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As another thought, Michelle Obama's dad had MS and she talks about it in her book Becoming. I loved that book. Tearful and belly laughs both.

My best friend person who I jam with weekly has MS. He's 55 or 56. He was diagnosed I think when he was around 30. If you want I can ask him to reach out to you.

In general, new users under-explore their reverb options. The first thing they do is put a reverb on the master bus and dial to taste. Then they discover that some instruments have too little while others are just right. So, to adapt they send all the instruments to a bus and put a verb at 100% mix on the bus then dial to taste. This gives them control over how much reverb goes on each instrument. Next, people realize that it doesn't really sound like a real room. So folks start trying to record room mics and mix that in with the close-mic and use a lot less digital reverb. Often, playing with reverb awakens a need for de-essing, and the user applies it directly to vocals. Maybe later tries applying the de-essing more heavily on the verb bus before the verb and staying light on the actual vocals. After a time, the user may decide to get playful and pull a digital verb onto every track and dial a different verb on every track. You can get really creative sounds from convolution verbs by adding your own impulses. The impulses can be manually created (like a synth sound for the impulse). This can be fun for generating long heavy verbs with odd development. It is common to add a delay after the verb as well, especially on vocals. Another trick is to play with side-chain compression on your reverb bus. This enables you to have a heavier verb that doesn't compete with the vocal. Whenever there is singing, the compressor substantially reduces the amount of reverb volume. When the singer stops, the reverb swells, developed from the full vocal, it grows into the audible range. For ambient coolness, you can mix 100% verb and 0% original for a pad-sound. When you record a bunch of takes on the same track, it can be fun to mix a reverb from one take with the track from another, especially when the takes are improvised and not identical. To be weird, you split the reverb left and right and apply complementary eq on the two sides, so you get more of some freqs on one side and the compliment on the other side. You can use this to balance frequency load on the different stereo channels. Keep in mind you can also flip the verb channels, left to right and right to left. This can be cooler than flipping the polarity of a copy of the main output and pushing it up a smidge because that impacts center channel and pulls down phase correlation on the pair. Hope this helps.

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Got away in the mixbus

Comfort is everything for me. Open back definitely. I cannot wear closed back for more than a couple of hours.

Sorry to hear this. Sympathies.

I got to see him play in Denver once. So cool. ? Saw robin Ford too. He is short. Told him to look for me out on the road. I had big dreams then. And once i randomly got invited in to see jorma kaukonen at the boulder theater. He played an amazing heartfelt show. After, someone from a local music shop who's name I've forgotten asked me if i'd like to linger and meet jorma. Of course. So, there was a line of people waiting to meet him with records for him to sign. Jorma looked so unhappy as i waited my turn with nothing in my hands. I'm not naturally funny, but i did my best. When i got to him, i said hey and looked at him totally seriously and asked if that performance was the best he could do. He laughed hard and i went home feeling like i made a nice old man a little less miserable.

Watch out for tempo-sync'd VSTs on projects with varying tempo. Continuously changing tempos can cause clicking in many tempo sync'd VSTs. Synths tend to do fine as long as there is no tempo sync FX in the chain.

Yeah... The guitars were way expensive. Idk either about the inlay. It was cool, but not necessarily practical. ?

http://gswitz.blob.core.windows.net/tunes/20190630_ChrisVasi.html Here are some of the takes and a short video. ?

Interesting. It was closer to 80 when I started and I turned it down a little to get to 60. I think I'll play with it some and see how it goes. I've got plenty of drive pedals, and with the Rock Crusher, I should be able to drive it plenty hard set at 60. I've been playing it and it sounds fine. ? I'm off to go record one of my favorite Jazz players. He has a friend with a case of fancy guitars and we're descending on his house and recording all afternoon. ? Should be a good time. Wish me luck!

@Starship Krupa's advice is excellent and it's how I control sends often. You could also set it up so you can solo various buses to turn on and off sets of speakers. This gives you a single click to turn on or off a speaker pair and can leave existing speakers on. Additionally you can do it at the hardware level (for me that means from within my RME UCX).

Got new fuses. Played on it for hours. All is good. Turns out the fuse I put in it last night to get it working was a slow blow 3 Amp. Does that matter? I'm guessing I shouldn't use slow blow since the original was not a slow blow. I have since replaced it with a regular 3 Amp fuse.

Since I replaced all the tubes for the first time, I took the time to check the bias. I followed directions on this video... I had good success at the beginning. I did exactly as he did. I cranked it all the way up on by pass, measure it, took it off by pass and rolled it back down to 60. Interestingly, my blue pot has a red dot where I think they think it should be set. Anyway, I sat back and waited for 20 minutes as described in the video with the amp on, guitar plugged in, volumes all rolled to 0. Then I started to smell some thing and I got up and walked over. The light on the amp was off. I flipped the amp off. I checked the fuse and it's blown. Hmmm. I'll buy a new one tomorrow. I hope I haven't ruined things. ? The more I try the more messed up things become. My wife is out of town and I'm playing acoustic!!! bummer! *** I found an old fuse and got the amp working again. ?

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Good points, Grem. I shipped it UPS today. Kinda sad to be without it for a bit, but grateful to get it fixed.

From rivera support... There's a protection mechanism in the studio setting so just be sure that you're not plugging it in backwards . Just pay very special attention to the labeling. If it is plugged in correctly that means at one time it was plugged in backwards and it blew out that protection mechanism. Unfortunately it's not something you can do your self. It's very small and it's in a network of capacitors and it needs to be taken apart and replaced. It's easy for our tech but not if you aren't familiar with it. We can fix it here too if you want and it's just around $50. From Geoff I'm fairly confident I've never plugged it in backwards. I think the unit I bought may have come with this fault. I don't use the studio setting often and at low enough gain it works. I don't like to be able to hear pick noise over the guitar, so I usually use the louder settings.

Turns out i bought the Rock crusher used. Oops. ? So i think i will just avoid the studio setting.

So, I'm now thinking i damaged the tubes with the rock crusher because the rock crusher wasn't working properly on the studio setting. That would explain the problem existing with the rock crusher in and out of the chain. New tubes up to the minus 20db setting is working fine. I've sent a note to support for the rock crusher to see what they say. Thanks again everyone.

Can you use screen sets to save arrays of visible tracks? I haven't needed this before but it might work in lieu of folders.

My kid on the iron throne made of Gibson guitars.

I'd swear I tested with and without the rock crusher in the chain, but right now, there is evidence pointing that way. So, when I turn the amp up to around 5 or 6 and play with bypass on for the rock crusher, it works fine. I turn off bypass and at first the volume attenuates as expected by then after a few moments playing it almost disappears. When I reduce the attenuation, the problem goes away. I'm going to call Guitar Center where I got it and see if there's any hope. I can just use it with less attenuation. Thanks to everyone for all the help!!

Thanks for the manual link. I have that already. I've replaced all the tubes. I'm starting to think the problem is with the rock crusher.

I bought the amp in 1995 new. I love it but it's a little heavy. Sounds great. A while back I got a Rivera Rock Crusher and I started really driving it. So much fun!! But now, as the tubes warm up the volume drops precipitously. So I'm thinking I need to replace tubes. I had a couple of AX7s laying around for mics and I switched them in. I replaced 2 of the 3, but didn't fix things. So then, what do I need to buy?? From the pdf for the amp Three Fender Groove Tube GT12AX7 (099-4005-000) Two Fender Groove Tube GT6L6B (099-4401-*02) Tube label color: Red=1, White=2, Blue=3 So, I'm looking for where to buy my first set of tubes and any advice on replacing them... I found this... What do you think? https://www.stewmac.com/Pickups_and_Electronics/Amp_Kits_and_Parts/Tubes/Replacement_Tube_Sets/Fender_Amp_Tube_Sets/Fender_Hot_Rod_DeVille_Tube_Set_with_Matched_Power_Tubes.html?utm_source=google&utm_medium=shopping&utm_campaign=2019-06-gp&gclid=Cj0KCQjwo7foBRD8ARIsAHTy2wko8pW2nZ08sFkB1dgHVuUiAuppDAQdsMw9M51s4HcuLrUzIIDOEM4aArHaEALw_wcB Can I touch the tubes? I have always put my fingers on the ax7s b/c I never figured they got hot enough to matter. Thanks for any help!