Tim Smith

I could still lift those, but lifting them would clear the room. Sort of counter productive for me.

He's definitely old school because you could do all of that with soft synths and maybe two controllers max.

Scones and grilled onions or a fair gig?

Sugar- The best tasting no fat diet ever.

Congrats! Does the contract cover free corn dogs and funnel cakes?

........................I do have cousin. No relation that I am aware of. It's hard to tell if there is a similarity. I would need to take away all of that stuff to see who it really is. The playing wasn't terribly bad, the lyrics OTOH leave something to be desired.

Nature's air filter.

I buy the gel vitamins. They taste like candy. Man I've been in the sun a lot these last few weeks. The honey I have now does not look like the stuff usually bought in grocery stores.It has a white appearance until you put it in a cup of tea. When it melts it looks more like honey. I think it has some of the honeycomb in it. It's local honey.There's a honey supplies store not two miles from me. I thought about growing bees. Then I decided against it ?

Uh. Never mind.

Thinking of all the plugins I could buy if I stopped paying my cable bill.. In one year alone I could build the best DAW ever.

Thanks for these Craig. Zinc helps your cells which help you to fight it. D3 is probably more important than plain D. Those other Ds are off topic. I will have to admit masks are an improvement for some people. I've had two vaccines and the booster. If I catch anything now I'm relying on my natural immunity.

Well which is it? Would I rather be wuped or subbed? Neither really.

Dang. That's a long time.

I heard about someone doing that one time but I can't talk about it. It wasn't free either. Oh wait a minute........you said vocal remover. Never mind.

I pushed a high dose of zinc , vitamin D and C last night before bedtime and again today. Knock on wood I can still breathe through my nose. The most serious issues seem to occur when i can't breathe through my nose or my mouth if I don't eat right. Sugar is a no no. It weakens my immune system. Sorry to hear of those misfortunes Shane. People back to normal? I'm not sure I've ever seen normal people. I have resorted to some of those over the counter meds like Zyrtec in past years. I don't always seem to need them. I don't think the masks really work. I don't wear one unless the business demands it. None of this makes any sense unless we figure in other factors which could get political, so I won't discuss it. My personal non political opinion on the virus is there were different vaccines and different viruses which makes the whole ordeal very confusing. I don't believe we can blame all of it on "variants".

Maro snacks?

Good luck. You're still in game ?

Craig can you at least wear a shirt when face planting in public? Those moobies are something to be proud of but still............... Sorry to hear you didn't make the gig bit. New development here. One of my wife's co workers just caught COVID. I have been having some minor sinus issues. This is usually a seasonal pollen thing. At least I hope so. If it gets much worse I might be qualified to enter the world cup snot blowing contest.

I need my glasses. I thought it said "plumper sale".

I love this delay however it seems to be crashing my projects in more than one DAW. Has this happened with anyone else?

Same here. Unless something unforeseen develops. I put out one CD and online album with CD baby. It was distributed across all platforms. As Lord Tim says, it was completely buried under mounds of other music the very first day it came out. No one was looking for it. No one knows anything about my music, so it came down to genre. IOW only those looking for that type of music bumped into it and only if they were somehow lucky in their searches and happened to stumble across it which was highly unlikely. My expectations going into it were not high. I did it as more of an experiment. I should have known the outcome already. I notified everyone I knew to that the music was out there. Social media is mainly about others putting out what they want you to see and hear. Not the other way around. This isn't a pity party for me. I'm perfectly content to make my own music and put some of it out to listen basically for free. Unlike Lord Tim my goals are totally different. I don't need to sell music for income. Sure it would be nice if I could. In order to be very successful a person first needs good music. Not just good music, over the top good music. Then they need backing of promo people that constantly put it out there. Sometimes an Ace helps. A card that makes something about you different than anyone else or uniquely attractive. Hopefully you already have it and it's a natural thing like my tendency toward some celtic feel music. I didn't put that dog on for marketing, it's just something a little different about what I do. This attracts some listeners and turns off others. Otherwise your music just sits on the same shelf all of the other more common stuff does. Sensationalism works on YouTube. Using an attention grabbing title or picture up front. Once you get them in the door you have to hold them because I unwatch YouTubers who put lots of icing on their promo and there is no content to their videos. Frankly in this day and age a person might just do better busking in a public place with a cup for tips. Or an act that does wedding etc. For larger acts you have to account for all of the gear set up, concert promotions if playing live. Get to the gig play well and so forth. Larger corporate promoted acts handle all of that while smaller acts are on their own. All of those expenses come out of any profits. Name recognition helps. It's just a lot to have to manage and organize and most musicians are not organized people. Even if solely online much is really involved in even making a few dollars here and there.

That sounds more like an i6 chip. Maybe a 51/2. Computer viagra? *seriously* If I had another interface I might try that. The Kemper doesn't have a usb out for computers?

GO MAC, GO MAC.........G- never mind

Mr Torture If all the other bases are covered, it must be the black cloud thing. Can't do much better than RME, even their old stuff. Have you ever loaded anything else on it that could be interfering? Just a thought. - freezing tracks -manually setting a lower latency if possible -turning off FX while recording. Cakewalk has a master button for it -If cpu is coughing due to too many tracks and you used busses, copy buss outputs only to new project for recording purposes. -freeze computer at sub zero temps for 24 hours ( sorry I was kidding about that one) I couldn't help myself.

Great little article there. Thanks! It is interesting to see the thinking that goes on behind some of these plugins. I'll be giving these demos a try. I need to look for material that brings the differences out best. While EQs like the Pultec are often emulated for good reason. Mainly the great characteristics that old hardware EQ had especially in mid range focus bringing out detail with just the right amount of distortion in a positive way. To take EQ into the future I think we need to get away from emulations and look at just making a good accurate EQ or maybe an EQ with several characteristics if the user wants them, such as the Kirchhoff. After using a dynamic EQ I would never want to go back.It seems designing one in the linear fashion is the best way. There are some wonderful EQs out there still using lots of knobs in the GUI. Many of us use a mouse to control if we don't have a controller, so in the DAW world these more recent GUIs make a lot more sense to me. We can grab control easier by grabbing a point on the EQ plane and simply moving it around. I'm not saying I don't use the older EQ emulations occasionally, but I much prefer the other ways. While I'm not a preset user, I will use presets to get close. As music and frequencies don't change outside of what we know and can hear, once a system is understood, there is no need to keep toying with it for me. In that case a slightly modified preset on a knobs based emulation might be ok. I would rather color things myself instead of relying on baked in tube or distortion color in a plugin, but that's me. So clean filters are my preference. I can always add console emulation, tube saturation, tape saturation later. The color was generally never there originally by intention in that older hardware but it proved to be beneficial.