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Discussion about all things drum and percussion related - acoustic to electronic, live performance and recording.

 

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    • Agree. As i've mentioned above on first page, I have both the Casio Ct-S1000V and The CK-61 (which i got stupid cheap used).  Since I got the CK61, I don't think I've touched the Casio.  Bonehead simple and super fun.  Plug in an Iphone (with Vb3m) with only 1 cable and you have a roaring, drawbar controlled, B3 in your lap.
    • We opened for a “shall remain unnamed band”  years ago, who did their show to a special “live” recording of their songs. Longer, arrangements, endings instead of fades, and so on. The group played along with it but that was mostly for show.  The musicians were not happy about it, but were happy about the money they were paid (they got 10 times more per person than we did).  Me? I'd rather play live. But once you “make it” you are not as independent as you were when you weren't famous. You have management, in the physical media days you had the labels telling you what to do, you need to participate in promotion (interviews, etc.) and so many other things are planned for you. It's a well-oiled machine. Very little is left to chance. We got a taste of that while working for Motown, but we didn't sign the contract because our manager wanted a better deal (he wanted us to actually make money on any recordings).   I don't know how extensive this is, or whether or not TS has any pre-recording going on. She doesn't play my favorite kind of music, but she does what she does quite well.  Notes ♫
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    • My trusty Typhon can:   "Audio over USB -Typhon gets recognised as Audio/USB device. This feature enables Typhon to act as an audio input and be recorded from a computer directly without the use of a sound card. This feature got implemented to support the previous described feature so as the user doesn’t have to connect the physical audio out to his sound card, and so on create a ground loop, which cause a constant buzzing at Typhon’s audio."   https://www.dreadbox-fx.com/typhon/  
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