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Happy Birthday Mike! Enjoy your day buddy!

My latest track.

Happy Birthday G Man! And I'm shocked that anyone would expect that steeping a tea bag for 30 seconds would be okay!

Yup. I was the guest of Santa Clara County for 10 days (IIRC). Ohio or California, the cuisine seems to be pretty consistent even after a couple of decades.

Never a dull moment Jacob! How would you feel about a nice baloney sandy? Glad you're home.

RIP Allan Pearlman I couldn't help taking a stroll down memory lane of the early days of synths. First time I saw a picture of an ARP it was a listing in the 1971 Whole Earth Catalog.

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday and as always, thanks for all the amazing content!

I remembered that you are usually a pc user and it occurred to me that you may not be familiar with the mac keyboard which has volume and screen brightness keys. The F11 key is Decrease volume and F12 is Increase volume. F10 is mute. These keys are shortcuts for the settings in Preferences>Sound in OSX. If they don't work that way, you may need to hold the Fn Key to "Shift" the F keys to their "Special" assignments. You can toggle this in Preferences>Keyboard. For some Apple devices (some Mini's) there used to be a remote that was supplied. It also adjusts the same settings. I have one somewhere that I used once with an old Macbook and you can still find them for under $20. I'm not sure if it works in the current OS though. Here's a link to the keyboard comparisons; http://xahlee.info/kbd/apple_pc_kb_diff.html These guys have one of those remotes for sale; https://www.macofalltrades.com/apple-original-remote-a1156/#tech-specs Let me know if you want to try the remote. I'm sure I could find it and I'd be happy to give it to you once I do.

Glad to see you're back Steve.

Happy Birthday Ric.

Happy Birthday Ken (and Jesus).

These days for my casual listening whatever is easy rules the day. You might keep an eye out for one of those Griffin Power Mates. They come in Bluetooth and usb versions and are nice under the hand.

I would try using the "built in" volume controls in the apps (Spotify, iTunes etc.) before buying something like that. Some gain software will cause audible bit reduction at low levels. On the other hand, that is cheap enough to just give it a try. If I can, I always prefer analog gain controls. If poorly done, it can be noisy (noise floor) but for the most part, digital audio has such a large s/n ratio that it would be very hard to notice. Mackie and T.C. Electric both make a fairly cheap analog volume knob (XLR). https://www.tcelectronic.com/Categories/Tcelectronic/Computer-Audio/Accessories/LEVEL-PILOT/p/P0D71#googtrans(en|en) Griffen made a nice looking digital knob but it maybe out of production? https://www.amazon.com/Griffin-PowerMate-Multimedia-Control-Computers/dp/B01F63TOAC/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1545505802&sr=8-2&keywords=griffin+volume+knob Me, I generally use the analog volume knob on my Amarra 4 (thanks Al!!!!) or built in app volume or a combination of the two (depending on current laziness level).

Will check out synchronicity tonight Mikey! The stream from Amazon has better sound than the 'tube video I linked. If you have Prime, it's free of course.

As good as it gets!

I'm with Dan. The Kawai keybeds are very close to the feel of a proper piano. If I had the duckets, I'd have an Mp11 and keep using my Hammersmith Kontakt samples (there are plenty of equally great piano libraries out there and this is simply the one I use). http://www.soniccouture.com/en/products/26-percussion/g49-the-hammersmith/

Happy Birthday!

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (Netflix). A holiday present from the Coen brothers and (I believe) their first all digital production. While I can't say that I loved all the chapters equally, it has their fingerprints all over it. Our family fav Tom Waits has a great part in one of the chapters and the one that takes a journey west on a wagon train headed to the Willamette Valley (where I live now) were my personal keepers.

I was shocked to hear about Sherwen's passing. I agree, July will never be the same. RIP Paul Sherwen.

Ken Fritz's audio system. Be sure to check out the "build" article (part 1). https://www.psaudio.com/article/5400-hours-of-fun-part-2/

RIP 41. Although I was no fan of his policies, it was impossible not to respect the man. "The good ole days."

Mine is 16G and I've never had an issue with loading/streaming but I rarely watch 4k content (the Apple screensavers are kind of awesome to watch though). I have quite a few apps (one for each of the channels I watch) and I haven't put much of a dent in the storage. I guess 64G would be more of a future proofing thing. If you don't have a universal remote, you might spend that $20 for one. The Siri remote could be the worst device ever to grace the Apple catalog!

Happy Thanksgiving everybody! Have a great one