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Link His question is ... and I quote ... Can you help him make a 5 minute long 1 note Am backing track. TIA.

That's how they work. IUD's that is. Oh ... you meant 'Delete'. My bad.

Loved Santa's Delivery's.

I know it's Christmas and we all had to spend time with our inlaws today and we're all high or drunk or both, but could you run that post by me one more time please? You plugged your phone charger in to your AMD system and thought you fried the phone, the charger, or the PC? What battery did you replace, the one in your lawn mower or weed whacker? I'm so confused. If you replaced the battery in your PC and that brought it back to life, then what actually happened was you reset the BIOS when you took the battery out and it had nothing to do with the new battery. But I'm not sure what I just read so I'm just speculating. I turned on my Korg X5 one day after having it for 25 years and the screen was all Japanese symbols and nothing worked. So for the heck of it I checked the backup battery and it was at 0 volts so I replaced the battery and that fixed it. Then I took the battery back out and soldered in a battery holder so after another 25 years I wouldn't have to mess with soldering again and I could just pop another battery in real quick. Totally worth it!

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

How about another one before the big day arrives. Or you can listen here ...

Howdy. This is another Christmas song my brother and I recorded back around 89 on a 4 track tape machine. He sent me the master tapes a few weeks ago and I transferred them in to my DAW and cleaned them up and added some new stuff. As with the other one, I used Ozone 9 Advanced to mix and master it. I wasn't happy with how the original instruments were mixed down on tape and I couldn't fix it so I used the drums as a marker and re-recorded everything except his vocal track. It's the only thing original to the recording we made in 89. My Brother: Vocal (1989). Me: Everything except the vocal track. (2021) It's true to the non-quantized original recording we did. No quantizing, or studio trickery. I used my Epiphone Sheraton II, Free high quality glockenspiel samples from University of Iowa, Cakewalk SI Bass, a free Christmas jingle and sleigh bell VST, and Session Drummer 3. All played live. It's modeled after the original by Lynn Anderson. The fast walkdown guitar part was murder. I must have done 150 takes trying to get the timing right. It's a lot harder than it sounds. Hah. As with the other one I used the meters extensively. Any input good or bad is always welcome on the mix, performance. Anything. Thanks again. Hope everyone enjoys. Thanks for listening. Merry Christmas.

With ma in her face shield and I in my mask, we both sat and wondered, 'Who made up this crap?'.

Uh. Well. It's not as bad as it sounds. ?Seriously. No, I didn't have surgery. He took a long skinny needle looking like vacuum thing that's a few inches long, inserts a metal guide in your ear canal to guide it in, then sucks your ear drum off the bone. If it's extremely bad he'll have to do outpatient surgery, but mine was really bad and he just peeled it off the bone with the vac thingy. It hurt a tiny bit for a split second then it was over. It's the same tool they use to do routine cleaning. It truly does look far worse than it is. What you are experiencing could be several different things. As simple as wax. Good luck!

Technically speaking, yes, the problem is in your head. ?(Trying to make you laugh so you don't worry.) I have my ENT guy on speed dial. I go in a couple weeks. I go every 6 months, sometimes more. If you never see an ENT the first thing they are going to do is send you for a hearing test so you're one step ahead. The difficulty will be getting your results to him if they aren't affiliated. ENT's usually have their own audiologist and you get the test, they DM the results to your ENT, you walk over to his office, and he gives you the results. A hearing test will tell them what you have lost and where the loss occurred. Nerve damage, bone damage, ear drum damage, if you have fused bones causing you to hear sounds in the wrong ear. That kind of thing. What you are describing sound like something to do with the tiny bones in your ear to me. It could be your eardrums have retracted and are actually laying on the tiny bones in your ear. Mine fused to the bone and they had to separate them. They put tubes in to equalize your ear pressure so the ear drums don't get sucked in and lay on the bones. That's what it sounds like to me, but it can be caused by a lot of different things. What you are describing has happened to me too but it went away eventually. It can be caused by several different things. Ear infection, the ear drum on the bone, nerve damage. Using headphones for recording, mixing, or just listening is extremely bad for your ears. When it happens to me I describe it as an old refrigerator compressor running. It sounds exactly like my mom's old chrome handled GE we used to have when I was kid.

I read somewhere that Sonar X1 was the most stable Sonar release ever. Can't remember where I read that. ?

That never occured to me to do that. What an idiot. (Me being the idiot). I could probably get an old wiped one from where my wife works. They sell off old equipment, fleet cars and trucks etc etc from time to time. I want one with 4K UHD capability. It all depends on your video card. My DAW's GPU can do 4K resolution but not in Ultra High Definition. IOW I won't be able to watch true 4K UHD on my TV without a true 4K UHD capable video port on the laptop. And now my journey down that rabbit hole begins ... ?

I was a bad boy and wasn't allowed to buy it, so I guess I got the last laugh in the end.

It's not easy to set up and control a PC where my TV is or I would do that. I only have my DAW and I'd have to tear it down and move it every time I want to watch something. I have a couple of ad blockers for the Brave browser. One blocks ad's on Twitch which has a ton of great indie artists and the other one blocks everything on Youtube. The casting stuff never seems to work unless I'm doing something wrong. I can cast, but only if the app is on my cell and my TV as well. Samsung did away with the Twitch app and I can no longer cast it from my cell. I don't see how an ad blocker would work on a cell using cast. Basically how it appears to work is the app takes over on the TV and your cell is essentially a remote control. But I could very well be wrong. I never tried it. The few times I looked for an ad blocker for my cell nothing came up. Any thoughts on how to cast to a TV using an ad blocker on your cell? Anyone doing that successfully? What ad blocker are you using? I'm running an Android cell. TIA.

That was really good! I liked it! I have that exact same guitar, only lefty. How on Earth did you get it to sound so good? I struggle with the DI.

God rest ye merry djentlemen. Sorry. I'll slither away now.

99% of what I watch is on youtube. I really like the wildlife live feeds people put up. Woodworking, software tutorials. That kind of thing. As for movies and such, I have a collection I bought of things I like but it's extremely rare I watch a movie or show of any kind anymore. I can't stand the woke garbage and the pandering to the 1% of the population ... etc. etc.. It's all caused far more damage than it repaired. And there really wasn't anything to repair in the first place. Anyway, enough or I'll get b-slapped. Youtube's great for music and tutorials and live feeds. I really like this one and this one. It's the only service I've actually considered paying a monthly fee to to get rid of the ads. No ad blockers available when watching via an app on my TV's but it's great on my DAW. And I wouldn't even mind ad's but if I see that one for Amazon with the lady saying how huge the difference was making $15 an hour apposed to $10 something, I'm gonna scream obscenities at the TV. Some vids make you watch two ad's and they seem to play it back to back over and over again.

I used to like TRacks but got away from it. I mentioned in another thread how O9A was so slow to load. I realized last night I hadn't updated it in a very long time so I did all the updates to it and Neutron 3 Advanced and it's all significantly faster now. A good 60% faster now to the point where I'm not even considering upgrading anything now except maybe putting in a good video card. If my DAW was froze where it is right now software wise for the next 10 years I'd be very happy.

I was going to say the same almost the same thing but figured I did the thread would get locked. Just like anything else can be too... Very true. There's actually a lot of good things out there, you just have to search for them and ignore the rest.

@Jimbo 88 Hi. Thanks for listening. I didn't use any noise reduction. We had the signals high enough to drown it out, and there isn't much to begin with because it has DBX Noise Reduction on the machine. I don't think I have a noise reduction plug-in but I'm not sure. Ozone 9 Advanced is a beast to learn and it may be buried in there somewhere. For example, I just found out after I mixed and mastered this that there is a plug-in in O9A that will allow you to raise and lower the levels of certain things in a mixed down track called Master Rebalance. It's made for Vocal/Bass/Drum and uses AI to isolate one of them and raise or lower the volume on a mixed down track. That odd guitar you hear is an Ovation via DI. It's mixed down on to the Drum/Bass/Rhythm track on the tape to make room for vocals and the isolated tracks were recorded over. The AI in Master Rebalance hears the Ovation as the vocal track. I could have significantly reduced the volume of it but I didn't realize I even had the plug-in until I was completely done and passed it around to family and friends. I don't like the sound of Ovation guitars, especially DI like that was. My brothers tape machine died decades ago and I just found a similar one on FB. On the one I got there are 4 outputs that come directly from the tape heads and bypass the mixer so I can't raise or lower the levels on the machine. The pre's in my Studio 1810c are super clean though. I had the gain on some of them up all the way and it introduced no hiss at all. I used iZotope's Tonal Balance Control 2 to mix it and it helped significantly. O9A has a Mastering Assistant and I ran the that after I mixed and mastered it manually using TBC2. It did nothing but add a tiny bit of dynamic EQ on a few frequencies, set the high and low roll-off, and set the Limiter (they call it the Maximizer plug-in) to -14LUFS. I've used it on 3 tracks so far and got the same results and it does an excellent job at making all the levels even. So far all I've had to do is use O9A's Mastering Assistant just to set the Maximizer and it's been perfect. I always master my tracks to roughly -18db RMS/-6db Peak then run it through the Mastering Assistant to bring it up to -14LUFS. I was reading that -14LUFS is what streaming services prefer so I set it to do that. So far, not once has it had to limit peaks and gets the tracks up to -14LUFS without compression. It really is a great program and worth every penny. There's no way I could have done that mix/master without it.

Here. Or you can just listen to it here ...

Howdy. Back around 89 my brother and I recorded a Christmas album on a 4 track tape machine. He sent me the master tapes a few weeks ago and I transferred them in to my DAW. I cleaned them up and added the lead parts and used Ozone 9 Advanced to mix and master this and two others. It passed the car sound test with flying colors to my ears and I'm happy with the mix. There were 7 songs total but I only had time to finish 3 this year. My Brother: Drums, Bass, Acoustic Rhythm, Vocal (All done in 89). Me: Tiny Harmony parts in middle of verses (1989), All Lead guitars (2021), Sleigh Bells (2021). Hope everyone enjoys. Thanks for listening. Edit: BTW, my ears are pretty much done. I used the meters extensively. Any input good or bad is very welcome on the mix, performance. Anything. Thanks again.

I keep getting one from Disney + on Fecebook (no that's not a typo lol) that says in big bold letters: DISNEY +, ESPN +, HULU + (NOW AD FREE!) ALL FOR $7.99 A MONTH! When you click on the ad and go to sign up it says in real fine print: "Ad Free service is $19.99 per month extra." I keep seeing 3 different ad's with it worded differently on each one, but it all comes out to be $28 bucks a month in the end. I already get Ad Free Hulu for free with my cell service and I still feel like I'm paying too much. I'll just wait and pay the $250 bucks or whatever they'll want for the Get Back Movie/Remastered Album Deluxe box set when it comes out. It better be in eyeglass lens-scratching sharp 4K UHD though.

I was actually friends with Jimmy Clanton on Facebook for a while. (He originally recorded Just A Dream back in the 50's). I wish I could speak Spanish fluently. I'd love to record some songs in Spanish. Marty Robbins did a lot of songs in Spanish back in the day. Here's one of my favorites. This is an excellent album.

I thought the Hokey Pokey meant something else related to prison life. My bad.