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I racked all my geetars up.... .....and then chopped off the headstocks just for this photee 😁😁

Here be mine...

Just another brick...

I put my guitars up on the wall. Since I’ve acquired chronic amnesia, I can’t remember when, I needed all the help I can get

I did the same thing on my wall. Works great. Always have my main guitars at hand.

Run the Installer to update

Here is my ever evolving studio. Made the desk in 1988 and have been carting it with me for some years. Finally reduced down to 1 full rack for processing sound and a half-rack for generating sound. Cakewalk since 2002

Billy Joel though......... For many years and for no reason whatsoever I always imagined that guy was a boggle-eyed onanist of the highest order. Turns out I was right.

This one is a little out of date - I recently made the jump to Windows 10

Nice wall. Did Mexico pay for it?

Just received the following email. Riffstation is a great program and is currently free. It'll be interesting to see what they replace it with. +++++++++++++++++++++ Goodbye, Riffstation Pro We are sad to announce that Riffstation Pro (Mac/PC) will no longer be available for download. We are immensely proud of the success Riffstation has experienced and of the legion of dedicated guitar players it has seen develop along the way. We'd like to thank you for your support over the years. We will be coming out with an exciting new product soon. In the meantime, if you are using an older version of Riffstation Pro, we strongly recommend that you update to the latest version now to future-proof your app. It's free to download until March 15, 2019. Download Please note that you will need Mac OS X v10.10/Windows 7 or higher to run the latest version of the application. See you soon, The Riffstation team

One of the photos captured by yours truly on a recent visit to The Black Country Living Museum where some of the location shooting for Peaky Blinders takes place. It cries out for the monochrome treatment, but personally I think I just prefer the full fat colour version 😊

This from guy whose prize synth looks like a 1970's telephone switchboard?😉

Yeah I watched Hired Gun too. In fact, as the credits rolled ( yes I read them!) I saw that Jason had a lot to do with the filming, and I remember reading something about this a while back and thinking "I want to watch that!" Well I did. It was an eye opener. Good thing I didn't make it. I would have been eat up and thrown up against the wall. A lot!! Because I am hard headed and keep doing the same thing expecting..... I also have a DVD of a film new film made last year that I haven't had a chance to watch yet. Sidemen. About the side men that played with the great blues players we all know.

Sad but quite possibly true .... 😂 Hey , You got one out of 20,199. ...just messing w you ...have a good one ... Overall , I agree with you there James . Liberty 's sections of the film had me sitting on the edge of my chair . He seems like a no nonsense straight shooter from the hip . A few decades of playing and hanging around with the same band members and having the same boss could have taken it's toll . Who knows the truth about what happened since we only heard one side of the story . This dialog does seem to bring up an interesting point . What happens when you find out about a band or a musician that was placed on a lofty pedestal (by oneself) Then over time the back story comes out and the facts indicate they had questionable integrity or in plain English they were just a Douche ? That's one thing about watching these type of films I find interesting ...I find out so much stuff I didn't know about some of my hero's .... It's not always good , in some cases it may even be tragic ....ex Terry Kath playing Russian roulette w a non revolver / a semi auto pistol w one in the chamber ...sad indeed all the best, Kenny

We should put bikinis on them all 😍

Thanks Lars. If it was anyone else you might think a new product on the way.

Don't like the stock Cabs (don't like them in Helix, HeadRush, and most other AmpSims both hardware and software). Using my preferred Cab IRs, TH-U is sounding pretty good. Comparing it to Helix Native and HeadRush (hardware) side-by-side, it's holding up pretty well. Overloud has a set of "British" profiles available for purchase for the Rig Player. The included Profiles are (IMO) a little on the lower-end side. Just enough to show what's possible... but leaves you wanting better Amp/Cab/Mic "Rig" profiles. CPU use is pretty low (even when running at 96k) On higher-gain setting, background noise is a little lower than some other AmpSims. Working with guitar/bass pickups in close proximity to a computer (EMI), that's always a welcome thing.

Wow, not only do you guys have gear, but walls too!!! 😶 *Jealous...*

"feedback loop" implies a two-way street is users suggest stuff shouldn't there be some response? (even if just to say "no"?)

Definitely check out the demo - there's another thread about the update under the deals forum and some are underwhelmed about acquiring this upgrade. If you are planning on buying it... If you're on Time+Space's mailing list check your email for a 10% off discount coupon code. If you have Time+Space loyalty points you can drop the price further still. https://www.timespace.com/products/overloud-th-u-full-guitar-amp-simulator?variant=20701205266545

Even (especially) if you have the paid version, get this release. When I got this machine last year, I had issues getting my serial to take for authorization (customer support was still alive then, so got it resolved). I am assuming that this download going away also means that the registration servers will go offline. This free version is unlocked and may be the only way to re-install RiffStation in the future.

Do you really want to advertise this 🤣 🤣 😂

If you're into AmpSims, Overload has now released TH-U (update to TH-3). https://www.overloud.com/products/th-u-full There's a lot of cool new options/capabilities. One of the biggest being the Rig Player. It's similar to a Kemper Profiling Amp. For the time being, you can't create/load your own profiles (have to get them thru Overload), but hopefully they'll open up that process. With a plethora of stock Amp models, the ability to load your own Cab IRs, the ability to load Rig profiles (Amp and Cab sections can also be used separately), and the ability to alter Tubes in the Pre/Power Amp sections of many models, TH-U is one deep AmpSim plugin. Check out the demo... I loaded it and had a go with some of the (few) included Rig profiles. They sound/respond pretty good to my ears. The SLO and Dumble models were also sounding pretty good.

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I definitely agree that some knob implementations are better than others. Maybe I came across too strong about the "real" look of VSTs - in fact, if it is an emulation of an existing bit of gear I prefer it to have the real-gear look, because you can use it as if it was the original... and in those cases, a knob makes total sense if it was a knob on the original. And I'm certainly not against good artwork on a plugin, as long as it doesn't affect its usability. There's the other end of the scale too, where the "functional" look is taken too far - take some of the Melda Production plugins for example... some of the GUI's leave me looking all over the place to find the parameters as everything looks the same. I do love the sound of the Melda stuff though. I guess what I'm looking for is a sensible balance between looks and ease of use. With the sonitus stuff, the look is a bit bland, but for me it doesn't affect functionality.

I think that's pretty normal. Hits have vocals. When Mike Oldfield tried to get Tubular Bells out, he was met with "put some vocals on it and you have a deal". Glad he didn't. I think instrumental music can do something popsongs can't do. Thanks for your feedback.

Dear Strammy, May I borrow your P bass? Dear James, May I borrow your black Les Paul?

I could never post a pic in the old Forum but all I have to do is drag and drop now? What the...

it's quieter than i would have imagined. 😁

I don't think it does... but would be nice to get a reply occasionally.

Nice one James What brand/model of wall bracket are you using?

Now at JRRSHOP for https://www.jrrshop.com/overloud-th-u-upgrade for $57.96 in cart with code GROUP and Audiodeluxe https://www.audiodeluxe.com/products/overloud-thu-upgrade-th3 for $58.99 in cart with code WINTER2018

You're probably saturated with reports & reviews of the 2019 Winter NAMM but here's a nice overview from KVR that's not mono-focused on just guitars or synths or something else. https://www.kvraudio.com/focus/winter-namm-2019-show-report-44260

Andy, you really are Old School. If you use the Snipping Tool, you already have cropped it the way you want, and you can "Save As..." right from there into your Pictures folder. No need to two-step it through Paint.

Nope! And his wife wouldn't even give him $1 for it!!! : )

My first reaction is "ouch," "lackluster," or possibly Kevin Klein's "Disappointed!" (from A Fish Called Wanda). Jim posted in another thread that the Rig Player doesn't allow recording "for the time being," so I ratcheted down my expectations before popping off the demo. It took another hit when the text insert in the TH-U manual for the Rig Player states "Overloud does these rig modelling in house using top quality tools and procedures, to allow users to play with the best guitar tones possible." "In house" makes me assume Rig Modeling will not be "in studio" any time soon (defeating the purpose of ambient modeling as well). The Amp Tweak is also not available on Rig Models as far as I can tell, which drove another nail in the coffin for me (even if I could model my tube amp, I cannot alter it). With all of the hype behind the Rig Player, it would have been nicer to be upfront to what it actually is... which appears to be a method to market other people's rigs, not capture your own. This left me with putzing around what I could find new and the new shimmer effect (nothing earth-shattering for me). The search feature would have been nice back in the TH2 days, but at this point I have already sorted things manually, so that is OBE for me. I will hold off till I get a better feel for what is actually new (I missed some things), and what is intended going forward. Just wanted to give folks this heads up, since Rig Player got touted pretty heavily in the past month. In reality, this fell far short of what got marketed.

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I loaded this up. It's certainly an improvement over the black on black/gray Cakewalk seems to be enamored with. I wish they offered something similar to the Cakewalk for Windows white theme. It's far better for a lit room. Even in a dark room you can turn down the monitor brightness. But at with this I can see more of how to edit in the theme editor although I don't think I can get to the white theme with the existing tools. But I really like this over the stock themes! Thanks!

A few weeks ago I enabled the Group Policy Editor on my Home edition PC (not my DAW) to play with it, but yesterday I got upgraded to 1809 Build 17763.292, and -- surprise! -- it's no longer enabled. I don't really care, but I believe MS polices this with such rigor because in the profit-based community, if you are a "pro," you simply have to pay more, and if you are an "amateur," you simply get less. I ran into a version of this when I started my half-inch 8-track studio in the 70s, in the same neighborhood as Gold Star, Sunwest, Wally Heider, etc. With my Tascam 8-track I wasn't paying the price required to be a "pro," so the guys at those places mocked me for using "home" equipment, and wouldn't speak to me at AES shows. At least in that case I got the last laugh, because I was still booking sessions after they all went out of business. Pretty sure none of those schmoes would have been able to tell the difference between the quality they were producing, and mine. These days I don't have paying clients, so I leave Window Defender running, and a bunch of other background services that I should probably turn off, and I rarely have a glitch in my projects.

Some of the "portastudios" as they were called, offered 2 speeds. I believe the Yamaha MT2X was one. My Fostex also had only the higher speed. 😀JB

This is one of my favorite libraries by far. Very helpful in working on orchestration if you are just getting into it. It's a lot easier to play something like this across your keyboard than to keep referring to a chart to remember what the standard range is for specific instruments. You just play on your keyboard and you hear how a string or brass or woodwind ensemble sounds. And the solo instruments and ensembles sound good enough to be in my template, and compare surprisingly well with some of my other libraries. Good sounds with lots of articulations. There are also some amazing multis that are very inspirational. Plus percussion and a choir. Well worth checking out

Doood, you need to level you surface, everything is gonna fall off.

Have a lyricist? It begs for some words Nice straightforward song . It might have been good to modulate during the breakdown just to give it a little spice.

Ouch! If you're ever over in the north west of England I'll treat you to a pie and a pint

Indeed! We do have a fix and expect to deploy a hotfix later this week.

The reason the clip gets split I think is because of comping. If you notice, all clips gets split all in the same place, like it does when you make your sections to comp. Not sure if this as intended or a type bug. if you do go with the section parts like I do, you might wanna think about doing them all the same day with the same feel. I have done sections over time and they all did not have the same feel/sound to them. Had to go back and redo them! So keep that in mind. Like you, all I use to do was record to tape.

To heal splits, you can swipe through an entire take lane, starting outside the longest running clip with the Comp tool in the lower half of the lane; usually that means swiping from right to left, and swiping past 1:01:000 to avoid creating a new split where you start or end the swipe. Or you can select the track or any lane in it and Ctrl+click any selected segment with the Comp tool. Both methods will heal all splits in all takes. To heal a single split just select any two adjacent clips, and Ctrl-click one of them with the Comp tool.

I think it would be great to have a Spanish speaking forum for CbB (a great way to expand to many users). But im not sure having them mixed in here is a great idea. A forum dedicated to CbB in all Spanish is a great way to gain popularity and reach a broad audience.