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I thought it was gonna be something about you know ........ ...that thing we're not allowed to talk about

Cheap by Tone 2 standards. I don't really care for the name or about it TBH. I've never once picked what synth I'm about to use next based on what it's called. They make nice UI's and although pared down I do quite like this one. Seems quiet cpu friendlly too, but what I don't like is the lack of velocity control. Only had a quick twirl through the presets and most of them seem to be either on or off no matter how the key is struck. Probably not really aimed at the likes of me anyway, but that put's me right off it.

In my case that would be the Spitfire try to watch TV while your bi-polar cousin murders a violin library. Followed soon after by the Spitfire given what happened with the violin, who on earth thought giving her a dulcimer was a good idea library.

That's why he's trying not to think about it.

Given the thread title, this has all gone very OT. ?

Mix comes across nicely on laptop speakers. I like the way the vocal sounds so effortless and whatever you are using for reverb sounds nice. As for crits (bearing in mind lappy speakers) the vocal line at 2:36 is a little buried compared to the rest, a little sibilance here and there (1:25 as an example) and the string pad is too much there all the time for me and as the song progresses becomes almost annoying. If it were me in the production chair that is the main thing I would want to change.

I heard that he often seamlessly slips into his second language........ Every time he laughs a little oui comes out.

I wonder if they will have a band called Les Forum Singes?

I knew that you would be unable to resist that one!

Should we now refer to them as Barry?

Three words that are always followed by an insult..?

Very nice freebie for those that qualify.

I meant the thing pointing towards your handman bag.

Then free with any purchase at plugin boutique...?

CH quiz question........ What is Bapu hiding under his shirt?

If the letters used in the title of the video were to be re-arranged and also have some added and some removed they could form a sentence that might cause offence to people who can't read if someone were to read it to them. For this reason alone this thread should be deleted.

Love the Louis Armstrong quote I guess we better let the OP have his thread back now or it might get deleted for being OT.

We had a couple of places likes that, but others wanted everything out before you left as they had other stuff going on the next day. For the out of town stuff it didn't really make any sense to have to go all the way back over there again the next day.

Very true. Good times for sure although I didn't always enjoy the having to take all the gear back to the farm-based rehearsal room afterwards. Bit of a comedown - one minute you're getting free drinks for being in the band, two hours later you're a nobody carting PA speakers in the dark trying not to stand in cow pats.?

Absolutely. Makes me feel like I was ahead of my time......?

We actually had one song that we often had to play twice because one guy who came to all local gigs always demanded an encore. For "artistic" reasons we deemed it a set opener, but after we were done he wasn't gonna go home until he had heard it again. We changed it up a bit for the reprise version. Nobody seemed to mind.

No, not at all, but many would throw a cover version (usually with a twist) into a set somewhere just for fun. Sometimes it was a useful tool to get the atmosphere going a bit if it was too quiet.

Or will we see the emergence of guitar playing dogs?

The thing that killed the live thing for the pub band scene where I lived was the change in the alcohol licensing laws that for whatever reason restricted live entertainment in pubs to duos/maybe a trio at best. The four/five man band was no longer welcome. Inevitably this mostly resulted in a singer and someone with a keyboard essentially doing karaoke being the only thing on offer. One band trimmed down to a three specifically for this reason with the bass player taking over vocals. Let's just say that there was probably a good reason why he took up playing bass. Prior to this, despite being something of a rural backwater there was a very lively local scene, born mostly out of boredom really, but enough happening to mean that every week there would be 2/3 bands to see somewhere within walking distance. In honesty, some were not up to much, but the general feeling was that we'd rather watch someone at least having a go than a sterile rendition of a "classic" from the keyboard duo. Some were so bad that they were almost good and who couldn't enjoy seeing the quiet little guy who by day worked the counter at the post office transformed into a shirtless frenzy as he banged a tin tray on his head in time to a Ramones style cover of The Wild Rover ? A few of us found a way around the new rules when someone discovered a clause in the licensing laws that allowed a bar to be set up and operated in village halls as long as the event was in aid of charity, so we started with our own version of Live aid. The local pub was happy to provide the bar facility (why wouldn't they be? ) and the charity angle was covered by donating the money raised by the nominal door charge. Not a fantastic amount by any means, a few hundred, but it was never really about charity. Other events followed, but eventually, a local busybody objected to the amount of money the pub was clearly making out of a "charity" event and that was that. The hall was always "fully booked" when further requests were made.