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JoJo, tried the new Mojo keybed?

Geez, you guys are doing great. I lose about $6K US making music every year. Haven't figured out the last FY though. There is always hope!!

Many people who think Hammonds are ungiggable simply have never tried hard enough. With the right planning, vehicle and ROKs, it is quite easy to gig an organ in a club with a wheelchair-accessible stage. Even 2 steps is easy. My limit, with my ramp, is 4. This is seldom a problem for me.

Once you have the transport issue sorted out -- dollies, wheels, van, ramp -- gigging an organ really isn't much harder than electronic keys, and setup is faster. Stairs are trickier, and this is why you need to check the venue out ahead of time. Call and ask if the stage is wheelchair-accessible. I have a four-step limit. More than four stairs, and I don't play organ on the gig. This is seldom a problem. Three to four stairs, I use my 8' aluminimum tri-fold ramp. One or two steps, I just do a lift/tippy-tippy thing.

The Real MC did.

That was an eye-opener for me just last night. I sat down at a grand piano for the time in nearly 30 years. A 100-year-old Steinway at a church I was removing a C3 from. Not too big, maybe 6'? Well regulated, needed tuning but not real bad...was probably tuned in the fall. What did I learn? The intro to Satin Doll is easier to play on that thing than my CP4 or RD800. Why? I dunno. But on the DPs, I can't get the SOUND quite right even when the notes were right. The low notes seem to pop too much, making the chord voicing (drop-1?) not carry quite the way it did when Duke played them. I need to figure this out.

I actually feel sorry for The Verve now. And The Staples Singers. And hate the record industry even more now.

Tonally, the guy in the video isn't even close, but that doesn't really matter, because he's playing it in a way that serves the song. The biggest problem with his sound, to my ears, is that his patch's attack is too slow, and it doesn't differentiate between the tonal quality of the violins/violas/cellos.

I think this one is about to shrink, but this has been my main rig for about 3 years now (although I usually use a modified CV instead of the A100) -- http://i63.tinypic.com/f26io8.jpg

I agree with Al. Especially if you select one of the mono patches.

Pedal sustain is an important feature? They didn't even include it with the Hammond B3!

I find it frustrating that otherwise brilliant people like Mike Martin don't understand the difference between copyright infrigement and theft. Let me try to explain it to you: If we were both in high school, and I copied your essay, that would be copyright infringement. If I broke into your locker and stole your essay, that would be theft. The difference between the two situations is dramatic: in the case of theft, you no longer have an essay to hand in. The act of copying a performance from YouTube may, or may not, be copyright infringement -- you must also consider the doctrine of fair use. In this US, this is covered under Title 17, Section 107. Unless you are prepared to make an argument that Tee here is not exempt under section 107 (which allows use for scholarship, research, etc) -- get off your high freakin horse and STFU.

And if you're REALLY handy at soldering, add a 47K resistor in parallel with each half of the pot. The useless section at the back of the throw will be much smaller.

Nicely done, Franky!

Not the mic built into the camera. Mics sold to plug into cameras. These tend to be good quality stereo condensers with a couple of AAs in them. Doesn't the C2 take an internal AA? Maybe I'm thinking of a different condenser. As for needing a stand.....you're going to need a stand if you want quality. The noise at the stage floor is way different than the noise at ear level. Moving your Tascam up higher might help. You can get a clamp on bar for your vocal stand for a second mic. I use that trick to mic both halves of my Leslie with a single stand. Wes

Reezekeys - how about a video camera mic? Or maybe an XY pair of Behringer C2s?

The XR18 does support Ultranet (it is the only mixer in the X-Air line which does, I think), but it is not necessary for the bar-band environment. Ultranet allows you to plug in a personal mixer, eg. the Powerplay P16-M, which lets you control your personal mix with a hardware device instead of a phone. The controls are pretty nice, you select one of 16 channels and can adjust the level, EQ, and limiter. The EQ is three-band with the mid band being a fixed Q parametric. AVB and Dante seem to be different solutions to the same problem. I'm less familiar with these. AVB seems to be used by Avid and Presonus. Dante is an industry standard (AES-3?) and is used by Aviom personal mixers. I think I saw the Santana drummer using an Aviom mixer last year. Dante can travel over layer-2 ethernet. I don't know about AVB. Ultranet uses Cat-5 cable, but does not use ethernet encapsulation. Dante will scale to more ports and more distro (i.e. large LA studio) better than Ultranet will. The X32 line can be expanded to speak Dante by replacing the X-USB card with the X-DANTE card ($499 including candy). At that point, I believe you will have 32 in/out from the card plus your Ultranet distro available. The XR18 cannot speak Dante. For the bar band environment, an iPhone makes way more sense to me than a personal mixing station.

Chuck, you likely you know this, but make sure your SSID is hidden, it will stop every other device in the room from doing beacon pings. I'm using a Cisco Aeronet product with my X32, I had a bunch kicking around my garage. I'm setup with static IPs that are reserved from my home network, so I can merge the two networks when it suits me, and build X32 configs from the comfort of the bedroom while the stuff is set up downstairs in the band room. The Aeronet is just acting as a bridge, and is configured to run both radios on whatever channel has the best SNR at the time. So far zero issues. I'm also on the way to IEMs...will get there, slowly but surely. I really want wireless, though, at least for the jamband. "Bobby" and "Jerry" have a really great on-stage dynamic and they move around a lot.

"I wanna make out with you right now so bad" So I show her my wedding ring. The she turns to the bass player: "I wanna make out with you right now so bad" ... so he shows her his wife. LOL. I think she was probably trying to rob us.

TeaShea - just add ?.jpg to the end of your img URL and the forum will be happy. That's a neat "B cab" stand. Did you make it?

"NB: the task "rearranging the VR-Keyboard registrations" is not forgotten, I think technically it's possible using the upg-files" Yes, I have done that with VR09-tools. The file format is just a header followed by a bunch of registrations. Warning, the UPG file format changed in firmware 1.11.

I must need better ears. I have a hard time telling the difference between my actual tonewheel rig and my VR09/Vent when listening to live recordings (Zoom H4n) of my band. The biggest "tell" is that my VR09/Vent rig is usually too loud. I must have a harder time balancing it in the stage mix for some reason. Probably because it's coming from a wedge. Also I will send the sound guy a submixed feed when it's VR09.............maybe I shouldn't be doing that. My piano level (CP4) is always good. Wes

Have you tried the new firmware? The organ sounds are significantly better.

PS - the next time I need to recycle some electronics and don't live some place with a recycling program, I'll be sure to mail it to you in California. When we finally got a recycling program here about 5 years ago, I took a truck to the depot with 710Kg of saved up garbage in it. That's 1500 pounds or so. Mostly harddrives, but about six printers in there. Wes

I will never buy another Brother inkjet product. The one I binned would also refuse, for example, to send a fax when the yellow ink was dried up. Seriously. I've been very happy with their laser products, though. I'm on my second duplexing laser. As for drivers - ink management and all that crap, sure, but you should be able to run any HP printer with a generic PCL5 driver. And the Brother printers, you can run them with a generic PostScript driver. Of course, this means that you have to buy the version of the printer with some real brains inside it. Look for "PCL5", or "BRScript" for HP and Brother printers respectively to be able to tell the difference. Which reminds me, that's one defence against obsolesence that's not so obvious: get a network printer, preferably not WiFi. Of course, these will not be entry-level printers. I just checked, the HP CM1312nfi MFP on my desk here at work was bought in 2009 and works with our newest computers just fine. I think it evens speaks Bonjour. Wes