A lot of TVs have an HDR audio setting that can be toggled. I work in the AV world and the "smarter" TV's get, the shittier they are to use. Just get a big monitor or projector, olde school stereo and a chromecast.

Does anyone have advice for purchasing mechanical licenses? I am about to release 11 songs that are covers. I was originally just going to do soundcloud and fuck it on the licensing, but it turned out to be much better than expected and I'd like to get it up on all the streaming services, which require a mechanical license.

I've come across a ton of different sites, but wondering if anyone's had experience doing this? Just looking for something that is legitimate, it's hard to tell what is and isn't. Do any digital distributors offer this? It also seems to be quite expensive for someone who isn't actually selling anything, when the price is often $12.99/year (per song?). I have come across flat rates for a chunk of downloads, which seems more appropriate for this.

cakes wrote: Fri Aug 09, 2024 10:53 am Does anyone have advice for purchasing mechanical licenses? I am about to release 11 songs that are covers. I was originally just going to do soundcloud and fuck it on the licensing, but it turned out to be much better than expected and I'd like to get it up on all the streaming services, which require a mechanical license.

I've come across a ton of different sites, but wondering if anyone's had experience doing this? Just looking for something that is legitimate, it's hard to tell what is and isn't. Do any digital distributors offer this? It also seems to be quite expensive for someone who isn't actually selling anything, when the price is often $12.99/year (per song?). I have come across flat rates for a chunk of downloads, which seems more appropriate for this.

For this I'd use https://soundrop.com/
https://soundrop.com/blog/cover-song-li ... ep-by-step

$0.99 a song no subscription fee. Puts it up on all the streamers.

Soundrop gets a 15% cut of anything sold, but if you aren't worried about that, sure beats the subscription model.

Not a question but i'm throwing it here anyway....

I was today years old when I learned that mineral spirits and odorless mineral spirits are not the same thing. Turns out that odor is key for effectively removing contact cement from a brush.

Little quick question. My monitors are in such a way that I cannot reach the power witches and they are big fuckers that the manual says draw 50 watts while idle. They are plugged into one of those Black Lion conditioner power strips. Is it cool to just slam the power switch of the conditioner to turn them off? Seems like it it can't be that different than just hitting the mains switch on the monitor itself being that that is just a switch and fuse, just like the strips switch and fuse. PMC haven't answered me via email and I'd like to now just leave these things on all the time.

Kniferide wrote: Sat Aug 31, 2024 3:57 pm Little quick question. My monitors are in such a way that I cannot reach the power witches and they are big fuckers that the manual says draw 50 watts while idle. They are plugged into one of those Black Lion conditioner power strips. Is it cool to just slam the power switch of the conditioner to turn them off? Seems like it it can't be that different than just hitting the mains switch on the monitor itself being that that is just a switch and fuse, just like the strips switch and fuse. PMC haven't answered me via email and I'd like to now just leave these things on all the time.

What kind of switch is on the monitors? Do you think it moves and physically latches like a light switch or a pickup selector? Or is it a soft-press thing like the power button on a laptop?

Kniferide wrote: Sat Aug 31, 2024 3:57 pm Little quick question. My monitors are in such a way that I cannot reach the power witches and they are big fuckers that the manual says draw 50 watts while idle. They are plugged into one of those Black Lion conditioner power strips. Is it cool to just slam the power switch of the conditioner to turn them off? Seems like it it can't be that different than just hitting the mains switch on the monitor itself being that that is just a switch and fuse, just like the strips switch and fuse. PMC haven't answered me via email and I'd like to now just leave these things on all the time.

This is a great question. I was wondering the same thing about the Midas console and Ferrofish/RME interface plugged in to my Black Lion conditioner in exactly the same manner

Dr Tony Balls wrote: Sat Aug 31, 2024 4:20 pm

Kniferide wrote: Sat Aug 31, 2024 3:57 pm Little quick question. My monitors are in such a way that I cannot reach the power witches and they are big fuckers that the manual says draw 50 watts while idle. They are plugged into one of those Black Lion conditioner power strips. Is it cool to just slam the power switch of the conditioner to turn them off? Seems like it it can't be that different than just hitting the mains switch on the monitor itself being that that is just a switch and fuse, just like the strips switch and fuse. PMC haven't answered me via email and I'd like to now just leave these things on all the time.

What kind of switch is on the monitors? Do you think it moves and physically latches like a light switch or a pickup selector? Or is it a soft-press thing like the power button on a laptop?

Its a standard rocker switchlike you see all the time. only thing that makes me trepidatious is it does have a bunch of fancy shit inside it.

https://www.pmc-speakers.com/studio/pmc-6-2

Like computers and shit.

Replacing p/ups in my Gretsch.

The current pickups came with an extra large bracket, which required the drilling of new holes. Those pickups have one spring-loaded adjustment screw on each side. The new pickups have two screws at the top, one at the bottom.

The easiest thing would be to use brackets that fit the new pickups, but they are smaller, and that would expose the new holes in the body of the guitar which I don't want.

My question: which is easier:

a) drilling two new holes in top side of the extra large brackets?

or

b) drilling one central hole in the mounting plate on the top side of the new pick-ups?

I think a) is easier, but I'd rather go with b) as cosmetically, it would mean no visible holes in either guitar or bracket. The bit I don't know how to do in b) is how to add the thread to the new hole, so that the pickup is held in place and the springs have something to push against.

A third option might be swapping out the pickup base plate, but I think they are sufficiently different in construction to make that impossible.

You'd need a thread tap of the proper size and pitch to create the thread in your newly drilled hole.

You could still do option a) and put a shorter dummy screw + nut in that unused center hole. You'd see three screw heads in a row on each side of the pickup, but it wouldn't look like you had an extra hole there.