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If I were to be honest, I'd be raising my hand now. Nothing I do is that important or that good to even back up. The stuff I complete that I like I'll throw on my 14 year old backup drive that has bad sectors and you have to unplug and plug back in 5 times to be recognized. Everything else is on it's own on my main drive. A while back my DAW must have gotten zapped and I lost both HDD's. I threw in an old small drive to boot from and ran Studio One off of those little SD cards you put in camera's and backed up on to those. I've run them through the washer and dryer. I've popped them in to my car stereo to see what would happen. They're still working. And not once did I ever have a problem recording to them and even using samples off of them with Studio One. Never tried it with anything else. NAS systems are really coming down in price and if you're adventurous you can build your own. I started a thread about it in another sub forum here. There's some good info there. There is a lot of free software and you can do some amazing things. There's a lot of easy to follow tutorials out there also.

I'm currently building my own NAS with an old PC. Im currently just using an external usb drive. HDDs especially SSDs are so reliable now Im not worried. And now that I've jinxed myself Ill go in the house in a few minutes and my daw will be on fire.

I'll let you know Tuesday. It's when the tracking email says my new geetar is showing up. ??

You were on subject. My concern is the moderators banning you and/or removing the thread. IOW I felt like I may have set the conversation up to get people in trouble and I regretted posting the video. Every company I have ever known that was bought out the Sweetwater has been bought out has been destroyed. It's happened at two companies I worked for. The more I think about it I don't think Sweetwater will be any different but it may take longer to destroy them because they have such a great reputation.

Well there goes this thread. Sorry I posted the vid. LOL!

I wasn't on the forum when you first started this thread. This is the first I knew about it. I've lost several family members to pancreatic cancer and I know it's one of the worst forms there is. I'm sorry she didn't make it Greg. I wish it would have turned out different. Condolences to you, her friends, and family.

This is a pretty good video about the topic. Pretty much sums it all up imo.

Same here but I came to the conclusion I can let everything eat me alive or say ***** it, I'm 50 years old, I'm going to try to enjoy what little time I may have left. There's nothing I can do to change anything other than simply try to help my family and neighbors and leave the planet a little cleaner than I found it. (I left out friends because I have none, at least locally. They're all in NJ and most have passed away.).

Seems I remember money and who did what was always a problem. There was someone who was friends with someone else in the band whose justification for his friend being on stage and in the group was slapping a tambourine, singing backups in to a mic that was never plugged in, and the two of them would go out weeknights and book band jobs. (nudge nudge wink wink) Every once in a while without asking he would say he's taking $100 or so out for his friend because they worked so hard booking band jobs. We had a private meeting without them and decided to just pay his friend a percentage so they would always have money, we would always know how much we were getting, and in the end they actually got more money over time than randomly taking some every once in a while. It just felt wrong. We thought everyone would be happier about the situation that way. Immediately the bookings stopped. They dumped getting bookings on the rest of us and his friend kept taking the money and we had no contacts so it was the beginning of the end. There's more than one lesson here. Never depended on someone's side piece to keep the band going for more than one reason.

Man. Somebody got up on the wrong side of the apocalypse this morning. ?

They just opened a massive storefront at their headquarters in Indiana. You can try any guitar amp or anything they have in stock. Everything you see online you can pick up there or try first. I don't think they are going anywhere. But who knows. https://www.sweetwater.com/local/music-store/

Just out of curiosity I did a search for every face, by name, in your video on youtube. Pages of results came up with 10's if not 100's of millions of views. It must have been something else or you just caught the 'fill in' staff while everyone else is off for the long weekend.

Guess who has a Left Handed Acoustisonic on the way! I'm so happy right now. Guys, you can't ask for anything more than what they did for me. They gave me full credit ($503) plus a LOT more. I'm not used to all this good fortune and positive vibes. I'm afraid to go outside. I may get hit by another school bus or something. Lightning maybe? They just finished putting a new roof on my house yesterday so that shouldn't fall in on me. ????

I didn't see anything wrong with it. You can watch full length vids on everyone in your vid all day long on youtube. Oh well. Better luck next time. ?

I've heard nothing but great things about those and the whole line of the $1,000 or less Gretsch guitars. The one I want is $850 U.S. and it plays like a dream to me. I saw the video of them playing these. They also did a demo of the Acoustisonic which was really good too.

Eh hehheh. Hey Beavis, he said tool. Six times. Whoa! Eh heh. Hehheh. I still have the very first recordings I made. I made them by flip flopping two cassette decks I got at yard sales through a broken Radio Shack mixer my brother was going to throw out and playing/singing along. I just dragged my cassettes out of the basement tonight and was going to transfer some to my DAW as a matter of fact. Kind of depressing to listen to now. LOL.

It depends on their taxable status and if they are considered a publisher or editor. There's a lot of arguing going on about this now in our upper institutions. If I understand it correctly, if you want to be an editor and censor people, you lose your tax exempt status and are then considered a publisher, if I understand it correctly. All of these corporations file under the tax exempt status and therefor can't legally censor anyone ... yet they do. Unfortunately, the people who benefit from that censorship are in control of the part of our government that can do something about it at the moment, so nothing is being done about it. Most people don't realize that it's more important who controls the House and Senate than who is President. And that's just how they like it. Bitchute is the closest I've seen to old school Youtube. I really like it, but I watch 99% of this stuff on my TV and they won't allow Bitchute, Odysee, or any other apps other than Youtube, Netflix, Hulu, etc. etc.. Amazon owns Twitch so if you want to watch Amouranth licking her ear shaped microphones while standing in her kiddy pool in a bikini, you'll have to get an Amazon Firestick to watch it on your big screen. FYI ... it's not worth the cost of the Firestick. A. J. got banned from Youtube and went to Bitchute. He's 75% entertainment and 25% actual info. I can't take him for very long but what terrifies me is, almost every wild claim he's made has actually turned out to be true. There was a huge one just announced in the hidden news cycle just a couple months ago that even I thought was too far fetched to be true but it was and it was horrifying. So why was he censored? For speaking the truth? Makes you wonder. Why was Dr. Disrespect banned from Twitch? He was the #1 gaming streamer. Now everyone is leaving Twitch and joining him on Youtube. They just lost their #2 gaming streamer yesterday and he was streaming with Doc today for the first time in over a year. They had larger viewer numbers than they ever had on Twitch. Their #1 gaming streamer said he has a huge announcement coming. I'm sure he's jumping too. People aren't stupid. You can't keep censoring and cancelling things you don't like while so many far worse things are allowed to go on. People won't stand for it, here. It's not in our DNA. Anyway, I hope you can eventually upload your video somewhere and share. Good luck!

I taught myself how to play air bass. I'm pretty good at it too!

YT recently made some changes that have prevented my video's from being taken down. Now when I upload them it immediately tells me so and so has issued a copyright claim and they will monetize my video's and take the money. Before it's even finished uploading. Since this change I haven't had any video's removed. I set all of my video's to private anyway and so far I haven't seen an ad come across them. I imagine I would if I set them to public view though.

True! I assumed bdickens lives in the U.S. but now that I think about it, I'm not sure. Here you can say what you want and not get arrested for it, but there certainly are consequences in the public square. I've always had the mindset of, give an idiot enough rope and let them hang themselves. Our 1A and 2A are there to protect us from the people trying to take them away. It's like giving cancer the on/off switch to chemotherapy when you allow them to decide what you can and can't say or own. And as horrible as they say it is here it sure seems everyone wants to be here ...

I'm right handed. I throw a ball right handed. Swing a bat right handed. I write right handed. I text with my right hand. I paint with my right hand. I carve wood with my right hand. No not that wood, although ... anyway ... all my audio rack mounted hardware and sound card sits to my right at my recording desk. Swing a hammer right handed. Use a screwdriver right handed. Saw right handed. Use power tools right handed. Do single handed pushups with my right arm. Use my mouse with my right hand. Put my glasses on with my right hand. Put my pants on right leg first. Put my shoes on right foot first. Socks too. Brush my teeth with my right hand. Shave right handed. Comb my hair with my right hand. Put on deodorant with my right hand. Put on cologne with my right hand. Box mainly with my right fist. When I fantasize about slapping some moron who is sitting at the green light for 60 seconds, then goes just as it turns red and I have to wait another 3 minutes, I always hold them down with my left arm and knock their teeth out with my right fist. I shoot with my right hand. Yet I've cried, begged, and pleaded to the heavens above to let my brain pick up a right handed guitar and play it and I freeze. I can't do it. I've tried. It actually causes me anxiety when I try. It's easier for me to play a right handed guitar upside down than it is to swing it around and fret with my left hand. Which to me tells me most people actually play left handed seeing how they fret with that hand. It's super easy to flop your arm and wrist around and strum, but the real magic is in the fretwork, which I do with, wait for it ..... MY RIGHT HAND. ?

Bitchute is the place to be now. The only problem is, Google has such a tight grip on manufacturers you can't get an app on your TV to watch it. You have to watch it on your cell or PC. You used to be able to "cast" or stream anything from your cell to your TV but they locked that down now too so you can only cast from your cell if you have the app on both your cell and TV. So yeah. Bitchute is the new old school Youtube. Only problem is they locked them out of the 'App' market for your TV. Hate speech is not illegal. There are moral consequences for the things you say in public, but it's not illegal and should never be censored. Short of something blatantly illegal, I think everyone should be allowed to say and post what they want. Unregistered viewers should be able to see and hear PG rated material. Registered users 18 and up should be able to see and hear the rest. Keep the nudity in a separate paid section and let people say what they want on the main site. It's that simple. Actually I think the 18 adult age should be upped to 25. You're not an adult at 18. Now days most people aren't adults at 25 either but by about that age your brain development and social skills are pretty much fully developed and you are what you are. I read an article one time where your brain and body continue to develop to about 25 then it plateau's then you slowly decline from your late 30's on at a rate determined by your health. Anything you do to yourself before that (booze, drugs, diet, exposure to a toxic/hazardous environment) will detrimentally effect your development. But kids are easily manipulated so the powers that be determined your child is an adult at 18 so they can propagandize their brains out. I better go now. ?

I bet playing leads was a nightmare. When I very first started to play I played my brothers right handed Ovation upside down. High E on top. He eventually bought me a left handed guitar and told me to keep my greasy paws off his beloved Ovation and I had to learn how to play all over again. And to this day I greatly dislike Ovation guitars.

No need to be sorry ya big meany! ? J/K. It's not a normal guitar. It's not really meant to be played like you would an acoustic. And it sucks bigtime just sitting playing without being plugged in. It's for recording and playing live through a PA. It's a modelling guitar that emulates different acoustics plus a clean and dirty Tele, like the Kemper's emulate different amps. I don't like the video's where guys play it through a guitar amp. It's really not meant to be played that way and sounds pretty crappy. It's best through a PA or DI in to your DAW. I plan on using it for live gigs eventually and recording mainly. I'm hoping the sugary liquid place will work with me on returning b .. i. a . b. so I can put that toward it. If not then it's a no go. I want to get the Acoustisonic and one of these a Lefty Gretsch 5420. Then sell my Martin (MIM) 000 and my Epi Sheraton II and then I'm done. It's getting harder and harder to play acoustic guitar necks and this Acoustisonic should be just what I'm looking for. That Gretsch by far has the most comfortable neck I've ever played. I demo'd an orange one at G.C. but I want the black one. I was offered $100 more than what I paid for my Sheraton by a local shop so I figure I'll throw it on facebook marketplace when the time comes and get the full price for myself that they were going to sell it for. ??

I looked in to it this morning. No, you cannot buy directly from Fender. They direct you to a dealer. The ones that came up for my area are the ones I've already been to that told me it wouldn't be available until the middle of next year. Odd how some online dealers have them. The storefronts don't seem to be able to get them. EDIT: I'm confused now. I can't tell exactly where things come from. I thought only the custom shop guitars came from them but I may be wrong. I'm not sure if the guitars come from directly from them when you place an order on their site or if it's redirected to a dealer.