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Headed to New York tonight for an 11 Night Cruise on MSC out of Brooklyn to Florida, the Bahamas, and Mexico. Be back home on the 26th, and back on here on the 27th! Satya....you're in the chair!

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I received multiple Amazon gift cards for Christmas, totaling $200. My office/studio/rehearsal space is a garage with a wood rollup door, the only surface lacking acoustical absorption. So I figured I'd spend my $200 on some stick-on acoustical panels. When I searched for acoustic treatments on Amazon, they showed page after page of acoustic foam products. All surprisingly cheap. Got my hopes up for about 10 seconds. First thing I realized was that it was the same handful of products under dozens of different brand names. Names that are random strings of characters, such as WVOVW, OTUOER and ZHOJEREL. All with "customer" ratings of 4.7 stars. And all clearly useless, being too thin and apparently not even made of acoustical foam. We're talking the kind of low-grade lightweight packing foam you throw away. All the product descriptions included the word "soundproofing" - a red flag in itself. I always go straight to the 1-star reviews on anything I buy from Amazon. Every one of them complained that these panels did not isolate sound. Those buyers had obviously been misled into thinking that's what these products are for. Many also complained that the panels came smushed into vacuum-sealed plastic bags and were malformed and squishy. I had to explicitly search for "Auralex" to find any product that was not Chinese junk. Ultimately found a good deal, even though the panels were 5x more expensive than the fakes. But there was only one vendor selling Auralex, and that vendor was not Auralex. Some reviewers complained that what they got wasn't even actually Auralex. We'll see. Amazon does not seem to care if products they sell are fraudulent. (Example).

A few Jensen IRs by Zoom, freely available https://zoomcorp.com/en/us/multi-effects/guitar-effects/g6/g6-support/

Here's a different take: what they are good at is cutting corners to lower the cost of manufacture. Long before China was flooding the world with cheap garbage, they were subcontracting for North American and European manufacturers. Working for foreign companies who stressed one prime directive: make it cheaply. Since that was their bread 'n butter, that became the nexus of their collective expertise. Chinese engineers learn the same stuff in school as everybody else, so it's not like they suffer from mass incompetence. Every engineer learns the concept of "high quality, on-time, or cheap; pick two". When a trusted high-end brand such as Telefunken hired them to increase the profit margin for microphones, the engineers were given a clear mission - make an existing product that looked the same but was cheap to manufacture. So they did. They came up with a microphone that looked exactly like a $3000 Telefunken but cost under $100 to make. Unfortunately, it did not sound like a Telefunken and when users tore them down they found that the guts of the mic were far inferior to the German-made original. You could in fact buy the same exact microphone under a Chinese brand for $150. It was the greedy executives at Telefunken who were the villains of that story. The only thing that's changed is that the Chinese got smart and cut out the middle man, instead selling their cheap crap directly to consumers. Amazon made that possible.

Givin the Dog a Bone - AC/DC

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To me, in rock, the list always boils down to two names: Bonham and Peart. And I cannot really choose between them. If the list extends any further, then it's all debatable. Starr, Watts, Paice are among the first names to come to mind obviously. Phil Collins, too, although maybe not for this top 5 list. I'm not a fan but I do get that Moon would be on the list - on the other hand, Phil Rudd of AC/DC would be on my list, which only testifies to personal preferences. Not sure I'd put him on the top 5 list, but still...

Annie (along with John Peel) was required listening in the 70's. Both of whom championed new artists and music (I luckily had Peel play a couple of releases of mine). And she brought a female perspective in a male dominated genre. RIP

49 Euro intro price https://rastsound.com/downloads/choirs-boutique/

If a stereo file uses all the available headroom, bouncing it to mono will cause clipped peaks. You need to lower the stereo file's level prior to bouncing to mono. The image on the left is prior to bouncing to mono, the image on the right is after bouncing to mono.

It’s always a plug in. Cakewalk most certainly does not behave like this. When it does 90% of the time it’s a plug in.

For his impact I'd agree. A plethora of pro drummers love Ringo to be sure. I do too. If it had to be only 5, I would easily drop Charlie for Ringo. Only because Ringo covered more diverse styles than Charlie, IMO, even though Charlies was far more technically competent than Ringo (again JMO).

I rarely use presets for VST's (vs VSTi's), but if I do have a particular one I like, I save it inside an FX chain. If you hold SHIFT when dragging from the browser to the FX bin, it automatically removes it from the FX chain with all the settings intact.

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Blondie - Atomic 😁

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Apologies I missed that! I got too excited thinking I may be able to help rather than asking for it! 🙂

Here’s a good place to start

How is this a deal ? Looks like full price to me...

As a guy who is used to gigging at night, a nap in the afternoon is an essential part of the preparation.

Bernard Purdie - session drummer.

Definitely not happening here.

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When Joe did the Syntorial 2 intro stream, I'm pretty sure he asked the chat what synths people would want tutorials on, and if I remember rightly it was Omnisphere and Pigments that were the most requested. edit: I remembered that Syntorial has a forum, so I went to check it out for any news, and found this! https://www.syntorial.com/community/topic/the-future-of-the-lesson-packs/

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+0.8 Yeah but.... did he really make classic rock classic? In the top 10 best rock drummers of all time, probably I'd agree.

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I've been trying to spend more time getting acclimated/practicing modes and often used chord progressions (think Dorian, Lydian, I V vi IV, etc.). Stumbled upon this YouTuber and I think it is an excellent treatment of modes and their related sounds / chords progressions, etc. Hope others find it of interest. Modal Chord Progressions - The Ultimate Guide

Why does JRR have a separate 'blowout' site? I mean, what's the practical point?

I'd add Ringo Starr in there. While not as technically proficient as the others, his impact can not be denied.

In another thread someone mentioned tutorials in other languages. I thought about adding subtitles to my videos but turned out you need to do this before you publish them. I came up with a work around. I will slowly post all the transcripts of my narration to my web site. I will then add links in the comments and people can translate these into other languages to follow along. I have the transcripts but I need to add the times to each paragraph so it's easier to follow along. This will take a while. Got 3 done so far. https://sites.google.com/view/cactus-studios/cakewalk-tutorials

These are the two I use often. Although the video portions are nice, I usually have them playing in the background when I need to work early in the morning or while a client is over and were reviewing things. https://www.youtube.com/@Nocturnes_Art https://www.youtube.com/@enjoylifeandloveyourself

The older we get, the more of these we need.

That's true but I was referring to the issue where a lot of laptops that are 2 or more years old (and probably some newer ones) just don't support M.2 chips that are larger than 2TB.

LOL the music industry was corrupt looong before 1994. The payola scandals with labels paying for their records to get hyped & played, record companies & managers ripping off artists, etc. The scope changed i.e. fewer people controlling larger resources (getting their fingers into more pies) but the rots always been there. Interesting video though.

<rant> Create a “junction” and get this beast off the C drive. Totally unnecessary for it and TRackS et al to “hog” so much space. Lazy design (typical) on the part of IKM. The installer could just as easily ask where you want this data to reside (on your sample drive; duh!) Drives me nuts! </rant> t The junction looks like this: (bear in mind that my sample drive is "V" and named VSTi. the juction is created in the Command Prompt and must be run as "administrator" do your due diligence and learn how to do it properly. IF I can do it, so can you!) mklink /j "C:\Program Files\IK Multimedia\ToneX" "V:\VSTi\IK Multimedia\ToneX" ToneX 4.18gb Amp5 2.91 gb T-RackS 5 1.89gb Amp 4 1gb

Hi KS Love the funky groove, love the saxes, actually just love it all! A Great Listen Cool stuff Nigel

Hi Very dense mix but some very nice guitar work in there Enjoyed the listen Cool Nigel

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Good call.

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Yes, reinstalling the interface driver could possibly help... As far as your other question “Could this be a prob of too heavy of a project”, no one can answer that without knowing: Has this issue just started happening? Version of Cakewalk and WIndows PC Specs CPU, Ram ETC Plugins and synths used Driver mode (ASIO or WASAPI) If using ASIO, using native ASIO drivers, not ASIO4ALL or similar wrapper? Bit depth, sample rate, sample buffer size Etc.

IDK , I mean if they are free then why not just let people that want want them go downlod them directly. I've got hundreds of plugins both free and paid , I don't really want a bunch of extras - I hardly ever use any of the bundled stuff.