Simply random stuff

[JohnN]

Indeed. QQ is about as social as I get...

Part of the machine.

 

[JohnN]

Why would you need Facebook when you’ve got us?

Who? Us? Jets?

 

[JohnN]

 

[barfle]

Why would you need Facebook when you’ve got us?

I refuse to voluntarily give Zuck a dime. I may purchase from vendors that advertise there, but only because I won’t even look at his site to find out who they are.

 

[FooBarFoo]

A random story- went to Plattsburgh NY to see the eclipse. The second totality kicked in, the upstate bar band playing a mile down the lake stopped mid song, and played the Dark Side of the Moon, in its entirety. Nice musical addition.

 

[Mr. Afternoon]

Now, I don't play video games often, but either I'm playing the wrong video games or realistic lighting seems to have gotten worse over the past 10 years. Sure, the new stuff has way more fancier tech, but like, IDK. Something's off. If I take something like 2014's Metal Gear Solid V the lighting, although it's less fancier, seems to be a lot more akin to how light works in real-life. And as a high-fidelity-chasing man, this irritates me.

Also, when I think retro games, I think stuff like Pac-Man. In reality, retro has now started to encompass stuff like Uncharted with realistic humans and stuff. Ugh. I feel old.

 

[LuvMyQuad]

So this is a banner year for cicadas because the emergence of the two major broods occurs in the same year this year. They expect trillions to come out of the ground with the epicenter in Illinois. Anybody see any yet?

 

[Clement]

Looks as if it will be late May for me, just north of Chicago. @GOS – BUMP those subwoofers to drown out the two broods!
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/loc...e Chicago area, Brood,in a 2023 press release.

 

[LuvMyQuad]

From @Clement s link:

Dana said. "It's not going to be a large area. But there will likely actually be some mating happening between these two broods, which is going to be really exciting."

Dana is apparently a sick puppy

 

[JerseyEd]

I went to Zappa.com to see if there was any word on an Apostrophe' 50th and found this... Mothers Whiskey 1968. A 1968 live recording of my favorite line-up of the Mothers recorded at the Whiskey-A-Go-Go. It is due out June 21st. No surround in this release, but I still look forward to it.

 

[Mr. Afternoon]

A French company has reportedly managed to license Sholay for a Blu-ray release...only took 20 years for the license holders to finally agree. For those unaware, Sholay is an Indian Western film from the 1970s that has a huge impact on the country's cinema. Now only one question remains: are they going to license the theatrical cut or the director's cut? There's a 20 minute runtime difference and a completely different ending between both. Furthermore, the theatrical cut is cropped from 4:3 to cinemascope (as it was blown up from the 35mm source to 70mm), and although cinemascope is the director's intention I much prefer the 4:3 version.

 

[Mr. Afternoon]

I don't have a PC strong enough to monitor in real-time for some mixes.

I have a 6-core 12-thread processor.

I've clearly screwed up somewhere when Pyramix Masscore is starting to look appealing to me.

 

[Clement]

I LOVE the lilac bush right outside my bedroom window!

 

[jimfisheye]

I don't have a PC strong enough to monitor in real-time for some mixes.

I have a 6-core 12-thread processor.

I've clearly screwed up somewhere when Pyramix Masscore is starting to look appealing to me.

How many tracks are your mixes up to these days?
Running 7.1.4, 5.1, & 2.0 on the same board?
Some hungry bionic instrument/synth plugins?
Running OldTools DAW?

The 'hit the back wall again and need to upgrade' thing actually stopped for me around 2009. I miss upgrading but the modern software spoofing and whitelist stuff puts me off. Everyone lies now. Go go gadget 2009 Mac Pro! (12 core 24 thread)

 

[Mr. Afternoon]

How many tracks are your mixes up to these days?
Running 7.1.4, 5.1, & 2.0 on the same board?
Some hungry bionic instrument/synth plugins?
Running OldTools DAW?

The 'hit the back wall again and need to upgrade' thing actually stopped for me around 2009. I miss upgrading but the modern software spoofing and whitelist stuff puts me off. Everyone lies now. Go go gadget 2009 Mac Pro! (12 core 24 thread)

It's not necessarily tracks, it's how much heavy processing or synths I may be running... I'm using Reaper right now. 5.0 only. I've got some 10 track stuff that screams in pain and some 60 track stuff that works fine. Purely dependent on the song. Don't got a mixing board. Good old mouse and keyboard baby! Running 24/96 for this album at least...I can do up to 24/192. Although if I'm buckling this much at 24/96...

I think the heaviest thing I have right now are guitar pedal/amp sims. Those just completely destroy my PC.

 

[jimfisheye]

I still say "board" when I mean DAW and I still say "tape" when I mean file on a hard drive. Sorry about that!

Some synth plugins will do that. Some of those or the virtual orchestra stuff would make my machine show some age. I'm more a put a mic in front of it and then mix it back guy. And probably better at mastering and restoration. Does that mean I'm better at resurrecting the dead than creating new life? Reaper wins at any rate!

 

[JohnN]

Monday

 

[mrcond]

Monday

Poor Toby.

 

[marpow]

I went to Zappa.com to see if there was any word on an Apostrophe' 50th and found this... Mothers Whiskey 1968. A 1968 live recording of my favorite line-up of the Mothers recorded at the Whiskey-A-Go-Go. It is due out June 21st. No surround in this release, but I still look forward to it.

Funny, I am half way through this documentary now and the Whiskey show is in the movie.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4881578/

 

[JohnN]

Tuesday