now that i can post pictures how do i get my sunset picture under stratmanforever bronze member like yall have

ORIGINAL: RobertB

Preferably Blantons

Does that mean I get a cut of the proceeds?
Probably not.

You could get 'half cut' Bob

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Steve you've got to tell me about your new Farm!

Less yappin' Bill - where's my Scotch?

I haven't had chance to crank it up yet Bill so I can't report on how it performs.

But it looks nice

Have you installed the excellent and very free Paint.net yet Bill?

It's a free image program - I use it to save my screenshots as JPG's and also the editing tools are dead simple to use to add text and arrows to your images.

Up for it?


I noticed you've opened a Photobucket account Bill, there's a pretty nifty editing suite in there too - that's how I add all those extremely humourous speech bubbles and stuff!!

Sign in to your IM account Bill.

Here's the link Grant: http://www.paint.net/

As I said to Bill, I not only use it to save my PNG screen shots to and then save them as a JPG's it's also a great bit of kit for adding text and arrows and stuff like that.

Plus they send you the updates FOC as well!

I got Paint.net installed.

Be careful I might paint you all blue.........

I'm not encouraging anyone. I think my next guitar will have to be metallic purple, completely home built, with a nasty Floyd Rose and Seynmour Duncan pickups... No, no, no, no....Rather I should wind my own pickups.... and forget to properly pot them before installation, and use cheap chinese wiring.

I thought he was just going to shoot you .. oh that was the other thread. at any rate you'd btter keep your eye on him!
I have re-recorded the yari thing with new strings and added drums. Hmmm, next I need to add bass but alas I not have one. Me feel like guitarzan in these situations. Where o' where could I find a bass for someone to play. waity aminuette. DOES NOT STEVE HAVE ONE? He could offer to add a bass line to what I have but then what would that costs me. Whoa is me.

LOL - whoa there Bill!

Hey mate - no problem if you want me to add some bass, it would be a pleasure sir!

And four tips for you:

1) Don't normalise

2) Never ever normalise

3) Clear your mind of any thoughts about normalising

4) If in doubt, refer to rules 1), 2) or 3)

Bill, first off, the best thing is to just send me an mp3 of what you've done so far - if you can convert it to an mp3 file, you can just drag it into the Instant Message window.

I'll need the bpm and tab or chords are good, just to give me an idea.

If you decide to incorporate a bass line you like, we can arrange to send you just the bass line as what's called a 'stem' - this just means that I start my recording at the same time as your project begins so it will line up with your parts exactly.

As to normalizing, you're getting it mixed up with compression a little bit Bill. All normalizing does is to find the loudest part of the recorded signal which it compares to the theoretical maximum level of the track, i.e. 0dB. With this information, the process will then increase the level of the whole of the track by the difference.

In other words, if the highest level of anything you've recorded peaks at -3dB, the normalizing process will raise the level of the whole track by 3db.

The main problem here is that once you've (destructively) applied normalization, you've got no 'headroom' left in the track for further processing.

Therefore, it's really a much better idea to non-destructively increase the level of a track, by using a volume envelope or the faders; if the fader's already at 0dB, it's better to reduce the levels of all the other faders!!

Did I mention not to normalise?

What you describe is more akin to compression Bill - here the overall level of the track is indeed brought up but the compressor acts differently upon the different levels in the track, depending on how it's set but normally, the lower level parts of the signal are boosted more than the higher values - it is this process that starts to squash the dynamics out of a track.

Taken to it's extreme, a compressor can be set so that no signal is allowed to rise above a set threshold - a compressor set like this is generally called a limiter, or a brick-wall limiter; theoretically, using a limiter, every part of a track can be raised to the same level.

Steve