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# Stone Update #001 Compression Is Black Magic
- URL: https://adamringler.com/stone/stone-update-001/
- Published: 2025-12-10T03:16:26.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-13T01:30:55.000Z
- Description: “Stone Updates” is my ongoing, unfiltered journal as I learn electronic music from absolute scratch. Expect messy experiments, rookie mistakes, tiny wins, and lots of self-deprecating humor as I figure out Ableton one chaotic button press at a time.
- Author: Adam Ringler
- Tags: #Stone

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## My Side Quest in Music, Creativity, and Permission to Be a Rookie Again

[Learn More About Adam Stone](https://www.adamringler.com/AdamStone?ref=adamringler.com) 

## **Update:**

What’s new, y’all? Welcome to **Stone Updates** — the messy little corner of the internet where I’m documenting this whole beginner journey into electronic music. If you’ve seen [***The Adam Stone Project***](https://adamringler.com/adamstone/)page, you already know what this is: me learning in real time, fumbling, experimenting, breaking things, fixing things, and trying again.

These posts aren’t meant to be profound or polished. They’re quick snapshots of where my head’s at as I figure out Ableton, plugins, and the chaos that is music production. It’s vulnerable, it’s rough around the edges, but that’s the whole point: **being a beginner again**.

### **What I’m Learning Right Now**

Lately I’ve been diving *deep* into the world of compression, limiting, and EQ. Like, *“watching three YouTube videos at once and still not sure I get it”* deep. I grabbed a new plugin pack and it’s been wild hearing how small tweaks completely change a track. Mixing and mastering feel like their own new language; one I’m just starting to sound out; kinda.

### **Track Update**

I’m wrapping up a new track that… honestly? I’m not sure how to describe except that I like it in a weird way. Think **Tech House, four-on-the-floor, but with a heavy UK rap influence**. It’s chaotic. It’s unexpected. It’s probably not “right.” But I’m loving it.

Thanks for following along. This is just the beginning.

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## **🪨 Stone Meter 🪨**

- **Confidence:** 1/10
- **Confusion:** 10/10
- **Amount of Coffee Consumed:** ☕️☕️☕️/5
- **Chance I Accidentally Delete My Project:** 25%

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## **🎧 Spotify Discography**

Remember, this page is less about perfection and more about **permission** — to explore, to create, to begin again. **Welcome to the side quest.**

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