Shane_B.

Yeah, I'm not really sure where he was going with this video to be honest after I watched it a couple of times. Some of the things he was saying weren't great, were things I've been able to do for many years. For example 16ms latency. I can't ever remember a time when that was an issue with live heavily compressed and reverbed mic track and guitar track with amp sims and lots of other effects. It was only when I started to get a handful of tracks and didn't freeze them that it became an issue. I agree that it's crappy that they will no longer support W10 at all, unless you pay a fee. But I definitely know that some of the problems he was going on about are not true. And it's not as complicated to tweak a PC setup for DAW usage as he makes it out to be. My only experience with Mac was trying to set it up for network printing, scanning, email when I worked on office equipment. I went to a training class one time and the instructor was our in-house Mac guru. He spent all day trying to set up the classroom to show us how easy it was and he never could get a single piece of hardware connected. He handed us a troubleshooting manual and said good luck. If you run into any problems out in the field, call me. They sent us out to connect machines at schools, which is very complicated because we had to track what every teacher was printing, setup access codes, secured folders and more, with zero hands on. So I have very limited experience with Mac, but that did scare me away from them. I'm probably going to cave in and just pay the yearly fee for a while to keep W10 safe. I don't have the time or energy to complete the build I was planning. I got an incredible deal on the CPU and jumped on it, but prices since then have skyrocketed and it's a very bad time to build or buy a PC right now. I know some blame it on other things ... ... but I belive the rising cost is mainly due to the increase in need for people to upgrade because of w11. And don't get me started on Nvidia. Grrrr.

He uses the F word a lot, but it's kind of funny to watch. He goes on a rant about the forced upgrade to Windows 11 and DAW's. The problems he goes into detail about I have not experienced, but he does this for a living and spends far more time in front of his PC than I do. He also talks about Cakewalk a little back in the day. I can say from experience ... what he was saying about the problems he had, they weren't caused by Windows ... lol. The second half of video is an ad for the company he bought a PC from. He says he loves his Mac until he gets to his sponsor segment. Fwiw, you can keep Windows 10 going with security updates for a yearly fee for a few years. He doesn't mention that. https://youtu.be/CsymyR9GgpM?si=LVooicBEeITBzH9o

I predicted here a while ago that there would come a time when we could make our voices sound like famous entertainers within our daw with an ai type vst. We don't have that yet, but I've heard a lot of new so gs by Elvis recently done by AI. So it's here. Just a matter of time. There's a time and a place for that kind of thing, but real musicians will always be here. We'll start seeing "human" remakes of AI generated songs before long. I'm sure we already have heard that already actually. All this pop music that sounds all the same is probably ai generated and someone fleshes them out.

Oh come on man. We've all come to expect more out of you than this. With a thread title like "A Plug For A Friend", I thought for sure a pic of Ed and a strategically placed Alembic would have showed up here by now ... if only for a brief moment before it was deleted.

Thanks. It's the 2nd time this year I've had to wear it. Sorry to hear you had to wear yours too. I think what I'm going to do is hit the stores on release date. Halloween is coming up, so I may get lucky and they'll have one in stock. Best Buy has one little rack they keep them on in the back of the store. They used to have isle's and isle's of Blu-Ray's and UHD disc's, but they are online only now except for new releases. I'll try my luck there.

It was a bad weekend. The good news is, my wedding/graduation/funeral/formal occasion suit still fits. So there's that at least. Sitting at home afterwards last night I wanted to watch a movie to distract myself. I can't think of a better genre to watch after a funeral than a zombie flick. Flipping through free movies on YouTube I came across Night Of The Living Dead 1990. The Savini remake. I was thinking, man it would be really great if they gave this the royal 4K restoration treatment. To that Batcell Boy Blunder went. I did a quick search on the net and low and behold, "4k restoration including the uncut restored version with deleted scenes. Release date ... SEPTEMBER 23RD $39.99 Pre-order now at amazon, walmart, target, and other online retailers" Straight to Amazon I go. It's not even listed on Amazon. Went to Bestbuy, Walmart, Target dot coms and all the preorders were sold out and it's unavailable. I couldn't even place my order and wait. Pop on over to ebay and there they all are. You can buy them all day long. Lowest one I found was starting price ... $89 + $15 shipping. I'm all for capitalism. That said ... there really should be a limit on how many preorder people can place because this is scalping and that's not right. It's just as underhanded as daw subscriptions. There, I made it "music"related. This isn't the first time I've seen this. I've had to wait for years for some movies to drop back down to retail price. All because of the preorder situation. I suppose I'll have to cave and order one on ebay. Maybe I'll say it never arrived and get a refund from ebay and screw the seller like they're screwing me.

Speaking of plugins. I just saw Ozone is at Version 12 as of a few days ago. I'd get a good price for upgrading from 9. But, as usual the bold print giveth and the fine print taketh away. I'd also have to upgrade S1 because Ozone 12 won't work with my version of S1. So now my good deal just doubled in cost.

I can't remember how many I have for certain. I think around 300? That's not counting VSTi's. I have a handful of those but not many. Mostly free stuff I found out on the net. That said, out of my roughly 300, I rarely use more than a handful. Maybe 10 different ones. Maybe. Ozone 9 Adcanced changed the way I do everything, so some of the stuff I used to used never gets touched anymore.

The real question is .... "I have 493 plugins. Guess how many I actually use.". .... Answer: 5

Yes, sorry, I was referring to Oxone 9 Advanced. I once worked for a large company that had so many abbreviations they had to put out a memo of definitions. True story.

The one I used in the 80's died. I got a replacement a few years ago on marketplace and transferred some of my old masters. I was able to use O9A to seperate some tracks, clean things up, and add to them. It was a lot of fun. One song my brother and I recorded back in the 80's and left out a key change in the song. I used O9A to correct it and you can't tell software was used. I certainly got my money's worth out of O9A imho.

That's the exact same experience I had with the TDK's. I started on a Tascam 4 track and graduated to their 8 track. Even the new Maxell's I would buy in the 90's started doing it. But by then they didn't make the gold label ones I used in the 80's. Quality control started to die along with the cassette tape format right around that time.

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.