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Limit Cut

By Crash Overture on July 19, 2026 5:47 am

Me, the piano, and my handy zoom 5.
I had to do a few takes to get something kinda decent because I couldn't get a good recording spot, there are times in the cut material where the piano and my voice are one, and I don't even know what I'm saying. Also bits of vibration here and there. Probably will use a tripod next time rather than a windowsill. Lot's of material, and editing in audicity. A lot of playing little bits to get the right flow. 

Very dramatic songs about very silly problems. My contrast of "it's really not a real problem" and "holy fuck can I just burn this shit down" --- also lot's of visiting family, so time squeeze.

Limit cut is a game mechanic in the TEA ultimate raid in FFXIV, which I thought I understood, asked questions, practiced, read about, watched the video, read over the diagrams, drew the diagrams, played the sim, even moved my body in a physical way to understand the movement,  and I sure as fuck do not understand it.  I seem incapable of forming a question to explain what I don't understand. Or explaining what I don't get. Or I get tripped up explaining it, and accidentally use the wrong word which then re-routes the answer to the wrong path and to the more simple part that I do understand, of course which still doesn't answer what my confusion is.  Which is really frustrating.  People tried to be helpful, but I still didn't get it. And still could not explain why I don't get it.

(In fairness to me, there are times I can do it correctly, but there is one spot I get so mixed up on because for some reason everyone runs in the opposite direction of what I expect, which I don't know why, because it's the correct path in the guide (I THINK???) -- what I am gonna do is record that spot and watch the video to see why it's different )

Yay, chords this time!
Thanks for sharing your journey full of discovery and learning.
For problem solving, you might find that breaking it into little pieces can help understand something complex, hope you get it in the end!

I actually really like the windowsill mic placement because it seems to just be capturing "the room" really nicely - and creates a real sense of intimacy with the piano and the voice, which sounds just a little further away than the piano, and that sense of space is very evocative. Which also brings me to matt's reference of the week, related to last week's - there's a compilation called On Isolation, maybe I already recommended it, but it shares that sense of intimacy with this piece ... ramble ramble ... it's sounding lovely heart

Singing with the notes, super cool for internalising music.

I was thinking about your Electroplankton experiments this week when I found this album which was all made on the DS.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVdRAaLIYK4&list=RDkVdRAaLIYK4&start_radio=1&t=417s

yes this feels so real, this is actually what my mind needs in my current reality

nice to sit on the windowsill and listen to you work it out. i felt like a bird

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