Byron Dickens

6 hours ago, RICHARD HUTCHINS said:

.... my kids have their Apple Macs for 10 years, not once has there been an issue. Not once!! 

I call BS.

7????!!!!

I heard that Yoko Ono's  stuff was in there too,  so it's not all bad ....

Just because you have unlimited tracks doesn't mean you have to (or even should) use them all.

You need to get an audio interface.  

There's no harm in touching the tubes. They are pretty robust. 

They should generally all be changed at the same time. Some amps are exceptions, but you also should have the bias checked/ adjusted.

If you have older hardware and/ or are lean on RAM, you're going to have issues....

Dunlop Jazz III here as well.

Define gentleman.

A man who knows how to play the bagpipes. 

But chooses not to.

12 hours ago, Optimus said:

I think perhaps you may need to come to terms with the reality of that is how your voice sounds. I have yet to meet anyone who is entirely happy with how their voice sounds, even good singers. As someone said in an earlier post, it's about context. It's amazing how perceptions change when you hear a voice as part of an ensemble.

Don't sweat it too much.

+1

I think I read recently where no less than Rob Halford said that Judas Priest's latest album was the first time he could stand the sound of his own voice.

ROB f-ing HALFORD!

9 hours ago, razor7music said:

  ...a traditionalist recording engineer/producer saying he can tell the difference between a DI guitar with amp sim or other guitar plug-ins and an actual mic'd amp....   

 

 

And if so, does your audience even care?

Seems like a really counterproductive business model: suing your customers for not upgrading.  

Maybe more and more photographers will start putting time and energy into GIMP. 

Already,  a fair amount of people on the video side are jumping ship to DaVinci Resolve.  $300.  Blackmagic Design  has yet to charge for an upgrade.  And there is a free version that does probably 85% of what the full one does. 

Yikes!

We got out of Houston just in time.  Not long after moving out to the sticks came the Memorial Day flood of 2015, the Tax Day flood of 2016 and then Harvey.

Each time, we were stuck in because the creeks came up over the roads but the only thing that got in the house was mud the dogs tracked in.

I often wonder what the hell possessed the Allen brothers to stop at Buffalo Bayou,  take a look around and say to each other " you know,  this swamp looks like the PERFECT place to build a city!"

Why on earth would Soundcloud do something like that? 48kHz is the standard for video. The standard for CD is 44.1 .

I've had exactly 0 problems with my 18i20 and the one time I dealt with support  (it was operator headspace and timing) I found them extremely responsive and helpful. 

Simple.  Just put your anacrusis on beat 4 of the first measure and go from there. 

Beato isn't talking about playing to a click. What he's talking about is quantizing everything and locking it to the grid.

That & autotune. 

4 hours ago, msmcleod said:

Hmm... Stevie Wonder was one of the first to buy a Linn LM1, Phil Collins used a Roland CR78 - I'm sure most of them tracked along to a drum machine before laying down their drum tracks.

Of course they would do it all again from scratch in the studio, but that's kinda the point I was trying to make.

Stevie Wonder didn't have a Linn LM1 in 1972.

But no matter.  Tracking to a click (or a drum machine for that matter) is not quantizing to the grid.

3 hours ago, msmcleod said:

 

But for one-man-bands & remote collaborations, you're limited in your options, and click tracks/quantising is your friend in these scenarios.

 

 No one told Stevie Wonder about that.

Or Prince.

Or Phil Collins. 

Or Paul McCartney.

Or John Fogerty.

Lenny Kravitz. 

Dave Grohl.....

On 3/15/2019 at 1:24 AM, Lord Tim said:

As someone who does power metal guitars for my day job, practice is the #1 thing I'd recommend. 😉

 

+ 1

Too much editing sucks the life out of a performance. 

Have it. Have used it. Works for me.

The quickest way to get a million dollars in the music biz is to start out with two million.

Move away from the mike and use a pop filter. 

It's all a bunch of superstition and it's bad luck to be superstitious. 

IK has their mic room as well.