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Cobalt @cobaltmusic.fi · 03/09/2026

archive.org/details/akir... Akira Yamaoka - Silent Hill (Original Video Game Soundtrack) [Mondo - MOND-098, Mondo - MOND-094] Genre: Abstract, Ambient, Avantgarde, Dark Ambient, Downtempo, Experimental, Industrial, Soundtrack absolutely love the sleeve design, shoutout Sam Wolfe Connelly

the gatefold sleeve opened wide. this is the outside of the gatefold sleeve. on the right side is the front of the sleeve, pictured is harry's crashed car in snow. on the left side is the back of the sleeve, showing information about the records such as the tracklisting and copyright information. the background image for the backside is footsteps in snow

the gatefold sleeve opened wide. this is the inside of the gatefold sleeve. pictured is the incubus from the end of the game. it has the head of a goat with a human body. it is topless and its breasts are visible. it is wearing a corset. its body is on the right side of the inner sleeve, with its right wing taking up the left side of the inner sleeve

the obi for the record, featuring information about the record

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Cobalt @cobaltmusic.fi · 02/09/2026

archive.org/details/dj-d... DJ Duckpower - Get The Duck Out Of Here (Move It) [Panic Records - 579 427-1] Genre: Eurodance, Euro House All around a fantastic record. Song is a banger and I love the sleeve design!

the front sleeve of the record. the background seems to be some kind of photograph of city streets seen from a highrise building and the photo has been rotated 90 degrees so the ground is on the right. at the top it reads "get the duck out of here" in large yellow letters. in the middle is what kind of looks like a really old school donald duck in a bumper car. there are wheels on it and they look like they're made from pastries or something. smack dab in the middle of the sleeve reads "DJ DUCK POWER" in capitalized red letters. below the bumper car it reads "(move it)" in white letters. at the bottom right of the sleeve it reads "maxi 45 tours" indicating that this is a maxi single and it should be played at 45 RPM

The back of the sleeve is split into five sections. running down the middle is a red vertical stripe with information about the record on it, such as the tracklisting and copyright information. in the top left quadrant is a figure of batman who's thinking "My god, this DJ Duck is very strong...". in the top right quadrant is the joker laughing and he's thinking "Ho! Ho! Ho! He's so cute!...". In the bottom left quadrant is the penguin who is thinking "This Duck makes me mad !!." In the bottom right quadrant is superman who's thinking "Who the hell he is ? A superduck ?! mhh..."

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Cobalt @cobaltmusic.fi · 09/06/2026

I was supposed to just build this one specific simple modular generative patch that I was gonna use for a project but ended up accidentally making drum n bass

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Cobalt @cobaltmusic.fi · 29/05/2026

I've just released this as a single! Bandcamp: cobalt-fi.bandcamp.com/album/climb-... Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrSG... #eurobeat #musicproduction

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Cobalt @cobaltmusic.fi · 14/05/2026

hey does this sound like eurobeat to you?

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Cobalt @cobaltmusic.fi · 11/05/2026

my oc is myself with a gas mask (half mask + visor or full visor) and light up cat ear headphones (cyan) with a hood (either a black ski mask if cold or latex if i could be bothered to put it on) and gloves (normal gloves if cold or latex if i could be bothered to put it on)

me relaxing on a bench in the middle of winter. my green backpack is next to me. on my head i am wearing a half face respirator with filters, a visor on my eyes, the cat ear headphones on my head, and a black balaclava

same as previous but this time a closer shot

me posing for the camera with a Beretta M92FS Semi Automatic Pistol, pointing it off to the side of the camera. on my head i am wearing a latex hood, light up cat ear headphones, and a fully tinted full face mask

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Cobalt @cobaltmusic.fi · 19/03/2026

starting tomorrow, it's the Yks Mesta ry DJ Marathon! 42 hours of bangers, streamed live to your favourite screen I'll be playing dubstep at 10am on sunday, 22.3. (Finland time, convert that to your own time zone accordingly™️) www.twitch.tv/yksmesta

the flier for the dj marathon, featuring DJs such as akizEh, Jay Crystal, JeJo, DSM, and many others

The same image as previously, this time listing more DJs

The timetable for the marathon, too much info to properly alt

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Cobalt @cobaltmusic.fi · 16/03/2026

finally getting around to putting the finishing touches on this lmao

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Cobalt @cobaltmusic.fi · 14/03/2026

oh yah bud i know how you feel, i've been addicted to this for the past couple of weeks. friend and i made a modpack that we've been playing on. mekanism is our current technology mod. i made a nuclear reactor and a 5x ore processing chain

screenshot from minecraft. left to right: a machine workshop, 3 tall thermal evaporation towers for brine production, and a nuclear reactor containment building

the ore processing chain has countless machines all fed by tubes

the reactor containment building houses the nuclear reactor, a turbine, a very large battery, the control room, and elevators

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Cobalt @cobaltmusic.fi · 04/03/2026

Started working on this on stream today

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Cobalt @cobaltmusic.fi · 28/02/2026

finnish culture (ostakaa makkaraa) meets indian culture (the bansuri flute)

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Cobalt @cobaltmusic.fi · 27/02/2026

stop me if you've heard this one before

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Cobalt @cobaltmusic.fi · 27/02/2026

original composition (Cobalt - Home)

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Cobalt @cobaltmusic.fi · 27/02/2026

anyway here's Alpha by Vangelis

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Cobalt @cobaltmusic.fi · 13/02/2026

it's just a normal option i can tick in the VM settings. but it's not like you really need 3D acceleration for FL. I use the VM exclusively for FL, everything else including gaming and video/photo editing I just do in linux

a screenshot from the VM settings, showing the "3d acceleration" feature toggled on

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Cobalt @cobaltmusic.fi · 29/01/2026

now with preliminary vocals!

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Cobalt @cobaltmusic.fi · 26/01/2026

wow I haven't touched fl since february of 2025 lol anyway here's a 30 minute rough sketch of some 303 acid rally house

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Cobalt @cobaltmusic.fi · 09/01/2026

not only did they get back to me, they sent me the whole 7 page PDF specifying EVERYTHING in the transformer from the tech specs to even the physical construction of the thing mackie also has a publicly accessible archive of ALL their products' manuals free to download, discontinued or not

a screenshot of the PDF, showing the electrical specifications of the transformer. way too much text to properly alt, sorry

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Cobalt @cobaltmusic.fi · 07/01/2026

baby finally got new tuning hardware, saddles, and strings. she sings beautifully now :) I haven't played in years so I'm very rusty but it's all coming back. I think I did a shit job with tying the strings to the tuning posts? but they hold and they work so I guess it doesn't really matter?

the headstock of a Landola guitar, with fresh new tuning mechanisms and strings installed

a side view of the headstock, showing the new tuning mechanisms. they are rather ornate metal plates

the new nut of the guitar, it is a white solid piece of bone which the strings rest upon

the strings tied to the bridge of the guitar. as far as I know they're well attached and shouldn't be able to slip at all

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Cobalt @cobaltmusic.fi · 05/01/2026

so I got a half-amp 250V slow blow like the chassis said, turned it on, and the fuse blew immediately. didn't even get a blink of a light on the front panel, so I'm thinking the problem is either in the power supply board or the transformer - I'm leaning towards the latter

a blown fuse, the inside of the glass is coated in black material

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Cobalt @cobaltmusic.fi · 31/12/2025

thank hell that that is over with. but the thing is, I finally got the main PCB off and checked all the caps and they all seem to (at least visually) be brand new. I have no idea why this thing would keep burning fuses. maybe the previous owner didn't use slow blows like the chassis says?

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Cobalt @cobaltmusic.fi · 30/12/2025

thankfully, the smallest bit in this generic chinese "your brand here" screw extractor set I bought did the trick. it felt kind of magical just seeing the screw come out so easily haha these things are getting replaced with slot screws ASAP because fuck phillips head screws lol

a close-up of a screw that has been unscrewed from the mixer, with the bit that I used next to it

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Cobalt @cobaltmusic.fi · 29/12/2025

oh christ... was gonna remove the PCB from the front panel but these motherfuckers used torx 6.5? is that even a bit?? all my kits only have t5, t6, t7, and t8. t6 is too small and t7 is too big 😭

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Cobalt @cobaltmusic.fi · 29/12/2025

have to be careful when lifting the front panel after removing the screws holding it down, because the PSU is held at the bottom so there are wires running between the two halves. the voltage selector switch and grounding are attached via nuts. luckily, no glue on the connectors this time!

the front panel of the mixer being lifted away from the lower part of the case which contains the power supply

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Cobalt @cobaltmusic.fi · 29/12/2025

bought this Mackie 1642 VLZ3 mixer for 50€. seller said it keeps burning fuses. here's hoping it's just an obviously-bad blown capacitor or something, because I don't really have the know-how of how to troubleshoot electrical stuff

the aforementioned mixer. looks like any other mixer. lots of knobs and buttons

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Cobalt @cobaltmusic.fi · 27/12/2025

oh yeah, update on this: the body of the guitar has cracked along the bridge holes, causing it to bunch up and push up the bridge as a result. there isn't really anything to be done to save this guitar. only salvageable things were the tuning hardware which I yoinked

the body of the guitar with the bridge removed. the body has cracked along the holes

the headstock of the guitar, the tuning hardware has been removed

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Cobalt @cobaltmusic.fi · 25/12/2025

jeeeez... remember how one of them had a bunch of black tape on the top part? I took it off but none of the adhesive came off with it. I've been scrubbing this thing for nearly two hours now with copious amounts of IPA, and I'm still only like 70% done. I'll finish this up later

the top part of the mixer. it is almost completely covered in dry, hardened duct tape residue

it doesn't look much better than the previous image, but it's about 70% done

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Cobalt @cobaltmusic.fi · 25/12/2025

finally starting work on the second one of these! I saw signs of someone else having been in here before, some of the plastic tabs holding the connectors were broken. judging by the amount of dust, that looks to have been a long time ago! it's had a long life and I'm gonna make it even longer

some of the buttons and sliders on the PCB of the mixer. there is a lot of dust accumulated on everything

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Cobalt @cobaltmusic.fi · 22/12/2025

oh yah, bud. 5 out of the 6 tuning posts are cracked. about time they get replaced. new parts probably arriving after christmas so can't do anything more to it for now

the tuning mechanism from the landola. each side has three pegs which the string gets put into, then the peg gets rotated by turning the tuning key. 5 out of 6 pegs have cracked

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Cobalt @cobaltmusic.fi · 21/12/2025

there's a bunch of solidified grime on the fretboard. gentle scratching with a plastic shiv cut out from a card to loosen up the dirt, then some mild general purpose cleaner as well as scrubbing with a microfibre cloth cleans the fretboard up pretty well

a picture of an area between the frets on a fretboard, at the top is a bunch of visible grime

the shiv in question on the frets. the grime has been scraped away, leaving loose particles on the fretboard and some grime still stuck on it

after applying a bit of general purpose cleaner and scrubbing with a microfibre cloth, the fretboard is looking as good as new again

the fretboard under some direct lighting. at the top of the image is the cleaned part of the fretboard, and at the bottom is the uncleaned part. you can easily tell where the cleaned and uncleaned parts start and end

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Cobalt @cobaltmusic.fi · 21/12/2025

ah. maybe it's not in such a good shape as I expected. the saddle is cracked too thankfully, however, despite being founded in 1942, Landola is still making replacement parts! I'll get new tuners too while I'm at it. a new nut, saddle, and mechanics comes out to a total of just 38€

the saddle on a bridge. this is the part at the bottom of the guitar that holds the strings above the fretboard and the body. it is cracked at the widest end

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Cobalt @cobaltmusic.fi · 21/12/2025

oh, as I was taking the strings off, half of the nut just comes off lol

the nut is literally split. i was taking the strings off and it just dropped out

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Cobalt @cobaltmusic.fi · 21/12/2025

this means it's in a good condition, just needs a bit of cleaning. the only cons at the moment are the cloudiness in the body, the ancient strings (in its 37 year long lifespan they've never been changed!), and the nut is broken, leaving the D string intonated

the nut of the guitar. all the strings rest neatly upon it except the D string which is touching the fretboard

the strings of the guitar. they have so much shit on them they've literally turned green. at least the metal strings anyway, the strings G, B, and (high) E are made of nylon

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Cobalt @cobaltmusic.fi · 21/12/2025

oh yeah, since we're on the topic of guitars, I might as well fix up my old Landola. Landola is a finnish guitar manufacturer started in 1942. my specific one is from 1987. it hasn't been played much ever since I got it, and it's always been stored in a room temperature, dry place

an acoustic guitar on the floor. the body is brown

the headstock reads "Landola" and it has two long vertical holes in it to accomodate the tuning heads

the strings are attached to the bridge by just tying them in a knot

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Cobalt @cobaltmusic.fi · 21/12/2025

idk a single thing about strings so i don't know if these are good or bad but might as well get new strings for it since they're only like 15eur per pack and I will likely be able to sell the guitar for more than that when it's done

guitar strings in a coil. there are some dark spots on them

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Cobalt @cobaltmusic.fi · 21/12/2025

after a lot of manual scrubbing with toilet paper, the fretboard looks a lot better. couldn't quite get all the dirt right next to the frets, but overall it's not bad

the fretboard, showing the 12th fret (that's the one with double dots). there is a lot of visible grime, and as you look further down the fretboard the grime starts getting not just under the strings but also between them, coating the whole width of the fretboard in grime

the fretboard is noticeably cleaner without sacrificing the texture of the wood underneath. the only remaining grime is right next to the frets which I couldn't get at

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Cobalt @cobaltmusic.fi · 21/12/2025

tried a bit of IPA on a toothbrush and then scrubbing with some toilet paper on the fretboard. the IPA takes off a bit too much material and removes the wood texture. that's a mistake but I don't really mind as the MSRP for this guitar was just $100 to begin with. it's a learning experience

the fretboard. you can definitely see where the strings used to be, because the fretboard is darker in those spots

the grime on the fretboard is gone from the first two frets, but so is the texture of the wood. they're now pretty smooth. looks kind of unnatural

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Cobalt @cobaltmusic.fi · 20/12/2025

headstock clean-up with a toothbrush and IPA

the headstock of the guitar, it is very dusty and you can see where the strings were before

the very same headstock, now spotless and shiny as it was when it was made

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Cobalt @cobaltmusic.fi · 20/12/2025

picked up this Fender Squier SA-105 for free. the bridge has started coming off. reckon it could be fixed with just some wood glue?

a shiny black acoustic guitar on the floor

the bridge (the part at the bottom of the guitar that holds the strings) has started coming loose from the body

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Cobalt @cobaltmusic.fi · 14/12/2025

yeah! yeah that's a bit better :) couldn't get the surface to be perfect because there was just far too much grime caked onto it. goes to show you you gotta take care of your gear and it'll last so much longer. it's better tho!

a "before" photo. the mixer is visibly grimy, as are all of the knobs. channel 2's knob is bent

an "after" photo. the mixer shines so much it has overexposed the image. channel 2's knob has been bent back into place, and all the knobs are now clean

the model number plate at the back of the mixer as well as the power button and the hole for the power cable

the power cable, it is a normal european power plug

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Cobalt @cobaltmusic.fi · 14/12/2025

tested it thoroughly, and everything works perfectly with no crackles anywhere! the outputs are nice and clean, and the pots feel good to move

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Cobalt @cobaltmusic.fi · 14/12/2025

the previous owner had somehow bent the channel 2 fader pot. no problem, gently bent it back with some pliers

the bent fader pot in question. the two other pots next to it are fine, it is purely the second channel's pot that is bent

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Cobalt @cobaltmusic.fi · 13/12/2025

god DAMN it's so shiny now lol used the exact same exposure settings between these two photos lots of scrubbing with IPA and a toothbrush

a "before" photo of the mixer. it is visibly very grimy

an "after" photo of the mixer. it is now so shiny that the image has been overexposed

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Cobalt @cobaltmusic.fi · 12/12/2025

smoke test successful! I'll continue working on it tomorrow since I've gotta head to bed soon

the mixer and some wires on the floor, along with a power strip. I am holding the plug of the power cord going into the mixer

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Cobalt @cobaltmusic.fi · 12/12/2025

condolences to whomever has to replace the power cord next. I tried to make it as easy as possible to remove it in the future; I angled the wires down and then put electrical tape on them. removal should be as simple as remove tape, heat the pad with a soldering iron, and pull out the wire

the power lead posts on the PCB, the wires have been removed

the new power lead has been soldered in place. the wires have been put through the holes, angled down, and have had solder applied

electrical tape has been wrapped around the wires in order to prevent even the most remote possibility of sorting

the newly attached power cord on top of the dirty mixer

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Cobalt @cobaltmusic.fi · 12/12/2025

auuuggghhhh, boss definitely didn't intend on anyone servicing this thing. power cord is just directly soldered in as I suspected, as is everything else. no connectors anywhere, I'm gonna have to keep the PCB near the bottom part of the case because I don't fancy taking out the PSU and transformer

a photo from the inside of the mixer. the power cord goes into a small PCB, and the electricity goes from that into a transformer, from the transformer to a power supply board, and finally from there to the rest of the mixer. nothing has connectors, it's all directly soldered together

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Cobalt @cobaltmusic.fi · 12/12/2025

someone's definitely been in here before me. there are random screws in random places, some are missing, and this one was just flat out only half screwed in. I'm gonna go to the hardware store at some point to see if I can find replacements

a photo from the bottom of the mixer - two screw holes are unpopulated, and one is sticking out

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