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It's worthwhile if you're going to be using all of the treatments in there. As I'm not interested in stuff like 'Stutter', 'Trash', 'Beat Machines' or 'Audio Repair', it doesn't work for me as a deal, but Ozone Elements and Neutron Elements are very good (I have them already...), and their Reverbs are good, too. No problem with the quality of any individual Fx, but I don't need/want all that's in there. It's good if you need/want them, though.

Never mind the bloomin' bass; do you still have the Hiwatt stack..?

Maybe ask Admin to change the logo to pink, if it makes you feel more at home..? ...

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Sorry, Pascal, but you're out of luck on this score. A series of updates of Forum software a few years ago now had the unfortunate side effect of losing all the attachments (pictures...) for all the posts. There is no way of getting them back (yes, it was attempted...). Try a Private Message (PM...) to @Stompbox, the Original Poster (OP...), to see if the pics are still in existence..? Be aware, though that his last visit here was two years ago.

... and no foldback. The monitoring was from the FOH itself...

The 'same as it ever was' rig. The sound engineer will fit it to the FOH rig. Been there, done that; no problems. Oops, sorry; wrong photo ...

If the rewards are worth the dross that one has to wade through, this is doubtless true. To me, with what time I have left on the Planet, that's not a price I'm prepared to pay. OK, I'll miss some gems. I'll miss a much greater mountain of dross, though. That's not to say I'll never 'take a punt'; I've picked up a lot of Good Stuff from recommendations on this very Forum. I've equally wasted more time than is comfortable trying to stumble upon something I can listen to in the Reggae topic, or the Funk stuff. As a Mod, I peek in there for 'house-keeping', but have learned that the chances of my listening to a whole video posted there are slim indeed. It has happened, but oh, so rarely.

You've not heard me (try to...) sing..!

This reads as if you're playing your bass through the monitors and recording the result (with a mic, I presume...). Is that really the case..? It's far more common to either play the bass directly into the DAW or recorder and add Fx as required, or play through an amp-cab and capture the result with a mic (very often both are done at once ...). I'd say that it's quite unusual to use monitors as a source signal for recording bass, or anything else. Apart from not doing the monitors any good, they are not designed for that. Maybe I've mis-understood (it wouldn't be the first time ...).

Eight years since Bilbo's 'motherlode', he may be in need of new stuff; well done.

Short scale..? Check Light-weight..? Check. Great sound..? Check. Thing of beauty to behold..? Check. Solid investment..? Check... Gibson ES-Les Paul Bass ...

Good evening, BX, and ... Plenty to read and amuse you here, and lots to learn and share.

On the other hand, there's ...

Shared by someone else here (I forget by whom, but thanks ...) : Ted Greene, two hours of splendid snippets of information, all the while playing toe-curling off-hand stuff and shaking his foot nervously..!

Just in case anyone is following this topic, Andy ( @Erax Sound ...) has responded to the 'challenge' of re-mixing one of my orchestral compositions; I thought it suitable to post, here, the result. Here, then, is my original piece, uploaded to Soundcloud as a 320 K Mp3 to match that of Andy. Be fore-warned : there is no EDM in the piece, and each runs for nearly a quarter of an hour. Don't blame me if you drop off to sleep early on. Remarks, comments, evaluations of Andy's work welcome (if complying to BC anti-cussing rules, naturally...). For my part, I'm impressed, and will PM Andy to learn more of how he approached this. Here's the two versions, then; firstly my original, then the Erax Sound remix ... Thanks for listening, if you have; if you're about to, enjoy...

No, no; I thought that I had explained earlier. I'm not a Luddite, and have no problem with cookies, from any site. I use CCleaner now and again, which rubs out the ones I've not allowed for keeping, anyway. I'm far from a 'normal' customer, and pity any business basing any decisions on stats garnered from my web usage. I use ad-blockers, simply because it's a pain in the wotsit, and I need the screen real estate for whatever I'm peering at. No, my 'beef' is quite simply the hypocrisy of giving the choice back to the individual (after all, the horse bolted years ago; these 'non-essential' cookies have been in our systems for years, or decades; we just weren't informed about their usage...), and then making the 'refuse' choice darned-near impossible by hiding it away or smothering it in reams of mumbo-jumbo. Many sites have an honest 'Refuse all'; some have a 'Save the selection' with the selections being defaulted to 'Off'. That, to me, is enough. Any site that does not make the 'Refuse' choice simple and evident is, in my view, doing it deliberately to get around the fact that it's now compulsory to offer that choice. I won't condone that, so I don't visit those sites. That's all. Apologies for derailing this topic with such stuff; I've already indicated my Good Wishes to the OP for the success of his blog. It's my loss that I don't consult it; the price I pay for being a Stubborn Old Fuddy-Duddy.

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Of course; hasn't everyone..? Foghorns ...

I think that many 'indifferent to music' people would say 'Bof, I'm indifferent' rather than 'Anything' if asked about their tastes in music. Most folk answering 'Anything' probably do like 'anything that's musical', and are not indifferent. Play 'em something truly rotten (concert of chain-saws, pink noise generator, collection of coastal fog-horns...) and they'd mostly not like 'em, I think.

Getting old, maybe..? Folks used to have this same reaction to Eddy Cochran and Co; in fact every 'new' movement has been derided by the previous generation (Liszt..? Paganini..? Post-Gregorian chants..?). No, I don't like the 'new-fangled racket' either, but our grand-children will love it, then complain about whatever comes after... 'Tis the Way of the World.

All the sites I've visited with this new system have several buttons for cookie permissions, with 'essential' cookies greyed out, exactly so that the site may function correctly. Other cookies, such as sharing info with partners, or collecting stats, have the possibility of being refused. I'm not concerned with the financing of sites (blogs or whatever...); that's the remit of the site owner. I want to have an honest choice of what I'm paying for. As I've already posted, I may well accept all cookies, as long as there's a clear option to not do so. There's a principle here; i'm not against cookies, or sites, or blogs, but do prefer honesty to cheap tricks. Just sayin'; good luck with the blog.

So where are we, exactly..? Editors have been editing manuscripts presented to them for centuries, most, if not all word processors have typo correction, grammar correction and even whole phrase correction as standard, to say nothing of predictive text, whereby it's the machine creating the text before it's even been thought of by the author. How is any of this different to pitch, and any other treatment..? What's the big deal..? No cars with power steering, or assisted brakes..? No lifts; take the stairs..? To fly, just flap your arms..? The subject is a non-subject, I'd say. There are no dinosaurs left, get over it.