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Danny Lopresto and this band do a great job of KISS tunes without the schtick. They are well done! @Rain

As a recovered Kiss Acolyte, they really just took the lyrics in whole with some of the meoldy and totally redid it musically. It is fine on it's own, but didn't gve me the wow of Cash's Hurt. They are super talented folks, so I'm not knocking them.

Being from South Jersey, I realize if I never heard of a place, it is most likely North Jersey

@Sheens

Sad to see this ...especially since one was across from my office. All the folks losing their income and other options for gear ...all around a bad situation.

I was going to do it to already mastered material, not sync it in any form or fashion. Really just to get the feel of it and explore.

Looking to mess around with video with my music. Also may do a funny video for my mom's birthday. Just wanted to dabble. Where do go? What do you use?

I left in 1995, and while I'll never say NEVER, odds are infinitesimally low. The money I'd lose is profound going back there, and bluntly, not worth it for me. YMMV

What town in NJ?

I started drinking coffee with milk and sugar, and that always diffused any reflux. I confirmed this recently by skipping milk or creamer for 2 days. My coffee cups have no stains because 've always had at least milk/half & half, so I know tht helps. That said, I always partake in ACV! But I don't have had coffee plenty of times without ACV to consider it a fact for me. YMMV.

Dark, like MY SOUL!

The whole thing:

I think, for some, if the rules get ingrained too much, they seem hard to break just from observation.

I do think sometimes, the "rules" can box some folks in ...in other words, very rigidly trained musicians tend to be more beholden to rules than people who don't know any better. I am thinking of someone like Tori Amos, who had chops very early on; her heart led her away from classical training as she wanted to do her own thing.

Hence my example above! EXACTLY what Cocteau Twins did!

Cocteau Twins are a perfect example of good(IMO) melodies with absolute jibberish in terms of words. I was enthralled by their album Four-Calendar Café because the melodies were haunting, but I could not disseminate words.

I start with a riff and a melody and then get a word concept based on the mood of those. While I agree that it is harder to shoehorn words in to a melody; a good melody can carry average lyrics ...but great lyrics can't carry a bad melody. YMMV

Windows 10 doesn't even sunset until October of 2025, so I wouldn't be concerned about Windows 11 for probably 2-3 years AFTER that. In the meantime, just make music!

My sister recently said some of my band's music sounded like Nickleback. While that was insulting enough, we recorded it in 1993, so really ....Nickleback sounds like US then!!! My sister and her husband said they like Nickleback, which made it even worse. I mean, seriously? FML

I prefer and 5/6/7 over Amplitube. I find it may more responsive. Don't care for Overloud or Scuffham products either. I'm curious what people don't like about it.

GR5 was the last version to work with the Rig Kontrol. Not getting rid of it!

@Rain I put him in the John 5 & Buckethead (among MANY others) category: I know they are great players, but it just does NOTHING for me. It is so funny the subjectiveness of it all, because when I name my favorites, a lot of people would say the same. That said, I still watched this a few days ago. Beato is THE MAN!

With so much of the music today being squashed dynamically, it is refreshing(and real) to get some dynamics and slightly imperfect takes or sound. In terms of this thread, I think some people will focus on making a recording "clean" and high fidelity vs a good song done well enough, but unique. That, to me, is a downside to digital.

I think if someone is disciplined, that now is the best time ever to record. I get the argument, and I do think for some "analysis paralysis" is a thing. I just got a digital copy of my old band's last demo done "traditionally", and while it sounds really good and I like it, it still is missing things that if we had more time, we could have fixed. It was all post-recording, so if I had a copy of it in a DAW, I could have played with it until I was happy.