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So... First i love choirs Second... One way to get choirs sounding tight is to enter the midi for all the parts... Then, make a mix for each part and boost the volume of that part maybe 7 db louder than the other parts... Really significant increase... Now share the recordings with your choir and let them practice to it. This isn't a click track but it will have the same result. They will all be on time and singing with, or harmonizing with, the part they are supposed to be singing. This is tons of fun. It's like standing right next to a really loud singer who is perfect every time... You just do as they do. Now, when you pull the tracks together, you have a great starting place. Everyone is in key and on time. From there, you boost the vocalists that are tighter at any moment, trying to give them all moments to shine. You don't want to pitch correct more than necessary. It can help to have vocalists slightly off and slightly dimmed. It will make the singer nailing it Sound better. As long as the one who is tight is louder, it will be cool. The mix will sound like someone was pointing the Mic from singer to singer, a different Mic for basses and sopranos and altos etc. It will be magic that the Mics focus on the best singer at each moment. In this video, i show how to use melodyne to compare two instruments playing the same part... You can also accept multiple takes from each vocalist. Use panning and gain control to make your virtual choir super big and way cool. Panning different parts differently also helps. Don't be scared to move your parts around on the Sound stage, centering the most important part of the moment in ways that are impractical in a church. The centered part can be a little louder than things panned to the sides because it is coming through two speakers, not one. In lots of choirs I've worked with, they often change the score to simplify it because it is hard to do it right live. They cater to the weakest link often. But with this technique, everyone can sing it right with some practice.

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usually when someone says the sound changes on exporting they are either exporting more than they intend to or they are bouncing internally through the master bus then the bounced track is routed through the master bus again, doubling the fx on the master bus. If you select your song and do bounce to tracks, make sure the new track is routed directly to your interface and not to your master bus. Then select that new track and choose export.

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@Starise If you get some time, Mickey Hart's book 'Drumming on the Edge of Magic' is a worthy read. He often delves into discussion of music, spirit, and the magic of it. I started typing in a section and decided I would be typing too much for a post. Another interesting read of Mickey's is 'Song Catchers: In search of the world's music'.

I think music itself is soothing. I love having a way to express without words. I don't think having an outlet for expression by itself assures mental health, but it does seem to promote it. I think when you consider music as a profession and ask the mental health question, there are too many variables to show anything meaningful. Like, who is drawn to it as a profession. How often is it a profession of last resort? What are the weird pressures applied on musicians by how the money in the industry is choked to flow this way and that. How much impact does living around alcohol soaked people have on your life? Spending nights in bars? Getting paid in liquor? But then, most musicians I know have a better social life than non-musicians in my experience. That can be another mental health booster.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TkmMiMek6k This video is noisy and goofy, but man are analog delays cool. I messed with the delays in THU and couldn't get anything like these. The video includes the 2 boss delays and a moog MF and we tried an old DOD but the knobs weren't werking. Moog stuff is just so wild. I have no idea what makes them so cool but the sounds they make are wild.

Last night, me and my friend Scott compared delays. The boss waza dm-2w delay compared favorably with the moog, but being able to use the foot pedal to increase the feedback on the moog set it apart. The moog has a dip switch inside to switch the expression pedal between rate and feedback. This means any held note could be held and swelled by moving the expression pedal. There is no doubt that the boss waza delay surpasses the boss dm3. So much fun!

I'm doing everything backwards. I really enjoy playing through my amp with pedals. I'm all alone. I know. and I've got my FCB-1010 and my AmpSims... they're fun... but I really enjoy playing outloud.

I traded a friend this old pedal... For this... I totally love this Delay... it's soooooo much fun. 🙂 I have an expression pedal and that gets all these crazy sounds as you change the rate. Trading pedals with friends is the best way to explore new sounds. https://www.boss.info/global/promos/waza_craft/

After the we turned off the camera, Scott played this awesome guitar jam for like 1/2 hour. He used a looper. It was wild... totally awesome. Bummer I didn't catch it. Maybe next time.

My friend has 3 champs with different speaks in them. I play on them all the time. They're great! I think he has one with a trem? There's a trem, idk if it's built into champ. These are a tons of fun. I do prefer my 4x10 with a Rock Crusher, but the champs are so great! I'm playing on it in this vid...

@John How many have been banned?

https://www.diyrecordingequipment.com/products/l2a I use this for reamping. I don't need a direct box. I'm not talented at soldering. I just read directions and watched some YouTube videos. If you are on a budget, this might help.

I use expression pedals. My pedal board has a splitter built in so i can can record clean and the amp with fx concurrently. Sometimes, i record direct and send out from the interface to a reamp box and that lets me play with the fx all i want when my family are out. I record direct while they sleep. Real-time fx are expressive so real time play changes..

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Gave me a big smile, ty.

I've been enjoying using my spare processor cycles to donate to things like Cancer and Covid related research through BOINC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Open_Infrastructure_for_Network_Computing Probably not interesting to most of you, but some have beefy computers that sometimes sit idle and maybe I'm not the only one who doesn't mine sharing the cycles. If you use this link to join, I get credit for you joining. There's no money involved. It's charity only. https://join.worldcommunitygrid.org?recruiterId=1121627&teamId=136RWX2QBN1 I did this ages back with an old laptop and spun the fans so much I wore out a bearing. Now, this may or may not happen to you, but a worn out bearing on a fan would make your PC get louder until you replace the fan. Other than that case, I haven't had any issues volunteering my pc when I'm not using it for something. I measured the electricity consumption and for me, it uses about 4x as much electricity as when otherwise on and idle. This means about 75% more in electricity costs. You can pick the projects you want to volunteer to work on.

https://www.furmanpower.com/support/legacy-product-documents?div=01&id=SPB-8 This link has manuals. Whatever i have is exactly the spb8 with a hard case. It is awesome.i basically use it as a suitcase for pedals. I don't leave it configured. I plug in what i want when i open it. The splitting feature is cool but kinda complicated. Mostly, i use it for a pedal power supply and carrying case.

I have this pedal board and love it. Mine says skb not furman. These have to be the same thing rebranded, right? Mine has a hard case that is a suitcase for pedals.

Totally great article. I read every word.

If you don't have the ashtray cover for the bridge, i recommend it. It's comfortable and changes your playing. Less palm muting.

I'm not sure I'd use the LED cable when I'm re-amping. I don't use it direct into my amp. It does kinda change things a little. But with Amp Sims it definitely helps.

https://craiganderton.org/transient-tamer-diy-project/ This is what I'm talking about when I mention LEDs on a guitar cable for use with Software Amp Simulators. This really helps and I do switch to it if I start using another one. I can hear it and prefer it.