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  1. Goredho replied to Lurch's topic in Music
    Paging Dr @sidis to the white courtesy phone.
  2. Goredho replied to Lurch's topic in Music
    I think they are both great, but Universal Audio wins in the recording context, imo. Tonex is better for a live rig. When I get back to focusing on recording I’m going to buy it. One thing that is nice about the UA emulations is that there are no dead tones. It’s all good. Tonex has the crowdsource model for a library of sounds and 75% of what the crowd sources are not worth your time.
  3. Goredho replied to Lurch's topic in Music
    The hot new thing on the block in this regard is Paradise Guitar Studio from Universal Audio. I have demoed it, and its good. At only $149, its not going to break the bank.
  4. Goredho replied to Lurch's topic in Music
    So I spent a fair amount on Adams A7X and T10S subwoofer. Pretty good home studio monitors. Over time, I found my best mixes were with a decent set of headphones (Beyerdynamic DT770 Pro) and the Waves CLA Nx plugin that takes your headphones known EQ and shapes it to match Chris Lord Alge's studio so that you are kinda-sorta transported into a non-shitty room. https://www.waves.com/plugins/cla-nx The reason? My room sucks. Eventually, those fancy monitors that cost 5-8 times as much as the headphones and plugin became just being used for tracking. I still might reference them mixing, but only after I get a good mix in the headphones and plugin and am just checking it out on other speakers and tweaking. So I sold those monitors and the sub and have my performance PA set up as monitors for tracking. I use the headphones and CLA NX plugin for mixing, and cross reference on the PA, laptop and car speakers. For my needs in this shitty 12x12 box that will never be great acoustically, those monitors were not the best allocation of resources. So I would say start with what you have, wait for the need for something more to emerge.
  5. Goredho replied to Lurch's topic in Music
    Focusrite Scarlett is a good entry level interface that will serve you well as you get into it. You might outgrow it, but starting out, you don’t want to invest a ton as you figure out what directions you want to go. To that end, I’d recommend buying used gear at a used price that you can resell later at a similar used price if you ever outgrow it. Buying new, you will almost always take a significant loss on resale.
  6. Goredho replied to Lurch's topic in Music
    So no idea about that specifically, but the minimal things you need for a home recording/music making space are: An instrument (includes your voice) and the ability to operate it A computer DAW software to record with in your computer (this is your mixing board and tape recorder in software form) Hardware to get your sounds into the computer. At least an audio interface, but also a mic if you want to capture vocals or the sound from a guitar amp. Something to allow you to listen to your work while writing/arranging, tracking/recording and mixing/mastering. Monitors and/or headphones That package looks aimed at solving the first of those points. My initial home studio after getting back into music was simply: An electric guitar my brother gave me Mac book pro that I already owned GarageBand as a DAW. Free install for Macs. A crappy Behringer uphoria audio interface that cost < $100 Some crappy Mackie powered monitors that cost < $150. With that I recorded and released my first track since the early 90s. It was objectively shitty, but that’s all it took to start making, recording and releasing my own music and get hooked again on the process. GarageBand comes with a lot of stock guitar amp and pedal emulations and I just used them.
  7. Goredho replied to Lurch's topic in Music
    So I played in bands in high school and was a house producer for Suge Knight’s “Funky Enough Records” in Los Angeles in 1989. I basically made all the tracks for the label’s rappers to rap over and shepherded sessions at LA Air and other studios for the label’s acts. I had no clue what I was doing, but I had a home recording set up, a dj setup, was a multi instrumentalist and had connections to one of Suge’s co-owners, The D.O.C. from Dallas. It ended poorly in events best described over multiple beers, but suffice to say, it was my “Almost Famous” moment. Kept writing and playing before taking a 10 year hiatus when my kids arrived on scene. When kids got older and more interested in friends, I picked it back up and have been building up a solid home recording studio since then while recording and releasing mostly instrumentals — mostly solo but some collaborations. In the past few years I’ve gotten back into performing live and that’s my current focus. I have a 12’ x 12’ shed that is my office/music making space. That space constraint affects all my decision making. What is the best sound I can get in this tiny box? Often it’s using newer technologies to offset the limitations of this space. For instance, I don’t own a guitar amp, I use amp and cab modelling to emulate amps. A good pair of speakers for mixing are not worth their cost in dollars or space in this room, so I use a good set of headphones and a software plugin to emulate a professional mixing environment over those headphones. If you want a home recording set up in a small footprint using newish techs to offset your room limitations, I probably have some experiences that can help avoid headaches and maybe save you some money going down dead ends.
  8. Goredho replied to Lurch's topic in Music
    Looking forward to the discussion, will post more later.
  9. That’s why God invented small tables 😜
  10. I'm kind of intrigued by these all tube preamp pedals, and yeah, I may be getting one. Take the tube preamp out of an amp, shove it into a pedal, put an attenuated 0 watt tube power amp into it to get line level outs for DI, throw in an IR loader for cab tones, add a dash of MIDI control, onboard fx and an effects loop and... you wind up as close to real tube amp tones as you can get in something that can be lashed to a pedalboard with a lot of modern niceties. At least that is what the user hype says. The Tone King Imperial is a port of their amp of the same name that has two channels, fender blackface and fender tweed. If its good enough tone for Greg Koch, its certainly good enough tone for my humble needs. Friedman has similar pedals for its amps. Anyone got any experience with these?
  11. I think your best chance to have a long discussion life is to have a single “Music Making” thread that all of those topics are a part of. I’d advertise it in the guitar pr0n and other instrument specific threads.
  12. Happy to share what I’ve learned as a hobbyist who takes it too seriously. Is there something specific you want to know, @Lurch ? I can describe how I got started, if that helps.
  13. Pick up a Lonestar strat Nice slate grey SG you got there!
  14. Pr0n can stay.
  15. Prove it.
  16. Well, that and the generative kiddie pr0n.
  17. GE7 is probably the right answer, but an empress paraEQ can really surgically sculpt tone and serve as a boost (clean or not). But it’s kinda expensive, not as intuitive as a graphic eq and what it does better probably only matters in a recording environment.
  18. That is an extremely humble brag.
  19. Well, you aren’t going to reinvent yourself as a 22 year old hot chick playing Led Zeppelin riffs in 30 second social media videos consumed by 3783468733366 old dudes with Instagram accounts, so you are kinda handicapped in this space 😜
  20. Looks good to me, but I’m not a good judge about this kind of thing. You’ve got a new follower.
  21. Holy shit, that AOL link actually works.
  22. Next time my CTO asks for moar AI I will ask for one of these in the office to help support the effort.
  23. No one knows how this is going to work out. But two things we can infer from PK's firing: Any coach at Texas can be fired. Perform at the highest level or be prepared to move along. We aren't standing pat with the cards we've had against Georgia the past couple years. We understand that what we had wasn't going to deliver championships, and thus changes needed to be made. Neither of those are bad things. Muschamp could be a net negative, who the hell knows at this point? But I think it's a good thing we aren't settling for being just pretty good until we enter Kirby Smart's BDSM torture dungeon wearing leather chaps and a gimp mask.
  24. Yeah, with regards to <your pet coaching change here>, I would just view this move as evidence that we aren't content to stand pat with the hand we've had. We realize changes need to be made in the staff to move to the next level. That's good.
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