Shane_B.

2 hours ago, craigb said:

Hey!  It's a Jim sighting! 😁

 

Hey Jim, is the availability of video cards suitable for gaming and other high-end usage gotten any better?

I can answer.

No.

I gave up.

Happy birthday.

P.S. Thanks for tolerating my dumb ***** here all these years.

On 2/1/2023 at 5:59 PM, abacab said:

The 10 Worst Things About Windows 11

#1 ~ #10 .... "it sucks"

Closing statement, "It's excellent."

They're kinda sending mixed signals there. Lol.

I so regret getting rid of my DAT. I should have kept it and tried to get it repaired. It was a high end Sony. I have a bunch of tapes I can't listen to now. Fwiw working ones are going for around $600 on ebay.

The drummer and I in my last band got tired of unreliable bandmates so we decide to record our basic rhythm tracks and some backing vocals. We used my 8 track analog Tascam and transferred it to my DAT. Back then we were the only band in our area to do that. Now it's the norm. I still have all our tracks/sets plus a ton of lp rips. 

It was probably a simple fix. It just didn't recognize there was a tape in it anymore. When it did work it worked perfectly.

But yeah, like aidan said, I'd be worried about putting the tapes made on one machine in a different one.

21 hours ago, craigb said:

Thanks for those that offered private positive thoughts!  I'm better today.

My mom always used to tell me, "Cheer up Shane. Things could get a lot worse.".

And ya know, she was right. I cheered up and they did get worse.

21 hours ago, craigb said:

Now, if I can just sell my guitar...

Speaking of guitars and money ...

I just saw a used Martin at my local music store here in NJ. Lefty, perfectly set up, played better than any other acoustic I've ever touched. Sounded beautiful. $2500, which is a great price for a Nazareth made Martin. Had to walk away.

I knew the previous owner/ founder of the company since I was a little kid but he just recently sold the business and retired. Back in the day he would have told me to take it and just pay on it what I could until it was paid off by a certain date. I get the impression the new owner isn't quite as 'trusting'. But I get it. Times have changed. 

We used to walk out of there with thousands of dollars of equipment to try out on gigs to see if we wanted to eventually buy it on a handshake. Those days are long gone.

Being the tallest by far in the bands I was in (6'3") I always got stuck with speaker hauling and setup duty. And amp hauling duty. It's amazing how all the guys I played with had bad backs. Hah. To be fair though I started at 13 and played till I was 29 and all the guys I played with were hugging 40 when I started. I didn't mind and I'm lucky I never got hurt.

Hope you heal up soon. Glad you didn't miss the gig.

On 1/13/2023 at 2:33 PM, paulo said:

 How Ozzy Osbourne ever got a job as a singer has always baffled me.

I may take some heat for this but on a side note I have always felt that way about Jimmy Page. After seeing video of them live I swear that it is not the same person playing on the studio recordings.

The Beatles when Paul died in the car accident. 

😁

I have thread title envy.

5 hours ago, Rain said:

They seem a little long in the tooth for that.

Well that image is implanted in my head now. 

Here they just throw you in jail and take all your stuff if you don't pay your taxes.

Fun fact ... my taxes in MO were 2.6K a year. Same size house and same size lot here in NJ ... roughly 20K.

We the people aren't the ones who need the iron maiden or jail ....

But yeah .. I like Iron Maiden.. Odd coming from a 50s country fan I know but I like them. Especially their live stuff.

16 hours ago, paulo said:

^^^ 174 Shades of Death Road. 

That's the best address that I've ever heard of.

Would also be a fine album title.

Hmmm........

Checks Omnisphere browser for creepy sounds.......

I wrote a song called Shades Of Death Road. I never posted it because I mever copyrighted it. I didn't want it to get passed around locally and have one of the local artists steal it. Plus I lost the master and never polished it.

There is a history to that road. Native Americans occupied that area. Settlers came and they tried to get rid of them. They chased one of the settlers daughters down that road and trapped her on a cliff. Her father yelled to her telling her to jump off so they wouldn't get her. If you look at a map near SOD Rd. you'll see Jenny Jump State Forest. That's how it got it's name.

It is a very creepy road. Goes through the woods. Swampy area near the side in one part. Always seems foggy out there.

On 12/31/2022 at 10:29 AM, craigb said:

Cracks me up that the sign must get stolen enough to need a tracking device! 😆

There's a road near me in NJ that is called Shades Of Death Rd. That sign gets stolen a lot too. 

21 hours ago, jude77 said:

Well, we have a major nuclear armed nation actually threatening to use those things.  Other than that, things look pretty bright.

And if they do use them things will be even brighter. For a few minutes at least.

No way. Only Realtek for me.

16 hours ago, craigb said:

Was it all crash in the loudspeakah? 🤔

😆

40% to 70% of the time. 

I have my own Cakewalk history compilation. Unfortunately the crash log file is too large to upload to the forum.

OK ok. That was/ wasn't funny.

I started with Pro Audio 7 iirc? Or was it 9? I can't remember anymore.  Skipped a bunch of versions then jumped back in at S8PE.

But my favorite version to date is CbB. Not sure which version of it I started with but it is rock solid since Bandlab took over.

This one has two lines ...

"It's strange what desire will make foolish people do."

"Nobody loves no one."

Wicked Game - Chris Isaac

11 hours ago, InstrEd said:

So you hang-out at Menards, Home-Depot and Lowes    😆

I love Menards and Lowe's. The closest Menards to me now here in NJ is about 5 hours away.

I loathe HD. Never have what I need and what they do have is junk.

Elvis

Carpenters

Jim Reeves

Burl Ives

Nat King Cole

Johnny Mathis

All the original albums. Johnny Mathis re-recorded some many years later but all the original albums are excellent. I have Elvis' Christmas album in the CD player of my truck now.  Been in there since I bought it at a thrift store .... last August. I appreciate him more and more and get the Elvis hysteria more and more as I get older. Maybe it's an aging thing.

And lastly The Crypt Keeper's Christmas Album. Gorey versions of classics done with the Crypt Keepers style and voice.

Those are my all time favorite Christmas albums. 2 years ago I bought a re-issue of Nat King Cole's Christmas album on vinyl. It's translucent green. Limited edition at Target of all places. I couldn't bring myself to open it so I just listen to the CD version I have but I'm dying to play it.

13 hours ago, Rain said:

Back home,  A&W was my favorite (fast food) burger and fries place.

A&W used to be run by the owners here. Then it turned in to a Mcd's type situation where you have an owner or group of owners that just sit back and collect the money and pay people the bare minimum to keep it going. That's when they changed here. But they used to be very good. Now it's rare to see one here.

I looked in to 'buying' a Mcd's a few years ago. At the time it cost $1M and iirc you had to have another $500K cash in the bank. A lot of times groups of investors will buy these chains and never even see the restaurant.

19 hours ago, InstrEd said:

I've never tried those particular plug-ins  to give you an honest answer.  And no I'm not going to experiment!  😒

I prefer the real hardware versions myself.

Popeye's

I could actually feel my arteries clogging from the grease and fat.

"Yo"

Every rap song.

"I thought that they were angels, but to my surprise, we climbed aboard their starship, we headed for the skies."

Styx - Come Sail Away