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You go through Columbia House catalog and don't buy the biggest selling album in the history of Jazz, the album that was the gateway for many to get into Jazz the Columbia records album Kind of Blue by Miles Davis??? Working in a record store whenever someone said I want to get into Jazz that's the album we sold. Good parents start their kids young listening to KOB. Oh for those coming in wanting to get into Classical we'd ask piano or orchestra. If they said piano sold the Horowitz Moonlight Sonata, if orchestra Copland Rodeo since they will recognize some many of the melodies from being used in commercials and TV. Sometime if we knew the person was a rock fan we'd sell them Wendy Carlos Switch On Bach or Heavy Rock fan Holtz The Planets and tell them to crank up volume for Mars.

Your close to Barry Harris world of 6 on the 5th of the tritone sub. So that would be the BH Min6Dim scale from the 5th of the tritone. So that would be C# Melodic Minor with the added b6 in non-BH terms. The old Jazz cats I've hung with would just call what you did a Pitch Collection and not worry about a theoretical name.

You can have Justin too.

Since I'm trying to learn Ableton Live I went and bought a Akai MPK Mini to get some pads and control knobs.

Hate anything that involves the word Metal or Shredding, can't stand it so would never play it. Not a fan of what people call Prog don't hate it like Metal just it never did anything for me. I sold a ton of Genesis, Tull and Pink Floyd when working in the record store so I heard it a lot, never did anything for me. Well exception Pink Floyd Darkside of Moon and The Wall the recording quality was amazing so I listen to it for the audio. Country as a guitar player I enjoyed playing Country and all the cool pedal steel and trick licks, but if not making money playing it I don't listen to Country. Then the real Popish Pop like Abba and so on boring. So light your flamethrowers and have at it.

The Wire, Bosch, Orphan Black, Goliath, Killing Eve, Power, The Expanse, NYPD Blue and similar shows. Then when I got my refurbished MBP it came with a few months of Apple TV free so I'm getting into checking out shows there. So far I like For All Mankind a weird show on NASA but like the cable show Man In The HighTower they flip history around. So For All Mankind the Russians land on the moon first and constant hassles with Russia. Then they flip US history some in the background. Then someone else mentioned Slow Horses that is real good show and a few SciFi and dystopian stories Solo, Invasion, Monarch. The shows all have high production values in cinematography sound, costumes, sets, and sound, but my gripe is many of the show are 10 episodes or less. But watching on my MBP with it's great screen and using AirPods Pro the spatial sound is a great experience. I might pay for Apple TV after the free time is over. So in general I like dark TV shows not into comedy and Sitcoms.

Woke up and had to get my Groove on.

Two for my favorite legend David T. Walker and Janes Gadson that's what rhythm section playing is all about.

Don't forget the cost of all that rigging, transporting, and accident insurance. A lot of risk flying that much weight above people's heads. When I worked the Yes tour a stadium date was added to the tour that wasn't planning for, but manager see a chance to make money they just say Yes. We'll we realize the PA we were carrying for the tour was too small to do a stadium with. We were using a Clair Brother system so Roy Clair checks on what other tours are they doing the we could borrow their system for the day. Ends up Elton John's tour was close and one of his systems was available so Elton said fine and let us borrow his system. We go to do the stadium gig and the PA is first thing we setup because that determines the width of the stage area. So fine we get most the speakers cabinets on the wings of the stage, and we start hearing cracking sounds. The wings of the stage were breaking down, the extra weight of Elton's PA hadn't been figured in, power yes, weight no. So we were all scrambling to pull down the speaker cabs. Then get on the phone to a local lumber years and for $$$ got an truckload of 4x4's delivered ASAP. Then re enforced the wings of the stage and start putting the PA up again. Have to say the regular Yes PA had more low end, but Elton's PA sounded so damn good overall. So there is a lot to PA work besides putting up the system, ringing it out, and mixing the show.

Bass is basically non-directional that why sub woofers can be placed just about anywhere.

Those are hanging pretty low for line array so I'm guessing the area to be covered was small for outdoors. Hanging that low the with subs below the people in front should hear a full sound. If me I might of grabbed a couple more monitors and turned them facing out toward the audience and send FOH mix to them for some front fill being the spread of the PA is a bit wide.

Bottom section is probably just subwoofer. Still want front fills for people us front so they don't hear mainly low end.

Problem with line arrays is they are typically high above the stage sometime even a bit forward of the stage. and then subwoofer down on floor level, but that means the people sitting up front the highend is blowing past their heads and they get blasted with the low end from the sub's. So doing line array need to have front fills about stage level to get the highend to the people sitting close to the stage. But line array and even speakers on poles is about getting the FOH over the peoples heads to fill the room and to increase the sight lines so more tickets can be sold. All about getthg the PA off the floor and peoples bodies are blocking the sound distribution.

I need to try and find my Back to Mono button I got at a Phil Spector seminar back in the early 70's. Hearing Phil talk about his big hits how each part of the song was going to make it a hit for different reason than the other parts of the song. I think these buttons were made by one of the Beatles when they were working on the Let It Be album.

Yes, i can't believe the number of replies from people saying their listening to non-music instead of music. I don't have a fancy music space the bedroom in my little apartment is my music room and my bed is in the dining area. I found having a space dedicated to music really helps, I enter my music space and it all about music. I think I get into it because towards the end of my working days and having long commutes to work and somehow got into listening to talk radio. that eventually crept into my home life talking to people about the radio crap, and dealing with caring for a dying mother. Finally one day I realized that listening to all the talk radio CRAP made me such an a55h0le and I stopped cold turkey. I started listening to music in my car again, talking music with people and my life became good again, i was happy again. So music is important even just listening for me it saved my life.

Original electronic chorus was the Roland Jazz Chorus amp it bounced the sound between the two speakers that were side by side in the cabinet might as well been mono. Then came Roland Jazz chorus pedal and the BOSS CE pedal (Roland and Boss are the same company) and both were mono they were the pedal that really made the Chorus sound popular. A number of name guitarists were known for using the Roland Jazz Chorus amp, but what I didn't know until today is Roland Jazz Chorus amp was meant for keyboard players. I don't remember keyboardist using the Roland Jazz Chorus amps. So the chorus sound became popular from being used in mono pedals. Stereo pedals came later. UPDATE: I just went back to YT to cruse about a bit and stumbled on this and like how they talked about using the chorus pedal to fatten the sound more that spread it.

I wonder if it's like Spatial audio that with two listening points it sounds are placed in different location with in 360 degrees. I got a used Macbook Pro recent with that great screen it has. It came with free Apple TV for a few months so been watching and using my airpods that support Spatial audio and cool how they place the sounds based on what's on screen.

Since people mention streams sadly including me and pricing of physical media has skyrocketed making buying CD's to transcribe one song is too $$$ I use Apple Music and refuse to use Spotify below is a video example why I don't use Spotify.

Most the time at home CD's or streaming from my computer with studio monitors. If serious listening I've started using AirPods they really help hear more details. Sometime use my headphones, but mainly use those for late night practicing. Casual listening in my living room AirPods again because no good speakers in my living room. Then in car streaming and car came with a really nice Bose speaker system that is very adjustable so cruising around listening is nice. My days of fancy stereo setups are over. I thought I'd never do streaming (still refuse to use Spotify), but cost of CD's is so high and many times I just interesting in one song to work on, so for working on a tune or listening to a lot of different artists do a tune I've started streaming.

Then I'd say just do a narrow spread to avoid cancellations and maybe pan just slight left or right to reflect your position on stage like left of center or right. So audience hears thing in the position players are on stage. Hard panning in a large venue really is a bad sound cheating the audience as the previous post said. No one really wants to hear a band with a 50' wide piano except their mother.

Never heard of this group before, but I like what I've heard so far.

Wisdom worth repeating. You never know who is there that is watching and hearing you play, if you half-ass through the gig you might of just lost a good opportunity. Every gig or session is your calling card making others aware of you and your attitude.

Especially when setting the band gear up in layers so you just strip off each bands gear after their sets. Works good for keeping a show going, but sucks to be the opening act because so little stage area is left between gear and front of stage. For shows I worked before retiring we'd save a copy of the board setting on a thumb drive so they could be restored before they go on. If there are two big name acts then both act board setting will be saved. The sound check is mainly to see if anything unusual that needs special attention otherwise for the opening acts the mix is kind of generic and tweaks will be made when they play. That might get saved to in case some opening act has their own sound person who really screws things around, so we can get back to the basic mix fast. Back in the days before computerized mixing consoles you would hear some really bad mixes for opening acts because sound crew was trying to not to change the mix for the main act. Hey that's life when your not the big dog on the bill putting butts in the seats.

The PA could be just using the left and right mixer outs to send a mono out to left side and right side to the power amps or powered speakers, so the PA is running in mono.

People bitched about Hip Hop because in the beginning is was all sample based. Now we have AI which is just computer farms storing thousands of recordings and theory books then putting it into databases, Then on request selecting bits base on keyword input and putting into a digital food processor and spitting it out. With Hip Hop at least all the selection, modifications, creation of additional music, and assembly is done by humans.