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It's actually the same plugin. You just have to actually know what you are doing to undo the damage that someone did who didn't know what they were doing. I really liked V-Vocal. It seems I could do things with it that were more useful to me than what I can do with Melodyne. More in Mel but what was on vvocal seemed to serve me better if that makes any sense. Probably not. Lol

Happy birthday!

I like the surface mount resistors for pedals.

I really like John 5. While I greatly dislike Marilynn Manson and he was his guitar player for a while, I really like his solo stuff and the story of why he only plays Telecasters. He grew up watching Hee Haw with his father and thought the only guitar there was were Telecasters and that's how it started. I can't ever recall any other player doing the type of music he does with a Tele. Part of the reason is the silver pickup rings like a bell. Once the joke portion ends he and The Creatures do an incredible version of I Got Rhythm.

I've had several doctors tell me if I lost weight I'd live to be well over 100. Apparently I have excellent genes and all my labs come back textbook perfect. So like a damn fool I went and lost weight.

I started playing out young. I was 12 or 13? Can't remember now. I've known the drummer in my last band since I was 6. He's 74 now and I'm 50. He can still sing really well. He records a lot at home using my old copy of SPE 8.5. I tried to get him on CbB so we could collaborate more easily but he's stuck in his ways. He puts his music to video's and posts on Facebook. He takes photo's and video's of our home town and posts on the town's Facebook page. He really enjoys it. If I hadn't have moved away he and I would still be playing out. But once he's gone, I am done with music for good. Nothing will be the same for me and I dread the day. He's the last person in my life that I share this passion with. I have dozens if not hundreds of hours of recordings he and I have done since the mid 80's on 4 track, 8 track, live in the band, and on our DAW's but I won't be able to listen to them ever again when he's gone. I like going back and listening to us talking on the tape masters and hear how I grew up and got better over the years. You are 100% right about it being healthy. His wife passed away and so did the lady he met long after his wife passed. He's been through a lot and music has absolutely helped him. He's still as sharp as he always was and still has his voice so I hope he'll be around for a good long time still. He's always trying to talk me in to leaving MO and moving back to NJ but I just can't do that. Believe me, I want to, but I can't.

Performance, longevity, all the members are constantly creating new music as solo artists and they are working on new music as a group. I'm not sure what more you could do than still be making new music, be the longest running band in history, and playing to sold out stadiums for 60 years to be considered creative. BTW, I'm not really a fan. I like a few of their songs but I really couldn't name more than 3 or 4, if that. Angie, 19th Nervous Breakdown, Ruby Tuesday ... and ... uh, I'm thinking ... Oh, Satisfaction. Used to do that one. Who didn't.

Uh ... The Rolling Stones.

I upgraded to Melodyne Studio 5 a few months ago and just got a chance to give it a try last night. I tried it on an old band demo that had the backups mixed down on to one track on the tape machine. Melodyne scanned the mixed down transfer and separated the two vocal parts that were in a single wave file and I was able to fix pitch problems on each individual vocal. It completely blew my mind. TPAIN has a Twitch channel. He's been coming up in my recommended list lately. It's interesting to see how he mixes and works on his music. Not my cup of tea but I can respect the process and the fact that some people like it.

Priorities change over time. For me the closer I get to the finish line the less important music is to me. So I guess I do believe age is a factor but for many different reasons and every situation is different. I still have that urge to record and I still love music, but it's habit and muscle memory. I actually bought a guitar a few weeks ago. It came broken and I returned it and in the end after a bunch of hassle I just told them to cancel the order. I was even looking at midi controllers. But I hesitate because I know once I get these things they'll just sit there collecting dust just making good future yard sale items after my death. Or end up in a landfill. I'd rather be working on remodeling my fixer upper house, or mowing the lawn, chopping trees and splitting firewood, harvesting and selling my seasonal crops I grow on my tiny little acreage, saving what's left of my hearing. I was way more in to recording and music when I worked 14 hours a day 6 days a week. I had to to relieve all that stress. My wife is glued to her books and Kindle to this day, I was glued to my music. Then my wife and I both lost our jobs up in Iowa but she was lucky enough to find another one in the Kansas City area. It was the 2nd time in my life I had to start over from zero and I didn't make it the second time because of age and the changing hiring climate which I shouldn't get in to here. You'd think being the #1 tech in a 3 state marketplace for a fortune 500 company would carry some weight but nope. The world has changed. So I do my own thing now and I'm happier. Hell, I lost well over 100lb's. Closer to 2 if I were to be painfully/embarrassingly honest. The stress was literally killing me. Now that I don't have that, I focus on other things. I spent 5 hours remixing and fixing an old band demo last night but that was the first time I was able to concentrate on music in a very very long time. I rushed a song back in January. It took me a day to record, mix, and master a song that normally would have taken me months. And then I completely lost interest. Maybe it's depression, maybe it's the world and the horrible people living in it, maybe it's age? I don't know. But I've certainly lost my zest for life and music. I look forward to going to bed and getting a good nights sleep and taking a normal dump in the morning. Seriously. People throw in my face all the time about not working a 9-5 (or in my case it was a 7am to whenever you got home which was usually after 9pm) job and they don't know how I can stand being home all the time. I can honestly tell you I am busier now than I was when I drove 50,000 miles a year running service calls 6 days a week, but I'm busy taking care of my own world now not someone else's. The other thing is, the music I love is all but dead and I don't have an audience anymore. I can sit here and perform and record for myself but what's the point? My wife couldn't care any less about music so what's the point? I have 68 people on my Facebook page. All friends from high school and family. I keep a small tight circle. I get maybe 5 likes from a few cousins maybe so I don't even waste my time creating and posting there anymore. My brother who is a musician too never even responds so why bother anymore. Without someone to play my creations for I really don't see the point. All I do is obsess over the process. The real joy is playing it for someone who enjoys the end product and I have nobody left.

"The answer is: neither is silent. They work together as a digraph in the word scent to create the /s/ sound." ??

Eh hehheh heh heh.

lisp (v.) sometimes lipse, late 14c. alteration of wlisp, from late Old English awlyspian "to lisp, to pronounce 's' and 'z' imperfectly," from wlisp (adj.) "lisping," which is probably imitative (compare Middle Dutch, Old High German lispen, Danish læspe, Swedish läspa). General sense "speak imperfectly or childishly" is from 17c. Transitive sense from 1610s. Related: Lisped; lisping. Suggestive of effeminacy from 14c.

To elaborate on that, there are tiny calcium crystals in your ear. When you get older the get messed up and cause severe vertigo and dizziness. You can trigger it yourself by shaking your head too fast or banging your head or messing with your ears with ear plugs or suction and knocking them out of position or simply by doing nothing. You have to do what's called The Epley Maneuver to get them back in to position. It's another thing I have to do a few times a year as well. Once you have to do it, you have to keep doing it and can hit at any time.

More than likely your eardrums are collapsed. It happens when you have problems with your Eustachian tubes and your inner ear pressure isn't working properly. Putting that thing in your ear basically sucks your eardrums back out to a normal position and allows you to hear properly for a while. I mow 4.3 acres at least once a week on a diesel powered tractor. It takes about 4 hours. I buy earplugs in bulk and have a big bottle of hand sanitizer sitting next to it. The proper way to us them is pinch them to a golf tee shape then gently insert them in your ears and hold them there till they expand, then let go. It causes a reverse pressure on your eardrums so they don't vibrate as much and protects your ears. But as Kush said, low frequency vibration through your body will still cause damage. If you cna feel it, it can harm you. When I take them out the same thing happens. I can hear crystal clear, ringing and all, for about 20 minutes. Then the inner ear pressure goes back to it's improper state and the cotton magically reappears. It's horrible. Be careful doing that. You could really screw your ears up. You can get a camera on Amazon to put in your ear and it comes with a small soft tool for you to go in your ear canal and pull out wax. https://smile.amazon.com/Otoscope-Scopearound-Diameter-Ultra-Slim-Adjustable/dp/B07PHWBNJT/ref=sr_1_4?dchild=1&keywords=ear+canal+camera&qid=1632938332&sr=8-4

It doesn't work. Mythbuster's debunked it.

Ear wax is one of the causes of Tinnitus. Debris left over from inner ear infections can cause it too but it is an extremely invasive surgery to have it corrected and there's no guarantee it will help. I've actually cured some of mine. I had 5 distinct frequencies. Down to 3. ENT's do this but you can do it at home. Use a frequency generator and find the frequency your Tinnitus is at. Then do 30 seconds on and 30 seconds off for 5 minute intervals and repeat regularly at a volume level that is just above your Tinnitus. Make sure you isolate it to the ear you hear it in. You don't want to blast your good side. ??

I know, right? Thank God the thread wasn't titled I blame Peter.

I don't want to say the 'best' recording I ever made, but the most 'natural' was when I played real drums on a song I wrote a very long time ago. I forget where I got them but I had a set of those Rock Band game drums from a Playstation 3. I may have gotten them as a gift one time, IDK. Tiny little toy like things with 4 tom pads and a kick trigger. Some kid wrote a set of drivers for them so Windows would recognize them and your DAW could use them as midi triggers. I took to it like a fish in water. I used TTS-1 iirc. I imagine if I ever got my hands on a real set I would love to play real drums. My brother is a really good drummer, but I don't know. Nothings worse than two drummers in the family other than maybe two bass players. ?

I still have my Alesis SR-16. I completely forgot about it. It's in a box somewhere in my basement. I dropped it and broke the volume knob and kind of forgot all about it, but I could use that for pads. That SR-16 has been around for ever and it's still being made new. I've had mine well over 20 years. I can't believe I forgot I had that thing. The more I look at these midi controllers the more I want one. I like how you can control the synth functions with knobs. I've always just manually edited everything in PRV.

That's me. One more step and I'll be in and around the lake.

Fragile?

I was avoiding even looking at them. They really screwed people with the lack of driver support with the Fast Track Ultra. They refused to release a 64bit driver. That was a great audio interface they left for dead and all they needed to do was update the drivers one last time. That said, I just looked that controller up that you have. The replacement looks nice and is inexpensive. I can get the latest version for $177. I'm just looking for something to get midi instrument and drum notes in to my DAW easier, I am by no means a piano or synth player. The track and transport controls are just a nice bonus. I like that it is class compliant too. My ancient Korg X5 works and has some great built in sounds, but it's heavy and takes up a ton of room and has no transport functions. I can't even control all of the banks via midi. The sounds are split in to 3 main banks and only 1 is controllable externally. That worries me. My old Korg X5 was by no means a high end synth, but it is rock solid and feels great for having unweighted keys. If I get something that feels like a Casio VL-Tone I won't be happy. About 10 - 12 years ago the battery died in my Korg so I took it apart and soldered in a battery holder. It takes one of the standard Sony 2032 quarter sized batteries. I've had it well over 20 years.

Does anyone use a midi controller? The kind with the pads on it? I am a 100% newb when it comes to this stuff. I'm just looking for a simple keyboard with those pads on it to tap out drums. Is that a thing or have I totally misunderstood the use of those pads on the controllers I've seen? I was looking at this one for using in Studio One 5.4. Any thoughts? It's an Arturia Keylab Essential 49. I found a setup video and it hooks up to S1 in seconds and as a bonus it controls the transport with dedicated buttons right on the keyboard which is really nice. But I'm lost on whether or not you can use the pads to tap out drums or not. I have an ancient Korg I use but it's heavy, takes up a lot of room, doesn't have any touch pads, and can't do anything but be used as a piano. One thing I've noticed is anything below 49 keys that I could find have mini keys and that won't work for me. I need full sized keys for the limited amount of piano playing I do. TIA for any info.

I never knew the names of the guys in the group but I knew some of their music. Everyone, well, everyone of a certain age and above, knows Pictures Of Matchstick Men over here. Sad to hear he's gone.