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Needs a tattered white 34 on the upper bout.

No, those Russian bots would attempt to sow discord in the US by flooding social media with Joe Bonamassa pics, vids and merchandise.

Going 5 and 0 to start the year, beating two ranked teams, almost beating a 3rd ranked team, and having no ranked teams remaining on the schedule. Sorry for your battered wife Longhorn fan syndrome.

Championship teams close it on D when they pull ahead by 3 with a minute and a half to go and the other team out of time outs. 3rd and 9 didn’t lose this game. Prevent defense, pass interference and thinking we had won lost this game.

You are just fucking retarded, outright, no conditions.

OU played a great game, we didn’t, and we almost won. It sucks, and I wish we would have won, but if we take this and put a chip on our shoulder, we’ll win out, be in the CCG in a rematch against OU and we’ll destroy them the 2nd time around. We’ll then go the playoffs, because there are not going to be four undefeated teams and no one loss team will have a better resume.

He's really got that Churchill bulldog in him.

Dunno where this should be posted. Hendrix’ Machine Gun in color.

Give the Ozone 10 day trial a whirl, I think you'll like it for what you described.

Something about mixing/mastering that should be considered here is the time as well as financial cost. Even with plugins like Neutron and Ozone, I'm still "paying" a few hours of the time I have for music on mixing and mastering songs. That's music time I could spend composing, practicing, etc... So the right answer is probably a choice based on where you are on a time/cost/interest spectrum. For no money, you can mix/master yourself with stock plugins (at least in Logic, not sure about other DAWs). But you are going to be spending maybe a majority of your music time learning to be a better-than-shitty sound/mix/master engineer. You'll be paying this time cost going forward. Don't do this unless you want to be an audio/mix/master engineer more than a musician/songwriter. For a relatively modest and fixed investment in things like Neutron and Ozone, you can have a pretty good mix/master for any number of songs you produce from this point forward, but you are still going to be spending a few hours of your music time per song tweaking their results. You'll be paying this time cost going forward. Do this if you don't like the idea of paying per song and/or have the time to allow for you to spend a bit of it on mixing and mastering while still doing what you want as a musician/songwriter. Completely outsource mixing/mastering to a semi-pro/pro, you can have a very good mix and master for a $100 (someone like JJs resource) to $500 per song (Abbey Roads online mix/master service but carried out by one of their human engineers), but you will not be spending any of your music time on mixing/mastering. You'll be paying this monetary cost going forward. Do this if you have the disposable income/budget and don't want anything to take away from your musician/songwriter focus.

Cool, got to get some work done, but will listen again while reading this afternoon.

Real good stuff, Buck. Grab a chair and help yourself to the beer in the cooler. I have a request for anyone posting their music with singing/lyrics. If you don't mind, could you also post the lyrics? Would help my brain that is being fed by shitty ears that have had too much gunfire and guitar piped into them understand whats being conveyed lyrically.

I haven’t. One thing Sidis hipped me onto is Izotope Ozone. It’s a paid mastering plugin for your DAW that provides a lot of mastering tools like compressors, adaptive limiters, spectral imagers, etc…. What differentiates it is that it has a “master assistant” feature that uses AI to help you get in the ballpark with a master, then you can kind of tweak by ear or meters from there. The AI assistant can be used in two ways. Pick some parameters like intensity and vintage/modern and click go, or provide a reference track for the AI, click go, and it analyzes the reference track to inform its decisions. Either path you take, the end result is that it builds out a master processing chain that is applied to your mix on the master/stereo out channel in about 10 seconds. You can then listen and tweak all the knobs and sliders until you are happy with it and do a final master bounce. In practice, I like to provide a reference track that has a final master I like. It can be anything, a Steely Dan, Pantera or Hans Zimmer track. The AI gets me in the ballpark and I’ll usually spend ~hour tweaking, dump a master, give my ears a rest, listen to the dump on all the speakers I can from monitors to car stereo to cell phone, note any tweaks I think need to be made, and then repeat until I have a final master that I like. Usually it’s it’s one or two iterations so this has pretty much cut my mastering process down to 2-3 hours and the result is as good or better than what I was producing on my own with 8-16 hours spent mastering a track Ozone 11 has a 10 day free trial, a standard version that is $149 and a pro version that is $299. I wouldn’t recommend the elements version for $39 as it does not have the AI feature. https://www.izotope.com/en/products/ozone.html

Live look at Fattie exchanging ideas with someone who likes him.

I wanted to quote this and state that @sidis is about as good as I could imagine someone being at producing pro-quality tracks from a relatively modest home studio. He's got a lot of skill/knowledge, is generous with his time, and has a real interest in helping others make their music better. All our collaborations have been incredibly positive experiences, and I'm always learning something from him. I owe him like tree-fiddy beers for all he's done to help extend my skills at production, mixing, mastering, etc... Take him up on his offer, @Celery Man.

Don't hide your tunes under a bushel, dude. That's a damn good song. Vocals as an instrument are hard. Like, being able to do what Jon Anderson did with Yes, or what Amy Winehouse did with her voice, not everyone can do that. I seriously doubt any one here could use their voice as an instrument anywhere close to that. But neither could Bob Dylan, Tom Petty or Kurt Vile, and those guys are fantastic singer/songwriters who have made a hell of an impact with their music. Just singing their truth with the voice they were born with. Keep singing your truth, man. Its good stuff.

That's really cool, well done! Love the instrumentation/production choices and the vocal melodies.

It’s starting to feel like the final grift opportunity is drawing near. A gallon of genuine Donald Trump Guyana Punch for only $49.95.

What horrific advice. If Trump ran around himself 3 times, he'd die of a massive myocardial infarction. Ohhhh...

Let me guess. He was cancelled by his own stupidity?