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I set it to Private. I could change it to public. The worse that could happen is they take it down for copyright stuff. Side note ... It's all done in Studio One but I don't post there because for some odd reason they don't allow you to post private soundcloud links. Thanks for listening and responding.

Thanks guys. This isn't an original tune of mine and I'm sorry I forgot to mention the original artist. It's a very old and very obscure country song by a lady named Lynn Anderson. Conway Twitty recorded it too. The version my brother and I did is almost identical to the original L. Anderson version. I don't like Conway's version. Thanks for listening and the feedback. I wish I could have gotten all 7 done that we recorded. Hopefully I'll still be around next year to finish them. Edit: Her big song was Rose Garden. That fast guitar part was in Rose Garden and they reused it in this Christmas song. I tried to emulate it and it was a lot lot harder than it sounds.

Xerox could never get a hold in IA. Canon was God in the High Volume arena there. KM tried. They are what drove me out. Stupid things like software issues not allowing you to lift the doc feed all the way or it would throw a code and lock the machine down. And no update to fix it. It was an absolute nightmare working on them. I had one offer working for Ricoh. I would have had to drive to downtown KC every day. 1.5 hour drive 1 way. Then drive around the city all day. They offered me my tenure from when I worked for the company they bought out and a 50% pay reduction. I told them to stick it the recycling bin. What I find odd about the age thing is, people are living longer, in better health older, younger people don't want to work anymore, and I can't even get a temp job at a factory. That was when I was 40. In my experience, once you are passed 35 you are screwed with a capital F if you have to switch careers and start over. I had to do it twice. I survived the first time at 28. Didn't make it the 2nd time at 40. The world has changed and not for the better. There are too many people and too many of them don't want to work and the people that do somehow seem to be getting swept under the rug. That's the upside down world we live in now days. The only way either my wife or I will ever get ahead is when one of us dies and the other loses the expense of the other and gets their insurance money. It's sad.

I was a Panasonic guy myself but got forced in to Canon and Ricoh when I moved from NJ to IA. Panasonic made the best copiers imo. But they knew it and charged more and wouldn't budge when the price wars came. The bean counters in offices didn't care about how well they ran or how great the color copies and prints were. The bean counters just looked at the bottom line and that drove Panasonic out of business. Anything Panasonic is superior to almost everything else but you do pay more. What I like about them is their parts department is the same for end user as service centers. They will sell any part for any of their products to anyone to repair it themselves. I don't know of anyone else who does that. I worked on office equipment over 20 years. Took a job as a manager, the economy tanked, the business closed, I couldn't get back in to the industry, the wife lost her job in IA, found her dream job in MO, I couldn't find a job here because the economy was still dead, been out of the workforce so long now nobody will even talk to me, plus my age. So I'm stuck just waiting for the tall dark boney dude with the scythe to come a' callin'.

I got drunk and went to bed at 9:30. The traditional fireworks and gun fire woke me up at midnight. Good to see some traditions are still held sacred. Christmas was a total flop this year. XM cut their Christmas music channels ofd at midnight Dec 25th. Store decoration shelves were empty before the 25th. It's like there was a concerted effort to wipe out tradition this year. Can't handle alcohol as I fight the aging process. In my own defense it was the strongest I could find. 10.2% alc.. Basically 1 was like 2.5 so I essentially downed 8 beer in the time it takes to have 3. 2021 was a horrible year for so mamy reasons for me. I've never felt so alone and isolated and miserable in my entire life as I did this year. But I was so busy I hardly had time to think about it until now. I didn't sit down for 10 minutes all year 7 days a week from January to mid December. I was and still Am exhausted. I did a TON of work inside and out here at my house not to mention what I went through with my dog in the coldest month in 200 years here while my wife was in Hawaii telling me I was overreacting. Something's gotta change this year or I'm throwing in the towel. Edit: Oh yeah ... Happy New Year.

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I agree they are very responsive. I bought Ozone 8 Advanced a long time ago and a couple months later they released Ozone 9 Advanced and wanted a ton of money to upgrade. I asked if there was anything they could do to lower the price and they upgraded me to Ozone 9 Advanced for free and let me keep my Ozone 8 Advanced license. I think I'll just contact them and make them an offer. I think I saw they have a 25% off sale going on some stuff, I'll ask if they can extend that to Nectar 3 Plus. I've used their software off and on over the years but Starting with Ozone 8 Advanced it was the first time I ever felt like it was worth dishing out a ton of money for. I've only recently had some time to really dive in to O9A and force myself to use it to the fullest I could. I mixed and mastered 3 songs in a little over a week during the middle of December. Volume wise, mix wise, and sonically it was the first time I ever got close to a professional sounding recording. Tonal Balance Control 2 alone is worth the money. The area where I struggled was with getting vocals to sit in the mix properly and Nectar would have helped immensely with that. Ozone 9 Advanced, Neutron 3 Advanced, Tonal Balance Control 2, and Nectar 3 Plus is an amazing set of tools imo.

Been waiting forever for Nectar 3 Plus to go on sale. It never seems to though. I own Ozone 9 Advanced, Tonal Balance Control 2, and Neutron 3 Advanced. Nectar 3 Plus is $249 and comes with Melodyne Essentials. I already own Melodyne Studio 5 so Essentials does me no good. They sent me a crossgrade bundle offer on sale that includes Nectar 3 Plus, O9A, TBC2, and N3A, for $299. In other words, I can give up my serials for O9A, TBC2, N3A, obtain new ones then give them $50 more than I would if I just flat out bought Nectar 3 Plus. Seriously ... who comes up with this crap. And they wonder why people are tempted to used hacked software.

"Keep your retirement and your so called social security ..."

After seeing his IUD thread I'm not sure.

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.