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Yes, those names sound good! But what is Wiretap?

It's a small two channel Pre-Sonus Audiobox It says: input latency is 13.1 ms / 578 samples output latency is 11.6 ms / 512 samples

Thanks for the input @BigRedX, but it still doesn't all add up for me..... but I'm for sure no PC expert. My old PC, where I did all my recording until recently, had 4GB of memory and I never had a memory issue. When I got a new PC I doubled the memory to 8GB and it's worse. I could understand it if I did have lots open at once, but it has high memory usage when I'm not running much... and at a rough summing up all the different memory used by the different processes in it doesn't come to anywhere near 8MB. Something seems wrong, like I'm not fully accessing the 8MB I do have, and I'm trying to get to the bottom of that before adding more memory.

Please don’t share what BBPH stands for 😧

Having said that I prefer the subtle use of humor, I must admit to recently watching about 10 vids on Youtube by The Chats:

I deactivated the screensaver, based on one of the links above (thanks!) and seems like Windows manager is running better now. But the more I play, the more I am convinced the PC is not accessing all of the memory. I have 8GB and right now browser is using about 800MB.... so about 10% right? But if I change the dsplay to "percent" it comes out as 35% Bit of schoolkid maths says that works out a total memry of about 2..2 MB But the other display shows as if 8GB were available: Very confusing.

Make sure the audience knows the band name, and can get to your facebook (or whatever) page and get contact details etc. So announce the band name a few times, have posters up and fliers around.

I don't care for Pink Floyd's more popular works, but I can imagine that what SOS do would be good.

Looks like it is 64-bit: But when I look at it in "User" view it seems to consider 3.5gb as 82% But in another view it says almost double the gb but still at around 80%

Now it seems like Windows manager is using a lot. there's a lot of stuff which I don't need.... e.g. "your phone". I'll try killing some of that garbage.

Thanks for the tips! I'll be working my way through it 😟

We have Norton as the family multi pc solution…. Is it really that bad?

Whoops forgot to mention that crucial info - it’s 8gb

Good luck! Its quite a job reinstalling all the apps etc.

Had a similar message from Japanese band Shonen Knife. The date had moved by one day..... oh no, it was a whole year (2023) on the same day but one. Still, something to look forward too I suppose.

I was wondering the same myself 😉 To be honest I thought some miserable so-and-so would have come out and admitted it by now !

Music plays a different role for different people. For me its the most important thing there is (apart from family and all that stuff). I remember listening to a former England Women's Football manager on Desert Island Discs., thinking that they chose a terrible selection of records.... but in fact she wasn't choosing on the quality of the music, or even the quality of the lyrics.... but the underlying message of the song. Just that was the role music played for her. Same for me the other way round guess.... I'll watch a football match and just enjoy the general flow of the game, and don't really care about the details of which centre-back has the best footballing brain.

Yes, for me the wry humour snuck in is better than going for the belly laugh. Like The Smiths.... supposedly miserable, but some dry humour in there.

I have a new PC, purchased primarily to support my DAW. Lenovo ThinkCentre. I noticed some strange noises during recording/playback and eventually I think that it is due to the PC's high memory usgae Here it is without the DAW, not doing anything other than few web pages: Here it is wit hthe DAW playing a simple song of 6 or 7 tracks and not loads of effects: I've only had the PC less than 6 months and not used it heavily. Is this normal? Norton is giving me a warning about Memory usage and suggesting that I subscribe to Norton™ Utilities Ultimate ( Help make your Windows™ PC run like new again) for about £30 per year? Any suggestions?

Probably came from the same person who told us we could get by smoking banana skins 😃

Many years ago I used to, in the absence of a tuner, tune to a known reference record. That record was Blitzkreig Bop by the Ramones. It’s in the key of A…. an open string. There’s not much going on except the chord and root note bass, so nothing to confuse my poor musical brain. But only as accurate as my turntable speed. then tune the other strings from the A string. Given my sense of pitch if probably sounded awful.

For the record, although the thread title is a Frank Zappa reference, Zappa's idea of humour is something I can do without in music or elsewhere.

So what do you reckon? What do you think of music with a humorous element? Maybe give some examples of your favourite or hated examples.

The Bug Club have been on my 'must see' list ever since I heard this song - The Fixer: Just noticed that they have added a gig near me - sorted!

I don't have any performance anxiety for playing gigs... as singer, guitarist or bassist. Even solo performances. People always say that it is the opposite to how I am in 'real life'. In real life I am an introvert, but on stage I come across as extrovert. But I feel that on stage I have licence to perform. Maybe not so in real life.