You're not a real man if you don't drink your coffee black... Puting cream into your coffee is like splashing a bit of water in your whisky (*cough* Sinatra *cough*)
Black go black! Try a light roast. The lighter the better. The more you roast coffee the more acidic it becomes. Try a light roast double peaberry. I like Ethiopian. I always stop after three pots.
I seldom drink coffee, but when i do i definately want it black, i cant understand putting milk or cream in it. I used to put lots of sugar in my tea, but that was many years ago.
If anyone ever asks you to work for free, just remember that 'exposure' is what the coroner writes down as cause of death when your frozen corpse is found curled up beneath a bridge in a futile attempt to shelter yourself from the bitter northern wind.
You forgot the 3rd act: 1. Guy joins band to get girls. 2. Guy gets girl and band loses priority. 3. Girl loses interest because guy is no longer in band.
@@0x777 Can you please make "whats a girlfriend"...."A mythical creature. Lead guitarists call them "groupies", bass guitarists call them "tattoo" shirt like now
Answer to the the drummer situation. Send in the lead guitar player. He'll extract the girlfriend from the drummer in no time at all (in the back seat of his car) leaving the drummer to bang those skins instead of said ex girlfriend 😎
A lead guitar player that has a car, let alone can drive it? Driving cars is the bass player's job. Why else would you keep that tool in the band if he couldn't drive the drummer and his kit around?
OFFICIAL ORDER OF MUSICIANS ATTRACTIVENESS TO WOMEN -producer -lead singer -lead guitar player -rhythm guitar player -misc -roady -drummer -bass player
Thanks Glenn! I'm so happy that you answered my question! I'm about to get a pair of cheap monitors, and your tips will be really helpful. Keep doing what you do! Regards, Rick
Headphones are useful in the mix process, but for a very different role than monitors! As you mentioned, monitors give the most accurate representation of the stereo field. On headphones you do lose the phantom imaging you get with speakers, and this usually results in headphone-only mixes having stereo imaging and phase issues that are concealed by cans... However, headphones are extremely useful when listening for certain artifacts- clicks, pops, RF interferance and other low-level noises can often be concealed by the fact that air is a diffuser. When you have 4-10 feet between you and your speaker, a light pop or bad edit can easily be masked, especially when listening in a full mix, but people who listen on headphones will hear these problems because the driver is literally right next to your ear. This can be a lifesaver for a mix engineer, a producer finishing an edit, or a mastering engineer QC'ing a finished project right before sending it off for streaming/physical production.
Thanks for the IRs, Glenn!! What a great present! Glad to have supported you in the past and I look forward to doing so again soon! Cannot WAIT for your "mixing on headphones" video since that's what I'm stuck with right now. Looking forward to your advice!
Hey Glenn, since you want to drink green tea, I imperatively recommend you to get a water boiler that has temperature control. I found tea just okay until I found out that if you boil the water to 70°C it tastes way way better and I don't need to sweeten it anymore. Good luck in LA and losing weight \m/ And thanks for the free IR!
There's something quite charming about that stock footage behind the comments. Please keep them forever. I'd also classify your content as audio edutainment. :D
I use either Matt Halpern's drums samples that I got from a Nolly master class as well as Eyal Levi's drum forge samples. I do prefer using recorded drums, but sometimes if the situation calls for it these are the samples i go to.
Direct out on bass amps are useful for live sound reinforcement. Often times, we don’t mic up bass amps, (though we should,) and just use the direct out. If it’s a small venue, it’s usually fine. Thanks, and FUG.
@@TheLeon1032I'm talking about those times where it would sound a whole lot better, and we take the easy route, even if we have the time. Thanks for the suggestion to do what sounds best. I'll have to remember that one. Facepalm.
great vid have u ever played an ENGL head like an invader or a powerball cause i know u have one of there awesome cabs. keep up all the good work and cheers from England.
Thanks for the videos, I just really enjoy watching them with my morning coffee just like my mother enjoys the news every morning. Anyway, a great way to start the day. Appreciate all of your hard work.
Hi Glenn. So I recently bought a starter bass kit. I am initially a guitarist and vocalist, but because of you, various youtubers, and some discussions with local guitar shops and musicians I realize that playing bass or drums has a higher demand professionally and has a better chance at finding gigs. My plan is to learn on this basic kit, then upgrade the amp, get a di interface, and finally get a better bass. Thanks Glenn. Hopefully I won't suck.
had a bass player in the early 2000's, great musician, great guy, but his girlfriend was nearly unbearable. We would be at our practice house and couldn't get anything done because all she wanted to do was drink and party. While i'll say back then i had no problem with doing it(right place-right time), practice does have to happen at some point. She would bring all her friends and we couldn't get anything done. this went on for weeks and eventually led to us having to cancel a show because we weren't ready. We would ask the bass player.."man you need to talk to her" didn't work, we said "she can't come to practice" didn't work. The straw that broke it, our drummer had just bought a brand new Gibson Guitar and had the case open showing us, she starts fighting with one of her friends that she had brought and spills beer on the guitar and all in the case. Me, the Singer, and the Drummer right there fired the bass player and told them to get out.
If you are serious about your music and making something of it you have to treat it like its your job, you dont have your girlfriend at your work all the time and you dont usually party at work either. Of course you dont have to be as strict as some workplaces are, but you must be able to concentrate on your music.
Hi, the drummer and singer/bassist of a band im in are dating, and are doing virtually nothing while me and my other friend are trying to get shit done, we have pretty much figured that since highschool relationships never last and when they break up, they will take the band with them. Should we start a new band before this happens? Cheers from down under!
Be careful switching to sugar substitutes, alot are proven to cause macular degeneration. Try stevia if you do. Tell that guy the eleven rack blows. A great amp and a two notes captor is way better than the 11. I use krank amps. Loving your IR's. I thought it would take me years of work and another $1000 bucks to get your delphos sound. Cheers!
I'm not so sure theres any propper proof on sugar substitutes. As far as I can tell it was just click bait articles back in the day like acai berries during everything.
As an answer regarding 2x12 cabinets alignment... I'll give as terse as possible ground explanation about the "beam, forming" and after that tell you how it relates to speaker cabinets. Yeah, I'm a nerd... well... aren't we engineers all? :D [*Very terse Introduction*]: -------------------------------------------------------------------- There's a phenomenon called "beam forming" where higher the frequency emitted by a source (speaker), more directional it is ([sound]waves don't spread around in all directions, they form a beam that's emanating from the speakers center outwards). Sub-woofers as an example are in all intents and purposes a "point source", meaning they emit their low frequency sound waves pretty much all around with equal amplitude, there's no preferred direction. Unlike mid and high frequencies emitted by speakers/monitors that can be directed towards the listener easier since they tend to be directional anyway. But it's quite common to use multiple woofers as an *array* to direct even these very low frequency waves in some wanted direction. These arrays are two or more point sources (woofers) arranged in particular ways, with some phase and time align processing to get wanted pattern. We use these in live sets to direct even the low frequency sounds towards the listeners instead to the stage and waste energy. [*How this relates to guitar cabinets*]: ------------------------------------------------------------------ This beam forming phenomena happens even more strongly when there's two or more speakers blasting the same material next to each other in an "array". The sound waves interact with each other in such a way that they don't spread out as much higher the frequency they try to push. Sound spreads less on that axis where the speakers are arranged next to each other and the center of the beam is in the middle between the speakers. Meaning that if you have two speakers in vertical alignment, the beam is tighter in vertical direction and if they're in horizontal arrangement, the beam gets more narrow in horizontal plane. If you use 4x12 cabinet the beam is tighter over all and when you play higher, the beam gets even more narrow than with one speaker it would. This effect is why nobody in your practice space ever hears your great guitar solos: they would have to sit right in line with the speaker cabinet to hear the higher notes. [*What I'd recommend?*]: ------------------------------------------------------------ I'd recommend to use single speaker cabinet if you want everyone in your practice space to hear well what you play in the room and if you have 2x12 cabinet, use vertical arrangement so less sound goes to the floor and ceiling but it still spreads around better on horizontal axis. If you mic the speaker, the microphone is usually so close to the individual speaker that this beam forming effect isn't causing much of an effect. If you take it further away, it's very noticeable! If you've ever wondered why the location of the microphone on the speaker causes so much of a difference in tone, it's because even a single speaker interacts as an array since the cone surface is like an array of little speakers all trying to make the same sound and all these waves are interacting with all others and causing very different response around the speaker cone.
30 min episode. Nice way to roll out a week of work. Keep it up man. Like the video Q&A. Shows you actually give a fuck about your viewers and visa versa.
I built a 2x12 cabinet with an open back. An Eminence Swamp Thang and an Eminence Cannabis Rex. I have used it both horizontal and vertical. I can't tell any tonal quality difference in either position. The choice of speakers was more to do with the fact I like to play the Blues and have a Fender Blues JR 3 than anything else. Cheers and Happy new year (det bedste Nytår) to you Glen and all of your subs.
What happened with Arch Enemy got hugely distorted by that vindictive, sleazebag lawyer. What actually happened was that Alissa shared the dude's photo on instagram and then Marta Gabriel re-shared the photo that Alissa shared and mentioned that Alissa was wearing stuff she custom made for her. Nothing was advertised, as this guy claims, since the clothes were custom made for Alissa and were not for sale. The guy saw that Marta shared the photo from her business profile and sent her a cease and desist email claiming that she used the photo for commercial purposes and demanded that she pays 100 euros to some charity so she didn't have to pay him 500 euros, which is basically extortion. She thought the email was some sort of scam and she forwarded it to Alissa. Btw, apart from designing her stage clothes, she is personal friend to Alissa and "the big clothing company" is just her sewing custom made shit for a few of her customers and selling some trinkets on etsy. She is basically a glorified seamstress. So after she forwarded the email to Alissa, Alissa contacted Angela and Angela contacted the guy and asked him why he is harassing people for sharing photos on instagram and told him she didn't understand why he would do that since in her experience photographers usually enjoy when others share their photos on instagram, which he misrepresented to make it look like she said that photographers should be happy to have their work exploited for free in exchange for exposure, which she didn't. The idiot didn't realize that he was talking to Arch Enemy's manager and ex singer, not to Marta, so he continued to be all lawyery and uptight so Angela concluded that he's an asshole and told Marta and Alissa to take down the photos they shared and she told him that he isn't welcome to shoot their shows anymore because he was frankly being an asshole towards them and accused them of theft. He then misrepresented this gesture as a form of censorship and silencing by a big band and made up some sort of "chilling effect" story to make it look that the band were the bad guys for not wanting an asshole who threatened their friend to get a free pass to their photo pit. He waited almost half a year to attack them and then since his side of the story got picked up by every major metal and rock website, a bunch of knee-jerk trolls decided that it would be a good idea to dog-pile Arch Enemy's social media profiles, and harass the shit out of them. To make shit even worse, they harassed the fuck out of Marta even more. She received a ton of online harassment and some douchebags even went after her etsy store and left a bunch of bad reviews so whe had to close the store down. The shit-show went so far that her customers pulled their orders and she had to close her business altogether. All over a stupid instagram share. Yeah, so fuck that guy and fuck his stupid photo.
@@flacidhouse350 There were no links to any websites or webstores. She only mentioned she made shit for Alissa because she was proud. That shit was not for sale btw.
@@flacidhouse350 Dude, even if the guy's claim of copyright infringement was completely legitimate, don't you think that ruining someone's business over something so fucking trivial as a stupid instagram share is a bit of an overkill?
I have hearing damage and so does Glenn . I can't speak for him but with dimished hearing on one side I can't place the center with headphones. It's like a flat plane .
I mix with speakers first, then put on headphones, then in-ear phones, then listen to it in my car, then speakers again, when it sounds alright in all of them I'm done xD
For bass I run a DI clean channel and EQ out most of the highs (2khz-4khz) and then a secondary track running the bass through an amp or amp sim with some gain and an IR, EQ out the lows, and the highs, leaving just the mids. Mix both tracks to taste, always sounds good. You get the direct sound from the bass for the solid lows, and the resonance and character of the cab from the grit. You can always throw a cab on the DI too for texture.
Hey Glenn, I finally picked up the Pro VLA Mark II. I am digging it big time. I enjoyed the gear video that you did on this. Please keep doing these vids. A good source of info.
You went Hollywood..... AGAIN. Break a leg over there, Glenn! To the ElevenRack question. I own one, and it's very clunky and will NOT serve you for live purposes. I've recorded with it for years, the tones are nice and it's compatible with ProTools, althought it's not very well supported.
Our sound guy used to put a mike on the top left speaker of my 4X12 cab, one day (night) I asked him why - there other speakers in there of course! He said: "Well, that one just sounds the best!" So there you have it! Sound guy tested & approved!!
i didnt like arch enemy. after hearing that thing with the photographer, I hate them. that was so bad. in my opinion they are overrated and are only as succesfull as they are, because they have a female front"woman" ( just to not piss of the feminists)
What's wrong of funeral being fun? I've been on funeral that was pretty fun, at least it was for me and for couple of my cousins when we couldn't hold back our laughs couple times during the event :D
I once recorded the direct out of a Randall amp, blended that shitty tone in with the mic tone just for laughs. Gave it a hell of an edge, but a little bit goes a long, long way.
Great video Glenn! Thanks for the IR gift as well! Hey being in Hollywood, NAMM won’t be such a journey now. 😉 Also the ddrum triggers have no longevity ever with my experience, but the Roland’s are definitely the way to go. They even respond with more percussions hands down. The snare and tom versions have a great dual trigger for rimshots.
Hey Glenn, Thanks for keeping up with the show for so long, and congrats on the move to LA! I have a question that's been bugging me for years, and hopefully you can answer. Why do headphones come with a 3.5mm jack, but most audio equipment has a 1/4" jack for headphones, raising the need for an adapter? Why haven't they cut out the middle man and started making headphones with 1/4" jacks already installed or vice versa? Cheers from Australia!
The only thing I can see being different with vertical 2x12s is that the sound dispersion is closer to ear level, which as you say can be achieved by flipping the cab upright, though some Vertical 2x12s are slant cabs as well
Hey Glenn, I had the same experience with the DDrum Pro Triggers, they worked great for a while then the piezo's break and need resoldered/replaced! The DDrum Chrome triggers are MUCH better, the piezo is protected by some dense foam/rubber so they don't break. Had mine for a few years and they haven't failed me yet. The Rolands are reliable but quite expensive, and the kick trigger I had didn't seem to give as clean/sharp a transient as the DDrum ones, so it was a bit harder to work with.
The Mooer GE200 is a great alternative for the Eleven Rack (except you insist on a rack mounted unit). It's small, sounds great and you can also load your own IRs. It's also quite affordable (~300 $). Me and the other guitarist in my band use it with Lancaster IRs and it sounds amazing.
After taking Warren and Glenn's advice and recording and mixing with my monitors over the past year, I've had better results than I did when I was doing it through headphones.
This happened to my band in 2014. We had our debut show coming up, we had practiced a ton. 2 weeks before the show the drummer disappears and we dont see him again until 6 months later he shows up randomly with this dope sl-t wanting to jam so he can prove he's a drummer. Oddly enough, his name was Glen
I made some triggers from piezo discs but I also use an electric kit on my own stuff, for writing at least, because I'm not a drummer. Whether it gets real drums on it is a matter of where it goes. I record other bands and use the make shift triggers as gates and for emergency situations.
I use both headphones and PC speakers, i also try and use other people's speakers too to get an idea of how its going to sound universally. The headphones are rarely used, and they do have 7.1 surround sound.
+1 to sonarworks headphone. i love that plugin! Also, re: crappy pc speakers, a great thing to listen for is kick/bass/vocal relationship (a lot of times, your kick or bass will just vanish). if everything seems to line up between those two, you should be in pretty decent shape. Also, keep those crappy speakers even after you get decent monitors, etc...it's always worth checking your mixes on 'em.
I used to mix on headphones when I lived at home but when I got my current room, I upgraded to monitors. A lot of people use headphones as they live with their parents or roommates and can't make the noise due to complaints. If you do get headphones, get open back headphones with the flattest response in your afford. If you can use monitors, use them instead and they sound great for listening to music as well.
I'm currently using Roland RT-30 triggers with Tm-2 drum module. I've also tried to use them with Alesis SampleRack but that module didn't work that great with the triggers and it was much more complicated to change the velocity etc. compared to the Roland module. I'm using the triggers mainly for the live gigs because I have two kick drums but I've been using them for recording demos or rehearsal tapes. When doing more serious stuff I mostly use a double pedal with one mic'd kick drum. I have a trigger for snare drum also but didn't found it that effective for recording nor live use.
Hi glenn I am confuse and have been wondering about recording direct DI guitars and using an amp sim and an IR cab. If I track my rhythm guitar should I already put an amp sim and IR into the individual guitar tracks left and right and run them into a stereo bus or should I leave the left and right tracks clean run then to a bus and put the amp sim and IR cab in the bus?
Glen, for mixing, try good open back headphones. I for some time couldn't understand why I had a problem with balancing mix unit I got Sennheiser HD-600. With closed back headphones happens the same as with closed back guitar cabinet (air compression).
When I had crap monitors I would mix on AKG 240. cans and see how it would translate on the speakers of course checking and adjusting, etc. When I got some decent monitors I found some surprises in my old mixes and started with the room and getting surgical with the cans. So yeah air first then phones for me.
I still have a Scholz Distortion Generator and Delay unit mounted together in a rack around somewhere, but they don't work anymore. I equate those sounds to the later Boston records, which in my opinion sounded cold and sterile. The 1st Boston record was fantastic, but Tom Scholz didn't quite capture it with the Rockman gear. I also have a Yamaha GEP-50, which supposedly Page Hamilton (Helmet!) used as his main preamp.
ReaGate has a midigate functionality that lets you trigger in software by sending a midi note to a specific track, which is helpful if you're using a sampler or soundfont loader plugin, or VSTi, but unless you want to or already have to bring a laptop or windows/linux tablet to every gig, it's kinda useless live, though it's likely more than fine in studio.
I have a horizontal 2x12 flipped on its side to be vertical and I can't imagine it sounding that much different on its feet. I flipped it to conserve floor space and fit into the corner of my room and if anything, it's more convenient because I don't have to bend down to adjust the controls on my amp.
Glenn!! Third question in I think you saved my Marshall G100R CD(I know but I love it) head. I line out from that head to an old Traynor PM-300 pa with Twin 15/12/19x9 horn. If I just want the neighborhood rattling of the 15's I'll unplug the 4x12 Marshall cab and start cranking. Had no idea I was hurting it! :o Glad you mentioned that before I killed it! Will be buying at least a shirt when I recover from the holiday spree.
Just to respond to the bassist about getting a load box, I've been using an ART valve pre-amp going in to my interface for recording bass, with out an amp, the one with the optical compressor built in, and it is killer. I would check that out before going the load box route.
Hey Glenn thanks for the IR and wanted to tell you that you got to try the Cream back speakers just recently got a Friedman Pink Taco head and cab and the cab is a 1X12 Cream back and it sounds great. I have several Mesa cabs with V30's and I think the Cream back is a better sounding speaker.
Exact same thing happened to me, now we're scrambling looking for a drummer, ours decided to get married while we we're writing songs and getting prepared to go out and start playing local shows. Haven't seen him in a couple years now.
It might not sound very rock and roll, but the best decision I ever made was getting a drum machine. For years I resisted, thinking it was just too "fake". Finally, due in part to my interest in Big Black and Ultravox, I relented and got a drum machine. At first I only used it for rehearsals, but eventually I got into the creative side of it and realized that it was actually a pretty inspiring instrument. It's unbeatable for practice and rehearsal, and for experimenting with compositions. Now we have a drummer and he was able to learn all the old arrangements in a matter of hours thanks to the drum machine. We can practice parts on our own using the actual arrangement with the correct number of bars, which is way better for learning all the cues and pauses. I learnt that ultimately you make the music that is in your head, and instruments are just tools. I know that might sound obvious, but if you're really inspired by a rock genre that relies heavily on a "raw", or "live" sound, you might be concerned that a drum machine could lead you away from that creatively. It doesn't. I still record to tape and my main dirt tone comes from a treble booster. I'm still the same pretentious cork sniffer I always was. Because those are the sounds in my head. Although I do now listen to Hall and Oates occasionally... and Madonna... and Phil Collins... You know what, forget everything I said.
Ive got the Eleven Rack and I found that if you use the stand alone editor for your computer makes it alot more user friendly then the knob turning nightmare you talk about. You can get a rack off ebay pretty cheap now but it wont have pro tools with it but the editor will still work without pro tools.
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This started playing but i swear i didnt click
Did you wake up to comment before me?!
Brian B im always up this time
@@RudyAyoub I am up at 5 something all the time too. What is sleeping in?
Rudy Ayoub I absolutely did not have sexual relations with that woman.
You have your autoplay on.
Try your coffee black, it is more metal and has fewer calories.
Joseph Santiago counting calories is not metal🍻
You're not a real man if you don't drink your coffee black...
Puting cream into your coffee is like splashing a bit of water in your whisky (*cough* Sinatra *cough*)
@@olafvanrijnsbergen1177 Cream?? yeah, for pussies but milk?? Its the Milk of the gods! um, and cows!
Black go black! Try a light roast. The lighter the better. The more you roast coffee the more acidic it becomes. Try a light roast double peaberry. I like Ethiopian. I always stop after three pots.
I seldom drink coffee, but when i do i definately want it black, i cant understand putting milk or cream in it. I used to put lots of sugar in my tea, but that was many years ago.
If anyone ever asks you to work for free, just remember that 'exposure' is what the coroner writes down as cause of death when your frozen corpse is found curled up beneath a bridge in a futile attempt to shelter yourself from the bitter northern wind.
Well said. Everyone's time is worth something. Even sound engineers.
@@johnfkay8341 Oh man, I chuckled good
Wait a second.... Glenn in Lala Land, in both sugar AND caffeine withdrawal? I honestly pity the unprepared bassist that pisses off Glenn.
Lol
Wait you mean you change the strings ?????
When I read this title I thought of the exploding drummers from Spinal Tap
You can't dust for vomit
I thought the title meant that the drummer went missing with his girlfriend. Like they just got on a train and wanished.
You forgot the 3rd act: 1. Guy joins band to get girls. 2. Guy gets girl and band loses priority. 3. Girl loses interest because guy is no longer in band.
"we call that vpp syndrome" 😂✊👍👏💯🚀🔥🎉
What's a 'girlfriend'?
You're better off not knowing...
@@NML666 true af
Are you the bass player?
A mythical creature. Lead guitarists call them "groupies", bass guitarists call them "tattoo".
@@0x777 Can you please make "whats a girlfriend"...."A mythical creature. Lead guitarists call them "groupies", bass guitarists call them "tattoo" shirt like now
Answer to the the drummer situation. Send in the lead guitar player. He'll extract the girlfriend from the drummer in no time at all (in the back seat of his car) leaving the drummer to bang those skins instead of said ex girlfriend 😎
A lead guitar player that has a car, let alone can drive it? Driving cars is the bass player's job. Why else would you keep that tool in the band if he couldn't drive the drummer and his kit around?
I disagree. The lead singer takes the girl.
OFFICIAL ORDER OF MUSICIANS ATTRACTIVENESS TO WOMEN
-producer
-lead singer
-lead guitar player
-rhythm guitar player
-misc
-roady
-drummer
-bass player
FilthyEgg can confirm, I’m a bass player and I’m definitely the ugliest in my band.
Bang those skins...i see what you did there
Nice!!! I like the longer VC and fan submitted video VC as well 👍
Thanks Glenn!
I'm so happy that you answered my question! I'm about to get a pair of cheap monitors, and your tips will be really helpful.
Keep doing what you do!
Regards,
Rick
Headphones are useful in the mix process, but for a very different role than monitors!
As you mentioned, monitors give the most accurate representation of the stereo field. On headphones you do lose the phantom imaging you get with speakers, and this usually results in headphone-only mixes having stereo imaging and phase issues that are concealed by cans...
However, headphones are extremely useful when listening for certain artifacts- clicks, pops, RF interferance and other low-level noises can often be concealed by the fact that air is a diffuser. When you have 4-10 feet between you and your speaker, a light pop or bad edit can easily be masked, especially when listening in a full mix, but people who listen on headphones will hear these problems because the driver is literally right next to your ear. This can be a lifesaver for a mix engineer, a producer finishing an edit, or a mastering engineer QC'ing a finished project right before sending it off for streaming/physical production.
I can confirm this because I hear popping in the Circle of Dust remasters.
Rick's question was so good!!
30 minute episode... Christmas came WAY early this year. Wishing you a successful year Glen. Keep on rockin'.
timerac3r He’s actually been doing a lot of longer episodes recently.
Thanks for the IRs, Glenn!! What a great present! Glad to have supported you in the past and I look forward to doing so again soon! Cannot WAIT for your "mixing on headphones" video since that's what I'm stuck with right now. Looking forward to your advice!
Hey Glenn, since you want to drink green tea, I imperatively recommend you to get a water boiler that has temperature control. I found tea just okay until I found out that if you boil the water to 70°C it tastes way way better and I don't need to sweeten it anymore. Good luck in LA and losing weight \m/
And thanks for the free IR!
You can't boil water to 70 degrees, as it only boils at 100 degrees ;) The word you're looking for is heat.
@@kennytheamazing Yes thank you, I am not a native speaker.
There's something quite charming about that stock footage behind the comments. Please keep them forever.
I'd also classify your content as audio edutainment. :D
My girlfriend loves my band, she is 100% supportive of my passion. I feel blessed 😂
Thou art a Holy and Blessed Spirit Animal... The GF is a Unicorn. KEEPHER!! {sez pro musician of many years}
@@216trixie Didn't fully follow that comment but sounded majestic af
Mine was too..... then I got hurt in a wreck and couldn't play for a WHILE.... guess how long she stuck around....
She's cheating on you.
@@DaveDisco probably with the guitar player from the band that he always opens for.
I use either Matt Halpern's drums samples that I got from a Nolly master class as well as Eyal Levi's drum forge samples. I do prefer using recorded drums, but sometimes if the situation calls for it these are the samples i go to.
Direct out on bass amps are useful for live sound reinforcement. Often times, we don’t mic up bass amps, (though we should,) and just use the direct out. If it’s a small venue, it’s usually fine.
Thanks, and FUG.
though we should??? who says?? do what sounds best to you!!
@@TheLeon1032I'm talking about those times where it would sound a whole lot better, and we take the easy route, even if we have the time. Thanks for the suggestion to do what sounds best. I'll have to remember that one. Facepalm.
Gonna miss you in Canada dude!
The force of the poon is stronger on some than others.
great vid have u ever played an ENGL head like an invader or a powerball cause i know u have one of there awesome cabs. keep up all the good work and cheers from England.
I started playing guitar to get laid. 12 years later I can confirm that that stereotype is a lie.
Thanks for the videos, I just really enjoy watching them with my morning coffee just like my mother enjoys the news every morning. Anyway, a great way to start the day. Appreciate all of your hard work.
I WAS IN THE VID!!! EYY
Meow.
@@psychochicken9535 peck peck
@@psychochicken9535 thanks but rn its growl.
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Hi Glenn. So I recently bought a starter bass kit. I am initially a guitarist and vocalist, but because of you, various youtubers, and some discussions with local guitar shops and musicians I realize that playing bass or drums has a higher demand professionally and has a better chance at finding gigs. My plan is to learn on this basic kit, then upgrade the amp, get a di interface, and finally get a better bass. Thanks Glenn. Hopefully I won't suck.
had a bass player in the early 2000's, great musician, great guy, but his girlfriend was nearly unbearable. We would be at our practice house and couldn't get anything done because all she wanted to do was drink and party. While i'll say back then i had no problem with doing it(right place-right time), practice does have to happen at some point. She would bring all her friends and we couldn't get anything done. this went on for weeks and eventually led to us having to cancel a show because we weren't ready. We would ask the bass player.."man you need to talk to her" didn't work, we said "she can't come to practice" didn't work. The straw that broke it, our drummer had just bought a brand new Gibson Guitar and had the case open showing us, she starts fighting with one of her friends that she had brought and spills beer on the guitar and all in the case. Me, the Singer, and the Drummer right there fired the bass player and told them to get out.
I applaud your guys restraint for only kicking them out. Hope the guitar was ok.
If you are serious about your music and making something of it you have to treat it like its your job, you dont have your girlfriend at your work all the time and you dont usually party at work either. Of course you dont have to be as strict as some workplaces are, but you must be able to concentrate on your music.
Sad. Hope the guitar is ok.
@@sansocie beer bottle put a small nick behind the tail piece but the case was thrown away. He had to buy another case.
Jerk offer to pay? Of course not. No blood to the head on his shoulders. Should have rented the girl out. Just a thought. Abet a sick one.
thanks for the IR! I can't wait to check it out tonight.
Hi, the drummer and singer/bassist of a band im in are dating, and are doing virtually nothing while me and my other friend are trying to get shit done, we have pretty much figured that since highschool relationships never last and when they break up, they will take the band with them. Should we start a new band before this happens? Cheers from down under!
Yes
Yes. Save yourself the trouble and get out now. I've been in a few bands where this has basically killed it because the pair in question split.
Oh they're doing things alright...lots of dirty dirty things.
You should've already been looking to replace them...
Thanks for the advice everyone! Im working on starting a new band
I dig the longer video!! Made my Friday better. I'm dealing with a 2 year old with growing and teething at the same time!
Ok, I’ll try to keep up the longer episodes!
Do what you can man. I'll always be your proud supporter!
Be careful switching to sugar substitutes, alot are proven to cause macular degeneration. Try stevia if you do. Tell that guy the eleven rack blows. A great amp and a two notes captor is way better than the 11. I use krank amps. Loving your IR's. I thought it would take me years of work and another $1000 bucks to get your delphos sound. Cheers!
Macro degeneration? You mean, like, the diet coke is to blame that my ... I mean, that our drummer's dick is tiny?
I'm not so sure theres any propper proof on sugar substitutes. As far as I can tell it was just click bait articles back in the day like acai berries during everything.
Too bad stevia has an awful soapy taste.
He didn't say he was switching to substitutes.
GLEEEEEEEEEEEEENNNNNNNNNNN!
I love how goddamn long this video is! rock on man!
As an answer regarding 2x12 cabinets alignment... I'll give as terse as possible ground explanation about the "beam, forming" and after that tell you how it relates to speaker cabinets. Yeah, I'm a nerd... well... aren't we engineers all? :D
[*Very terse Introduction*]:
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There's a phenomenon called "beam forming" where higher the frequency emitted by a source (speaker), more directional it is ([sound]waves don't spread around in all directions, they form a beam that's emanating from the speakers center outwards).
Sub-woofers as an example are in all intents and purposes a "point source", meaning they emit their low frequency sound waves pretty much all around with equal amplitude, there's no preferred direction. Unlike mid and high frequencies emitted by speakers/monitors that can be directed towards the listener easier since they tend to be directional anyway.
But it's quite common to use multiple woofers as an *array* to direct even these very low frequency waves in some wanted direction. These arrays are two or more point sources (woofers) arranged in particular ways, with some phase and time align processing to get wanted pattern. We use these in live sets to direct even the low frequency sounds towards the listeners instead to the stage and waste energy.
[*How this relates to guitar cabinets*]:
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This beam forming phenomena happens even more strongly when there's two or more speakers blasting the same material next to each other in an "array". The sound waves interact with each other in such a way that they don't spread out as much higher the frequency they try to push.
Sound spreads less on that axis where the speakers are arranged next to each other and the center of the beam is in the middle between the speakers. Meaning that if you have two speakers in vertical alignment, the beam is tighter in vertical direction and if they're in horizontal arrangement, the beam gets more narrow in horizontal plane.
If you use 4x12 cabinet the beam is tighter over all and when you play higher, the beam gets even more narrow than with one speaker it would. This effect is why nobody in your practice space ever hears your great guitar solos: they would have to sit right in line with the speaker cabinet to hear the higher notes.
[*What I'd recommend?*]:
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I'd recommend to use single speaker cabinet if you want everyone in your practice space to hear well what you play in the room and if you have 2x12 cabinet, use vertical arrangement so less sound goes to the floor and ceiling but it still spreads around better on horizontal axis.
If you mic the speaker, the microphone is usually so close to the individual speaker that this beam forming effect isn't causing much of an effect. If you take it further away, it's very noticeable!
If you've ever wondered why the location of the microphone on the speaker causes so much of a difference in tone, it's because even a single speaker interacts as an array since the cone surface is like an array of little speakers all trying to make the same sound and all these waves are interacting with all others and causing very different response around the speaker cone.
30 min episode. Nice way to roll out a week of work. Keep it up man. Like the video Q&A. Shows you actually give a fuck about your viewers and visa versa.
Did TJ get a girlfriend?
Probably the drummer mentioned in that clip lol. "its me or the drums TJ"
@@sparkplug1018 ha ha !
definitely not me. Give me an ultimatum and I'll gladly show you the door, drums or not.
+TJ_The_Drummer What’s up man, how ya been?
@@sparkplug1018 I'm doing ok. Just working the shit job full time now.
I built a 2x12 cabinet with an open back. An Eminence Swamp Thang and an Eminence Cannabis Rex. I have used it both horizontal and vertical. I can't tell any tonal quality difference in either position. The choice of speakers was more to do with the fact I like to play the Blues and have a Fender Blues JR 3 than anything else. Cheers and Happy new year (det bedste Nytår) to you Glen and all of your subs.
What happened with Arch Enemy got hugely distorted by that vindictive, sleazebag lawyer. What actually happened was that Alissa shared the dude's photo on instagram and then Marta Gabriel re-shared the photo that Alissa shared and mentioned that Alissa was wearing stuff she custom made for her. Nothing was advertised, as this guy claims, since the clothes were custom made for Alissa and were not for sale. The guy saw that Marta shared the photo from her business profile and sent her a cease and desist email claiming that she used the photo for commercial purposes and demanded that she pays 100 euros to some charity so she didn't have to pay him 500 euros, which is basically extortion. She thought the email was some sort of scam and she forwarded it to Alissa. Btw, apart from designing her stage clothes, she is personal friend to Alissa and "the big clothing company" is just her sewing custom made shit for a few of her customers and selling some trinkets on etsy. She is basically a glorified seamstress. So after she forwarded the email to Alissa, Alissa contacted Angela and Angela contacted the guy and asked him why he is harassing people for sharing photos on instagram and told him she didn't understand why he would do that since in her experience photographers usually enjoy when others share their photos on instagram, which he misrepresented to make it look like she said that photographers should be happy to have their work exploited for free in exchange for exposure, which she didn't. The idiot didn't realize that he was talking to Arch Enemy's manager and ex singer, not to Marta, so he continued to be all lawyery and uptight so Angela concluded that he's an asshole and told Marta and Alissa to take down the photos they shared and she told him that he isn't welcome to shoot their shows anymore because he was frankly being an asshole towards them and accused them of theft. He then misrepresented this gesture as a form of censorship and silencing by a big band and made up some sort of "chilling effect" story to make it look that the band were the bad guys for not wanting an asshole who threatened their friend to get a free pass to their photo pit. He waited almost half a year to attack them and then since his side of the story got picked up by every major metal and rock website, a bunch of knee-jerk trolls decided that it would be a good idea to dog-pile Arch Enemy's social media profiles, and harass the shit out of them. To make shit even worse, they harassed the fuck out of Marta even more. She received a ton of online harassment and some douchebags even went after her etsy store and left a bunch of bad reviews so whe had to close the store down. The shit-show went so far that her customers pulled their orders and she had to close her business altogether. All over a stupid instagram share. Yeah, so fuck that guy and fuck his stupid photo.
"Nothing was advertised"
That statement is contradicted by what you said immediately preceding it.
@@flacidhouse350 There were no links to any websites or webstores. She only mentioned she made shit for Alissa because she was proud. That shit was not for sale btw.
@@Grindermetalhead Oh there were no links. I didn't have that piece of Irrelevant information. That totally changes nothing. Thanks for telling me.
@@flacidhouse350 Dude, even if the guy's claim of copyright infringement was completely legitimate, don't you think that ruining someone's business over something so fucking trivial as a stupid instagram share is a bit of an overkill?
Also the lineout on your amp is especially handy for in ear setups. Especially if you have a way to slap an ir on it.
How the hell do all these guys mix on headphones?
Heavy refrencing and 2nd oppinions. At least for me.
Would love to hear one of your mixes!
I have hearing damage and so does Glenn . I can't speak for him but with dimished hearing on one side I can't place the center with headphones. It's like a flat plane .
I mix with speakers first, then put on headphones, then in-ear phones, then listen to it in my car, then speakers again, when it sounds alright in all of them I'm done xD
i hear you man, id love to hear some mixes people are doing on headphones, fucking weird!!
Okay, that Eleven Rack question was EXACTLY what I've been thinking about for the past month and a half!!
Lol hey man glad I could help to bring this thought to light! 😊
NEW YEAR HAPPY EVERYONE! 😋
happy new years.
Nice to see the viewers!!
It just dawned on me... "I do it worse".
Step one
@@gilbertspader7974 Glen should make me a one time custom T-shirt: "Confessions of a bass player - I do it worse"!
And you can believe I'm a p-a-i-n to work with....there ain't a musician within a 100 miles radius that I can work with. ;-)
For bass I run a DI clean channel and EQ out most of the highs (2khz-4khz) and then a secondary track running the bass through an amp or amp sim with some gain and an IR, EQ out the lows, and the highs, leaving just the mids. Mix both tracks to taste, always sounds good. You get the direct sound from the bass for the solid lows, and the resonance and character of the cab from the grit. You can always throw a cab on the DI too for texture.
Just goes to show there are some very obliging ladies in this world, willing to take one for the team in an effort to solve the world homeless problem
That's the old joke . What do. you call a drummer who breaks up with his girl friend homeless.
Gilbert Spader I am an old drummer what else would you expect me to say ?
Its all good brother . I pick on drummers like Glenn picks on bass players but it's all in love !!!!
Hey Glenn, I finally picked up the Pro VLA Mark II. I am digging it big time. I enjoyed the gear video that you did on this. Please keep doing these vids. A good source of info.
You went Hollywood..... AGAIN. Break a leg over there, Glenn!
To the ElevenRack question. I own one, and it's very clunky and will NOT serve you for live purposes. I've recorded with it for years, the tones are nice and it's compatible with ProTools, althought it's not very well supported.
Really? I've been thinking about getting it exactly for live purposes, damn...
Our sound guy used to put a mike on the top left speaker of my 4X12 cab, one day (night) I asked him why - there other speakers in there of course! He said: "Well, that one just sounds the best!" So there you have it! Sound guy tested & approved!!
Sounds like the drummer lost track of time. ;)
dude
Sending love from Detroit Glen! Just found the channel and I can't stop. Thanks for the amazing content.
Hi Glenn
Is there any genre of music that you hate to record and listen to or just refuse to record overall
I place my bet on Simon & Garfunkel kind of genre... Lol
No. I’ll work with anybody once.
@@Kevin-vq6rv Dude, folk is easy money. No producer worried about bills is turning that down.
Dude, every money is easy money.
@@Kevin-vq6rv Try producing a 6 piece prog band.
this is really cool. I forgot we would have some people record their questions and send them to you :D
I dropped sugar and lost 40 pounds. Goodluck
Dude, not music related, but while watching these older vids, OMG! Glenn, is that just from stopping sugar? You look great now!
i didnt like arch enemy. after hearing that thing with the photographer, I hate them. that was so bad. in my opinion they are overrated and are only as succesfull as they are, because they have a female front"woman" ( just to not piss of the feminists)
T Drum so true, plus the vocals are so monotonous and boring to me. They don’t do much of anything interesting.
@Nero Nocturnal yes the instruments are not to bad but to me the vocals are monotone and live she sounds like varg with throat cancer
Alissa has a great voice, but AE aren't exploiting it at all.
Jeff Loomis is literally sailing a sinking ship by playing for AE. Man needs to go solo again
They have PowerPUFF (pussy front force) XD
One of the better ones, really enjoyed this Glenn Cheers!
Was funeral fun? 🙄🙄
U said the funeral was fun.. 😅😅
^bass player above, beware.
@@blacksaltscotland Nah I just see one here.
What's wrong of funeral being fun? I've been on funeral that was pretty fun, at least it was for me and for couple of my cousins when we couldn't hold back our laughs couple times during the event :D
The best episode so far. I wish you the best Glenn in the L.A. Greeting from the Polish swamp
Drummer with a girlfriend, before hitting it big? Yeah right.
@MorbidManMusic Until the alarm clock went off...
Well, he finally found someone that doesn't complain that he keeps getting faster and faster the longer it takes.
@@0x777 Let's just hope he doesn't play in a grindcore band.
@@0x777 best joke of the day going remember that one !
I once recorded the direct out of a Randall amp, blended that shitty tone in with the mic tone just for laughs. Gave it a hell of an edge, but a little bit goes a long, long way.
I'm liking this video question thing. good thinking Glenn!
Great video Glenn! Thanks for the IR gift as well!
Hey being in Hollywood, NAMM won’t be such a journey now. 😉
Also the ddrum triggers have no longevity ever with my experience, but the Roland’s are definitely the way to go. They even respond with more percussions hands down. The snare and tom versions have a great dual trigger for rimshots.
New studio looking awesome Glenn. Hope to see a tour once you got your setup finalized! Also any word on the Succs contest? Cheers :)
Wow this one episode is pretty long. Do more episodes like this. It is really worth the time
Hey Glenn,
Thanks for keeping up with the show for so long, and congrats on the move to LA!
I have a question that's been bugging me for years, and hopefully you can answer. Why do headphones come with a 3.5mm jack, but most audio equipment has a 1/4" jack for headphones, raising the need for an adapter? Why haven't they cut out the middle man and started making headphones with 1/4" jacks already installed or vice versa?
Cheers from Australia!
The only thing I can see being different with vertical 2x12s is that the sound dispersion is closer to ear level, which as you say can be achieved by flipping the cab upright, though some Vertical 2x12s are slant cabs as well
Hey Glenn, I had the same experience with the DDrum Pro Triggers, they worked great for a while then the piezo's break and need resoldered/replaced!
The DDrum Chrome triggers are MUCH better, the piezo is protected by some dense foam/rubber so they don't break. Had mine for a few years and they haven't failed me yet.
The Rolands are reliable but quite expensive, and the kick trigger I had didn't seem to give as clean/sharp a transient as the DDrum ones, so it was a bit harder to work with.
The Mooer GE200 is a great alternative for the Eleven Rack (except you insist on a rack mounted unit). It's small, sounds great and you can also load your own IRs. It's also quite affordable (~300 $). Me and the other guitarist in my band use it with Lancaster IRs and it sounds amazing.
After taking Warren and Glenn's advice and recording and mixing with my monitors over the past year, I've had better results than I did when I was doing it through headphones.
This happened to my band in 2014. We had our debut show coming up, we had practiced a ton. 2 weeks before the show the drummer disappears and we dont see him again until 6 months later he shows up randomly with this dope sl-t wanting to jam so he can prove he's a drummer. Oddly enough, his name was Glen
I made some triggers from piezo discs but I also use an electric kit on my own stuff, for writing at least, because I'm not a drummer. Whether it gets real drums on it is a matter of where it goes. I record other bands and use the make shift triggers as gates and for emergency situations.
I use both headphones and PC speakers, i also try and use other people's speakers too to get an idea of how its going to sound universally. The headphones are rarely used, and they do have 7.1 surround sound.
+1 to sonarworks headphone. i love that plugin! Also, re: crappy pc speakers, a great thing to listen for is kick/bass/vocal relationship (a lot of times, your kick or bass will just vanish). if everything seems to line up between those two, you should be in pretty decent shape.
Also, keep those crappy speakers even after you get decent monitors, etc...it's always worth checking your mixes on 'em.
A few friends had the ADA MP1 with the high gain mod. Plugged into a good power amp and a Mesa Cab sounded killer.
I used to mix on headphones when I lived at home but when I got my current room, I upgraded to monitors. A lot of people use headphones as they live with their parents or roommates and can't make the noise due to complaints. If you do get headphones, get open back headphones with the flattest response in your afford. If you can use monitors, use them instead and they sound great for listening to music as well.
I'm currently using Roland RT-30 triggers with Tm-2 drum module. I've also tried to use them with Alesis SampleRack but that module didn't work that great with the triggers and it was much more complicated to change the velocity etc. compared to the Roland module.
I'm using the triggers mainly for the live gigs because I have two kick drums but I've been using them for recording demos or rehearsal tapes. When doing more serious stuff I mostly use a double pedal with one mic'd kick drum. I have a trigger for snare drum also but didn't found it that effective for recording nor live use.
Hi glenn I am confuse and have been wondering about recording direct DI guitars and using an amp sim and an IR cab. If I track my rhythm guitar should I already put an amp sim and IR into the individual guitar tracks left and right and run them into a stereo bus or should I leave the left and right tracks clean run then to a bus and put the amp sim and IR cab in the bus?
Glen, for mixing, try good open back headphones. I for some time couldn't understand why I had a problem with balancing mix unit I got Sennheiser HD-600. With closed back headphones happens the same as with closed back guitar cabinet (air compression).
Thank you for the IRs. I already bought the ENGL and Mesa Cab before.
About the cable management... you should check out the cable wrangler!
Just got a Harley Benton 2x12 for christmas. And im super impressed by the great sound for the price!
When I had crap monitors I would mix on AKG 240. cans and see how it would translate on the speakers of course checking and adjusting, etc. When I got some decent monitors I found some surprises in my old mixes and started with the room and getting surgical with the cans. So yeah air first then phones for me.
I still have a Scholz Distortion Generator and Delay unit mounted together in a rack around somewhere, but they don't work anymore. I equate those sounds to the later Boston records, which in my opinion sounded cold and sterile. The 1st Boston record was fantastic, but Tom Scholz didn't quite capture it with the Rockman gear. I also have a Yamaha GEP-50, which supposedly Page Hamilton (Helmet!) used as his main preamp.
ReaGate has a midigate functionality that lets you trigger in software by sending a midi note to a specific track, which is helpful if you're using a sampler or soundfont loader plugin, or VSTi, but unless you want to or already have to bring a laptop or windows/linux tablet to every gig, it's kinda useless live, though it's likely more than fine in studio.
Picked up some more IRS from Lancaster. Great stuff
I have a horizontal 2x12 flipped on its side to be vertical and I can't imagine it sounding that much different on its feet. I flipped it to conserve floor space and fit into the corner of my room and if anything, it's more convenient because I don't have to bend down to adjust the controls on my amp.
Had the same rack. Used it on bass and keyboards. Not bad for the day.
Glenn!! Third question in I think you saved my Marshall G100R CD(I know but I love it) head. I line out from that head to an old Traynor PM-300 pa with Twin 15/12/19x9 horn. If I just want the neighborhood rattling of the 15's I'll unplug the 4x12 Marshall cab and start cranking. Had no idea I was hurting it! :o
Glad you mentioned that before I killed it! Will be buying at least a shirt when I recover from the holiday spree.
Just to respond to the bassist about getting a load box, I've been using an ART valve pre-amp going in to my interface for recording bass, with out an amp, the one with the optical compressor built in, and it is killer. I would check that out before going the load box route.
Wow noticed about half way through this video that you’re wearing a robotech shirt, mad props bro
Hey Glenn thanks for the IR and wanted to tell you that you got to try the Cream back speakers just recently got a Friedman Pink Taco head and cab and the cab is a 1X12 Cream back and it sounds great. I have several Mesa cabs with V30's and I think the Cream back is a better sounding speaker.
digging the home studio, acoustic treatment stuff
26:15 that red cable. smooth Glenn lol
Exact same thing happened to me, now we're scrambling looking for a drummer, ours decided to get married while we we're writing songs and getting prepared to go out and start playing local shows. Haven't seen him in a couple years now.
It might not sound very rock and roll, but the best decision I ever made was getting a drum machine. For years I resisted, thinking it was just too "fake". Finally, due in part to my interest in Big Black and Ultravox, I relented and got a drum machine.
At first I only used it for rehearsals, but eventually I got into the creative side of it and realized that it was actually a pretty inspiring instrument. It's unbeatable for practice and rehearsal, and for experimenting with compositions. Now we have a drummer and he was able to learn all the old arrangements in a matter of hours thanks to the drum machine. We can practice parts on our own using the actual arrangement with the correct number of bars, which is way better for learning all the cues and pauses.
I learnt that ultimately you make the music that is in your head, and instruments are just tools. I know that might sound obvious, but if you're really inspired by a rock genre that relies heavily on a "raw", or "live" sound, you might be concerned that a drum machine could lead you away from that creatively. It doesn't. I still record to tape and my main dirt tone comes from a treble booster. I'm still the same pretentious cork sniffer I always was. Because those are the sounds in my head. Although I do now listen to Hall and Oates occasionally... and Madonna... and Phil Collins... You know what, forget everything I said.
Ive got the Eleven Rack and I found that if you use the stand alone editor for your computer makes it alot more user friendly then the knob turning nightmare you talk about. You can get a rack off ebay pretty cheap now but it wont have pro tools with it but the editor will still work without pro tools.
The black shadow speakers in my Mesa Lonestar 2x12 are pretty kickass!
thanks for the late Christmas present glen, happy 2019 :)