![]() I know that originally, I could hear everyone with the headset not plugged in. You can revisit your consent choices or withdraw consent at any time by clicking the link to your cookie settings in our Cookie Policy. No combination of settings - I’m not sure I’ve done them all, mind - has produced working results. I tried a reinstall of Mumble, didn't fix It. ![]() My headset works everywhere else, Skype, Steam Voice, Nvidia's Shadowplay and Teamspeak but on Mumble I get no sound through the headphones but my microphone Is picked up and working as people can hear me but I can't hear them. Yes holding down push to talk and see the voice icon but nobody can hear me. Mumble and Realtek are not working with each other. I don’t remember how I configured this initially. Mic works perfectly in skype, mumble, ventrillo, you name it. He regularly takes the person out of the public guild channel. For output the differences are Speakers (headset) and Speakers (High Definition Audi Device), in addition to default and Digital Audio. He also works with any Guild member who is having problems with adjusting their microphone. The key points being - that’s my headset for both settings.įor input, I have 3 options: the headset, default device, and Digital Audio (S/PDIF) High Definition Audio Device. Either I got them working during configuration (I could hearmyself talking during the volume tests) but then they didn’t work in channel, or they worked spotty during config (when I Spoke into the mic the volume things reacted accordingly, but I couldn’t hear anything in the earphones) and then didn’t work in channel. No amount of effort has lead to me successfully configuring the phones/mic combo. I have reinstalled Mumble at this point (I removed the settings when I uninstalled). The headphones are working I can listen to itunes and hear plenty of other games fine with them plugged in. At that point I called it an evening and tried to play around with my settings, to no avail. Once we got in game I thought it odd nobody was speaking it turns out the overlay wasn’t highlighting and I couldn’t hear anyone saying anything (all other sound worked fine). I was logged into mumble at this point so I unplugged my headphones. So I thought I would play again but just forgo talking. I thought maybe I would reboot, as sound in game was behaving oddly (champion ability sound effects started to cut out and I couldn’t her them at all the last 20 minutes or so).Ī reboot didn’t solve the problem. Version 1.4.274 is the latest stable version of Mumble and was released on August 21st, 2022. We also link to some third party projects. A Linux distribution may provide their own packages and have their own maintainer, which we will describe below. ![]() As always, I plugged in before starting mumble. We provide downloads for the official client and server programs. I have some logitech speakers and a logitech headset I connect via usb. I made no settings changes - to my system or Mumble - to cause this. Once we got into game, however, people started to cut out, and eventually I couldn’t hear anyone at all (the overlay for mumble still lit up when appropriate). Everything was fine at first I could hear people talking in channel and in turn be heard. I logged into the Mumble server yesterday to play League of Legends. ![]()
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This post has been edited by Clinty:, 02:20:35 PM Honestly a lot of these tracks could be in any order by idk this is how things vibe for me so ya! the controls are sill bothersome and the squares that block your path are a huge irritant. Same as vanilla lake before, but actually has a barrier surrounding the internal lake. snes ghost valley 3 has barely any initial wall barriers to begin with so this gimmick isn't much present, and again, touching a pixel off the track renders you as having fallen off and having to make up loads of time. The gimmick of ghost valley tracks is that when you hit a part of the wall barrier, it falls away, so that next time you hit that spot, you'd instead fall off the track entirely. ![]() Snes physics + thin lanes and pipes makes for an annoying track. vanilla lake 2 is worse just because the actual lake in question doesn't have any barriers so if you touch a pixel of water you're considered to have fallen in! yay physics enstein must be so proud. More irritating snes controls PLUS weird ice cubs showing up in the middle of the track to be a hoe and disintegrate when you touch them but not before slowing you to a halt anyway. I commend you, but i suck at super mario kart so more snes deaths rip This post has been edited by Clinty:, 02:19:45 PM Honestly can't even remember if there's monty moles in this track (the map doesn't imply as such) but the fact that they're on other donut plains tracks has poisoned me against the whole concept. if i'm wrong and there's another way to get rid of them then lmk because i don't like hating things and i HATE this track. would be yellow otherwise but like the only way to get rid of monty moles is to drown in the water and either drive out enough in time or get fished out by lakitu. but kinda similar issues as before, with the sharpish turning around the rectangular holes at the end, followed by the split path/jumps just making things thinner and more awkward with the slippery snes controls.įuck monty moles. the dead end is kinda funny and i'd maybe possibly potentially like this more if it's able to be jumped with a feather but i haven't tried it hehe. Same snes controls that otherwise make any course twice as bad. i am fully willing to blame my poor driving skills on track design like i can clip a single pixel and get completely screwed over. the multitude of jumps and the track splitting into three corridors just adds to the number of walls this track has, and more walls = shitter racing experience in super mario kart. it's also worth mentioning that i do not have the patience to properly learn the super mario kart physics, if that is even possible. no reverse or merry mountain shit here.Įxpect most snes tracks to do poorly, particularly those that have not returned in games that have better controls, because SERIOUSLY the snes driving mechanics are disgusting. only ranking tour tracks that debuted in tour that have since been added to mk8deluxe. 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The 59 Sound is another storming album from New Jersey boys The Gaslight Anthem. ![]() After they got to the end of side A of The '59 Sound, they took a break from the album to do a few other songs (including "Wherefore Art Thou, Elvis?" from the EP that came out a few months before The '59 Sound). They weren't rusty, they didn't seem bummed out on doing the nostalgia thing - they just tore through song after song with all the energy you'd hope for. I hope its something quiet and minor and peaceful and slow. (One thing that seemed clear last night is that these guys don't take their fame for granted.)Īs good as a handful of other Gaslight Anthem albums are, The '59 Sound really was the one where they were firing on all cylinders, where every little thing fell into place perfectly, and the band made it feel just like the old days when they played it last night. The Gaslight Anthem The 59 Sound Well, I wonder which song theyre gonna play when we go. Everyone was just as loud as just as enthusiastic as when the band was actually playing, and even the members of The Gaslight Anthem looked impressed. There was a moment in "Old White Lincoln" where the band was about to play the last chorus but then stopped and let the crowd sing it on their own. The first time I heard The 59 Sound, I knew it was going to stick. I’m lifted back into my sun-lit cruise along the lake and I can forget all the bad around me and be at peace for a little while. A bunch of people from the back of the room pushed forward, a huge pit broke out (and didn't stop until Gaslight got to the slower "Film Noir"), and I'm pretty sure every single person was screaming every word. Whenever I get the blues, I just put in The 59 Sound and for even just a short time, I can be content. They had a good chunk of fans singing to the first few songs, but once '59 Sound opener "Great Expectations" came in, the vibe in the room completely changed. 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Status as a solo or lead artist and perceived level of success also significantly predicted higher levels of anxiety and depression, and lower levels of positive wellbeing. We showed that musicians who viewed music as their main career were more likely to have poor mental wellbeing and had significantly higher levels of clinical depression. Across the whole sample, we found that over half had high levels of anxiety, and a third were experiencing depression. In this study, 254 musicians from 13 countries completed measures of anxiety, depression, and wellbeing as well as answering questions about their professional status, level of success, and income. People working in the music industry report significantly higher levels of anxiety and depression than the general population, but to date, studies have not explored the differences between professional musicians and those who perform music primarily for recreation. It concludes with a call for highly bespoke financial and psychological support, as well as a need to rethink what cultural value is for this workforce in the “new normal”, considering changing valuing processes. to the kind of work carried out), with others experiencing major changes (e.g. It presents an inequality of experiences connected to a range of socioeconomic and psychosocial factors, showing how some freelancers experienced small changes (e.g. This study builds on qualitative interviews carried out in July–November 2020 (n = 20) by exploring findings from follow-up interviews conducted in May–July 2021 (n = 16). In particular, there is a lack of research exploring how socioeconomic and psychosocial adversities may have changed or evolved, and how these changes have been perceived and subjectively experienced by freelance cultural workers. There is a dearth of qualitative research exploring how freelancers working in the cultural industries have been affected during COVID-19. The conditions in which freelance cultural workers exist are precarious and typified by inequalities, as has been widely acknowledged within research in the last decade (Brook et al., 2018 Comunian & England, 2020 Morgan & Nelligan, 2017 Scharff, 2017). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 1 A freelance career in the cultural sector has long been recognised as a path that may involve substantial financial or psychological risk, including periods of low or unpaid work, with social, cultural, and symbolic capital also important to "making it" (Gerber, 2017 Gross & Musgrave, 2020 Menger, 2001). The impact of these ongoing changes provided many challenges for the sector, including fewer employment opportunities (Office for National Statistics, 2021), but also increased some opportunities in relation to digital production (Radermecker, 2020), and home-based arts engagement (Bu et al., 2021a). These changes fluctuated in line with the easing and tightening of social distancing throughout the pandemic, with many cultural venues oscillating between in-person and digital offerings, alongside hybrid models. For example, Gross and Musgrave (2016) reported via a self-selecting sample of 2211 musicians and music industry workers that 68% had suffered from self-reported depression, and 71% suffered from self-reported anxiety and/or panic attacks, with later work suggesting that the nature of being a musician was, respondents felt, at least partly responsible for these conditions (Gross & Musgrave, 2017). With reference to wellbeing and mental health, in particular, research has suggested that professional music makers suffer from high levels of anxiety, depression and other mental health conditions, and that these conditions might be explained by the nature of musical work itself (Detari et al., 2020 Gross & Musgrave, 2020 Jacukowicz, 2016 Loveday et al., in press Vaag et al., 2016). Alongside the literature outlined above, a growing body of literature adopting a critical perspective towards creative labour points towards musical careers being synonymous with high levels of financial precarity (Morgan & Wood, 2013), inequality of access (Brook et al., 2020) and sexual discrimination (Conor et al., 2015). ![]() |
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