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I wish! lol That's roughly $20 plus tip a week- to the grocery and back.

I can imagine yes, and a lot of people have told me so, but I never even got my license. Ironic considering my line of work. Grew up in a small town where I could walk everywhere, then moved to a city where public transportation was adequate and where owning a car can be a PITA, especially during winter months - driving around the block for half an hour to find a parking spot and then having to wake up at 4 am to move your car because of snow removal (which probably means that your car is also buried under the snow and you'll have to spend some quality time with that shovel.) I thought of getting my license when we were thinking of having a kid, but otherwise, it's never been something I was interested in. And the world probably is a much safer place because of that. ?

? I'm actually the proud owner of a cell phone with the Uber app installed on it. My transportation budget is roughly $90-100 a month. Hard to beat.

Phew. Sure glad I don't own a car.

Ozzy's lawyers will back you up on this.

That being said, I believe it's time someone said it out loud. Enough with mankles, already! You ain't 4 and this isn't cute.

? Two can play that game, sir.

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I could have used 8.5 forever, with only minor adjustments here and there, and tiny cosmetic tweaks to the GUI, but really nothing drastic. In terms of layout and functionality, it felt very comfortable. If I had a powerful enough machine to run it, with the plugins I need, I'm sure I could work with it. As of right now however, it will load projects and let me export them, but that's about it. I feel the same way about Logic 9, which is the software I switched too. 10 came out over 10 years ago but it's always a pleasure to go back and work with 9. It's so lean and clean. It feels a little more transparent to me. I love 10 as well, but I'm not really a fan of the way developers always make everything bigger, with big buttons, and I abhor stuff like track icons. Which is ironic since Logic has had those from as far as I can remember - even in the late 90's - but they were a little more subtle and easier to ignore.

I always thought it was the opposite - solutions are sedated problems.

I've been working remotely since 2019. I had done that for a year before moving to the US in 2010-11. A lot of friends reached out when the pandemic hit because they had trouble adjusting to remote work. I couldn't imagine why they had so much difficulty - for me it's the best possible scenario, short of earning a living with music and books. I never have to leave the house except for groceries, once a week. I have my work laptop and display on a file cabinet on wheels, tucked by the side of my desk. Come the weekend, it takes me less than 40 seconds to clock out, close everything and roll that thing out of sight in another room for the next couple of days. Otherwise, it can always be tucked in a corner when I work on music on weekdays.

My Sweetwater card keeps teasing me, and reminding me of all those 36-48 months offers... Woke up the other day after one too many glasses of wine the night before and I was worried for a second. Found a tube amp in my Sweetwater shopping cart, but apparently, I had resisted the urge to click the "place order" button. That's my version of living dangerously I suppose.

This will be an interesting watch. I'd not realized he was behind so many albums that I liked. The first record that comes to mind when I think of him is usually Ozzmosis, and I didn't like the production all that much, but the man produced Superunknown. Not sure he mentions it but if I remember correctly, the Korn album was edited in Nuendo because Pro Tools had yet to catch up with higher sampling rates options and that one was recoded in 24bit/96k. Seems trivial now, but it was cool to see such a major production done on a native system back then.

I'll stick with The Exorcist, my favorite Christmas movie (and will be turning 50 on December 26th). It's also my favorite Halloween movie, as the beginning of the movie takes places on Halloween. It's also my favorite Easter movie and my favorite Valentine Day movie, but I don't have a reason for that.

I've played that one so often that I'm pretty sure I could go through the whole thing relying on nothing but muscle memory almost 30 years later. In fact, I could probably go through 75% of the whole album on that alone. I'd just gotten my first half decent guitar (a Korean Squier Strat) and my first relatively decent amp (a transistor Marshall), and a wah, was deep into Hendrix and I couldn't get enough of these types of licks and that type of tone. Those were exciting times I thought, when music got back to sounding a little more "organic" for lack of a better word. Man, how I wanted a Univibe, though.

Took the picture earlier this week when it actually saved the day. An old Alienware laptop a friend gave me. That thing is a tank. In terms of lifespan, it's outlived every PC I've ever owned. I can still load project, but I can't work with it, and if it's on for a while, the audio drivers fail (at least that's what I think that's what it is) and I need to be reboot it. If I could run Sonar 8.5 on a recent version of Windows that supports the plug-ins I use, I'd have no problem with it. I believe it's still one of the finest DAW softwares ever. I know you guys hate Apple, but by comparison, I recorded this thing on my old 2010 MacBook tonight because I wanted to spend time downstairs by the fireplace and I wanted to mess with Dimension - no interface, just a USB keyboard. Plug it in and move on. Remember how we used to have to reboot every time we hooked a new device and how we struggled with latency back in the early 2000's? Now you just hook up your device to your laptop and you're all set, and latency isn't even an issue, even with the built in interface. It's not mixed or anything, just piled up tracks - I don't have monitors downstairs. And my cat insisted on assisting, so the camera moves around a bit...

I did migrate from Sonar on PC to Logic on Mac back in 2010 - it wasn't so bad because I wasn't in the middle of a project, and I'd been using Logic on the PC for years and really loved the software. I simply began working on new material and only eventually started importing old projects during down times or when I didn't have any new idea to work on. I still have an old laptop running XP and Sonar 8.5 in the other room, with all my pre-2010 projects, and every now and then, I pick one up, transfer the audio to a flash drive and rebuild it in Logic. Actually, I was just working on one tonight. Funnily enough, there was an issue with one of the tracks which had been created using Dimension Pro which is no longer available, so I ended up using an old MacBook Pro running Logic 9 and Dimension to re-record that one track, bounce it, and transfer it to my new DAW. I'm glad I have the option to load the old projects even if I have everything bounced because it allows me to see what plug-ins and instruments/presets I was using, in case I need to try to replicate something. I'm guessing some day I'll no longer have that option, though. And that'll suck. I am still fond of the old Sonar, 've written so much music in it...

Whenever I see pictures of Regent Sounds, it never ceases to amaze me. From the first time I heard the first Sabbath, I had this picture of such a large space. But they recorded it in a frickin' closet. Same phenomenon for Ozzy's Speak of the Devil. I thought it sounded huge. And that seemed to match the photos I'd seen. But then I saw what those concerts at the Ritz looked like... Expectations: Reality:

Ok, so we know that a guy making fart sounds with his hands is too outrageous, but animal farts are ok. Gentlemen, I say let us proceed without our investigation.

I'm doing this for scientific purpose only, to try and figure out what triggers YouBoob.

A thread about farts. Just what this place was missing. I'm serious.

Like, the Special Ed bus?

One of my favorites!