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Spending more time on my organ technique these days, and it"s been really handy to have my old set of Roland PK-5 pedals â pre-quarantine, I"d been working them more regularly into my live rigs, not just as organ bass pedals, but also to trigger synths and samples.
Those Taurus-style pedals don"t seem to lend themselves to the traditional heel-toe technique. I"ve always wanted to be John Paul Jones, and I"m wondering if there"s a better way to be working on my left-foot fluidity on that octave of pedals, so I don"t just feel like I"m Rhino-stomping everything.
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It was a joy to get to put so many faces and voices to names, and especially fun for me to see that people kept at it for another two hours after I had to split. I really appreciate the sense of community right now. Glad I could help make this meetup happen in a small way.
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Hey all, we're live now!
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No worries David... assuming all goes well, we can schedule another that's a little more tailored to your time zone in the near future!I think I'm going to be an apology for this first catch-up sadly Hope it's a great time! -
Oh boy, when I was sixteen I dated someone who loved that movie. I remember, like, the first half, maybe?Here's a mad one: "Phantom of the Paradise," Brian DePalma's carnival of a 70s rock opera based on Faust. It doesn't age well in certain obvious ways, but the Paul Williams songs are pretty damned good and suit the show well.Will echo that 20 Feet from Stardom is a must-see. Also, the 90s Beatles Anthology doc is well worth the many hours it takes to watch, if anyone still hasn't seen that.
The Classic Albums mini-documentary series pops in and out on Amazon a lot. Some of them are just fair, but others have some wonderful insight... the one on The Band's self-titled album (also delves a bit into Music from Big Pink) is one of the best; Levon demonstrating his approach to singing and drumming is worth the price of admission, and then there's the occasional cut to Garth Hudson improvising chorales on early 90s synthesizers instead of actually engaging in an interview.
Also, I just re-watched Cameron Crowe's "Almost Famous," and it remains one of my favorite films.
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These recording engineers in your city started recording with an off-brand compressor. You won't believe what happened next.Don't worry Paul, it was good click bait.Don't forget to check out my YouTube video, "7 Pro Tips You MUST KNOW About Compression, or Your Dog Will Die!!"
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Yes, please.We have a real thirst to be the New Yorker of music instrument journalism while the corporate publishers are trying to be the BuzzFeed. The sense is that if no-one is doing depth any more, someone is going to miss it, and we want that audience.Obviously if I'm trying to evaluate music gear, a way to hear it in action is helpful, but so much of my day is full of video and audio that for the love of god I just want to read about somebody's experience with what a thing can do, and how they can apply it.
I loved your CP73/88 review for that very reason.
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Exactly! The classic "prog rock" genre was born out of rock musicians wanting to be more adventurous and less predictable. As soon as you can pigeonhole it into "long songs you can't dance to with English folk influence and lyrics about outer space" (for example), it just becomes another restriction to work within and without.Those comparisons might be horrifying to some, but I feel it's ok to see prog as a largeness of spirit rather then a specialized genre with prescribed licks, tropes and sounds. -
I'm sort of shocked how affordable that is, given that the last time I bought a 15' MIDI cable it cost $30. Unlike my Roli gear, there's no real advantage to, you know, my Roland PK-5 pedals being wireless... other than that I hate cabling and I'm a sucker for living in a future that's more like Star Trek the Next Generation than our current trajectory!
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One of my musician pals told me just yesterday that he bought a banjo. Perfect.
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Josh, I can't even... my wife and I gotta up our game.
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I remember when I first got my Seaboard Block I was going to run all of my sounds for it off of an iPad, and it was actually going to make my rig smaller.
Fast forward to now, and I've got the iPad plus a Macbook running Mainstage plus an interface and a control surface and USB and MIDI cables and dongles and dozens of modeled and sampled instruments controlled from the Seaboard and the Lumi and my bass pedals and the upper and/or lower manuals of my organ...
I think if I had a more robust iPad (I have a mini) that didn't hit the CPU ceiling so quickly, I might make more of an effort to simplify. As it stands, I've just come to accept that playing with different ways to interface musicmaking with computers is fun, even though sometimes setting up my live rig isn't fun. But I wouldn't be surprised if in the next decade iOS evolves to the point where anything I can do musically on my MacBook is a snap.
Or maybe all human society will collapse and I'll be forced to sing for the entertainment of the local warlord before he sends out his underlings to capture women and gasoline. But hey, life is full of possibilities.
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One of the other guys in my IT group has been running Catalina since it was in beta... I'm sure it will be fine, but now that I actually use my MacBook for live performance, I think I'll sit with Mojave for a little while longer. Good to know I can check in here if I have questions.
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Yes, if you're plugging the keyboard directly into the camera connector kit's USB, then you'd still use the iPad's headphone port for audio.I'm confused. You would still need the headphone jack because the USB would be midi in from keyboard correct? -
I picked up the Steinberg UR22 mk ii for my laptop rig because it's sturdy, high-quality, relatively inexpensive, and interfaces with iOS as well as Mac and Windows. It's also turned out to be great for livestreaming because you can monitor the input with zero latency.
That said, the Focusrite interfaces are great; we have the Scarlett 2i2 at my office, and while I haven't checked to see if it will work with an iPad, I think everything else I like about the Steinberg holds true. Also comes in red (a divisive gear color around here
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I got you all set up! Here's the info. If you haven't used Zoom before, it should prompt you to download the app when you click/tap the link, but you may want to try doing that ahead of time. If anyone's really lost, teaching people how to use this app has been the majority of my last three weeks...
Here's the join link: Clonk.
You will need to enter a password. The meeting password is "NordLead" (one word), but instead of the letter O, it's the numeral zero. Got it? Just trying to make it harder for trolls to jump on in, without me having to manually authenticate every single participant as they join... if we have any issues, though, I will switch gears and do that.
You can also join from the app using the meeting ID 140-112-837. Same password.
I did set the meeting up as "join before host," so you won't all have to wait for me to start the party. The meeting will become active a little bit before start time -- again, just keeping randos from stumbling on this link and wandering in there.
Let me know if you have questions! Looking forward to this!
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I would just like to commend Theo on submitting a track that, knowing him only from his posts, seems completely on point. Maybe a little Tom Waits influence in there?
And Craig Anderton's track "Floating on Heaven" puts my humble attempt at cramming a bunch of styles into a single tune to shame! That one reminds me of Danny Elfman in the Oingo Boingo days.
Lots of great stuff here, really enjoying it. Looking forward to hearing more about everyone's submissions.
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One of my main projects, Thru Spectrums, could definitely be defined as "prog/funk," and I will affirm that it is a ton of fun. That's the band that really got me learning to play Hammond "properly" when I joined in 2014. Also the band that keeps me sharp on voicing chords with upper extensions, which is harder to get away with on heavy, high-gain prog/metal material.One of my dreams, which in all likelihood will stay a dream, is to play in a prog/funk project - complex but fun!
Yup, that's definitely the reason my band works.But I would need a virtuoso guitarist to collaborate with for the composing. -
I think my problem is that every new board I introduce scratches that itch (but not enough to make me get rid of older boards...).
That said, when I got my Wurlitzer 200, I just connected with it. The action on mine needs a little work, but even so, there's something about it that just feels right. I feel similarly about the $90 upright my wife and I brought home a few months ago... so great to finally have an acoustic piano, and this particular one is bright and bluesy with a fast action, perfect for my playing style.
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This is exciting! I'll be watching with great interest.
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In the world of more contemporary heavy bands with prominent keyboards, Opeth definitely stands out. They're not a band I'm super familiar with (my biggest hard rock/metal period was in high school, and other than a handful of bands I really fell in love with I was more metal-fan-adjacent to my best friend), but they write really cool stuff with prominent Mellotron, Hammond, and Wurlitzer.
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There might be some trick or app to enable an iPhone or iPad to run as a standalone video source, but probably the easiest hack is to join the meeting on both devices, but only join audio/video on one device.I"d love to join in. Anyone know if you can use an iPhone or iPad as the camera while running Zoom on a pc? I know I can do it all from the iPad but it would be better to have it on the bigger screen. -
I'm pretty sure that's called "living the dream!"There's lots of pics of my recording setup, but these days I'm more into the live rig that's taken over my living room. I call it my PlayPit.My wife is a saint.
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It is sad that when I read that... I was a little envious!What does the gig pay?As someone who plays in one of these bands, I can tell you....NOT MUCH! For our thousands of streams worldwide, I think so far we've made about $16. I think we broke even on the CD's we had printed. Gigs pay enough to cover the web site.
Hope it's a great time!
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Happy 80th Herbie!
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In a time when it feels like we're mourning the passing of musical legends every other week, it's great to celebrate a pioneer living into what my old piano teacher called "extra innings!"
This is hardly Herbie's most influential, jazz-centric material, but I will say that seeing this performance ten years ago has shaped my musical aesthetic and goals for the last decade:
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