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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • Sure, but job openings like these are messing things up for creatives who specialize in one area.

    Now everyone looks for video editors who do audio. No more jobs for sound guys.

    If you do graphic design, you are now expected to do animation and web design as well. Some even want you to do social media and video.

    People who post things like these only want to save a buck. Heck that’s why they outsource the jobs in say the Philippines and India. They don’t want to pay their local rates.

    And some Asian folks like this too because the going rate is higher than local rate here.

    But it’s literally ruining the livelihood of people in other fields.











  • I’m a sound engineer and I use different DAWs for different purposes. There’s just no one DAW that does all, so this is a compromise I’m happy to go with.

    When I do podcast editing, I use Audacity to split multi-track WAV files and for truncating silence. It’s just waaaay easier to do this there than on Reaper. Plus it has a loopback recording feature built-in which I use for Zoom meeting recordings etc.

    I use Pro Tools for audio post, but for most of what I do I’m a Reaper guy. It’s very powerful as you said and it just works.

    I know it can be a hassle switching DAWs (muscle memory on shortcuts can get weird), but for me, I like making the most of the strengths of a tool rather than forcing something to do everything.