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On April 22, 2017 at 8:04 AM, john said:
Hmmm Randy you lost me. I see:
Patty -> Community
Peggy -> Patty
Robash -> Patty
Patty -> Robash
Randy -> Whom it may concern
Peggy -> Confused
Me -> Randy
Did Rob maybe post to Robert here and then delete it? We have 2 members called RobAsh, and they are different people
Horribly executed on my part. No, Rob didn't post it was just me noticing another rob ash. I was meaning it as a Patty this is Peggy. Peggy this is Patty. Patty this is Rob Ash. Rob Ash this is Rob Ash. Sorry for the confusion.
Patty, Sorry for any confusion. At least now you know you can ignore most of my comments.
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14 minutes ago, symphonious7 said:
but I don't see a movement worthy of the 60's happening I really don't.
I have to say I do see it, in my mind. The quick is about 4 or 5 or 6 years ago I personally got disgusted with the internet. That's after spending a life time of loving technology. First with the atari then my first Texas Instruments computer in 1981 and never looked back. Always wanting and loving the next new thing. There are a lot of reasons to like the internet and what it does, but there are also a lot of reasons to dislike it. For me, the reasons not to like it outweigh the good. It's a "humanity" thing. The writing is on the wall of where we are headed. Automation continues to swallow jobs. There is talk of a "universal wage" (i.e. welfare) to help. The techies in charge say, 'nah' new jobs will just open up. But considering the main feature of tech is to "do more with less" I don't know what those jobs would be, neither do they. I have hope it won't be as bad as it could be but I'm not sure that's the case. And automation is just a small slice of the "trouble pie." At some point people will have to ask just how much do they want to be controlled by technology. Do we all really need chips in our bodies to open doors at the office like they currently do in some countries? The current "fad topic" of fake news has been present on the net for many, many years. It's not a new thing. It's not a good thing, yet people still flock to Facebook to read their news. Or at least to read the news that's slanted the way they want to hear it. So I'm going to stick to my theory of the day when people wake up to it all. The day people really get disgusted and realize that in the end, it's not worth it. Life is better without it. Many things need to be done. But I could see a window of 4-5 years of a sort of anti-internet/anti-tech Hippie-like movement. Especially with the rise of the legalization of pot. With hopes that people chill the f*ck out and lose their boners over technology. I know technology isn't going away, but the ways it's being used need to change. I could just chalk it up to being an old codger, but considering my love to technology throughout my lifetime, that's simply not it.
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Welcome Patty.
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5 minutes ago, starise said:I don't see Apple taking this huge tumble into oblivion. They have too many followers behind them. Yet I don't see them head and shoulders above either. They are concentrating more on a small device market and throwing a bone to creative users in touting a "modular" computer in 2018. Mac users have left the Mac. I don't think Apple is what it once was since the founder died. We may see a slow decline or more of a normalcy to their future products. Let's face it, Macs are now PC hardware with an locked Apple OS. In my opinion over priced and usually under powered compared to similar PC hardware.People on both sides swear by what they like. I'm pretty much on the PC side of things mainly because I like to build my own computers and decide my own specs and layout.
I don't believe Mac users have left the Mac. Some sure, but I know a lot of designers and none of them have left the Mac. Adobe on the other hand. Since they went subscription model more and more people have left that. It's taken a while for newer software to take the place of InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop (although Photoshop has always had good competition.) When they went subscription, I purchased the newest versions they had and have been running them since. I figure to get another couple years before needing to upgrade. When we do, we will no longer be using Adobe, other than maybe Adobe Acrobat Pro unless there's an alternate I like. There are currently 2 other software providers I'm looking at. Just like Aldus Freehand, Coral Draw and Quark, Adobe too will fall. But I'd gather they'll drop the subscription service first as a last gasp effort.
It's funny what's become of Mac. Windows was an obvious, but not as good, take on the Apple OS. But like you said, other than the virus' PCs are susceptible to, they're very comparable. Although I've heard a lot of bad things about Windows 10, not sure how the actual system itself is. But yes, since Jobs left, Macs been in decline. You can't just replace the vision of a genius with someone good. I do just wish he would have died BEFORE he came out with the iPhone.
I'll let you know how the Cakewalk/Garageband comparison goes. The thing for me is I've never once since I've started recording thought to myself, "I wish Garageband offered more." Every time I look for something I need, I find it.
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16 minutes ago, Steve said:
I think ears and your brain adapt to what you subject them to! I have a pair of high end Sennheiser heaphones that I use at home. But when I travel, I use a cheap pair of headphones. When I first put them on, the sound is pretty average to say the least! But after a few tracks, my brain has adapted to the sound and everything sounds great!
I experience just that scenario every time I play my old records. On the first song it sounds pretty cruddy, but by song two I don't really notice.
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5 hours ago, starise said:
The alpha is FREE though and is a great way to move slightly up from garage band for basic audio tracking. The home studio version is the one they ported. The basic version.
I've heard comments about Cakewalk for years. I cannot wait to download this to compare to Garageband. My initial instinct would be it would be a step down. We shall see. Thanks for the tip.
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I've thought about it many times and looked into it but I've never went any further. I do agree with both you and Steve above. The time is right yes, but just being "trans" may not be enough. It reminds me of that heavy metal band Anvil they made the movie out of. They started something but were left in the dust by those that jumped aboard because those that did, had better music. Now, I'm not saying your music isn't "up to snuff" so to speak as I don't know. Just something to consider when working on material. Good luck with it.
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Lick It Up - KISS
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Alive - Pearl Jam
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Reluctance is a very, very good thing.
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It may help to do a session of Guitar Lessons. If nothing else, you'll be right there next to someone you can get hands-on instructions with. If something doesn't make sense, you can ask more questions on the spot. I'm only assuming you know how to play at least 4 or 5 of the basic chords? If not, I would learn those before the lesson so you don't have to focus on them.
Welcome to the forum by the way.
Randy
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Just took the poll. Good luck.
Dr. Rosenrosen
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The Cure - A Short Term Effect
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4 minutes ago, john said:
1. You don't practice with a click track, if you did this would be easier.
Quick question. What would be the difference between playing with at click track at say 120 bpm, and playing with a drum loop at 120 bpm? I never use click only anymore because using a drum loop is 1) the only time I'll be playing along with drums and 2) it makes me feel more of the actual music like there's a drummer there, rather than just a click. I've done both, and can do both, but using a click track metronome just seems … well … boring and unnecessary when you can play to drums expressing the same rhythm and keeping the same time you need.
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I used analyze music when learning guitar long ago. I was an avid Eddie Van Halen fan and I was always listening to the little nuances in his songs. Back then it was fun, but also frustrating when I couldn't nail what I was trying to play exactly. Eventually I stopped doing that, and trying to pay Van Halen songs. It was much more fun after that. All the time I took studying did in fact improve me as a player, but I also found it zapped some of the fun out of it because I was focusing too hard. I'm not saying at all it's a bad thing to do that type of listening, but I've made a conscious decision not to do so any more. Music is one of the few things I try to keep for enjoyment only. I don't listen to a whole lot of music but when I do it is solely for enjoyment.
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Man, this one brings back some memories.
Fear - Let's Have a War
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1 hour ago, john said:
Without looking at the spec, great for gaming and great for mixing and or mastering are not the same thing. Ideally you want cans that don't color the sound. If for example your cans include some tech to artificially boost bass, say for games enjoyment, and then you mix... hearing a level of bass boost that will not be on other systems... that is a problem. If on the other hand it is simply a bass response giving something close to uncolored, simply enough to overcome headphone's naturally poor bass response because of speaker size... that would be ok. As long as you have gone into this and this is the rationale, that is ok.
Good point John. I have a question. I'm still far from being good at mixing and even further from knowing the real ins-and-outs of mixing and mastering. I just do it by ear. Which is great sometimes and I've gotten good mixes. But I have a question. Do the numbers lie, or can you count on them every time?
I'm going to use Photoshop to illustrate what I'm getting at. Many years ago we used to have problems with photos of people in our newspaper. A lot of our images of white people had a kind of blue tint to them that when on the page with other blue items really made them look more blue. We met with our printer and discussed this. Obviously we had too much Cyan in the mix and were given some percentages to look for when inspecting faces. 10% or lower was the rule so if we were worried about a photo being too blue, we would adjust the cyan until it the overall face was less than 10% cyan.
Now, taking this to music and mixing. Are there numbers like that for certain things that should be the go-to rule for certain instruments/sounds? I do know there isn't really a once size fits all, but are there ranges that whenever you go outside of them, sound quality suffers?
Gratzi,
Randy
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The Hollies - Stop Stop Stop
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On April 1, 2017 at 4:02 AM, Sreyashi Mukherjee said:
Thanks for sharing, Randy. Just out of curiosity - when did this fourth event start? Just for me to get an idea as to how long it took you to go from that level of skill and self-confidence to where you are now... it doesn't appear to be too long ago.
It started in 2009. I discovered Garageband in early 2009. I immediately recorded a song I was working on the last time I really was playing guitar, which was around 1995. I sat on the music for quite a few months before I decided to bite the bullet and sing it for myself. I recorded about 4 or 5 songs before I ever decided to share any of them. Slowly but surely I would get comments on my vocals not being bad and needing to be louder in the mix. I would say it wasn't until 2011 or 2012 until I really started believing and listening to those comments and turning the vocals up louder with each new song I did. Can't say exactly but it was really around 2015 when I myself started to actually like the vocals as well and saw them as possibly a strong suite, rather than a weak one. I do still think there are better singers that could do my songs more justice, but I also think they have a quality that could be good enough. Especially considering I've never taken a class or got instruction anywhere. All the practice I've done was solely to get a song I'm working on done right. I've just recently really grasped the singing from the gut method. Should I ever need it, as in I would be playing out somewhere, I would take at least 1 session of vocal lessons to really focus on them and get them closer to where they should/could be.
I would say even more than lacking the skill, it was the self confidence that was such a hinderance. Once I got over that I was able to advance my skills because I was singing full throttle and when it wasn't working, I would adjust my body (i.e. stomach, throat, etc…) to get it to where it needed to be. The most surprising thing of all is how much easier it is to sing when you're doing it correctly. That's my only judging stick on whether I'm doing it right or not. Also, it's the one thing I give American Idol credit for. I used to watch that and noticed that they weren't screaming and struggling to get the sound out. It all "looked" like it was very easy for them.
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I'll knock on wood for you too. Thanks again for everything.
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I think that was a bit of comedy Tim. I mean, who still uses a wired mouse and keyboard also. Oh wait, I do. I can't stand using a wireless keyboard and mouse. Definitely not an improvement in any real way other than you get to get up and change the batteries which helps with the cardio a little.
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I'm going to try to keep this as short as possible. I think there are 4 key events in my life that have guided my musical journey. The first event was when I was really little and watched a show on TV that had the Bay City Rollers playing … probably lip syncing. Women were just rushing up on stage the whole time. I remember thinking "Man, those ladies really like what they are doing." Of course at the time I was unaware of why exactly they were rushing the stage. I purely thought it was because they liked the music.
So shortly after that I asked for my first guitar for Christmas. Some few years later after taking lessons and whatnot I kind of started slumping and falling out of guitar a little, probably due to my small hands making it harder. Until I heard the second event … Eruption by Van Halen. I got chills the first time I heard it and a plethora of times after that. It really made me jump head first into learning the guitar and from that point on about 99% of what I learned were Van Halen songs. I kept on that path almost all the way through college. The third event happened close to the time I heard Eruption but didn't realize it's affect on me until some years later. In 7th grade my choir teacher told me I should probably look to do another elective as I didn't have a good singing voice and she wondered if I was a bit tone deaf. At the time I was a little bummed but figured I'd just keep going with the guitar. Various times after that the idea of me singing would pop up and I would immediately think "No way. I suck." Thanks teacher. That little nugget of education stayed with me well after the fourth event and only subsided in the past few years. But the fourth event was when I learned I could record songs on my computer, for free, using Garageband. I was worried because I knew I couldn't sing, but I also didn't have drums or a bass so I figured I'd wing all of it. Which I did. While my vocals aren't great, they are much better than I thought they were and suffice to get the point across so I've come to accept my vocals as they are. In a nutshell that's it. Those 4 things have kept me going. Even the negative event has helped me in life as now whenever someone tells me I can't, or shouldn't do something because I'm not good enough, I take it as a challenge with the goal to prove them wrong.
As far as songwriting only goes, I've always done it. I recall my first song "Tone of Black" and still have those lyrics on paper somewhere. They really suck but do rhyme in some spots.
In first grade I also wrote a poem "Little Things" which was published in a District-wide book of poetry. The beauty is I got my own page and a nice large illustration of a dragon on the opposite page. When I look back at that, I wonder what I was thinking when I went and crossed it all out in third grade throwing a hissy-fit about something or other. Probably about not eating my dinner or getting in trouble for cussing.
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