stephencshapiro.com
Orlando, FL 🍊 Sound designer available for game audio and sound design 🔊👾Avid musician 🥁 Film nerd 🎬 (Posts are routinely deleted ␥) 👋 stephencshapiro.com 🟢 Currently: forgottenplayland.com
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Check out Consumer Reports. Still a fantastic resource for reviews and safety. I usually check Wirecutter, too, but their methodology and business model is different.
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Let’s make 2025 a year of more mindful engagement, on and offline.
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Take a step back when needed. Post less. Nurture healthier boundaries, more compassionate conversations, and greater focus on what truly matters. Social media can be a tool for creativity, connection, and learning, but only if we consciously use it as such.
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My hope as we enter 2025 is that we embrace this dynamic with more wisdom. That we move through these platforms with mindfulness. That we ask ourselves: Why am I engaging right now? What am I contributing? How is this affecting me and others?
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Social media shapes us. It nudges how we think, how we connect, and how we feel about ourselves and the world. But we shape it, too. Each click, post, and interaction builds the environment in which we exist.
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Yet, despite the change of scenery, many of us engaged with these platforms in much the same way. The same frenetic pace, reactive behavior, and addictive cycles persisted. It’s a reminder of a hard truth: tools and spaces can change, but without intentionality, habits don’t.
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To everyone on this journey with me: thank you for being here, for reflecting, for growing. Let’s make 2025 a year of more conscious engagement, on and offline.
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Take a step back when needed. Post less. Nurture healthier boundaries, more compassionate conversations, and greater focus on what truly matters. Social media can be a tool for creativity, connection, and learning, but only if we consciously use it as such.
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My hope as we enter 2025 is that we embrace this dynamic with more wisdom. That we move through these platforms with mindfulness. That we ask ourselves: Why am I engaging right now? What am I contributing? How is this affecting me and others?
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Social media shapes us. It nudges how we think, how we connect, and how we feel about ourselves and the world. But we shape it, too. Each click, post, and interaction builds the environment in which we exist.
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Yet, despite the change of scenery, many of us found ourselves engaging with these platforms in much the same way. The same frenetic pace, reactive behavior, and addictive cycles persisted. It’s a reminder of a hard truth: tools and spaces can change, but without intentionality, habits don’t.
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My special occasion wine is something from the fancy wooden box section at Costco. I usually cap it around $20-25.
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New Jonny Greenwood is 🔥🔥🔥👨🚒
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@aaronbrownsound.bsky.social did a great video years ago with a clippy. Those sankens are incredible but for us plebs the clippy can do a lot.
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I own it but honestly I rarely use it. My headphones are pretty flat and my room has issues the EQ can't fully fix. Whenever I next move my desk or put more treatment in the corners I may try again.
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Perfect example: I just bought Wavesfactory Trackspacer on sale. It does the thing I want it to do, and it's easy to use. In hindsight I'm pretty sure I could have gotten MSpectralDynamicsLE instead and gotten more functionality, but its design and marketing made it confusing and unapproachable.
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It’s because the UI, branding and marketing are awful.
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I got a used Aeron on FB marketplace a few years back. Atlas headrest is a required accessory but no regrets. Ubiquitous for a reason. Steelcase has more features for the price but they’re mostly padded fabric, which is too warm for me. I think the Sayl is underrated but no headrest option.
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My cats get very interested when I do vocal work.
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That never goes away. Even with technical proficiency, there are many ways to tackle a problem. One of my favorite things about conference talks is seeing retrospectives from experienced people and hearing how much they learned on recent projects.
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Whenever I feel like there is build up in certain frequencies, and EQ is too drastic. I also tend to reach for it proactively when I'm working on a layered sound that's going to need some “glue”
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Not sure if it fits the bill, but check it out! Recorded at game sound con. freesound.org/people/Shang...
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Bingo. So frustrating.
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Thank you for acknowledging the offensive nature of baba ganoush.
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I quit waves about five years ago. They have, by far, the worst ownership scheme in audio.
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Interesting rig! What mic is that on top of the shotgun?
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Thanks so much! I used my Deja Vu preset as a starting point. I really wish there was an independent BPM within SnapHeap so I didn't have to change my DAW’s BPM to dynamically change the Trance Gate speed.