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Nick Dymond @monomoon.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

My reply to a thread elsewhere about 'most embarassing moment in audio'...

A caption that reads: "Degree music composition/performance/dsp thing where I worked with contemporary dancers. Recorded close contact/clothing sounds of them dancing and moving in a space with a view to processing/amplifying them back, triggered by motion sensing in Max.

Anyway, the place I recorded the first pass of sounds had creaky floorboards. 20 year old me didn’t notice or think this would be a problem, just part of the sound of the piece. These sounds were pitch-shifted and amplified in realtime for the 1st rehearsal and… well… everytime a dancer moved it sounded like a massive fart.

Good times."

Nick Dymond @monomoon.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Messing around with a GUI design for a little Reaktor plugin. About a decade late for the platform (since NI became equity bait and pretty much stopped innovating). A Reaktor to VST wrapper would have been amazing.

Small screenshot of a small area of an audio plugin showing a minimalist GUI featuring dark grey knobs and meters.

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Nick Dymond @monomoon.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Wiltshire earlier this evening 😍

A wheat field with a straight divide down the centre, moving away from the camera. It is sunny. In the distance are rolling, soft chalk hills.

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Nick Dymond @monomoon.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

For those of you with NI Reaktor, I just released an 8-tap stereo delay I've been working on (and very much off) since 2020. It's based on the architecture of the Korg DL8000R but I've added a diffusion network to the feedback loop. Grab it for free via: monomoon.co.uk/posts/d8k-re...

A screenshot of a Reaktor audio plugin effect. It's a simple, clean user interface for a delay.

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Nick Dymond @monomoon.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Appreciate I've become a repost machine but just workin' on my own shit and not sure everything (anything?) needs a comment from me atm. New followers, I am real, unlike many of you. Here's some humanity confirming content: Forest scared by something [unknown] outside.

A tabby cat looking anxiously past the camera. He has a small white bib. Behind him is the warm orange glow of a lamp. His eyes have pleasing specular reflections.

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Nick Dymond @monomoon.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Bought a streamdeck for audio work, which obviously, immediately turns into me designing my own icons for it. Combined with some of the TC desktop controllers makes for a nice mouse-free mixing system. Plus Forest for company, who doesn't mind sonics unless it's water sounds, which freak him out.

A streamdeck with custom icons relating to audio software. Next to it is a tabby cat asleep on a blanket. The cat has little white socks and very close patterned markings.

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Nick Dymond @monomoon.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Previous post brought to you by wanting to share a snippet of something I found in my archive whilst sorting through it over the weekend. No recollection of making this track (or this start to it anyway). Much of the archive is crap, most are, but keep 'everything'.

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Nick Dymond @monomoon.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Woke this morning to find my cat watching the sun rise. Sometimes I feel like he's here to teach me something profound, if only I'd listen.

The siloutte of a cat behind a bedroom curtain. He is watching the sun rise which is visible as a strong circle of light to the left of the image.

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Nick Dymond @monomoon.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

This little fella started 2024 as a stray and ended it with a favourite blanket (and a favourite side of his 2nd favourite blanket).

A tabby cat with white socks and bib is curled on his back with his belly out and his arms outstrecthed above his head. He has his eyes shut and he is grinning.

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Nick Dymond @monomoon.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

My brain went straight here...

A still image from the movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail, showing a monster's hand about to turn the page of a medieval book.

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Nick Dymond @monomoon.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Feel a little strange having lots of new followers. Hello. This is my resue cat, Forest. He's really a great guy.

A mackeral tabby cat lying face down in a soft blanket with his arms stretched-out.

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Nick Dymond @monomoon.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

I recently discovered these joss sticks for freelancers.

A shop display of different joss stick packets. The one nearest the camera is called 'Attract Client'.

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Nick Dymond @monomoon.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

Experimenting with ways to share audio on here...

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Nick Dymond @monomoon.bsky.social · 06/09/2024

Me checking Twitter and seeing people still posting there:

An image from the post-credits sequence of Ferris Beuller's Day Off where he tells the audience the film is over and they should go home.

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Nick Dymond @monomoon.bsky.social · 05/09/2024

Meanwhile, a few feet behind me... (I keep em in triplicate - two disks and 1 disk image. Just waiting for the drives to fail now! 👍)

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Nick Dymond @monomoon.bsky.social · 04/09/2024

Huh. After 25 years (!!!) my OB12 suddenly threw a pretty aggressive memory error, cycling through all my programs and patches telling me one by one that they were lost... but they aren't lost and everything's working again now as if nothing's happened. Wut. Cool. Cool...

The LCD of an Oberheim OB12 synthesiser, reporting a data loss affecting its memory banks.

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Nick Dymond @monomoon.bsky.social · 30/08/2024

Update. Forest seems to be settling in. He doesn't go full-ball or shrimp, but does a good half-shrimp with good form and points for expression. Bizarrely he doesn't jump-up on stuff, shelves, sideboards, equipment. It's weird, I don't trust it. Also, turns-out that humans can be woken by smells.

A tabby cat is curled-up on a blanket covered piano stool. Sunlight lands on a wooden floor beside him.

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Nick Dymond @monomoon.bsky.social · 28/07/2024

Checking pre-masters away from the studio (... in bed). Absolutely loving the Chord Mojo 2 as a proper high-quality DAC that I can run from a tablet.

A portable headphone amplifier, android tablet and notebook on a bed.

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Nick Dymond @monomoon.bsky.social · 14/05/2024

Coppola's love of German Expressionism looks to be present and although I'm not sure how involved he was in the final film, there's obvious Ron Fricke influence.

A still from the Megaloplis trailer looking up at skscrapers with falling asteroids or warheads. There are large projections of the shadows of backlit people up the side of the buildings.

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Nick Dymond @monomoon.bsky.social · 03/05/2024

New digs pt2. GIK acoustics have got quite a cool room visualiser. A few new things for me to build (superchunks in the corners) but otherwise this is all existing traps I've made previously. Feel like I need more scattering & less damping though. gikacoustics.co.uk/room-acousti...

A 3D visualisation of a small recording studio with various pieces of acoustic treatment organised around it.

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Nick Dymond @monomoon.bsky.social · 22/04/2024

Packing things and came across a rare photo of teenage me DJing in some woods. Not sure whose copy of Arrow 'Hot Hot Hot' that is. Floorkiller! 😅

A scaffold stage in a forest with boxes of vinyl records including a copy of Arrow Hot Hot Hot.

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Nick Dymond @monomoon.bsky.social · 11/04/2024

Yeah, I bet voice-over artists can't wait to get their hands on a technology specifically designed to undermine their craft and replace them. 20+ years using Sound Forge but I'll be tapping-out now in favour of Acon. (Incidentally, Magix are currently looking for new owners. Surprising, huh?).

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Nick Dymond @monomoon.bsky.social · 28/03/2024

Notion's bollocks 'AI' features absolutely smashing it out the park again. For those wondering, the fridge doors in Shadows of Doubt are my current fridge recorded (IIRC) with a Beyerdynamic M201TG because it's my best mic at dealing with high SPL.

Notion pop-up asking "What's the sound design for the fridge door?"

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Nick Dymond @monomoon.bsky.social · 27/03/2024

In my pursuit of a more flexible, portable mixing situation I picked up a Chord Mojo2 as a DAC/headphone amp. I've been using it almost exclusively for a week now and it is properly excellent. Big recommend.

A Chord Mojo 2 headphone amp and DAC on a wooden desk.

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Nick Dymond @monomoon.bsky.social · 02/02/2024

That video also this amazingly literary comment from a former NYC subway driver (allegedy or not - it's so good I don't care). "...the rushing unknowables of a 200 ton machine hurtling through the dark entrails of a city collapsing."

A youtube comment reading: "I operated , like most train operators, all the NYC lines. This music in the most uncanny way conveys the rhythms, the deep frequencies, the dangers, the sudden screams and the rushing unknowables of a 200 ton machine hurtling through the dark entrails of a city collapsing. What a musical triumph!"

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Nick Dymond @monomoon.bsky.social · 25/11/2023

A while back I started building an emulation of the Marshall Time Modulator (AKA Darth Vader voicebox / Joy Division sadness smusher). I feel like NI were a tenth as innovative as they once were we'd have a Reaktor -> VST wrapper by now, but it'll never be.

A screenshot of a top level of a reaktor ensemble, emulating a Marshall Time Modulator.

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Nick Dymond @monomoon.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

Fascinating spectrogram of a synthesised sound I made a while back. The shape of the spectral modulation creates a wide-angled view of a curved plane, with multiple vanishing points. #gameaudio

Spectrogram from Izotope RX showing a curved looking surface.

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Nick Dymond @monomoon.bsky.social · 21/08/2023

Shout-out to my sister and her partner for the esoteric 'movie-villain' table naming schema at their wedding. Confused relatives: "Who's Clarence Boddicker?!!" 😂

Photo of Clarence Boddicker from Robocop on a wedding meal table

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Nick Dymond @monomoon.bsky.social · 07/07/2023

Unexpected Eno pre-credit in front of a definitely not papier-mâché minotaur nose. Anyone know the film?

Film pre-credit showing Brian Eno's name for the score.

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Nick Dymond @monomoon.bsky.social · 06/07/2023

Bit-by-bit getting closer to finishing a multitap delay I started building in Reaktor ages ago. It's based on the topology of the Korg D8000R (with added diffusion in the feedback loop). If you have Reaktor and want a build in the near future hmu.

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