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jake d’arc

@arclighthalo.com

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Making music like Depeche Mode got beat up by Trent Reznor, or vice versa. Also playing a lot of old video games. Trans rights are human rights Want some goth synthpop in your life? I have you covered: https://linktr.ee/arclighthalo

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jake d’arc @arclighthalo.com · 1d

Let's get spooky.

New single, 2025-11-14.

Pre-save: hypeddit.com/arclighthalo...
Bandcamp: arclighthalo.bandcamp.com/album/all-yo...

All You Are - Preview

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jake d’arc @arclighthalo.com · 1d

Let's get spooky.

New single, 2025-11-14.

Pre-save: hypeddit.com/arclighthalo...
Bandcamp: arclighthalo.bandcamp.com/album/all-yo...

All You Are - Preview

YouTube video by Arclight Halo

www.youtube.com

jake d’arc @arclighthalo.com · 1d

Thank you so much for the article!

ReGen Magazine @regenmag.bsky.social · 1d

News: Arclight Halo announces new single, first new release in more than two years

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News: Arclight Halo announces new single, first new release in more than two years

It has been two years since Jake Kantzer last released new material under the moniker of Arclight Halo, although he hasn’t kept idle, as evidenced by the impending release of the “All You Are” single....

jake d’arc @arclighthalo.com · 1d

Let's get spooky.

New single, 2025-11-14.

Pre-save: hypeddit.com/arclighthalo...
Bandcamp: arclighthalo.bandcamp.com/album/all-yo...

All You Are - Preview

YouTube video by Arclight Halo

www.youtube.com

jake d’arc @arclighthalo.com · 3d

Remix is done (and it owns). Release date imminent?

jake d’arc @arclighthalo.com · 3d

New song's done. Remix in progress. Release date soon. :)

jake d’arc @arclighthalo.com · 3d

New song's done. Remix in progress. Release date soon. :)

jake d’arc @arclighthalo.com · 5d

In this essay, I will explain how “Techno Syndrome 2021” reflects a lack of understanding of what makes the original so memora-

*a group of ninjas in identical outfits differentiated only by color palette whisk me away*

jake d’arc @arclighthalo.com · 5d

had a really big “figuring myself out” moment while playing it. like, genuinely. always wanted to say thank you.

so, thank you.

jake d’arc @arclighthalo.com · 5d

Thanks! My odds of finding one locally seem *slim* but I’ll definitely poke around eBay etc.

jake d’arc @arclighthalo.com · 5d

No problem! Any tips on shopping for one? Curious how you decided to get that one, or if you happened upon it in your travels. Another trip to Japan sadly isn’t in the cards for me for a while.

jake d’arc @arclighthalo.com · 5d

That’s a beautiful instrument. I want one. 😅

Lovely cover, as well.

jake d’arc @arclighthalo.com · 6d

Really enjoying this one. Reminds me of some stuff off Compass, in a good way.

Believe, by Assemblage 23

from the album Null

assemblage23.bandcamp.com

jake d’arc @arclighthalo.com · 6d

Aside from mixing, I made a little .bat file to let me select what editor I want to use when I hit the Edit button on a sample in Ableton. Surprisingly straightforward workflow hack if you use multiple (e.g. RX and Melodyne).

jake d’arc @arclighthalo.com · 6d

If you use anything that supports ARA2, give the new MTrackAlign a shot. It *requires* ARA2 but is only $22.

I'm on an old version of VocAlign, for what it's worth, so it's possible the newer one isn't as failure-prone. It does do an extremely good job, I was just pissed that it lost work.

jake d’arc @arclighthalo.com · 6d

tbh any plugins that have to use the "record into it because Live doesn't have ARA2" hack should probably be on that list (see also: Melodyne)

jake d’arc @arclighthalo.com · 6d

VocAlign is officially on my "use and then immediately bounce because it can't be trusted" list.

jake d’arc @arclighthalo.com · 6d

Album cover for “All You Are” by Arclight Halo. The image is green tinted and portrays a woman made of black fog walking towards the viewer in a desert. The text “All You Are” is in the center, with “you” noticeably smaller and partially transparent where it overlaps with the fog.

jake d’arc @arclighthalo.com · 7d

Mm, let’s say mid-November instead of Halloween for the new song. It deserves more obnoxious promotion than I can manage by then.

jake d’arc @arclighthalo.com · 7d

Licensing a stock photo for the album art and the standard license only lets me print it 500,000 times. I hope I’ll be able to afford the better license if I sell that many. 😄

jake d’arc @arclighthalo.com · 8d

Admittedly, they might want album art.

jake d’arc @arclighthalo.com · 8d

Alright, vocals are mostly done for the new song. Did an Izotope RX pass for mouth noises and other general RX things. Just a few tweaks to make and they’ll be good to go.

Then one more “fun pass” to see if I want to add anything…fun, then mixing, then mastering, then off to Symphonic. Easy.

jake d’arc @arclighthalo.com · 10d

Spotify, later: “we never said the 30 minutes would be in a row”

jake d’arc @arclighthalo.com · 11d

Yeah, and I certainly wouldn’t go so far to say wages have kept up with COL because they demonstrably haven’t.

I feel like we’ve seen the $20-40 segment grow too. The “AA” game is alive and well, and that was no sure thing 10-15 years ago.

jake d’arc @arclighthalo.com · 11d

I'm not really surprised to see games go up in price - they've been highly inflation-resistant while ballooning in production costs. New games went up to $60 on average around 2005, which is roughly $100 in today dollars. Something had to give.

On the plus side, we're seeing more price variability.

jake d’arc @arclighthalo.com · 11d

Twitter 2 is completing its (de)evolution into Twitter 2. Nothing lasts forever.

your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 14d

AT Proto has become a sort of ideological vaporware; a way for Jay Graber et al to run a social media platform while claiming they don't run a social media platform. This is just another iteration of the Silicon Valley monoproduct: power without accountability.

azhdarchid.com/delusions-of...

Delusions of a Protocol

On vaporware as an ideological product.

jake d’arc @arclighthalo.com · 12d

Lots of Norman Reedus pics out there.

The Verge @theverge.com · 12d

Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs

Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs

An “unauthorized party” may have accessed the names of users, the last four digits of credit card numbers, and more.