Do you still have the tape deck? You could convert all the individual tracks to digital and use Abelton to mix them better, louder, stronger. I was thinking about doing that with all my 4 track master tapes, just to preserve them.

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote: Mon May 26, 2025 10:45 am Saving this for later --

https://www.lalal.ai/

We have a song called Androgyny which is fine, but the drums are very low in the mix and there are cracks and pops in the audio. I have the 4 tracks on tape and I guess I could try to restore them. Lalal split the voice and instruments for me as a free demo, and it is very affordable to get credits to do the thing.

(That seems to be how software is working these days. We went from buying it and installing it locally to subscriptions to buying "credits." This is why people hate capitalism.)

Izotope (I think) has a series of plugins that will de-hiss, de-pop, and de-crackle (imagine what it would do to a bowl of Rice Krispies!) audio recordings. I think the plugin costs $500 and no I didn't pay that and yes I got like 8 viruses from installing it, but the point is I have it installed and if you want me to run that track through it, let me know. At this point I would assume this plugin (a) was really good 3-5 years ago and (b) pales to what AI can do.

I made The Great Wall of Cables so they don't get tangled. The chord chart on the floor is titled 'guitar chords' which I find amusing

AArdvark wrote: Mon May 26, 2025 12:35 pm Enjoy! Looking forward for the next album release party.

Q: how do store your cables? This is open to the floor, anyone

Big giant effing box for the ones inside the house. I hate it. It is the bane of my existence.

In the attic in the garage I have a few giant tupperware style boxes, with cables sorted into different kinds: network, video, audio, power. A couple of times a year I do this dance:

I bring out the extra cables from inside the house that I cannot possibly need, making sure that there are two spares that I leave behind to the attic containers. I store them.

Over the next few weeks, I realize I needed some, and I go into the attic and retrieve them one at a time.

Enjoy! Looking forward for the next album release party.

Q: how do store your cables? This is open to the floor, anyone

AArdvark wrote: Tue May 06, 2025 2:53 amI have one I can send you. You plug your mic into it and any other instruments then you can...



It has a built-in audio interface, gain control and a bunch of other stuff that you could use. I got it a while ago but don't use it as it wont do overdubs properly.

It looks like I need a female USB to female USB cable for it. I should have that somewhere in the cable graveyard. Thank you VERY much for sending it, of course!

Saving this for later --

https://www.lalal.ai/

We have a song called Androgyny which is fine, but the drums are very low in the mix and there are cracks and pops in the audio. I have the 4 tracks on tape and I guess I could try to restore them. Lalal split the voice and instruments for me as a free demo, and it is very affordable to get credits to do the thing.

(That seems to be how software is working these days. We went from buying it and installing it locally to subscriptions to buying "credits." This is why people hate capitalism.)

We got a SECOND!!! follower on Bandcamp.

It's happening!!

That died a while ago with the red rings of death. I still have Jonseys Xbox, although that's also dead. I'm keeping all the hardware in a tote bin, hoping someday to figure out a use for it.

Hey Vark, whatever happened to Straws modded original Xbox I sold you? Actually loved your house, too bad it wasn't a "good neighborhood" anymore. So glad you have a great place now!

(Mostly posting to make a point of responding to every base above the line (IDK about the below ones)

It's really a magnanimous gift on my part

Reason one: A way to make your life just a smidgen happier, if only for a couple minutes

Reason two: A shameless maneuver on my part to get more Beaver content

Reason three: It's part of my Swedish Death Cleaning program so the kids won't have to donate it to Goodwill after I kick.

If you got a Christmas card last December then I have your address in the book

Edit: all packed. Mailing tomorrow

That is insanely nice of you. I can't adequately express how nice this is and how you have made me feel.

I would be honored. Do you need my address? Please let me send you money to cover shipping.

Thank you, Aardvark.

I have one I can send you. You plug your mic into it and any other instruments then you can...

Wait, pix.




It has a built-in audio interface, gain control and a bunch of other stuff that you could use. I got it a while ago but don't use it as it wont do overdubs properly. Yours for the asking

I am not! What do they do?

Hey RobB, are you using a mixing board when recording?

Windows 11 is out...

Free downloads...

I can't use it unless they have a Mac version because my guitar guy has a Mac.

So! 58 minutes to get audio recorded. Sounds like absolute shit because there is crackling or interference coming from somewhere. Had to install a specific driver for the Behringer UMC22 for it to work, which was never mentioned anywhere by anyone until I was 5 YouTube videos deep.

Mixcraft 10 is out....

Free trial.....

Nothing in the future has hever been more certain than knowing that the mic I bought won't work the first time in Ableton.

Here we go.

Ok, this thread will be about how I get audio stuff to work!

I bought a microphone last year to make music with. I just opened it, 7 months later, and ... no cable. Ya need a cable. But I guess that is why the sale was so good for it on Amazon.

We didn't renew Amazon Prime because Bezos is a Nazi bootlicker, Amazon crushes unions and Amazon got multiple people killed when they threatened their jobs during tornados. I still went there to see if they had the cable for it and so I could see what search term to use - Amazon is good about taking the search term you enter and showing you stuff around it.

Well, the total price came to $20 and change. $7 for shipping and $13 for the item. I went to eBay to look, and ... well, same item was $10.11 shipped. Better than the same item! Amazon's price was for a six-foot cord, and this one had a minimum length of 10.

This is all made up in my head: eBay sellers kind of had to roll shipping prices into the cost of their items. Whether it was to "compete" with Amazon or other sellers on eBay, they are rolling shipping into the item, and I also get that something like a 10 foot audio cable can be made very cheaply.

But this is good. I will assume that the vendor I used may be a corporation, but is the acceptable kind at the moment. And it was ten bucks cheaper.

It will show up when it shows up and by the time that it does, I will try to make arrangements to have Beaver's saxophonist over to record a track.