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”

Those being back memories! Still have some old shirts that I refuse to throw out. How I loved my Tensor trucks with the “unbreakable” titanium king pin (not like it was an issue).

Sounds good. From what I understand sugar season is between Halloween and Easter.

Eats glass too.

Yes.

Make it sausage.

It says W. Germany, I guess it took a while to upgrade the tooling then.

I didn’t know that there was a reboot. Not sure how to feel about it.

Bring back the Lone Gunmen!

The difference is that a lawyer and a plumer are both useful and accountable.

Earache did it.

https://www.discogs.com/release/4492305-Various-The-Worlds-Shortest-Album

I know, it was 5” and 45rpm, but I consider it a lot less lame.

Well, I DMing adults and they tend to do the same thing, but with their own and each others butts for some reason. This might be the way to go…

You know you can assign your own meaning, right?

Honestly, I’d love to see at least a cameo of Captain Crusher maybe even a mini series. I didn’t always enjoy Wesley, but I did like him a lot for the same reasons and as a kid I was just as oblivious about his poorly written character.

I used my 8 plus (or whatever the flagship was at that time) for 8 years and for 7.5 years the battery was fine. In the last six months I had some issues when it died before the alarm went off, hence the new device. I do miss the fingerprint reader and 3D touch though.

Probably my Citizen “bullhead” challange timer with the rally strap the last owner put in it. I bought it as my first “expensive” watch and thought I’d wear it maybe once a week. Well, I’ve had it for almost a year and it has become my daily.

Never thought that I’d see the day when being kind, diplomatic and articulate is the most punk thing one can do.