MikeB

Your a king kong man, yes a voodoo man, oh your an apeman. Love the Kinks. Saw them right after "Low Budget" came out.

Another Ohioan. You sing ?????? Where you located ?

you mean you need a singer? how far have you got with the progress? you do it in a studio?.....well im up for it just tell me what and when I can have a rough mix done by the end of the week. I can send you a link to a wave when done. It will be a music mix, no vocals. Do as you see fit. Just make sure when your done, you send me how ever many vocal tracks you have. This will be a dry mix, and be sure to not use any plugins and leave me at least 6 - 10db of headroom. So do me a lead vocal and some background vocals. I'll do some takes too and then I can mix them all up. Take you time with it.

I still have the original MechWarrior game and a Microsoft Side Winder Joystick from the DOS days.

Nice stuff. Im workin on a cover of Foreigners "Blue Monday". Will need some vocals tracks , backing and lead if you want to try. If you dont feel up for the lead, then at least some of the background vocals. Let me know.

Sounds cool. My layout has changed some. Pictures above are old. I was getting soo much stuff I had to consolidate equipment and LP's. Didnt get rid of stuff, just retired and packed up shit I have not used in a while. My wife says Im a gear horder, and I guess I am. My live room actually sounds pretty good, especially the room mics. I have 10' ceilings so that helps. I do need to make a few more acoustic traps and place about 6 of them through-out the live room. The control/mixing room is treated and mixes translate well. Looking foward to seeing your pictures.

Cmon up !!!! We have guys night out at my place all the time. We party all night and play Risk, Euchre, and Wii bowl for money. While listening to Floyd, Sabbath, Zep., and countless other classic rock.

Here are a few pics of my man cave/studio. Its actually a 32 x 64 garage I put up a few years ago. Half is for cars and the other the studio. Some of the pictures are older. I have added some new guitars and amps since these. Agree on a place to escape !!! My kids are all grown though so I dont have any rugrats running around And when the record light is on everyone stays out, so ... its always on The live room is roughly 30 x 32 and the control room is around 10 x12. Im using a Mackie 1640i as my interface. Started with the older Mackie 1640 and when the 1640i came out I grabbed it up. Nice clean preamps and great AD/DA converters. I use the aux channels on the mixer to send 6 independant audio mixes to the live room for musicians. Works quite well. Old picture showing control room from live room. I need to take some new ones. This is a picture right after we finished it up and started moving stuff in. My son on drums and a friend of his on guitar. From 2006 I believe. Record and Reel to Reel collection and break area. Outside pictures (summer and winter). Its heated so it stays warm.

Good to know there is a fellow musician/studio owner. May hit you up for some vocals. Or if you need help with stuff hit me up.

OMG I love Herb Alpert !!! I grew up with this music !!!!! The Whipped Cream album caused quite the stir with conservatives back then.

What size HD you need. I have a few older ones. Probably 160gigs. Also if its an older system, the battery may be an issue. PM me if interested in one of the small drives. I never throw components away, so I have alot of older stuff.

Keep getting a sever error usermap/mp_82ab_erdol . Was playing with a few others and it screwed up when changing to next map.

Watchit !!! Im a huge Bengals fan !!! Browns Suck !!!! (oh shit, they do !!) 0-5

Yes, if you currently run 7 I would stick with it. But XP and Vista users would benefit. Unless your in the music industry (Studio, Self Recording Musician), then I wouldnt even attemp it. Many VST Plugins and other compiled plugins will not work in 8. Let alone the inteface drivers. Audio drivers for professional gear is just now becoming stable for 7. Many studio still use XP because of lack of support from certain vendors. But at $14.99 to upgrade from 7 to 8, well, its tempting. Like I said easy fixes for users who like the "Start Menu". Hell some may love the new "Metro" interface. Now the $40 upgrade for Vista and XP users is a no brainer.

Finally got the Audio Visualizers to work. Had to do a complete uninstall and reinstall of the programs. Work fine. The "ClassicShell" program which install a "Start" feature in 8 works great. You can choose an XP, Vista or 7 version of the "Start" menu. And its completely customizable (add features or remove them). So now all is good and everything works, even my old programs form the Win98 days. To me if you are still running XP or Vista, its a no-brainer, go ahead and upgrade. Especially with the great upgrade price MS will be offering. Windows 7 users, I would wait. The lack of a "Start" menu is easily fixed and the "Metro" bullshit screen can be bypassed with the "Start" menu fixes that are available. Several companies offer or will offer programs to give you the "Start" menu. But the "regedit" fix of the beta versions is not available in the consumer release. Microsoft deleted the code all together. Of the 3 fixes (programs) I looked at, 2 you pay for, I liked the open source "ClassicShell" best, plus its free and there are different skins available. So for now if you have 7, hold off. If you have XP or Vista, go for it.

All ready tried that. Doesnt work with the 8 Professional final release, only with the beta or RTM version. Would be nice if it did.

One thing I do miss is the "Start" menu which is gone in 8. But there is several solutions. After researching them, Im going to install "ClassicShell" (freeware from great source), which adds the "Start" button and menus back in to 8. Plus you can bypass "Metro" all together. Now to try and tackle my "Audio Visualizers" that fail to work. Still trying options with no luck. Going to email the manufacturers and see if a fix will be issued. But all in all, it loads very quick, is stable, and runs all but the mentioned apps I use on my media pc.

Installation went smooth. The whole "Metro" startup page is gimicky, but the old desktop is just a click away. All my software works fine except for some audio visualizers. And thats a big deal for me. I love my audio visualizers. Tried running in different modes but they dont want to work. Will do some searching on the manufacturers web site. But all in all not a bad experience. Will play with the user interface more tomorrow.

Me too I still have all the original disk for EVERY operating system since Dos 6.0. Even have Win95 or Win98 on floppy. I am bad about saving disks too. Still have Apple II and PC software on 5 1/4 floppy disks.

Well the sad thing is in a few months all new pc's will be running 8. Windows 7 is pretty damn stable and 8 is built on 7's core. Its the damn desktop or "Metro" as they call it, thats pissin people off. But for those running XP or Vista the cheap upgrade MS is offering to those users might be a good deal. Especially once new programs and hardware stops supporting XP. So at some point many will go to 8. I remember moving from DOS 6.2 to Windows and hated it.

Just received the final release from Microsoft. Gonna install it on my media pc and give it a try. I dont think Im gonna like "Metro" (main desktop). Will keep everyone informed. Official release date is later this month, but Im a registered OEM with them, so I get stuff before it hits the store. Hate to see anyone waiste there money on it. So if its shit, I'll let you know.

Were you at "The Green" ? My daughters drag me there any chance they can. About 35 minute drive for us.

Damn.

Damn,, I missed out !!! Count me in next time...

I use it in COD WAW DM server almost all the time. Love it.