aaaaaaaa why do people put music on their videos with such... *painful* percussion
someone told us that the percussion sounds we can't stand are generally called 'synthwave percussion' and can someone please tell us why this is so popular when it's almost literally painful to listen to
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@Felthry is it, like, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bxz6jShW-3E kind of thing? content warnings for music with lyrics and also potentially exactly the kind of percussion y'all find painful
I remember in that video they talk about a drum sound that "just cuts right through the track" - it's loud and distorted and clippy and then it's gone
I think the speculation elsewhere in the thread is accurate - some people like it because they find it more exciting than painful
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@packbat https://youtu.be/39OmzYyQ_dQ?t=650 this is one of the links and the other one was actually in a DM, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i60SXLaLI48
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@Felthry the first one, we're definitely noticing a very intense sidechain effect - the sound ducks out really strongly and then comes back
the second, we ... can't tell? that's kind of interesting - maybe hearing the distinction is something we'll pick up when we mess with actual electronic music production some
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@packbat i don't know, whatever it is is even worse than the first one on our ears
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@Felthry *nods*
both pieces sound to us like the intended effect was being a dramatic buildup as opposed to chill and relaxing
I don't think we'll speculate on why they impacted y'all the way they did - we'll try not to recommend music that has that kind of vibe to y'all, though
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@Felthry I don't see a link in there but our link was about compression and someone in thread says that it's probably sidechaining that's the unpleasant effect for y'all