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I made a virtual one of these. I use my Strat and slap Melodyne on it and drag it down an octave. ???

What they need to come up with is some sort of system where all the letters are displayed in some sort of logical sense from A to Z and then they spell out the full words so we understand what all these abbreviations mean. It got so bad at one of my old jobs that they had to put out a memo with a list of all the abbreviations and what they meant because nobody could understand the emails the corporate office was sending out.

He/They got a bad rap back in the day, but it was all b.s. because almost nobody recorded their own tracks other than vocals back then. They probably got dumped on because they wanted to record their music themselves and stepped on some toes in the process. One of my favorite lines from the movie Dumb & Dumber. Harry and Lloyd were looking at the juke box at a table in a restaurant and Lloyd says, "Hey, look, the Monkees. They were a huge influence on the Beatles.". RIP.

I use S1 Pro 5 now but I just fired up CbB to try for you and it worked. It was actually easier to see in CbB because the scaling on my 4K monitor in S1 makes TBC2 very small. I can adjust the size of the window, but the contents in the window are still hard to see. It also seemed to load a little faster in CbB, but I only tried 3 tracks. All Ozone plug-in's take forever to load on my system, but it seemed a tiny bit faster in CbB. I loaded the O9A EQ on all three tracks, then loaded TBC2 on the Master. It connected with the EQ's on the tracks and it worked exactly like it does in S1. TBC2 does not allow you to pull up 3rd party VST's inside of TBC2 like it does other Ozone VST's. IOW it's not a limitation of CbB, it's just how it works on all DAW's. I just nailed a mix 1st try today. I don't know how I ever got by without this. I've had it on my system forever but never took the time to dive in to it until now. I have a lot of remastering to do.

It's been another month. I can honestly say I can tell my hearing has improved slightly. The ringing is still there but greatly subsided. I can hear a lot better out of my left ear but I still have that nasty permanent tube in my right ear causing trouble. I get it removed Jan 5th. I still can't hear any low end whatsoever out of my right ear but I'm hoping that's due to the permanent tube that's coming out soon. Other than that I can't say for sure if I've noticed a difference. My eyesight has changed a little but it does change from time to time. I can see fine except at night I need glasses while I'm driving. My new prescription is too strong. I had to dig out my old weaker glasses and I see great with those. I've been using headphones to mix and master the last week or so for hours at a time. Normally my ears would be ringing like a bell now but they haven't reacted at all. I've still only been taking it a couple months and I have 1 month left of it. If I can find it on sale again I'll continue to use it. You get the best deal on it if you buy a 3 month supply, but it's still expensive. Be back in another month.

Back in the 80's my brother and I recorded a silly little Christmas album to give to family and friends. His 4 Track machine died and I recently got a used one and he sent me the master tapes to see what I could do with the old tracks. I'm stuck using headphones right now so I figured I'd dive in to Ozone 9 Advanced and see what I could find to help with the mixing/mastering. Their Tonal Balance Control 2 VST is awesome. I've never nailed a mix and master so easily before in my life. I've only had to make like 2 or 3 trips out to the car to check and it's good. So far I haven't used anything else except for this, but it alone was worth the money I spent on O9A. What I learned was for some reason I always dip the 500 range, increase the 2K range, and dip the 10K range. It must be my aging ears. Basically I had to reverse that and it completely cleared up my mixes. I wouldn't think the 500 range would increase clarity but when I dipped the 2K range and raised the 10K range I got as close to professional recordings as I've ever gotten. I'm having a blast working on these old recordings. I'm chopping them up, adding lead parts, using Melodyne to add harmonies, fixing timing issues and bad notes. It's truly amazing what we can do with our DAW's and the joy it brings. Ain't that a beautiful picture ...

I saw a previous thread asking where he was. Someone chimed in and said he's fine. Can't find the thread or remember any other details about who said what.

As others have said, it's hard to pick one. I'm a horror fan. The late 70's/80's are my favorite period. If I had to put them in order of times watched and re-watch-ability, or if I were stuck on an island and could only take 10 movies for all eternity, for me it would go like this. Night Of The Living Dead (Tom Savini's version. Tony Todd [The Candyman], Bill Mosley [Texas Chain. Mass.], Pat Tallman [Stunt actress from a lot of movies]. Day Of The Dead (The one with Bub. My old forum presence & avy. Still is my forum presence on S1's forum.) Friday The 13th Part 1 (I was born near the town where it was filmed and my dad still lives there a few doors down from the arches in the opening scenes. All my family on my dads side is from that area.) Fright Night (The one with Roddy McDowall [The Bookworm in Batman TOS] and Chris Sarandon [Voice of Jack Skellington].) House 1 Ding Dong, You're Dead. (William Katt [Greatest American Hero] and George Wendt [Cheers]. House 2 The Second Story. (Royal Dano [Old Western star], John Ratzenberger [Cheers], and Bill Maher [?]. Evil Dead trilogy. (Bruce Campbell). Leprechaun 1. (A young Jennifer Aniston, Jennifer Aniston, Jennifer Aniston, Jennifer Aniston, Jennifer Aniston, Jennifer Aniston ...) The 80's were the last era of practical FX. Gone are the days of the Tom Savini's and Ray Harryhausen's replaced by cheesy Sci-Fi channel CGI. I also enjoy a lot of the older movies from the 50's and 60's. Some of them are absolutely beautiful to watch when they restore them, if you're in to that kind of thing. All the ones I mentioned have been restored and remastered. I own all versions of most starting on VHS. It's extremely rare that I watch anything beyond the early 90's. My wife recently got an email from our cell provider with a coupon for a year of Paramount + for free and we signed up. They have some incredible old movies. Tons of old westerns and every one I've seen so far appears to have been restored. A Christmas Carol with George C. Scott is on there and it's better quality than my disc version. For me it's as much about how the movie was filmed as it is the acting and the subject. I have little to no respect for all the CGI that's in movies now. I remember a line from Happy Days when I was a kid that stuck with me. Ralph and the guys were looking at a girly magazine and he said, "Imagine that in a tight sweater.". That pretty much sums it up for me. To me new movies and CGI are overwhelming. Movies like Star Wars TOS left a lot to the imagination and didn't overwhelm you. Anyway, that's how I feel about newer stuff. I'm sure others are just perfectly fine with CGI. And it can be done well, but IMO it's usually way overdone or cheesy to the point of truly being bad.

I once won an award for martial farts. They were lethal.

You saw a lot of peoples true colors come out and it should be a reminder to all that you have to take care of and defend yourself because when the mud hits the fan, you are completely on your own.

Wow. I thought I was the only person on Earth who remembers Elvin Bishop. Love the pic. Our bass player played through something that looked very similar to what you had on stage. He left, we got another bass player, he wanted to come back so he switched to keyboards. I'm guessing the output from the keyboard was too much for the input of the head. A huge plume of white smoke came out in the middle of a set one night. He was devastated. Apparently it was a vintage amp he had almost his whole life. He's your age, now. This happened 25 years ago. 71 was a bad year. Just ask my parents. Sorry for the delayed response. Been busy in my makeshift studio while I have some time. ??

I thought for sure my Willie Nelson lyrics would get the big L, or at least a temporary, maybe even permanent B. But it was music related and relevant and who can argue with the legendary big Willie. Sometimes I post on the fly without thinking. Then sometimes I overthink. Either way, my thinking is not what it used to be. I think. I'm not sure. Happy Halloween.

That's exactly what I was thinking, but then I was like, nah, how could anything that didn't even know it was there find that on a dead archived forum. But yeah, I was wondering the same exact thing. It still blows my mind that even an AI bot would find it, over and over again. What's the point if you know what I mean. Maybe some kind of copyright sniffing bot.

After all these years, after being banned, and even after it's been shut down for years I still have people listening to and downloading my Christmas music from the old song forum. I don't even know where the thread is anymore. And no, that's not code for someone go find it and post it. I don't even want to see it. Hah. I get hits there regularly all year long, but it usually picks up around the holidays. I don't get it. I can't believe the links still work, people still find this stuff, and Box.net has let me keep files there for so long for free. If you look at S1's start page it tells you how many times your songs have been listened to on Soundcloud. Over 1600 times for me and I have most of it set to private. Wish I got a piece of the advertising pie they are getting from people visiting their site and listening to my stuff there.

The lead singer's no Baldemar Garza Huerta but he's good. I listened to a few of their songs. This group is excellent. ??

At six foot five John T was a hell of a man.

I use Melodyne Studio for this. Activate Melodyne on each track and on the left side of the screen you can enable the display of any track it's on in the background. The current track you are working on is in color, the ones in the background are grey. If you want to enable one of the grey tracks just double click on the grey blob. I have all 'Snap to' settings off in Melodyne when doing this otherwise it can drive you crazy. It's not exactly what you are looking for but this is how I do it and it works really well for me so I thought I'd mention it. Edit: I just realized I read your post wrong and you said "live" not "like". So this wouldn't work. But again, this is how I do it with audio tracks.

I had a massive Marantz Harmon Kardon Quad head one time I got a yard sale. It had a joystick on the front to control the Quad panning. It died decades ago. Last winter I went to an estate sale here and they had an entire collection of about 50 Quad LP's. All stuff I had absolutely no interest in so I passed on all of them. Nothing good like The Who or Edgard Winter or Pink Floyd. All Barbara Streisand and things like that, that I have no interest in. You can still get Quad Decoders on eBay for a couple hundred bucks.

In regard to movies the voice is meant for the center channel in a 5.1 or higher system now days. Even most older "restored" movies have the audio "remixed" to be this way. They can take a mono source now and use AI separate almost everything out in to mixable tracks. I saw a short interview with Peter Jackson about the new Get Back movie and they used that new AI technology to remix the audio for the entire series. As for normal TV show's some of them are 5.1 and some of them aren't. I gave up trying to get decent movie sound. You have to recalibrate your system for every single movie and it's more trouble than it's worth to me. I disassembled my true surround system and it's in the basement and sound bars are just glorified TV speakers. And the thing about flat TV's also is, the speakers point out the bottom or back and most of them use some sort of phase manipulation to make it sound like the audio is coming from the front. Where you put your TV can greatly effect the audio clarity and dialogue is horrible. They sound best mounted on the wall as close to it as possible so the phase manipulation bounces it off the wall properly. Whoever built the house I live in must have had one of those old really tall and deep projection TV's. They built a space for it to sit in perfectly in the living room and ran the antenna wire and outlets there. It makes my flat TV sound horrible so I bought a high end Samsung sound bar based surround system to go with the high end Samsung TV and high end Samsung 4K player. Long story short on the 'high end' thing, I got it dirt cheap through a work promo where my wife works, then found out a couple months later that they announced they were going out of the high end audio and disc player market which is why they blew out all their inventory. Then the sound bar, sub, and 4K disc player all promptly died 30 seconds out of warranty. The other thing I hate about sound bars is I can never get the audio to sync up. It will go from 0 ~ 50 to adjust the sync in one direction but I always need them to go in the negative direction. I can't be the only one who has run in to this. It's perfect when using the TV's speakers but I've never been able to sync a sound bar to any TV properly. Drives me crazy watching movies like that especially after obsessing on my DAW over 4ms guitar lag for the last 20 years. Or........... if you must have lighting, then it must be in shades of teal and amber. I think the reason everything is so dark now is because everything is visually mastered for Ultra High Definition now in a perfectly calibrated room with calibrated extremely expensive monitors with perfect kelvin lighting. In that environment I'm pretty sure everything looks great. That's the thing about 4K. There is 4K resolution for PC monitors and youtube video's and there is 4K UHD for movies. The UHD part actually takes control of your TV and sets up all the brightness and color. It was designed so we could see the movies exactly how the directors intended. But you have to have a 4K disc player connected to a 4K UHD TV which 99% are now. You have to pay Netflix extra money to view true UHD content but you can stream it. I pay extra for it and I can't tell the difference between it and a disc. I bought a cheap hacked Sony 4K player on Amazon. They unlocked it via hardware so it's region free and Sony can't brick it with firmware updates. Now I can play all my old Hammer Horror movies from the U.K. from the discs and delete my rips. Here's a link to it if anyone is interested. It's a great player especially for the money. You have to get it from the listed "Sold by" vendor B.E. or it may not be region free. *wink wink*. The search for high end visual is as much a rabbit hole as the search for high end audio. I'm convinced all the screens come from one factory in South Korea and the only restriction is software based. The more you pay the more they unlock the capabilities/clarity/color, but I really think all the screens are the same except for maybe how they are backlit. From what I've read they are stuck at 120 refresh rate and can't go beyond that which is why the resolution is becoming more important and you're seeing 8K TV's. I'm guessing an 8K capable TV will "downscale" to 4K making it play smoother in the same way making a 4K monitor play 1080p content makes everything smoother but I don't know. I still have a 900lb Samsung flat tube screen TV in my basement that works perfectly and has a great picture. I had a wide screen version of it one time but it got zapped and the magic smoke came out. That was a bad day. I loved that TV.

We used to play at a place called The Larry Holmes Commodore Inn in Phillipsburg NJ near Easton PA where Mr. Holmes is from. It was right at the time the bar scene was dying because the State Troopers were cracking down on drunk driving. Zero tolerance. Half a sip over the limit and you went bye bye. The bars emptied out almost overnight. It was a huge place that held at least 200 people, maybe more. Huge stage and a dressing room in the back. The last time we played there it was us, the bartender, and the manager. We went on and treated it like a normal job, very professional, didn't screw around. It was horrible though. I still get sick to my stomach when I think about that night. This huge stage, huge dance floor, spotlights shining down on us, dozens of tables, all empty. The first time I played there they had to turn people away because they went over the occupancy limit. The last time we played there, there wasn't a single person and he sold the place a short time after. New Years Eve gigs always got me twisted in a knot too. I haven't played out since 1998 and I still get butterflies in my stomach on NYE feeling like I have a huge gig to go to somewhere and I can't remember where. I call the drummer every year and we joke around about where we're going for the gig this year and we'll reminisce about all the places we used to play. He's 74 now and was almost killed in a car accident a month ago and can hardly talk so we'll have to skip the call this year. I'll text him to cheer him up.

I only have one. It's the one with the article about John Lennon when he was killed. There's a full page photo of him and when you turn the page and see the photo on the back of that page it looks like a knife stabbing him.

The bottom photo hits home. Lol

Taking a deep breath to get this all out in one sentence .... based on the constant screaming across the street from the 8 kids that the two ladies who just bought the place adopted, I think I'll pass ...

I got a bottle of cookie dough scented last year iirc. My wife has off tomorrow and we'll be digging it all out. Amazon just brought my bulk order of LED C7 bulb replacements for the lighted village buildings and window candles. I get like a kid at Christmas. ? It warmed up this afternoon so I'm headed to the attic to finish up a few loose ends from the remodel. I found some very bad old work wiring I need to fix. I'm surprised/thankful it never ignited.