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Sorry to hear about the lightening strike Bob. It seems that you have a nice setup now. I had an issue with static noise getting into my interface. Turned out the be the cable company who had recently ran a new feed didn't have it grounded well. I still occasionally get a static hum that comes and goes. Nothing too overly loud but enough to annoy. Not sure where it's coming from. I don't have a UPS. ....yet.When I had the issue mentioned I bought an outlet strip that had lightening protection and RF filtration. Most all of the power strips you buy only have some level of lightening protection or surge protection. Took some doing to find one with RF filtration made by a good company. I wired my own electrical service. It's 200 amp. I made sure everything was properly grounded. Simple power loss likely isn't as serious using SSD as it is using HDD. Power loss with a surge or brownout is another story. UPS is certainly the way to go.

I know.....I know. I posted this before but it was so good I had to repeat it. WARNING- The emotion here runs really really really really really really deep.

Crikey we aren't trying to kill the poor man.

I thought I had a connection but it must have been a chimp. Do you live close to a zoo?

Compare plugins like Melda's Mcompare can help in trying to match a mix with a guitar in it you like. While I agree that EQ is a matter of taste, I think almost everyone would agree that mud is mud. Sort of like a sprinkle of salt is ok and subjective but if you dump the whole bottle on the food no one will like it. This is basically what you get with a small room picking up all of those standing mid bass reflections

I understand and agree with the comments in regard to having a "good recipe". Same could be said about just anything else. Want to catch fish? All you need is fish sonar, a nice boat and all of the right fishing gear, the right time of year, the right location and you will catch fish. Unfortunately people don't have and can't obtain all of the things that people who make these recordings every day for money have or have access to.. Neither can we " Make a silk purse out of a sow's ear"......sorry, old American saying. The answer lies somewhere in between. As you heard on my recording I managed to make half decent recording using basic mics and interface, cheap guitar. FYI I am primarily a pianist, intermediate violinist. I "play at" playing the guitar. So here would be my advice to a budding acoustic guitarist who only has basic stuff to record given the most common scenario. - Small bedroom or dorm situation - Inexpensive but well tuned and good sounding guitar -Basic audio interface. No high end converters. - Mid range mic capable of capturing music with a fairly flat frequency response. Keep in mind, most mics have some frequency hype here and there, even the good ones. Common room sizes for bedrooms tend to hype or amplify standing waves in the low to low mid frequency ranges. In order to minimize this effect one needs to reduce those frequencies. Usually in the 300-500 range but not always and of course the lows get rolled . Mics are not close to sound hole. Use of a dynamic EQ can be very helpful. I would not bother with attemtp to pick up small room ambience. If the mics are close you pick up less of the room and add reverb later after you record it. SDC mics are more desirable but not a requirement due to this issue. Experiment with mic locations to get best results. You should be able to capture a decent recording. Mixing is another subject which will affect your sound as well. It is possible to mix crappy and have everything sound "boxy". Here's a plugin I sometimes use that is made for acoustic work. Tonespot express

Confirmed the demos now are working again after numerous attempts. They are some nice sounding pianos and I have a bunch of others for comparison. I haven't seen how large the files are. I would imagine that these are not large libraries which would make them great for stage work using a laptop. I can get more grit with a few of my others and then there is the Spitfire free piano if you want really a soft piano. They put felt between the hammers to get that soft sound on the Spitfire piano......still these are worth having just in case I want something that doesn't fit with the others.

scuse me guys I'm getting all emotional here. Just the sheer talent going on here is almost too much for me to handle...... I am flabbergsted, flubbergasted and gasted all at the same time.

Elevator music? That might stop him.

PLEASE- This is for the laymen. I'm not supposed to need to think about an answer here. Craig can you relax? I'm getting my long distance mind meld together. You might feel a slight tingling sensation on your forehead. I can't vouch that you'll be sane when this is over. There are some things I've been hiding.

It appears that Strummy and John have mind melded. Am I jumping to conclusions?

Welllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll yes. They say if you go black you'll never go back. I disrespectfully disagree.

I have both the Keyboard usb and the connections from my interface. Never had an issue with with either of them. Cakewalk lets you select which one you want to use. The larger issue is usually getting a controller than transmits damper pedal instructions correctly if you are a pianist. There have been pianists here who were getting delays in the response. I'm sure some of that is the damper pedal itself sometimes. The piano being their main instrument, they notice things like that. If you simply input notes with no mind to make it sound like realistic piano it probably isn't a concern. Some controllers are better than others in that regard.

This was recorded with two LDC condenser mics, One was a KSM44a, the other an Audio Technica 4044a. Interface- Presonus Firetube Studio. No longer have it and use a Focusrite now.Nothing special. Used one of the less expensive Martin Guitars. A Martin DX series. Recorded in spare room studio no sound treatment. Mics L and R about 18" on either side from guitar. Necessary to roll off the low mids as will mostly be the case in smaller room studio. Valhalla reverb. Due to the low mid issues I mentioned earlier I now use a pair of sE sE8 SDC mics . These aren't exactly Behringer but neither are the high end mics. The really inexpensive mics tend to have a lot of self noise. The LDC mics can be used with guitar but they aren't the best because of their tendency to pick up low end hype in small spaces. Can be done with the right distance from mic, the right gain, and material that isn't musically aggressive..

Two browsers and I can't launch the demos.

??? Wooley Bully Bully..... Despicable, unconscionable, perish the thought, downright snarly, worse than coffee without cream.

That's a common format across the web and you should be able to pull the SD card from the recorder and read the files using a card reader. You can then drag them into whatever program you're using. I always preferred that way of working instead of relying on the Samsung program and usb which was never reliable for me. H 264 is mostly an MP4 with a few minor differences. The Win 10 computer video player might only be reading windows media files. You could download VLC player which converts to a bunch of different formats and more importantly could convert to a file type read by your software. Should play the files unless your graphics card is just under powered.

Like opinions everyone has one...some have two.

Most likely Samsung is H.264 format. I have an older Samsung and that's what it records.

Most of the world is inane is it not? Hmmm.....if I had to pay for only the opportunity to post in this forum, probably not. If there were a tip jar I have been known to throw something into it here and there. Better funny to a few than funny to none in my opinion ? I am not in favor of eliminating funny. Real humor to one person isn't funny to someone else. This is now more so since there are more cultures here which might not understand everything said, like the intentionally misspelled words (did I spell that correctly?) Have you ever been to the Presonus forum? Just sayin' The Cakewalk forum rocks! Humor of any kind always pokes fun at something. If that something directly includes another human being they might misunderstand or take offense. Two things have traditionally been common place in the old Coffee house, a thick skin and the willingness to be poked at in fun. I'll admit sometimes things get a little out of hand, but I imagine I'm in a varied group of people all talking and some things they say would make me feel uncomfortable, but I accept that this is who they are. The shoes is also on the other foot so to speak......I sometimes say thing that probably are taken wrong or offensive. Who determines what "good humor" is? The problems happen when people come here and think we are actually having a serious discussion lol. This is semi-serious BTW... I really hope no Vulcans were offended. If so live long and prosper...please no mind melding today. I have a headache.

I see now...makes perfect sense! I have re purposed myself a few times. I'm in the process of re purposing as I speak type this. I managed to find a 2TB I had as a photo drive so I moved those files onto another drive. My system is imaging my C drive and 4 additional drives. 1TB was not enough I hope 2TB is. The thing I'm unsure about is if I would ever need to actually use an image would Acronis be smart enough to determine which one went bad and only image it? I think it is that smart. The other issue is, if I use 1.99 TB to image this computer I only have room for one image meaning that in order to use that drive I have to wipe the good image to make another one..............and IF my computer would somehow fail while I'm writing the new image I'm SOOL ...or better said up the proverbial creek with no paddle ? To offset this possibility I will still need another drive so that I can swap them every other time.........unless I want to live on the wild side and possibly pay the price for it.

If going for the personality of the original SSL consoles I think they are great. McDSP has other combinations.Not really better or worse, just different. All emulations of hardware. Waves has a nice emulation of the original Abbey Road consoles as well as a more generic but no less effective plugin is Scheps Omni Channel. Probably more versatile. It's more a swiss army knife that can be adapted to different situations and not a direct emulation. For the money the Abbey Road TG Mastering chain is one of my favorites. There's also the CLA Mix hub. It can be slightly complicated to set up for a newb since it send to and shares with other channels to get the effect of a real console. The effect itself is very subtle. Not really better or worse, just different.

I have Magix Vegas Movie Maker 15. It isn't the "pro" version. As such it doesn't accept those file formats most common in digital cameras that can take HD movies. Older Canons use MOV format. I think it's an Apple extension. The pro version of Vegas accepts those formats. Otherwise you need a free converter and it can be a PITA to find a free one that doesn't want you to upgrade from their free version. I want to upgrade to Vegas Pro but haven't been willing to spend a pretty steep price IMHO to upgrade. Would be much easier though when making moves from those cameras. In comparison it's still inexpensive compared to all of the Adobe products. If you're getting jerky motion it's probably the graphics gpu can't keep up. I get that sometimes even using a high powered gaming laptop with a fairly nice gpu in it. What I have found after owning three or four lower end video application programs is they almost always don't do something I wanted to do so I then need to hunt for a tack on solution. Here's a vid I made in Vegas Movie Maker recently but I used online video clips in making it.

You need a lot more than a pint for that one.

Interesting Notes. You got in on the ground floor! Great you can do those kinds of things. I agree that simple is usually better. Too much complexity usually extinguishes the small creative potential I have. Thankfully MIDI was and is still a small format in terms of size and cpu cycles needed to do the job. Cakewalk began as a MIDI sequencer which you already knew. I would rate it only second to Cubase in terms of potential for MIDI editing....and there really isn't much one can't do inside of Cakewalk if you know how to do it. I'm probably behind you by at least 10 years, so I remember those computers but I wasn't old enough to own one yet. Not sure if you play in the midi or if you are inputting it one note at a time. Cakewalk is one of the best for MIDI in my opinion. To some extent the MIDI work area can be kept separate for purposes of working in it exclusively since Cakewalk allows for templates that can be saved as scenes. I remember DOS and I did some basic work in it but using another totally different system that controlled totally different things. Not music related. It was an old system where I worked that was antiquated a long time ago. We still used it because it controlled large systems and we had no replacement for it at the time. My first real experience with a sequencer was the ittly bitty one inside of the original Korg M-1 . It was severely limited but I managed to put the entire Handle's Messiah in it and it sounded pretty good!