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1 hour ago, craigb said:

*Now thinks my joke was too subtle?* 🤔

Alexander agrees.

Although I don't think that his version of Windows (Windows 3.23 BC) would be compatible with the latest versions of Guitar Rig.

The name brings back memories. I loved Sound Forge so much back then. I wouldn't have changed a thing about it. 

And let us not forget Acoustic Modeler/Mirror, which had to be one of the first impulse response plugins out there, back in the late 90's early 2000's. You could only use it offline, and I remember spending a lot of time in Sound Forge sweetening individual tracks with tape and compressor impulses, and even using it for offline reverbs with some free impulses I'd found on the web. It seemed so revolutionary. The things would display 300% CPU usage while processing files. But it was worth it.

I remember Peter H. (Haller or Heller?) hanging out on the old Cakewalk NG and forums. Super nice guy, always helpful.

I had last night. On Google, every time I hit search - which I found quite perplexing. Went away when I disabled the VPN. 

I'm a huge Krafwerk fan, so I refuse to acknowledge that I'm not a robot.

Imagine the number of people who could potentially start doing blow just because they happen to visit this forum and read the real word for coke... 

EDIT: The above was a test and, see, these alternatives are ok. 😁

18 hours ago, craigb said:

And "humor" as well (as an American)!  It's only those in the UK that have a ewe fetish. 😆

Aboot that, eh... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_humour

Just like the metric system, practically everywhere but in the US - although to be perfectly honest most Canadians use both systems (the chart below is quite accurate). 

Reminds me of basic mechanic classes in high school - in the shop, every tool was referred to by its English name and measurements were all imperial. Back in the classroom, it was all French and and metric - although the teacher would still continue to use the English names unless he was reading from the manual. You just had to figure it out. 

My father would probably have called me a wuss if I ever used the French word for wrench in front of him.

Happy birthday, Sir Bapu.

Never mind - I read posthumous. 

We'll be back after lunch for a post hummus follow up on this thread.

You mean like?

6 hours ago, craigb said:

We had a short-term bassist who came up with "Random Precision" as a proposed band name.  Maybe he was just trying to be honest? 🤔

I would assume that he wore out his welcome and rode on the steel breeze...

7 hours ago, Notes_Norton said:

What good does it do you to be famous when you're dead? 

I guess that's why Elvis Presley faked his death, gained a lot of weight, went bald, got unrecognizable, and enjoyed his money. 

BTW, did you ever see the cult film Bubba Ho-Tep? It's an absurd and stupid little comedy, but it's pretty funny. 

From Wiki:

Bubba Ho-Tep is a 2002 American comedy horror film written, co-produced and directed by Don Coscarelli. It stars Bruce Campbell as Sebastian Haff, a man residing in a nursing home who claims to be the real Elvis Presley. The film also stars Ossie Davis as Jack, a black man who claims to be John F. Kennedy, explaining that he was patched up after the assassination, dyed black, and abandoned.

I LOVE that movie. 

4 hours ago, craigb said:

Wait... We're supposed to wear pants??! 😮

Wait, we're supposed to wear anything besides pajama pants? (I obviously don't do zoom settings).

You're absolutely right. I tend to forget because I've not had to deal with that in a while now, but indeed. 

Like a lot of people these days, I am aware that AI can potentially replace people like myself at work, but sometimes, I wonder how AI will deal with the unfathomable stupidity of a lot of the user questions I answer on a daily basis. How does Artificial Intelligence cope with Genuine Stupidity?

There are many cases where you really need to think creatively and do some extraordinary mental gymnastic in order to be able to even read and then understand what it is that those poor souls are trying to express. I'm not talking about typos here, but crippling inability to express oneself in written form (accompanied by an equally severe inability to think or understand simple questions).

In other words, you need to be able to think like a complete moron.

I have seen some desperate cases where I thought of asking a user to wait a little while I went downstairs in the garage, banged my head on the concrete floor a few times, and sniffed some paint thinner - just to try and level the playing in field a little.

I bet you AI can't do that, eh? Who's the intelligent one now?

Maybe stupidity is our last best hope. And it seems to be infinitely renewable, so, there's that.

Rejoice in thy dumbness I say, rejoice, for the kingdom is at hand.

Deep Purple's Getting Tighter - 2010 remaster vs original. They killed the groove - and that groove was what the song was all about. 

I watch a lot of music related content on YouTube these days, so of course I get the targeted ads. And essentially, what they are advertising are products and libraries designed to get that sound you're familiar with - and that will make you sound just like everyone else. I cringe every time one of those ads start and I hear those libraries.

Back in the days, I read about the making of Nine Inch Nails The Fragile in Keyboard magazine. Trent Reznor had hired a guy (Keith Hillerbrand from memory) to create a huge library of weird, unique sounds for him to use, just for that album. To me, the making of that record always represented everything that was fantastic about DAWs and working with computers. 

But there are also a lot of opportunities to remove almost every variable from the equation, thereby compromising  the chances of creating something original. And it seems that a lot of  people aren't making music for the love of art, so they're quite content to just assemble songs. It's their take on the same basic idea. If you spend 5 minutes on social media, it's quite obvious that most people only want to have their turn in the spotlight doing the same thing as everyone else. 

I remember recording demos with nothing but my guitars, a little Marshall transistor combo, an Akai XR10, a tube distortion, a wah pedal, and a Boss flanger.  And the delay on my Sony reel machine. A lot of the things I had in mind like mellotron parts, a Hammond, or horns were simply impossible, so I would have to create something that had vaguely similar sonic qualities using what I had. In many ways, it often made the songs more interesting. It's something I try not to let go of, even now that I have access to all those instrument libraries. 

I am watching it right now and came to see if the link had been posted.

What an amazing musician he is! I personally think that he stands in a class of his own. IMHO he's the most versatile of that generation of shredders.

You can feel his genuine love for simpler idioms, like blues. He’s not holding back anything, he is giving his all to that simpler form. He has that authenticity and that respect for the genre, and even if he has mad skills, he’s not using it as a platform to glorify Paul Gilbert - instead he becomes a blues guitarist. And that goes for everything he plays.

Becoming ego-less is probably the toughest skill a musician can acquire - it’s possibly even tougher when you’re blessed with so much talent. Much respect to Gilbert.

Cool song. I like how "real" it sounds - like an actual performance, not something that's put together from the ground up bit by bit. Nice.

We all know what the most important part of that song is and on which instrument it was played, don't we? 

Thank you guys! I really appreciate. I guess it's worth finishing the full length thing (and that's also a great excuse to shop for a new mic).

Saw an ad for Scorpions’ residency in Vegas and it prompted me to dig up this thing.

A snippet of an early demo of a cover of Scorpions’ Still Loving You for my Post Mortem Spasms project. I call it Still Loving You (in the graveyard).

The arrangement popped in my head one night at work and I decided to put a demo together between calls. I recorded this basic vocal track a few weeks later, thinking that it would serve as a guideline for the singer who'd agreed to sing it. But when she heard the demo, she said I had to sing it myself. I hate my voice, my stupid accent, and I can’t sing, but who am I to argue with an actual singer?

And I think something inside me agrees. I have to do this one by myself. Plus, she promised to coach me, so I agreed. I am all about learning.

I used my old, cheap, beat up AKG hanging from the ceiling fan to record the vocals, with the AC on and all, did 3 takes, and moved on. There was no click, no nothing so the vocal comes in a little rushed and there are a lot of things I need to work on (I’m also not sure why the line “all the way from the starT” sounds like “all the way from the starS”.

But it’s only a first draft.

I must re-record it before the old iMac downstairs die because that’s the only computer that has all the libraries that no longer work on newer computer, including my beloved Cakewalk Dimension Pro piano. I think the harpsichord is the old Miroslav overdubbed with the Dimension one to add a bit of low end.

I love Songs of Innocence - one of my favorite rock albums of the last 10-15 years and the first U2 album I cared to listened to since Pop in the 90's. 

I know a lot of people like my then-wife who were really pissed off to see it listed in their library. I must admit that I would have reacted the same if I saw a Rihanna album appear in my purchases even if I didn't have to download it. All seems so strange retrospectively.

8 hours ago, craigb said:

Are you implying that he might be full of... oh, never mind!

😜

Bapoo?

Fantastic job as always mate! Thanks for sharing.

8 minutes ago, craigb said:

Interestingly, I had Roger on my initial list but replaced him with someone else...  He makes me want to yell "We came here for the music not your opinions!!!"

I guess my distinction was more towards those that want everyone to look at and adore them.  Roger just wants to force his opinion on everyone.

Makes sense, too.

And possibly given this thread a spin that will land it in the forbidden zone. 😁