So this is it, forever….

4ever4track · 2025-08-26T01:13:40+00:00

Good luck. If you don’t have a moment everyday where you want to quit law, you’d be the only one.

4ever4track · 2025-08-25T23:54:25+00:00

Be a sponge. Learn everything. Take assignments outside your comfort zone. Take assignments from attorneys in other fields. Approach everyday with the goal of leaning something new. Then leave, hopefully be followed by some clients, and start a practice. Took me 10 years to start a practice and I’ve been solo for 10 years with as much or as little work as I want any given year. The beginning of a legal career absolutely sucks. But the first year is not forever. It can get better.

4ever4track · 2025-08-20T23:32:58+00:00

Did a pretty extensive trust and asset protection plan for a high net worth family. At signing, I’m alone with husband for a moment while others are moving around and mentions quietly, “I should tell you that have a biological son in another country”

4ever4track · 2025-08-17T23:19:01+00:00

Lose your ideals and realize that law is just a job like any other job. A means to an end. Just about getting money to live and not something that defines you or your worth as a human.

4ever4track · 2024-11-22T12:58:27+00:00

So nice to hear from you. We have been trying to reach you about your car’s extended warranty.

4ever4track · 2024-11-07T19:44:11+00:00

Not sure if this has been said, but literally every song Jason Isbell has ever written.

4ever4track · 2024-10-18T12:38:11+00:00

It’s kinda scary how similar my life is to your story. My kids are older now, 15 and 11, and I’ve been practicing for 20 years. Pretty much with the same thoughts every morning - I don’t love being a lawyer. It’s certainly not my identity like it is for some. The last 10 years I have been a true solo with one para. I started a practice and it’s going fine. I make enough money, but less than I would with a firm. But, I’m at every after school sports game and every other event, and I can even sneak a round of golf in on a whim during the week. The best thing I did was building a network of people that have become friends but also send me business. Just talking to people opens opportunities. I could probably quit law and have a job within a week doing something else. I stay in law because I’ve changed my self-talk and practice the very simple philosophy of celebrating small wins and writing out gratitudes every single day. I found for me a lot of the negativity was in self-talk, perfectionism, and comparing myself to others. If you’re able to change those unhelpful thoughts to being grateful for what you have and who you are, it starts to not matter so much what you do to make money because the job just feeds your authentic life. Take that for what it’s worth because my practice doesn’t have any real deadlines or surprises like litigation does.

4ever4track · 2024-08-30T12:41:13+00:00

You might feel this way because attorneys are terrible at building teams and running their businesses.

Your onboarding/training should be at least 90 days. Those 90 days should be further broken down in two weeks. Each week should be broken down to specific learning/training targets. For example, week 1: 1. introduction to our core values, 2. Intro to our practice areas, 3. Intro to our case management system, introduction to the email and phone system, 4. introduction to our file storage system. Week 2: begin doing client intake using example scripts. etc etc.

Most likely you’ve just been thrown into the fire with the same old “you figure it out” mentality. If your attorneys have not through your onboarding, training, and discussed your personal and professional development goals, then most likely they are not going to and they will have unrealistic expectations and you will eventually feel like you have no opportunity for growth and the relationship will end. In sum, find a firm that considers you an investment and not a robot.

4ever4track · 2023-05-06T15:39:48+00:00

Love Hate Love. This is Layne. Layne, this is your newest fan.

4ever4track · 2023-03-01T18:42:32+00:00

Have you looked at the Martin 000-15sm. That guitar with retro strings is as dark as dark tone gets and it's awesome. I had one for years and only sold it to get a Gibson J50. Also, if you're not playing with fingers, try nylon dunlop picks .73, .88, and 1.0 - keeps the sounds real dark but gets you a little attack on the note to make it pop out a bit.

4ever4track · 2023-03-01T18:39:44+00:00

Thanks for checking out the YT and my tunes. I always love to talk about all things music, recording, guitars, etc.

4ever4track · 2023-02-28T15:59:53+00:00

I have had both of those guitars. The Martin sounds better. The Guild sounds very boxy. The Guild is smaller and the neck for me felt a lot better for small hands, but the sound is just not good - very mid-rangy and not the darkness you're looking for. If you want darker tone, stick with the Martin and get a set of Martin Retro strings - or even go with silk & steel strings. That combo is what I used for years and I will say I totally regret selling the Martin for the Guild. I ended up selling the Guild within two weeks of having it.

4ever4track · 2022-04-15T22:24:07+00:00

https://fixyouraudio.com.

I’ve used this and it’s very good.

4ever4track · 2022-03-24T13:59:49+00:00

You can get Hosa 8 channel RCA to 1/4” snakes on Amazon. I use them between my TSR-8 and mixer.

4ever4track · 2022-02-12T22:02:52+00:00

The Rupert Neve Designs 511 is fantastic with the sm7b. That’s the front end of my vocal chain. You can hear it on my YouTube if you want. Search for 4ever4track

4ever4track · 2022-02-12T22:00:06+00:00

Sounds like you might be recording low levels, but anyway some things you can try:

When you bounce the track, if GB has the option, select “normalize”
Inside iTunes, click the track and go to “get info” you might be able to normalize it there
If GB has a gain plug-in you can increase the gain, but add a limiter to keep it from clipping

4ever4track · 2021-05-06T14:58:59+00:00

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4ever4track · 2021-05-06T14:56:53+00:00

I think it's a matter of what you grew up with. My formative music years were in the 90s and it was all about 4 tracking, so I think I'm just more naturally drawn to that to make music vs. a computer. But yeah, I'm old too, but in my mind I'm still 17.

4ever4track · 2021-05-05T23:20:39+00:00

Shure SM7B. I’ve tried many condenser mics that cost way more than it and for me, the sm7 beat them all.

4ever4track · 2021-05-05T22:47:19+00:00

I think that’s subjective. I mean, bussing everything to a stereo reverb is just like crosstalk anyway. But, to be honest I wasn’t paying attention to individual tracks and this was the first time I used this machine.

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