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@f_dion @paulrickards thank you! Yes, it’s a dbx 150x noise reduction system (dbx type I). It works great and combined with 15ips recording speed allows you to get a dynamic range that is comparable to a CD.
In this video, a Revox B77 mk 2 reel-to-reel recorder is used to play the Silk Dust Original Soundtrack at 2-track 15 ips, with dbx type I noise reduction on...
@paulrickards love it! You made a custom box for your Silk Dust soundtrack, neat. I made a few, I see you store your reels tail first. I’m too lazy and got too many reels to do that. For my Tascam reel to reel i used a Tascam dbx. Still in need of major maintenance, havent found anybody to work on it. On the Technics rs1500, i’ve used an early dbx type II (still analog).
@f_dion @paulrickards Amazing setup, I love it. I would like to find some sort of a 4 or (better) 8-track recorder. I used a Portastudio back in the 90's but I recall it was quite noisy, even with dbx, but my experience wasn't much more than a week with it. I'd like a Tascam 38 or similar reel to reel, but I fear it would be way too expensive for me.
@paulrickards but i do also use a pair of dbx 150 with my Yamaha 4 track studio cassette deck. Wiring in the back is quite a mess. I have a patch bay to help some, and interface with my digital multitrack record mixer that sits below all of this
@f_dion @paulrickards I store the tapes tail first, but I don't have yet too much of them, so it is still feasible. I got into reel to reels just one year ago, as I bought the Revox for a very good price. It was in desperate need of TLC and I could service it quite extensively: davbucci.chez-alice.fr/index.p…
I really hope you are going to find someone to service your Tascam recorder. They are amazing! For the Silk Dust box, is really a simple one, I repurposed the box that came with the tape pancake.
@f_dion @paulrickards BTW, what is your experience with the dbx 150x? I agree that the wiring is messy and a pain in the neck, but the end result is quite good. I am more limited by my (cheap) mixer than by the recorder now. The sound is amazing and I couldn't hear any "pumping" artifacts someone seems to complain when using dbx.
@paulrickards back in January, doing a bunch of tracks while rearranging the studio, didn't have my digital multitrack easily available midway, so I recorded Tranquille straight to my Yamaha mt44d. Dbx on
@f_dion @paulrickards I love Tranquille! The analog sound is amazing. The background noise is quite acceptable. I have bad memories of cassettes back in the 90's, but I realized that I only used cheap type I at the time. I still have my deck, that is a Marantz SD555, a decent one (albeit 2-head). I tried it recently with a good type IV cassette and Dolby C and the results were quite good. BTW, I also recorded my second album on the Revox: youtube.com/watch?v=nYFKCRBrnV…
In this video, a #Revox B77 mk 2 reel-to-reel recorder is used to play the New Star album at 2-track 15 ips, with dbx type I noise reduction on. The tape use...
@paulrickards also used it in two track mode on one of the #jamuary piece, recording first two tracks, then flipping the tape over and recording two new tracks while the previous two played backward. I don't think I enabled dbx on that one. Can't even remember which track it was
@DenOfEarth @f_dion @paulrickards amazing! I love the look of it, it’s very 1970’s with the wooden box. I would probably try to find the service manual or at least a schematic. Many flaws in such circuits can have relatively simple origins, for instance I would check the electrolytic capacitors, then follow the signal path, see if the whistle is in one particular channel or both, compare them. The usual troubleshooting routine.
@f_dion @paulrickards Hey dbx talk! I have one, along with a TEAC reel to reel, both of which are from my dad who bought them in late 70s early 80s.
Our dbx developed a problem as I recall, where it would sound great with any content, but when sound volume dipped below a certain threshold, such as the silence between pieces, the dbx would encode an annoying whistle.
Never figured it out, and I think period repairs were for naught. Stopped using it. Thoughts?
@f_dion @paulrickards You're probably right. And my cousin has an oscilloscope so we can try to trace the signal from input to output and see where the unwanted noise comes from. Thanks!
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primary reason I bought a Steam Deck and moved my guitar. I couldn't bring myself to game or practice for more hours in the same chair, keyboard and monitors.
It's the reason I prefer consoles. No gaming chair will ever beat my couch or the mindset/freedom I have when I don't have to look at or listen to notifications from Teams or Outlook.
@cienmilojos I have a steam deck that's awesome for just zoning out and playing something simple, and a Windows rig that has nothing on it but Steam, so I hear ya.
as luck would have it, I recently understood Pascal's triangle for the first time, after years of thinking about it. It took some thinking through what was happening, but wow: math is truly a meta-psychedelic experience.
Understanding Math is like developing an extra sense, since you are literally experiencing an aspect of reality, just like you do with your regular 5 senses
This video has a pdf in comment with it which I read in lieu of watching:
summary: studying math creates unique pathways in the brain for the specific branches (number theory, algebra, analysis). It's quite the trip, I must say.
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Still laughing at the time I played the Death Note social deduction game and I was trying to convince people who Kira was and some woman kept hemming and hawwing and saying "I don't think he's suspicious." and I said, "Yeah thats because you're a woman." and she got mad and turned out to be Kira's Helper so she was just doing her job and just left the lobby immediately mad after the game.
My play was the correct one. Convincing people of the truth in 120 seconds of cross talk voice chat needs more than carefully argued and precisely presented evidence and calling people who are being retarded idiots to avoid engaging their drivel is a winning strategy until the playerbase dissipates to dedicated autists who actually care about the mechanics and proof
L trying to stay hidden adds another layer as he benefits from not actually taking charge but watching and directing with special L announcements. This also means the detective team also has to figure out if L is playing the game smart or is a moron without actually being able to talk to him directly. Identifying who is an idiot, who is too smart, who is a blowhard, who is smart but quiet, who is being too conspicuously stupid, and convincing a plurality of voters of such things. There is a lot to it but it involves crosstalk voice chat with zoomies to accomplish any of this so its really agonizing to attempt to practice these skills.
I do not think ToS can work for this now as the game is probably too dead but social deduction is a fantastic way to learn how to lie and how people lie and I appreciate my time with ToS to learn such things
Collateral by Design: Israeli Military Orders to Kill Civilians on #7October Raise Alarming Questions of Intent and Complicity
This brief critically examines confirmed statements by Israeli officials that the Israel Defense Forces ( #IDF) were ordered to target and kill Israeli citizens during the 7 October 2023 Hamas attack, including civilians being abducted. Eyewitness testimonies, video evidence, and admissions by Defense Minister Yoav #Gallant and other officials reveal a disturbing pattern of indiscriminate lethal force and premeditated attacks against Israeli civilians. Documented cases of homes shelled by tanks, cars obliterated by heavy ordnance, and hostages killed in crossfire strongly indicate that much of the destruction attributed to Hamas could not have been caused by their limited weaponry. These findings raise profound legal, ethical, and political concerns regarding Israel’s military doctrine and potential violations of international humanitarian law.
Introduction
On #7October 2023, Israel declared that #Hamas had perpetrated “the worst massacre in its history.” The dominant narrative described an unexpected, one-sided assault in which Hamas fighters killed and abducted civilians across southern Israel. Yet subsequent admissions from Israeli officials and mounting evidence from the field reveal a darker reality: Israeli forces themselves were ordered to fire on their own citizens to prevent hostage-taking. This report examines how those orders—an extension of the infamous Hannibal Directive—translated into indiscriminate firepower that caused extensive destruction to Israeli homes and vehicles, much of which Hamas could not have caused given its limited small arms and portable weaponry.
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant confirmed in May 2024 that the IDF implemented rules authorizing lethal fire against Israeli citizens to prevent them from being taken into Gaza.1 This doctrine builds upon the “Hannibal Directive,” historically applied to captured soldiers, under which commanders were permitted—even encouraged—to use overwhelming firepower, even at the risk of killing their own personnel.
On 7 October, however, the scope of this directive was expanded from soldiers to civilians. Reports confirm that Israeli helicopters fired on vehicles leaving the Nova music festival, some of which contained both Hamas fighters and abducted Israelis.2 Tanks were ordered to fire on homes in kibbutzim such as Be’eri, destroying buildings while civilians remained inside.3
Eyewitness Testimonies and Visual Evidence
Case 1: Kibbutz Be’eri
Residents testified that IDF tanks shelled civilian homes during firefights, killing families who were still sheltering inside. Survivors told Haaretz that “our neighbors were killed by Israeli fire, not Hamas bullets.”3 Entire homes were leveled—destruction consistent with tank rounds or high-caliber explosive shells, not with Hamas’s AK-47s or RPGs.
Case 2: Kfar Aza
In Kfar Aza, eyewitnesses described Merkava tanks opening fire on suspected Hamas hideouts. Civilians taken captive inside those homes died in the shelling. Independent inspections of the ruins show pancaked concrete structures—damage requiring artillery or tank rounds.4
Case 3: Nova Music Festival
Video analysis confirms Israeli Apache helicopters strafed vehicles fleeing the festival grounds. Cars were incinerated and torn apart, with twisted frames and burned-out shells indicating air-to-surface munitions rather than small-arms fire. Survivors testified that gunfire came “from above, from helicopters,” hitting convoys indiscriminately.2
Case 4: Road Convoys on Highway 232
Several civilian cars were obliterated on Highway 232. Footage shows vehicles reduced to charred skeletons, consistent with Hellfire missiles or helicopter rockets. Hamas’s limited small arms and RPGs could not have caused the complete combustion and fragmentation of multiple vehicles in open road conditions.5
Categories of Damage Inconsistent with Hamas Weaponry
Homes Leveled or Partially Demolished
Entire residential blocks in Be’eri and Kfar Aza were reduced to rubble.
Hamas carried small arms, grenades, and a limited number of RPGs—not the high-explosive shells necessary to collapse reinforced Israeli houses.
Vehicles Completely Incinerated
Numerous cars at the Nova festival and on evacuation roads were found burnt to skeletal frames.
RPGs could disable a vehicle but rarely incinerate it; air-to-ground missiles or incendiary helicopter munitions are required for such total destruction.
Heavy Caliber Strikes and Crater Patterns
Craters found near kibbutz perimeters and festival grounds matched 120mm tank rounds and aerial rockets, not improvised Hamas fire.
The IDF has acknowledged tank shelling in residential areas.3
Indiscriminate Aerial Strafing
Videos show vehicles riddled with downward-angled gunfire, consistent with helicopter miniguns, not ground-level AK-47 fire.
The Hannibal Directive’s Legacy and Expansion
The 2014 Rafah incident—where at least 135 Palestinians were killed after one soldier was captured—demonstrates the lethal precedent of Hannibal implementation.6 On 7 October, its application against civilians marks a chilling escalation: the Israeli state prioritized denying Hamas captives over preserving its citizens’ lives.
Strategic Sacrifice or Moral Collapse?
By invoking Hannibal tactics against civilians, the IDF effectively redefined its own people as expendable. This represents not merely a tragic overreaction but a deliberate doctrine in which the state sacrifices civilian lives for strategic narrative control. As Gallant himself admitted, “orders were given… no matter the cost.”1
Conclusion
The evidence suggests that many civilian deaths and much of the destruction on 7 October were caused not by Hamas but by Israel’s own military operations under Hannibal-style orders. Civilians in kibbutzim, festival-goers, and motorists were killed in crossfire or directly targeted by Israeli heavy weapons. These revelations demand urgent international inquiry into possible war crimes and state complicity in the mass killing of Israeli citizens.
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