Hihi so nervous it’s my first post here but with all you beautiful ladies posting I thought I would join in, I have been hesitant to post a picture yet because I am pretty sensitive about being a bald transfem (something I plan to make a post about), but what the hell. I haven’t really got makeup down yet so not wearing any here (I put some on but did a bad job so took it off for the pic lol). Behind me is my music gear :3 I’m wearing my first shiny nail polish which I absolutely adore, I’ve got decent at nails and love love love having that pop of color in my life I can choose to suit my mood hehe

I just came out earlier this year after what feels like 20 years of being an absolute zombie, and I am so relieved to have what feels like a massive weight off me and I can see a pretty future for myself for once :)

Feel free to ask any questions , otherwise love you all, thank you for being a constant source of inspiration, you’re beautiful <3

  • brookedSmile@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    6 days ago

    Yayyyy more selfies!

    I get the sensitivity, but you look so fierce and happy in your own skin, i love it. Dont be too hard on yourself girl we support our hair challenged girls too ❤️❤️

    • joeljoelle@piefed.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
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      3 days ago

      I didn’t want to make it seem like I was using it to promote myself, I guess I’m not selling anything anyways, I added some links to the top post so you can hear what I’m doing with it, there’s also a video on youtube, well two.

      The mixer is 32 channel (16 stereo) mixer with 4 aux send that I use as my main mixer now, below that is an E-mu E5000 sampler from the 90s, it usually used disks or SCSI HDD but mine is using an internal SSD with a mod, which is packed with a bunch of old sample CDs and a bunch of my samples. below that there’s a Yamaha TG-77 synthesizer which was the most powerful FM synthesizer of the early 90s, it has 2 6-op FM with 2 AWM elements per voice which makes some really weird and pretty sounds :) to the left of that top to bottom, is a Alesis 3630 compressor, which was a popular compressor in 90s techno music due to the nice snappy dynamics it give to kick drums! Below that is another 90s standard, the Alesis QuadraVerb which was popular with a lot of IDM artists it’s used a lot of early Aphex Twin, below that is a much more expensive reverb the Lexicon PCM-80 with a dual FX card, this is a very lush reverb unit to me it sounds so much better than plugins still today, there is really not much comparison. Below that is a E-mu Ultraproteus from, you guessed it, the 90s, this one is really cool, it is a ROMpler at heart but it has 255 different Z-plane filters, which can make some very cool and strange sounds out of normal waveforms. Below that is Behringer’s reproduction of an ARP 2600 because I can’t afford a real one. It makes a lot of great bass noises, effects, an ARP 2500 was used in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and I think the 2600 was used to do R2D2. That’s all the rack stuff, there’s a bunch more scattered around. I used to have more but I’ve been unemployed and have had to sell some off.

      • Azathoth@fedia.io
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        3 days ago

        Thank you so much for the rundown! I recognized the 3630 and the QuadraVerb because I used to have those too, but couldn’t make out anything else. It seems like a great set up; I hope you have a lot of fun with it :)

        • joeljoelle@piefed.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
          2·
          3 days ago

          Anytime love to talk about the stuff XD Oohh rad! do you have anything you made with them I could hear or was it lost to the ages? thank you ❤️ yeah it’s a lot of fun when I can muster some inspiration :)

  • applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    7·
    6 days ago

    nail polish is such a great feminizing accessory. you get to look down and see feminine hands all the time. its so affirming but its so hard to paint between the lines lol.

    • joeljoelle@piefed.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
      6·
      6 days ago

      yessss :) haha yeah I don’t have the steadiest hands either but it’s fun and I think it teaches me a little patience which isn’t bad lol, oh I did my toes this time too but I cut them off I guess, they’re cute :3

    • joeljoelle@piefed.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
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      4 days ago

      hehe it is a lot of fun :) I got big into rave in the 90s, since then it was always a dream to have a room full of bleepy hardware noise makers, I finally got it together something after working my ass off overtime at a shitty warehouse job a few years ago. It was when I finally had it all together and I still wasn’t happy that I realized there was something else going on… and here I am today

      anyway, anyone’s welcome to play haha

  • lwhjp@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    5 days ago

    Yay, thanks for posting! I love shiny polish too!

    You’ve really fallen into the electronic music transfem stereotype :3 So many controls to fiddle with 🤩

    • joeljoelle@piefed.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
      3·
      5 days ago

      yay thanks for seeing ❤️ Isn’t it great? almost feels magical, like pixie dust

      haha yes, actually that is interesting because after I came out I started looking more into the artists I was listening to an it turns out a lot of them were also trans, so I guess it’s a thing. ya give me knobs and esoteric menu diving and I’m in seventh heaven 👼