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Post by yotonic on Apr 24, 2024 20:54:48 GMT -6
The music business as I know it has been dying a slow death for a long time now. Well-known artists can’t make a living recording or touring. And as fewer people pay for music, business entities are scrubbing and sucking up any leftover pennies they can find. Kids don’t pay for music and they don’t go to see live music on a regular basis instead they spend their money on a big festival or a top 20 artist in the summer sheds. It’s become like a carnival business with the big ticket companies promoting anything that will get folks attention. Very few people want to hear new music until it is fed to them through the narrowing funnel. And even fewer want to go out and support live music on any sort of regular basis.
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Post by yotonic on Apr 16, 2024 21:59:55 GMT -6
Great job! Awesome to see young cats digging Rock. I was driving through the country today after fly fishing and I put on my 80s metal play list and I felt amazing. I might sound like Robert Kennedy Jr, but there is a physical impact that rock music has that is unique to the genre. The Beatles knew it, so did Chuck Berry, Led Zeppelin and Mutt Lange. Great job! Now take that muscle memory and go write something of your own and post it for us.
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Post by yotonic on Apr 9, 2024 22:05:38 GMT -6
Thanks for sharing. Wow, sign me up as a new Eric Valentine fan. He's right, Spencer Lee nailed the Bill Withers sound on "kissing tree". [br Having tried to rip off Bill Withers more than once with the Clavinet and the vibrato Spencer Lee is in a league of his own and he makes it seem equally original. Bill would be fully jammin on this.
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Post by yotonic on Apr 9, 2024 22:00:44 GMT -6
Just wanted to share this with you guys! Great audio dude🤟🏻 Thanks for sharing. Wow, sign me up as a new Eric Valentine fan. He's right, Spencer Lee nailed the Bill Withers sound on "kissing tree". [br Having tried to rip off Bill Withers more than once with the Clavinet and the vibrato Spencer Lee is in a league of his own and he makes it seem equally original.
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Post by yotonic on Apr 6, 2024 19:04:53 GMT -6
The Wood Bros are fantastic live. I’m sure it was a great show in that room .
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Post by yotonic on Apr 4, 2024 13:27:59 GMT -6
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Post by yotonic on Apr 3, 2024 23:06:36 GMT -6
Wow that’s one of the best voices I’ve heard in a long time and a super cool song that doesn’t feel so over the top like so many artists today.
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Post by yotonic on Mar 22, 2024 20:31:07 GMT -6
Music and production are interesting. For me I find almost the opposite of everything you said, and yet I’m sure you are proficient in how you approach your craft. Many people, fish, live and create different ways. It’s what makes people and their craft so interesting.
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Post by yotonic on Mar 19, 2024 21:11:39 GMT -6
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Post by yotonic on Mar 18, 2024 21:09:10 GMT -6
Been in the concert business for many years. And the truth is sim rigs don’t compare to good amp rigs. But in a concert setting some of that difference is lost to the listener and the convenience to the Artist is sometimes a game changer especially if they aren’t an act that carries production and guitar techs.
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Post by yotonic on Mar 14, 2024 19:24:45 GMT -6
Love my vintage 1178 on vox in front of my vintage La2a. Never found a chain that comes close.
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Post by yotonic on Mar 5, 2024 15:50:16 GMT -6
I was always impressed as a kid with how a quiet acoustic guitar and vocal by James Taylor could wind up such a pop hit, and I was intrigued by Peter Asher his Producer/Arranger who I thought was "adding" a bunch of stuff and magic. But years later I realized arrangement can be much more organic and fundamental like Rod Temperton and "Rock With You".
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Post by yotonic on Feb 27, 2024 19:45:09 GMT -6
That red solo cup could be part of the problem if it's full of bourbon. Just saying...
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Post by yotonic on Feb 21, 2024 19:05:05 GMT -6
That was Tim Drummond who played bass on “Old Man”. He played a P bass with old strings right into the Quad Eight desk at Quad Studios in Nashville. I believe he got his start with James Brown.
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Post by yotonic on Feb 21, 2024 16:01:00 GMT -6
I love direct bass sounds. This is one of my favorites.
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Post by yotonic on Jan 27, 2024 18:31:10 GMT -6
AI is just another way for people to steal others intellectual property using the internet. A couple of idiots are being sued now for using AI to “scrape the internet” (plagiarize) all ofGeorge Carlin’s work and create a 1 hour comedy special. George’s daughter said “hell no”
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Post by yotonic on Jan 12, 2024 0:03:31 GMT -6
Everything about Silicon Valley and the internet has been a straight rip off. There is little to nothing that the internet has created. It has been a great unregulated space for companies to black market others work and IP. Besides finding a restaurant or a copy of an article YouLose, Google and the rest are giving people free music, movies, articles, and other work. Nothing very ingenious about it. Seems to be the way in America now from politics to business.
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Post by yotonic on Dec 14, 2023 17:25:06 GMT -6
You might want to try soaking it in Bulleit bourbon, that fixes a lot of things.
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Post by yotonic on Nov 30, 2023 14:16:32 GMT -6
I've never had an issue with that. And there are lot's of good retailers out there if you don't want to return a lot to one place. If you know you are going to buy a preamp, or a comp and you are just going through the selection process use one or two retailers they most likely will have no problem with it. I give all my business for every little thing I buy, including guitar strings to one guy so he never balks when I ask for a return authorization number. Sometimes they want to ask you what you didn't like in case you are new to the field and need some guidance.
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Post by yotonic on Nov 29, 2023 23:48:45 GMT -6
One of the very best ways to learn about preamps, comps, eqs and outboard gear in general is to try them and return them. Keep a running comparison file on your DAW. Gear and instruments are the paint colors of music. You will never really know them and how to recreate sounds you hear without working with them first hand. And today its never been easier to buy and return gear.
For example I don’t like using the BAE 1073 on vox because in my experience it creates some register shift which I don’t like on vocals. If I want a thicker bottom end on vox without that shift I get it through the choice of mic, or proximity effect. Just a personal thing that I’ve only learned by having owned and used all of the major 1073 preamps.
Try a bunch.
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Post by yotonic on Nov 25, 2023 0:16:05 GMT -6
I feel like this has been answered once before, but I can’t find it anywhere. Does anybody know what microphones BBC is using here? Thanks. James Taylor is incredible live but BBC is no slouch.
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Post by yotonic on Nov 15, 2023 21:23:35 GMT -6
Loved this video of James playing with the new generation of rippers. Vulfpeck, Scary Pockets, etc.
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Post by yotonic on Oct 20, 2023 19:01:36 GMT -6
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Post by yotonic on Oct 19, 2023 9:17:29 GMT -6
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Post by yotonic on Oct 9, 2023 2:19:58 GMT -6
I bought two of these to get chicks in LA. Unfortunately when they realized it wasn’t a boat I was SOL. Trying to return them now.
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