Shane_B.

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.

I know how the OP feels. When I first ventured to the CH many moon ago I took it and some of the people here the wrong way. I've always felt bad about that and it is 100% on me and my fault. Once you get it then you realize what a great place it is. Hopefully the OP will be back. Once the regulars are gone, well, so's the CH I fear. Hopefully 10 - 15 years from now someone will remember the people who were here and look back with fond remembrance.

I do. And a fireplace mantle to make as well. I just built a fireplace as part of a remodel I'm doing. I got the piece of wood I want to use for the mantle but it's been too cold to work in my shop. As for the merger thing I wish them well and much success. Seriously. They made Sonar a great DAW again and I am very grateful for their efforts. If the Fender thing goes south I would have no problem switching to CbB full time again.

That sad part is, I wasn't joking about what is bandlab and reverb nation. Maybe the op's on to something. Maybe we are old and should just go away. Tbh the thought has crossed mind lately.

Yeah. You tell'm Ed.

What's bandlab? Who is reverb nation?

I was told squirrels do these things to sharpen their teeth. I talked to someone about them eating my cedar porch and chair and they said they weren't actually eating it. Apparently their teeth grow like our fingernails and they constantly have to keep them trimmed by chewing stuff but I haven't checked their claim. Males sense though. I think your problem was probably mice. I read that they are really attracted to soy based products like wire casing and hoses and more. Just like the squirrels with the pittsburg sealer. There's something in it that attracts them. I envy you with the acreage. I have 4.5 and it's not enough to get away from people. It's getting worse as more are leaving the city and wandering out here bringing their baggage. I'm surrounded on 2 sides by large acreages and woods but it still doesn't stop people. Once Elon gets the kinks worked out of his high speed satellite internet service I want to leave here. It's sad but it's impossible to not have good internet especially with my wife's job.

Well I'll be the son of a monkey's uncle. So it's not just my imagination that these things go bad prematurely. Squirrels must like magnesium or I have amazingly bad luck. They targeted the blue ones. They chewed the wire off both sides of the socket and chewed the blue plastic globe cover off that goes over the LED to get to the LED inside. I found the chewed up bits laying on the ground.

Hold on .. TOS obligation ... Elvis singing Blue Christmas. I like it. Cover coming soon to a song forum near you. Ok ... So I've had this conversation before and never really got an answer. I'm a huge fan of decorating for Christmas. I already have about 9,000 lights up, 6 indoor trees and a 20ft LED tree I built on my dock. I'm about half done. Got the Christmas village and train platform to build yet. 99% are LED. The only LED's I've ever had to replace are blue ones. I've had to replace 4 this year so far plus a 5th one that squirrels chewed off from one of my outside trees and I noticed a 6th one that needs replaced on another tree outside last night. All blue. What could it possibly be about blue LED's that cause them to fail a lot sooner than the others? I keep having to replace sets that squirrels chew up and I save the blue LED's from them. Haven't had to touch the other colors. I have 15 year old sets of lights I've never had to touch except for blue. All of them on my main tree are dimming out. When they get near the end they start to flicker and just fizzle out. Is it the chemicals used to make the blue reaction? I'm at a loss. And the funny thing is they don't give you blue replacements. Just a red, green, and gold/yellow. Any other masters of exterior illumination out there? (Scene from Christmas Vacation)

I stuff my bass back in the cardboard box it was shipped in when I'm not using it. I use my thumb or a giant triangular thick pick. Bapu turned me on to felt picks a long time ago but I never got around to trying one. I run my bass through the two ART units in my signature usually without any controls in action. Running it through the two tube analog units just does something I like without even having the compression kick in. The biggest thing I do is I always use Sonic Anomaly's Bassprofessor MarkII VST. It's free and really let's you tweak your bass track. Here's a link to it.

About a year ago now I think, I bought a bundle deal of theirs on sale. I already owned one of the plugins and I automatically got a discount for it when I bought the bundle. I would assume it applies to all their bundles but I don't know for sure. I ended up getting a lot of software for under $10 if I remember correctly. The thread is around here somewhere. And ya know, I couldn't tell you what I bought if my life depended on it. I remember the deal and the fact I already owned their autodynamic EQ and got a huge discount for already having it, but that's all I remember about it. I know for a fact I've never used what I bought because I have a favorites list in Studio One and I just drag what I need from there from the Browser and there's nothing new there. I'm not sure how the deals are going to go this year. Everyone is hurting bad. I don't think they can afford to give away too much.

You should see what they are doing at concerts now. It's a real 'pissing' contest.

The problem BiaB had that I ran in to was with Realtracks only. It didn't happen if I used Midi. They were aware of it but denied it was a problem. They tried to say it was how the "embellishments" were baked in to the Realtrack samples but it wasn't and the proof of that is the fact that they actually did fix it without re-recording 1 Terabyte of samples. ? But yes, everything I threw at it via Midi was 100% accurate. I really liked the old Roland VST stuff. What was it called, Roland Virtual Sound Canvas? I'm not sure. There were 2 or 3 VST packs you could get. I tried those many years ago and they were excellent but they stopped supporting them and they don't work any more on 64 bit. I still have a few songs I used them on and I can't tell them from real orchestra's. They were excellent imo.

Last I heard he was a gameshow contestant going by the name 'Rusty'.

I tried flatwounds because I read they solve the clacking problem. Didn't do a thing. They were cool though. Took a bit to get used to them. I may sell this one and try something else. The problem is there is an extremely limited selection of left handed bass guitars. This one feels great. Neck fits my hands perfectly.

That was one of the things I really liked about BiaB. Bass, and steel guitar. I really do like that program. BTW ... I saw a list of bug fixes in the latest version. They fixed the problem I was seeing when changing key and wrong notes being played while using Realtracks ... which they denied till they were blue in the face the whole time I was trying to get help with it. Familiar story eh? coughsonarcough. Oh the irony. LOL! I wish I could demo it but you can't with the Realtracks. I would absolutely buy it again if I knew that part was truly fixed. I really liked BiaB. What I usually end up doing is I'll export my bass line to midi using Melodyne and use Cakewalk's SI Bass VST. The Bass, String, and EP SI VST's are very usable. The drum one not so much for me. I'm used to Session Drummer 3. It will be a sad day for me when SD3 won't work anymore. It's the only drum VST I've ever used. I've used samples from Studio One in their generic little sampler, but it's a pain to set up. They have some excellent free drum samples on their Exchange group.