Shane_B.

Same here. The first song I learned to play on guitar without having the music in front of me was Misery. Lol. Second was Anna. I was 10 or 11. I had The Pocket Beatles paperback book with all the lyrics and chords. I used to wedge it under the front edge of our big tube TV to keep it open so I could play and read it. The binding separated and all the pages fell out eventually from jamming it under there. I picked up a CD at a record shop one time. Ritchie's in fact, when he was in The Pocono's in PA. long before he moved out by you. The Beatles at The BBC. I think it was an import but I may be wrong. I don't think you could ever get it here in the U.S. from a retail store. It was a 2 or 3 CD set iirc. That set paints a whole different picture of them. It sounds like a studio recording but I think it was actually live. He also had a ton of bootlegs on CD. Somewhere, somehow, over the years, somebody got a ton of their studio tapes and put them on CD. He had a 10 disc set of nothing but studio banter and starts and stops of them doing takes. He wanted too much for them and I never got them. He did let me borrow a couple to listen to for a few days to try and entice me to buy them. I was pissed. I never could get my SCSI CD drive to rip and burn. ???. To this day I cringe when someone mentions scuzzy (SCSI) drives. One of the spots on that bootleg CD that sticks out in my mind was, the recording engineer got pissed off at them for goofing off and you hear him yell at them, "TAKE FOUR!!!". I also had quite a few bootleg LPs. Lost them all when my basement flooded one time. Had them in cardboard boxes on the floor. Because of that, to this day, I will not store anything on my basement floor unless it's in those big plastic totes. I keep most stuff on those metal racks with the bottom shelf removed so I can slide the plastic totes under it. If anything happens the water has to get at least 18" up before anything gets touched and at that pointn ou got bigger problems than just your basement flooding. Lol. Of course I got blamed for the flooding. Iowa weather is very unpredictable. We had an early freeze one fall and I left the garden hose out because I was still using it. It froze, broke, then thawed and we didn't know it. Of course, my reply was, well you're too cheap to go let me get the sump pumps to put in the sump pump pits we paid the concrete guy an extra $2,000 dollars to put in and run drain tile from out in to the ****ing yard Mrs. Scrooge. Ah memories. Good times. Good times.

I stand corrected. For the heck of it I checked to see if Rumble or Bitchute were now available on my firestick last night. Rumble is now available, Bitchute is not. It seems a lot of youtuber's are mirroring their content on all three of those platforms, some are actually saying what they want on Rumble and Bitchute and keep their blah watered down content on YouTube. I guess that's still where the money is @craigb Gasp! Your video's not in 2K!? ?

I can see it too. You did an excellent job with it. I wish I could get Rumble and Bitchute apps on my Firestick and/or TV. YouTube is all but gone. Unless you're one of the alphabet mob.

That sucks. I've had similar things happen. I took a video of my fireplace and posted as private to share with my family a couple Christmases ago. I had Christmas Vacation on TV. I got a copyright strike for it, but they still let me share it as long as it wasn't publicly visible. Here is the video. There isn't even any music, just talking. https://youtu.be/pKeQ_5VZp00?si=4SWKasR_qWxaZ_kU

I've read that it has to support Thunderbolt. Even a really good normal C cable doesn't support that. But $130? I dunno. Amazon has a ton of Thunderbolt capable cables starting around 25 bucks.

One of the biggest regrets I have is not grabbing a left handed John Lennon Series Rickenbacker when I had the chance. My local music store called me when they got it in and said, you have to come down here, now! Hah. I just couldn't afford it at the time. I was 16 or 17.

I only listed 3 originally, but the major one I forgot about is Melda's Auto Dynamic EQ. I use it a lot as a de-esser. I've tried a few stand alone de-esser's and all of them seemed to just chop the entire high end off the vocals. With their dynamic EQ you can easily find your trouble spots and have it effect only that range of frequencies. Their Auto-Align is incredible too, but I can never seem to find it on sale for a price I'm willing to pay. I can't believe I forgot that, but it has been years since I turned on my DAW.

I've been using my TV as a monitor now for years. I can't remember if it's 40 or 43. I tried multiple TVs. I had a high end 65" Samsung, a cheap $230 65" LG I got on sale at Sams Club, and an even cheaper 40(43?) Vizio. Sam's Club is a great place to buy really good cheap TVs btw. The only one that would connect to a PC in 2K @ 120hz was the cheap Vizio. The others locked down at 2K/60hz when connected to my PC even though they are 120hz capable and it made a very noticeable difference. On a side note, I bought a used older fairly decent video card that is capable of connecting to it in 4K UHD. One interesting thing I noticed is, I can stream in 8K and it doesn't take any more bandwidth than 4K. No buffering, no stuttering. And the TV recognized it as a UHD video even though it is a 4K TV. It pops up a little symbol on the screen when it kicks in to 4K mode. And your next question is who the heck offers true 8K streaming. Youtube. ? The 8K option doesn't show up in options on a video unless you have a TV or video card capable or 8K.

There's a lot of sites like this: https://www.shutterstock.com/video/search/video-background You'll probably have to pay a little to get one without some kind of watermark. But, if you know how to download YouTube vids ....

I got a free version of Melodyne with S1P. If I remember correctly I was able to upgrade that for $99 during a sale which I didn't think was bad, considering I got the first version free. Same type of thing with O9A. Sweets has really good sales on bundles especially around Christmas. I forget the details now but, but after a couple of phone calls to them I think I got it on sale for $249. There are a few function in Advanced that I needed at the time to clean up and separate some bad 4 and 8 track machine transfers. It worked perfectly. I got in to the habit, especially with Melodyne, to work with small clips and freeze to free up resources. S1 calls it something different but it has the same functionality. It's been a few years since I turned on my DAW so I can't remember what it's called off the top of my head. The graphical function of mastering in O9A alone is worth the price. It showed me things I couldn't hear and allowed me to pinpoint the troubled areas.

Robbie! You just have me a flashback of that dude in the music forum years ago who would end every sentence with a question mark?

Ozone 9 Advanced (which includes a lot of plugins actually) Melodyne ... Studio or Editor? I got an upgrade deal one time to upgrade to their top VST for almost nothing, so whatever that is. Guitar Rig 4 (I don't have a need to upgrade). And well, that's pretty much it other than the stock stuff that comes with Studio One. I only use the stock samples and synths that come with CbB and S1P. And to this day Session Drummer 3 is still my goto drums. That's all I use. O9A changed my life. Seriously. I did my last 4 mixes and masters using it and they turned out to be the best mixes and masters I've even done, and in the shortest amount of time. It sure is a resource hog though. OMG.

Here's the full video version: Here's the audio only version: I swear there's a difference but maybe it's just me.

Yep. BenTechMusic or something like that. He was very gifted at mixing and mastering. One of his threads that sticks out in my mind is his argument for paper speaker cones vs. other materials.

I just realized there are 2 versions of this on youtube. The Official Audio version and the Official Music Video version. I've been listening to the Audio version and didn't like the song until I just saw the Video version of it. Now I can't stop listening to it. I don't know if it's my imagination or the fact that the Video version triggers all the nostalgia in me seeing them all together, but the mix seems better in it to me. I forced myself to watch Rick Beato's 'reaction' to it (sorry but I can't stomach the guy), and I do have to agree with him on one thing. He commented on it being overcompressed or something along those lines. I got the impression he didn't care for it but was kissing ***** in hopes of getting an interview with Paul and Ringo.

Give it a couple years. AI will be able to emulate any voice. Then we'll be hearing brand new songs sung by Elvis that he never heard.

You should be able to get some nice tight rimshots with that bad boy.

I found this one of Ed a few days ago. Clearly someone photoshopped Hulk Hogan's head on the pic.

The sign says "World's largest amps". "Technically" the amps in this picture are pretty small ... just sayin' ...

Somewhere there's got to be a photoshopped pic of your head on a gophers body peaking out a golfball hole. I just know there is.

We're all flawed and wrong in a lot of ways. I made up a saying one time as kind of a joke. I was talking to someone about another person we knew and the condition of the place they were living in. This person started busting on them. Off the top of my head I just blurted out, ... well, when my halo and water walking sandals show up from Amazon Prime then I'll judge them. It's shut down a lot of conversations I didnt want to be part of since. Lol. It's always funnier when it's true.

And they are leftyphobes to boot! Not a single left handed guitar, keyboard, or mic icon anywhere!

I was thinking more along the lines of it being a 3 dollar bill. (Old joke in not allowed to say anymore) ?

Yeah, a lot of greats aren't on there. Another one is Kenny Vaughn. I think he started out in punk, but now he does cointry. But he's another one who can play anything. He's one of The Fabulous Superlatives. Marty Stuart's band. Stuart can play too. Their claim to game is they just play straight through the amps. No pedals. There's an interview out there about when they played on one of the late night talk shows and the band and crew were freaking out because they just showed up with their amps and no other gear. Just found the show ... https://youtu.be/Cx_l9kLxycw?si=0n2_fcOxHW9hb8Os