Shane_B.

I figured it's about all we could hope for. I got my 50" 4K TV working as a monitor really well but man, reading the forum actually gives me a headache. It's brutal on the eyes even with the blue blocker thingy turned on. BTW ... My old Geforce card was dying and I didn't know it until it finally gave up the ghost completely. It's specs are rated less than the CPU/GPU on my i6700K. That's sad. It's a 9500 IIRC. I had the GPU disabled on the 6700K to free up resources and I had one hell of a time going in to bios and enabling it with a video card that kept blacking out every 5 seconds. LOL. The TV is working like a charm now for DAW work. I imagine gaming wouldn't work, although it says it will. Afraid to go down that rabbit hole. TV says you can game, Shane buys video card, TV lied, Wife mad over $$$, Shane on self-cancellation watch. You know the story. I can't believe my DAW is 6 years old already. I've barely had a chance to use it until the last couple of weeks. It's like brand new. Getting sick of Ozone taking 25 seconds to load so I looked in to updating my CPU. I have the fastest one my Mobo will support so if I want to upgrade I have to replace the Mobo, RAM, and CPU. It never ends. Thinking of keeping this for the NAS server I want to build, 20 years from now, and upgrading to something new.

Please. For the love of God. All we want for Christmas this year is an option to make the forum page black instead of white. Our retina's are sizzling. Thank you.

Pretend it's my J/P bass and call it good. ?

Exactly. I've seen some house flipping shows based in Cali. Believe me, a beautiful recording studio in your back yard won't be a problem. LOL

Careful if you put any treatment on the ceiling. You wouldn't want to pull any wool over your eyes. Sorry, I'll go to bed now. It's late and I haven't had any beer.

I baked this today and was thinking of you paulo. Weird to know a 50 year old man wearing an apron was baking in his kitchen half way around the world thinking of you isn't it. I'm just kidding. I'm not quite half way around the world. Anyhoo ... here is a museum quality slice of Pennsylvania Dutch Shoofly Pie. I baked it myself. The secret is the cast iron. Perfect crispy flaky crust. Slightly gooey in the corners and a thin gooey layer on the bottom, perfectly baked in the middle, and crumble on top. Mmm.

Wow. That looks just like CJ's studio!

Craig, kiss my grits! So there's no misunderstanding, kiss my grits was Flo's catch phrase.

My pot smoking, long haired, non-bathing, Harley riding, 74 year old wanna be hippie father in law was recently complaining that they don't make lava lamps like they used to. Something about they don't flow like the 'good ol' days'. Of course, he says the same things about Harley's, weed, women etc. etc. ...

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. ??