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Jon Tornblom, owner and engineer at Transparent Mastering, est 2008.

Audio | Music | Acoustics | Creativity
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I master music and consider myself a polymath poser
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Transparent Mastering is all about my role disappearing into the listener’s experience
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I’m after a timeless sound that will be impressive and satisfying decades from now.
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I also provide a point of supportive human contact with a critical ear
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Last year I made my first solo record. I'm very proud of what I was able to accomplish on my own (with a lot of help from my recording engineer, Andrew). Check it out!
linktr.ee/GoodBoyCharlie

#localmusic #indie #PNW
April 22, 2025 at 5:30 PM
This little tidbit could be the pebble that precedes the avalanche.

#ai #openai #microsoft #genai
Newsletter: Microsoft pulled back on over a gigawatt of planned data center capacity, suggesting that they do not think there is a growth future in generative AI. Meanwhile, SoftBank, the only company that can afford to fund OpenAI, has to take out loans to do so.
www.wheresyoured.at/power-cut/
March 5, 2025 at 3:01 AM
What are peoples’ thoughts on the Trump/DOGE insanity with respect to Javier Milei’s actions in Argentina; Influenced by him? Trying to steal the historical thunder?

Hit me with articles, opinions, infographics, whatever. This is why I’m here on #bluesky #politics #globalpitics #neutral 🇨🇦
March 3, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Some of the rowdiest weather I’ve ever seen happening in Masstown NS tonight.

I can’t even imagine what the hurricane #Fiona survivors went through.
February 18, 2025 at 4:31 AM
If you think making a sardonic meme about world events is helping humanity move in the right direction, you’re probably on the wrong path.
February 17, 2025 at 12:03 PM
What a song!

I wish I could push a performance as powerful as that out of me.

#randommusicrec
Canons
YouTube video by Jeremy Enigk - Topic
youtu.be
February 4, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Something you’ve heard in all kinds of music is the modulation into the minor key. This is NOT a relative major/minor thing. Instead, whatever key you are in can be “slipped” into minor with relative freedom. More in YT description.

#musictheory #feelthesound #songwriting #composition #music
Key Modulations Part 1: Major/Minor
YouTube video by Jon Tornblom
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January 14, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Listening back to All Reitz Reserved EP from 2023. Love this album and very happy to have been part of such a cool project!

#feelthesound #masteringengineer #luxembourg #music
Way Back Home (Radio Edit) (feat. When 'Airy Met Fairy)
YouTube video by All Reitz Reserved - Topic
youtu.be
January 13, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Working with Spyrit Myx for the first time in 2025.

It’s going to be a great year for us. I feel like west African music is really going to blow up this year. Or…continue to blow up haha

#feelthesound #studiolife
January 9, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Added a center bay to my Ikea-last-east-rack-hack. I was about to pull the trigger on a $6000 desk when I realized I could DIY it for less than $20.

Oh, and I was only joking. I wasn’t about to buy a $6000 desk-not in this economy! 😅

#feelthesound #audioengineering #studiolife #masteringstudio
January 8, 2025 at 12:26 AM
iOS autocorrecting “quick look” to Quick Look every time is 3 parts cheesy and 1 part antagonistic.
January 7, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Must-watch.
Why does it feel like the world is falling apart? | Brian Klaas
YouTube video by Big Think
youtu.be
January 6, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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January 5, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Sometimes I realize things like: that camping trip I thought we did every single summer of my childhood actually only happened twice.

Is that depressing? Not at all. It reminds me that I am not required to replicate an impossible childhood to my kids. They cover the impossible bit.
January 5, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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my personal favorite comic of 2024
January 5, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Reading this absolute masterpiece again. I’m only a few pages in but have a stupid grin on my face because the Steinbeck has *already* completely immersed me in the Salinas Valley.

I think the only book I’ve read that has moved me as deeply is Brothers Karamazov.

#book #lifechangingliterature
January 4, 2025 at 2:45 AM
This is my kind of current-events satire
Are you sure we don't just have a zombie ChatGPT, now...? "Brians, Brians"
December 31, 2024 at 2:41 AM
The assumption that digital information is an appropriate long term storage medium for the knowledge of the human race is utterly foolhardy.

Books aren’t indestructible but at least all you need to extract the information is…itself.

Libraries might be the most important institution we have.
Destroy this myth. Please share if you have visited and researched in a library this past year! RT And give a shout out to your favorite library you have ever visited.
December 21, 2024 at 9:15 PM
One of the craziest things on the internet is seeing how many people are still actually afraid that gen AI is going to take their job.

This week I tried to calculate the length of Xmas lites to spiral around my 60 ft hedge and it said 60 ft…3x in a row, different prompts.

I’M SHAKING IN MY BOOTS
I cannot express how bad this story is for generative AI. OpenAI is burning hundreds of millions of dollars to try and make GPT-5 a meaningful upgrade, and it isn't working. Where does all of this go? How does this result in anything?
December 21, 2024 at 4:46 PM
Not sure what’s happening in New Zealand rn, but did anyone else forget about this iconic track?

#music #throwback #classic
December 21, 2024 at 4:33 PM
When you search for shortcuts instead of embracing discipline and deep practice, you merely succeed in cheapening your own experience.

We reach for the shortcut because we feel overworked, but often we’re overworked bc of others seeking the shortcut.
December 17, 2024 at 12:23 AM
Modernist Humans: with our ingenuity we’ve brought stability to nature!

The Holocene:
a man in a suit and tie is sitting in front of a computer screen and making a face .
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is sitting in front of a computer screen and making a face .
media.tenor.com
December 15, 2024 at 8:41 PM
PSA: Must watch! DSP’s Tricky opt-in language could betray you!

#musicindustry #legal #streamingmusic
PSA - Musicians Are Being Misled Out Of Their AI Rights
YouTube video by Benn Jordan
youtu.be
December 15, 2024 at 8:13 PM
Any thoughts on how #Bluesky’s light algorithm could limit how many ppl you follow? I imagine after a certain number of people get in your feed that it gets pretty “noisy”
December 15, 2024 at 2:10 PM
Yep. The flipside of this slide from IBM in the 70s or early 80s is that having a computer make the decisions is a means of skirting accountability.
December 15, 2024 at 1:52 AM