Shane_B.

I don't believe there are 100 million users. I quote/mention this because there has to be a way, in this day and age of technology, to weed out the real users from the fake accounts and all that stuff. Anyhoo, it's sad. In this day and age of technology and communication options, you'd think the more avenues to communicate you have, the better. But I must be wrong.

And just like that ... it's gone. I just fired my PC up for the first time in almost 2.5 years and clicked on my shortcut to their forum. I forgot about this thread. Dead as of 7 days ago. So much history, friendships, nostalgia, all deleted with the click of a button. I can't even find an archive anywhere like there is with the old forum here. "We want to thank you for all of your posts, conversations and comments over the years, we appreciate it a lot." What a shitty, corporate, generic, un-heartfelt thing to say. Don't forget all the thankless technical help real world users provided. And to add insult to injury, it looks like there still is a community, but you have to be on the subscription plan to access it.

I haven't been there in years. It got really rough for a while, then the censoring and bans started, a bunch left, and it's been downhill since. It was a vibrant as this forum was back in the day. It's sad. But nothing, and I mean NOTHING I have ever seen compares to one of the admin over on teedeepeearreye. Myself and a lot of other left because of him. He would come in to the most innocent of threads and just brutally berate people unprovoked. I completely avoided him and then one day out the blue he started spewing on my replies. I left and never went back. He would block and ban at the drop of a hat. Real garbage. And not the good kind. SWIDT Anyway, I hope they don't shut this forum down. I hope they don't shut Presonus down. But there isn't anything we can do. It will feel like a close relative died if they ever shut this one down. It will be devastating to me. I've been here since they very first switched to the "old" forum. At least 20 years iirc. I was Shane or ShaneB originally iirc. Lost and forgot my password and created Bub, now I'm back to my real name again. We'll, I did make a couple posts as Mickey McFinnegan. Everyone thought it was Ed, Steve, or one of those guys, but it was me. Lol. Oh well. ☹️

I thought this thread was going to be about LP's, those I have tinkered with but in the end I just scrapped them and left everything the way it originally was. I've never really tried to mess with CD's. A long time ago there used to be a preset in the Sonitus Compressor that was listed as "Decompress". I have used that on bad recordings but not in a very long time.

I miss them too. It was a magical store at one time. Here's a website with scans of all their catalogs from the 30's to 2011. It takes a while to load the web page the way they have it laid out. At first I thought everything was deleted but it all eventually showed up. https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/

I tried to find the article but can't. So I can't provide a link to the numbers, but, I read recently that if you take out the cities with the strictest laws, the U.S. has one of the lowest gun violence rates in the world. Law abiding people simply don't do things like this. It has nothing to do with the tool of choice these lowlife degenerates use. I know there are a lot of retired Seal's that would love to take care of the inner city problems. And nobody would even know they were there.

He is one of the biggest musical influences of my life. Very sad, but he was up there. Glad we had him for as long as we did. What bar band hasn't done Bobby Mcgee, Help Me Make It Through The Night, Sunday Morning Coming Down, Loving Her Was Easier. Why Me ... "Lord help me Jesus, I know what I am." R.I.P. Kris 😢

Speaking strictly on payment methods, I would rather pay full new user pricing every upgrade than a monthly license. This applies to every provider of a DAW or vst package. I want to pay for a license to use the software as much or as little as I want for as long as I can keep the hardware it runs on up and running. I also don't like having to upgrade to the next version. I want to be able to go back to version I invested time into to learn. Licensing makes sense to people who want to tinker, and professionals who have to keep up to date and get a tax advantage for doing so. (It's technically a lease and that's a 100% write-off) But for the rest of us who at this point are the vast majority, as true studios have gone the way of the Do-do, it's not a good idea. As for all the goodies that come with licensing, for the DAW I tried out the monthly plan on, I got zero benefit. I got access to a few stock plugins I already had 3rd party versions of, and a plethora of samples I had no use for. Options. That's all people are asking for. Don't force us to pay monthly and if we don't we lose access to our work. Thanks.

Very sorry to hear this. She lived not that far from me in MO. @paulo I was thinking of her and a few others too recently. Wishing things were the way they used to be here. I hope her husband and family eventually see this and other threads and know how much she meant to everyone. 😥

Is that whole wheat or gluten free?

So this is what "country" has devolved into eh? Thank God I turned radio off in 1978.

I always liked V-Vocal. I got pretty good results with it very easily. Not to say I don't like Melodyne. I took an old recording a few years ago and did an entire key change on the second half of the song and it's impossible to tell it was done with software. My problem is I've always had a terrible listening environment when mixing. I could never really hear the full effect of changes until I got in my truck. I think I'm at least one version behind on Melodyne. I can't wait to get a studio set up, get everything upgraded, and dive back in to it. I'm going to have to upgrade my PC too. Oh darn. 😁

This or something very similar to it is in Melda's AutoDynamic EQ. You can even put an overlay of a keyboard on the screen iirc. I've used it more for repairing bad samples and recordings I made, but not a lot. It's very easy to mess things up with this for an amateur like me.

I prefer Loyd Christmas' method (Jim Carey) from Dumb & Dumber where he sprays it sideways instead of in his mouth. Then say, "Lovely accent you have. New Jersey?". Both equally effective in the right setting I'd imagine. Lol. I used to think it was attractive. But being back in NJ after a 25 year hiatus, it's like nails on a *****ing chalk board to me now.

Yeah, but it's buggy. 😉