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This one is heavy and expensive, but solid as the rock of Gibraltar and worth every penny: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1690051-REG/k_m_14050_000_55_stool_with_backrest_black.html/?ap=y&ap=y&smp=y&smp=y&lsft=BI%3A514&gclid=Cj0KCQiAybaRBhDtARIsAIEG3knVjfsZB1PRYu749Fma7thRBodQ2Wxw0Y1bUt9eUyLWNBOEt84M0NYaAp9AEALw_wcB

Its funny you posted this, because I was just today thinking I should fire up my Roland Lucian AX-09 which has some surprisingly good sounds. Guitarists uniformly hate the “form factor” though. I could hide on the bottom tier of the stand. Thanks for the help everyone.

The other key guy is not available to ask. I’m still using the Electro 4 & 5. I just got the Stage 3 three days ago, it may be possible to use aftertouch or control pedal to do the bending. I’m still reading the manual. Alternating the sounds is going to be a must. If he doesn’t like the simple, I’ll adjust the eq and resonance until I get as close as I can. Thanks for helping a brother out, much appreciated.

Hello, I recently joined a great new band. The leader is an experienced singer/guitarist and the band has a large local following and works as much as it wants. Their last keyboard player was much revered, can’t play anymore due to head injuries sustained in a bicycle accident. the leader insists that I produce a country fiddle sound for “East of Houston, West of Baton Rouge.” I’m playing a Nord Stage 3 and a Nord Electro 5D. He has played the samples I have found through his phone and says they sound like bagpipes. One was a sound made by a member of the Nord Users Forum and one was the best I could find in Nord’s online sound library. On top of this he expects me to simultaneously play an accordion sound. It’s a Cajun kinda song. This is, I think, impossible due to the need to use the left hand on the pitch bender control to get the fiddle slides characteristic of the style. Anyone know of or have any fiddle samples I could work with? I’m thinking of letting him know as a hard fact that he can have fiddle and accordion, but not simultaneously. Any advice would be appreciated. A friend warned me the bandleader is “hard to work with” but I’d like to keep the gig. Many thanks for any help or advice. Mike L. fiddle_demo.mp3

I keep one of these around. Good for grab and go when I don"t want to take two powered speakers, or to add bottom to:the SS3. Hartke KB12. https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/KB12--hartke-kb12-kickback-500w-1x12-inch-bass-combo

After a long lull, I got asked this month to jam with some guys in a garage, join some guys forming a new band to play one set at a local, super-popular festival, and asked to join one of the most popular local bands in Santa Barbara County. But it"s like climbing a greased pole. There"s now questions about whether the festival will be held in light of Delta, how open things are actually going to be this Fall, and I"m not sure I want to go back to playing a small stage in front of unmasked strangers after driving 40 miles.

If he"s wrong, Darwin will step in and the venue or the audience will tell him he sounds like cr*p. Either he will learn from that, and do some research and rethink, or not. Space will be made for a better player if not. If he learns from it so much the better. Every player deserves to be heard for what they are. It is not the sound engineer"s job to teach an instrumentalist how to work their equipment.

I"ve been happy with this one. They make a back support for it which is great, but it"s a bit heavy. Rock solid though. https://www.k-m.de/en/products/drummer-s-thrones-benches-stools/stools/14044-14045-stool-black-imitation-leather

Are you sure it"s the keyboard, not the amp? Amp hum can sometimes be cured by the use of a ground lifter plug. Unless you have an electronic device sitting directly on top of your (what kind of?) keyboard, it should be quiet and well-behaved.

Thanks for the report, getting ready to schedule my own procedure.

Got offered a great opportunity with an established, popular local band. Had to think for a week before I got enthusiastic. Stay strong and recover, bless us all.

Sounds nice and Moogy. Connect some expression pedals to that bad boy! Filter at least. Also TC Electronics reverb delay and modulation pedals.

Buy the Nord for $900. No contest. Visit the Nord forum and the factory site. You"ll never be at a loss for the sound you want. Nord has a huge library of downloadable sounds. Even if you don"t need all that keyboard now, you"ll have lots of time before you need another. You"re welcome.

Play Highway to Hell through it for 48 hours to get Noriega to surrender. Also, I really liked my pair of KB100"s.

Finally a sensible thread.

My first gig able instrument was the single manual version of that Kustom organ. Sat atop a speaker cabinet with 4 12' speakers.

Shure 400 series. Worth the money. Drove them with an isolated auxiliary channel monitored from my Alesia mixer, no problem. The more isolation the better, for me.

There are shooting ear muffs that lower the sound pressure levels by 28 db and have an input for right and left stereo monitors. I have used them for practice. Here"s an example: https://www.brownells.com/shooting-accessories/ear-eye-protection/ear-muffs/pro-slim-gold-headsets-prod27554.aspx Much more effective than over-the-ear headphones.

Just the same, you wouldn"t want to be in our COVID situation here in the US. Count your blessings and be glad you"re alive and well. And, go practice.

Suggestion: Every posted performance should contain a clinker 'absolutely not dedicated to those ********* at Sony.'

An innovator on the same level as Bach, Bird and Monk, imho. Best post-Hendrix guitarist. Advanced rock music by giant steps. Tragic to lose the man and his talent. What a year.

For home monitors, I use the QSC K8.2"s I use for performance when called for. I add my Hartke KB12 as a subwoofer for more bass if needed. I don"t mind the sound of the K8.2"s alone. In smaller, simpler situations, I use only the Hartke for performance. https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/KB12--hartke-kb12-kickback-500w-1x12-inch-bass-combo

What Moonglow said, and I tilt the upper keyboard so the keybed is roughly parallel to my forearm when I play it. The height and angles are important. Don"t crouch or reach painfully. Don"t get carpal tunnel. Good luck and happy times ahead!

I don"t give out certain informative on the interwebs. I have an imaginary birthdate and other data I provide when asked. Never give an SS number, whether true or false. Deal elsewhere. Yes, every site is subject to being hacked, so be selective about the information you are willing to provide.

I use the Ultimate stand as well. I put the pedals in front (towards the audience) of the horizontal support 'feet.' Heavy, but stable and convenient.