Shane_B.

The HDMI port's capabilities are determined by your CPU. The new Gen CPU's support HDR. They all support 4K resolution but the HDR part is different. Mine does not support HDR and I think that's where the problem is. Thanks. I'm running an i7-6700. It's pretty old now but there's zero chance of the boss letting me upgrade. I mean, gee. I already upgraded 6 years ago. ? Prior to that I was running my DAW off thumb drives. No lie. I wish video cards weren't so outrageously priced right now. My neighbor is an IT type something. I'll see if he has a newer one laying around. I'm not really sure what he does but drink, play video games, and collect money for doing nothing in his makeshift "server room" in his barn. But hey, good for him. ??

Bapu, I seem to remember you mentioning you got a large monitor a while back. I think a 45" or larger maybe? We just got a 50" 4K TV to put in a room I'm remodeling. I hooked it up to my DAW just to see how it would work and it actually functions in 4K resolution unlike most TV's when used as monitors. I tried running it off my old video card and the mouse lag was really bad. I switched to my CPU's video output which actually specs better than my old GeForce card and it's a lot better but not quite perfect. There's still a bit of mouse lag. I'm thinking if I had a modern video card that actually supported 4K UHD that this TV would work extremely well. My CPU's video output supports 4K resolution but not actually 4K UHD and there's a difference. My old GeForce card is the same way but it doesn't even come close to my CPU's specs. I'm starting to think that the video card is more important now than it used to be, especially with Studio One. Editing with it on a large screen is a joy. OMG. I'm starting to understand the whole curved monitor thing now though. I absolutely see how it would be a plus. I got an LG 50UP7670PUC from Sam's Club and it's an excellent TV. I think it's a Sam's exclusive because I can't find it anywhere else. I can stream 4K UHD movies on the apps and the clarity is stunning. There's a lot of 4K UHD demo video's on Youtube that are incredible if you're in to eye candy. I was using a really cheap Vizio and it worked well but they did a software update and it stopped working as a monitor. I'll never buy another Vizio. It's been a piece of garbage after they did a couple of software updates. At first it worked great. What kind of video card are you using? Is what you got a TV or actual PC Monitor? How is the mouse lag? Do you think a better video card would eliminate the mouse lag I'm seeing? 4K Video on youtube through my DAW plays perfect. Thanks.

1. Starting and scrapping a song because I thought it was garbage then 10 years later ask myself why I never finished it because it was really good especially compared to what I'm able to do now. 2. Finishing a song 10 years after I start it. ** 3. Waiting another 10 years after it's finished to remix and remaster. I have stuff from the 90's I'm working on right now. Technology keeps changing and making mixing and mastering easier for us common folk. 4. Forcing myself to like something even though I don't because everyone else uses it and says it's the best ever. (In regard to DAW's and VST's) 5. Obsessing over minutia in regard to recording ... at my dining room table with a full sized mirrored wall and huge bay window that reflects the sound around the room like a bouncy house at Chucky E Cheese's. ** Here's a prime example. It was just the double vocal and rhythm guitar 13 years ago and I scrapped it. I started it in IA and finished it in MO. 3 years ago my nephew died and my sister asked me if I ever finished it because she would like to hear me sing it again. So I finished it and sent it off to her. I added bass, a guitar lick, Cakewalk SI Electric Piano, and SD3. I got inspiration from Loretta Lynn's version of She's Got You. Her vocals on this in certain parts do that ASMR thing to me with the tingles and goosebumps. IMO this is her best recording.

Bud is really bad. My dad used to drink Schmidt's. It was 12% back then iirc. I don't know if they still make it. Peil's or Piel's (pronounced peels) was popular when I was a kid but I haven't seen it either. Bud is the only beer I've ever had that gives me a terrible headache and it only takes 1. I think some people like it because you can drink a lot and it doesn't do much. IOW bragging rights about how much they can drink. The only one I can drink anymore since I've had it is Tank 7. It's from a KC brewery called Boulevard. 2 of those and someone is driving me home. 3 and I'm out cold. Normally I can handle at least a 6 pack over the course of an evening. It tastes great and packs one hell of a wallop.

I wonder if The Poo Man group could use that in their act? Sorry. I'll leave now.

There's a mid/side joke in there somewhere. There's gotta be.

I desperately need a Porta 2. Before all my tapes go bad. I'd also like a DAT player. My Sony died. I still have all of my old DAT tapes with my band backing tracks we used live and a ton of LPs I no longer have.

Bapu, are you gonna tell him or am I gonna have to do it? ?

I've said it before and I'll say it again, if the U.S. is so bad then leave or don't come. In fact I highly recommend nobody come here. It's truly an awful place. The Stone's ... does anyone really care if they ever hear a song by them ever again? A band who has only had a fist full of songs on the charts in their 60 year career? I respect their longevity, but they really aren't all that great. They were no Beatles by a long shot. They weren't even a Monkey. Maybe a Rutle?

Music captured me when I was really young. I was in a band at 13 and played out for 16 years straight. All of the true country people I grew up listening to from the 50's are gone now and everyone from the 60's and 70's are dropping like flies. There are only a handful of people left that represent the era I loved. The last man standing in my opinion is Marty Stewart. He started when he was 9 iirc. There's video of him on the Porter Wagoner show at 13 playing with Lester Flatt. Once Marty's gone then it's truly over. He's the last one keeping country music alive. He's the last one still playing live and recording that actually knew all these people and played with them. He's releasing a new album called Songs I Sing In The Dark for free on youtube. He's posting one song a month. So far it's excellent. Here's his latest track release.

This used to be my Bub avvy on the old forum around Halloween. John scolded me one time iirc because he found the axe to be offensive. I'm 100% sure someone complained and 99% sure it was John.

I actually almost doubled in size over the years. I'm embarrassed to say how much. In the last 3 years I lost it all and I'm actually thinner now than I was in the picture from 86. I've lost another 15 lb's since I took the current picture. I lost so much weight I had to have corrective surgery to repair the damage I had done. But I'm all good now.

Actually, you've got me beat by 9 years. 2021-1986=35. I find it hard to go quickly count the years going from the 19's to the 20's. I do the same exact thing all the time. It's a MIJ Fender Stratocaster made in 1984 according to the serial on the neck. My EMG's I put in it in the late 80's are starting to sound odd. I was reading that the ones I have are the ones David Gilmour designed his 'signature emg series' off of. I guess I was ahead of my time eh? They sound glassy/harsh/sharp/digital almost. I'm hoping it's just the old caps on the pots, otherwise I'll have to replace them. ☹

Sadly I've gone backwards in my skillz. Heck, I don't even plug it in anymore as you can tell from the new picture. BTW ... I still have the same guitar cord too. It's blue, but it has a yellowish tint to it now from age and smoky bars.

Him in 1986 at 15 years old and 2021 at 50 years old playing the same guitar. What a jerk!

I used to work for my brother back home in the NJ/PA area. He has a cash register/P.O.S., and copier sales and service company. We also did calculators and scales. I remember a time when we would go out and upgrade the old Victor printer calculators with an LCD display. We even sold service contracts on calculators at banks. Times sure have changed. We got a call one time at an old fashioned style general store. Actually this place. It was around 1991 iirc. It was kind of like a swinging door saloon type entrance and the door was always open. The owner called in a panic state one time at his busy lunch time hour. A squirrel got in and they tried to hit it with a broom and get it out of the store. It jumped up on the counter and on top of the cash register and pissed in it. He said it blew up and a big white cloud of smoke came billowing out of it and we had to come right away. I picked it up and brought it back to the shop and miraculously I repaired the main board with parts off of other old damaged boards I kept around for spare parts. It was really common for the IC's to go bad for the LCD displays on those early electronic cash registers so I always kept PCB's around for spare parts. 74SL04 gates were really common. I can remember IC numbers from the 90's but I can't remember what I had for breakfast. Ain't that something? LOL. I went through a lot of them as well as many others. In case you've ever wondered, squirrel piss smells like super concentrated walnut extract. Plus it was burned a little which gave it even greater earthy tones.

What I find ironic about it all is, the stones come from the place that sold them so who the hell are they to be looking down their noses at anyone. And why focus on what happened here well over 150 years ago? It happened to every race at one time or another and is still going on today. Why don't the people in power do something about that? A simple drone strike or two would end it in about 30 minutes. Maybe something a little larger than a drone perhaps. The only reason anyone talks about this now is because the U.S. is the richest and best place to live. And despite what some want the world to believe we're still the land of opportunity and being free. Just take a look at our southern border. Thousands a day literally dying to get in. People want a slice of the pie without working for it now is what the real problem. We have a term for it that I'll get banned for so I'll refrain. All I'll say before this gets deleted is, most myth's/legends/stereotypes are based on some form of truth and peoples actions, not their appearance or accent. And ... 3 ... 2 ... 1 ...

If you're worried about being cancelled after being on the road for 60 years and having hundreds of millions of dollars in the bank then maybe it is time to pack up the gear and stay home. I suppose Paul will have to stop doing Blackbird at his hoot-a-nanny's too. That's not a play on words. The song is actually about the civil rights movement.

I prefer Crazy Carol's singing over this kids guitar playing.

Fix Ed.

One concern that popped in to my mind was I would be afraid I'd pull it off the guitar. I'm so used to the tension of a real bar I feel like I would probably break it. And yes, I was wondering how it would effect the finish too. With all the software innovation now days I can't imagine it would be too hard to isolate the effects of this to the B and E strings to emulate a steel guitar. I'm working on a very old band demo my band and I did back in the early 90's. It's from a Tascam 8 track tape transfer. We mixed down the backup vocals on to a single track. Melodyne is detecting the two vocals on the single track and letting me pitch correct each vocal separately. I would think they could do something like that with this in real time. I saw an interview with Joni Mitchell one time and she said she used something on stage to alter tunings real time. Can't remember if it was hardware or software based.

Those are some mighty big shoes to fill. Thank you! Thanks! There's nothing wrong with using samples. What you did is excellent, samples or no samples. I struggle with midi and everything I try to do sounds really bad, but I have never invested in a good sample library either. Thank you. I've said it before and I'll say it again, I turned my radio off when music died in 1978. Especially country. Thanks for the kind words. Sorry it took so long to reply. I've been wading around 20" of blown insulation in my attic for the last week rewiring part of my house for a remodel and haven't been on much. Still going to be busy for the next month or so. I need to be done by the end of Nov. for Thanksgiving here in the U.S.. Relatives will start piling in around then and I need to get finished before then. BTW ... I forgot to give credit for that song. I never share that version, I have it up on youtube set to private to share on facebook with credits on it and I forgot to give credit here. A guy named Blaze Foley wrote and recorded that song. I did a cover of it. Merle Haggard covered it also, but I prefer the original Blaze Foley version. That guy was the real deal. Lived hard. IIRC one of his relatives shot him.

It's a whammy bar and more. I see it works great on an Acoustisonic. ??? But seriously, this would be fun and very useful to have. Too bad you can't set it to work with only one or two strings to get that Clarence White sound.

It's really good. I like that type of music a lot. It puts me in a calm mood and creates an atmosphere I like. I did this a few years ago. It's not my latest creation but probably the best I've done in a very long time. I was in a zone and I couldn't replicate the guitar melody again if my life depended on it. I can't sing or play this well at all anymore actually. I recorded it for my dog Maggie when she died a few years back. She was at my side 24/7 and in my studio for every recording I made during the 14 years she was alive. Just a simple recording I did on my Tascam 8 Track and transferred to my DAW to mix/master/upload.