Tim Smith

Lot's of food? If they nuke England you'll be safe. Although I heard they recycle toilet water to drink.

I am on SO version 5 still since I hardly use it. One thing about it does interest me and that's the mastering section and Tunecore. Even so, I am not seeing a huge gain uploading through the DAW software .vs uploading a finished track seperate. In fact for me I like to have the track outside the DAW to hear what it sounds like in the real world before I upload it, so this could potentially be a disadvantage for me at least. SO and others have been tapped into soundloud for awhile though I seldom use the features. I was mainly wondering if Tunecore makes it easier than SC to sell content? SC makes you find tax forms and are very vague about how to go about it, Sure they are, works in their favor. What advantage is there to uploading to tuncore via SO compared to simply exporting the track and uploading it? I see many software makers trying to pinch us into a subscription. It isn't only SO. They want a determined or semi determined return to report to the owners. What they fail to see is many will try it and never go back to it again. If this was the only option in daw land it would be different. It isn't. If I had large multiple projects in SO and clients dependent on those mixes, then yeah I would be over a barrel. Probably no more than someone using PT. I'll pay something to upgrade to something I can keep.

Nice looking guitar. I didn't know they were made in Korea. Interesting. At one time the Alvarez name was on what are now Yairi guitars. Something changed in that deal and Alvarez started making their guitars elsewhere. The very first one I owned had high action, but as a novice I had no idea and was playing it that way. Other than that, I remember it being a nice guitar.

Nice. I had one of that vintage. It was my first guitar. I wish I still had it. House fire. Was it made in Japan? That must be the Taylor pictured. Nice.

Born in the 60's ya. Does that mean I'm old?

The Alvarez is patterned off of the Yairi which is a better made guitar made in Japan. They managed to copy it fairly well in a cheaper guitar in a China build. Not sure if the Yairi has that bevel or not. It's a nice addition. It was marked down at GC because they were discontinuing that model so I got it for a good price. The Taylor, yeah. I was once a Martin man until I played it. Smooth, well rounded and buttery sounding. It has a little something I can't quite describe that just sounds better. The Epi I thought was too big, but after playing it last night, I think I just needed to catch up to it. If I were going busking or taking a guitar on vacation it would probably be the old low end Martin. The Alvarez sits somewhere in the middle. I could do either with it. I did play it out once with great success, but now that I have the Taylor I don't imagine I'll be playing it as much. It would make a nice back up guitar.

Matt, I didn't intend to derail your thread. I get exited about acoustic guitars. I admire anyone who can build one. I wish I had more time for stuff like that. There once as this guy, I think it was here who made his own guitar pickups from scratch. I admired his ability to do that. I think they sell kits to make the process much easier, but some like to do it from scratch. I was actually considering a kit to build a les but chickened out.

Back of the Masterbuilt has this nice bead design down the middle.

Here's a pic of the curvature on the Alvarez. I noticed some other Chinese brands with it too, so they must all come from the same factory.

Here is a lineup of all my acoustic guitars. I ommitted the bouzouki and the uke From right to left- The Martin X- Sound is intimate. Not harsh. Cons- Battery and electronics are not easily accessible.No built in tuner. Pros- Small size, great all round practice guitar. Alvarez- Sound is shiney, rounded and projects well. Cons- No pick guard.. Pros-Easy battery access, onboard tuner and EQ. Has curvature along the top to make playing it easier. Epiphone Masterbuilt- Large dynamic sound. Pros- Construction is impeccible , tuning holds solid, nice inlays, has two outputs one magnetic and one piezo that can be balanced. Need stereo plug to use both.Onboard tuner and EQ. Cons- Uses 2032 batteries which draw fast, larger size may not be a fit for everyone. Taylor- Koa. Sound is beautiful well balanced with nice harmonics. Pros-Easy to play. Top notch construction. Unique three pickup system that can be adjusted for each two strings.Has EQ. Cons- No built in tuner. Of all the guitars shown, all have back bracing except for the Taylor which means it will probably be more prone to humidity. GC recommended I get case humidifiers for it. You can tell this in the way the Taylor sounds.

Glued in.

You guys are into deeper territory than I will ever get into on guitars, although I did get a hot glue gun and glued the electronics back into my Martin. It was either that or let it flop around inside the guitar. Time will tell if it holds. Seems pretty sturdy so far.

Well when I typed that I partially knew it was wishful thinking. I really liked ACID. If you can get it to run it's one of the very best programs for loops. After using other DAWs I realized the GUI wasn't as intuitive. I began using it back when Sonic Foundary owned them, and later it became kind of moot if you owned Cakewalk which loads ACID loops. In fact, there may be some real bargains out there now for them. It was a novel technology, copied in concept by Ableton. REX loops were said to be better for time stretching, at least I think I remember Anderton saying that. I never noticed much difference for what I did. REX was not an Ableton product but made by the folks who make Reason. ACID imported some movie formats, but not nearly enough. PC ones which is why they must have thought adding movie software would be profitable and truthfully, I would wager more movie maker software sold than ACID. Movie maker was made for those making basic movies with a PC. It was fine for me and if it goes away I will be sorry to see it go. Cubase is the clear winner for a DAW that incorporates movies, or at least it and Nuendo are tops in that category. It's one of the few that imports a mac movie. Never used Digital Performer, but it's also a clear winner in the movie and sound category so far as movie houses are concerned. Much like Cakewalk, a lot of those programs were built on old code and took a lot to bring up to modern standards. As you alluded to, much more would need to be done to keep all of those programs floating. I wish them the best. Lots of people buying movie software only make a few movies a year, so there was no incentive to upgrade it every year to something else for many.

I have several of those movie maker products and ACID. I made a few movies with those. Ok for basic stuff. Acid was slow to load and always buggy. I evetually removed it from my computer. I hope they can find a buyer who will improve the products.

I replied to this already, but I think the software doesn't seem to carry a quote across pages, or at least it didn't for me. Congrats on all of that. I wish I had neighbors like that, then again, maybe it depends. They don't leave those kinds of things around here. You are apparently very handy at fixing up stuff.

Wow, thanks!

Creating a good pun is no laughing matter. Just disregard me. I don't really understand what funny really is because I laugh at all the wrong things.

Ouch, ouch ouch. My take on most puns in general, but some are funny.

My question would be- why? I know. Because they can. I can't imagine getting a high pitched sound out of a pumpkin. Ok at least not in that way.

My guess is, if the drummer can still play it will do him good to get out there. A whole lot more than if he had sat at home thinking about the grim reaper. That tension was probably bound to happen given the dynamics there. Guitarist leaving may have been for the best.

What do you have to do in order to get someone to lay free guitars on your porch? Really I guess a Squire is a decent body with usually cheaper made hardware on it. Which means it won't tend to stay in tune as well. Not sure what a set of tuners go for? Electrics seem to maintain a decent setup better than acoustics. You seem to know your way around guitar maintenance and the ideal guy for that guitar. That neighbor was wise to drop it there. I'm to the point where I have my old Martin X as the tune tester in my studio and my other guitars are mostly in cases. If I get something , the plan is to pull out one of the better ones for tracking, but that Martin has seen a fair share of recordings. People try to EQ the bass off a guitar. With that Martin it mostly isn't needed. I have this old Laguna HSS people here probably remember me bragging about it when I bought it, and to me then it was wonderful. Even today aside from the cheap tuners it rocks going through the right setup. I see them going for a little of nothing online. You playing that guitar probably had a lot to do with how good it sounded. Thanks! No rocket science involved there

You know the title of the thread almost invites negativity to me. I would say I'm probably uninformed about most modern music. In a nutshell I see a lot of it like pop sauce. The sauce has that heavy programmed beat and some scantily dressed diva whose voice has gone through lots of correction and what she sings about is relevant to almost anyone on a very basic level, or it's about s-x . Is that what's really selling? I dunno. Maybe sometimes.

Yep I have seen chemo first hand. Past it now, never want to repeat it. Thoughts and prayers for your friend.

Since I am at my job until April 12th and it's a bland and very boring job, this is about the only thing I can do. I mean I will still probably drop by later but the dynamic will be different. I will no longer feel compelled to sit in a small office for the whole day looking out the window at a nice day. I stop my several other forums and am mod on one. It's still like being a goalie waiting for a ball with a team of 80 year olds. But we tend to rush life along. I guess I still haven't learned that lesson. Even though I know I'm as different as night and day from a lot here, I liked coming here, and if we all stayed in safe little circles we would never branch out. This forum has staying power. Not sure why? Maybe because the same people keep coming back. I don't think the product itself is anything enough in and of itself to keep anyone here, but I'm just an opinion. I was "starise" here with many thousands of posts and when they transferred something went wrong and I lost that and just decided to use my name. I do like looking at new products and getting updates to old ones. In fact, they were not initially going to allow a deals area. I'm glad they allowed it and cclarry has done a great job among others there. I like safe riff raff, drama, well not so much. Trollery? I guess we have Wookie for that. TBH I haven't found any fun forums with any of the other DAW software I have that are anything more than half empty doctor's offices. Boooooooring. I'll have to take your word for that one. I had a guy going after my first wife and I could have ended up in prison for killing him. He wouldn't come out to confront me.

Pretty sleek plan, get thousands of people using the free version and then add a paid version with more bennys. I like stand alone so far as I would not want to be connecting to a server every time I use the software. Might be tempting to try again based on what they offer. I'm on the outside looking in right now with not a lot of motive to do otherwise.