Shane_B.

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.

To be honest I truly don't know. He never talked about police related things and I never asked. I also worked for him for 10 years. He owns his own business and does the police thing part time. I can say it took a lot to get busted for anything in our tiny little town because we all knew each other so whatever happened it must have been a serious incident. My best friend from home was the chief of police and not once in the 40 plus years I've known him has he ever talked about work and I never asked. We never talked shop and it's probably why I got along so well with them. But I sure took a lot of heat for being friends with them. Zero friends in school. Never invited to parties. I was shunned because of my brother and the guys I was in a band with. In the end I'm glad.

The Air That I Breathe by Albert Hammond. It's the original and I've always thought it was the best version out there. I always loved Phil Everly's version too. I like them both equally actually. Never cared for The Hollies version. Sorry if this has been posted before. This thread is too huge to check. Hah.

I see this is an old thread and someone revived it a few hours ago. Then I saw your post about Christmas music and it reminded me of home and this story I'm about to tell. I come from a very small town in Northwest NJ and we played for one of the local businesses there every year for many years. I was with the group for 9 years and we played it every year and they played it long before I did. It was for a local school bus company owner we all knew from town. He had a huge party for all his drivers and employee's. His wife loved opera and he would hire a well known opera singer from NYC every year to sing for her while we played the background music. It was extremely stressful because she was a true professional singer. But the rest of it was a great time. Incredible meal for free, got paid a lot to play, free drinks, absolutely beautiful banquet hall with a 15 foot wide 6 foot tall fireplace with a massive real Christmas tree decorated to the top. I loved it. My brother is a police officer in town and the bus company owner and him didn't get along. I won't go in to details but let's just say the guy liked to drink. A lot. We're half brothers with different last names. The bus company owner found out we were brothers at the end of the party one year and never hired us again. Amazing how petty and selfish people can be isn't it.

I've been with my wife for 23 years so it's been a while since I've seen one of those but it looks familiar. Hmm. Can't quite place where I've seen one. ?

I ordered a 3 month supply and just started taking it yesterday. Everything I read said it takes about 8 weeks to see any real results. I'll keep reporting back here every week. I'm not big on supplements and have my doubts about all of them but I figured I'd give this a try. I know what he goes through and it's horrible. I also have bone sound transfer or something like that. Can't remember the proper name. Basically the tiny bones fuse together and you hear certain sounds in both ears when they do their tests and in real life. Another result of inner ear infections. Eats away some and fuses others.

And to think, I once worried about losing my hearing.

Here's his video on compression.

I use that Ozone 9 Advanced plugin he showed and it does help a lot. The curve he shows is adjustable for different styles of music and iirc you can scan the EQ curve of any recording and use it. I grabbed O9A on sale one time and it is truly an amazing set of plugins. It's a huge resource hog though.

This is an excellent vid on the topic of hearing loss and how he mixes. He and I have almost identical problems caused by the same thing. I think mine is worse than his though. Overall I've lost 35% in my left and 40% in my right. He mentioned a supplement he takes and it brought back a significant amount of hearing in one ear. He didn't mention it by brand so I know he's not just trying to sell it and get a cut. I found some online and ordered it. Lots of good info and well worth a watch. He has a lot of great videos. His video about using compression completely changed how I approach it and made an enormous improvement in my mixes.

I saw a video recently about MIM Fenders. Apparently it and the U.S. factory are only 50 miles apart and work very closely together. IOW there is very little if any difference between a Mex and U.S. Fender. There are some fantastic guitars coming out of China for pennies on the dollar. Check eBay. If they can make a high quality guitar and ship it overseas and make money, just think of how bad we're getting screwed buying U.S. made.

I'd do something with LED's. Light show kinda thing. Like John 5's lite brite Telecaster.

My Black Beauty Custom was made there in 83. Someone on the old forum from my area out here bought it. Everyone loved that guitar and said something was wring with my ears but I never cared for it. I can't remember who bought but I hope they love it. It was a really nice looking guitar and truly road worn. 100% original.

It only works on air guitar or air bass.

That's not his couch, it's his foot stool. ??

Been thinking about it. Well, the bender part. Tonight is my last night of bachelorhood. My wife has been gone a month and comes home tomorrow night. Last weekend was the last chance I'll have to sit down and record until next year some time. I have a lot to finish up when she gets back before her family arrives for the holidays. Can you believe it's almost October already? I hate it. ? That's why I ordered the guitar with plenty of time to arrive so I had it for the weekend. It never fails with me does it. Remember the Lionel train? The appliance parts and repair? The cooktop? It's just how the world is now and I think a lot of things have fallen apart because of the pandemic. I am really glad Ed's bass arrived ok. From what I'm seeing from Amazon and other places there was a lot of people buying and trying and returning stuff the last year or so. Did I mention the new preamp I bought 2 weeks ago that looked like it was pulled from a dumpster and the power supply was missing? It's just the way it is now.

That's what threw me off. Seriously. I was thinking man, if this is real it should look a bit more professional. You know, Mr. PhD and all that. But then I thought, well, if it was fake, it would indeed look a bit more professional. I missed his Monday ~ Friday 8am to 5pm deadline so I'll have to wait till monday. I'll probably forget all about it by then. LOL

It did. Three times. ? First time it was DOA and I was told to take it to a dealer and have them send it out to be fixed. I ungraciously declined their resolution and they hesitantly agreed to send a replacement overnight. They screwed the delivery up 2 more times and in the end they ended up recalling the delivery and just gave me my money back. So in the end, it all worked out and you are probably right. It's probably a good thing the deal didn't go through. I don't blame anyone and I don't get too ruffled over material things like this. It's just one of those funky things that happens in life. ??

LOL! ? It's definitely made for a very specific purpose. You really shouldn't run it through a guitar amp unless it's something like the Mustang modelling amp where you can turn off all the amp modelling and run it as if it were a PA. All of the room, mic, and amplification emulation has already been done. It's really made for DI recording or playing live through a PA. I was hoping to have to avoid screwing with mic and room placement when recording my acoustic. I don't have a decent room and always used the output from it to go DI and it sounds exactly like Willie Nelson's signature sound. I swear they designed this guitar to sound exactly like his. It's great for Willie, not so much for me. ? Awesome! Pics, tracks! Hurry! ?