jimmarchi1's forum posts 8022

I'll be going with the DiMarzio. Again, sorry for the long delay in replies, it's not the COVID, but I have been in and out of the Hospital (broken ribs, inexplicable chest pain, and a solid week of migraine at one point).

feel better, my friend

in other words, different scenarios than the roles a Poly 800 would fill. Thankfully, this is not a situation where I'd have to choose one over the other. :D

true, but in my defense I didn't propose the tg33, I just spoke up when it was mentioned... and was also day drinking.

things that sound like the came off the old Aeon Flux animated shorts (to totally date ourselves here)...

dated? look, aeon flux, buckaroo bonzai? blade runner? these are whole cinematic genres, they're timeless LOL

Which one of your two went through a serious Skinny Puppy phase in their youth?...

in my youth? a phase?

I was harassing him for awhile because he kept making fake accounts to make it look like he had more followers

OK, two votes for TG-33... go on then gents, sell me... why is this the best vintage desktop/rack synth on the market for under $500?

D50 type AWM sample engine plus streamlines tx81z engine that can be combined via vector synthesis, DX7mk1/dx100 type 12 bit D to A for a gritty sound. I really prefer the SY35 in the vector/FM camp because it has a decent digital filter for even more sound design potential but it has a crisp and soemtimes harsh sound with none of the 22/33's mk1 DX series skronk. Also the 35 is keyboard only as far as I know. I could be wrong though. For my purposes the SY35 is better though... but the uniqueness and versatility of the TG33 make it a winner in modules. The EX800 is mainly good for techno stabs, stacked voice drone riffs and fake string machine. In ex800 versus tg33, its an apples and oranges comparison, but if I ahd the choice between one or the other and I did have that choice at one point, I take the tg33. I don't need that kinda accuracy for techno. But it has it.

BTW, NYCsynth, it's been really nice to have your voice in these discussions. With no disrespect to other synthing EBers who have bothered to check out the forums, it's often felt like conversations in this section are just Jim and I keeping things percolating... at least over the last year or so. Jim is awesome, and that's obviously been enough to keep me coming back, but the more the merrier.

Tell me about it, this place is mostly just us lately.... I feel like its sometimes hit up by younger kids but they don't appreciate old school hardware. Great to have a 3rd voice here NYCsynth... it doesn't hurt that we have very similar kit from out motu 828s to our lesser known ensoniq, kawai and yamaha stuff :-)

I have one.

If you want a Poly-800 this is the way to go. The Poly-800 doesn’t handle system exclusive, while the EX-800 does. It’s a paraphonic synth: one filter for all Voices.

right on with everything here, its an evolved p800 for your rack. Not that the poly800s big but its bigger and chintzier, the form factor alone sells the ex.

I bought mine cheaply on a whim. I’ve not played with it a ton yet but it’s not particularly strong as a module IMHO.

He's trying to do detroit techno with it, I guarantee you.

Honestly, I wouldn’t pay 400 for it. There are a lot of things I’d look at first in the weird module category. A Dave Smith Evolver, a Yamaha TG-33, etc.

Nor would I. Hence why I don't have one right now. I won't even pay 300 bucks for one. That's not to say it has no place. But given the choice I would take the TG33 all day. Love mine. Although it gets used a lot less lately. SY35 baby....

I've been trying to get one to replace my poly800 sold during a bad patch.... because the poly800 is the shit. Everyone hates it so its cheap. But tis paraphonic like a stripped downmonopoly and its the sound of detroit. Its not as bad as folks say it is and I sued my poly800 a lot for string machine duty back in the day as well as stacked techno stabs. Don't sell your Juno, PK, butif you've got that, an alpha or 106 (the 60 and 60 are too classy), all your drum machines and a 4 op FM synth you can just lay hard into some old school techno without trying.

I'm stymied.... because it seems like it may be the guitarist! But he made his own band page and named his personal page for the band.

https://youtu.be/TNHUMtW0uso

It seems she hasn’t saved any items to her user Equipboard. Rather than condescend her as the Hulk, one could see if there’s any confusion.

Hulk not think of that. Hulk think eyeseeofficial also is moderatorand could do that.

EDIT: Hulk just noticed that eyeseeofficial did that. Hulk not sure that's what Hulk meant though... 3rd person is Hulk's trademark... Hulk want compensation....

here I made comment:

https://equipboard.com/pros/tyas-alfisa/l-r-baggs-lb-pre-endpin-preamp

Yet again

sporting the entire range of samson and cort products, very pro

big step up to spain as regards weather and cuisine... what city are you in/near?

well at least there's an excuse for the lack of modesty

I think we've been over this before you were here.... I use piano strings but for guitar I was ernies for years. Just 10-46 gauge slinkies. Sometimes 11s on gibson scale. Nickel wrap. I also had a GHS burnished nickel period 15 years ago. 10s for fender, 11s for gibson. Then I did the slinky coateds. They were pretty damned good, just like non coated but maybe a touch more slippery when new. Lasted a while. Didn't have to fiddle my touring amp settings.

Oh and one of my bands had a period where I think it was 'trailer trash' strings or something? endorsed us and gave us strings but I honestly didn't use them and didn't have any contact with the owners... they had me on their website but I was using DRs while I sued up a smale case of them I got from DR and then back to ernies at the time. The other guys used them though.

Now I'm using mainly elixir optiweb 10s. I found I prefered the spanky sound and fender-bullet type bend-tension when I got some packs from elixir to review for EB. I like a little fight from ym guitars sometimes. Most times. Wasn't worried about changing my amplification around because I'm not on the road and frankly the extra top is nice to have, you can take away, but its hard to add. No effect or toen control can add what isn't there and they only give the appearance of adding to a frequency range by subtracting elsewhere.... but I digress. Very good string. Feels more like a DR, but without the intonation inconsistencies pack to pack of DR. Frankly I used ernies so long because they were tonally consistent including intonation. When you're rehearsing a record changing strigns daily you notice this stuff. On the road it could be the weather and travel conditions, but when your axes are ina cliamte controlled studio for months, guess what? You find out DR strings are inconsistent pack to pack. Elixir doesn't have this problem but they have that somewhat stiffer tension on their 10s which I like on gibsons a lot. and they last... well, I still have optiweb strings on my primary SG I put on for the review like 2 years ago, shit you not. Mot of my fenders have ernies on them.... but my favorite tele has optiwebs. Anyway there you go...

and on the gretsch I used to have I mainly played a mixed set of d'addario. Flatwound E-D Unwound G-E... I would just mix up gauges a certain way. I sued d'addario ebcause they were cheap and readily available, not ebcause I liked them. When you're putting 2 packs of strigns on 1 guitar you're looking for discounts. Especially when that guitar was very expensive. And acoustic I play 12 or 13 gauge elixir nanoweb or martin 80/20s typically. But I haven't touched my acoustics in about a year.

least he has some actual instruments.... I may not like the motif (and I am a huge yamaha fanboy, I think the motif series is the firstof their flagships I couldn't find redeeming qualities in) but its an investment in a professional piece of kit

pre teen family everyone"s against me oi oi oi oi

It definitely has elements of the K4. It is basically exactly the same unit with a different waveform ROM. I am sure there are other differences, but more more or less, the architecture is the same. It's a synth with drum waveforms (and some tone waveforms, just not as many.)

I don't own a k4 though I've been considering it, its so similar to my yami sy35 without the 2nd FM engine though... I have a 5 and have been seeking a 5000S to replace it with

What about $250 in unused NIB condition?

yup

honestly we've never used it LOL, but when we've fired it up it makes some cool, idiosyncratic sounds.... we've just never fit it into anything. He has another similar kawai drum machine that's more of a traditional beat box with pads too, can't remember the model. I feel like when the coronavirus dies down again and I'm back at that studio we should fire them up and try to use them.

EDIT: but I think if you have $150 to spare its a solid investment because its really not like anything else... it kinda has elements of the K series sound and I am a huge fan of the K synths

my best friend has an XD5

scratch that, come to think of it his had a 3+3 headstock...hmmm

it reminds me of the acoustic fretted bass Robert Deleo played on Stone Temple Pilots unplugged in the mid 90, if that's any help?

HULK SMASH!

welcome... you're now living in spain? beats dying there. Where were you living prior?

https://equipboard.com/umberto_padovan

here, here's another one if yall want to grimmace some more... this guy is the sole follower of umberto padovan.... he also assert quiet is the newloud.... no, loud is still loud

Thanks to you both for taking the time to reply, sorry it took me a bit to get back to it, been under the weather, health is kindly shot these days.

anyluck?

also I just clicked the 'view moderators' button on the mods list (not sure why I did it) and it took me to the 'review duplicate items' page, which is a great page we really need as mods but its weird it did that?microsoft edge browser, win10 on my old toshiba i5 PC desktop.... I'll try it on the new i9 XPS laptop later... also I can't seem to do anything but view the list. I would merge these for you if you let me, eyeseeofficial's requests all look legit to me!

here, this guy is like a grownup, but he started his own page anyway.

looks like an MIM, classic series based on that serial location.... CIJ tend to be at the neck joint. MIJs are there or are on the neck plate or in the neck poicket on the bridge etc depending on the series and year

finally got it.... grazi!

Stop flaming me already. If you have a VSEL I'm sorry I denigrated it. This is a 3 year old thread you revived...

I'm through being collegial with you and I'm tired of being goaded into an argument I don't want to argue.

I can handle a polite chat that evolves and goes interesting places, but this is just a broken record now.

I think Pagey and I have a lot to discuss

the assumption was Jimmy was identified... submitted his fingerprints?

Another one, but this time it seems his soundtracks have placed at film festivals. Does that make mebitek an exception?

Are there circumstances in which it's OK to create a wikipedia entry about yourself? Not really.

My own personal 2 cents is that an Artist profile needs to be started organically, by someone other than the artist themselves. There isn't some threshold of success that would make self-populating an artist profile permissible; it's just not done, per the standards of this site and its community.

I feel like if maybe Jimmy fucking Page decided to start his own page he could start a user page and then edit his existing pro page by using himself as a source, because he's like, Jimmy fucking Page.... my final cent

Another one, but this time it seems his soundtracks have placed at film festivals. Does that make mebitek an exception?

it still weird because he's his sole follower, but he's a legit composer I guess... I think its kinda funky that he's got one spitfire pack and a lousy little minibrute... how is he getting soundtrack work when ic an't seem to anymore? My studio alone should sell me. That doesn't invalidate him, but if its okay for him to make a pro page I'll make on for my old band who were pretty popular regionally... and I'll make one for myself LOL

As you mentioned it just comes down to your preferences. No two AC-30's are alike in my opinion (even from the same year with same brand components). Edge supposedly owns more than 30 and never found one that sounded as sparkly as his #1 '64 with albions (and he owns several earlier 60's models), so he insists it gets top treatment (i.e. it's own 1st class seat on flights) and is available for every single show (well, before the last tour, since it's now been retired). I just thought the dogging of the VSELs was a bit too harsh and unfounded, especially for someone who has never seen or played one. Personally, I'd take a decently spec'd true JMI circuit VSEL which comes with standard GZ34 tube rectification over a solid state diode rectified Arbiter with greenbacks any day (yes, you're getting more of a Marshall rather than a Vox).

to be fair in thelast few years I sold my arbiter... did the caps and turned a profit... regarding VSELs I've certainly seen internal pics on the JMI group (we let VSELpeople in if they have a JMI too) and they're not too impressive. The early arbiters are tidier for sure... that doesn't mean all VSELs, but hey, a guy looking at new amps who doesn't know a lot? I caution them. The arbiters are pretty consistent and even the PCB ones are shockingly reliable.

as for tone, the edge is not my benchmark of vox tone personally :-) His does his thing really well and I was more into it back in the 90s but in my heart I'm a queen man. And for my eprsonal tonal needs I really just plug straight into the amp and turn up to taste. I also really like the vibe/trem channel. I particularly like splitting to 2 amps through a very slight delay with dry signal to my 62 and wet signal to the vibrato of the 90s korgmarshall RI to make some tube chorsing :-) So my uses are way different than many people. I even removed the factory rear top boost on my amp when some of the wiring went and never put it abck on ebcause I like the straight one gain stage brilliant channel... as far as vax amps, all of them are like Jaguars... maintenance whores, but the enater one is the ebtter your chances of maintaining it so my #1 thing is how clean the wiring looks inside, how easy it will be for me to service when it inevitably needs service because hey it will... doing my own work I like tidier wiring. JMIs vary but earlier is usually neater... still haven't seen a tidy VSEL and to eb fair I've enver had one open in person. There aren't many in the USA.

Perhaps to add/correct, VSEL-era Vox AC-30's are an interesting bunch, as this was a transition period where the company was working through their stock of parts from the JMI era. I've seen 68/69 VSEL's with coveted Haddon transformers, WIMA tropyfol capacitors, and Celestion alnico "silver-bells". I'm not sure what is meant by the previous poster that JMI used "cheaper" parts towards the latter end of their period. JMI was known to interchange parts based on pricing and availability throughout their manufacturing history. For example, Wodens are seen in 62/63's as well as 66/67's. I'd say, if you do some research and pop the cover on any VSELs you come across, you can potentially end up with essentially a JMI spec AC-30 for about half the price.

I have a 62 with haddons, tis allover the place (transformer brand by year) actually, but the albions are mainly late period from all the ones I've personally been inside despite what 'vox the JMI years' says... as I said with VSELs YMMV though.... due to the randomness of transformer batches I wouldn't be surprised if vsel had a bit of everything in the surplus parts closet LOL... I just caution people because these days you may be buying sight unseen and you may not know what you're looking at. As far as I'm concerned, if I get a 60s vox I want WIMAs, not mustards. That's a 70s vox thing. I can't really hear a difference personally, the transformers make a bigger difference though subtle, but I really like having the tropyfol caps because they're just cool LOL

on wodens, there are a couple different kind of wodens too, there's a wax insulated batch for instance and then later they realized thatw as a bad idea in the AC30s poorly ventilated cabinet and the transformer switched spec LOL but a lot of guys claim the wax ones are the ebst sounding OT ever... got me. I like the haddons.... then again the one shootout my amp lsot was against albions. I thought I liked mine better but hey, other folks liked this mid 60s albion equipped one. YMMV

NECROPOSTING

if you've seen photos of the edge of U2's #1 ac30 you will be thinking 'vsel' because of the USA vox logo, but his tech added that when the UK gold logo disintegrated on tour

Correction: VSEL is UK. Edge's gold logo didn't "disintegrate" on tour, he bought his #1 already like that, which is a '64 JMI fitted into a VSEL single line 3-vent cabinet. This is corroborated in many articles. He also has one silver and one blue Celestion alnico. The "Jensen" reference is a casualty of Dallas' poor interviewing skills. This is also clear in countless photos you can find on the net.

if you say so, I'm not a U2 afficianado but I know some people who know Dallas and picked up some lore second hand... it may be innaccurate or poorly remembered.