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Ah, Hell...
If you play, you'll dig this:
***I was there in 1978, Fort Worth Convention Center. They were the opening act for Jethro Tull.***
If you play, you'll dig this:
***I was there in 1978, Fort Worth Convention Center. They were the opening act for Jethro Tull.***
Wild player with a gifted ear and love of swing... As a kid, my music teacher couldn't say anything but he's a gifted student... Well, not that gifted because I was just playing by ear all the Europeans classic tunes with my broken wood recorder... no money to buy a new one in these times but the sound of this old wood made recorder was so smooth... I have tears pupping out just remembering that sound. I tried classic guitar for a short while, playing a few European classics, playing Darbuka from my North African heritage, saxophone became my main instrument rolling around the world with whoever is ready to swing the groove. Yesterday, I was at the park where they have some sealed drums at the play park. I started hitting them, and I had about 10 little kids staring at me, feeling a bit embarrassed, or intimidated I just stepped out and here they were hitting the lonely drums... When I was playing a vintage Selmer alto sax at home, my 1 years old son at that time was just crawling to and staring at me, smiling and falling asleep in a pure expression of joy and peace. We now have professional musicians in the family, my nephews. They are violinist, pianist, sax players, dancers and artists... I still have an old wood made recorder that I play in 2.5 octaves, with swing, minor oriental bluesy tunes... Just got an alto sax for my now 8 yo son... What a joy.
Hypnophone, that was a wall of good video! I'll have to come back and watch and listen when I have more time to do that.
I have had problems with my voicelive touch vocal harmonizer ever since I did a beta firmware testing for tc helicon. I lost usb connectivity so no updates anymore and the signal coming out was ultra hot. I had to use a high impedance mic cable instead of xlr. That was part of the problem with the live gig video. I gave the soundman a list of things to do... #1 was mute the channel until I get plugged in, #2 was to turn the gain way way down before we do sound check... the front sound man muted but he didn't tell the girl side stage running monitors. I plugged in and the dreaded pop pop came through the speakers and killed monitors... so I was singing without monitors.
I just got the voicelive touch 2 and playing with it today for the first time. It has way more options for assigning the pedal buttons and can even use a 6 button controller (ordered yesterday). You can control not only harmony on and off, but move through patches, click delay on and off, turn guitar fx on and off... so many cool options.
they also fixed the looper. I hated the looper in the original. it didn't quantize. so you had to end the loop by stepping on the button at exactly the right moment. that is a lot harder than you'd think.
now the last update for today. I took the roland midi pickup off my squire strat (I have an actual strat that is midi anyway) and put it onto the taylor acoustic. it should add some nice strings or vocal choirs to the solo gigs. I play my first gig next saturday this year and I want to expand the sound. The vocal harmonizer has a cool patch for another brick in the wall intro. I am going to use that for you can't always get what you want intro (kids voice is a kids voice) with the vocal choir on the midi guitar... I saw a cool fx in the demo video of the harmonizer doing lead solos so am going to try and make a patch to have my voice sound like french horn hehe
I just got the voicelive touch 2 and playing with it today for the first time. It has way more options for assigning the pedal buttons and can even use a 6 button controller (ordered yesterday). You can control not only harmony on and off, but move through patches, click delay on and off, turn guitar fx on and off... so many cool options.
they also fixed the looper. I hated the looper in the original. it didn't quantize. so you had to end the loop by stepping on the button at exactly the right moment. that is a lot harder than you'd think.
now the last update for today. I took the roland midi pickup off my squire strat (I have an actual strat that is midi anyway) and put it onto the taylor acoustic. it should add some nice strings or vocal choirs to the solo gigs. I play my first gig next saturday this year and I want to expand the sound. The vocal harmonizer has a cool patch for another brick in the wall intro. I am going to use that for you can't always get what you want intro (kids voice is a kids voice) with the vocal choir on the midi guitar... I saw a cool fx in the demo video of the harmonizer doing lead solos so am going to try and make a patch to have my voice sound like french horn hehe
Pipeous, You're going down the electronic spiral...
I jumped out, and am happier, and more satisfied as a musician. Yeah, I know. Patches, Banks, Geez...
I don't recall PF using a harmonizer....
Using a harmonizer is much easier than dealing with the thousands of musicians that say they know harmony and just try singing the lead line badly. I honestly have met very few musicians that know how to sing a harmony..
That is a big reason I went solo. I never get attitude from the gear, nor do they show up to gigs drunk. and they know how to do what I want them to.
I have 3 mandolins, 2 mandolas, 2 octave mandolins, a mandocello, bass, banjo, 1 acoustic and 2 electric guitars (2 are midi capable), harmonicas, bongos, drum machine, 24 track, 5 mics, 2 PA's plus assorted support gear. So my tech is a lot more than just a harmonizer lol. I took 2 years of studio engineering as well and like that end of the music. Nowadays it is affordable. When I finished my course in 1992 you couldn't even buy cd burners and adat players just came out... it was about 12 grand for an akai beta 12 that used beta (not vhs) tapes to record.
now you can have a studio setup with everything for $5000 or less. To say we don't need tech? everyone uses it to a point unless it is a totally acoustic show with no PA. otherwise there are delays, reverbs, eq's and such all being used on just vocals, let alone what guys use on their instruments like wah and overdrive.
I should add in recordings, I actually sing the harmonies. but live I use the harmonizer
That is a big reason I went solo. I never get attitude from the gear, nor do they show up to gigs drunk. and they know how to do what I want them to.
I have 3 mandolins, 2 mandolas, 2 octave mandolins, a mandocello, bass, banjo, 1 acoustic and 2 electric guitars (2 are midi capable), harmonicas, bongos, drum machine, 24 track, 5 mics, 2 PA's plus assorted support gear. So my tech is a lot more than just a harmonizer lol. I took 2 years of studio engineering as well and like that end of the music. Nowadays it is affordable. When I finished my course in 1992 you couldn't even buy cd burners and adat players just came out... it was about 12 grand for an akai beta 12 that used beta (not vhs) tapes to record.
now you can have a studio setup with everything for $5000 or less. To say we don't need tech? everyone uses it to a point unless it is a totally acoustic show with no PA. otherwise there are delays, reverbs, eq's and such all being used on just vocals, let alone what guys use on their instruments like wah and overdrive.
I should add in recordings, I actually sing the harmonies. but live I use the harmonizer
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