Rolling Stones - It's Only Rock and Roll - May 2024 Contest

Byrdlander - Thanks for the update, James. Hoping to also hear from teslarian and jondarren regarding their intentions as well, as it's been a few weeks since they accepted their invitations too. Hoping they're both well and still interested in joining us here. Also wondering if you've had work done on your hand, since you mentioned possible surgery. But I assume you're good enough to play soon, so that's cool. Thanks again.

Hey, thanks a lot! :-)

Byrdlander - Oh Man, that Byrdland. Such a sweet sound. I love that crunchy distortion on it. Another outstanding track from James, thank you! Can't wait to hear what else you have coming.

@CopyCat : That is my 59 Les Paul Standard re-issue. It's an awesome Les Paul. I don't think I've played the Byrdland on Bandhug, but I did ona couple of tunz on the Hub. Doing taxes tonight (I owe), so maybe some late night madness or tomorrow. Did I see that Dennis said uploades were allowed now?

Thanks for the comments on my tone. I used a 55 Fender tweed deluxe amp pedal from Universal Audio, which is the company that produces the Apollo interfaces I use. This system has Sharc processing in the interface, so that you can use plugins such as compression and effects in real time when you record, so I don't have to worry about applying that Bandhug even though I don't have access to the tools. It's a great system, and it's a long way from where I started on Bandhub when it was new.

@Byrdlander : Yes, I did read the contest rule change about uploads. That is great news, and that is also why I have decided to take advantage of it. I'm currently (as you may see) consolidating some tracks to reduce our total number of tracks in the collab. This helps pages load faster, and makes recording easier for everyone. Gotta get back to it now...

It's unfortunate we have to consolidate because of performance. It's like working with an old 4 track machine, having to bounce down tracks and never being able to change the mix within that bounce, or adding a bunch of work to do it, and then you still have the limitation of having to raise and lower an individual track within the "bounced" track, and it does reduce fidelity of each individual track. But then I'm an old fart who just wants it to work without all this fuss! Forgive me.

@Byrdlander : Haha, You're forgiven. I get what you're saying. Rest assured, these changes don't have to be permanent, because I'm not deleting any of the original tracks. Just gonna store them in Drafts. Mix changes will still be possible, no worries.

@CopyCat : Thanks for getting it! Yeah, for example, I might want to solo my two acoustic tracks to get tone and relative balance, same with my electrics. So anyway, we can work together if I need a change. Thanks, man.

@Byrdlander : Absolutely, I plan to work with everyone that way.

@Byrdlander : In Drafts, your electric guitar track with your head cut out of the frame.. That was in there. Did you plan to use that one, or can we delete it? I prefer not to save anything in Drafts that we're not using in the collab. If it's scrap, lets delete it, OK?

@CopyCat : That can go, it's clammy