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A lot to like here Keith! Super solid music and melody, and very enjoyable to listen to.

But the drums(which I understand if it is an older vst) seem really buried here, and the bass is too loud IMO ...especially early on. I feel just a few tweaks makes this song POP.

On 9/7/2023 at 6:04 AM, mettelus said:

GR4 was really nice, but seemed NI didn't really keep on it, so everyone else overtook them and now they are more in catch-up mode.

Disagree. I prefer Guitar Rig 6 over Amplitube 5. I find GR6 to be a little more harmonically responsive to my ears. I tend to record with the guitar's volume knob about halfway, and GR6 is a lot easier to play, and more responsive, than A5 in my experience. But as always, YMMV.

I've used Guitar Rig since v2, but I don't like the $99 upgrade price from 6. You had me @ $50, but $99 is just not enticing enough to upgrade at this point.

It also isn't in Komplete 14 (it may be in 15, who knows?).

A remora fell in love with me on a dive, it was trying to hitch a ride. I told it it wasn't my type. Ugly sucker!

I'm catching Day 3 of this festival today, and I'm stoked. It is my 4th time at this event, and Glenn(the promoter) & team do an excellent job . If I remember right @Lord Tim played this festival years ago. Highly recommend this festival for those in to prog music. Also, I think Glenn said he is stopping in three years, after the 25th addition, so only 3 festivals left.

Never was a Stones fan. This song didn't help that.

Smash Mouth had some really good songs. Steve was a big part of their sound. And even though he apparently had addiction issues in the past, 56 is WAY too young.

R.I.P.

54 minutes ago, Tom Bongiorno said:

It's there..... You have to uninstall the program and reinstall from band lab to reverse

LOL. I laughed out loud on this. I noticed/read the disclaimer on the first read, but I've been "that guy" before!

1 hour ago, Jim Roseberry said:

I've heard she's making 13 million per show.

Good for her! It won't last forever, and from the people I've heard from, she puts on a hell of a show.

43 minutes ago, craigb said:

I love pulling out some TSO for the holidays!  I was surprised to learn that, like the Blue Man Group, there was more than one TSO line-up so they could actually do more than one show at a time!  Um, ok, so does that make some of the musicians their own cover band, or what???

Simply an East and West touring group and have a couple of stalwarts that go back and forth between the two. TSO is more of a "project", so a ton of guest musicians anyway (like guitarists Alex Skolnick, Joel Hoekstra, Al Pitrelli and a ton more musicians in general). My buddy was always with Chris Caffery as his tech. With TSO being a "holiday band", and the investment in the stage show(which if you haven't been live, you NEED TO GO), it makes sense to have two touring groups.

Also, random fact: they usually rehearse the show in Oklahoma.

I am always fascinated by the bigger tours and the money they gross. My friend used to work for TSO, and that is a good paycheck for those involved.

Sometimes, bands keep touring to pay their employees, NOT because they want to tour anymore (I think Phish is a prime example, even though they are back).

I think that is one reason why bands like Kiss and Motley Crue/Def Leppard use backing tracks - to keep the show going because of the economics involved. I'm ignoring their voices are shot for this discussion though 😛

@RexRed can you send a link for this magical device?

I had a Carvin TL60 made years ago and I like it, but I don't love it. I sold it to a friend, but the guy actually gave it back to me for free!

Now, I have a Les Paul, a Taylor and a Schecter I bought used. I played them and they all inspired me to play, so I bought them. Heck, I didn't even intend to buy the Schecter, but it felt so good in my hand I HAD to buy it. The Taylor was chosen after I tried every acoustic at Mars music.

So, when people ask me what brand to get, I say try them all and get what inspires you to play. Simple as that.

I wouldn't buy a guitar online at this point. I'd only buy something I tried first.

1 hour ago, Bruno de Souza Lino said:

The interview was nice until it started to be all these questions which resulted in essentially unnecessary drivel about how real guitar amps cannot be completely emulated digitally, which has been BS for a couple of years now. But what else would I expect coming from a guy that has so many amps he has to set them as a backdrop?

I thought Devin/John answered that question well(and I am paraphrasing): in the box makes more sense recording because of the flexibility to fit it in the frequency window with multiple instruments, but an amp is really nice in front of you to inspire. 

I can relate to the logic, though I don't agree.

That was a good watch! Thanks @Old Joad

6 hours ago, Alan Bachman said:

The important thing is to get to know your speakers.  Check out your mixes in cars, headphones, whatever your audience is likely to listen to music on.  

And get to know how your speakers translate.   Example: Are your speakers bass starved for instance, and then you find out that there is a lot more bass on the headphones or elsewhere?  Or the opposite?  This is one of many examples.

Once you really get to know your speakers, they can be great.

There are a lot of great speaker choices out there from relatively inexpensive to expensive.  Yamaha HS8 on the more inexpensive side.  I like the Zen Pro Audio mod on those speakers.

I mostly use Adam S3H and am very happy with those.

Enjoy!

 

I LOVE my Yamaha HS8s!

52 minutes ago, Shane_B. said:

Does that new 10 year long exit tax they are passing in to law apply to visitors too?

Sounds like Hotel California  🤓

4 hours ago, Grem said:

Yep.

Got a song I am.working on. Guitars just not sounding right. So over several weeks I have tried different takes with pretty much the same results.  So I think maybe a delay on one would help..... next thing I know I am neck deep in fxs swaping!!

So I realized I just needed a clean take, and I can fiddle with it later. I just need to stay focused and get the elements down. 

The common technique(and cheap!) of splitting the signal in to the amp and in to the computer is "the way", IMO, for the "real" amp folks,  One gets the take they LOVE the sound of, and one they can tweak to high heaven and park right in the mix!

I love amp sims, but I can dial in what I want pretty quick. There are some ideas that an amp sim is so much better (effect automation primarily).

As long as the actual playing is good, I can really park the guitar in to the mix. You can't dial back the distortion after a take with a mic/real amps.

One just can't get caught in the rabbit hole of presets, it is way better when you have an idea of what you want and try to execute the idea than wandering to the land of lost presets ...usually 🤠

6 hours ago, craigb said:

I'm more than a little disappointed at not finding any!  I know Danny from the old forum (Danny Danzi - another member I wonder what happened to!) gave me a few that were nice, but I have no idea where they went to... 😕

I grew up in the same South NJ scene as Danny and see FB pictures on friend's profiles of him now and again. I think he is fine, but just changed DAWs.

I always loved Coal Chamber's version of Shock the Monkey with the heaviness adding to dynamics ...Ozzy was a minor bonus.
 

4 hours ago, mettelus said:

The issue with collecting IRs is the same as with collecting samples, you can have thousands of them and take hours to sort through anything. In many respects, the capability of the IR loader/reverb you are using is much more important than the IR file itself (just listen to a few IR files solo sometime and it will show how much the IR is doing versus the reverb algorithm).

That said, LINE 6 has several threads on free IRs with links; but if I was going to limit myself to only one set, "God's Cab" from Wilkinson Audio would be the one I would recommend. I have used that set more often than not and is loaded into my hardware, but everything I use it in also has the ability to tweak the crap out of the reverb generated.

Still requires an email. *sigh*

@Jim Roseberry can you share those?

1 hour ago, John Nelson said:

The Bricasti IRs are floating around out there.  Last I saw they were at Samplecity.

I have to shout out to Jim Roseberry for his Reverb Tools IRs that he compiled.

Lots of nice stereo Tc, Lexi etc.

Just now, craigb said:

Hmm...  I know I had some, but I can't seem to find them yet!  I hope they weren't on the 10 TB drive that died on me a couple of years ago! 

Which reminds me to let everyone know to NOT use Carbonite for their backups!  After having them for many, many years, I found out after that disaster that they hadn't backed up everything!  Lots of directories structures and folders were created, but only the small text files had generally been saved!  I lost over 8 TB's of data and it took them over 37 DAYS to restore the 1.3 TB's that they had backed up!  🤬🤬🤬

Once again, I can't recommend Backblaze more!  FAST, accurate and does sooo much more!  My business partner and I liked them so much, we're both share-holders too!

If you guys can let me know what file format the IR's uses I can search again!

They are smaller  .WAV files.

I know I could post in general, but the more "sophisticated" users are here. Does anyone keep a collection of free IRs they can share?

Sure, I could waste all day signing up with a fake email to get a bunch, but I'd rather not do that if there is a kind collector of those here who would share.