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Bob,
You said you had a story - and you sure did an excellent job telling that story - and another fine example of what can be done without a pro studio.
I have been looking to replace my old US-122 - and was looking at spending a little more money - but the US144MKii sure seems to do the trick for you.
Thank so much for sharing with us - it's a great inspiration.
Hey Rich...thanks. Glad you enjoyed it. I still haven't done a lot with the US144 yet, but I really like that it runs on USB power so you can take the computer anywhere and work on stuff. I've heard that it has to be the only device on the USB hub it's plugged into to avoid dropouts etc, but I haven't experienced any such problems. Lots of ram (2GB) in the laptop helps a lot, I also use an external USB hard disk for the audio files which frees up the main HD running XPPro. Still it rivals anything I've been able to do in our "big" studio; now I'm starting to wonder why I thought I needed to spend all that money. 
Thanks for listening, 
Bob
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Great song Bob. Lyrics great- everything is working well. I'm on a laptop at the moment so I can't hear it in the best light, but it sounds like compression is pumping a little bit. The drums? The mix overall? Not sure, but it's noticable even on this lappy. Enough to pick up on and get in the way a bit- at least for me anyway, me being mister picky. May want to check that. But really great tune Bob. Another winner!
Dan
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Had another listen. It's compression pumping. I'd say it's personal taste, but pumping compression really should be avoided in straight ahead country. Take it or leave it Bob, it's not make or break but it would be better to back it off a bit. I don't mean to be a pain. Forgive me. These things I notice. Really nice tune.
Dan
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Had another listen. It's compression pumping. I'd say it's personal taste, but pumping compression really should be avoided in straight ahead country. Take it or leave it Bob, it's not make or break but it would be better to back it off a bit. I don't mean to be a pain. Forgive me. These things I notice. Really nice tune.
Dan
Hey Dan...yea I've been playing around with Reaper to see what it's capable of. BTW...you're the one who got me to try it, so a big "thank you"...I'm reallly enjoying it! I'll transfer the tracks over to Sonar for final mixing, and Sound Forge for mastering. I'm not a huge fan of compression except for my Tele when doing that country rock stuff. Still, the ones in Reaper are pretty good plugins. Haven't found anything I'm in love with yet. I'm replacing the steel track with a performance from an excellent local player who also has a studio here. He's proficient on both pedal and non-pedal and has offered to do some "Don Helms" (...for the uninitiated, "Uncle Don" was Hank Williams' steel player.) style non-pedal on this one. Can't wait to see what he comes up with.
Also, I've had calls/meetings with three local country bands in the last week looking for some new "honky tonk style" songs to add to their sets! This is pretty exciting since I've never been approaced by a band to do my stuff before. I played both of the new songs at the Northern Colorado Songwriters Circle and I guess that's how word got out about some "new old country" being written. Not sure what it is about this old stuff, but I can't remember the last time I had this much fun writing and recording music. Who knew?
Have you been working on anything interesting?
Later,
Bob
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Glad you're liking reaper. It is great right? The plugins are really great for sure. Great to hear all your positive news. I'm a HUGE hallowen nut and for a couple of weeks I put music aside and worked on my home haunt. Now that it's over, I'm thinking of redoing an older traditional country song I did some years ago. I think it'll be great with biab. Did you check out the one I posted a few weeks back? Look a couple of pages in- you'll find it. It's called It's love I'm fallin in. Not sure if I'm gonna whip up something new or double back for that older one. We'll see.
Dan
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Glad you're liking reaper. It is great right? The plugins are really great for sure. Great to hear all your positive news. I'm a HUGE hallowen nut and for a couple of weeks I put music aside and worked on my home haunt. Now that it's over, I'm thinking of redoing an older traditional country song I did some years ago. I think it'll be great with biab. Did you check out the one I posted a few weeks back? Look a couple of pages in- you'll find it. It's called It's love I'm fallin in. Not sure if I'm gonna whip up something new or double back for that older one. We'll see.
Dan
Hey Dan...you know I did listen to your song a while back and I really liked what you did. I didn't get a chance to leave a comment but I'll go back and revisit it. Everything you've submitted is so very well done in every area. Impressive stuff; you're quite the talented man.
I'd like to see some pics of your "home haunt" if you've got some. (Send to the email on my profile page) We live in a big subdivision (over 300 homes and three schools) that's a "hatchery", as one friend put it, with tons of little kids coming around with their parents at Halloween; little tiny tykes in their costumes, wide-eyed incredibly cute kiddos. My kids (22 and 26!) love giving out treats. I think they're re-living the experience of Haloween vicariously.
Later,
Bob
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