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  1. I bought the Boss PS-6 used from Reverb and I think it’s going to work great. Does just fine with harmonizations at common intervals assuming you set the key right, even tracks well across vibrato and bends. But beyond that, it’s a double pitch shifter that lets you bring multiple octaves in, and control how much dry/wet you get so you can make pseudo bass or 12 string sounds. Then it’s got a detune mode where you are shifting by cents with an LFO involved and it makes a really fine (not just passable) stereo chorus. And if that’s not enough, it’s got a whammy mode so you can kinda sorta do the Tom Morello thing. A few things that are likely not going to be ideal: 1) the interface and fonts are tiny, will be hard to tell what you are doing unless you get on your knees or memorize the layout. 2) if playing modally, you are going to need to transpose to the relative major scale. If you want to harmonize phrases from D mixolydian, you have to set the key to G major. If you know your modes, not a big deal. 3) Only supports the major scale and its modes. You aren’t going to harmonize a phrase from the harmonic minor scale. It’s definitely going to make the board. I will likely have it always set up to be a chorus, and I’ll use that a lot, then set for harmonizations or octaves for songs where that would be useful. Clip to hear what it all sounds like. IMG_1737.mov
  2. Username checks the fuck out!
  3. Yeah, prices are way down
  4. The soulless AI tune in question…
  5. Soon enough. I mean, there is already a billboard charting AI artist, it’s just not the type of music cover bands are typically playing. https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/ai-artist-xania-monet-radio-billboard-chart-9.6967542
  6. The secret to tone is a bag of Quikrete shoved into an open back cab.
  7. Cool thread. What did you do to get involved?
  8. Considering a pedal for guitar harmonizations. Think Allman Brothers “Blue Sky”, “Hotel California” or anything by Wishbone Ash. Anyone have any experience with these or something else that gives you good harmonizations live?
  9. Yeah, I just know some captures are better than others, so I think there is something more than just plug-in and capture.
  10. Obviously, AI can't replicate a live performance witnessed live. So live music is alive and well, and maybe the artificiality of AI generated recorded music will see a golden age of live music. A greater appreciation for the "performance" part of "performance art." Digital artifacts generated by humans and AI will eventually be largely indistinguishable. So let go of the idea that digital musical artifacts are going to amount to anything other than training data for the next iteration of AI models, and embrace what AI can't replicate -- that magic that can happen when a good group of musicians are all on their game and feeding energy back and forth with a captive and engaged audience.
  11. That's cool, let me know how it goes and how easy it is. My brother still has a house full of nice amps, and I've been thinking I ought to get the capture hardware to see if I can capture them all.
  12. Fair enough, but I think we are not far from the point where the average music consumer won't be able to tell the difference between a digital music artifact having been produced through a human performance or generated by AI.
  13. A vocalist (singer/songwriter type) I have worked with has sent me a track I am going to see if I can share. He wrote the lyrics, and delegated everything else to Suno Studio, including the human vocal performance. It is objectively very good. Could I tell it's AI if I didn't know it up front? Probably, but primarily because the vocal vibrato is always exact, and there are a couple vocal lines where I think a human would have to take a breath. But is it good enough that I think the average music consumer won't be able to tell the difference or care even if they could? Also probably. The vocalist in question is now basically writing lyrics only, using Suno to produce high quality song demos with no human involvement other than specifying the lyrics and vaguely describing the track, and then refining the individual tracks/stems via prompt in Suno. After he has the lyrics complete, it takes him an hour to produce a very high quality demo without having to pay a recording studio, mix engineer or session musicians to realize it. This will be his MO going forward, shotgunning these tunes as a songwriter to Nashville artists.
  14. All the guitar sounds in these two recordings are made using a Tonex pedal + analog dirt pedals up front. Modulation, delay and reverb provided in DAW after tracking. To my ear, the Tonex is objectively very good at producing amp+cablike tones. The biggest thing is that it responds like a tube amp to the dirt pedals I have in front of it and to my playing. I have no idea if my Vox AC30 Tonex capture is 100% dead on accurate with a real 1963 Vox AC30, but I do know that I personally can't tell that I am not playing a decent tube amp.
  15. I typically don't need additional monitoring. The few times I have, it was a big enough venue with a fancy enough PA that they could route my PA signal to a personal stage monitor at my feet. I have not needed to, but I could go from my pedalboard to that cool music thingamajig and from there out to PA and monitor myself through it while the mix is sent from PA to FOH.
  16. I play solo, as a duo with a drummer, and trio with a drummer and bassist. I sit in some with bands, too. I typically plug direct from pedalboard to PA. For times when I can't or don't want to take the PA because its overkill for the scope of the venue, I take this along (14.76" D x 20.67" W x 13.58" H and <20lbs).
  17. I’m a big Tonex fan and it’s become my main source for amp sounds live and recording. It’s a hell of a lot easier carrying this around than the same pedalboard minus one micro pedal and plus 78744588 lbs Vox AC30.
  18. I think the true identity of this team has been revealed. The people thinking we should be #1 were delusional. The people thinking everyone associated with the team were irredeemably awful were wrong. Some have probably been wrong on both sides of that coin this season. This Texas team is very talented, but very young, inexperienced and inconsistent. There is a large gap between our ceiling and floor of play, with the ceiling being pretty damn high, and the floor being pretty damn low. Our mean of play isn't meaningful, because of the variance week to week can be so far above or below it, towards our ceiling or floor. I think that ability to play down to our floor keeps us from winning the conference or making it to the playoffs this year. BUT, you can see some marked improvement in individuals, units and team as a whole over the course of the season. Improvement to where their floor is increasing week to week, the weekly variance in our play is decreasing, and the mean of play is trending towards the ceiling as we are starting to avoid playing down to our floor. The players are gaining experience and confidence in themselves and each other. They are calming the fuck down during games. That bodes well for the future. I think with the right NIL/portal/coaching moves in the offseason, we have a legitimate shot to win it all next season.
  19. Frank Hammer: All of them. Twice.
  20. Best game from the o-line this season, and not coincidentally, our best offensive game of the season. Zero sacks for Manning, we ran the ball well enough for it to be a legitimate concern for the defense, and ran half the 4th quarter off the clock after we got the big lead (no small part of the Vandy "running out of time"). They were pretty damn feisty all day, moving the pile for a little extra and getting down field on pulls and screens.
  21. If Collin Simmons stays healthy/keeps this up, he's going to be an all-time great at Texas.
  22. Maybe, I just don't see the slam dunk path to that from where we are. Technology at the turn of the century didn't really hurt the labels. The net effect of Napster was Spotify, and the labels still have a very comfortable seat at the table in the streaming era.
  23. I don't understand your last sentence. I don't see how AI will do anything to labels and streaming platforms. They simply own the marketing and distribution channels and get paid regardless of how songs are produced for consumption. It's the people that make a living in how songs are produced for consumption (like the dude in the video) that will be having their slice of the pie taken away. But I guess in a very Thanos-esque worldview (which seems to be prevalent among AI proponents) you could view any labor as an inefficient way to conduct a market. That type of worldview is what birthed words like "Bourgeoisie" and "Proletariat".
  24. Berkeley educated music professional demos Sumo Studio and admits he cannot compete with it in terms of time or value, laments the loss of value in skills attained over a lifetime. Sucks to be him, I guess.
  25. The most important commodity is a following. Fuck the meek, its the influencers that shall inherit the earth.
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