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jeffincltnc

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  • Birthday 06/22/1970

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  1. I've mentioned this elsewhere, but he was my brother's bass teacher at the Ithaca College School of Music in the late 80's and they are still very good friends. (not to mention that my bro is a monster bass player to say the least - clearly the more talented musician in the family - lol!)
  2. I do an 80's tribute that is all new-wave and synth oriented and do use some sequencing on tunes like "Rio", "Hungry Like The Wolf", "Blue Monday", "Bizarre Love Triangle", "Just Can't Get Enough", "Don't You Want Me Baby", "The Promise", "You Spin Me Round", etc. If it goes with the song properly, I use sequencing to nail the tune.
  3. I haven't posted in a while, but, yes, I am keeping very busy with an 80's New Wave Tribute show and use the Nord Wave 2 as my top board over a 73 key Korg Nautilus in that rig. The Wave 2 is ideal for me for the hands on controls, knobby and fader controls, aftertouch, flagship build quality and small form factor and I especially use the sample space quite a bit to sample a lot of critical sounds from my plug ins and soft synths like Arturia V-Collection but leave the laptop setup at home for shows. Because I also have used Nord Stages for so many years, I know the Nord workflow and I can build patches much much faster in Nord Wave 2 than in alternatives and the use of sampling and four layers is perfect for me in a gigging setup. I had a Jupiter X for some time but it was too big for me to gig with.
  4. I had a really great run working for them from 1993-1999 as a reseller of Media Composer and used to build/install Avid nonlinear editing suites and Softimage compositing workstations into tv stations, post production houses, ad agencies and corporate marketing departments. It was a great product and had very little competition back then. I made a pretty good living at it given my younger age at the time.
  5. The parts aren't available to build them anymore and they aren't licensing KARMA anymore either.
  6. I've acquired two new boards in the last couple of months - a Nord Stage 4 and a Nautilus, and have been buying lots of lights, so I would say my GAS is alive and well. lol
  7. My theory is that they are selling way at the new price discount and the market is still soft so the discount is meeting its purpose to maximize sales volume and profitability to build them. I know I bought a Nautilus during this sale and so did Prof D. Not sure who else picked one up.
  8. I think I'm right in the same spot as Eric. 2-3 gigs per month with an 80's New Wave Tribute band in Charlotte, NC and into South Carolina, and one weekly rehearsal which is usually attended by all unless business travel gets in the way. Everyone has a day job, kids of some age and a significant other. I have teenagers and one in college so they are fairly independent but we spend weekend time together as a family too. But the show is pretty polished now and we could gig a whole lot more if we wanted to be more aggressive on the festival and tribute band circuit especially in the summers. I also will still hit the high quality open stage jam sessions and do pickup gigs with a guitar player/singer as an accompanist to play song book type tunes. But that's up to me whether I want to get out vs. stay in.
  9. I don't like the term "on par with" things like Summit and Hydrasynth. They are all different. Nord Stage 4 and Wave 2 synths are VA, FM, Wavetable and Sample. They don't have infinite routings and modulations but the Nord synths are both really fast and quick to dial in whatever you want but also kind of walled enough so you really can't get a bad sound on it. Others are deeper in some areas but don't have the ability to do some of the things Nord can do like load samples, etc.
  10. And maybe this year Piano Man Chuck has to stretch out a little bit and review the new Clavinova?
  11. I built a rack unit with a Midas MR18 and a few other things. It’s nice. Be aware of mixing on an iPad that new updates to iOS can make your mixing apps unusable. (This is an issue for Behringer but you can also use Mixing Station). I’m really not a fan of anything Behringer or Music Tribe but the Midas MR18 is a great piece of kit.
  12. The word “Montage” makes me think of “Rocky IV” or “Baywatch” editing.
  13. I’ve always doubled the horn riff on an organ with fast Leslie.
  14. I’m pretty sure Reezekeys plays this in his set since he’s…. ummmm…. the keyboardist for the Average White Band. 🙂
  15. Just the fact of knowing I got like 20 replies to this probably means I spend a lot of time here chatting about gear and keyboard music life.
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