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With my Electro 3, most Nord AP sounds do not sound right to me when using a single speaker, whether or not I press the mono button. The octave below middle C is where they fail. The Royal Grand is an exception, and sounds quite nice with only a single speaker (with or without the mono button pressed), but for me does not cut through in a covers band setting. Some recent uprights (Bambino?) do not suffer in single speaker mode, but don't have enough punch in the low end. If I had a newer Nord I would be using the White Grand. I actually use a couple of AP sounds in my Roland FA-07 in my covers band instead of anything from my Nord.

My guess is that he cares the most about turning Twitter into a mouthpiece styled exactly to his own preferences. Certainly he had to realize how many skilled and experienced people were leaving the ship, mostly caused by his actions. Maybe he wanted any employee to leave if they thought they could not stand to work at a Twitter ruled by Musk's "unique" (I'm being kind) point of view, as a way of filtering the preferences and inclinations of those who would remain. His thinking might be that those who would remain would surely be lined up behind him. Musk may not care how many subscribers and advertisers are lost in the short term, since those are just about creating money, something he has plenty of.

MPN is a truly amazing place for me: It is SO much more positive than most web forums out there, and features contributions from many who have such wonderful expertise. MPN is a well moderated forum. That does not happen by accident, but is the result of lots of work. I can recall certain troublemakers who had left stains here in years past, but I don't see them here now. I don't know how it was taken care of - someone else took care of this for me. All I can do is say "thanks".

The Nerds are DEFINITELY in NJ:

The box that my Electro 3 came in was much better suited for making a homemade solar eclipse viewer, than anything I ever got from Roland.

I bought an Electro 3 almost 10 years ago, mainly to fill the gaping hole in organ sounds that I got from my Roland XV (since replaced with a Roland FA-07). I also came to love the EP and Wurli sounds on my Electro 3, especially the Nefertiti EP which was released well after I purchased my Electro 3. I have never played a board that competes with the Organ and EP sounds in my Electro 3 (my FA-07 does not and I use it for different purposes), so I can't offer any opinion on how my Electro 3 compares to those.

I have done lots of improvising on sax (my main instrument). The sax makes it easy to play lots of notes, but this is counter to coming up with good melodic ideas, so I have a lot of experience at playing mediocre solos. You wrote "I start soloing and when I start to run out of initial ideas/get past my opening thoughts". One answer to this is to use more space. First of all, space SOUNDS good, and allows your audience to digest the (probably) cool thing you just played. Second, space gives you as the improviser more chance to understand what your previous phrase sounded like, and more chance to see if a bandmate responds to your previous line, so you can get better ideas on what to play next. So you get more time to figure out what to play next. Don't worry about the emptiness - using space implies confidence. If you were trying to ask someone out on a date, and the first thing you said was good, would you continue on to say a second phrase if you did not yet have a good idea of what to say? Or would you wait? Blurting out something random in a hurry is not going to prove that you meant whatever you said in your first phrase, anyway.

One of my co-workers told me today that he was able to recover a brand new mountain bike that had been stolen from him, because he had put an airtag on it.

Love the low bass line which starts the song and continues throughout (I am NOT talking about the faster bass line which starts a few bars later):

Actually my KC-150 is currently being used just as a dynamic mic preamp for my son's PC, to enable use of a Sennheiser dynamic mic when he is on a web meeting. He has the KC-150 sitting on a shelf on his desk, near his computer monitor, which makes the KC-150 look huge and hilariously out-of-place. He does this because the external 2-channel mic preamp he was previously using for this broke. Anyone wanna guess the brand of the 2-channel mic preamp that broke? Anyone? Behringer - correct. And I am the one who bought it a few years ago. I was warned about Behringer in online boards like this one and others. So I should have known better, but I bought it anyway. So the Behringer failed, the Roland amp keeps working, and the world keeps spinning.

I will give Roland credit for reliability. I expect that my KC-150, which now serves as my backup amp, will survive the apocalypse. But it will still have that obnoxious positive EQ spike on the G that is 1.5 octaves above middle C (and it's in the electronics, not the speaker).

Congrats to the Angels' Shohei Ohtani for an amazing 2022; he finished in the top 10 in the so-called "triple crown" statistics categories for both pitching and hitting. In pitching, he was 4th in the AL in ERA, tied for 4th in the AL for wins, and was 3rd in the AL in strikeouts. In batting, he was 4th in the AL in HRs and 7th in the AL in RBIs. The last time a player finished in the top 10 in these "triple crown" statistics for both pitching and hitting in the same year was when Babe Ruth did it in 1918, when as a pitcher he was 9th in ERA, and as a hitter tied for the AL lead in HRs, and was tied for 6th in RBIs. Being 9th in ERA might not sound that impressive, but Ruth was actually an All-Star level pitcher for a few years before he set the baseball world on fire with his hitting: In 1917 Ruth was second in the AL in wins, and in 1916 Ruth led the AL in ERA.

I don't know if the relevant Braves players who were batting know how to bunt. I recall being very frustrated over multiple issues with Davey Johnson as the manager of the Mets during the late 1980s. I recall him calling for the 3B Howard Johnson to sacrifice bunt when he did not know how to bunt, so of course the bunt attempt failed (I knew this was going to happen), he made an out without advancing the runner, and the Mets gave their opponent a free out. According to Acuna's stats, he has zero sacrifice bunts in his 5 year major league career: https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/a/acunaro01.shtml Now maybe this is because Snitkar has been his manager for those 5 years. But if Acuna does not know how to bunt, asking him to attempt a sacrifice bunt would be a bad call.

Based on his web site, my guess is that he is located near Ft Pierce on the East Coast.

I watched this on Netflix a few days ago. Yes, it's a feel good movie but I felt it worked. Using the Roland keyboard was ok. I'm just glad he wasn't using a Roland keyboard amp, because, well, you know.

Keeping it simple, I would just get some kind of thing that take two "line in" inputs (analog) and converts it to digital. You don't need one of those portable recorders from Zoom et al that has some built-in mics. You would take 1 or 2 analog outputs from your Yamaha board and route it into the device. Or you could route the line output from your keyboard directly into whatever new device you buy. The output from the new device you buy would connect to your computer. I would suggest some brand that is known to make gear that works for a long time, because you are looking for the simplicity of a toaster oven.

Your Yamaha mixer has multiple XLR (mic) inputs already, and must have at least the ability to output two different mixes (one intended for FOH for a live gig, and the other intended for stage monitors). Does your Yamaha mixer have a digital output? (I can't tell what model it is from your picture).

I play in a 7-piece covers band and am 61, and as I get older I am more concerned about the physical grind of packing gear, load-in, load-out and returning gear. My top motivation for playing in this band now is that my son (now in his 20s) also plays in the band. I am less concerned about whether any of my playing has diminished, partly because my keyboard playing is mostly about good judgement and not technical skills, and from a pop/rock perspective my sax playing is close to as good as it ever has been.

It's not clear if you are only recording a line in from your keyboard, or if you also want to record vocals, or if you want to record a real drum kit. If it's just keys, then there are many choices, and it's hard to screw up the audio quality from a source that already has a "line in" signal level. If you want to record vocals, then the mic preamp quality matters, and you would almost certainly want to spend more money. And if you want to record a real drum kit, you will also be capturing from mics, and you will want some of them to be condenser mics, which would require phantom power, and almost certainly would want to be capturing from more than 2 mics at a time. I certainly would not buy anything under $100 if I were recording vocals, or if recording a drum kit.

My wife and I saw "Where the Crawdads Sing" in the theater when it came out this Summer. A- The most noteworthy new movie I have seen via streaming at home was "The Unforgivable", which I also rate A-. They're both worth watching IMO.

Michael McDonald, Paul McCartney, or Rob Mathes.

I believe the genres we end up liking is influenced by what are exposed to. Sax was my main instrument, and our middle school and high school had good jazz bands. When I was still in middle school (mid-1970s) our jazz band played an evening of old swing band songs (Basie/Miller/Dorsey/Ellington classics) with the evening targeted at our parent's generation. It wasn't a concert but a dance, with us on a stage and most of the floor left as open space so the parents could dance. That was a pretty cool experience for me as a musician. When I was in 9th grade our band director from the middle school (I was no longer in his school) took his son, my trumpet player friend Craig, and me to Carnegie Hall to see Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker play. During middle school that same band director took us to see George Benson and Don Sebesky play at the Plainfield NJ High School auditorium (before George Benson played any pop-ish music). For several summers during middle school and high school I went to week-long jazz seminars at Ramapo College in NJ, playing in combos and big bands with other youth. During one of those years the Woody Herman big band was in residence for the entire week, with individual band members leading combo sessions - Dave LaLama (keyboard player) was in ours. Other sessions taught us about all kinds of things that were special. I still recall one instructor ranting and raving about how special Cannonball Adderley was, many years before I really internalized that and came to understand that in my dreams I wanted to play like Cannonball. If I had grown up in Nashville instead of NJ I probably would have been exposed to a very different palette of music.

I should have mentioned earlier that my son did perform a test where he attempted to connect some sort of contacts to certain places on the Electro 3 circuit board to determine if it was just a faulty sustain jack or something more difficult to fix. I did not watch him do it because I was concerned that his attempt to do that test might cause the Electro to break entirely. Actually, I had not wanted him to do it at all, but he went ahead anyway. He said his test showed that the problem was not just a bad sustain jack. This was all done a few months ago, and I don't know exactly how he did his test, and I don't want to know.

I ended up forking out the ~ $159 for the Audiofront "MIDI Expression IO" device. I set it up it up and tested it tonight, and it worked, and the settings I put into it were still there after I cut power to the device and then restored power. I am using the 5-pin MIDI DIN output from the "MIDI Expression IO" device, connected to the MIDI DIN INPUT jack on the back of my Electro 3. I found an old 9V wall wart to provide power to the "MIDI Expression IO" device.