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HELP!? I'm sorry I totally did let you down, but I often times was halfway through writing you a message and ended up not sending it. Then i'd write a post on here and forget to post it, or i'd PM you and your messages were full. BS excuses that 1-ethnyl is probably too good to deserve, I know ;) but I'm basically stoned as hell every time I wade through the BL waters.

also Davidnicholsfan, I'm totally a fan of david nichols myself. Dondante that's cool as shit that you got to meet him. I feel like he probably gets approached by many people like us, I'm glad he's still amiable about it lol

MGS i'm flattered that you did something productive to something I made.

TNW I'm on my first playthrough of Ogre Battle and it's living up to the hype lol
 
while i admire your optimism, that statement is false.

I don't believe it is. While it's true that there is a whole lot we can't control, and bad things can and will happen to everyone, the way you view these events and respond to them makes all of the difference in how they affect you, and thus, how they shape you into who you become.

I feel the need to chime in and say hello. I am mostly a lurker on BL and really only made this account to comment on one or two things. The sense of community here is really nice to see. I read a decent amount of this thread and feel like i have hung out with all of you guys and had a few beers. Its really cool how open and forthcoming everyone is, I admire it and try to do so myself but I like to keep lots of things to myself.

Folley, I think I read you were just outta high school? you are a man wiser than your years i tip my hat. mgs and xorkoth, I have read many of your beautifully written TR's/posts that open up a load more knowledge to these obscure compounds and experiences. Thanks alot. Also, help, I would like to speak to you, havent in a while, and you seem like you could use some venting, but stop being so vague and ominous. I hope to try to start posting around the place more now and try to add my little bit of knowledge so this wonderful place.

Hey, welcome to PD Social, which is IMO the best place on the Internet. :) How you described it is how I feel about it too. I've made some close real life friends from here and some friends I haven't met yet also but have known and talked with for years and number among my friends when I think about all people either on the Internet or in real life.

Xor, glad to hear you're doing well. Hope therapy is useful...I think it can be can be immensely helpful, but it takes a good match (or mainly a good therapist...and these can be hard to come by).

Thanks! Yeah therapy was nice, it was my first session but I really liked the therapist. We basically talked about my back story and I gave her a bunch of information she asked for after that. I told her about the ibogaine after 10 years of on and off opiates, and she at first thought she hadn't heard of it, and then she realized she had, but only a little. She seemed to think it was really interesting. I also told her that I plan to keep psychedelics and marijuana in my life, and that of all drugs psychedelics are the ones I feel have had a net positive influence on my life, and she was quite accepting of that, which is good. She comes VERY highly recommended (my doctor says she's amazing), so I scheduled an appointment next week, we'll see how it all goes. It felt really good to talk to someone impartial about everything that's been going on. I also realized that I am mostly doing really well, I am nearly positive I could do this on my own, however I want to do it right and put in all the work, so I'm going to keep going.

I have been working out every morning since Monday. This morning I woke up and me entire body was sore, especially all my front muscles from my shoulders and chest down to my abs, a few of my back muscles, and my legs. It was hard to lift my arms above my head or lift anything with an weight very high at all, just due to soreness, and awkward to walk down the stairs. But, I still got up and went to the gym this morning. I ran 2 miles non-stop, and then left because I figured I should give the lifting a day off considering how sore I am.
 
Thanks for a warm welcome. I would love to have a meeting with david nichols but have yet to have the chance. I hear he plays a mean blues harp so playing some music with him would be awesome
 
I don't believe it is. While it's true that there is a whole lot we can't control, and bad things can and will happen to everyone, the way you view these events and respond to them makes all of the difference in how they affect you, and thus, how they shape you into who you become.

pain hurts. pleasure feels good. these are metaphysical constants imo. not much you can do about them (except perhaps numb yourself with drugs).
 
ya but no pain no gain right? pleasure only feels good compared to the sensations you were feeling preceding it.
 
^ true

but not everything in life is what we make of it / how we perceive it

i firmly believe that there are certain constants that are out of our control, our mental states included
 
The amount of muscle soreness I have is crazy, probably the most sore I've ever been from working out. I think it's because at other times I've exercised, I've just been at home doing simple things like bicep and tricep curls, and sit-ups. But now I've been using real equipment, and I'm realizing just how many more muscles are targeted that way.

I ordered gabapentin 9 days ago, and I've been hoping it will arrive every day, but I checked again today, no gabapentin. I am hoping it arrives because I still feel somewhat uncomfortable and shaky for most of the day from post-withdrawal stuff. But it's bearable and my mood remains good, which is the most important part. I'll just see this as an opportunity to become stronger with the wait, though when it arrives I will certainly utilize it to help mask these residuals until they're gone. I told my therapist about the gabapentin and baclofen I ordered, and she laughed and said she always wants to tell people they can get these things online when they're having trouble getting a prescription (I guess she knows they help with withdrawal but most doctors won't go there).

Oh, and I also just got a PM from someone who just went on and on about how amazing my art is, and told me that they have no idea why I'm not famous yet. I told him it's only been 2 years but that's my goal. It was a really nice ego boost. :)

Thank you brother for doing things differently than I did last year. I am so pleased to see this.

Thanks. <3 I've got my next appointment next Tuesday, and we'll start to get into it I imagine.

pain hurts. pleasure feels good. these are metaphysical constants imo. not much you can do about them (except perhaps numb yourself with drugs).

Yes, pain hurts, that's just a fact, no doubt about it. But we can use that pain to provide impetus to change ourselves, and end up in a better place for it. I have spent most of my life hiding from pain, blaming it on other things (and sometimes it is other things' fault), but ultimately I have realized I am responsible for myself and I am trying to turn it into something positive. Seems to be working, so far. :)
 
Is there anyone here that has (moderately) advanced experience with and understanding of music production, like DAWs, synthesis, effects, signal modulation etc etc.. whom I can get in touch with? I have a few questions and would enjoy talking about it in general. Sure I can take it to certain forums, but you know..

lemme know / PM is also fine

peace <3
 
Is there anyone here that has (moderately) advanced experience with and understanding of music production, like DAWs, synthesis, effects, signal modulation etc etc.. whom I can get in touch with? I have a few questions and would enjoy talking about it in general. Sure I can take it to certain forums, but you know..

lemme know / PM is also fine

peace <3

I thought everyone knew I was PD's self appointed audio engineer/mixer/producer extraordinaire.
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Yeah I know that's not my DAW. I use cubase but a PC looks boring. Ask me what you need bro!
 
^ pretty sure I just got a little wet..


I haven't gotten into production at all really, but it's something I'm quite interested in. I figure it's probably best to hone my DJing skills first, although I guesss it would give me something to do at night when I can't bump music. Which programs do you guys use?
 
Sometimes I'll track with Audacity, but generally Cubase. Cubase again to mix and use my plug ins, unless the mood strikes and I mix externally (bouncing the mixed signal back into cubase as it is recorded), but most of the time these days i do all mixing (in the box) down to stereo, and then I do final clean up/mastering on Audacity with my trusty EMI Abbey Road plugins. :)

I really do love this more than the drugs.
 
while i admire your optimism, that statement is false.

The beauty of Xorkoths statement is that it istrue, if you want it to be. The dichotomy of pleasure/pain is false however. Think about the pain of desperately forcing yourself to try and work hard to achieve something, be it sobriety, a fucking six-pack or a satisfying line of work- in the short term, there is suffering of sorts, but the end result is satisfaction and happiness. No-one is trapped in darkness unless they choose not to try and rise above it. Personally, I've had a problem with delaying gratification in basically all areas of my life. During the acute phase of my addictions, I desired peace and sobriety and safety but felt so intimidated by the amount of really hard work I had to do to achieve this, to the extent that I believed it was impossible. But I realised that I was incorrect there; the happiness I wanted wasn't going to appear overnight- it wasn't going to appear even in a year- but when I realised that I wanted it and decided to just fucking take it, I realised it was closer then I thought; it was right there all along. Its the same for everyone. If you want a happy and meaningful life, you only have to do everything in your power to get it, and you will. Some people don't believe this because the suffering this entails feels too great, but its not when the end result is truly living a beautiful life. If you want a good life, if you want to be happy, YOU are the only one that can actually bring this about.

Some of that sounds like bullshit, but I promise you, its not. :) Try it, focus entirely on your desires and do not give up for anything or anybody.

Is there anyone here that has (moderately) advanced experience with and understanding of music production, like DAWs, synthesis, effects, signal modulation etc etc.. whom I can get in touch with? I have a few questions and would enjoy talking about it in general. Sure I can take it to certain forums, but you know..

lemme know / PM is also fine

peace <3

Hey, I have a degree in audio engineering and produce a lot of electronic music, so can probably field some semi-advanced questions. Fire away, here or PM....:)
 
I feel that dude. I absolutely love being able to perform for my friends and basically control their trip for hours, it's a great feeling to drop a track that everybody can groove too... must be an even better feeling if you've made the track yourself :) I hardly even take that much anymore, usually just a light buzz while my friends are Candy Flipping behind me. I miss MXE though, I used to love shoveling down lines of that and playing music for hours.. it's hard to keep myself motivated to mix for a long time unless there are other people around, or I'm on drugs

You have a soundcloud right? Would love to play some of your tracks, I mix everything from chill psytrance to Hardcore so I'm sure I could find a place to drop them somewhere lol

^ Would love to hear your stuff as well!
 
My friends use Maschine software and I find it great for producing music. I know what most of the effects sound like(chorus, reverb, flanger things like that) and I recently learned about side-chaining compression techniques. There's also adding swing and "nudging" notes one 64th note too soon or too late to make it sound funkier/groovier. A lot of it comes down to having good samples though, and there are shit tons of sample packs out there so finding good ones can be hard. My friends mainly use sample packs they get from other people, typically from people associated with Team Supreme

Soli your track has over 10 plays in my itunes :)

so today I tested the syrian rue. I started with 750mg seeds and I didn't grind them up or prepare them in any way, then added another 750mg 45 minutes later, then another 750mg maybe 40 minutes after that along with 1 gram of mushroom shake. I also did ketamine when I started really buzzing. I would say it kind of felt more like 4-aco-DMT or what I imagine oral DMT to feel like. The body high was much more airy than mushrooms if that makes sense. Next time I'm just going to take basically my normal dosage of mushrooms with the rue, it didn't seem to get potentiated as much as it just changed the character of the shroom trip.

I was gonna finish the night off with a high dose K-hole, but instead I finished it off with many dabs and a toaster strudel sandwich lol
 
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Happy weekend everyone. I allowed myself to have 4 beers tonight after a long day in library studying, like every day this week. :) Sauna + cold beer, feels good man.

I know many people dislike Joe Rogan but I really like this video. For some reason youtube keep deleting this and I have no idea why.

 
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This guy is a genius.. check out those lyrics.



we can only save the world when we say ourselves first.
 
SONN, cool to hear that, do you mean that herons track?

The beauty of Xorkoths statement is that it istrue, if you want it to be. [...]

That post sounds pretty beautiful as well. :)
It can be confronting to think about whether we are ready be make ourselves happy and let go of stuff.

Hey, I have a degree in audio engineering and produce a lot of electronic music, so can probably field some semi-advanced questions. Fire away, here or PM....:)

Great, may also get advice from MGS yet, but let me ask anyway... I have recorded a solo piano piece, guess I am inspired by Nils Frahm, now I want to process that into a track and while I do not intend to copy his entire style, I'd like to have a better understanding of the subtleties of ambient sounds.

If you listen to this at 39:15

https://soundcloud.com/funckarma/roel-funcken-chronik-consoles

The sound is really filled up, as if there is softened noise or a cleaned up form of static, or a silence that is not entirely silent, with a lot of compression. Considering the title of this track I assume he made use of an found sound recording of rain falling outside.

My piano recording is via a digital piano and midi so I don't have actual ambient sound yet, but I was thinking of recording things like a creaking piano stool, soundboard, sighs and maybe some details I happen upon with extensive reverberation added...
and using that, somewhat chaotically but also with repetitions. All quite low volume so pretty subtle.

I am also interested in the workings of resonance and letting some notes sing using chorus or collision / corpus effect in ableton where membranes or strings or other materials are hit percussively by another sound fed into it.

My basic question for advice is about the soft noise, a type of silence that impregnates the sound, which I can use as background for my piano track. What do you think? Can you help me get into the right direction? I understand I will have to just experiment a little, but I'd like to get a bit more insight first.
 
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