Ken Beaumont

Very nice! Never been a huge fan of Nord but this I like.

I have a friend who invested his 401k heavily in Tech stocks during the 90's. His investments were growing really big and he was making plans to retire early. Then the house cleaning came in early 2000 and his 401k was devastated. The euphoria over anything 'internet' had gone away. Then in about 2008 his 401k was well on the way to being were it was. Unfortunately much of his balance was again wiped away when the "Great Recession" of 2008 hit! I re-balance my 401k annually, I have been rather conservative and in 2006 I realized that my real estate investments had probably gotten too much. So in 2006 I invested in various blue chip stocks and dumped my real estate funds. That saved me from taking to bad a drubbing. My balance recovered about 3 years afterwards. But yeah I wish I had taken the price of an original mac and and bought shares of Apple with it and held on to them for 40 years, but then I don't think Nostradamus could have foretold that Apple would create the iPhone.

If your looking for a recording the .pc4 is not that. The .pc4 file is a set of program instructions for telling the PC4 how to create the song. To record the song you need a computer or some other device capable of recording the audio directly. You could take the output from the PC4 playing the song and using an adapter connect to the microphone input of the computer making sure the level is appropriate and use a program like Audacity. Or even better use an audio interface, there are several USB audio interface that are low cost and and provide very good quality sound. Or record the output directly into a small field recorder such as Zoom H1n

I think the mxr micro amp expects an instrument level input. For boosting the Nord I would suggest a small mixer. Yamaha makes the MG-06 its small and works well I have one. It can handle both line & instrument level inputs.

Yes, the Zen Core announcement just made this board a whole lot more interesting.

Okay good for a controller, but what are you hearing in the video? There are 3 posibilites, a virtual instrument, the piano processed by a plugin or just the instrument. I'm commenting on the demo, I'm sure it is a fine board. But you don't really know by that video.

Who demos a stage piano with clear shots of him using mainstage? I also noted it has what looks like speaker grills.

I really like my Kurzweil SP6 and its slightly below your budget. Great presets has the K3B organ engine. At your budget you could move up to PC4. Another possibility would be the 73 Key Korg Grandstage.

Sweetwater has pre-order showing prices.

Thanks Ed! I just subscribed to your channel. Your FA videos were very helpful to me when I bought my FA-08!

With $4.5k you can get 18 of the $249 ones. Do you think it will break 18 times? In many cases that $250 is all the family can afford. I would rather a student play a cheap instrument than no instrument. I wanted to play sax in High School, I ended up with a set of drumsticks instead. I now own a guitar that cost more than $4.5k. I ain't taking to gigs at "Bob's Country Bunker" when a $500 Epiphone will do. In the 1990's I bought a $300 dollar violin for my daughter. My daughter and my niece used that violin for 6 years! And now my granddaughter has it. I watched her play a solo last night in the Christmas concert. I don't know about saxophones, but my friend still has and plays her flute from High School in the 70's and it wasn't very expensive. I don't think an instrument has to be expensive to be worthwhile. I do know that a lot of junk gets dumped on our shores via Amazon.

Yes, but if I'm buying a sax for my grand son it's going to be the $249 dollar one!

I never listen to critics. I can make up my own mind. I grew up before the internet. I don't need social media 'influencers' to tell me what to think. I'm glad you enjoyed it Dave! I plan on taking my grand kids this weekend.

I highly suspect they aren't going to publish that information.

Wake me when you can say "Alexa create patch for the synth sound from Toto's Africa" or "Alexa layer a piano with strings, make the strings 1/3 the volume level of the piano".

I agree! For the size of venue you are considering, 10" mains are probably best.

My brother in law has a clear ludwig drum set from the 70's. He polishes them to keep them clear. He is a very good drummer, I think those drums were his first professional set. I think its kind of like keeping and maintaining your first car, nostalgia.

I have heard a few of them. The only one I heard that I agree with was Leonard Cohen's last album. The songs are haunting and his voice sounds tortured . But then I rarely agree with music critics.

Very nice!

I played a solid acrylic electric guitar, it sounded like crap.

The playback level I believe can be adjusted independently of the master volume. I believe its the drum level up & down arrow buttons. Haven't tried it in a while and I'm not near my board.

"Rockin Pnuemonia & Boogie Woogie Flu" is an 8 bar New Orleans blues the crowd seems to like. And in the blues/rock genre, "After Midnight" ala Eric Clapton works really well on EP.

Usually I get paid cash. If its a check, I either draw out cash at the ATM and then deposit the check the next day or pay everyone at the very next practice. The only one I ever wire money to is my daughter in Bali, for that I use Zelle.

Sounds great Jim! Had the PC4 been around when I bought my SP6, I would have spent more and got the PC4!

I play guitar and bass too from time to time. I never use amps anymore. I keep my tube amps in storage, I probably will sell them someday. I have a Line6 helix system and a Elliot Transit B for bass. The current band I'm playing mostly keys in and everything goes into the mixer. The practice sound is exactly the same as the gig just not as loud. The guitarist in that band uses a Boss floor pedal GT1000 I believe. I can't express how much I appreciate not hauling heavy amps and speakers into a trailer. I just turned 60 and am having trouble with my knee. In the 'other' band they use amps on stage and I play way more guitar with them, so to conform I use a carvin power amp and a full range cabinet that looks like an amp. My SP6 goes into a Mackie thump 12 in that band. Too me the bands stage sound sounds like ass to me. But I have heard recordings from out in front and stepped out using a wireless, its dramatically different. But I have come to the conclusion I'm not having fun, I have played with these guys 13 years so I'm torn. Their PA Speakers are very heavy too! It takes awhile with the Helix to figure out the best sound with all the options available. But when its there you know it and its always the same no matter what volume. The only issue I have with these is sometimes you can get too many choices. The plus side is you can go from the sound of a bluesy vintage tube amp sound from the 1950's to Metallica in with a patch change.