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[bassnut]

I've been searching for free software to clean up live audio too. I post a lot of videos on YouTube, when I see bands live, and I would love to be able to clean up the audio.

I haven't really found anything yet. I use a Mac.

Sometimes it just is what it is. In order to make any sort of real difference you'd need something on the order of ProTools audio sculpting. Then what are you left with? Processed garbage. Stripped of soul.
Sometimes a cheesy Polaroid photo can be charming beyond words.

 

[Kent C]

 

[bassnut]

Kent!!!!!
That's the voice of my father, not my mother.
Wow......

Now they're both gone. I'm an old man at 58. (No matter how old I am, Dave will always be older)
..and I'm still here thumping a bass.

 

[BadHabitBand]

Just for fun...more live audio. Our version of Word Up by Cameo...

Bad Habit cover of Word Up - YouTube

 

[JakeTheV&pe]

I play bass, drums but Not a musician as per say, mainly do allot of music production in the recording studios with genres ranging from Rock, Jazz all the way to pop, drum and bass and electro. I love all music and specifically enjoy making electro music with the input of recording live artists playing sax, bass, drums etc.

 

[DaveP]

Kent!!!!!
That's the voice of my father, not my mother.
Wow......

Now they're both gone. I'm an old man at 58. (No matter how old I am, Dave will always be older)
..and I'm still here thumping a bass.

Older and wiser is good! At practice Monday night, we had a new guy from the youth band sitting in. The younger guy he's replacing had to go off to college. On one song we were rehearsing, there's a guitar chord riff in the beginning that goes chunk-chunk-chunk in quarter note time. I'm doing it a little funkier in a way that I like better. He turns around and says, "It goes like this and proceeds to show me how the record guitar sounds." I told him, "Yeah, that's right, but it reminds me of my guitar lessons when I was 12. OK, one strum per beat, ready ... play " I have to add the upstrokes.

I just can't do it in new music format unless it's done with a flourish. If I feel something else, I have to play what's in my head. If the guy on the record is a newbie player, he's a newbie player. That's his problem.

 

[Jfresh859]

Older and wiser is good! At practice Monday night, we had a new guy from the youth band sitting in. The younger guy he's replacing had to go off to college. On one song we were rehearsing, there's a guitar chord riff in the beginning that goes chunk-chunk-chunk in quarter note time. I'm doing it a little funkier in a way that I like better. He turns around and says, "It goes like this and proceeds to show me how the record guitar sounds." I told him, "Yeah, that's right, but it reminds me of my guitar lessons when I was 12. OK, one strum per beat, ready ... play " I have to add the upstrokes.

I just can't do it in new music format unless it's done with a flourish. If I feel something else, I have to play what's in my head. If the guy on the record is a newbie player, he's a newbie player. That's his problem.

I feel the same way about a jam sesh. Sometimes you gota put you own lil somthing in there


Sent from my llama4s using brain control

 

[bassnut]

I don't know where else to tell this so I guess I'll just dump it here amongst friends
My wife and I are childless by choice.
This evening we went for a drive and the sky was filled with those SoCal flat and multi-shapped clouds tinged with pastel blue, pink and purple. Wispy and dramatic. Every summer. A perfect but almost unreal painting.
I got such a hit of memory from my early childhood from this vision that I remarked it to my wife.
One minute later we came to a stop at an intersection and there was a Dad with his maybe 3 year old son. He was pointing up to the clouds and naming the colors.
I don't do this kind of thing often but I leaned out the window and told the Dad "I remember those clouds from when I was his age" The look we exchanged will sustain me in happiness for a while.

Probably a "regular day" for those who actually raise them but for this childless grandpa it was an event. A good day. A circle was completed. For an instant that child looking at the clouds in wonderment..or whatever they do. A mental and emotional snap-shot was taken that will last for a lifetime. ...and I was there to see it, just how it happened to me.

I know this is probably normal everyday stuff for most of you.
There are a whole lot of moments like that when you raise 'em I would expect.

Maybe years later after a couple of doobs he's really going to appreciate those clouds.
That's the part of getting old that sucks. I just don't remember.
I remember 3 better than 13.

 

[18SixFifty]

I'm just one of those guys who plays a little of everything. Acoustic guitar and flat picking while singing is my favorite. Even though I'm a better drummer. I have played in a few bands, but nothing even close to big. Just the local bars once in a while for fun. I get together a couple times a month sometimes once a week, with my friends and jam. You never know who will show up. I guess there are about 20 of us all together that come and go. Sometimes half of us will show up, but most of the time it's just a handful. Taking turns picking songs, maybe half of them we all know and the other half we have to pick up as we go along. That's half the fun for me anyway. Learning something new. Most of the time our only audience is a few of the wives and maybe a few other friends that stop over.

I have been playing for about 30 years, long enough to know that I'm good enough to entertain people, but I'll never be great.

 

[DaveP]

I don't know where else to tell this so I guess I'll just dump it here amongst friends
My wife and I are childless by choice.
This evening we went for a drive and the sky was filled with those SoCal flat and multi-shapped clouds tinged with pastel blue, pink and purple. Wispy and dramatic. Every summer. A perfect but almost unreal painting.
I got such a hit of memory from my early childhood from this vision that I remarked it to my wife.
One minute later we came to a stop at an intersection and there was a Dad with his maybe 3 year old son. He was pointing up to the clouds and naming the colors.
I don't do this kind of thing often but I leaned out the window and told the Dad "I remember those clouds from when I was his age" The look we exchanged will sustain me in happiness for a while.

Probably a "regular day" for those who actually raise them but for this childless grandpa it was an event. A good day. A circle was completed. For an instant that child looking at the clouds in wonderment..or whatever they do. A mental and emotional snap-shot was taken that will last for a lifetime. ...and I was there to see it, just how it happened to me.

I know this is probably normal everyday stuff for most of you.
There are a whole lot of moments like that when you raise 'em I would expect.

Maybe years later after a couple of doobs he's really going to appreciate those clouds.
That's the part of getting old that sucks. I just don't remember.
I remember 3 better than 13.

My wife and I got married too late to have kids. I was 35 and she was 31. We could have had kids, but were both career people and decided not to. Luckily, her favorite nephew and his wife had two several years ago. Her mom and dad and his mom both passed away, so no grandparents to help out. His Dad has emphysema and isn't able to babysit. We became the GP and GM to those great nephews. I balked at first, but soon came to love both of them like the grandchildren I never had.

Yesterday, the 3 year old and I went for a walk in the woods behind our house. It was a discovery time for him. We checked out spiders, vines, rustles in the brush (what was that?), and collected what ever he found that was interesting. We walked over and checked out the creek that runs beside our property and saw rabbits (the reason we couldn't have a garden out back!).

His uncle Dave can do no wrong and knows everything. I'm happy to let him think that. They are our grandkids for all practical purposes. We bought them their first new bikes. We gave the 7 year old a Nintendo 3DS for his birthday. Our garage is full on one side with bikes, battery powered cars, and the outdoor things they play with when they are over here 3-4 days a week. The 7 year old is now back in school this week, so the 3 year old gets prime time with us from about 9 til 3 several days a week. Mom, the surgical nurse, gets off at 2 and gets here by 2:30 to pick them up when we have them, so it's not a full time job.

 

[James Hart]

My wife and I are childless by choice.

My wife and I go married too late to have kids. I was 35 and she was 31.

Childless here too... mostly by choice, but after my sister had her first child 12 year back we kinda stopped trying NOT to get pregnant for a little while. We got together when I was 27 and she was 20... now @ 44 & 37 the wife's sister has a new baby that will be 1 year old in Oct and is very local (my family is 2+ hours away from us). We are getting our fill of helping out and it's reinforced our choice to not have our own Our niece (and her planned siblings) will get a lot of our attentions. My brother-in-law is a guitarist who started on bass, and he vaped for about 6 months while he quit smoking for the birth of his daughter.

 

[DaveP]

Childless here too... mostly by choice, but after my sister had her first child 12 year back we kinda stopped trying NOT to get pregnant for a little while. We got together when I was 27 and she was 20... now @ 44 & 37 the wife's sister has a new baby that will be 1 year old in Oct and is very local (my family is 2+ hours away from us). We are getting our fill of helping out and it's reinforced our choice to not have our own Our niece (and her planned siblings) will get a lot of our attentions. My brother-in-law is a guitarist who started on bass, and he vaped for about 6 months while he quit smoking for the birth of his daughter.

One of our favorite things to do (theirs mostly) is for Uncle Dave to hold the acoustic and make chords while they strum with a pick. I've introduced them to the magic of guitar in hopes that the seed I plant will take root when they get big enough to handle a fretboard. There's little in my life in the way of possessions that gives me more pleasure than to play music. I hope they find music to be the same way for them.

 

[James Hart]

One of our favorite things to do (theirs mostly) is for Uncle Dave to hold the acoustic and make chords while they strum with a pick. I've introduced them to the magic of guitar in hopes that the seed I plant will take root when they get big enough to handle a fretboard. There's little in my life in the way of possessions that gives me more pleasure than to play music. I hope they find music to be the same way for them.

Yeah, most of my memories of my Grandfather are of music (C&W guitar, organ,vibraphone,pedal & lap steel, banjo, mando, etc)... his house WAS a 60's-70's era home studio of epic scale. He did the chords while my sister or I strummed thing... another great memory was him playing his Hammond B3 with one of us standing on a bass bar... with him leading us for which to stand on next

My brother-in-law and I are already talking about going in on a drum kit for his daughter

I am hoping at least one of his children (they plan 3) will catch the music bug so I have someone to leave all my treasures to.

 

[DaveP]

Yeah, most of my memories of my Grandfather are of music (C&W guitar, organ,vibraphone,pedal & lap steel, banjo, mando, etc)... his house WAS a 60's-70's era home studio of epic scale. He did the chords while my sister or I strummed thing... another great memory was him playing his Hammond B3 with one of us standing on a bass bar... with him leading us for which to stand on next

My brother-in-law and I are already talking about going in on a drum kit for his daughter

I am hoping at least one of his children (they plan 3) will catch the music bug so I have someone to leave all my treasures to.

Yeah, I hate to think that someone might sell all my guitars and then spend the money on a zero-turn riding mower! End of legacy at that point. One of my co-workers was headed to the pawn shop one day to try and get back the 50's Martin acoustic that the grandson sold to a pawnshop for $100. Grandpa left it to him in his will. The pawn shop needed to be brought to task for cheating a customer.

 

[Pipeous]

Dam come back and have 5 pages to catch up on. band took time off with summer events for us all.. we finally started jamming last weekend again after 6 weeks off... felt good.

I've met a young female vocalist I have started working with and met a group of 3 ladies playing on the street in Hope, BC today (3 of us from band took a motorcycle cruise today and found a chainsaw carving competition out east). we've allready subscribed to each other's youtube channel and I'm taking my mandolin out for open mic night next weekend...

 

[DaveP]

7am, had two cups of coffee and I'm about to be headed to the gig at church in a few minutes! Rehearsal starts at 8:00 and the service at 9. I'll be out by a little after 10 and headed to the Huddle House for breakfast and back home by 12:00. The hours are a little reversed when you play at church. The numbers match, but the AM/PM indicator is backwards!

I really used to hate getting home at 3am on Saturday and Sundays, especially as I got older!

 

[DaveP]

Dam come back and have 5 pages to catch up on. band took time off with summer events for us all.. we finally started jamming last weekend again after 6 weeks off... felt good.

I've met a young female vocalist I have started working with and met a group of 3 ladies playing on the street in Hope, BC today (3 of us from band took a motorcycle cruise today and found a chainsaw carving competition out east). we've allready subscribed to each other's youtube channel and I'm taking my mandolin out for open mic night next weekend...

I remember those days! Carefree and loving it ... and having the energy to enjoy carousing! Life was good!

It's good now, but I'm getting to the point where I need a rest after having so much fun!

 

[DaveP]

This is a jam site with a huge number of musician members. It looks good. I've joined. check it out.

Fandalism

 

[Pipeous]

Just getting ready to head out to rehearsals now. I'll try and get some video today with my camera. I connected with an old lead guitarist who is joining the band. he won't be here this weekend (down in Florida) but he's learning the songs. we have a list of songs to work on from his list

 

[James Hart]

Bringing this back to page one with an NPR Tiny Desk Concert of one of the masters of my favorite use of a Bass (electric or upright)... as the melodic center of songs.

Renaud Garcia-Fons