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# Stone Update #002 The Kick Drum Betrayed Me
- URL: https://adamringler.com/stone/stone-update-002-the-kick-drum-betrayed-me/
- Published: 2025-12-11T01:51:19.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-13T01:30:56.000Z
- 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, #noindex

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

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## **Update:**

Somehow, after replacing my kick and tightening up the hats, I was convinced the track I've been working on lately would instantly sound better. Shockingly, it did not. Pretty sure the new, lower-frequency kick is now wrestling my bass line in the mud. **Not ideal.**

I tossed a few more FX onto the channel, then immediately remembered that *“less is more,”* especially when you barely know what any of the buttons do. Still grinding away on the UK-influenced track, trying to make everything play nicely together.

More chaos soon.

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## **🪨 Stone Meter 🪨**

- **Confidence:** 2/10
- **Confusion: 10**/10
- **Amount of Coffee Consumed:** ☕️☕️/5 *(need more)*
- **Chance I Will Delete My Project:** 35%

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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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