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$1000 bucks a night and they cant let you have wifi?

ridiculous!

I dont know what that means

I'm not sure what it's about, when I heard that riff I looked in the pile of lyrics I had wrote in the past when they came to me, and that was the first one I pulled out. It seemed to fit so I went with it.

Porsche's American HQ is here in Atlanta. I needed some service done, the scheduled 30,000 mile service.

Except, I'll be trading that in at this point. I managed to get an allocation for a GT3 RS and am working on the customization options over a few days. The existing 2015 GT3 RS (the one getting the service) is being traded in against the cost of the new one. They gave me a fantastic offer. They didn't want me to just pay in cash. They wanted to have the existing car for inventory.

Once I place the order, the car should be here in the US in 6 to 8 months. I've yet to place the order. I'll place the order with an initial configuration. I can change that configuration at any time up to 30 days before they start the build, but that's a hassle. I'd like to get it right the first time around.

And that's why I'm in Atlanta.

There's also the Redneck Racetrack. Basically, there are a number of cities that are 'Atlanta'. They're really different cities in one metro area.

Well, there's a ring road, a giant multi-lane highway that circles the city. If you go out at night, or early on a weekend morning, there's very little traffic and the cops do not care what you do, as long as you don't wreck. It's something fun to do with the loaner while I'm down here.

The loaner is just a 'poverty spec' 2024 911. It's still fun.

Also, I've never had my own custom ordered, brand new Porsche. The missus has a 2023 718 Boxter (fairly inexpensive and not a huge performance vehicle) but I have never owned my own new Porsche. I've cusstom ordered cars before but not from Porsche.

I'll also be ordering a new C8 ZR1 because they're awesome. They're also 'cheap' when you look at the features and performance you're getting. It's gasoline powered and RWD - but still can do 0 to 60 in 2.5 seconds. They come with over 1,000 HP - from the factory.

I will definitely be ordering one. I didn't like the C4, C5, or C6 Corvette models that much. The C7 and C6 are amazing. They even have a good interior, which is surprising. No more cheap plastic all over the place.

Erf...

It's your fault. This is a long reply because you asked why I was here. I'm here for car-things. If you get me started talking about cars, it's going to be a long reply. So, yeah...

Anyhow...

Yes, there are six guitar parts. The studio version would be pretty hard to play in a live performance. Led Zeppelin never played it the same way in their concerts, as it'd have required more people.

There are all sorts of songs like that. They do a great job in the studio but then can't play the same thing in a live performance.

Then, you have bands like The Black Crowes. Their studio music is amazing (at times). Their live performances just plain suck. Do not go see them perform live.

While they're in the studio, they're playing with all sorts of alternative tuning. They'll often use different tuning for different parts of a song (in a studio). By the time this is a live performances, they're playing shitty renditions with guitars that aren't even in tune.

So, don't go see them live. I gave them two tries. I'll never see them live again. They sucked both times, with the second time being even worse.

Are you familiar with Eric Johnson's song Cliffs of Dover? Well, that was recorded part way with a Strat and the rest of it was recorded with a Gibson ES-335. They're two very different tones and the studio matched them up in production. So, the live version is never the same as the studio version because Johnson switched instruments mid-way through the song.

Most folks won't notice that. I noticed it and I'd get confirmation of this later on when he commented about it in a guitar magazine.

Glad ya liked it.

I'm connected with my phone and have limited bandwidth on said phone because that's the phone I have with me.

sighs

The hotel's wireless is out and has been out for a half hour or so. I called the front desk to bitch about it.

I hate this fucking hotel. Hell, I don't even like Georgia, though I have spent quite a bit of time here and have some interesting stories of the area.

Thanks. We were still fairly new to some new software at the time and the mix could be improved.

I don't have all those stubs saved anywhere, so that's as good as it's going to get. I do not see us recreating the track though it might make for an interesting contrast.

I started casually recording in 2016 or so. I'd just use a phone and maybe play with it in Audacity. In 2018, I started taking it more seriously and bought things like a digital audio input and all that jazz. I already owned great mics but I bought more. I learned to properly mic my drum set up, for example. Drum mics for recording are very different than they are for performing, so that was a thing...

So, in 2020 this was a fairly complicated task for us. It could definitely be improved.

There's a play button that doesn't really stick out, did it not show up at all?

I wrote out the lyrics. Since I didn't get specific with styles it gave me 2 versions, that I combined to make a longer song. I did some work on the DAW to improve sound quality and get the desired effects.

I created another AI to write song lyrics and give me some ideas on what to prompt the Music Generator AIs. I ran it through my entire music collection, and fed it a bunch of music theory, plus how different instruments work in a Rock Band and it works pretty good so far.

There's piano on nearly all of my shit, but I was not willing to entertain a moron.