Shane_B.

On 12/17/2022 at 2:56 AM, Rain said:

That would be moving from digital entities toward ...

Yeah but eventually the AI ones will evolve exactly like the real ones and start using a strong password you can't figure out and wont share with you. Then they start using a VPN and develope a strong encryption and start using "ad" blockers to the point where you just give up on the digital ones too ...

"Merry Christmas"

Humbug

Parametric Equalizers Need Incremental Settings for mic checks.

I used to service office equipment. I installed multifunction machines on business networks for printing, scanning, faxing. 

Our IT guy was a Mac guru. Always telling everyone they were the best in the universe.  How bad MS was.  On and on. 

He set up the networks in all of our offices.  He talked the owner in to forcing us in to a training class one time.  I drove 2 hours to get to the office and he spent the entire day trying to get the network to connect to anything with the Apple name on it. At the end of the day we had zero hands on training and he sent us home with a booklet he made of how to set Macs up on networks with print drivers and how to set up shared folders. 

I also remember how it was very easy to set up print drivers on PC based machines. But if you wanted to hook up to a Mac you had to buy a proprietary 'font interface' to be able to use any Adobe fonts.  That added an additional $1000 to the cost of the machine. The sales people would always without fail forget about the board and end up losing their commission because they would write the leases and get them signed but never put in the cost of the board.

Strictly looking at it from an installation point of view I do not care for anything Apple related. But everyone I know that has an iPhone absolutely loves it though.

As for Winamp ... I absolutely loved it. You can still find it but the current version is clunky and doesn't play well with modern higher resolutions. Someone is still working on it though. Last I checked they were officially planning on releasing it again but it looks a lot like a SoundCloud type of thing.

I loved how you could customize it and all the skins you could get for it. I had one that turned it in to a Analog looking device with VU's. Looked awesome on my 24" flat CRT. Need a magnifying glass to see it now because you can't scale it.

I really like John5. But maybe it's his infatuation with Tele's that makes me admire him so much.

Look up Hell Haw on YouTube. It shouldn't be posted here. It's vulgar but he plays live(ish) at the end. The video is live but you can tell by the mix the audio was done in a studio. His bass player is really good. I saw an interview one time with John5 and he said he grew up watching Hee Haw with his dad and that's where his fascination with Tele's began. Watching all my old country hero's. It's probably why I respect him so much.

My nephew was really in to M.C. back in the day and had me to listen to them a few times. I could never get in to them.

Speaking of Hallmark movies I watched a Hallmark Christmas movie the other night starring Bruce Campbell. If you don't know who he his,  he's a very famous comedy horror/ gore movie actor. Evil Dead 1 & 2. Army Of Darkness (Evil Dead 3). Bubba Hotep. He had a crime series on TV and an Evil Dead series too.

How clean your LPs are will have a far bigger impact than the difference between a low end and high end turntable. If you are even considering getting an all in one stereo with a turntable built in then it doesn't  matter which one you get. They all sound equally low fi.

I made my own LP wet vac system for like 50 bucks plus the the cleaning chems which will last a lifetime.

There was a massive impact on the sound quality after cleaning them.

I'll post pics later of what I made. There may be pics floating around the forum somewhere already.

Also the room will have a huge impact on sound quality just like recording. IMO speaker/room placement and how clean the LPs are have a far bigger impact than money thrown at high end gear unless you have golden ears and a perfect wave coming through your AC ... which nobody has unless you buy a $10,000 dollar wave regenerator. 

10 hours ago, Rain said:

I liked bits of Santana, oddly enough, because of his band I guess. John Sebastian

My parents knew John Sebastian. Said he was a nice young man. They worked in the restaurant at the private school he went to in NJ back in the 60s and got to know him there. I don't think he was famous or 'known' back then but maybe I'm wrong. My dad said he used to tell him stories of musicians who would come to their house. I remember him mentioning Burl Ives and others that I can't recall anymore. Ives stuck with me because it seemed so odd to me that he would be there.

7 hours ago, Russell said:

into my TASCAM PortaOne 4 track

I bought one of those on Facebook marketplace last year to transfer some very old masters in to me daw. I still have my original Tascam 8track too.

I think, if I remember correctly, my first was Cakewalk Pro Audio  9. But I can't really remember anymore. 

1 hour ago, Grem said:

For me lately it's been my new Epi JB Lazarus (59 LP). That things sounds great. Really, I love it.

I played a stripped down Epi Studio version of a Les Paul one time. Best feeling and best sounding LP I ever played. I really regret not buying it. I've had both and I greatly prefer the Epi version.  I had a Gibson LP Custom one time.  I could never warm up to it. I don't remember who it was now but I sold it to someone on the old Cakewalk forum. I had it on consignment at a very well known guitar shop in Lawrence  Kansas and they posted it on their website and he bought it through them.

16 hours ago, Rain said:

And this surprising little practice amp - Fender Champion 20

I have the 2x12 version of that. They are really great amps. I got it thinking I might play live again. Then when faced with an opportunity to play live again I just didn't have the drive to do it anymore. So it sits in a closet. Lots of good times playing out but a lot of headaches too. 

My goto is Guitar Rig 4 and my Epiphone Sheraton II Sunburst (lefty version). If I ever were to play live again my goto would be my Champion 100 and my 84 MIJ Strat with EMG Golds on it. I put them on back in the 80s to stop the neon sign buzz in bars back before LED signs were a thing and hum from bad grounds in various places we played.

Some places had Christmas decorations out with the Halloween decorations this year. I can only guess it stems from lack of workers and having the ones that were there on Halloween put out both for fear of not having workers at Christmas. Seems nobody wants to work any more. 

Or greed. Probably some of both.

On 11/16/2022 at 6:12 PM, bitflipper said:

Won't be able drive effectively in New Jersey.

I recently moved back here after being away for almost 26 years.  It's only gotten worse. Suddenly driving through Kansas City doesn't seem so bad. 

I was in an accident about 4 years ago.  Airbag went off and threw my left arm back (my lefty struming hand) and broke my index on my forehead. Completely destroyed my non-bendable/ unbreakable flex-glasses.

I was in physical therapy for over a year for various injured areas of my body. For my hand they had a machine they would have me stick my hand in just above my wrist. It was a big machine with sand in it. It acted like a mini sandblaster and gently pelted my hand and wrist. It helped a lot and eventually I regained 99% of my ability to play. 

Look in to physical therapy for hands.  It was a big box with clear sides and you could see the sand and your hand inside. It felt really good while running. It help the tissue damage in my wrist significantly as well as the finger.

On 10/8/2022 at 2:20 PM, Grem said:

Man... isn't it a nice day outside? Look at all the pretty clouds!! : )

 

What clouds? (Taken today in Kansas)

At the risk of sounding dumber than all you guys already know I Am ... Who/What is DW?

After 51 years and a severe allergy to cig smoke I just started my nicotine fix. My new neighbor said one night ... Here try this vape. I was instantly hooked. I've been doing 2 at once  (double chiefing) the kids call it for a couple months now. I go through 2 of the 3600 puff ones a week now. It actually opens up my nasal passages even though I was tested and am extremely allergic to nicotine. It calms my anxiety and gets me incredibly high for about 3 minutes then Im back to normal ... About 40 times a day.

As for the detox .... I won 2 weight loss/body building competitions back to back a couple years ago. The guy who set it all up had us do a simple detox cocktail and believe me it f'ing works. A lot of people especially coffee drinkers got very sick. He said It flushes your adrenal system iirc. I got a bad headache the first few days then felt great. You put half of a fresh squeezed lemon in 8 oz room temp water and some fresh ground ginger. I used organic ginger paste. Chug it in the morning. It works. We also drank a lot of water throughout the day. The goal 1 gallon a day.

It works.  But be warned if you drink a lot of coffee you will at the very least get a bad headache for a few days. At the least. It didn't just get rid of caffeine. It flushed any toxins. I'm assuming it would have the same effect if you have nicotine in your system but I don't know I stopped doing it a while ago and am afraid to try it again seeing how much I've been vaping.

Good luck with quitting. Smoking has killed several of my family members. Please do everything you can to kick it. Its a wicked terrible way to go when it catches up to you.

Milk Carton Kids 

I always thought that was a bad name.

One of my favorite songs ...

Ozone 9 Advanced is your friend. I suffer from high and low end hearing loss. I did take a supplement and it helped a lot but my hearing will change from time to time.

O9A shows you a graphical representation of your EQ curve and you can see where you have peaks and valleys compared to popular mixes or a selection of mixes you want to emulate the EQ curve of. It completely changed my mixes and masters for the better. They've never been as close to pro sounding recordings. I know they never will be at that level due to my recording environment and gear limitations but O9A can help you polish things. I imagine in the coming years after AI has advanced even more it will get even easier.

The last 3 mixes and masters I did I used headphones only and O9A and they were the best I've ever done.

But yeah. I've had hearing loss and tinnitus since I was a kid. You get used to it or you go insane. One or the other.

I was listening to a bluegrass band one time at Pigeon Forge in Tennessee(?). They set up and the sound guy twisted a few knobs and they went on. They played about 30 seconds and he walked outside to have a smoke and the feedback started. He stood there at the door and finished his smoke listening to the ear damaging screeching like nothing was wrong. A song and a half later her came in and tried to stop it but couldn't so I left.

On a side note I know the or one of many maybe sound guys for Hall & Oats. I wasn't impressed with him either. 

Sound guys and bass players. I tells ya. Sheesh. 😁😜

16 hours ago, Bapu said:

Typical SoCal freeway driver.

Hah. Same in MO. Haven't seem it happen once here in NJ ... 

On 8/14/2022 at 2:36 AM, craigb said:

Ah, memories...  More gear that's long gone...  😕

 

*Sigh...* 🙄

 

Thank God for amp sims and subscription services.

1 hour ago, 57Gregy said:

It's twice as good!

Can't wait for 128bit to catch up. 

21 hours ago, 57Gregy said:

Hasn't it found them all by now?

The algorithm  needs an update to BapsBot 4.0 so he can find all the 64bit plugins ... because 64bit matters ... 😁

What's a Like and a Play? Never seen either. 😜😁

On 7/27/2022 at 11:05 AM, Tim Smith said:

You should write a book after all of this. Seriously. I have the feeling I'm only into about 1% of what's actually going on. 

Best wishes and hope you get back on track soon.

FWIW I haven't said a word to anyone about anything I'm going through except family.

I just got back from NY this afternoon. Have a memorial service to attend tomorrow morning and reception in the afternoon.

I need to go away by myself for a while but can't.

It's all good though. Nothing more or less than anyone else goes through in life. It's why I don't bitch and complain about shit anymore. Does nobody any good and I'm sure as hell not the only one and many have it far worse.

@craigb I have tried it. It must have helped because I've been bombarded almost every day for the last 2 months and I haven't snapped yet. I've developed a twitch in my left eye and the shakes came back from the bua accident but it's all good. Lol.

Everything will work out and it will be what it will be.