Christian Jones

Hey @Simeon Amburgey I was wondering if you get distortion on some of these piano patches. Like under the Film presets section, the 00 DEFAULT FILM preset sounds fine, but the very next preset 01 LA Beauty has a lot of distortion when played at full velocity. I have 16gb of ram and an RME UFX II set at 128 samples w/ ASIO driver selected in Kontakt 5 standalone, and the audio is not clipping so it's hard to tell why it's happening. Not all patches do it either but many do. I don't know if this makes a difference, but I'm just "playing" the keys with the mouse right now, just clicking the keys to test the piano while I wait for a MIDI controller to arrive. With the mouse, when you click high up on the keys the velocity is softer and as you click down the length of the keys the velocity gets harder and that's when I'm getting the distortion. Was just wondering if that happens on your end too as I'm wondering if it's something on my end or something wrong w/ the library. I feel like you certainly would've caught it though so it's weird. Now that I've loaded this piano in Kontakt 5 within cakewalk I'm finding that it's really not stable on there and is crashing Cakewalk partialy - I have to remove the Kontakt instance that held the Simple Sam piano library and then things are fine. The vender has been unresponsive from the start so I'll probably just handle this through a paypal but dang, I'm looking hard and I can't see how it's my system that's the issue as every other NI piano library (all I have for piano) works fine.

You don't have to be a great guitar player; you have to have great songs. That's why Kurt Cobain was one of the best guitar players of his generation; dude was sloppy af and messed up badly every time he stepped out on stage, but he had great songs. And remember, it's ok if you don't know what you're doing as long as you can do it intuitively.

Hope you used a stud finder when mounting that wall bracket ?

Like @John BradleyI also do the dual amp sim rig and always have. For me that comes from having a real dual amp rig before I started w/ amp sims a couple years ago. It's a bit involved but I'm sure John and I can explain how it's done if you or anyone else wanted to run a dual amp sim rig. I actually take it further and I split my signal at the hardware level first so that I have two separate signals going into the daw, each getting its own dual amp sim rig. Yeah. If you do that it's import that you take care to split your signal properly at the hardware level (no y-cables).

I'll never admit it but I do this, though I've been known to comp many portions of takes together into the ultimate take. If you do it well you won't rob the riff of its groove and no one will ever know, aside from the common knowledge of course that everyone does this these days. With guitars though I go for a Sabbathy groovy kind of tight as opposed to what I always refer to as the Dream Theater kind of tight, which is ultra precise and not my thing. I do the comp thing with bass too, and you might even say bass especially because that needs to lock in right w/ the beat so we don't have amateur hour. I'll record 15 or so takes and I'll comp together the best phrases of the different takes into a "perfect" take. If you're up to it that'll be the best way to take care of your timing issues. You'll be doing a lot of splitting, snipping, dragging and nudging and overlapping of audio clips and playing the Frankenstein take back to listen for any clicks/continuity issues from bad edits, and fixing those by the same methods. It's pretty d@mn tedious honestly, depending on how particular you are but that's the deal, short of being a super tight player whose performances don't require much editing. The most tedious comping/timing work to create the most "perfect" take I've done to date was this heavily chorused baritone guitar lead that I recorded with a small clone chorus pedal on the vibrato setting. I set the pedal so the vibrato would be as close to sync to the song as possible but it's an analog pedal so it'd drift and I really busted my @ss to get the throbbing "weoo weoo weoo" of the vibrato to groovily sync just how and where I wanted it, but there's nothing in the box that truly emulates the small clone so it had to be done and it was a nightmare.

You probably saw this video starting around the 4 minute mark. But I'd watch the whole video start to finish for some great guitar recording tips form Warren Huart

Does Neutron 3 Advanced ever go on a crossgrade from any Izotope product sale? Like the Ozone 9 Advanced I got for $99 w/o owning any previous Ozone. Does N3A ever do that for $99?

I don't approve of that sentence

I don't have an audio interface connected right now so I can't audibly verify, but I loaded up Recabinet 5 and it looks like it is in fact loading the other IRs in the browser just by using the keyboard arrow alone. IIRC the keyboard arrow would move the highlight to the next IR there in the gui browser but it didn't actually load/populate it until you clicked or double clicked it. But now it appears to load it w/ just the arrow. Are you seeing that? Also, no, Libra doesn't load the next IR using just the keyboard arrow but it will load it if you press Enter after using keyboard arrow - which I could have sworn Recabinet 5 would not do - it required a mouse click no matter what.. idk

Cool. I may get those but I think I have to have Emotional Cello. Uncle from JRR also offered that to me for $246 which ain't the greatest discount but.

Cool. How about Emotional Cello? I hear the vibrato is baked in though.

This is over the top

Well he offered me $13 off Chris Hein Solo Cello, which he seemed to really lament.

You just saying that or can he really get me that car?

Like, can he discount Chris Hein Solo Cello, normally $259?

Dude now that's cool! love Pet Shop Boys. I got the brains, you got the looks.. let's make lots of money

Terence, glad I was there to teach you, son. Sorry they're still busting your b@lls over that whole vegan deal. You just need to catch you the red eye out here to Seattle and I'll grill you a proper steak and maybe a vegetable of your choice but probably not.

I wake every morning to my own personal theme song I wrote real quick a few years ago. That's right. I have it as the alarm on my phone. It's some type of imperial march thing, idk, but to me it sounds like a war march, which is apt as every day is a f'n battle where every day above ground is a pyrrhic victory

JRR got me that great deal on Cakewalk Platinum Lifetime Updates right before Cakewalk's death

Sounds a lot like what you get from Absynth. Is that what most of Iris does, ethereal/ambient stuff?

Idk, there's still NadIR so maybe it was something else. I tried NadIR a while ago and hated it simply because, unlike Recabinet 5 at least, nadir didn't let you see a list of IRs to click on; you had to click through the file system each time the loaf a new IR whereas Recabinet 5 showed a long list in the Gui to click on. Lol yeah Recab pretends to let you select w/ the keyboard arrow it moves over it but doesn't select it. I really hope Libra doesn't perform that task like nadir does

Yeah I just got Libra which I haven't used yet but I'll probably retire Recabinet 5 if possible. I still haven't found an ir loader that, once you select an ir you can just use the up/down arrows on the keyboard to select other IRs. Probably Libra doesn't do it either

It's a couple hours, I watched it while doing stuff. They get straight away to when his amps will be released. Oh you forgot about Kazrog amps? They were some of the most highly regarded before Nembrini and Neural et al showed up, and the Kazrog Thermionik amps have been getting revamped given the new competition. A lot of people use and love his True Iron on every track, and it's probably his most successful plug in. I would've put this in the Coffee House but let's face it, that place is out of control. Speaking of, I gotta get back down there

Not just deals. We expect updates too.

Someone further back said they spoke to Larry and he told them he's just taking a break. I don't buy it though I think Izotope's got him.