u/blindingSlow

Hello! I am visually impaired and use the Mac OS Zoom accessibility tool at more or less 900% magnification, but I would like to record my screen ignoring this zoom.

Is OBS capable of doing this? If not, any alternative?

Thank you everyone for the input.

I played the base and now I am taking the electric jazz guitar…

I am not satisfied with the amount of noise that the tip of my fingers make on the strings, especially the e and b strings

I would like to know how do you experience folks deal with that? Is there a way to reduce that noise or is it unavailable?

Hello! Good evening to you all…

I played the base, which prevent me for having long fingernails on my right hand…

Now I'm learning to play the guitar, mostly electric and mostly jazz style…

My problem is the amount of noise that The pick up reproduces and I would like to know how do you experience people deal with that? Is that unavoidable? Can I do something to reduce the scratching noise that my fingers make while playing?

I've been playing acoustic guitar for a couple of decades and now I'm switching to electric.

I quickly found out that recording electric is another type of skill and I'm learning a lot these past few days.

Right now I'm enjoying a two part "hybrid" setup.

1. Tweed 55 by UA, very low volume on the amp, compensating with the virtual mic gain; Getting a clean tone, dark and thick;

2. Mic AKG D7 almost touching the wood of the guitar, right between the four knobs, using the 610 B as virtual mic pre; Getting a bright and somewhat "woody" tone;

For the ambient I'm using a very short delay and reverb with the Galaxy Tape Echo in the Used tape setting for some random variation and extending that sound with Pure Plate; These two are running in serial on an Aux channel, I'm sending both signals there but not much, just to be aware of the room, not to hear long tails.

I'm also experimenting with the 610 A instead of the Tweed, also really cool!

The guitar is an Epiphone Dot, tone volume all the way closed, only using the neck pickup so the tone is really dark and ugly by itself, but mixed with the mic I'm getting "real life" articulation and spark without loosing the body of the tone.

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I'm curious to know how do you folks deal with the cold sounding DI issue. ANd when I say "cold" I don't mean "bad", I'm just refering to the fact that there is no real air moving and being captured by a mic, so it's "too good" of a clean tone... so clean that it seems to loose some life in the process (;

Do people form study groups here?

If not, does anyone know where I can find a online one that values commitment?

I've found some of those "paid academy" things, but rarely I experienced any interaction between the students.

I'm looking specificaly for forums.

I'm blind and apps like Reddit and Discord are always changing things that might not bother most people but it's a nightmare if you depend on a screen reader.

Where do you find a place to talk about jazz guitar outside those apps?

Thanks!

I think this should be changed, but before sending feedback to UA, I’d like to get your opinions.

Consider this scenario:

- I’m working on a session;

- When I use Cmd+N to start a new session, the standard "Do you want to save changes?" dialog box appears;

- If I press Esc to dismiss the dialog, Console behaves as if I had clicked "Don't Save" instead of "Cancel", and it starts a new session without letting me save the previous one.

Wouldn't the "correct"—or at least expected—behavior be to dismiss the dialog as if I had clicked "Cancel" rather than "Don't Save"?

I have a (terrible) habit of not saving the session until I've finished the work, and I've lost a few good FX chains that way...

It’s not necessarily wrong or a program bug, just odd behavior—different from what I’d expect based on other software I use.

I’m curious to hear everyone’s thoughts on this.

I’m not sure how popular this plugin is—I only discovered it recently—but it’s an excellent tool for studying and visually understand how plugins affect the signal.

It’s very simple to use: just insert two instances and place your EQ in the middle of the chain. As you adjust your EQ, the plugin displays the difference in the curve.

It's also really really cool to insert other plugins that are not EQ to check how they change the eq curve as well, like tape stuff, distortion, etc...

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And remember kids: Tools are tools, use them to learn and study but always trust your ears first.

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It operates on a "pay-what-you-want" basis, but it’s worth supporting the developer.

Here is the official page:

https://bertomaudio.com/eq-curve-analyzer.html

And a video demo:

https://youtu.be/had5wQLLOhU?si=v22hlXbgfPqKgP6M

I just caught iZotope (so Native Instruments, I guess) doing some real gross dark pattern shit.

So, I tend to keep analytics/data collection off for as many plug-ins as possible. After recently updating my iZotope plug-ins, I noticed I was getting re-prompted with the "Help us improve your experience" dialog when loading projects, multiple times per week. At first I thought it was a bug, like maybe some weird state got saved with a project.

Then I noticed it was doing it in fresh projects too.

It turns out that when you hit "don't share", it writes a timestamp to the registry, and if it's been more than ~5 days since the last nag, it will re-prompt you to opt-in. It's completely deliberate.

A solution seems to be to set the value of HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\iZotope LastChangedOptInDaysSinceEpoch to 65535.

If you save this as fix.reg and run it, it will patch it:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\iZotope]
"EnableAnalytics"=dword:00000000
"LastChangedOptInDaysSinceEpoch"=dword:0000ffff

Figured I'd share this for anyone else who's been annoyed by this.

I always used Virtual Channels to record whatever is playing back on my computer.

Now I've learned that i can do that using the MonL and MonR channels. I saw them as inputs in the I/O Matrix and did the test. It works fine if you're careful with feedback.

My question is:

Why would I choose one over the other?

I understand that removing virtual channels in favor of DSP pairs will frees some DSP so I don't see the reason to use them. However, I'm a novice in home recording and I like to learn new things.

What would be the uses for the Virtual Channels other than recording my computer's audio?

Thanks!

I'm having trouble recording guitars via Apollo Twin Thunderbolt. My computer is a Mac Mini and I'm using Ableton Live 12.

I'm using the console to monitor the guitar with some plugins (Century Tube, La-2A and an aux with Pure Plate).

After finishing the take, I noticed that the recorded sound is noticeably more muffled, as if there's a roll-off of the higher frequencies.

In a quick search, I saw that other people have noticed this for some time; I found posts from 2018 reporting the same problem in various DAWs.

I made sure the recorded channel is set to UAD Rec and not UAD Mon.

I don't have any routing different from the default.

Does anyone know why? Any suggestions on how to solve this?

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Hi! I'm from Brazil and Iwas looking into getting an Eastman archtop, I've heard a guy playing one and I really liked it, he let me try for a little while, very kindly, during his set's interval. Anyway...

I've fallen in love with the sound, it was an Ar810, but I can't even find a store that caries Eastman here in Brazil.

What other brands/models would you recommend? Better if it's something similar to the AR810, but I accept suggestions of any kind.

Right now I play a Squier Tele and a Epi Dot, really itching for an archtop though (;

I'm interested in knowing how do you damp the metalic harmonics after the nut and before the bridge on your ES-335 style guitar.

I've read millions of solutions online, but I would like to know from "real people" what do they do.

BTW, my guitar is a Epi Dot, but I'm pretty sure the issue is the same for most tune-o-matic guitars.

Hello!

When I export my sheet music in PNG format, the generated file is a full page, and I would like to export an image of only a few selected measures.

Currently, I take a screenshot and crop it, but it's a tedious process.

Is there any way to export just a selection?

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Notes:

- I'm still learning how to use Muse Score

- I'm almost completely blind, so it is possible that the solution is right there on my screen and I'm not seeing it.