Dave (ModBod) Modisette

Wow.  😜  I'm starting to open up old projects and I look at the screen and it's like I've never seen the CW UI before.  I can't remember my hotkeys to open and close things up.  I can't find stuff.  I can't remember how to do things.  It's a bit frustrating and overwhelming.  🤥

Funny, when I was a young fellow, I put those egg crates up on all the walls of a bedroom in my mobile home thinking they would somehow make the room sound proof.  😝

Yeah, Waves support helped me to sort out all of my license problems and I have my Waves plugins running again.

Just now, Starise said:

It'll come to me eventually. Name sounds familiar, face looks familiar, just not familiar enough for me to remember. I mean, I wasn't here as much as say, Bapu....come to think of it, who was?

I kind of remember someone like you describe.  They were constantly putting out songs in the songs forum and they were so obviously BIAB it was ridiculous.

34 minutes ago, Starise said:

It's coming back to me in bits and pieces now Dave. Did you once record a lot of people singing country?  Use Biab....or am I thinking of someone else? 

FWIW, there's probably some great songs in those rather trying life experiences! Not a way anyone would like to get them though. Sorry to hear about those things and hopefully better days ahead. God is good. All the time.

Rain- Who could forget that name ? I wondered how you've been. Are you still in Vegas? I'll bet you could tell a few stories too.

Me? I started playing the violin I guess about 5 years ago. It isn't really playing by pro standards. This has taken a lot of my spare time lately. Played at an Irish session outdoors on Sunday. I seem to be drifting further and further away from my DAW.  I plan to get back to it in earnest later next year, unless I get herded into a detainment facility ( a conspiracy theory that's floating around). Lots of work started I need to finish at home including a new studio in the works. I'm probably selling some of my gear too. Trying to decide if I want to keep the desk I had custom built- about 1K over 10 years ago. It's just BIG and I'm not sure I want anything quite that large again. I have a few unplayed guitars and  keyboards I'm probably parting with in addition to some violins. I'm looking to put a pick up in my bouzouki so I can use it with my looper.

No that wasn't me though I have used BIAB to work out a basic arrangement with someone with a song in their head but didn't play an instrument other than sing.  I've saved the piano track and then added live instruments to it.

When it takes an hour to scan through your plugins to find one you want to use, you might have too many,,,, Nah!  😅

My prayers are with her.  Encourage her.  Diagnosis isn't a death sentence.

On 10/18/2020 at 8:18 PM, InstrEd said:

Oh and new "Control Surface" and.......................

I have a feel Dave is about to experience some GAS.

I still have 24 channels of Mackie control in the garage.  I was thinking about selling it but now......🤔
😆  What have I done?  I've unleashed the monster again.  😂

On 10/18/2020 at 11:44 PM, Rain said:

Truth be told, 2020 has been one of the most unmusical year in my life - unless you calculate selling gear as "musical". My creativity went towards writing a book instead and the home studio looks more and more like a study with guitars in it.

That being said, I've been meaning to kick my own rear end and get back into it for the last few weeks, and reading Dave's story provided just enough guilt to make the move. (Oh yeah, and I have a new Telecaster arriving tomorrow - that always help too.)

Yeah, I know what you mean.  I spent more time on eBay selling stuff than thinking about music.  I sold three Univeral Audio preamps, an Avalon channel, mics, Joe Meek stereo channel and various other small things.

I probably will go with this update.  Two of their customer support people have been very helpful to me this last week.  My Studiocat music computer was a wreck when I started toying with the idea of putting a little studio together and it required a new motherboard.  My Waves licenses and installations were completely jacked up and these guys went above and beyond what company policy might have been to get me going again.

I'm having problems with Waves plugins, as well.  In my case, I don't think its just a Cakewalk problem as I am having the same issue with every DAW program I own.  My issue, started with the need to replace my motherboard and having to reinstall the Waves plugs.

Hey, guys.  Spent the weekend assembling the left over gear into a workable bedroom studio.  What do you think, so far?

Wow!  It's been a day of work for me.  Got my speakers wired and I finally got sound.  I am still using SPLAT but WOW, it's like totally alien to me now.  It took me 30 minutes to figure out to how to replace a synth on an old track when Superior 2 turned into Superior 3 somehow. 

I managed to fix a hard drive that a local tech told me was trashed.  All it took was checking the drives for errors in the Properties>Tools.  (Probably the same as running scandisk.)  That saved me hours of downloading sample sets for Toontrack products.

Lemmesee;

I was here and then I got some projects and I ended up floating between Studio One 2, Reaper, Sonar Platinum, Pro Tools 11 and Samplitude Pro.  

Then my wife got the cancer and as I was finishing up projects and listening to her cry in the other room because she was scared to death, I started evaluating a few things and deciding what was really important and what was taking up a lot of my time with her (thinking it might not be too long.)

Hooray!  She got an operation and the cancer was gone!  God is good!

Then....

I got the cancer a year after her.  Bummer.   

God is still good and he had already prepared a good surgeon who removed that cancer.  Unfortunately, in the process, she ruined my chances of becoming an underwear model.    

Then a year later, I was at the verge of going into cardiac arrest and got to take an ambulance ride for another hospital trip where I was fixed by a doctor who placed a Pacemaker device in me.

The next time I found time to turn on the old DAW computer,  it was dead so I said, screw it.

Then we moved from our big house with a nice studio to a teeny. tiny house (in American standards) and I sold most of my nice gear but kept a bit in case I changed my mind about getting back in the studio.  

I found a guy who fixed my computer (dead motherboard and one one harddrive).  A few weeks ago, my wife said I should put together a small space in the corner of one of the spare bed rooms, to be used for my music room.

And so I've started rebuilding and here I am again.

That's the Readers Digest condensed version of what's been going on.

5 hours ago, bayoubill said:

Wow. Great you’re back! It’s been awhile. Dave, I was thinking about you not being around for a while and wondering where you went. Lots has happened. I finally bought a Les Paul. A studio model. Sharon and I are back together and living in Shreveport on Cross Lake.  We call her XX

I Am still handsome  For those that don’t already know Dave was my first boss/ supervisor in the USAF Band. Bandleader of the band I was in. I missed ya Dave!

Now that I think about it Dave is solely responsible for making me the the guitar player I Am today. 

        LETS GET HIM!!!!!!!!

 

When I met you, you played one handed guitar.  You would look at your right hand and say, "What are you for?"

You had the heaviest gear (mainly because I ordered it) and the worst back.  Ernie Isley was your hero.

Hey, Bapu!  Are you still not funny?  😁

Hey guys.  After a five year hiatus due to various health issues and a change of address, I pulled the studio gear out and I've begun to work out the problems with my computer after changing a motherboard.   Hope to be up and running soon.

I'll be back from time to time.