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gchiaren
gchiaren
Admin
7090

Just wanted to make a sticky thread with some helpful resources to get started on Equipboard, and answer any questions anyone might have. I'll add more things to this post as needed. smile

If you haven't already, check out the FAQ to see if your question has already been answered.

To learn how submitting gear to artists works on Equipboard, check out this guide.

Need help identifying some gear before you submit it? There's a running forum thread where Equipboard members help each other out with that.

Feel free to ask questions in this thread but please keep them on the topic of how to use and contribute to Equipboard.

metal

gchiaren
gchiaren
Admin
7090

could a permalink to the suggestions box be put here?

Hmm... what suggestions box are you referring to?

boom762
boom762
Moderator
3974
In reply to gchiaren:

I've been using the file cabinet labelled "Basura" for all incoming suggestions :)

I think he's referring to the "errors, typos, glitches, and stuff" thread.

http://equipboard.com/forums/general/topics/complaints-concerns-errors-suggestions-and-ideas

jose_luis_ulloa_ureta
jose_luis_ulloa_ureta
148

Hi everybody... How can I Upload a photo of my gear setup to "your Equipboard" items??

saludos

tel_nobody
tel_nobody
495
In reply to jose_luis_ulloa_ureta:

Hello, On the LEFT side of Your Equipboard down the bottom of the list is a heading called Gear Porn. You can add up to 3 photos of YOUR gear here, but do not make the pictures too large, as they will not load if they are too big. I hope this helps.

jose_luis_ulloa_ureta
jose_luis_ulloa_ureta
148
In reply to tel_nobody:

Thanks a lot. It's done!

boom762
boom762
Moderator
3974

can you take that setting off or have it private

If you didnt want people to know what gear you had, one would think you would just not add any gear to it, right?

jose_luis_ulloa_ureta
jose_luis_ulloa_ureta
148
In reply to boom762:

Touchè...

tel_nobody
tel_nobody
495

can you take that setting off or have it private

Is that because of the word porn? Because Porn has been used to simply mean objects portrayed in a way that is desirable. Please, no pictures of open Big Muffs.

synthesaurus
synthesaurus
132
  1. What's with gear that's not yet in your database? Example: Korg NS5R. How do I suggest it?
  2. Free SEO advice: Don't have the word "porn" in one of your main navigations, or anywhere else for that matter, because this will confuse Google and will lead to bad rankings. Also, as a navigation title, it isn't self-explanatory, and the word "porn" is a red flag to many people.
boom762
boom762
Moderator
3974
In reply to synthesaurus:
  1. What's with gear that's not yet in your database? Example: Korg NS5R. How do I suggest it?

Welcome synth-rex.

If there is an item that has not yet been added to our database, click SUBMIT at the top of the page, then MUSIC GEAR. Make sure you get the spelling and such correct, upload the best photo available of the item, preferably with an all white background to blend into the page, and submit. Try to avoid colors, finishes, nicknames, years, and specific customized items from the title.

Hope this helps.

jimmarchi1
jimmarchi1
Moderator
2633
In reply to synthesaurus:

Synthesaurus?

iain_austin_davies
iain_austin_davies
332

Hi All I have uploaded some gear for myself and added gear to other pro musicians. I am up to 290 points but need 300 to add this pro musician to the group he has just joined, Franz Ferdinand. How do you get more points? Applologies if I am missing something obvious!

jimmarchi1
jimmarchi1
Moderator
2633
In reply to iain_austin_davies:

welcome, I see we're ESQ1 brothers, nice.

iain_austin_davies
iain_austin_davies
332
In reply to jimmarchi1:

Yes! I bought it second hand in 1988ish. Couldn't be parted with it. I feel I need something else now. Moog or something!

jimmarchi1
jimmarchi1
Moderator
2633
In reply to iain_austin_davies:

I got mine in the 90s when they traded for $100... I had that, my dx7 (another unfashinable syntha t the time) and a rboken down realistic MG1 for a moog... picked up poly800 soon after and my boss at the time took pity on me and gave me his MKS50 rack because he was so down on the korg. I think eha lso gave me a tx81z that eyar but I I enver sued it much and I don't have it anymore. But the ESQ1 is a desert island piece of gear ebcause it does so many thing well and also manages to sound like tiself while doing them.

People rave about the Minitaur if you justw ant a big and dirty 2 osc bass sound. The phatties are all nice.... but the mdoel D is what we all cave, right? Before there was a reissue or behringer I got a studio electronics SE1 and its one of those thigns I use ALL THE TIME. the ARP Odyssey RI is really great as well, though not as strong on bass as a moog product. Its really affordable though.

iain_austin_davies
iain_austin_davies
332
In reply to jimmarchi1:

Thanks for all the advice, I will check out some of the options. I need to change the battery in my ESQ1, but I did buy a new cartridge that has some good sounds on. I need to buy a writable one so I can program some of my own sounds. I seem to remember it sounding better than it does now though! Cheers

jimmarchi1
jimmarchi1
Moderator
2633
In reply to iain_austin_davies:

the cartridges are ahrd to come by... try saving your aptches as MIDI data onto your computer via a dedicated MIDI librarian ;-) I've sued MIDIox for some time. It works. its free.

jose_luis_ulloa_ureta
jose_luis_ulloa_ureta
148

Hi... Ask.. Some of my gear was stoled, how can I put it on the "HAD" list? And, how can I add new gear, I dont remember thanks

jimmarchi1
jimmarchi1
Moderator
2633
In reply to jose_luis_ulloa_ureta:

Hi... Ask.. Some of my gear was stoled, how can I put it on the "HAD" list? And, how can I add new gear, I dont remember thanks

click on the gear on your list, on the page for that item click on the orange 'saved' icon, there will eba pop up and within that a grey drop down emnu that allows you to change between "I have it", I want it" and I used to have it."

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