@G2961 - @Aalasteir (Q) - Index
Q: What does it mean to be alive?
A: To be alive means to have a personal life and your own meaning of life.
Q: What do you think about music?
A: Music is what has been my meaning of life for a long time, but now I realized that there is something more valuable than music, because that is why I have so rarely started releasing my songs compared to the past months
Q: What is Geometry Dash? What do you think about it?
A: Geometry Dash is the best community and game in general, because it was she who introduced this site. I very rarely play this game now, but I continue to be a part of this community until now.
Q: What is the Internet? How did you discover the NG website? What made you decide to join the community? Do you feel differently about the site now compared to when you first joined?
A: For me, the Internet is a global global network that allows everyone in this world to have a chance to express themselves and become popular. After all, it was here that I discovered the Geometry Dash game, and then this great site and its community. At first, I uploaded frivolous tracks to my old account 3 years ago, but then a year later I created this account. It was in 2022 that I definitely joined this community to share my music, and I could never have thought that in a year and a half I would be able to reach 1 thousand subscribers.
Q: The story of your username: G2961
A: As funny as it may sound, this is really a random set of numbers and one letter. I wanted to use this account to check if my remix of the London song by Sleeping Hummingbird would be deleted. it seemed like the song was copyrighted, but for some reason I was afraid that my remix would be deleted. As a result, I accidentally left two versions of my remix on this account and after a while they scored 200 auditions each. that's when I realized that there was no need to delay and develop my account, which was not in vain.
Q: You made homemade headphones? How did you do that? That’s incredible! Being able focus for 5+ hours is an amazing skill
A: I didn't exactly build the headphones from scratch, translator error, lol. I picked up two pairs of headphones, namely the JBL Tempo On-Ear J03 and the Redragon Siren 2.
The first headphones had pretty good speakers, but a little bit muddy sound in the treble, but the second ones just had a disgusting sound. It would seem that what I wanted from gaming headphones? But I had gaming headphones from SVEN, which sounded much better than this. That's why I decided to make one out of two.
I took the speakers out of the JBL headphones. I kind of pulled them out, but it turned out that they are non-standard speakers and have such a peculiarity that the diaphragm itself is on a plastic mesh, which is glued to the speaker itself. So I had to cut the plastic around the edges to shape, using wire cutters I think. Then after I cut everything to the edge then I pulled these speakers out of the gaming headphones, it was difficult as I didn't want to damage the diaphragm with a screwdriver.
After I put everything in, screwed everything in, then I noticed that the built-in audio card of the gaming headphones seemed to be messing up the sound of the speakers, so I decided to solder an extra 3.5mm jack wire to these headphones. Now my headphones sound a little better and have USB and 3.5mm jack inputs, lol.
By the way, about the ability to concentrate. I think in 5 days I just missed the music. If you think back to January-May 2024, you will see that I recorded tracks almost every day. It wasn't difficult for me at the time, although my old tracks might have been monotonous, but there were also unique works.
What does this have to do with the case?
One day I wanted to get to the main page and tried to achieve this in every possible way, each new OP constantly motivated me. I got upset every time I didn't get to the main page. I'm so ashamed of my behavior back then, because when I was upset that I didn't make the front page, I didn't realize that it was deserved. I ignored the advice of other musicians that my skill was not growing and that almost every track I wrote was an exact copy of my previous songs. This could be explained by the fact that "this is my style," but that would just be a stupid excuse.
I'm so glad that this dark time is over, and I wouldn't want it to happen again.
Now I'm writing my music because I LIKE it, because I have a fan base that listens to my songs, and it's very valuable! My skill has improved noticeably, I've tried a lot of new genres and I'm not going to show off yet!
- Video Card Story
I found a great graphics card for its price (Radeon HD 6950 for $11). I decided to go with my friend to the meeting place to buy, namely oh-oh-oh-oh-very far away! about 20 kilometers from my city
Anyway, we arrived, we left, and then I decided to withdraw money from the card, but I couldn't, because the ATM didn't have the money that I needed to withdraw, namely 11 damn dollars (or 1000 Russian rubles). I had to run around with a friend and look for ATMs, in the end my friend just insisted that I call the seller and ask about the possibility of transferring money to the card. He agreed. So I also asked to give the Internet to me, since none of us had it. It was so easy when he agreed.
The moment of meeting with the seller has come. My friend and I went to the meeting place, namely the seller's house, however, as it turned out, the seller went to the railway station, and none of us heard it on the phone, in short, the seller had to walk another 800 meters to us with a friend. I was so ashamed to look at him, because we had definitely managed to get bored with this seller. In general, I bought a video card, and my friend and I went to the railway station to go home. We came, but we couldn't guess exactly which platform we were going from (there are a lot of them there), so we waited on the platform, which, in theory, was the one from which we could go home. However, my friend saw that an electric train was coming from another platform, and it dawned on him that this was our uniform. We had to jump off the platform and run while we had time. We barely climbed onto the platform and boarded the train
And it seems like there should be a happy ending here, but no.
Suddenly, out of the blue, the driver's assistant runs out and shouts to the whole car, "GET OFF THE TRAIN!", my friend and I were at a loss. We had to get off the train and we looked at the timetable that was on the platform. Fortunately for us, there was the last train that was supposed to arrive, and we were waiting for it. As a result, they did not wait
What happened? It even took 1 hour, but the last train did not arrive, we had already come to terms with it and were ready to leave at 5 a.m. (at that time it was one o'clock in the morning), so we sat on the bench that was in the railway station.
Literally an hour passes and we hear the sound of an approaching train, we were shocked, because the train arrived, which was traveling towards our city. We ran quickly and jumped right into this train. We hoped that we would get off at the right station, and subsequently it happened.
When we got off at the right station, we had to switch from this station to another direction of trains, which we did. However, we saw that the nearest train would be only in 3 hours. We had to go out into the city and hope that night electric buses would travel there, but no one went to our city anymore
The final moment.
My friend and I were running out of phones and we decided to take the last but right step - to call our parents so that they would come for us, however, my friend's mom ordered us a taxi and we went home!
We were so tired that I tested the video card only after 1 day.
As a result, the video card is working and it even has more video memory than was written in the ad (2 GB instead of 1 GB).
That's the story.
Q: How would you say this experience has impacted your outlook on life?
A: I think that after all this, I will now calculate everything thoroughly and plan important things in advance.
Q: Thank you for reporting stolen audio and contributing to the cleanup of the audio portal. What advice would you give on recognizing audio that violates NG guidelines?
A: in the case of stolen audio; you just need to look at the title, it usually says that it is a remix of some song. it often happens that these are remixes of copyrighted songs, which are also low-grade. Those who upload banned audio usually call the speed-up version their remix and they really think they will be given a scout and whitelist in GD.
In the case of AI audio; in the case of Suno, everything is simple, the bitrate is 192 Kb/ s and the monotonous structure of the songs. to remember the approximate sound of such audio, you need to try this neural network yourself. And in the case of udio, it is usually given out by too robotic vocals and the very inscription "Udio v1.5" in the metadata of the song file, or some kind of liquid mix in the song itself, like it was just accelerated using FL Studio and switching from Resample to Stretch. That's my explanation. And in the case of other AI, such as Soundraw, Soundful, they also have the same song structure, which gives away the fact that this is an AI song. I've studied too many AI's that allow me to generate music, so it would be easier for me to assume that everything comes with experience.
Q: What do you think about the NG community?
A: I think this is a talented community that has given me everything I once dreamed of. of course, there are some kind of upstarts in this community who lack attention and belittle the work of talented authors, but it's better to just ignore them, since they do not bring any benefit. That's what's most valuable - it's feedback from more skilled authors, because it's feedback that gives a leap in skill, and this site and its community do a good job with it.
Q: Advice that has helped you the most
A: Never give up and do not succumb to the fact that they are trying to stop you in your work. After all, art was created to put all its soul into its work and not adapt to others.