Byron Dickens

None of those mentioned are free. You pay dearly for them in the form of having your privacy invaded and your personal data mined and sold.

Start with your orchestration and arrangement. If you have too many parts, the ear can't make out what's going on. If you have instruments occupying the same frequency ranges, they mask each other. Even in a massive Late Romantic symphony with a 100+ piece orchestra, you usually have at most four parts - or voices - going. (think 4-part harmony. ) Parts are doubled with different instruments and across octaves. Sometimes a line is harmonized, but there are still really only four distinct, unique parts. Also, instruments come in and out; no one plays constantly except the strings. After that, you need to use what's called complementary EQ. The gist of it is that if you have two instruments occupying the same frequency, you use EQ to carve out a space for each one. Kick drum and bass are a common example. You might boost 100Hz on the kick & then cut it on the bass while boosting 80Hz on the bass and cutting that frequency on the kick. That's just a rough example to give you the idea.

Shredder or not, the best guitarists are the ones who have their own unique voice on the instrument.

I wouldn't know, since I don't have any truly crappy guitars.? Seriously, though, you ain't gonna want to hear this but the best solution to your timing (or any other skill) issues is practice. Build your skills and they're YOURS. Forever. True, you have to maintain them, or they diminish. But once you've had them, they're much easier to get back. Oh, but that's so much WORK! And takes so much time! Yeah, but so is dicking around fixing stuff when it could have just been played right to begin with. Tone? Two words: Dimebag Darrell. His tone sucked, IMO, but his playing was Phenomenal.

Or, you could get a drummer who can play in time....

Ain't none.

So, then, you're cool with using the deaths of young men & women to shamelessly promote the worship of the Almighty Dollar?

Ah, Memorial Day. When we pause to remember all the service members who fought and died so you could get a great deal on a mattress.

Censorship is a function of government, not private companies

https://sonicscoop.com/2016/11/10/diy-studio-design-part-2-build-cost-effective-bass-traps/ Fixing your room will do more for you than all the sample libraries and reverb in the world.

Didn't realize that interface was discontinued

5 years into it, I would be very surprised if there were NOT any W10 drivers yet.

I'm pretty sure that Halion loads soundfonts as well.

15W tube amp is still PLENTY loud. A 5 or even 1 watter will be enough. Not very much cheaper, though.

Fact check: Table 3. Deaths involving coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and pneumonia reported to NCHS by jurisdiction of occurrence, United States. Week ending 2/1/2020 to 4/4/2020.* Data as of April 8, 2020 New Jersey: 43 https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/COVID19/index.htm

Don't really like Corona all that much. Holding out for the Warsteiner virus instead:

I think it's been remarkably civil and hasn't been driven off the deep end. Everything a spirited discussion/ debate should be but, alas, seldom is these days.

That's really not fair to let just 99.99% of the politicians give the rest a bad name.

Quite frankly, I am much more concerned about the panic and stupidity than I am about the virus itself.

My wife and I are going to start a rumor that there is a shortage of dog poop and leaves & then just leave the gate open. The idiots will take it all off our hands....