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By KuruPrionz · Posted
I have a Tele with the active EMG set of pickups. Instead of a tone control, it has an EMG SPC control, which rolls off the highs just a bit, kicks the midrange up considerably and makes a great option for going from strumming behind vocals to taking a solo lead part. I highly recommend it, simple and the battery will last for well over a year if you remember to unplug when not in use. I found I could just slightly enlarge the sides of the opening for the control panel and the battery will fit in there with just 2 screws needed to access and change the battery. -
I have a CD player in the car, my living room surround system, and my sister bought me a turntable system that also has a CD player. I have thousands of CD in the garage and my 100 favorite CD's in my living room, but it has been at least a year since I last played a CD. With services like Distrokid, the new medium is a poster that lists your recordings and which services on which they can be found. You could offer business cards with that information, but really, kids can just take a picture of the poster with their phone. -
By KuruPrionz · Posted
I profoundly disagree. Even people who will never play a musical instrument or sing still judge music based on whether they like it or not and they are 100% accurate in that judgement. They may love the music they hear, they may hate it or they may simply not give one crap about it at all. Indifference is a judgement as well. The fact is that if everybody disliked a particular musician's music, that musician has failed completely to engage the audience. It's really simple but really real. -
By jazzpiano88 · Posted
I'm not a big fan of A&H, only because of a bad experience with the Zed10. Its price point should have been my warning where you could back calculate the raw parts cost to be $12.99 US. So there you go. Mine got taken out in a power surge last year and is now being used as base for a nesting platform in a tree for migrant birds. I now equate it with Behringer garbage. -
By jazzpiano88 · Posted
Yeah, it's pretty disturbing for a SFW site that we have here. To have this thread up on your screen at work could/would be a nightmare, definitely in Cincinnati.
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By charliepersol · Posted
I just bought one used two days ago. I had in the past (a very past) the original ARP Odissey and an Avatar (the guitar version of the Odissey). They sounded quite differenti, and now I understand why: two different version of the filter. A friend of mine still have the all black one with coloured sliders, which Is again different, maybe two poles filter? Anyway the Behringer sounds good but a bit differenti too. My ARP had a ring modulator I used to build fabolous bell like sounds: metallic, full of harmonics. The kind of sound you can hear on Japan Tin Drum or Oil on Canvas albums. Until now I couldn't recreate this sound. Neither the Avatar did. Just my ARP Odissey I sold for little Money :( -
In V.A.S.T., be it the original V.A.S.T. or the newer vaster V.A.S.T. with Cascade and Dynamic, there are several ways you can use internal DSP sources with Samples: 1. Samples only 2. Internal DSP Oscillators only without any Sample 3. Samples mixed with internal DSP Oscillators In the new V.A.S.T., you can certainly use a multi-sampled Keymap, alongside an internal anti-aliased DSP Osc, e.g. a 2-block SINE+ for a single Layer, or even an aliased one like the old SAW+. For larger AA DSP Oscs, e.g. the 4-block SAW, you'd need to use Cascade Mode, a passthrough signal and a Mixer ALG. So these aren't mutually exclusive. Instead, what the manual seems to indicate is that if you want to do a traditional analogue subtractive synth, then you'd rather not use a Keymap, which makes sense since analogue subtractive synths don't use them at all. You can still use a Keymap's sample Envelope if it is set to Natural, even if the Sample itself isn't sounding via the Layer, say, if you have simply a 4-block AA DSP SAW. That SAW block effectively cuts off any of the Sample signal. However, as the AMPENV mode is set to Natural, it is the factory AMPENV for that multi-Sampled Keymap that is applied to the Layer. The Natural envelopes have more details than can be produced with a User AMPENV. The thing that happens with setting the Keymap to Silence is that it sets each key's amplitude to the same maximum amplitude. Maybe that's what you need in a certain program, but sometimes, if you are doing an emulative program, you could be better off actually referencing the emulation's Keymaps Sample although the latter isn't heard, with the corresponding Natural Envelope, or of course, you could just go into User Mode and make your own envelope. Hope this helps. -
Sweetwater might accept to deliver to Canada, but you will be charged transport accordingly and as anything going USA to Canada your item will go through customs and it is always possible to end up with extra fees - sometimes very expensive. I personally had a very bad experience about 10 years ago and promised myself to never import again from the USA unless the seller confirms on paper he pays for all possible customs and duties extra fees. Buying Kurzweil products in Canada has always been complicated. In the 1990s a few stores in the province kept a couple of them, but if you wanted something they didn't have you had to order sight unseen and wait months to get your purchase. That is how I bought my MIDIboard, K1200 and finally, around 2000, a PC2X. I hated the Fatar action on the PC2X from day one and swore to never buy a keyboard sight unseen ever again.
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