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[Hypnophone]

Awesome friend, what type kit's you have? I have Tama granstar double bass kit in gun metallic grey and and Roland E kit. Oh that's very cool, would enjoy checkin out your shows. My band LBB peformed Allman brothers song Gambler's roll, majority our music was original. Sold a few CD's, but not enough to make a living, Rofl !!!

Been a die hard Kansas fan since Leftoverture. Phil is a very underrated fantastic drummer. Only time, I ever got a chance to see em perform in Dallas, I had to work. I never performed with a tribute band, but many fabulous one's out there.

Forgot to mention, Danny Carey of Tool, best groove drummer I've ever listened to.

Rock & roll

Hey Arriss,

That sounds like a baddazz kit!
Danny is a monster.
Phil never got the appropriate credit for what he did. You ever try to learn the pinnacle?
OK, you asked for it.
The electronics are ancient Roland Pad-80's (2) a PD-11, a couple of other single pads, a Roland R8, R8-M, S-330, S-760, MKS-100, MKS-50,
EMU Proteus-1. That's about it for the fake shiite.

Acoustics are 1977 Pearl 9-ply/fiberglass 5 toms and a 24" Bass. 199x Pearl MLX 7 toms and 2 22" Basses.
Pearl 6.5" Brass free-floating snare, 1975 Ludwig Acrolite, and pieces of various other stuff.
Cymbals are all Zildjian. Too many to list here, I'm guessin' about 20, they include 2 26" rides, a 24" swish(china w/rivets). Yeah, they sound effin' great.

Keyboards: Hammond B-3 (1962), Rhodes 73 Suitcase (1974), Roland D-50, and other stuff
with blinky lights that make noise....
Here ya go:

 

[Hypnophone]

RIP Chris

 

[Hypnophone]

Live:

 

[DaveP]

Watching Lee Greenwood performing on the stage outside the Fox News studios. It's amazing how one really popular song can turn into a lifetime of personal appearances.

 

[Pipeous]

I played this weekend. Check out the lady walking by in the first few seconds. When I sang good looking mama, she looked at me then gave this big smile. It was like I sang that part just for her haha. Loving that new Taylor acoustic guitar

 

[JonJ78]

Hello all. I've played drums for about 25 years, though I don't currently own a kit. Haved played in a few bands over the years, some covers and others doing mostly originals. Have owned a few different kits, mostly Tama and Ludwig. I love Sabian cymbals and pro mark sticks (Jason Bonham dignature) are my favorite.

 

[GemInEye]

Hey everyone..i play piano, organ and keyboard. Started playing the organ when i was 9 years old then fell in love with the piano. Its a hobby, i started out playing classical and still pretty much play classical but occasionally i do play other things. I have owned a grand upright piano, walzer organ with all the pedals and stops, and now i have a baby grand along with having a keyboard. My baby is crying for a tuning with the change of weather so i havent played her much.

 

[Pipeous]

Another song I learned for a request. Playing a coffee house. I played the market saturday from 10-2pm then 7-9pm at this coffee house. they gave my girlfriend and I dinner, coffee, she had a glass of wine and I had 2 beer. I played for just tips. I actually did well and they want me back and will do a much better job of promoting it. the owner is also a stand up comedian. great people. He just bought the coffee house 3 months ago




Here is another new addition to the repetoire. also a good panorama of the market

 

[DaveP]

Played for about 300 people during the River of Life week closeout at our church. We got the whole stage this time instead of a corner on one side. There were effects lighting racks involved and a painted backdrop. All the windows were blacked out and we had a large, dark room for a concert type atmosphere. River of Life is a program where people come in from all over the state for a week to do home repairs, build handicapped ramps, replace roofs, paint houses, and do generalized home fix up projects for people who are disabled or can't afford to do it for themselves. It's done in conjunction with a city/county project where the homes are chosen according to need and many churches are involved.

I'll try to post a picture and sound track from my wife's phone as I get a chance to do that.

 

[KattMamma]

Evolution reveals new vape Guitar !! at NAMM ...

 

[Pipeous]

Sounds like quite the show Dave. Can't wait to see the media.

I dunno about a vape guitar LOL

 

[KattMamma]

I haven't even shown the vape guitar to hubby yet - he'll probably just laugh at it but I thought it was cool. So many guitarists smoke, so when they quit smoking and start vaping, how are they gonna vape? Can't put a box mod under the strings or dangle it from your mouth...

I can see improvements are needed (the hole he's vaping from? should be a tube or something?), but ya gotta start somewhere lol

 

[DaveP]

I haven't even shown the vape guitar to hubby yet - he'll probably just laugh at it but I thought it was cool. So many guitarists smoke, so when they quit smoking and start vaping, how are they gonna vape? Can't put a box mod under the strings or dangle it from your mouth...

I can see improvements are needed (the hole he's vaping from? should be a tube or something?), but ya gotta start somewhere lol

I keep my iStick 50W in my jeans pocket when I'm playing and just pull it out here and there between tunes for a tootle puff.

When I was playing in a working weekend band (from the mid 60's up until about 1985), smoking was allowed everywhere. I always had an ash tray on my amp (4x12 cab with a 200 watt head). Most of the time I and one or two other members were the only smokers. In the crowds we played for smokers were 60%-70% or more.

I was never a full time player. The musicians I worked with all had day jobs. We were weekend warriors, but we were working every Friday and Saturday night somewhere.

 

[DaveP]

Here's a picture of our Praise Band at the River of Life service last Sunday. I thought my wife did a video, but she was pretty busy that morning with background work for the service.

Oh Well! I'm the guy on the right playing the Les Paul. The Roland electronic drums look like toys, but they sound like a million dollars. We are using small amps miked through a fairly large ceiling mounted concert type PA system. I'm wireless to the Roland Cube 60 behind me and it's miked through a Shure SM58 on a gooseneck in front of it. Four of us have Shure in ear monitors and the others are using floor monitors to hear the mix.

 

[jmur]

Probably been covered here before, but since there's now 99 pages I guess I'll ask anyway. Any folk here do mostly (or exclusively) home recording? I've played in bands back in 60's (nothing big, just the typical) and 70's, some 80's. Since then, mostly on my own, acoustic. Couple small bar gigs, that sort of thing. But now I've just been doing home recording and wondered if anyone else was doing the same. I'm a dinosaur now, nobody would want to see me on a stage, but the home recording keeps me happy and sane, and playing.

 

[DaveP]

Probably been covered here before, but since there's now 99 pages I guess I'll ask anyway. Any folk here do mostly (or exclusively) home recording? I've played in bands back in 60's (nothing big, just the typical) and 70's, some 80's. Since then, mostly on my own, acoustic. Couple small bar gigs, that sort of thing. But now I've just been doing home recording and wondered if anyone else was doing the same. I'm a dinosaur now, nobody would want to see me on a stage, but the home recording keeps me happy and sane, and playing.

I've played with home recording over the years, but got tired of doing it all myself. No one seems to have the time or the desire to spend an afternoon creating a demo CD. The guys who used to record with me have all moved away, had kids, and put their musical careers on hold. I still have a Korg D3200 digital 32-track studio recorder that's MIDI capable and has a built-in CD burner. My wife wanted to learn piano and took lessons. We bought a Kurzweil electric piano that has really great voicing and it's indistinguishable from the real thing on a recording. I hook MIDI to it and create tracks to the Korg. It's a spinet type cabinet that's a nice piece of furniture and has a piano style velocity sensitive keyboard with weighted keys. I still have my old 4 track Tascam tape deck. I sold my Tascam 8 track recorder when I bought the Korg. I kind of lost interest in doing it alone.

Nowadays, it's all done with a single sequencer software package and saved to a hard drive. Inputs are USB and MIDI devices. Major tracks can be created for a lot less money spent for hardware than in the previous decade.

 

[KattMamma]

Hubby does the recording here so I don't know much about it... but I do know that ProTools recently added a FREE version to their lineup - has limitations compared to paid version (like it's limited to 16 tracks) but it's a fully functional version that may be all you need. See here : Pro Tools | First

 

[DaveP]

Hubby does the recording here so I don't know much about it... but I do know that ProTools recently added a FREE version to their lineup - has limitations compared to paid version (like it's limited to 16 tracks) but it's a fully functional version that may be all you need. See here : Pro Tools | First

16 tracks is more than enough for the home musician. If you want to do things that involve recording multiple takes to a lot of tracks for future mixdown flexibility, then 256 tracks is nice to have. In a real commercial digital studio each take of a vocal or instrumental gets a new track. At mixdown, it's then possible to listen to combinations and decide which go on the master CD.

The Beatles White album was all 4 and 8 track mastered.
Track Listing on the White Album | The White Album Project

 

[KattMamma]

16 tracks is more than enough for the home musician.

Exactly!

And if you need more, you could always mix some of the tracks down to 1 track to free more tracks up... gee, how many times can I put "track" in one sentence? lol

Free is always good!

 

[DaveP]

Exactly!

And if you need more, you could always mix some of the tracks down to 1 track to free more tracks up... gee, how many times can I put "track" in one sentence? lol

Free is always good!

When all I had was a 4 track Tascam recorder I'd mix down sometimes to free a track, but it was always done on a backup tape in case something went screwy. I sold the 8 track when I bought the Korg. I really haven't explored the capabilities of the Korg, but the manual says it can record up to 16 tracks simultaneously and play back up to 32. I can't see needing that many. It also says that using the eight virtual tracks provided for each track, you can record a total of up to 272 tracks. I read that as being able to do eight takes on each track and pick the ones you want on mixdown.

I need to get back into recording and develop some skills on that machine. I've only scratched the surface.