Lystrialle @Lystrialle@sonomu.club

Even on my part, I try to account for what I expect YouTube will do to my render (SoundCloud was even worse, back when I used it), but please know that the MP3s are what was actually intended to come out of my DAW.

Especially for me as a Vocaloid producer. I actively work to *inject* and recreate that aura of expression, and here you are just casually taking that out?!

But if the expectation is that everyone's going to have a specific kind of high-fidelity hardware, the pressure for me to hit a specific, precise standard increases, and I have to spend much more time tweaking it to fine, precise detail...

I think about this a lot, I guess.

If I'm making music, and I expect that people listening to it will be listening on headphones and speakers of vastly different quality, I'll test on a handful, but I ultimately have to stop at a point where my mix/master is "good enough" for the majority of cases.

But nowadays the norm is to have screens that reflect things down to the pixel with perfect clarity, which means creators now have to expect that everyone's going to see those precise little things a very specific way, and has high pressure to meet being so precise.

What I mean by this: Back in the day, CRT screens were the norm, but everyone had *such* a different CRT screen that you couldn't guarantee the precise output. Ideally you'd test it on multiple screens for variety, but you had to stop refining it at "looks good enough for most".

I've been thinking about this lately, but I've been wondering if the advent of HD screens and high-fidelity hardware has led to a net increase in stress on creators' parts that they now have pressure to make their work to a very overly precise, "perfect" standard.

There's a huge difference between "free" and "not free", but if you're going as far as paying money, I really do think a WP installation is the best way to go for anything more complex than static pages. It's really the best balance between minimal coding and high customization.

I started using a WordPress installation in something like 2014 and it's been that way since. I do still type all of the translated versions manually (it's not machine translate). It probably still sounds very clunky, but it's good practice 💦

About my website: It's been in three languages since the day I set it up (although my language skills left much to be desired), but I didn't have a translator plugin, I literally built three versions of the site and manually had every page link to the other versions.