e bark. Bike lanes on the Burbank. Bike lanes have been shown by research. Nothing. Thank you for your comments, Rick. If you would like to speak longer, you can speak a raise your hand again and go after Ricardo. Ricardo, it's your turn to speak. I'm giving you permission to speak. Please state your name for the record. If you so choose and go ahead with your comment. Thank you. Hello everybody, my name is Ricardo Suarez. I am a rising senior now at Royal University Prep, the high school nearby. And I think that as it was mentioned, youth should be heard throughout this process. I think there's been a lack of representation from youth. So I think that maybe going into school or asking about our opinion because I recall during my sophomore year. So I guess two years ago now we wrote letters to the city council about this park, but something happened where they weren't considered. And so we felt left out of it. We also attended, some of us attended the meeting on March 2020 or I believe we attended one of the meetings at Cook Middle School and we also felt like we weren't represented enough. So I hoped for youth to be more involved in that and to be included in this process because it's ultimately benefiting us. I live in the Rosan area, so that's why I'm emphasizing on this issue. I, as far as for the park, I would hope for it to be more of a preserved park just because there are already amenities at, for instance, South With Park, which I think could be looked at and improved rather than implementing more concrete or anything like that at the Rosan Creek Community Park. Yeah, I think that was it. I would just hope for it to be, I think that as mentioned by Rick, we don't need more parking. I think the less parking the better just because there is already parking and just to keep it as natural as possible preserving our natural or our nature that is found there and that we want to keep. Right, all right, that's it. Thank you. Thank you, Ricardo. The next comment will come from Hector, followed by Rick. Hector, I am enabling your speaking permissions. Please share your name for the record if you so choose and share your comment. Great, good evening everyone. My name is Dr. Hector Eco. I'm the new superintendent for the Rosalind School District. And first of all, I just want to introduce myself and extend my invitation to collaborate with you on any given project that is mutually beneficial to both entities. And so along those lines, I want to partner with as many external partners as possible to enhance the services that we provide our students and families. So in this case, just like Ricardo, one of our amazing students commented hearing our student voices as well as some of our educators and parents would be on an ongoing basis. Great, we appreciate it. And so we would avail ourselves to make sure that if you wanted to host any such meetings in one of our schools, we would be most happy to help you with that and to get some of the community members to come and express their ideas in terms of how to work together and make sure to provide our families and students with the best services possible. And with that, I want to thank you and continue success. Thank you, Hector. The next comment comes from Rick. Rick, I've given you permission to speak. Please go ahead with your comment. Thank you for the second whack at it here. I want to identify with the last two speakers in particular. Yes, more involvement of young people. After all, they're going to be bearing the brunt of climate change and they need to have a voice in this. And two, yes, get involved with the schools as a old school teacher myself for over 30 years in elementary, high school and college. I strongly think that there needs to be more cooperation there. What I was about to say when I was ended the last time around was that the bike lanes on Burbank, because they're not protected bike lanes, will actually afford very little safety and will not encourage people to ride to the park. So if you could encourage the city to use protected bike lanes, that would be very important. There's been good research done on that and it's clear, just ordinary bike lanes do not do the job. One final comment. This is a park with predominantly with oaks in it and oaks are highly resistant to fire.  Oaks are amazing with respect to fire dangers. So let's keep it in the natural oak woodland as much as we possibly can. And the more trees the better, because they sequester a lot of greenhouse gases. And in terms of an ecosystem, there's a difference between a healthy tree and a healthy ecosystem. A healthy ecosystem actually has a few dead trees in it because they provide all kinds of habitat for other species, often endangered species. So I wouldn't be too quick to trim trees or to take out trees that just happen to be dead. Maybe leave a couple for the wildlife's sake. Okay, thank you. Thank you, Rick. Are there any final public comments? Alice has one more comment. Alice, I'm enabling your speaking permissions. Please state your name for the record if you so choose and provide your comment. Thank you so much. This is Alice Lannigan. I was hoping it would be okay to jump in with some specific comments. So a few things. So I would like to request that there be picnic tables and benches along the walking paths throughout the park for people who don't want to just sit in a group area but want to enjoy nature on their own and or in the more naturalistic areas of the park. And also the more benches, the more it facilitates walking because people who have limited walking abilities, I do, it's easier to walk if they're frequent benches along the way to choose from to sit on. And second, and also people who are just going to the park as just one or two people don't necessarily want to sit in a large group picnic area. They might like a bench on their own. And then next, let's see. If there can be tables and benches near the vernal pools and overlooking the creek with trash cans, that would be a nice feature. And access for children into water areas or having some sort of water feature for kids. Third, I know that redwood trees probably aren't native to that spot but redwood trees provide the deepest shade all year long. And I've noticed that people will sit on the ground under a redwood tree rather than sit at a picnic table in the sun because the sun even in the winter is so hot nowadays. And then regarding features for women, the yellow designated path that goes diagonally across the park is about twice the length of the path that goes through the north area from McMinn to Burbank Avenue. And I'm concerned about safety and access for girls and women on their bikes trying to get from one side of the park to the other that it be a direct path across the northern part of the park.   Thank you, Alice. The next comment comes from Ricardo. Ricardo, have you enabled your speaking permissions? Please go ahead with your comment. Thank you. I forgot to mention this earlier, but considering there are multiple schools surrounding this area, for instance, Rosen Elementary School, I mean, Rosen Creek right in front, you also have Rosen Accelerated Middle School, you also have Shepherd right there and the high school Rosen University Prep. I think it is best if youth have an environmental awareness, therefore keeping it as a preserved area gives us that ability to be one with nature and be involved in keeping a place healthy and environmentally aware individuals. We will become that. And so learning about those places and helping nurture that as being involved with the planning or decision making of that is important to us. So definitely involving us, but also, you know, I want to emphasize the fact that we want to keep that as a preserved environmental area. And that's it. Thank you. Thank you, Ricardo. Is there anybody else who has not made a comment that would like to speak? Seeing no additional hands, I will turn the meeting back over to Board Chair Cuant. Thank you, Emily. Mary Lou, are there any emailed public comments that were submitted prior to the meeting? And if so, is it now time to read them? Yes, Emily has those and she'll be happy to read those. Thank you. There are three email comments. The first email comment is, Dear Mary Lou Nichols, we all know that climate change is upon us, but we do not sufficiently examine how the design of urban areas amplifies the excessive heat that is increasingly upon us because of the rise of atmospheric carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. Roseland and the area south of Herne Avenue can be held up as prime examples of the temperature increase that the urban heat island effect can bring upon residents in our area because we not only have an egregious lack of parks, but we also possess a remarkable lack of trees and reflective surfaces. But Roseland Creek Nature Park with its trees provides some moderation of this heat amplification. See the article below that discusses how the urban heat island increases suburban temperatures. This means that during a heat spell, parks and trees can be a life and death healing factor by moderating potential heat prostration in residents. And what we are experiencing now will only amplify in the years ahead. This is an important consideration regarding parks and open space across all of Santa Rosa, but especially in our Southwest area because we are not only seriously under parked, but also insufficiently and seriously under treat. Thank you for taking this consideration into advisement as a further rationale for maintaining natural areas in Roseland. Please include this in the proceedings of the Board of Community Services meeting as it discusses the Roseland Creek Park and the General Plan, Red Krueger. And I just want to share that the articles were provided to the Board and are part of the agenda item, but they will not be read during this comment period. The second comment, Santa Rosa Community Board of Services. Forest Unlimited formed in 1995 to protect and enhance forests and watersheds in Sonoma County. One component of our outreach is urban forestry. We have been involved in support of the Roseland neighbors in the maintenance and improvement of the properties now considered before the Board for Development. This involvement over a decade includes tree planting and repairing corridor, trail improvements and trash cleanups. I am sure Board members are aware of the significance that natural forest play in protection of water and micro climate enhancements. The benefits are also direct as places people go for serenity and scenic enjoyment. Within urban environments, this is rare and should be highly prioritized and protected. Our support for natural areas with urban settings are in line with the points made below by Dwayne DeWitt in practice. His comments will be proceeding, I mean coming after this. One, Roseland Creek Repairing Corridor needs to be restored. First and foremost, during this time of drought, no new grass or lawn or multi-use turf should be planted at any place in this proposed park during this time of extreme drought. Maybe never as we need to save this natural area instead of ruin it. Two, save the trees and plant more native species trees, coastal live oak and valley oak, California sycamore, redwoods, et cetera. Three, do not pave any of the parking areas. The existing ones have functioned as is for over 60 years. Four, allow the local residents to put in a pomo park such as my walk park in Nevada, California, done close to 50 years ago to honor the first indigenous people there. We should do the same in Roseland. Five, leave nature wherever we can to help our Roseland children have nature now and forever. Six, the article linked here is pertinent to providing natural areas in low-income urban settings, trees the critical infrastructure, low-income neighborhoods lack. Thank you, Larry Hansen, Ford president, Forest Unlimited. I'm ready for the third comment. Dear government officials, because you are a part of the forces of no, constantly discriminating against the disadvantaged, underserved, overburdened Rosland Creek neighborhood, today some new no's are requested from you. But first remember the Rosland Creek neighborhood was the lowest and worst of the human development index rankings in the 2014 Portrait of Sonoma County report and study published by the Sonoma County officials. What little Rosland Creek neighborhood natural green space there is for human rest and respite has been under constant threat of development for decades. Citizen efforts by the neighbors to save nature have always been met with no from city staff. Now let's do more no's from you today. But instead these no's from you are requested to help nature in Rosland and the Rosland Creek neighborhood. In a time of extreme drought, now lasting years, the city has again declared a water emergency and a shortage of water. The city requests all of us to cut water use by 20% minimum now. So please say no to any lawns, turf and landscaping for Rosland parks requiring the use of water beyond what nature brings with the rains when the rain returns. Make this now and forever please. The droughts also bring extreme fire danger existing now. Please say no to any kind of open flames. No barbecues, no grills, no fireworks, no smoking of any kind in all Rosland parks and especially in the Rosland Creek neighborhood and neighborhood park, as proposed by the Rosland Creek neighborhood residents years ago. In order to respect the rights of private well owners, please say no to any types of impermeable surfaces being placed in the Rosland neighborhood. This will help with groundwater recharge when rain does return to Rosland. Please say no to asphalt paving, concrete pavers and pathways. No paving is needed for the pathways as can be evidenced by unpaved Americans with Disabilities Act, compliant pathways in national parks and the local Presidio Trust land in San Francisco. The Bikeway Greenway Rosland Creek Trail should not be paved and does not need to be paved. For decades, unpaved roadways next to creeks used by the Sonoma County Water Agency have also been used as trails by Santa Rosa. Examples can be found at Santa Rosa Creek and Steel Creek as well as many others within the Santa Rosa city limits. Please say no to paving the Southwest Greenway along the Rosland Creek Bikeway Greenway Trail. Last but not least, please say no to a community park in the Rosland Creek neighborhood. Instead, designate Rosland neighborhood as a special use park area as allowed in the general plan. Then designate the 1400 Verbank Avenue land first purchased over a decade ago as Pomo Park, a neighborhood park to honor our local Rosland Pomo Indians. I'm almost done. Many Pomos grew up in Rosland and over a decade ago, many Rosland residents asked for this park to have an interpretive Pomo Village component. To ignore this request saying other Pomos from outside Rosland want something else wrong. Local Pomos and Rosland say this is racist towards them. Please ignore requests from what they say is the white quote white man's tribe with the casino and runner park. Please say no to racism. Sincerely Dwayne DeWitt. That concludes the public email comments. Thank you, Emily. And I'd like to three hours into this, I would like to thank the members of the public who stuck around. And also for the board members, this is the meat of what we do on the board community services is interpret what staff has put together, listen to the public and encourage more members of the public to participate in our parks. And having said that, we are now tasked with the decision as to whether or not to recommend the Rosland community park master plan as it has been sent to us to send it forward to city council for their review and approval. Would anyone on the board of community services like to present a motion in that regard?  Is that for this? Yes, two things. I think it's quite admirable to allow the community to have more than three minutes. Sometimes it takes a little bit more than three minutes to make an important point. And we gave the last community person the opportunity to have a little bit more than three minutes. So, you know, good for everybody on that. And then I will just restate at the appropriate time and thank you and forgiveness for my premature motion. But I will now move that the board of community services recommend that the city council approves the proposed Rosland Creek Community Park Master Plan as presented today. I'll second it.  It's a rush to the goodness. Can we get a roll call vote please? Yes, please respond with aye or nay when I call your name. Chair Cuant. Yes. Board member Pitts. Yes. Board member Spence. Yes. Board member Spillman. Yes. And board member Van Helsema. Yes. The motion carries with five ayes and zero nays. Congratulations. Great. I would love to say board that our work is done, but it is not. We are now tasks in my opinion with taking this great knowledge base that we have learned over the past several years, over the past three hours and share it with our city council person so that when this item comes before them later this year, they go in with a position of knowledge. I'm not telling, asking you to tell them what to do, but I am strongly suggesting that you take your city council person by the hand and say we are going on a walk and that this is important. Staff is going to provide us with 11 by 17 color maps to have in our hands so that when we take our city council person on this very important walk, we can reference to things and where they're going to be. We can walk from that parking lot to the picnic grounds. We can further our own understanding and really make our representatives more aware of what's going on, possibly not in their backyard, but in our community. And if you're not comfortable or can't do that, I for one, I will take somebody else. I'm definitely taking my city council person, but if you're not in a position to do that, I for one will volunteer to do double duty. Perhaps other people would as well, but we really want to encourage, in my opinion, our city council people to be more than slideshow presentation participants in this new park. And with that, I don't know if anyone wants to comment on that, but with that, thank you all. I'll just say we've done good work for the community. I hope we've done good work for the community that will benefit from this park. It's a really a quality of life vote that we had today. And hopefully the community will embrace it and the city council members will wholeheartedly approve it. And Chair Kwan, I just wanted to chime in. I'm looking for my list of folks, but if we have members of the community still attending, you can always contact Recreation of Parks to get a hold of me, but it's Jay Santos at SRCity.org or<PHONE_NUMBER>. 3781, if you'd like to get in touch with me, I know there's a member of the community that wanted some contact info. That's all I have, thank you. Thanks, Jen. I need to do a special announcement that beginning at our next regular meeting, which is less than a week from now, if it's four o'clock a week from now, any correspondence submitted prior to the start of the meeting will no longer be read during the meeting due to time constraints. All correspondence will be provided to us as board members and attached to the agenda prior to the meeting for reference. Late correspondence received after the submission deadline will be attached to the agenda up to one week after the meeting for which it is submitted. And with that, there's gonna be a move to adjourn and stick around though, there's a bit of paperwork we have to do, paperwork. Would anyone care to move to adjourn? Don't all say it once. Move to adjourn, chair. Second. Third, fourth, and fifth. Can we, let's go through the motions. Can we take a roll call, please? Eight. Yes. Yes, yes. So with that at 737 in the PM, I call this meeting of the Board of Community Services that has addressed for us in Creek Community Park to a close and remind everybody that we're gonna be back here at four o'clock next Wednesday. And I want everyone to come up with a really good argument and possibly bribes for us to be able to meet in real life come August. So, sharpen your sticks on that one and see you all virtually in a week. Carol, thank you for your leadership, Jen. Thank you for everything that you've done. That was phenomenal insights and presentation, really great job. Thanks everyone. Thanks not. Good job. Bye bye.


Hey, I'm Anfa. I'm an electronic music producer and sound designer So I only use open-source software and Linux for all my work In this video, I want to talk about loudness and dynamic range. I was thinking about discussing this topic for quite a while and I thought I'm gonna do it in this beautiful place listening to The sounds of nature. All right, so what is dynamic range and the broadest understanding it's the difference between the smallest and the largest amount of something that you can register For example in a camera a dynamic range would be the smallest amount of light versus the largest amount of light that the camera can register in In a microphone, it's The quietest sound versus the loudest sound that the microphone can capture and then Let's add without distortion because well Absolutely any microphone can capture a nuclear explosion from five meters away. I Would say but none of them can do it without distortion So for the level of input to count it he it has to be clean. It has to be reproduced with Great fidelity. Of course, there are some limits and some thresholds we could apply like how much distortion is acceptable Etc because nothing is perfect and nothing is actually linear in the analog domain and This very much happens in the analog domain, but there's also dynamic range in the digital domain and That is extremely well-defined Most of the time for example a 16-bit PCM wave file Has a dynamic range a theoretical dynamic range of 96 decibels How do we know that well There are 16 bits if we have a One-bit audio stream that means it's either on or off So the highest fidelity we can really encode is a train of pulse waves and They are all at the same loudness maximum loudness if we have two bits in a room formation We can have either complete silence a Square wave at one-third Loudness a square wave at Two-third loudness or a full loudness square wave But then if we try to jiggle the samples We can create something that will sound more or less like a triangle wave if we have like One two three two one zero Etc. It may sound like a sign like a triangle wave Again, that's extremely low fidelity audio still the least I has probably been used in like Consumer applications was 8-bit. I believe at least in computer age 8-bit samples where common for mod music trackers and stuff and Even I I'm pretty sure that even the first half-life Has 8-bit resolution of its sound files of its sound effects. They sound extremely Crusty and it's a big shame because the sound design is interesting. Here is an example of an 8-bit Sound recording notice how the background noise is all distorted and crackly Now the bit depth is totally unrelated to sample rate Before you've heard 8-bit PCM sound However, it was still at 44.1 or 48 kilohertz sampling rate Now you are listening to 8-bit PCM 16 kilohertz sampling rate That's quite a difference, isn't it? If that sounds nostalgic, you're probably over 30 Okay, but How do these bits actually define the dynamic range? Well adding a single bit to our dynamic range or bit depth of an audio signal digital audio signal is Is giving us extra 6 decibels So if we have 8 bits When we take 8 and multiply by 6 that's gonna be the dynamic range the theoretical maximum Dynamic range that we can represent in this 8-bit digital audio stream Similarly with 16 bits we just multiply 16 by 6 Okay, now this is all Dynamic range of the medium Which doesn't mean the Information you put on the medium is gonna utilize all that for example your 16-bit audio CD could be Produced so quiet that it will effectively only have like 30 decibels of dynamic range because you'll have to play it so loud that you were you will hear the noise floor of the medium Noise floor, that's also a very important concept in dynamic range and Photography or film Noise floor is the grain of the film itself So if you have amounts of light that are so tiny that the grain of the film is hiding them well, that means The amount of signal or light is lower than the smallest amount of light that can be registered cleanly and if for some reason there is more noise our Practical dynamic range gets smaller because quieter sounds Darker lights all get drowned in the noise and that leads us to dynamic range of music There's a well-known concept at this point of loudness war which in summary is a trend of producing the digital releases of music recordings Which are which have less and less dynamic range and Are pushing the limits of digital audio which is pretty much pointless But the record company started doing it, I think because they believe that boost sales It didn't it never does People don't care because every playback System on the planet has a volume control and unless you are making your music so quiet that it's Practically very difficult to play at a comfortable level It is really Irrelevant how loud you make your music There's some very helpful technology especially developed in the past decades and the best standard for measuring loudness in a digital format is The ebu, which is European Broadcast Union are 128 which is the recommendation 128 that defines the loudness units and loudness units full-scale Measurements as well as a few methods of calculating different types of measurements Like the integrated measurement that averages the level across an entire program now European Broadcast Union mainly deals with television That's why there's the term program but we can also apply this to a musical piece a track or an entire album or a DJ mix whatever has a start and an end if you measure and average the Loudness units or loudness units full-scale across the entire length That's your integrated loudness level There have been older methods of measuring loudness the first I believe was VU meters Which were physical needles bouncing back and forth these meters were pretty cool because they average the signal So you they wouldn't react very much to peaks because we as people don't react very much to peaks as well if there's a short pop we don't register it as loud as a Continuous tone that would be of the same peak loudness. That's why short Transients don't bother us that much. Well, unless they Cross the threshold of pain, of course. This is why it's so ironic that the loudness wars or the loudness war have Driven the music to be completely devoid of any drum transience whatsoever because The recording is so compressed and limited beyond belief that When you look at the waveform, you really can't tell where a kick hits or a snare hits You can't tell where's a verse. Where is our chorus? Where's a drop and where's a build-up almost and It really hurts the musical expression and it really hurts the clarity of the sound and Yes, you can be a producer that prouds themselves on being able to push the numbers Extremely high with your music still sounding acceptable. Let's put that in air quotes because what is acceptable to? One person may not be acceptable to another person But what is really the point of being? Like chasing that goal. Does it make the music better? It does not it makes it worse You may say that oh But if the music has less dynamic range It's gonna be easier to mix For a DJ and to play back on a loud PA system That is false squashed music Destroys PA systems. It doesn't sound good. It doesn't play better The sound systems are designed to handle a short Transients so short bursts of loud sounds very well and they can do it very cleanly So if your music has a loud snare and kick transient you can easily have you know like 15 decibels of headroom and the music can be loud and The transients can be much louder and still your music will be clean on the PA system of Course 15 decibels is quite excessive I would not probably want to have as much dynamic range between like the peak of my bass and the peak of my drums That would probably not sound very balanced However, I do like to have natural sounding Transients or natural that doesn't necessarily have to be natural. It's not about naturalism It's about expression and making the sound move you Because when you remove all the transients the power of music is diminished in my opinion Music requires dynamics that is Changes in intensity if our music would be Exactly the same loudness throughout the whole piece. It would be boring as heck the most exciting music is the one that can vary the levels and Inspire motion thanks to that Human experience human life is not steady. It's anything but and the music reflects that and Music is always swelling up and down. We have quieter sections and louder sections and the louder sections only hit hard If the quieter sections are there to lay a baseline if we have no baseline because we are allowed 110% all the freaking time There is no music left and you know, I'm not Like some classical music junkie Who doesn't listen to bass music and doesn't understand what rock metal and drum and bass is? No, I Really like hard-hitting sounds and hard-hitting music, but it pains me that when I listen to Noisiest outer edges album on YouTube. There is like Eight decibels of dynamic range that they could have had but they didn't YouTube is Using loudness normalization, which means that the integrated level of your video Or whatever you're uploading as a video could be your music track could be your album The integrated level is measured and compared to a reference level on YouTube The reference level is around negative 14 LUFS and that is our level that I'm roughly targeting whatever I master music or Music videos music releases talking had videos necessarily should be quieter because Speech alone does not sound well when put to such high levels in my opinion and Also when I'm doing tutorials about music production There has to be more dynamic range because there's a lot of silence in between sounds and Also, you need to be able to hear precisely what's going on and Smashing the whole video with a limiter Would only make that harder. I Don't need to push the limits because the video is gonna be too quiet. There is a large margin Before it becomes too quiet to listen to comfortably There are some videos on YouTube that are made too quiet and I can't hear them But it's not because of the concerns of dynamic range. It's because they were poorly engineered and the person making them either didn't know or Forgot or Didn't pay attention to the loudness of their sound So sometimes listening to some videos on headphones While on the go is difficult and it can be difficult for music as well But I'm not talking about making your music so dynamic. It's unlistensable outside of a quiet Listening space with perfect speaker system. I'm asking for a bare minimum of air in your freaking masters if you've ever Care to measure any of my music releases You'll see that the average around negative 14 negative 12 LUFS Integrated and I think that's that's a good level it has quite a lot of dynamic range for drums to hit hard and sound punchy Without relying so solely on distortion and without having to completely drown out all other audio in your mix To achieve the punchiness which will still be puny and miserable compared to an actual freaking transient I would understand this if we were we were stuck with like, you know 10-bit digital audio Where you actually have to make sure you make the best out of every single bit of dynamic range But we freaking don't We have 16 bits 96 decibels That's a lot of dynamic range and ironically with the higher fidelity of compact disc which undisputedly beats vinyl records if it comes to dynamic range and frequency reproduction and distortion the compact disc is a Fantastic medium and it was an a huge leap in audio quality and consumer audio quality It doesn't mean a tape machine can't sound as good. It sure can but it's freaking expensive and It can't easily the tapes can deteriorate more easily. It's harder to store them, etc and with the advent of the best music storage medium and History the music quality started diminishing because people were like Doing everything they can to waste as much dynamic range as possible and to squash their music To completely unlistenable degree It hurts me so much when I listen to system of a downs toxicity that this album is so limited There is so little transience there It's squashed the drums the drums can't breathe and they are so quiet in comparison to everything else and They could maintain a similar level but still hit much harder and have more punch and air if they have had like You know just six decibels of more dynamic range but no They had to squash it because sales which Didn't affect sales. Anyway, if anything I think people who are aware of the problems with excessive limiting and multiband compressing your masters Would buy less albums which are highly processed in this manner Again, I'm not talking about sound design Smash things in sound design as much as you want I love distortion and multiband compression and removing every single bit of air from your synth sound your basses and your drums But then when you do it on your master bus You're killing your music and also after I squash my drums like that Then I mix it back with the original or I use compression to bring back some transients so they can hit harder You can have all the good things about Squashed highly compressed sound without any of the bad things if you just use compression Parallel compression and transient shapers effectively. You don't have to just mindlessly slam your music with a limiter Don't Can this catch focus? I think it can. I can it all right. I've been talking for way too long right now Thanks for watching But I'm gonna record something on this little bike trip. I Hope you've enjoyed this Thanks to everyone who is supporting me on patreon and libera pay these people are helping me immensely making more videos and Stay tuned for more actual open source music and audio production tutorials Oh, and if you would like some help with Linux and open source music production You can always check out my chat at chat.onfa.xy All right, I should get going. It's become pretty dark Bye