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^^^ This. AFAIK there are only a couple manufacturers of 2" tape remaining. Vintage King is selling reels for $345.

Freeze the organ track, as Mark suggests. If there are still clicks in the rendered audio, re-do the freeze with the "Fast Bounce" option turned off.

That's because there is none. Think about it: you use a higher sample rate because it contains more information. After upsampling an existing file, where exactly would that additional information come from? It can't be manufactured out of thin air.

The Saffire and Scarlett are indeed identical units, the only difference being USB vs. Firewire. Either should do the job. I'll continue to prefer Firewire interfaces until it's no longer an option, even though the slight efficiency advantage means little nowadays.

The C414 has long been a favorite of mine, although I've never owned one myself. If, like most of us, you can only afford one good condenser then the 414's a good choice due to its versatility. I'm still content with my KSM-44, which is almost as versatile, about the same price, and offers that legendary Shure durability (it's survived multiple gravity-related mishaps). But if I could go back in time to when my original short list came down to the Shure and the AKG, I'd probably reconsider and go with the C414. I have to admit, the deciding factor back then was that I thought the AKG was ugly. Stupid.

So true, Craig. Why do we romanticize drunk girls? Sure, they're much easier to get the pants off of, but that's it. If there is even a remote chance of vomit being involved, I do not want them anywhere near my stuff. Or my electronics, either.

One of the best mic shootouts I've seen/heard. Only 4 mics in the test, and they're all fairly expensive. However, the least-expensive one (AKG C414) held its own against the clear winner (Neumann U67).

Yes, Dave likes that. Maybe 25 years ago I was playing a gig in which there was raised customer seating behind the band. A beautiful woman leaned over the railing behind me between songs and whispered "I've been watching you play and wondering what those fingers could do to a woman's body". She couldn't have halted the performance more quickly had she pulled the power cable out of the wall. Sadly, she left before the end of the set so I never got to encourage her to expound further.

Version 1.8 is a free update to owners of this plugin. All six of you. If you're not familiar with LF Max Punch, it's an oldie but a goodie and a secret weapon for kick and bass. Basically an exciter / distortion effect. Use it subtly to give your bass drum a satisfying thump, or crank it up for distorted bass. At its current price of $80 it may no longer be the bargain it once was, but if you ever have an opportunity to pick it up on sale it's a good tool to have in the kit. The update mostly involves improved CPU efficiency.

Especially now that I'm not allowed to eat it anymore. Such tragedy. I intend to adhere to the ban with the same diligence that I've applied to other prohibitions over the years

If those two images were taken at the same point in the project, and there are no hidden aux sends, then the message makes no sense. Both tracks are routed identically, but the program only complains about one of them being routed to a silent bus. Either there is a clue not visible in the screenshots, or the project file is corrupt. What do you hear when you play the project? Just "Guitar 2", or silence? Where is your Master bus routed? What happens if you route "Guitar" directly to the hardware outs?

I am reminded of George Burns' advice as he was approaching is 100th birthday, when asked about his secret to living to be 100. He said "It's easy. Just make it to 99, and then be very careful." I have no illusions about ever achieving that milestone, but today am somewhat more optimistic about my odds of surviving to at least age 68. October's not that far away. I think I can make it. Gordon Sumner (better known as Sting) and I are exactly the same age - we were born literally minutes apart - and he's still looking pretty good. Of course, he lives in a castle and has access to free health care, but other than that we live parallel lives.

Hmm, I'm pretty sure that face is saying "I will eat you when you're dead".

At least there are no cats in this thread.

Cakewalk will abort after a buffer underrun extending beyond a given period (IIRC, 250 ms by default). Could be the project was still loading samples, or there was some background process preventing the CPU from filling the output buffers in time. I have some very large projects where the only way to get them to reliably play on the first try is to open them and then go make coffee.

See? While any one of us may be full of it on a given point, collectively we're a frickin' encyclopedia. (Kirby, I gather you're old enough to know what an "encyclopedia" is. For the kids, it's like Google with less - but better - information.)

P.S. I'm not sure if F11 is still the default keypress for inserting markers. That may have changed at some point in the past and I've just reset it to F11 on my machine because I'm an old codger who hates change. If that's the case, somebody will correct me, I'm sure.

Lucky for you, you got the attention of an actual expert in this sort of thing. It's what Geoff (Gswitz) does. Unfortunately, experts can sometimes inadvertently talk over your head. If you're really lucky, he'll make a video for you. In the meantime, let me take a stab... It sounds like you've managed to get the original recording into Cakewalk. At this point you have a crazy-long file sitting there. Unfortunately, there will be a lot of horizontal scrolling to get the editing done, but it can be done. First thing I'd do is scroll the track until you get to the start of the silent part. Press F11 to insert a marker there (best to put it slightly to the right of the start of silence). Then scroll until you get to the end of the silent part and press F11 again to insert another marker there. What you're doing is specifying everywhere you want to split up the long file into smaller files. You can put in as many markers as you need. Right-click on the track and select "Split..." from the context menu. You'll be presented with several split options, one of which is "Split at each marker". Select that one and click OK. You'll now have multiple clips, one of which will contain the silent part. There will just be a thin vertical line showing where the boundaries between clips are. In the track header, there is a dropdown list that may say "Volume". Select "Clips" from that list, which will allow you to select individual clips. You can now click on that silent clip and hit the Delete key to make it go away. At this point you still have silence, but you can get rid of it by sliding every clip to the right of it to the left until it butts up against the first audio portion. Finally, use slip-edits to make gentle transitions between the remaining clips. Hover the mouse pointer over a clip until you see a little triangle cursor. A little experimentation will let you get the hang of it. It's non-destructive, so if you don't like your first attempt just press CTL-Z to undo and try again.

You're trying to bait me, aren't you? 😄 Well, thanks! That's the equivalent of slapping an unconscious guy while yelling "stay with us, dammit!".

Thanks for all your well-wishes, everyone. Lots of longtime friends here I'd be sad to bid goodbye to. My absence here has just been due to a new emphasis on live performance that's stolen the focus away from recording. As many of you know, I reluctantly joined a band after the death of my wife, as a way to combat the natural instinct to withdraw from an abruptly empty world. Every piece of advice I came across said to remain social and encourage human connections. That band decision was made reluctantly because, frankly, most live music hurts my ears. But making a not-awful band has given me purpose. Truthfully, it's still a work-in-progress. The band still sucks, but not as badly as it used to. And not as badly as most bar bands I hear, to be honest. It's not a high bar. Even though my voice will never be where it was in my 30's when I sang 6 nights a week, my keyboard chops are better now than they've ever been. Calmer, more tasteful and thought-out. Gone is the need to impress strangers with lightning-fast licks, replaced by a desire to simply serve the song. My doctors insisted that I not play piano for at least a week, lest I rip open the wrist incision and bleed out. That meant cancelling this weekend's gig. Damn. I also can't drink coffee, which, ironically, has encouraged insomnia. That has left me in a strange waking-dream state, but maybe that'll actually be conducive to creativity. Lemonade, you know. BTW, Sean Costello's new delay is really good.

Well, not literally. I didn't actually die. Saw it up close, though, and through the haze of excruciating pain I accepted that possibility as a welcome relief. But for the fourth time, medical technology brought me back. Looks like the book of my life has at least one more chapter to go before it concludes. Whatever the contents of that chapter may be, I'm confident that the subject of what's the best delay plugin isn't gonna be in it.

Hmm. Rush didn't make the list?

Looks nice, Ed. Don't worry, it'll clutter up nicely in time. I don't think of it as "clutter", but rather "acoustical diffusion".

T on Y, since the project is just for your own entertainment, why not experiment with the arpeggiator, a soft synth and some randomly-selected patches? You might be pleasantly surprised with what you come up with. It worked for Jarre.

Whoa, you're thinking of wiping the drive because some file associations got changed? Yikes! No need to make more work for yourself. The file association changes actually make sense because you now have two applications that can read the same files - so you have to choose one. If you'd installed a better text editor than Notepad, you'd expect it to open .txt files, right? But you always have the option of changing the file associations back if you'd rather 8.5 be your default DAW. 8.5 and CbB can happily coexist, each with their own file locations. But one or the other must be designated as the one that wakes up when you double-click on a project file.