Shane_B.

Thanks. I did. He got me a great price on a great new system but unfortunately video cards are so expensive now. The system price was great, but adding the video card I want blew it way out of budget so I'm going to have to hold off more to see if they come down. I need a video card this time around because it is going to be a dual purpose system. I was also under the impression that Windows 10's support was ending early next year and it appears I was wrong. It's actually 2025. I think what threw me off was I had read that some builds of Window's 10 were no longer being supported. But the upgrade to a newer build is free and those are going to continue for several more years. I think that's where I misunderstood what was going on with that. So that gives me a little more time. My CPU isn't supported by Windows 11 so I pretty much have to upgrade if I want to stick with a supported OS but it seems I have quite a bit more time to wait and see if video cards come down in price.

I've recently become interested in simpleton mathematics myself. So, I sat down, well, actually I stood up, and got a ruler and a calculator. It cost me $18,571.43 an inch. Pretty enormous numbers I'd say.

I still have my Korg X5 I bought new many years ago. It still works like new although I had to replace the battery a long time ago. A lot of the sounds in it are as good if not better than most VSTi's I've heard. Especially the drums. I've sampled the drums a few times and used them. We started using backing tracks in my band way back in the 90's before it was the norm. There were guys using keyboards with memory cards for different sounds, but nobody that I'm aware of in our area was doing backing tracks. It and my acoustic were all we used. They were all live tracks recorded on to 8 track and transferred to DAT to keep the speed right. No software or midi sequencing or editing. Now, it's the norm. It's how things are mostly done especially the one or two man shows that play at coffee shops and winery's and places like that. We were decades ahead of our time and all I used was a tiny little Korg X5. If I were still back home my old drummer and I would be killing it right now. Life duo's at places like I mentioned are exploding out there in the NJ area where we lived. Not so much here ...

I'm afraid to say anything. Every time I do the thread gets locked or deleted. LOL!

Crap. Now I gotta cancel my XM subscription.

Try not to let the carotid artery thing worry you. The carotid artery hearing thing is common. I have it. It's causing a low pitched hum in my left ear. I can actually make the humming go away if I shake my head back and forth really fast like I'm twitching. I've had scans in my legs and they did the carotid too and I have zero blockages. In my case it's the sound of the blood being transferred by bone fusing from infections. Right now I can't hear any low end out of my right ear. I found out my ear drum is collapsed again even though I have a permanent tube. They were in a foul mood that day and very rushed due to covid related staff shortages and he didn't have time to address it. ? I have to go back again in July. It's driving me nuts because it hurts and I can't hear anything below around 1K in my right ear. I'm assuming the low freq. loss is due to the collapse. If not I'm screwed. After all that though he tells me my hearing is great especially for 50 and being in a band 16 years straight. It's above average for others my age. What do you do. Good luck. I hope it all turns out well for you. Did you see my thread about the NAD+ Supplement? Might want to try it. I have documented proof it improved my hearing.

The songs I've written came to me almost instantly like a valve opened and they just flowed out of me. I'm most creative at song writing when I'm very tired and it's late at night or very early in the morning like 1 or 2 am and I'm alone. I've never been able to sit down and say, "Ok, I have an idea and I'm going to write a song now.". I wrote a lot when I was a kid by myself in my bedroom and after almost 24 years of being with my wife the only time I write now is when she's gone on a work trip for a week or two.

Hey, it worked for the bear. Just sayin' ...

Happy birthday. BTW ... Who the heck am I wishing happy birfday to?

My dad is 84. He has COPD and is overweight. When this started ... not now with the weak strain ... he never left his apartment during lockdown except to go get food. No contact with anyone for months. He tried to registered to get a shot but the elderly were on a long waiting list in NJ at the time and couldn't even get scheduled. He got a cold and couldn't shake it but it was no big deal. His landlord lived in the same building and went around to everyone's apartment one day to tell them he had covid and they had to go get tested. My dad tested positive. 84 in poor health unvaccinated and no symptoms other than a slight cold. They forced him to stay in the hospital 7 days on IV drugs and forced him to get vaccinated before he could leave. Fast forward to 1 month ago my best friend who is 74 was rear ended by a truck and taken to the hospital with severe back and neck injuries. In the process of starting a lawsuit his lawyer got the ER medical records. The official diagnosis ... "Symptoms Covid related".

I should clarify my .gov post. IRT what Rogan has supposedly said, I watched the video and the follow up video. All he said was under a doctors care he was legally prescribed the med in the link I posted. He never took a stand one way or the other on anything. And now people want to destroy his income source over it? That's wrong. If the guy was saying every day to go drink bleach to cure cancer then absolutely shut him up. That can kill you. Saying "a doctor legally prescribed and administered a well know drug used in animals and humans that was awarded a Nobel Prize for use in humans that has been studied around the globe and proven to be effective against covid" helped him ... is not something to be canceled over. That said I hope my comments haven't offended. I'm just pointing out that if you look in to it the man did nothing illegal. He said nothing that was a lie. And it was all done under a doctors care and all the meds were legally prescribed. If Stern and Young have a problem with that well I don't know what else to say. If we've gotten to the point here where you can't even say anything that's true if people with power don't agree with you well then it's not America anymore.

Read the whole thing here at the governments web site .... https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34466270/

Yep. This whole thing with Rogan has been blown way out of proportion. Everything he did was under a doctors care yet they twisted it all around. Did you see the video of him CNN edited to make him look like he was dying of Covid? Their heads are exploding because he won't cave to their demands. From what I read he took most of his music off prior to all this anyway because he thinks he's an audiophile and his compressed medium is better than Spotify's. Honestly I never liked either of them so I wouldn't care if they both went away. Neil Youngs voice is like nails on a chalkboard. Can't stand it.

Roto Rooter maybe?

We sure have. I hope Kneel Neil Young will remember . . . Signed, Shane from Missouri.

6'3 @ 245. Well, that was before Christmas. This holiday season was not good to me. Problem is I can't do what I used to do at the gym because of that G.D. bus running a stop sign and almost killing me 2 years ago.

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Clearly someone didn't agree.

I hear Schitt audio was working with Cakewalk after the Roland breakup to release a new version of Sonar Platinum. They were going to call it Schitt Splat but the merger got canned and they flushed the name.

I think he lived in Misery too. (Sorry, I spelled Missouri wrong. Or did I?)

Nope. Not related. My last name is spelled with a _ and a . On the other hand maybe his part of the family dropped the _ and . to disassociate from the smarter better looking line of the family. Totally plausible.

I think they make Dumb Schiit's where it's bare bones, no Bluetooth, no remote. You have to get up and walk across the room to turn the volume up and down. Although they do make smaller bluetooth capable equipment in their Little Wise Schitt line of products though. They also have a dedicated paid music service device called their Streaming Schiit DAC. I'm kind of an expert on their line of products. I really know my Schiit. And ... 3 ... 2 ... 1 ...

I tried. I kept dozing off. It's too slow paced for me and her voice is so mellow she puts me right to sleep. I skipped around the video a little and the parts I landed on all make logical sense when mixing a lot of vocals together like that. I've done faux choirs a few times and I had to fix the things she mentioned where I landed in her video. She has a lot of great info in there. My number one complaint about all youtubers now is they know they have to have video's of a certain length so their video's show up in peoples recommended list. They drag them out now by either talking slow or rambling on about useless crap. You would think in this world of ADD and ever shortening attention spans that it would be just the opposite. I've seen her other video's coming up in my recommended list for a couple weeks now, then I saw this one before Bit posted it. Funny how all this stuff works. According to my youtube history I watched the first few minutes of her 1 voice video 2 weeks ago.

First thing I see this morning as I sit down to have breakfast. Think I'll skip till lunchtime now. Hah! ?

No offense taken here. I'm pretty thick skinned. And skulled.