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Please help me I feel like I’ve just been winging it for my whole life. Now I’ve got a great girlfriend who is pregnant and I’m happy About that but I just don’t know what the hell I am doing. I didn’t grow up with a proper family and I’m totally lost. I have no support network apart from her but I don’t want to put a load of stress on her. I feel out of my depth. We planned the baby and are prepared but I can’t help but feel I’m just not good enough and I don’t know who to turn to :(

I (30yr/m) am on $50k, my partner (29yr/f) is on around $100k and we are thinking of having a child in the near future. We have a mortgage, no other debts and can generally be pretty good with money. I'm just a bit worried that we won't be earning enough to raise a child, especially if we decide to have another one after that. And if she ends up taking extended maternity leave or anything like that, then our household income may be even lower.

Does anyone with this kind of income have experience they can share?

I've been trying to get my head around this on guitar lately by remembering scale shapes and Whole-Whole-Half step patterns. I came across This video in which the guy basically just remembers them as modified versions of the pentatonic scales. I am already well versed in pentatonics, so think this might be an easier way.

Does anyone else do it this way? And would I be missing any important theory if I did it this way instead of thinking of step patterns

My songwriting method has always been to write a chord progression, and then sing a melody over the top of it. That's great, but i've seen a lot of people say they write a melody first, and then choose interesting chords to go with it. I thought i'd give it a try but i just cannot seem to write a melody on its own.

I know i'm falling into the trap of looking at my guitar and seeing the scale pattern and thinking "Hmm what notes shall I play". Is the only way to avoid this to not use my guitar, and just sing whatever comes into my head? I'm listening to some Amy Winehouse for inspiration, she manages to sing 8 bars of melody and it's so catchy and memorable, yet so simple.

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I've never actually done live sound before, just studio. Am wondering what the obvious differences between the two are? If I was in a bar and had to step up to the mixing desk as a last minute favour, what would be the obvious things I might not think of? I saw someone mention earlier that you might as well keep everything mono, because stereo might sound weird to the audience who are standing to one side.

Edit: I'm talking about things on the actual desk compared to things in a DAW. Like EQing, panning, FX, compression, etc. The actual sound. I don't mean stuff like unloading the van or chipping in with physical labour, i've toured as part of a band and know how to do all that setup and mi

Hi, some of the VSTs i'm running sound awesome in stereo, but then sound totally different when I switch my master to mono. Is this something to do with phase cancellation? I guess because they're sampled there's not much I can do about that? Also, some of them (mainly Spitfire LABS) the sounds are panned heavily to one side, but only certain notes, which I find weird. This is even though my track is set to center. Is this just a bug of the VST/samples?

I'm having another problem where I have a vocal track that when I put it in a folder, will only play through my left headphone. If I pan it over to the right it just disappears.

Anyone know what the issues are here?

I've got a spare $5k laying around that i'm not going to do anything with (in addition to a $20k safety net/rainy day fund). My superannuation balance is pretty low ($21k, 30years old). I'm thinking there's probably no point playing the investment game with it, given the state of markets, and it's probably a good idea to throw the $5k in Super now and let it grow.

Is there anything I should consider before doing that? And as for tax, do I just declare it on my tax return and they'll give me whatever tax back that I shouldn't have paid on it? Do I have to declare that with my Super company?

I've recorded a few vocal harmony tracks and want to layer them, but they're not perfectly in time. Has anyone used dynamic split to make vocals in time with each other? I've never used it before, I see it mainly used for drums. Or is there an easier/more effective way to do it?

So that they come up alongside the built in ones? Also do you know any sources for MIDI drum loops similar to the MT ones?

So i've read that a way to achieve placement for each instrument in a mix is to use EQ. Roll off some higher frequencies to place instruments lower down or further back in the mix.

How does this work for instruments like acoustic guitar, where people say to add some high freqs (10k+) to bring out the 'sparkle' or 'air' or whatever. Or should I not be trying to sparkle a guitar that is going to be background to vocals?

I really like the big guitars sound in this music - No Country For Old Men end credits

Anyone know or can speculate on the recording techniques (mics etc), and production used for this type of sound?

I'm thinking there's more than one guitar playing the same thing, maybe each stereo mic'd? Then a lot of the heaviness comes from the (acoustic?) bass guitar. Do you think there's any sub bass added or they've just captured the bass guitar's low end really well?

I used to have random musical ideas pop into my head and i'd record them and develop them later on. Or i'd hear a bird sing a little tune, and it would develop into something bigger in my head and i'd build it into a song. It was great.

I don't seem to get that anymore, and I think it may be because I actually listen to a lot more music now, like at work and at home i'll have Spotify on. So obviously i'm not going to think about anything during those times, and then when i'm not listening to music i'll have a catchy song stuck in my head. I think maybe I never have that blank canvas to work from anymore.

Does anyone else feel like this? I don't want to stop listening to music but I also