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  1. 1 hour ago, Grem said:

    Young guys I worked with use to buy it off older guys that had it before it became so readily available. 

    Men of all ages use it.

    Do they have to? IDK. 

    More times than not it's triggered by medications that are unrelated to that area of anatomy. It's a lot more common these days for guys of all ages due to doctors not being doctors anymore but rather pharmacists to solve all your problems and not being aware or not caring about the potential side effects.

    What I'm getting at is, it doesn't surprise me that the young guys need it, especially if they've ever been on anti-anxiety or depression meds. Anything that alters your mental state and messes with the chems in your brain regardless of age can trigger it.

    I was on anti-anxiety meds one time in my early 30s. It lowered my BP too much and they had me stop immediately and that triggered it. Thankfully it went away after a couple years. But then I got married and never used it again anyway, so it was no big deal either way.

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  2. 4 hours ago, Rain said:

    Never mind - I read posthumous. 

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

    I greatly enjoy watching the most gory, true to life accurate, violent, and disturbing scenes ever put on film by Tom Savini ...

    ... but the thought of hummus makes me gag.

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  3. 5 hours ago, craigb said:

    Nice band name! 😁

    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 was quite a bit younger than the other guys in my band.  I was in my teens back in the 1980s and they were all in their late 30s early 40s.

    We decided to change the name of the band as our music got newer over the years and we weren't really an oldies band anymore. 

    I suggested Midlife Crisis. I thought it was great but my idea got out voted. 

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  4. 17 hours ago, Grem said:

    There are songs that I hear on XM that just don't have the sound/impact of the songs I remember. Example: "The Ocean" Led Zep, album "Houses Of The Holy". The drum lick that John puts in that song, made that song!! It was the highlight of it. Today when I hear it on XM or even the local radio station, that triplet kick is almost unheard now. So younger people that hear it today for the first time will not get the very important 'feel' of the song. 

    Seems that radio today has computerized all music to eliminate the "loudness difference" with algorithms that have effectively  drained the dynamics  and altering the mixes of once great recordings!!

    ZZ Top "LaGrange" is another example, when it was released on CD it had way too much reverb on it. Did not have the same sound as the original. Kansas "Leftoverture" release on CD was the same way. Way too much reverb. ZZ Top corrected this when they released their "Studio Albums" box set. Thanks Billy! (However, some radio stations still use that over-reverbed versions)

    I could go on... but I will stop this rant from getting out of hand!! 

    Blame it on @craigb, he got me started!!! :)

     

    The website with all those dB readings is great. https://dr.loudness-war.info/

    I got a lot of CDs as they first came out back in the day. Before the loudness wars began. I have the original CD of Brothers In Arms.

    Mobile Fidelity by far wins the dynamic range war for the good side. If you are Moody Blues fan, without doubt the best version of Days Of Future Passed is the Mobile Fidelity version. It's like you're sitting right there live. A Night At The Opera, Dark Side Of The Moon. Absolutely beautiful to listen to from Mobile Fidelity CD.

    I'm a little torn on this topic though. For example, I hear things in the background  in all the current Beatles releases I never heard before. I don't know if that's a result of the compression or remix.

    The trick at home is to tame spikes so you don't over trigger compression while still maintaining some kind of dynamic range. It's taken me many years on a DAW to fully get an understanding of that and get a grasp on it. It just seemed to be a lot easier and almost a non-issue with analog.

    I have YouTube Music. Some albums are significantly softer than others. I listened to The Wall yesterday and I was constantly raising and lowering the level. So I'm assuming they do not compress the music for streaming, but I don't know. Another thing I like about YTM is there are no gaps between songs if you are streaming a full album, but you can skip around tracks. IOW it appears they don't just rip the albums to mp3s with gaps. I also have it set to stream in high quality. It sounds really good to me. I haven't picked up on any compression artifacts, but I haven't listened to anything on a good home system yet. Just in the truck and TV. I can hear compression artifacts sometimes when I listen to XM in the truck. My truck has a really good Bose system with a sub and it sounds almost as good as my home system.

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  5. 18 hours ago, John Vere said:

    So now let’s see how hard it is to learn Band in a box l. I see it’s now using samples instead of the terrible GM synth it used last time I tried it.

    There's a few people here that are really in to BiaB and their forum is great.

    There's a lot of really good tutorials on youtube to help get started and do more advanced stuff too.

    I had it for a while and plan on getting it again once I get a little studio set up.

    You can buy a high quality .wav version of it that comes on a hard drive. That's the version I had.

  6. 1 hour ago, hockeyjx said:

    if I had a copy of it in a DAW, I could have played with it until I was happy.

    I did this recently. I transferred some very old recordings I made on 4 track from back in the mid 80s.

    I added instruments, fixed a lot of vocals with Melodyne, remixed, and remastered everything.

    I was even able to separate out some instruments that were bounced down on to one track using O9A.

    It was a lot of fun and the end product was amazing compared to what I started with.

    I also did that with some old 8 track band demos from the 90s. We played to a click track and I was able to completely remove the poorly mic'd drums and replace them with samples. I also sped the track up without artifacts using software. We originally recorded it too slow but didn't pick up on it at the time.

    If Joe Schmoe sitting in his bedroom/home recording room can do that, imagine what the professionals in real studios with access to a lot more equipment and software than I have can do. Not to mention a lot more talent and skill than I have.

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  7. 51 minutes ago, pwal³ said:

    why so?

    They went public with their non-business related views a few years back and let millions of their users know exactly how they felt about them. So, I choose to use other software providers who are more focused on the product they are offering.

    Plus, FF was not all that great to begin with on any of my PC's I had it on. It may be different now, but even back before they alienated millions of people I stopped using their browser because I couldn't get it to work with the forums here and other sites.

    I use Brave and the AdBlock Plus browser and Gmail to manage my Oulook stuff, but like I said, Gmail doesnt work well as a multi email account manager, especially on my cell which is all I have access to right now. I just pop back and forth between it and the Outlook app now. I never use my Hotmail accounts anyway. I used to years ago and have a lot of software registration under those email accounts. I'm too lazy to go in and change account emails with all the vendors. Plus there's some nostalgia involved too. I've had those addresses for decades.

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  8. Youtube Music.

    So far out of the hundreds of albums and random songs I've asked it to play, only one was partially blocked.

    Long Road Out Of Eden by The Eagles.

    I'm not missing much, I really didn't care for the album and I have it on CD. You have the option to upload music you own and stream it, but I've never tried it. The 2 songs I do like on that album are blocked though, plus a few others on that album.

    I like how you can download everything. I don't know if the other streaming services allow that. I have terrible cell coverage where I live and its nice to have what I want to hear downloaded for when I have no cell service.

  9. 4 hours ago, craigb said:

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    My neighbor said that to me one time to try and embarrass me in front of a group of friends.

    I replied to her ... "Huh. If you could see me doing that through my bedroom window on the second floor I'm surprised you didn't call me for a date".

    True story.

    Oh to be 16 again.

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  10. 5 hours ago, Rain said:

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    Wow. Major flashback. I had that Complete Beatles book too!

    I also had a paperback book called The Pocket Beatles but I can't find a pic of the exact one I had.

    Side note: I never understood the comparison between The Beach Boys Pet Sounds and Sgt. Pepper. There is no comparison. I've been listening to both recently and I just don't get that debate I read about from time to time. I can only handle a couple of songs on Pet Sounds. It's not for me. Especially when you consider it was the Wrecking Crew playing on Pet Sounds. All they did was sing.

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  11. 6 hours ago, craigb said:

    I've got Brave up with AdBlock Plus going right now.  Just sayin'...

    Chrome bookmarks are in a file called Bookmarks in this directory: C:\Users\ \AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default

    I believe ya. We talked about this before in another thread. I'm on cell only right now so that is probably why I couldn't get it installed. Dat or thuh facked dat I arr swoe'w. 😁

    Their browser version I use works really well. I haven't seen a single ad in youtube or any other video site I've tested it with.

    Maybe Google Play has it blocked? Hah! I saw a news blurb recently that they got sued and lost over blocking apps on Android. That whole world of blocked apps may open up soon.

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  12. On 1/17/2024 at 6:58 PM, craigb said:

    Since I already was using Chrome, I had all my favorites there and Brave used that.  It should import your other favorites, but maybe you need to do that from Chrome first?  Not sure since I didn't have any issues...

    Isn't the favorite list a simple csv file that could be manually copied from one folder to another? Maybe they don't do it that way any more, or I'm remembering wrong and it never was that way, but I seem to remember it was a simple csv file. I'd look, but I'm stuck on a cell online for the time being.

    I recently got YouTube Premium. I love it. It comes with YouTube Music and I'm canceling my XM subscription. I listen to really obscure and very old music and so far nother I searched for has been missing. I really like how I can download what I want to listen to over wifi to save cell data while I'm driving.

    I use Brave and you can't use Adblock Plus with it that I can tell. But they have their own secure browser and so far it's blocked everything with ads that I threw at it including YouTube.

    I saw a video title the other day that said YouTube is now able to detect ad blockers and slow the video down. I didn't check out the video though.

    Prime video through Amazon is showing ads in movies now. Prime is really going downhill and almost not worth paying for anymore. Nothing shows up when it says it's supposed to anymore.

  13. I had one Gibson. It was a Custom Black Beauty. It had tuners with built in winding arms that popped out of the middle of tuner knobs. Flat frets. I never could warm up to it. It was a beautiful guitar but I never could get the sound I wanted out of it. It was an 83. Dave, from my other thread, called me when he got it in and said you have to come see this. Hah. I had it authenticated and everything was 100% original. 

    It's funny how every guitar feels different even within the same model run.

    I played a very nice US Strat with a maple neck/fretboard. It was horrible. I couldn't even form an open chord on it comfortably. But I've played others with that neck and spec and they felt great.

    My Sheraton II is MIK and I wouldn't trade it for the world.

    I've always wanted to do a kit but currently don't have a workshop. That will be changing soon so maybe I'll dive in to that eventually.

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  14. 1 hour ago, craigb said:

    Epiphone's seem to need a lot done and every Schecter I've seen, for some reason, needed the input jack replaced!  However, the rest of the guitar (Schecter) was very playable.  Like mettelus said, the frets usually need some TLC as some can be very sharp on the edges (heck, I've tried many flippin' Gibson's that had that issue too!).

    I bought a used Epiphone Sheraton II many years ago, so I have no idea how old it is. Ive had it about 13 years. It looked like nobody ever touched it. It was in mint condition and came with an Epi logo'd hardshell case. I think I paid $275 iirc at GC?

    I went to their website and downloaded their setup instructions. I did a setup on it and it plays like a dream. Not so much when I got it. The thing never ever goes out of tune.

    Same with my 83 strat. I followed every spec to a T, including tremolo height which didn't look right to me. It never goes out of tune and it has a generic replacement bridge I bought 30+ years ago. The original rusted beyond recognition from playing out all the time and sweat.

    The ad for the Gibson clone at Rondo's site says it has hand filed frets and comes set up.

    According to Gibson, all their guitars are factory Plek'd now. But yeah, I've seen new ones too that leave a lot to be desired. Kind of makes me loose faith in the Plek technelogy.

    I see guys, especially over on that popular Tele forum, talk about all their custom setup techniques, but I swear by the factory recommendations.

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