Media piracy is part of the family lore. I don’t recall having more than a handful of original cassettes (audio and vhs), later on the same with cd’s growing up. Turns out my dad was the progenitor, he only had maybe 25-30 records, but recently I unearthed a huge box of reel to reel tapes with music mostly recorded from other people’s records (from about 1966-1980). When online piracy reared it’s head, it was only yet another way to obtain quality home entertainment.

I have a national as well roughly the same specs and date of manufacture. I’m really scared it’ll go one day, can’t imagine my kitchen without it.

Or homework

Found the sapper!

Now I want a green stuff blanket too.

Wasn’t something like this in Grandma’s Boy?

What about divers?

What’s wrong with ethanol?

I think I saw her before. Did she have a type face?

At this point, isn’t this just a rite of passage?

Why did I read this in Glenn Fricker’s voice?

At least you can set your anti-skating with it.

Besides the problems outlined, the sound these things make drive me nuts. Although, I was wondering if it was possible to somehow modulate the frequency so when sou light a cig it plays a tune.

Goddamit, I lost the game.

Unrelated, but what car is that? Looks interesting.

Maintain it probably.

Just last night I was playing around with the Tukan plugin collection and they are mental. Lots of very good sounding clones and models. I haven’t checked the drum stuff, but I did play around with the bass and guitar stations and managed to dial in some serious high-gain wall of sound type tones very easily.

Another way of getting good tones is simply obtaining high quality IR-s and just loading them in a suitable plugin. If you have a reamp box and access to some nice amps you can even create your own.

You could also do something similar for the drums. Just get some nice samples, load them into any old sequencer and you got yourself a drummer who’s never late or drunk. Then again, you lose the out of the box experience, but you only have to do it once.

I regret not switching my audio workflow to linux much earlier. A few years ago I got rid of everything Microsoft and started working with Reaper stock plugins exclusively. Not as pretty, but basically anything can be done with some fiddling. Only now I’m exploring the JSFX and LSP options and I’m hard pressed to find anything that I miss from the days of expensive plugins. Made me a better engineer as well. Less distractions, more listening and measuring.

Have you tried LSP? I’m super impressed by it and it can be a drop in replacement for many pro-grade technical plugins. That and reapak have pretty much replaced everything for me.

I’ve been using the 4 channel U-phoria since the time it first came out, so nearly 10 years. An absolute workhorse, no complaints. One of my favorite pieces of kit, regardless of the fact that it was maybe around 80-100 euros new.

That would make sense, but I remember a lot of people calling it “BIZO”