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The crap solicitations on soundcloud are just that -- they just want your money and they don't guarantee a single listen or lead. I get several of these a month between soundcloud and reverbnation. There's no magic pill for getting views or listens. It's an arbitrary combination of skill...

One electric (Gibson Les Paul special), one Martin acoustic, and a cheap short scale Ibanez bass. The heavy lifting is done by Amplitube (VST) or in the case of the acoustic, good mic'ing. Covers all my bases, and I score a lot.

What's your zip code? Maybe someone on the forum is close enough to haul some of this away.

The board has a manufacturer date of 2008, and it appears a realtek chip. Realtek were not making very good chips at that time, they have improved a lot in the years since. Anyway, any older usb sound device like that can't be very good. It's possible you could upgrade the usb sound to...

I've been a Rush fan for a long time, and haven't heard of this before. According to this brief bio, they credited him as a member of Seventh Wave but make no mention of a broken hand leading him to flee back to Canada (rather, London being an unsuccessful career propelling move). I suspect...

I retreated to home recording 20 years ago as a result of this very sentiment.

Hey mjb, this thread got bumped and paging through realized I never responded. I'm pretty sure I played this one sometime 2019 or very early 2020-ish at the GC here in Vegas [they had a Fender short scale I had not yet seen]. It was 'okay', but back to back with the Gretsch short scale they...

It's 0.000003% better so it's well worth the little bit extra cash.

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Catherine Wheel are my go-to shoegaze band. Their album "Chrome" in particular is amazing, and I think it still sounds relevant after almost 30 years. "Ferment", their first album, is also good and even had some chart success. The shoegaze genre is very hit/miss for me, Catherine Wheel are...

From the listener's standpoint it makes the audio "louder" by leveling the average sound being output so everything is clearly heard versus some items being more easily heard than others. Sometimes (and often in music) dynamics are welcome and desired, but for spoken word/dialog it's important...

Having decent playback equipment and using the same plugins consistently across all projects helped a lot. Not a huge investment, good monitors on stands with a small studio caliber sub, two different pairs of headphones with their own strengths/weaknesses that highlighted different things in...

I think they mean "easy" when they say out of the box (ie - plug and play, intuitive, etc). Any modern DAW (digital audio workstation) software available for Mac will allow you to track and use plugins, as well as virtual instruments (like midi software synths). It's a matter of downloading...

It's more likely a matter of us old folks getting fussy, the tech usually works fine. :p

Dave, this is what I was referring to in getting a midi --> usb adapter. The adapter handles in and out signaling. https://www.amazon.com/OTraki-Interface-Converter-Processing-Electric/dp/B07JBJ9V11 It does exactly as you describe for $15. No need to limit interface purchasing options when...

Doing everything digitally from within a computer (DAW, virtual instrument software) is definitely the way to go. The flexibility and control it offers, and at a relatively low cost, is unbeatable. For keyboard work, I recommend getting a usb keyboard that will act as a midi device in the...

Like with everything else, the louder it is the less likely it's going to stick out or sound 'thin' to the average passerby. The loudness wars are still in full effect, just now the tools for making things loud are better than they were in the late 1990s when it started so mixes can sound okay...

Another vote against this particular purchase. If the price is too good to be true, it's because it is. Definitely applies here. I'm running a standard AMD Ryzen 5 based PC under my desk with a large aftermarket heatsink/fan that is barely audible even when doing heavy workloads. When...

There's been some momentum recently to have nuclear regain some of its status as a green source, because ... well, it is. It just has some potentially dangerous implications if corners are cut/disasters happen. My only issue is that even with expansion of nuclear power, we'd still never...

Efficiency has afforded us the luxury of ignoring our aging electric grid/infrastructure. We have more homes (and people) now than decades past. Without efficiency advances we would have crashed the grid a long time ago. As it is, places like Texas are finally coming to a reckoning with power...