Shane_B.

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.

None of what I'm using on this circuit is grounded except for my DAW. My audio interface doesn't have a ground, none of the decoration lights do either, nor the monitor. I'm currently only using headphones so no powered monitors with grounded plugs and I don't have my rack mount hardware hooked up either. Ground and Neutral are bonded at the panel. That's why it's bad to have a high voltage when you check the outlet. It means there is an EMF leak or other type of leak. I don't know what it is now but here in the US the acceptable reading between N and G used to be .3 VAC or less with nothing plugged in to the outlet/no load. The problem with isolation transformers and AC filters with audio and video is, they chop the wave. The audio purist guys avoid those like the plague. This is the only way to really solve the problem. It's only $10,000 USD so maybe pick up two. Hah. I had to switch to all balanced cables when connecting the audio path while using my monitors and rack gear. I was getting a bad buzzing sound, but the ground voltage tested ok. When I do hook all that up I have it all in a single power strip now. I have tried it both ways with everything plugged in separately. I had plans to build a small dedicated room in my basement to set up all my gear but never finished it. I wired a dedicated 20 amp circuit with 8 outlets to cover all the devices. It didn't make a difference. Got the same results with the properly grounded dedicated circuit as I did with just running everything off a single power strip with various things plugged in around the room. That said, the only problem was audible noise when using all that hardware. What's happening here is a performance issue. I'm not one to buy in to all that EMF and Smart Meter and 5G 'EMF pollution' stuff, but who knows. That stuff reaches you far less below ground surrounded by concrete walls in a basement.

Well, maybe this has a tiny bit to do with it. LOL! I put up a train layout in my dining room for Christmas this year and this is 1 of 3 power strips. Hey, In my own defense, I converted all the C7 lamps to LED's. I have one of those AC line splitters for hooking an amp meter on for corded plugs. I threw my meter on the main plug and I'm drawing 351 Watts and it's 100% LED. That's without the train running. Plus I have a full sized tree with 300 incandescent lights. All on the same circuit. That said, I've seen no performance decrease with or without all of that, but I absolutely without doubt see a performance increase when I take my DAW downstairs. At some point water dripped in to my main box in the basement. You can see corrosion on the lines coming in and nobody ever used conductive grease when they installed it. I wish I had a whole house shutoff to address that. My only option is to get the power company involved and I don't want to do that. I've seen video's on youtube of high end audio guys who had that same problem fixed and they added long grounding lines with many grounding rods way out away from their house just so they could get good grounds. It is extremely important to have a good clean ground. It was the first thing I checked on every copier and fax service call and I've solved many problems by dumping bad ground problems back on the customer to have them get an electrician to fix it. I've checked mine here and I'm getting almost nothing so even with the corrosion at the panel it's still pretty good. Back when I serviced office equipment the standard was less than .3 VAC between N and G with no load on the circuit. That's what I have here. That said, I recently added 4 USB charging port outlets to the bedroom remodel I did. I ran all new wire and checked before I added outlets and N to G was good. I put those USB charging outlets in and it jumped up to 3VAC. It's all lights and 1 TV on the circuit and it hasn't caused any problems with the TV so far, but that bothered me to see that much of a leak. It must mean that there is a constant load because of the built in charge ports.

It's just not the same since they introduced Ethanol out here in the Midwest. And don't even get me started about Bio-Willie-Diesel! Pa-tooey! The aftertaste is dreadful. I don't know what I'm going to do when we go 100% electric in 2050. If we make it that long after Windows 10 expires. ?

Neither do all the pokes and boosters every single person here including the children got. But here we are. I just can't wait until I can get back to licking gas pump handles like the good il' days.

There's an old Benny Hill sketch about One Eye the cat. I probably shouldn't post a pic. It was a view of the cat walking away. ? @craigb, you seem to be in to kitty cat meme's. Care to take a chance? ?

I thought this was a joke but it's real! Here's a link to it on Amazon. I had my DAW set up in my dining room. LSS ... 18 of her people will be here in 20 minutes for a Christmas gathering, so I'm down in the basement hiding now. LOL! I set up my DAW down in the basement and the first thing I noticed is it's faster, and everything seems to work a bit smoother. Even the mouse lag on my TV/Monitor is noticeably less. I remember this has happened to me before and I asked about it a very long time ago when I lived up in Iowa, on the old forum. Moved DAW in the basement temporarily, and it worked and sounded better. I was at a loss. I got to thinking maybe it has something to do with being surrounded upstairs in the walls with the AC wires and they are creating EMF's and maybe that's effecting my PC. I don't have any of that in the basement. So I just did a quick search for EMF protection for PC cases and this USB Grounding Cable came up. There ain't no way in h e double hockey sticks I am ever plugging that thing in to a USB port. First of all ... what if some idiot accidentally wired the outlet wrong and reversed the neutral and ground wires or you have a voltage leak between neutral and ground. You'd find out real quick when you plugged this bad boy in. Holy smokes!

I wonder if Bob is related to the OEOHFPPE ...

Dark Reader works with Amazon, eBay, and the Presonus Forum too. Oh happy days. Edit: Google Drive and Photo's too.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. There we go. Thanks for the Dark Reader advice. Thankfully it works in Brave. I guess I can die, within the 3 years that Windows 10 will still be supported, a happy many now.

All I can think of when I see Bapu's image is Jennifer Aniston in Leprechaun 1. Oh Jennifer. ?

I chose the dark background in Windows 10, I can't on the forum. ? "Microsoft will end Windows 10 support on October 14, 2025.". I sure hope we have a tiny big more time than that.

That's funny! I have my desktop and Studio One and CbB all set to black. Well, Tungsten as CbB calls it. It truly blows switching from anything I'm doing to checking the forums. I immediately get a searing headache and sharp pains in my eyeballs. LOL. I needed a break and I've been buried in my DAW for 10 days now, 16 hour + days. The contrast is starting to get to me. And then I get a message this morning saying, "No joy for you!". LOL. I tell ya, I can't win for losin'. ???

See notice at bottom of screenshot. I'm running an Intel i6700K w/16GB RAM and 2 250GB SSD's and it doesn't meet the minimum system requirements for my upcoming forced update to Windows 11. What a C.O.S..

You get 2 gold stars for creativity on this one @Bapu. ?