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Cubase 15 40% off prior 09/28/26 60% off Vouchers for 15Pro owners
All versions and even better prices if you cross-grade. Updated -- All Cubase 15 Pro owners get the 4 vouchers for 60% as a loyalty perk. Same time frame. Their wording is "Shop by September 28". If you go for Pro 15 you get 60% off Vouchers for Absolute, Spectral Layers Pro, Dorico Pro, WaveLab Pro. These Vouchers typically only last about 30 days from time of issue. I'm not affiliated. This is the yearly Cubase discount month. BTW, double check me on everything because different countries and all that.
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@G A As I understand it you need to buy or have Pro 15 to get the vouchers.
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Something to ponder
Is it me or my gear? Countless recordings and live performances have used SM57 / SM58 $100 If you can't get a respectable capture into one of those mics. It's not the mic. Headphones -- unless someone is paying you 'I can retire now' money. You probably just need some basic cans. $200 Monitors -- Don't fall for the YT vids. Learn the monitors you can afford. I have heard killer mixes that were done on 6x9 speakers a guy ripped out of a car. He was a real musician / engineer. He had passion. 'All input devices (preamps - Audio interface) are the same'. Kinda. These days the cheap stuff is so good that if you don't push it most can't tell the difference. The thing is if you want character you want to push the pre so the expensive stuff wins. BUT .. you can go clean and then distort in the box. So... is it you? or your gear? Guitar finger squeaks ... I'm sure there is a plugin for that but TomoFugitaMusic can fix that for you. You won't like the discipline and neither did John Mayer. So what is my point? The best advice I have ever gotten, and it always seems to come from many respectable professionals. Stop spending money until you have something that you know for a fact will make a difference OR you are building a collection OR money is simply not an issue in your scenario. The thing you buy, even though considered better, might make you sound worse. Why? because you put a better mic in your less than adequate room because the new guitar amp is super responsive and your technique is inadequate because -- and this could be an expensive good thing -- oh, I thought I was ok but I have work to do. The ENTIRE WORLD is awaiting your new music that is raw, real, and creates an emotional experience for them.
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@Tim Collins Come on man. George Martin was a highly trained musician with the best gear on Earth. Alan Parsons was just a tech/muso before DSOTM. DG said he used to just walk by him. they never really knew each other at live shows. Quincy Jones and Phil Spector took charge and by one means or another earned people's respect. "so it must be me." Maybe, maybe not. Regardless, it's fixable. Go to youtube and look up every interview you can find with Linda Perry. I can't post them because she is a NSFW interviewee. I don't know if you are a creator / mixer/ whatever BUT I do know from your comment you recognize the problem. That alone puts you to 75% of fixing what troubles you. You should post up a song with a chart and the most track info possible. That way people that know arrangement can see if that is an issue. Suggest alternatives. IOW you have to be willing to lay it out there so others can help you. In fact the Linda Perry interviews she even says if people come to me they need to be ready to bare their soul. She is a trip. Jeff Beck realized he could not play fast like all the cool cats of his time. So he learned to play melodies and slow stuff. Find me a guitar player that doesn't think Jeff Beck was one of a kind that can't be copied. Not because he can't physically be copied but because you end up sounding like JB and no one wants to hear it from anyone but him. You need to find your place. I was watching a JJ Blair interview and he said people come in here and do things completely differently that what I do and it sounds great. He's another one. Watch the interviews he has done. He had a hard road to walk to get to where he is.
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@Stephanie Biggs "Do you have any opinions on pressurised cans of air to clear out various ports?" Yes, compressed air from anywhere can cause condensation when sprayed. So you risk spraying condensation into whatever you are spraying it on. Any sort of compressed air beyond a spray can will most likely have a water trap on it. Anything sending air to a tool, airbrush, etc.. You probably won;t have an issue with the cans but if they start getting cold in use be sure water droplets are not going somewhere you don't want them or that any is being sprayed. Also on the first shot, just spray on your hand to be sure you don't feel any moisture. Just a one second shot. Then rub your fingers together. "I can see you're serious about having a clean space." Well let's just say I know some good practices but don't always practice what I preach. I'm trying to get better though.
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@Mark Taylor LOL
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i am def not a hip hop head but this song I think is really cool. Ice-T used Phil Manzanara's riff from Roxy Music song Amazona. It was done in early 90s. Manzanara has been one of my all time favorite guitarists. ... and I like Ice-T too. I heard something from him quite a few years back and it was a rocker. I didn't know he did that kinda stuff. Anyway .. two cool dudes. .... and without further ado... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bl-6mHI-N3g&list=RDBl-6mHI-N3g&start_radio=1
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FL Studio Plugins disabled by Audacity
Hi To follow along with Mastering.com, I installed FL Studio as my new preferred DAW on a fresh machine. Hoping to pull up some old projects, I then installed Audactity which threw up a message that some "incompatible" plugins had been disabled:- FLStudio VSTi FLStudio VSTi (Multi) Youlean Loudness Meter 2 (the VST & VST3 Formats) These seem to have components in ..Program Files\Common Files\VST2 and ~\VST3 I uninstalled Adacity and, in FLStudio's plugin Manager, found these plugins to have several of their properties changed to "?" Changing property Effect/Synths to "Effect" caused property status to change to "ok" I am pretty new to DAWs and plugins so my question is: will that do? I assume the FLStudio plugins could have their Vendor property changed from blank to "Image-Line" if that's important Hope someone can help
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One other thing may be at play.... Cakewalk used to have VSTi and VST that you could only run in Cakewalk. again not sure of the terms you use 'image line' never heard before. Just a thought. Your best bet is Audacity and FL tech support. Forum or email.
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@Guy Hackney I think your choice of category is fine. Also glad you got it all sorted.
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