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I always preferred Maxell tape. TDK used to sound dull to me like the recording was made without Dolby on, but played back with it on. I always preferred chrome over metal as well. I can remember going into my local music store, Record World iirc, and there was a giant rack full of every brand and type of blank cassette you could ever want. And then there was Radio Shack. I bought one of theirs, once. Lol. I still have a few NOS Maxell UDS-II tapes never opened I bought way back in the day. The original gold label version, not the later CD version. The tape path on those were superior to anything else I tried. I still have tapes that play and sound great I made back in the 80's and 90's. I recently watched a YouTube video of a woman restoring an old cassette deck. I think it was an Akai. It had a manual bias control on the front panel. She did some sound tests and after adjusting the bias I couldn't hear the difference between the digital rip and the cassette playback.

A very very long time ago there was a thread floating around about the good saturation some cheap interfaces produce. To this day the best sounding interface, to my ears, was my M-Audio Fast Track Ultra. I still have it, but there's no drivers available for it past XP iirc. And the rubber on the knobs has turned to a sticky goo from age. Clean isn't always better. In fact, my favorite 'clean' old country recordings from the 50's and 60's have a lot of saturation on the vocals and I personally really like that sound. Tape heads and phono cartridges both introduce compression during recording and playback. In my world, I try to emulate the mechanical recording methods in the digital realm. Not an easy task, especially when you are not held back by the limitations of tape and analog gear and have the world at your fingertips IRT compression, saturation, etc. etc.. But it sure is fun trying.

Same here. I spend so much time trying to make everything sound like I recorded it on tape that I might as well have just recorded it on tape and saved 496 hours per mix.

Depends on the size of the pin I guess. I mean, Angels were giants. That whole Nephilum thing.

Exactly. I did a very in depth test one time on sampling frequencies. Iirc, on the soundcard I was using at the time, 48khz sounded best with the least amount if artifacts when rendering fx. This is especially evident when soloing reverb and listening to the trail end/fadeout of it. The forum crashed shortly after I posted it on the old forum and all the posts for that day were lost. I never reposted it but I wish I did. I had sound samples and listed the different daws I used. I got different results between Sonar, Reaper, and S1 Thats still internal. IRT playback/monitoring real-time ... I can hear a difference in how they produce the sound you are hearing. Internally we can null test this and show there is no difference, but with real-time live monitoring there sure seems to be to my ears. That said, I don't think I've ever heard a bad sounding daw, but I can hear a difference during monitoring/playback. Sonar has always been my favorite. I only switched due to stability problems that apparently only applied to me (cough cough). All of my gear is boxed up. If I ever get back into music I may land back on the Sonar bandwagon.

I tried a dual monitor setup one time. Couldn't get used to it. I want to mount mine on the wall to free up desktop space. The distance would require me to get larger than 43". Even gaming isn't an issue. I only dabble in one game. Fallout 4. I have an old rtx 3060 and I can run a rock solid 60Hz/4K with all Ultra settings (minus God rays and fog) on this old cheap TV I have. I can't complain whatsoever. Maybe if someone was doing online gaming and latency was critical, but I'm more than happy with working and the limited gaming I do on my cheap 43" Vizio. The new Vizio Oleds tvs do 120hz in pc/gaming mode in 4k at a fraction of the price of a dedicated monitor.

I use a 43" TV as my monitor. A lot of tv's now will run 4K 120hz native in pc/gaming mode. Mine will run 4k 60hz but I'm more than happy with it.

He was a musician so maybe they joined a band. He played bass. Chuck Mangione just died too. Ozzy on vocals, Hulk on bass, and Chuck on Trumpet. What a trio.

It depends. Sometimes it makes sense to pay more throughout the year so you owe less to the government in the end in taxes. I'd have to guess that does not apply to the vast majority of audio software users so a that point it's personal choice. I have never, and never will subscribe to anything for home use audio related. I had to subscribe to a few things for my LLC and in the end ... it works out in my favor. I'll switch back to tape and other hardware before I ever subscribe to a DAW and VST's, but I'm a sporadic user. I'm not in my studio every day like I used to be If you are a heavy home user, I can certainly see why someone would subscribe to Adobe or audio related stuff. I don't think people are wrong if they do is what I'm saying. I think having a choice to buy or subscribe is great. I just worry about the slippery slope of sub only like Adobe.

She was from NJ. One of the guys I used to work with was related to her. Cousins iirc. She's on my random playlist all the time from that era of music I listen to. Sad to see her go. It's hard to tell now days who will fill all these singers shoes from back in that era with all the autotune and AI. Back then, they hit record, the singers and musicians did their thing, and you got what you got. Pure and real.

Uh ... I didn't know the Chinese were a capitalist nation.

The woman in the red dress is Telly Savalas' daughter. He's mostly known for playing Kojak in the old TV series.

Being part "Native American", from both my parents, is one of the things I'm most proud of. Not that it matters what I think or feel, it just is what it is. My maternal great (don't know how many greats) grandfather was a Presbyterian Preacher from England that came here and married a full blooded Mohawk woman in the 1700's. I have a copy of a tintype photo of her when she looked to be 100. We were "colonized" so to speak a lot sooner than most people realize. Some established going back to the 1500's. Which begs the question, how far back do you go to correct wrongs, in any country, anywhere in the world? Am I due back rent on my ancestral territories? Just kidding, but when I think of everything this country has gone through over the last 249 years and the steady decline after WWII, hmm. We are what we are and love us or hate us, we truly are the last stand. There's still vast parts of this country where common sense prevails and we know how to take care of ourselves. It may not appear that way from the outside because those people are silenced by the manipulation of numbers is larger areas, but we're still here, ready, willing, and able to defend the Republic. That's what America is. When it's not, then it's over. You won't see it by plane, or bomb, or invasion, it will happen from within.

No. Sorry. This is a music related forum only.

There's an interview with him floating around out there somewhere where he talks about how and why he invented it for them. I think the company that made a VST out of the ADT effect put it out. That's where I first heard about it. It sounds like they probably used it on some guitars too.