The Hello-Thread: Please Allow Me To Introduce Myself 👋

Don't forget to watch Hanzo the Razor, its dirty harry as a samurai... opposite of turning yojimbo into fistfulla dollars

Will do.

Hello, After ten years of abstinence in music, I got back to it for 1 year .. I do productions in Hip hop / trap / Soul / Pop styles ...

Welcome back to music! Good to have you here :)

I' m curious about these new mini macs and where that's going for the power macs, but the whole system is not upgradeable, classic apple bullshit.

Personally, like my router, I upgrade my computer every few years anyway so its not an issue for ME. I always believed we would have machines with many many cores years ago so in many ways Intel has held us back - its only increasing cores now because AMD is pushing it to do so. We do need more competition and more choice in personal computing.

Im waiting to see how the Apple M1X machines turn out out though I fully expect them to be high performance machines, even the low-end models. Im thinking maybe an M1X iMac for the studio Im building would be perfect, assuming Ableton's M1 native binary gets released in the next 6 months. Apple was an early investor in ARM so what took them so long? :-)

Hello, After ten years of abstinence in music, I got back to it for 1 year ..

been there, welcome back

I;m going to run my machine into the dirt for 3 years and then the ARMs will be there... but I have SERIOUS D/A channel count usually... I'm running 30 outputs at 96k or 192k in various ways most of the time for mixes now so.... yeah there's that. I eat iMacs, ARMed or un ARMed

I'm hoping by then apple considers bringing back AVB support so I can do gigabit audio into the machine without having toshell out for dante... I'll take the open source protocol that can also stream video for my to-picture work any day of the week! It works very well between devices but none of these OSes support it, its nuts

as far as I'm concerned the whole industry is run by piratical dinosaurs

So Rupert Neve died...

So Rupert Neve died...

Making it to 94 is a hell of an accomplishment all on its own. Making it to 94 AND leaving the legacy he's left is incredible.

https://media.giphy.com/media/l4q8cJzGdR9J8w3hS/giphy.gif

me and my friends are crushed... I found out thru Phil of Rough House records fame.... my best friend was just saying how frail he was last night :-(

me and my friends are crushed... I found out thru Phil of Rough House records fame.... my best friend was just saying how frail he was last night :-(

:( 100% understandable.

If it's any consolation*, my grandma is that age and doing amazing, all things considered. 100% still all there, mentally. We talk a lot about what it feels like to be in your mid 90s... and I think about the indignities of aging and death waaaayyyy too much... long story short, everyone's journey is different, but nobody in their 90s is wishing they could keep being in their 90s forever... especially if you're still able to remember what it was like to be a lot younger.

Knowing this doesn't make it any easier for those of us left behind though.

*In no way am I trying to suggest how anyone should feel about this news or how they should grieve... just sharing the outlook of the nonagenarian in my life.

So Rupert Neve died...

Wow. Just wow. May he rest in peace.

I just notice the VU meters on my diode bridge compressors were dripping saltwater....

this comment is just classic:

https://equipboard.com/items/waves-puigchild-660-670/reviews?cid=363225&src=feed#nav-reviews

Oh man, welcome back, but that is cracking me up... its a decent enough plug in, but

Holy crap https://www.musictech.net/news/gear/analogue-solutions-colossus-fourth-production-run/

oh jeez, there goes my kid's college account

Sure it's big... but think of all the extra room you'll have once your significant other sees what you just spent $$$$$ on and moves the $#@* out. :D

This video where it seems to be sitting in someone's living room feels about right.

when I started making music on the side again my wife up and died.... I mean, I never saw them as related, but you just said that and now its all clear. 5 years alter there's a full blown post-room in my house and paying clients.

... and paying clients.

I'm so happy to hear that. Congrats!

yeah well, we'll see who pays... I'm doing a back end deal with a friend from DC for electricity and 10% of stream revenue if any, patreon, shirts etc if they do anything with it but I just feel weird hitting her up even if I never see another penny, which won't because its not a popular type of thing right now.... if I feel like that methods worth ursuing with something more marketable I'm going to push for it. The trouble wis with strangers how do I assure that I know what they pulled in on music. The idea is most people I work for aren't doing this full time and you don't really sell records anymore anyway and no one has any money to begin with, its the pandemic... the idea is tog et them to have an internet presence and a patreon and get paid in installments from patreon. Or have bands put up a kick starter first maybe, but that seems like a losing proposition without gigs to promote at. There's a whole patreon/merch pool of revenue that's still rocking for some people during thepandemic that I think recording people need to tap. You can do what most do and give your tricks away on youtube and hope to get compenated with donations or you can perform triks for musicians and elt them go begging and then pay you until they make another release.

If someone will pay upfront or has cool gear I want then its on, of course. But this back end social media thing is my way forward in the future and will solve the problem where guys won't pay me for a year and just release the roughs! Although I solved that by adding white noise to a spot in almost finsihed mixes. I ahte when stuff I wasn't done gets put out there. Its not just compensation.

If someone will pay upfront or has cool gear I want then its on, of course. But this back end social media thing is my way forward in the future and will solve the problem where guys won't pay me for a year and just release the roughs! Although I solved that by adding white noise to a spot in almost finsihed mixes. I ahte when stuff I wasn't done gets put out there. Its not just compensation.

...but isn't your profit then tied to their social media prowess AND their integrity in staying honest re: income made from social media? What's their incentive to be honest re: how successful they are on Patreon over the coming years?