Shane_B.

Slept in my Led Zeppelin t-shirt and woke up dazed and confused.

Slept in my Simon & Garfunkel t-shirt and woke up feeling groovy!

Slept in my Styx t-shirt and woke up being abducted by aliens.

Slept in my Yoko Ono t-shirt and woke up wishing I hadn't.

I went to sleep in my Beatles T-shirt and woke feeling like doing it in the road.

I'm really sorry to hear all that. I really hope it all works out for you and the group. Your story reminds me of two times in my playing days that things fell apart. I was the guitar player storming out once. I got tired of the rhythm player staying in G for 3 measures longer than he should and I said something. He told me he was tired of my criticism, and I said ok. Calmly walked over and packed my guitar in the case and walked out and never returned. The best band I was ever in was in Iowa. We learned 5 sets of southern rock and other rock tunes. Something I had never done a full night of before. 2 weeks before our first gig the bass player, who was the leader and owned the PA and house where we practiced, said his job was relocating him out of state. The same night the lead singer also announced he was starting his own business and was leaving the band. After months of practice it was over in 30 minutes and we ended up canceling our first job. That was the last time I tried and haven't even attempted to start or get into another band since. That was 99 or 2000 iirc. It doesn't sound like you are anywhere near giving up. I'm sure you'll keep going somehow.

Thank you. I was just thinking I could use some 'drama-meme' because this thread was making me nauseous. ??

Sorry to hear that. Hope it turns out OK for him and the rest if you. Our drummer developed arthritis and couldn't play anymore. He sang also. I came up with the idea to use a drum machine and see how it went. Nobody cared and we actually improved. He controlled the drum machine. Good ol' Alesis SR-16. I still have it and you can still buy them new. Eventually we recorded backing tracks and didn't even use it. In the end, we were much better because everything was tighter, and always the same. And we got more bookings. I know, I know, sometimes you need to extend songs and it's technically not a band, but it was still the 4 of us, and it worked. Very well.

They aren't really known for their fullness for lack of a better term. They are known for being bright. That said, one of the best sounding Martin's I ever heard is their Made in Mexico 000. The MIM ones have the HPL sides and backs and it really adds a fullness I didn't hear in the US all wood ones. I had the opportunity to play 7 or 8 lefty Martin's at a guitar shop in Des Moines one time. The best sounding one ended up being MIM 000 to my ears because it had a fuller sound than the others. IMO.

Sorry to hear that. I had something similar happen many years ago. I lost 700 + LP's to a basement flood one time. To this day I refuse to put anything on my garage or basement floor directly. I always use metal or wood racks with the first shelf high enough to slide big plastic totes under and nothing gets within 18" or so of the floor. I figure if the water gets that high it isn't going to matter if everything is in sealed totes or that high off the floor. I hope your new studio turns out even better than the old one when you move. Good luck!

A barre(d?) F chord is very difficult and my least favorite to play. I don't use barre chords in general, but I guess it's important to be able to do them for, reasons? I don't really barre all the strings. I keep my finger in an arch for an F up to Ab. I can lay my finger flat when I get up to A. That's on acoustic. On electric I can bar flat fingered all the way down to F. I prefer to use open chords though and use a capo a lot these days. You can really embellish songs a lot with open chords. I started using a capo as the pain in my hands got worse. It's actually very painful for me now to attempt barre chords. And with the material I like to play, they really don't add anything to the song in terms of fullness. 99% of the time if I have a need to play a barre F, I just use 5 strings and skip the full barre and low F note.

From what I observed over the years is, when asked to pay for it, it was broken, badly. Then when the current people bought it, they fixed it, but it was too late. A lot of loyal customers had already moved on. My personal belief as to why it failed before was stability and nothing to do with marketing, features, functions, or cost. To this day I still prefer using Sonar over Studio One. The difference that made me switch was stability. Yeah, a lot of people here claimed to have zero problems, and that may be true for them, but that wasn't the norm across the board and in my opinion that's what put them under. That and more options became available in the same price range that would in fact run flawlessly on almost anything you installed it on. To the OP, welcome to the forum. There are people here with decades of experience with Sonar who are an invaluable resource and in my opinion the best forum of its kind.

I think sometimes our accounts can become corrupt on their servers and weird things happen. I've never seen the problem you're having, but I'm having a weird problem of my own. YouTube shows my library is empty, except when I look at it on my cell. I'm logged in on my PC, several TV's, 2 firesticks, and they say there is nothing in my library to watch except when I look at it from my cell. What I did to get around it is, I created a playlist from my cell and added all my videos to the list and that playlist shows up on all my devices I'm logged in to. But if I ever loose access to my library from my cell I'm screwed.

Me, "Hey, what do you think of this? Been working on it for about 3 months. 50 trips to the truck to listen and check the mix. I think I finally got it." Her, "It's ok. I don't like country. Something doesn't sound right. The guitar is too loud. What's that odd sound on it? The bass doesn't sound good. Drums don't sound right. Why is there so much echo on your voice? It's too loud on the left. I think I heard the neighbors cat. Anyway, it's nice. Where are you going to pick up dinner, I'm hungry."

I can only think of three like that here, but I have no idea which one you are referring to. Give us a hint or clue? ? Is it: A. B. or C. ? ?

I hear ya. I've been trying to resist The Temptations to keep the thread alive, but here I am.

That thing in the background looked kind of familiar. I used to see that around here once in a while. It's gone now though.

Maybe a USB mic, or Bluetooth. ?

I wouldn't worry. It only happens 20% ~ 40% of the time. ?

I recommend using the embedded sound on your motherboard. The stock drivers should be fine.

I did Wonder if my response was correct. Or if it was even Jermaine to the topic at hand. ?

I got a message from Google a few weeks ago the my forum credentials were compromised and I changed my passwords immediately. The 2 factor and the authorization thing isn't as bad as it seems. There's an official Google Authemticstor app that is used to do the authentication if I remember correctly. I had to use it once or twice. There's the initial setup then I never had to do it again. I can't even remember what I had to use it for to be honest. Irt my password from here being put out on the net, if you save your passwords in Chrome they are checked regularly. I think how it works is, if you use the Google Authenticator the password can't be changed unless it's done from the location the Authenticator was installed. It's been a long time since I did it but I think that's how it works. IMO I think it's a good thing. I always have everything set to send me a code on my cell if there is a login from anything other than my cell or PC. Edit: let me rephrase and say that everything that has the security option to send a code. Not everything does.

Your jokes add a whole new 5th Dimension to the forum. (I checked. They switched to Motown in the late 70s. ?)

Lol. It's a feature not a requirement thankfully. It still have buttons on it and a physical remote. I agree though,.it's not going to be a good day if manufacturers ever do force you to use wifi controls only. Another little hiccup about all these wifi gadgets is they only run on 2.4gHz. Routers have 2.4 and 5 but I could see a time when they go to 5 only to make them cheaper. That would render your entire house dead. It's already started actually. Comcast iirc, just got in a lot of heat because of the new routers they were giving people. They changed some protocol on the 2.4 side of their routers that wouldn't communicate with Ring camera's. The last I read Ring was blaming them, they were blaming Ring, and people had to go out and get their own router or go back to the old ones if they could get one from Comcast. I would never use theirs and pay their exhorbant rental fees anyway, but those who don't know how to set this stuff up have no choice. They tick me off. Im.paying $140 a month now for 800mb. They offer 1G at the place I'm hoping to buy for $80 with free Premium Peacock channel. Not that I watch Peacock, but WTH?!

I'm afraid to have an Alexa in my home. I really don't know why. It just creeps me out. The center switch in the pic was for the ceiling fan. The fan was wired to have the light and fan come on with a single switch. I ended up having to run new 14-3 up in the attic to separate them. I built the fireplace in this pic. The company I bought the fireplace insert from was having a sale and I upgraded to the wifi one for less than the non-wifi one. It said you had to download their app. At that point I was up to 5 different apps and it was a real pain. I was pecking around the settings of one app one day and it found everything in the house. I set the app up and it controlled everything, including the thermostat and fireplace. I could control the entire house inside and out from one app. Here's the fireplace I built. Indid all the trim and stone work. Everyrhing was done except for the top. I had a massive dead black walnut tree in my yard I was going to cut down and make a top for it, but I moved on before I got to finish it. I ran all the wires inside the wall for the TV and hdmi cables and put a box behind the TV and on the wall on the cubby hole below so you could set blu ray player down there. I had an outlet with USB ports. I also ran a dedicated circuit just for the insert. It was really nice. Even the recessed lights in the bedroom were wifi controlled. And it wasn't expensive at all. Amazon is a great resource. If you can do wiring yourself it's really not bad at all. Sorry, I'm rambling. Hah. I put a ton of work in to that house and I really miss it. I more than doubled what I paid for it when it was sold and all that stuff made a big difference, not to mention the labor was free.