Philbo King

Kind of similar to the hilariously dark 'Cocaine Bear' movie (also based on a true story).

I like it! I'll have to give it a try on my next song. I already start the mix in mono, making it easier to use EQ to 'carve space' spectrally so things fit together. The inside-out paradigm (sorry to use corporate-speak, a habit I picked up from my preretirement day job...) anyway, it seems like it has a lot of potential to get mixes done more easily.

I've been working my way through the SciFi on gutenberg.org (free ebooks with expired copyrights) for some years now; I'm up to the E's in an alphabetized title list. Anyway, here is one with a music related plot that I encountered recently: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/51622/pg51622-images.html

I did a video with Reaper using a cell phone plus separate recorded audio tracks. [Warning: political content] There is an option in Reaper project settings to completely remove the phone audio from playback. It worked fine... It is more involved than simple audio; if you do several takes it is crucial to keep track of which video snippet is associated with which audio take.

Yep. We bought a nonsmart Whirlpool fridge, because my toaster oven has absolutely no need to know when we run low on milk...

Greg, Glad to hear you're on the mend my friend.

Craig - we use US Cellular, however this was a Samsung update. The phone is a model A53.

Both Behringer and Mackie have rack mount mixers that are 'knobless', using a pad for control. Both, from all accounts, are quite robust and reliable.

Another thing that drives me nuts - Every time my phone updates, Samsung installs 4 or 5 stupid gambling and game apps that need to be uninstalled.

I once attended a 'white paper' presentation at my day job (an aerospace company), about using LCD-gated lasers to write and read data from a lithium niobate crystal as holograms. It could store a different bit image at each azimuth angle, so it had a pretty high capacity. As far as I know it never made it out of the lab though. Like most lab curiousities...

Bluray is one technology I passed by. Never bought a drive for my PC, though I did pick up a new Sony CD/DVD/BR player for $30 at Wallymart a while back for watching movies. SSDs are cheap enough that I just didn't find a need for another optical storage.

Amazon usb drives are infamous for being mislabelled small capacity drives (like a 16 MB drive sold as a 1 GB drive). Caveat emptor...

Sad day for a major influence on music for decades.

If it's rural, try to avoid letting the tax assessor find out about it..😎

Working in retail... Why I still can't tolerate Christmas music for more than 20 seconds, 50 years later. My own corrolary to the law of supply and demand: Constant music gives rise to an adaptation where one simply learns to ignore it, cheapening both the music and the product being sold. It is no longer special, and becomes just more junk stimulus to ignore...