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I just installed and ran this. It found a ton of stuff in my registry and fixed it and 2GB of files it said were ok to delete. I didn't because some of them were very old files with weird file extensions in old programs I still use like IMGBurn. I didn't know what would happen so I left them alone. It also found a ton of files in Brave, hundreds of MB's but every time I clear out any cache in it I have to re-log in to all my web sites so I'm afraid to do that to. Hah. But ... it also found that two Firefox apps were loading during startup. I uninstalled Firefox months ago. It's nowhere to be found on my system. So I blocked them from loading. It's also said an internet client that a game downloader I was forced to install runs at startup even though I have the program set to not run at startup. When I checked the info on the file it said it is legit but is known to be used by hackers to slip malware on your system. This utility is very similar to the one I mentioned in my previous post but a lot better. Thanks for mentioning this.

Reminds me of the saying, "The silence is deafening.". I wish I had an original 45 of the song. It would be great for sampling real vinyl record pops and clicks.

I'm assuming you are referring to the horrible vocals? Sometimes these guys don't know when to quit. That was bad. Really bad. It was like he was tired and was singing flat the entire time and couldn't muster up the energy to get up to pitch. I imagine in ear monitors don't help if he was wearing them. I've seen so many live performers wear them for half a song and rip them out and leave them dangling over their shoulder. Two that stick out in my mind that I've seen video of ripping them out are Mick Jagger and Dave Grohl.

I'm going to check that out now. Thanks! I finished Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas and was going to download Fallout 4 this weekend ... nope. I got 23GB left on my SSD. The installer alone is 30GB, unpacked and installed I think it's around 47GB, then I'll probably mod the living daylights out of it and add another 100GB. I really need another larger C: drive but I don't have the strength or patients or knowhow to seamlessly and painlessly transfer the OS and everything without doing a fresh install. I could just add a drive but then I'd have to change the default install installation paths for the downloader and installer for F4 and I'm not sure how that will clash with mods and mod managers. Dealing with those things are like dealing with installing Dimension Pro and trying to put your samples in a directory other than the default. It can give you grey hair.

So glad I popped in to check out the replies while having my morning insulated travel mug of coffee. 😁 I stopped using those Freddy Krueger machines or whatever they're called and the fancy drip things with the timers and the super thin glass pots that break when you look at them and the filters and all that shtuff. I just use a good old fashioned stainless steel electric percolator pot. I make that stuff so strong and hot you could strip paint with it. Never need filters either.

Great cover! Both my parents worked at the private school in N.J. where J. Sebastian went. The school is in a tiny very rural town in NW NJ where the original Friday The 13th Part 1 horror movie was filmed. They ran the canteen there and got to know him. They said he was a really nice kid but I don't think they really knew who he was, or would be, until a few years later.

Because the Coffee House is a non-'daw'nominational music related discussion forum. Almost all of the people I communicate with here use Studio One as well as CbB (as well as most other major DAW's) and we talk about all of them openly here a lot. It is extremely rare that I frequent the Presonus forum and to be 100% honest, I never even considered going there to ask. But if the powers that be want to delete, no biggie. Feel free to do so. I'm cool either way. Edit: Oh, and I forgot to say, I apologize if I ruffled any feathers with this thread. Wasn't my intention.

I got an email the other day offering me $10 bucks to take a 20 minute online survey for Presonus, if I were one of the first 2,000 people to take it. Or something like that. I don't remember the exact details because I deleted it. But now I'm curious if anyone else got the email and did you do the survey and get paid?

I've seen it and just checked it out again. It's good, but not great or mega-star good in my opinion. I sincerely mean this, Danny Danzi, Batsbrew, and a quite a few others here are as good if not better. That's the kind of lead Clapton, Campbell, and John5 can do in their sleep. I mentioned those names because of the similarities of music and span of decades they cover. I can respect a great guitar player when I see one and Prince is a good but I just don't get all the hype around him. He's by no stretch a pioneer like Hendrix but I think people tried to make him this generations Jimi. Funny his name comes up. I saw a thing on Facebook the other day with side by side photos comparing other famous people to Danny Devito for height comparison. I was going to post it here because it had Prince in it but got sidetracked. Prince was only a couple inches taller than Danny Devito. I just tried to find it again and can't. In order from shortest to tallest in the pic was Devito, Prince, William Radcliff (Harry Potter) and some guy I've never seen before. It's amazing how much Dhani looks like his dad.

There's a lot of great music today. I still seek out new artists. I'll be 51 in a few weeks and my neighbor who is 55 turned me on to a new hard rock group out of Springfield MO yesterday. He showed me their latest Youtube video and said he talks with them on their Facebook page and just went to another one of their gigs last weekend. Some of the pop today is even good. I really liked some of Lorde's stuff a few years ago. She's gotten a little weird now. Even some of the EDM. Rap ... sorry. Not my thing whatsoever. But neither was classical and it's been around a few more centuries than rap. And as for Prince ... sorry, but the guy was extremely over rated. The majority of his lyrics were perverse and I have no idea how he gets the acclaim he does. There are a lot of great new country artists that are trying to stay true to tradition. And there is a whole new take on folk and rock music. People like Sierra Ferrell, Charlie Crockett, Amigo The Devil, Jake LaBotz (I love the duet he did with Puddles, that's how I discovered him.), The Avett Bro's. People like Pokey LaFarge who do harder music plus acoustic, plus a little jazz and some pop. The same guy who did this did this and this (pg-13). There's a ton of great new talent out there and they aren't locking themselves in to one category anymore and you never hear them on the radio short of the catching the local PBS stations maybe. Check out Heilung sometime if you want something really different. I can't stop listening to them. Wish I could see them live. There are a lot of new great artists out there that don't buy in to the digital age and making music with PRV and loops that actually perform live and sound the same live as in the studio but the self promotion deliver system has changed and they rely on the internet now to get their name out there. And it's actually better. You hit more people on the internet than you did passing out cassettes. Who are you playing for and what is your goal? I think this is the real question we should as the OP. Are you a weekend warrior wanting to play at wineries on the weekend or the rare bar that still has bands or a local coffee house? Are you ready to deal with the a-hole copyright snitches that go to bars now and nail bar owners and bands? We used to regularly play the animal circuit but I can't tell you the last time I saw a dance or gathering advertised at an Elks, Moose, or Eagles club or a Legion hall. Them and 3 bars in our area were our regulars. All of our wedding jobs and holiday parties came from those places. Do you want to play live for a living? Do you just want to write and put your stuff out there to get some feedback like in the Songs forum here? The weekend warrior thing with no real asperation to go anywhere is about the only scenario I can think of that you wouldn't need some kind of an online presence.

I hear he's pretty ***** about his sax. Quite the perfectionist. Really? I got asterisked? It means very picky ... 😁

You're not alone. There are a lot of people that feel that way. The way I see it now is you pretty much have to play live and have an online presence if you want to make any money at all. Then it snowballs and your following grows both live and online but I don't think you can start by doing just one anymore if you want to make a name for yourself. If you want to record just to make people happy then I would recommend places like Youtube and Facebook. Maybe Soundcloud. There are some really bad artists that have really big followings at those sites and there and some really great unheard of artists too. There is always going to be someone who can play, write, and sing better than you and there's always going to be someone worse. Expose yourself to a big enough audience and someone will like what you are doing and I think that's when you'll get your spark back. It may not be commercial and you may not touch the hearts of millions, but someone will like it and those are the people you are writing and recording for, if an audience is what inspires you. I also think we've all had a lot of doom and gloom thrust upon us the last couple of years and we had zero control over it and that has a lot to do with how you are feeling. I know we feel very similar about all this and for sure the events of the past year have changed me in a lot of ways. I struggle to pick up a guitar, work around the house, and even leave the house now, and that's a very bad thing. The overwhelming feeling of it's the end and it's all over and I'm going to die if I set foot outside my door has truly effected me and changed me. I don't think things will get back to normal for a long time and I know that's a big part of what I'm going through now with my loss of love for music and pretty much everything else. Pretty much every smile, every joke, every funny thing I say here and IRL is forced now to try and get back to some kind of normalcy. But if I had my druthers ... well. I just hope things get back to normal ... quick.

OH MY GOD! It's snowing in Hawaii! YEAH! I SAVED THE THREAD! WOOHOO!! I picked this up this weekend.

That pick made me homesick. Been to Newton (Look past the blue shirt to the side of the truck you pervs) many times. I used to service machines at KCCI in DSM and the DOT statewide. *sIgH* I don't know if any of you guys ever picked up on this, I'm usually a pretty quiet guy especially about how I feel and never wear my heart on my sleeve, but I really really really miss Iowa.

"I sense something. A presence I've not felt since..." (Sorry. I couldn't resist.)

I seem to remember something about that from the forum a very long time ago. Ah the good old days. He had some of his favorite threads in his signature IIRC. Yep, I just searched. I wonder if Steve is still going to A.A.? That thread is kind of awesome and sad all at the same time.

Found it! Sort of. I got a notification that Windows 10 downloaded some updates just a little bit ago and prompted me to install and reboot. I rebooted right away and poof everything is back to normal. This is why I just let Windows do it's thing now and don't worry about keeping my PC/DAW off the net. Just letting it do it's thing has actually helped me far more times than it has hurt me. I can only assume that when it did it's updates it fixed whatever happened when I installed all those .Net Framework versions but it's all back to the way it was now. Reminds me of Christmas vacation and Eddie's daughter. Going from memory here IRT his daughter Ruby Sue .... "The girl falls down a well, eyes go crossed. Get's kicked in the head by a mule, they go straight. I don't know." and he shrugs his shoulders and walks away.

Wow! There's a name I haven't heard mentioned or seen in years. Or is he here under a different name? He was a pretty unique individual and very friendly and outgoing. I think I'd recognize him if he were here.

I can't wait for the 2022 stereo remaster of that one.

That's exactly how I feel lately too. I do find myself re-visiting old recordings and I enjoy using Ozone to help me remix and remaster them to sound as good as they can, but I'm pretty much done with recording. I don't even use my monitors anymore I just use headphones. Maybe it will change. I hope it does because it was such a huge part of my life. I'm not exactly sure why I'm going through this phase. It's the first time ever. I don't have much advice for the OP other than what's been said. I personally find music to be an addiction. If I'm in that zone I want to do it more and more and get obsessed. If I get busy and drawn away doing something else I find it getting harder to get back in to it as I get older.

Personally speaking, I'm not anti anyone or anything. I just want the truth and everyone to pick up a little garbage on their way out ...

Thanks. I don't know what the answer is. I think people have believed the sky was falling since the beginning. I also believe that if the people who we have placed in decision making positions truly believed this is happening, they would be focusing on fixing the largest contributors to the problem, not financially punish the ones who are forced/locked in to using what those largest contributors provide. The longer I live and the more I see from these people in decision making positions, the more I realize that pretty much the opposite of what they say is what is really going on. That said, I have seen several cycles in my 50 years from what they said was normal at the time to abnormal back to normal and so on. There's also proof it has been constantly changing since before people were established as we are on the planet. I do not think we're the full cause or will be the demise. I've been hearing we have 5 years left since I was a kid ...

@bitflipper or anyone ... Serious question (IBTL) because I truly don't know the answer to this. My question is ... does the Jet Stream effect everyone? I thought it did but I never actually looked in to it. I ask because the weather here has been normal for this area (KC area) since I've lived here going on 10 years. Doesn't the word 'global' mean 'everyone' or are we going to go down the 'well you are effected but you just don't know it' invisible boogie man path?

Yeah. Times/weather changes. I remember when I was a kid the snow was all the way up to my chest. But I was just 5 years old and a lot shorter then. 😉 When I first moved to IA 24 years ago it snowed a lot more then. Then it warmed up. The guys at work were playing golf on Thanksgiving which was unheard of in IA. Now they're bitching because the winters are like 'the old days'. I have pictures somewhere of the road I lived on way out in the country. When I saw way out ... I had 4 acres in the middle of a 4400 acre farm. The snow drifts were up to the bottom of the road signs. Then nothing for years. Now it's back that way again. When it comes to weather there is no norm. All kinds of things effect it 99.5% of which we have 0.5% control over.

I've seen it snow well into May in NJ, PA, IA, and MO. It can snow anywhere, where it is normal to get snow, well in to May.