization would be significant on all of these goals. So we went through all of these goals and made some some proposed like where should they as leading agency take digitization into account what would be partners on national level and international level so that they get the missing element in the puzzle from us and we will cooperate much closer because of that exercise also in the future to share the work that we are doing where we are supporting ITU in their development fields whereas they support other work with other institutions so that we get this together so that as I said the experts in development get to know from experts in ICTs in internet applications how they can use it and the other way around those who deal with internet that they get an idea of who they could share it with so that they can actually use it and we are doing this more and more in this country in Switzerland. So it's all about partnerships isn't it? It's all about listening to each other learning from each other and then engaging in constructive corporations, yes. Mrs. Thomas Schneider, Ambassador and Director of International Affairs at OFCOM thank you very much. You're welcome.


The Minister of Education, Professor Maman Tahir, asked a review not to further government who soon addressed the scourge of out-of-school children in the country. Tahir Renute and that he received the margin order from the President to address this call. And now there are plans to rule out policy initiatives that would have it addressed. Importantly, it is the issue of out-of-school. We have a lot of young men and girls who are running the streets, who should have been in school, and who are running into tents of willies. So this is the serious problem for us in the country now. And the President has narrated that it has to be a province of his government. And as I said earlier, we have also stated very clearly that you would expect the states to come together and go to the federal government so that we address this scourge. It's already a national scourge. So we cannot allow it to continue to grow. And so in the days that must come, we'll be coming up with a public policy which will require some level of operation, collaboration, sort of a co-path between the federal government states and other places so that we can, for the time being, address this problem. Now, Governor Ahmed Umayru, INI's remarks also applauded Tunubu administration for taking steps clearly aimed at fostering industry harmony and its tertiary educational sector. We are all concerned. The federal government has been of Tunubu's assistance to us. We've gone through business. We're not going to go through other. All of this problem we have came in with a lot of passion, with a lot of intellect and concern because...


In December 2016, Fort Worth gained national attention—not for our world-class museums, historic stockyards, or unprecedented economic growth, but because of a video involving a resident, her daughters, and a Fort Worth police officer. In the days and months following the video, there were public outcries and calls for change. The Fort Worth City Council heard the many voices in our community, and in August 2017, they appointed the Race and Culture Task Force.  I want this to be a group that takes the data, takes what they're hearing, and comes back with recommendations of how we can actually take action, how we can better understand each other, and how we can move the needle forward for all citizens. City Council selected four co-chairs. These chairs then chose 19 other residents to join the task force. I've lived here all my life, and I've seen the transition of our communities, whether it's the north, south, east, or west, transition from, you know, Pauley, Anglo-community turned African-American, now it's turning Hispanic. We have to learn how to embrace those cultures. Well, I must admit that when I was first asked to be a part of the task force, I was hesitant because I wasn't sure how serious the mayor and the city manager were in appointing this task force. I didn't want it to be just for show. I didn't want it to be a delaying tactic. I didn't want it to be something that they could say that we did something, but we won't do anything after that. So I was hesitant until I got assurance from the mayor and the city manager that this was for real, and they really wanted answers. They wanted us to talk about disparities, find those disparities, and then try to come up with some solutions that the City Council could implement. At its first meeting, the task force chose the name One Fort Worth and adopted a mission statement to listen, learn, build, and bridge in order to create an inclusive Fort Worth for all residents. I think it's important to our community because our community needs to be whole. We live in a time today which is very fractured by politics, by religion, by beliefs, by location, by neighborhood, right, on what side of the tracks do you live? And I think that this task force work is to put those boundaries away, to erase them. There's another saying that says that the whole world is a narrow bridge, right? I think the task force calling its job is to make sure that that bridge is open so everyone can walk across to any side that they want. Over the past year, the task force has been listening to residents and learning from them. They held two large town hall meetings, hosted community conversations with 17 different civic organizations, and listened to or read comments and ideas from more than 1200 residents. They have also attended and hosted more than 50 community meetings and trainings. I needed to be a part of listening and learning from the community. As a minority, sure, I know that disparities exist, but not to the degree that I heard in some of the meetings I attended. So to learn, to listen, to try and dial in and feel the emotion and show empathy for people who are hurting was really important to me, and that's been the biggest revelation for me. I had no idea to what extent people were hurting throughout the community. The task force also looked at data and information that identified disparities in our community and further defined the issues residents were concerned about. Based on all the input, the task force formed seven committees to look into the areas that residents said were most important. Criminal justice, economic development, education, governance, health, housing, and transportation. The Fort Worth City Council asked the task force to develop a racial equity plan with recommendations for improving race relations and racial equity in our community. Based on the data and the community input, the committees developed a plan and presented it to the City Council. The Council officially accepted the plan in January 2019. Staff is now reviewing the recommendations to develop a work plan for implementation. The City of Fort Worth took a look at itself, reexamined itself, and decided to make a change for the better, not for some of its citizens, but for all of its residents. My hope is that at the end of all of this, we'll know more about each other and that we'll empathize more with each other and we'll come up with some solutions. See, the greatest opportunity is to be a part of the solution.


All right fool me once Hmm shame on me fool me twice with a cool episode concept and you kind of flub it away That's on you Hey guys, sorry for the lateness of this review Mint that I have been meaning to get around to this episode But after watching Westworld and just build my build up for Westworld was much bigger than supernatural I'm sorry to say that but Westworld's been really good. It just ended if you guys haven't seen any of my reviews Please check those out cuz and then check out the show. Well, check out the show then see my review is whatever either way We're in this shirt again. This is the The Dean and Castiel shirt and then also found this Castiel cup at HMV So disgusting for saying that out loud My probably will be my supernatural cop from now on so episode seven Never the episode we had recently were Dean killed Hitler and that was totally a wasted episode we now have apocalypse Point two now going on with Lucifer being loose and I was really looking forward to the whole idea of Castiel and Crowley being a duo buddy cop duo like they even built it up in the ads for this episode and They did maybe like two jokes with it and that was it this whole episode I was waiting for this concept and they just threw it away as for Lucifer He was walking around in Buck Springfield whatever this guy is anyways, and this was kind of interesting I think he did a good job.   That's just salted the waters forever. So I don't know I didn't enjoy this episode I was liking the build-up towards it I thought everything about it was kind of cool the jokes at LA once again going to LA which was just downtown Vancouver and All the other venues and aspects of the episodes were cool No one would turn each other in real sin like atmosphere and then it comes to the It was a great build-up and then the turnout was just Blit the idea that they're trying to make Lucifer a big bad again Except the script is so muddled that it didn't it has no real direction at one point Lucifer says that I'm just doing this Or fun that I have no motive I have no plan and that's what I felt like this season's got so far there's been such back and forth between really good episodes and Episodes this a mentally is the second of the season, but that's two out of seven So I'm hoping that the ratio stays positive Because I am enjoying certain aspects of the season I'm just really on the fence now Lucifer aspect because this really threw away I thought of great potential for an episode anyway guys I'm gonna give this episode a three out of seven It was enjoyable up until the end and then it just felt really wish wash I am looking forward to the next episode mainly because I'm wondering what's happening I haven't checked out CW yet But this is basically around this time of year is when see Supernatural did their mid-season finale and that was an Amazing mid-season finale last year, so I'm waiting to see what they do for this one I really hope to God this wasn't it because this is enticing me over at all also on a side note David de Simone asked this so I'm gonna put a link in the description for a Supernatural Facebook fan page Before I get to post my reviews there. It's still a little small group growing if you guys are interested in just some interesting supernatural memes Quotes all this other stuff check out the link below. He's still building it But it's a pretty it looks like it could be something pretty cool. Anyway guys, that's all for me I hope you enjoy this review. See you guys next time


Artists people don't like working with y'all for a reason some of y'all right, but I think it's fair And I think it's extremely necessary for you to understand the perspective that this producer puts out there Check it out Get caught up in potential don't ever get caught up in the nigga potential That was probably one of my biggest problems back in the day. I had the same Where you believe in a nigga more than he believes in himself.     I told you man I told you regular words Say genuinely hit different than those common curse word insults. I'll tell you Exactly my point But watch watch episode 25 to know we talk about there, but boy The things that he is he's saying great points This is the stuff that we talk about behind the scenes Yeah, all right And many artists don't hear unless you're one of the artists that Fit the bill that we like to talk about around that we like enough to talk about the other So you can understand because many artists don't understand that yo man People can't want it more than you That's the most common way that you might hear people people say all right. Like I can't want this morning you but like We just very recently heard people talk about Like having a wake artist up or artists not recording music right pretty established artists and not And it's like yo You've been around and you've been popping you have all this money But you barely recorded any music and your career isn't solidified you've popped But your career isn't solidified yet and then your project came out and it didn't do all that well But you also didn't give us that much content to work with and I'm not talking about content like social media content I'm talking about hey, you only record it You know 10 songs in an entire year. All right that type of thing. So look People want to believe in artists people in this music shit Like we talk about all the time like people can do other things for more money easy Easier, yeah, right if they're in music and they're trying to take it seriously You know either they see music is their way out because they got some other things going on in life Keeping them out of the traditional industries or they end it for the passion one way or another Either way go they really want what they're attached you to work. Yeah, you know I'm saying so If They start to view you in this light. It's because they wanted more than you right and that's a troubling place to be now Believe in yourself though Like he talked about a one guy wanting All this validation from platforms like world star and all this type of stuff and look he didn't use the term validation But that's a lot of times what artists are focused on.  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But the thing is we're not going to let everybody in forever So the faster you apply the better your chance of getting accepted brand man network dot com. Check it out Back to the video. That's that was the most interesting part of me, right? He talked about the lack of investment Well, half of it to me is you know artists not wanting to invest in themselves. They were much rather Play the character Didn't do the work to be the character. You know what I'm saying, which is a very real thing I think we see it more so in like rap Pride and maybe rapping rock but rapping rock because they have such like dynamic characters that represent those genres That they want to be that character before it like you are the character that makes sense.  Like first off believing in somebody is very emotionally draining Right, especially when they're not doing all the things that That you want them to do or need them to do and like I speak about this kind of thing Like I've seen both sides of it like one from a marketing perspective Like us in the agency and then from the management situation that I had Right and like it's draining when it's like then you've been Working 14 hours to get this opt for rsa then Flux it up and misses it. You know what I'm saying? Tiring bro or like the beautiful thing about the marketing agency is that the pavement is the buffer Right, it can be like, hey, you spend this money. So if you don't do the work There ain't no refunds, bro You know what I'm saying like you just ask out but when you in one of those positions where you're not taking money From the artist like management Um, you know, whatever other creative services that people may be offering like that She was very emotionally draining. You know what I'm saying? Um And so I think like artists need to take this step back to like one like every artist listening to this needs to Text your team members and blah, bro. I appreciate you and I'm about to get to work. You know what I'm saying? They were probably love to hear that y'all watching a youtube video instead of getting to work right now You know what I'm saying? It's just being real. You know what I'm saying? They listen to the pod not working but also just like think about Like think about like what the other side like looks like you know what I'm saying like for You as an artist has privilege to have people around you that believe in you more than likely means are taking Work off your hand as you will have to do if they weren't there for you You know what I'm saying? Like if you didn't have this manager, you'd be the one responding to emails at 7 o'clock in the morning If you didn't have this producer homie Be you scrolling through youtube looking for beats, right?  Um, so I think about like the amount of work that like That they are having to go through to believe you because like you said bro like every person In music that has a valuable skill set In theory could take that skill set somewhere else. It may not necessarily be a different industry But you get very much so be a different person You know what I'm saying?  I'm just gonna focus on another now Like client number one, bro, you ain't meet the bar but two three four five and six Hey, man, they're doing everything we told them to do right they're doing everything right They're making certain moves that you're fighting against. I won't even attempt to do Why am I gonna waste my time over here? When I could just help make their situation big and we all win, you know what I'm saying?   They came to see me always, you know what I'm saying? But Any smart business person with any other skills set around music or music artists is One long-term way more valuable than you are as artists. You know what I'm saying?  I want to believe you and believing in people is a lot of work It's a wild question. It is a wild question.  I was like, believe can we you believe me? I was gonna be nice and say something like encouraging words and I was like no, he need to get hit with reality real quick.  I believe you don't know to respond about you Man I think artists should Seriously think about A manager who's only getting 10% Means when you make your first 100k, they only get $10,000 crazy All right Now that's the agreement the goal is to make you make way more But still think about those reference points Yeah, all right and what you're making at the time and what that means for them. Maybe it's 20% Okay, they make it $20,000 But there's a gap there and for that person to be heavily invested in you They really have to make you work for them to work.  Oh what happened?  So like I understand When Certain power plays in the industry make you jump through a thousand hoops to finally work with them and talk to them You know what I'm saying I mean, even like us bro like we make more folks go through applications Like I don't know man You gotta you gotta put a little work in before I even come in and say like okay I believe in this enough to do a campaign behind it, right? So still things that we want to see because Most people in music have experienced like some type of burn from an artist Like the artist getting burned by industry people was a very powerful narrative stories all this time But the other way around doesn't get talked about as much You know what I'm saying? Because it's not it's not as cool, but the fans going usually root for the artists You know what I'm saying? Whether they're in the wrong or in the right. They're like, I don't know I don't know that motherfucker. Well, I care that you finesse them out of five m's. It's your money up You know what I'm saying?   It's like no it's not a good feeling I saw a clip the other day About the chicago bulls and it was all these players commenting on michael jordan, right? And yeah, they acknowledged With him that he wasn't the nicest guy all the time yada yada yada, right? But they were like this dude practice hard like crazy like one dude Said he came from another team and went to the bulls practice. He was just like the hell's going on Like this practice like this don't make no sense And then jordan put up crazy numbers in the in the game and then go to practice and go crazy like like try hard playing all out and What they were saying was in practice You had to come see jordan, right? Like you you really did feel like you were going against jordan and you had to deal with jordan, but in the game You were happy that you had jordan on your side, right? Now i'm not telling artists to be hail You know, I don't know what is the art artist zilla like brides ill of your artists or something like that but What I am saying is All of that they had to deal with with michael jordan When they were in a game with jordan They were happy to have him on their team Yeah, they felt good that there was a better better chance of success So if you can have people on your team feel like oh shoot I'm rocking with this artist the way he believes the way he moves the way he works I know we're going to win at some point Then people will move different But if they're doubting they feel like I got to remind you of stuff I'm not talking about because you're working so hard. I got to remind you Oh, you got a meeting right at this time like I got to remind you that practice is a thing I got to remind you that hey, you are an artist and you do need to create music, right? You're not listening. You're not coachable because michael jordan was still coachable, right? You if you Don't like possess those things that make people confident to Follow you or be a part of your vision then It's going to be hard to keep people around a value. Yeah, because you're the spark You know what I'm saying? It's like and so like we're all looking at you as the artist is like man, like They're not doing what they're supposed to be doing like why should I feel motivated to do a good job? You know, there's certain professions where You know, if they have integrity that would do a good job simply because they were paid for like us Or I like we if there's a client that does things that makes us not believe in them Then it's like well, we're gonna at least do a good job It ain't the hardest for out of integrity, right? But You can really like feel the spark like dying along the way where I like it might start with us We kind of like man, I don't know then you'll talk to the manager and you see that same Look of death in his eyes like man. I'm trying to get into do x y z brand.  I'm just But yeah, you're definitely not gonna actually yeah The there's people who get extra. Yeah, just because Of how they carry themselves and the belief that people have been them is like dang All right, these are the terms of our agreement, but man Yo, I just talked to somebody and they're dope and they're cool. I'm gonna tell them about you I don't that's not a part of my job. I'm gonna tell them about you or I'm gonna do a extra 30 minutes on tiktok Scroll and look up our ideas for you because of the way you move or the belief in a project whatever whatever So If you want to get the most out of people It takes you it requires you to move a certain way. Yeah, yeah Now with that being said


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