Shane_B.

I discovered the local music store that's 15 - 20 minutes from my house has the largest selection of high quality left handed guitars I've ever seen anywhere. In stock. Banjo's, Ukulele's, Mandolins, Fender, Gretsch, Martin, made in US, Mex, Chi. They sell mainly online and have a big warehouse with everything in stock right there and a nice showroom too. Link here.

Hard to take him seriously seeing how he uses Reaper. Pretty hair though. *ducking for cover* ? I disagree with one point. He likes new strings for recording I don't like the sound of fresh strings on anything. But he's the pro so ... I have a cheap Indonesian made Squire Jazz/Precision bass. I love it. Skinny neck, tons of pickup/sound options. No noise at all. That vid reminded me of a midwest talk show we have here called The Bob & Tom Show. They had a skit on there called Bass Talk.

Those pics remind me of when I was a kid. Pre-teen days. My dad used to take me to the town dump to explore. Back then it was open to the public and you could just drive back and dump stuff. People would move or someone would die and you'd go back there and all their stuff would just be sitting there in boxes. I got half my record collection from there. But the cool thing was back then you could throw out TV's. They were mostly all the old, well not too old back in the 70's, console kind. I used to take a small set of tools with me and take the backs off. I had boxes and boxes of old vacuum tubes I pulled out of them and I used to take the speakers out and wire up in my bedroom. I had them chained all over the place. I had dozens of them them all around the room hooked up to my dads 8 Track/LP player/Radio console unit. Those old TV speakers came in all kinds of weird shapes and sizes. Anyhoo. Those pics caused a flashback, for more than one reason. Hah.

Can I get that in VST format? Perhaps on a subscription plan?

LOL I wish! I sure miss the SPE 8.5 days. That was a truly great customizable DAW.

I just cancelled my Sphere subscription and will buy the upgrade. I can get it for $112. That's about the best I've seen in a long time. Plus they just did an update to 5.

Is that a bass guitar in your pocket or are you happy to see me?

So sorry to hear that. He will be missed.

I haven't even turned my daw on a few months. Haven't cancelled Presonus Sphere and never used those Melda plugs I got for a few bucks on sale. I repurposed my daw monitor which was a TV back into an actual TV in my bedroom so I couldn't if I wanted to without a lot of hassle. It's a real pain to try and log in and navigate sites from my cell which is all I use now. That's why I haven't gone in and canceled Sphere yet. That said I have dozens of vsts I've downloaded and never installed. It's an addiction. I highly recommend boxing up your daw and walking away from it regularly. It helps you gain control of the situation.

2 years ago today I left the gym about this time of day to give the manager a ride home because his car was on the fritz. On the way back home a school bus ran a stop sign and totalled my truck and almost killed me. The airbag blew my arm back against my head and severely sprained my wrist and broke my fingers. Gave me a severe concussion. Almost lost my right eye. Had my right foot jammed on the brakes and the impact rammed my leg back and messed up my hip. Caused tremors in my arms and hands. I was lucky I was in great physical condition. I had lost an enormous amount of weight. Gained a ton of muscle. Had just won two weight loss/body transformation contests back to back. They said if I wasn't so strong especially in my legs I would have shattered my hip. At the time I could easily do 3 sets of 15 leg presses at 600lbs. I had to relearn how to pick guitar temporarily. I could only use a couple fingers for months. I still can't play like I used to. I've never fully recovered from any of the injuries but at least I'm alive. ? Anyway. Thanks everyone for being here.

Fixed.

Is it curved or straight?

Howdy. Thanks for asking/caring. Well, since the people want to know ... Put simply I just don't feel welcome here. It has absolutely nothing to do with the forum members. I like everyone here even the ones I've get in to heated discussions with. My posts are heavily censored while others that clearly violate the ridiculous TOS are allowed and I'm just done with it. It's not fun to be here anymore. I bumped in to Guitar Hacker on another forum and said hello and asked him to pop in here. He completely ignored me and never showed up. As far as I remember I always got along with him and liked his posts. Bit's last communication that I saw/viewed was with me regarding the censorship. Haven't seen or heard another peep from him. He did say he got vaxed and was looking forward to getting back together with his band iirc. I'd put money that's where he is. I still read once in a while but I'm rarely here. Take care.

@Kevin Perry Thanks for the info! I think I would feel better with three drives but I'm not sure. I assume I can add a third later. I'm amazed at what you can do now at very little cost. You can get free plug-ins for FreeNAS. You can set up your own secure cloud server so you can access everything and share it with anyone. You can also get a program called Plex and stream all your ripped movies and music and pics from your NAS to any device that you can install the Plex App on. Kindle Fire, android, even my extremely app limited Samsung TV allows Plex. They do it by offering movies but you can use it to stream your own content as well. I can't wait to get all the items together and dive in to this. From everything I've read my i5 650 should handle all of this no problem. I've seen videos of guys running 4K streaming from FreeNAS via Plex on much older hardware than mine. I can stream in 8K with my internet connection so I know this will work for streaming my 1080p and 4K rips. ?

I've been looking for a video card a long time and doing a lot of research. You can get an entire system with an RTX3060 video card for almost the same price as the card. Although the cards are coming down. The cards are readily available on amazon and ebay. I've seen them going a few bucks cheaper than an entire system but only by a few. I can get a good deal on Dell's through where my wife works. I did my homework on them and they are bad even upgraded/customized. The best deals I've seen on systems with an RTX3060 have been on Amazon. Real cases and real components that you can update/upgrade yourself. No weird Dell stuff. I almost bought one of these systems in this video. Glad I found it before I did.

Every time I've seen a change like that on a forum it also included other major changes that screwed the users in some way. Look how long it took to make the current changed and how many things changed ... Careful what you wish for. You may get it.

@Bapu Thanks! If I can't get this to work I may take you up on that.

I wouldn't wish it on anyone. Well, except those that seek this stuff out illegally and get hooked. You got what you deserved IMO. The all natural solution is A-OK here now but unfortunately the Mrs. won't even discuss it. Me: But hone ... Her: NO Me: But the doctor sai ... Her: I SAID NO! Me: But it has to be better than synthetic heroi ... Her: If you ever want this again you'll shut up about it! Me: What's the difference? I don't get it no ... And that's all I remember. Woke up slumped over on the couch 3 hours later. And I was doing so good too. Had a senior moment and tripped and fell in my yard yesterday and set myself back I don't know how long. What a maroon. It's ok. I gots you's guys to keep me entertained. ?

That's one of the lesser known/talked about side effects of the opi pain meds I'm on. It requires you to take bushels of this.

Thanks. I try. Rockin' the boat ain't my thang any more. I'm a lead guitar/singin' man. ? I'll leave that to the bass player and drummers of the world. ??

He's got some other great vids on his channel as well.

It's sad to look at these photo's. He was so young when they were taken.

Hmmm. Do you think my "I feel like Gein and Getting More Like Him Everyday" thread would get deleted too?

I've been trying to find info about Raid configurations but haven't had much luck. Even the wiki on Raid configs assumes you know a lot. I was hoping to use 3 drives but it looks like Raid 1 has a minimum of 2 with pairs of 2 or more. Unless I misunderstood what little info I could find, if they are all 1 TB drives, two drives yield 1TB, 4 drives yield 2TB. The manual for this motherboard is useless. There are two. One for the mobo and the other for the Raid setup. But it says it only supports Raid 0. I found some forums that talked about it and they said it supports Raid 0 to 10 so I'm at a loss whether it has a true Raid controller or not. I'll just have to go in to bios and poke around. 4TB would be the minimum. I have one program alone that is over 1TB with all the samples. I have close to 2TB in projects spanning multiple single drives now. That's great advice about doing a test restore right away. So far I haven't been able to find any info on how to go about that. I'll have to keep digging deeper. I have to do something soon. My main backup drive says it has some bad sectors and keeps asking me to fix it. It works otherwise. I know from experience to never let it fix or do anything without backing up first. I lost a decade of projects one time doing that. The motherboard I'm going to use is a Gigabyte P55M-UD2 Rev 1.0. It has 4GB RAM and an Intel i5 650 CPU. I think it should work great for this.

I haven't had that happen with paid plugins but it sure has with the free stuff. I'm constantly trying out new things and when I go to install it it asks me if I want to overwrite the previous install. My wife cured me of buying stuff. She keeps an extremely tight grip on the funds.