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Very nice, I viewed every photo! I wish I had even that much space. I don't have any apps loaded to send photos to the forum, ( I wouldn't know how to do it if I did!), I'm not very good with computers or smartphones. But I'll figure out how to send some photos of my gear, I have a few really nice, and rare pieces. But that looks beautiful, and is what I imagined when I wrnt out and got deeply in debt buying all this stuff. I have no idea how much I spent on everything, but imagine it's close to $30,000.00 total, then I was broke, but only about $2000.00 in debt, but almost immediately got ill, and refused to sell any of it, so niw I'm about $12,000.00 in the hole, but back at work, and will hopefully knock it out pretty quickly. I am just so frustrated that I got the bug, went out and bought my dream rig, plus all the recording stuff, and haven't been able to utilize it yet. Hopefully I'll get lots of use out of it once I get closer to caught up on the debt. Seeing those photos sure inspires me though!! Thanks for sharing them. Have a great day Bob!

Peace, Keith:)
 
You'll get to it, and it sounds like you have a good handle on getting caught up financially, which will take a load of worry off. In the meantime, when you get ideas for something, whether a progression or lyrics, go old school and grab a notebook and a pen and capture them. Even scraps of ideas can later be revisited and worked on. Then, once you've set up and are ready to start tracking, you can capture all those ideas that would otherwise have been lost. When I was on the road, I carried an inexpensive little digital recorder with me, so that if I had an idea for a lyric while I was driving (and couldn't write it down), I could just speak it into the recorder and capture it later. I also played CDs of new mixes in the van, and used the recorder to capture things I needed to change or correct in the mix before calling the song finished. Have a good one!
 
Nice setup BobV55. Godzilla looks loney on the speaker, he needs a playmate. Where can we hear that Crossroads CD?
 
Thanks Roundhill...once upon a time, when we were still actively gigging, he sat on top of my amp, feet tucked into the handle on the head to keep the bass from sending him southbound. That CD, along with the others, can be heard and downloaded (if you so choose) here, and the newer stuff underway is here.

When it comes to writing and recording, I think we do pretty well. When it comes to sales and marketing, we couldn't sell a hooker to a sailor on shore leave, so we gave up trying to market and sell. It's a skill set we simply don't have, so we just write them, record them, we do copyright them (in case pigs do take flight), and we make them available for those who like them and would like to add them to their collection.

We're just now gearing up to get back to work on new stuff after this brutal winter - in our area, we had between 6 and 8 feet of snow, and no one was inclined to do much of anything but collapse after cleaning up behind the weekly blizzards.

Hopefully, I'll remember how to turn it all on and make it do something useful!
 
Hey Bob, I use the recorder on my Android phone to put my ideas down, but still manage to forget to do that, and have lost some really good material. I think that once I find a home for my studio gear, I'll spend my free time there, instaed of in front of the idiot box, and will put more of my ideas down before I forget them. I have to do some maintenance to my PC, but I'm gonna download some, or all of what you have uploaded as soon as I get the monster sorted out!
Have a great day my new friend, Keith
 
Using your smart phone is a good idea...at the risk of being declared prehistoric, I neither own or want to own a smart phone. I like to be "disconnected" when I'm out, so I can enjoy what I'm out doing, and the people I'm doing it with! Email and the answering machine can bring me up to speed afterward.

Feel free to download as you wish - there's a player at the top of the page that will play the songs, as well as download them individually, and then the links on the side download a zip of the album as a whole. Most of the stuff on Soundcloud has downloads enabled as well, unless it isn't finished...I'll often work out something new on my own and put it up there so the guys can have a listen easily and start thinking about how they want to approach their parts for it. The songs take on a whole new sense once others add the parts that they think will work in it, and that's the fun part of what we do.

Have a good one!
 
I loathe ny electronic leash, but it's an unfortunate necessity in my line of work. People know that I'm not crazy about the phone, and I gave texting blocked, so email in my pocket, and Google are pretty much all I use!

Peace, Keith
 
Copy that - I worked as a tech in the field for over 30 years, and carried a Blackberry phone, which was integral to the job...and which also got turned off and put on the charger promptly at 5. Now, I work from home as a support specialist using VOIP, so the BB phone might get turned on once a month or so, to make sure it still works, but that's about it.
 
Yep, I'm an HVAC tech, mostly residential, for realtors with apartment complexes, and they're trained to sebd my calls via email!! Hoping to retire soon, can't afford to, but my body can't do it anymore! I never thought 53 would hurt so much, but I abused myself for way too long, and 35 years of crawlspaces, and attics, not to mention being 6'6", and 260 didn't help much! I'll figure something out!!!

Off to install a heat pump, talk to you later, Keith
 
In my case, it was 36 years of working on my knees on industrial flooring...I have knees like the guys who install carpeting. If this didn't come along when it did, I don't think I could have done that any longer. I'm creeping up to 60 now, and yeah, we discover pains in places we never gave a second thought to when we were young and invincible!
 
Nice tunes BobV55. Sounds good. Did you record and mix all on the DP-24 and 2488? Any computer software used?
 
Thanks, Roundhill - I do all the mixing on the deck, but don't use the DP-24's mastering features. I copy the mix onto my laptop and use Sound Forge Pro and Ozone to finish and master them. I have a preset that I cooked up in Ozone that I use as a start point, then adjust based on the song.
 
Yeah Bob, I have acute arthritis in both knees, my back, which I've broken twice, and it's put together with $250,000.00 dollars worth of titanium! Also both hips, and hands, and lastly my right shoulder. I was told to never work again 7 years ago, but until I can't physically do it anymore, I won't burden the taxpayers. I also have two diseases that will probably cause my demise eventually, but that's because I lived on the edge for way too long, feeling great, and having what I thought was the greatest time anyone could have. I was BMOC, had any woman I wanted, and was a handsome young man who looked 25 at 40. That year I had an epiphany,(a miraculous experience), and lost my looks, developed my illnesses, but gained my soul! Now I don't go out having "FUN" every night, don't drink, or get high on every drug there is, stay pretty much to myself, but learned the ultimate lesson! Now back to forum talk!

I really liked what I've heard, especially "I want it to Shine"!!!! Very good recordings, hope I can get that kind of sound from my DP! Keep up the great work!!

Peace be with you, and all you love, Keith
 
Wow...I haven't been burdened with any extraordinary issues like a broken back, instead the slow, inexorable effects of all the years of physical work and age and having to face the fact that things just don't work as they used to, and bouncing back from a setback takes so much longer. You do look back and realize all the things you took for granted and the decisions that weren't the best choices that you made, but I guess that's why they say hindsight is indeed 20/20.

Glad you like the songs...we're planning to get back to work in a couple of weeks, on the first Saturday in May. I've already done the cleaning downstairs, and this weekend I'm going to go through a gear checkout so I can take care of anything that needs attention.

Have a good one!
 
Hey Bob, how's the recording start up going? Tracking yet? I can't wait to hear the difference time has made to your material! Let me know when there's some tracks to share.

Peace, Keith C
 
Hiya Keith - we actually have quite a bit up on the Sound Cloud page - most of the newest stuff is in the Works In Progress collection, the recent finished songs are in the Singles collection, and the last complete "album" is Whisper, which has a group of its own. The newest ones that I started work on the weekend before last are Strumming and Garage Song (so named because I noodled the main riff while fooling around with Garage Band on the iPod). They generally don't get a final title until they're done, and that's usually based on the lyrics.

Anyway, there they are...if they sound lousy, I'm to blame, as mine are the hands on the faders.

Catch ya later....work beckons.....
 
Wow Bob, were all of those recorded on a DP24? I listened to Garage, the first two "works in progress", and a few that I don't know the title, as I let it keep playing while I laid back with my headphones on. I was really amazed at how well the recordings sound. I didn't think the machine was capable of making studio quality recordings suitable for release on CD, but now I realize it depends on the old adage of who's doing the playing, playing, and more importantly, who's twisting the knobs, and the mastering is so important. Sounds great!!! Keep in touch brother! Oh, by the way, I hear a bit of Jeff Beck in what I think is the chorus of Garage, AWESOME!

PEACE, KEITH
 
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Thanks, Keith - yep, they were all done on the DP-24. I do the tracking and the mixing right on the DP-24, but I don't use the on board mastering tools. I connect via USB and copy the mix onto my laptop, bring it into Sound Forge Pro, and use iZotope's Ozone for mastering. I cooked up a couple presets to use as starting points, then adjust based on the song, trying to give it what it needs.

All guitar tracks run through a SM57 on a tube combo (either Marshall Class 5, Fender Blues Jr, or Egnater Tweaker), bass runs through a Tech 21 VT Deluxe into the board, keys through the same Peavey mixer the Alesis drums go through, and the vox mike is a condenser, into an ART pre, then a dbx compressor, and into the board. Overall, a very "old school" setup, which is just the way I like it.

Glad you liked them...looking forward to hearing yours too, once you get everything going!
 
Well, it sounds as though my set up is similar, although I don't have a mixing board, just my Scarlett 18i20 interface, which has reasonably decent pres for the money. I too have a DBX comp, and the DP2s also have some great compression presets that I can tweak to my tastes. I'm micing my guitars with an sm57, vocals are a Rodes NT1A and the MX goes USB into Cubase to get all the great keyboard patches,( the MX has 1100+ native voices), and it comes back to the MX where I use the stereo outs into the 18i20, then into the DP24. I bought a nice little 8 channel snake of 8 TRS cables which works perfectly with the 18i20, as it has 8 pres, and 8 outs, and dual headphone outs with individual volume controls. Once I get back in the black, I would like to get a nice little board like the Peavey you told me about, and a real preamp, and better comp, although the DP2s compression may be as good as I'll need for a bit. Sound on Sound gives it very high praises. Anyway, I'll find out soon, as hopefully I'll start laying some tracks in the next several weeks if work continues to be steady.
Off to the next service call, talk soon, Keith
 
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